Many people think there is nothing better than having a nice, home-cooked meal with someone you love.
When you sit down to have a meal with your friends and family, it’s the norm to truly appreciate the taste, flavor, how it is, and how much effort is put into the meal. However, it’s safe to say not every homecooked meal is delicious and great. Sometimes, it’s terrible.
Air frying the house down.
“My Mom just throws things in her air fryer for a random time/temp and goes outside while I witness it burn. If I wasn’t there, I’m sure by now she would’ve burned down the house,” shared YukiHase .
Yum, burnt casserole.
One Reddit user said on Thanksgiving, they had watched someone burn an entire casserole and then it catch on fire. Instead of throwing it out, they scraped off all the burnt parts and still served it for dinner.
A MIL and her love of “stewed green beans.”
“She takes canned green beans, dumps them in a saucepan, and cooks them down until they are mush (I think she cooks them 3-4 hours). I believe she puts some kind of margarine in the pan, but no seasonings or anything like that,” said theredgoldlady .
That’s a bad BBQ.
hurtfulproduct shared that their uncle sprayed some burgers and hotdogs with “PAM/cooking spray,” and even sprayed the buns, too. When they ate, it tasted pretty weird. Turns out, he sprayed everything with grill cleaner, not cooking spray.
That’s not a taco that I’ve ever heard of.
“Microwaved frozen chicken breasts until thawed, then cooked naked on a sheet pan and served shredded for tacos. Bonus, they were not seasoned because “that’s what the salsa is for!” This was for a dinner we were specifically invited over for,” shared mulattolovesavocado .
Breadcrumbs that are used over and over again.
benicco shared that they have a thing of breadcrumbs in their house that they use often. Their siblings thought they could make chicken by dipping the egg-soaked chicken breasts into the bread crumbs, without using a bowl. Just putting the eggy bread crumbs back into the cabinet.
Apparently, she’s a good cook.
“She once served me chicken with a sauce composed of balsamic glaze, Caesar dressing, and a splash of Kool-Aid, among other things I can’t immediately recall. I think an instant ramen packet went in there,” shared luella27 .
Big time yikes.
Tobias_Flenders shared a friend’s wife made him dinner as a nice gesture for helping with something. She made tacos by taking beef inside of a flour tortilla and deep frying it on the stove. He knew better but ate it anyway. Turns out, he got sick to his stomach for two straight days.
That doesn’t quite work.
“She decided to do something nice for him because he’d be coming home late. She made meatballs according to a recipe in a cookbook. She knew about the breadcrumbs/cracker addition, but they didn’t have any, so she hunted around for a suitable replacement and came up with. Nilla wafers,” said BitPoet .
Maybe they were sweet?
bob_but_backwards said that their mother-in-law is definitely the worst cook in the world. Apparently, she was making mashed potatoes for dinner and decided to put in vanilla silk instead of regular milk. Nasty.
Her partner just cannot cook.
“Everything was boiled to death. Boiled frozen vegetables, boiled potatoes, and if he didn’t pick up the roasted chicken from the local grocery store pre-cooked, I’m sure that would have been boiled too. Nothing was seasoned, and not shockingly when I opened his “spice cupboard” I found an empty salt shaker, some garlic and onion powder that expired 6 years before,” said Eileithia .
The thought is often better than the outcome.
SlimmThiccDadd shared her sister decided to make ribeyes and invite them over for some quality dinner. However, she cooked the steaks on such a high heat that they instantly became like leather. It was hard to fake it.
Someone call poison control.
“Went to lunch at a friend’s house and his wife was going to make hamburgers. Sounded good. She had a fry pan with about 1/2″ of oil and heated it to god knows what temp. Then she put in the beef patties and it was like a hot hot volcano sputtering oil out. The hamburgers were burnt on the outside and raw on the inside,” said SunshineBeamer .
She ruined rosemary forever.
“On two separate dinners she prepared broccoli and asparagus the same way. Microwaved in a glass casserole dish, covered in water, with about 8 sprigs of rosemary floating in it. Nothing else. Bloated, soggy, gross veggies that tasted of only rosemary. I could barely stand cooking with the herb for nearly a decade,” said KRA_squared .
No sauce?!?
“Lasagne made with one layer of pasta, with what was basically mini chicken nuggets, carrots, peas, and green beans. Worse still, pasta was raw. I should’ve clicked when it was made in about 45mins,” said IAS316 .
