Not everyone can cook. Thatโs okay. We all have our strengths and our weaknesses. But some people are simply so bad at cooking, they make things that should truly never exist, let alone be consumed by another human being!
We have to admire the fact that they keep on trying, coming up with their own recipes and working hard in the kitchen in a futile attempt to make something tasty, but they really need to stop! Here are 75 of the worst dishes anybody ever cooked.
1) Does That Thing Have A Heartbeat?
What is it? Well, it looks like a bunch of ugly burger patties stacked on top of each other, with a bunch of brains sitting on top and plopping down the middle. Brain burger cake?


2) Glue Pasta?
Ew! Apparently, this is โchicken alfredo pastaโ, but it looks more like a bunch of pasta pieces sitting in a pile of glue, or milk, or cream, orโฆ we donโt even want to think about this anymore. Either way, itโs disgusting!


3) #not #a #sick #dinner
No, no, no. This is not a โsick dinnerโ at all, unless you mean it will make people feel sick just from looking at it! We hope the personal responsible for this never cooks it for a loved one.


4) Letโs Hope Itโs The Last Time Too
This was someoneโs first attempt at corn pudding. We all make mistakes on our first try, but this is a real disaster! Normally, weโd say โTry again!โ, but in this case, we think you should really just stop.


5) Thatโs A Steak!?
Okay, we can see a baked potato, we can see the cheese, and we see the broccoli too, but the steak? Is that ugly, carbonized shape at the bottom supposed to be a steak? Wow. This proves that even when meals are made with love, it doesnโt always make them tasty!


6) Merry Christmas
All around the world, countless people look forward to Christmas dinner. Itโs the highlight of the day for a lot of people, with all of their favorite foods together in one place. Well, youโd better hope you never get invited to this house for the festive season.


7) Chitterling Tacos
Ew. Maybe your great grandma might have enjoyed eating chitterlings (pig guts) back when they were fewer options available, but nowadays, we really can do a lot better! And putting them on tacos is just disgusting.


8) No Thanks, Kim
This must be how Kim K preserves her flawless figure. Apparently, sheโs not much of a cook, and even though weโve been staring at this picture a long time, we still canโt figure out what sheโs making!


9) Love Is Blind
They say that love is blind. Well, it must have no sense of taste either! Someoneโs partner made them this disgusting yellow slop with a side of roasted tentacles and they called it delicious.


10) Slop In Bed?
Breakfast in bed can be a nice treat to make for someone, and itโs always lovely when you get woken up by your loved ones with tasty food to enjoy on a lazy morning. But if they served you a plate that looked like this, you might just want to dive right out of bed and say youโre not hungry.


11) Trying To Be Arty
Modern bistros and classy restaurants play around with serving styles and presentation in their dishes, breaking the rules of cuisine with their innovative ideas. It looks like this person tried to do the same, serving their โcreationโ in a broken styrofoam cup. But it just looks like someone vomited onto a plate.


12) The First Of Many
Get ready to see a whole lot of sliced cheese casually tossed onto the top of things and barely given time to melt throughout this list. It seems to be the favorite tool of every awful cook.


13) An A For Effort
This person at least deserves a little respect for making an effort with their recipe, mixing up refried beans, empanadas, and salsa, but the results do not look appetizing at all!


14) The Chicken Is Sinking
We have no idea whatโs going on here. It looks like a chicken fell into some quicksand and is slowly fading away into the abyss. Is someone actually supposed to eat this, or is it just some kind of weird voodoo chicken burial?


15) Macaroni Soup
Mac โnโ cheese is a timeless classic and itโs actually super easy to cook. Itโs a really basic recipe, but somehow, the person responsible for this mix got it all wrong, doing way too much sauce or failing to cook the pasta right so it didnโt actually absorb any of it.


16) Have A Guess
Weโll let you try and guess what this is. Go for it. Any ideas? Okay, weโll help out: itโs chocolate chip cookies! They were left in the oven way too long and the dough pieces were placed too close together, causing them all to merge into one big, burned mess.


17) No Thank You
Imagine if you were dining at someoneโs house and asked them to pass the gravy. Then they hand you this. How are you supposed to react? Yes, that really is supposed to be gravy, even though it looks like a kind of eggy mess filled with crumbs.


18) Dirt, Anyone?
According to the caption posted alongside this picture, itโs supposed to be โCornbread Stuffโ. Well, it certainly qualified as โstuffโ, but it looks more like a tray full of dirt than cornbread.


19) Youโre Banned From Cooking Ever Again
Whoever made this mess really shouldnโt be let loose in a kitchen ever again. Clearly, it was supposed to be some kind of mac โnโ cheese, but they tossed in a whole mess of peas and the pasta just looks so shiny on top and so dry underneath.


20) Remind Me Never To Go To The Williamsโ Place For Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving dinner is many peopleโs favorite food moment of the year. Delicious turkey, perfectly cooked veggies, yummy pecan pie for dessert, it has it all. Unfortunately, not every family is capable of cooking a super Thanksgiving meal. Some of them make things like this instead.


21) Struggle Slice
Here we are again with the sliced cheese, thrown on some soggy bread and tossed in a microwave to go all gross and wrinkly. Why would anyone do this?


22) Soโฆ Romantic?
Itโs nice to try and make something tasty for your loved one on Valentineโs Day, and we hope whoever received this meal appreciated the effort their partner made. Unfortunately, even though the steak looks a little like a heart, it also looks totally inedible! They cooked it way too long.


23) What Even Is It?
Another romantic soul decided to make breakfast in bed for their partner, and the guy actually went online and shared a photo of this thing. This image truly does not deserve the hashtags #yum and #drooling!


24) What Are The Green Bits?
Someone was feeling bold when they decided to whip up some homemade sangria, a classic Spanish punch made from red wine and chopped fruit. Unfortunately, it really doesntโ look too great and weโre not sure what โfruitโ this person used. Looks more like a stew than sangria!


25) Weโll Pass
Is this even edible? What is it? Where did it come from? Why did anyone think it should be called food? And why would someone decide to take a photo and proudly upload their creation to the internet? So many questions!


26) Snacks
Itโs nice that the salon offers wine and cheese while you get a massage or pedicure, butโฆ sliced cheese singles? Really?


27) In His Grave?
Someone happily uploaded this image, boasting that it was the perfect way to โget a man and keep a manโ, but we have no idea what theyโre so proud about. Jerk chicken is delicious when cooked right, but this is just a burned, black mess.


28) If Thatโs Right, Weโd Rather Be Wrong
Again, itโs nice and cute and sweet that someone would take the time to try and make a steak for their lover on Valentineโs Day, but if this is the best you can do, maybe you should just book a table at a restaurant instead?


29) You Forgot Something
Looks like this person forgot that food, especially meat, needs to be cooked before we actually eat it. Instead, they served up some raw chicken thighs alongside a bunch of ugly yellow mush.


30) Is This A Joke?
Veganism is on the rise and there are actually plenty of amazing vegan recipes out there and meat-free alternatives to popular dishes. This isnโt one of them! Putting a few slices of clementine in a taco does not make it a โshrimp tacoโ.


31) What Are We Looking At Here?
Believe it or not, this is supposed to be a turkey. It looks more like a big hunk of wood or a bunch of crumpled-up paper left on a grill for five hours. What a waste!


32) At Least Itโs Colorful
The only good thing we can say about this tragic Thanksgiving dish is that itโs colorful. Apart from that, itโs just a mess. It looks like the โcookโ had no idea what they were doing, just tossing random things into the dish and hoping for the best.


33) Want A Little Slime With Your Chicken?
What a sad looking plate. And the person who had to eat it must have been even sadder.


34) Taco Tuesday
Many families enjoy tacos on a weekly basis, but this family should just stop or at least get take-out tacos from a local restaurant, because this really isnโt right! We need a glass of water just from looking at that super dry meat.


35) Eggy Pizza?
Some ingredients just donโt go together, especially when it comes to pizza! We all have our views on pineapple pizzas, but everyone can agree that this hot mess โ a pizza completely covered in boiled egg bits โ should never be made again.


36) Out Of This World
Did we crash land on an alien planet? What is this? Why are those noodles fluorescent green? And whatโs that gross puddle of mess sitting on top of them. We donโt want anything to do with this dish.


37) Salmonella On A Plate
If youโre cooking a red meat, like beef, you can actually enjoy it โrareโ or โmediumโ, with a bit of pinkness in the middle. Chicken doesnโt work like that, people! It needs to be cooked all the way through.


38) What A Mess
This plate is just a mess to look at. Thereโs so much going on, it looks like the leftovers from five different awful meals all got mushed together. And that sad little plastic spoon on the side just makes it so much worse.


39) This Is Offensive
This is so bad it just hurts to look at. What is even going on here? Beans, spaghetti, pickles!? And of course, the classic bad cook favorite: a slice of processed cheese sitting at the bottom with no real purpose whatsoever.


40) Budget Burger
This is what you make when you literally have no other food left in the house and no way of getting to a store. Two pieces of bread and a little breaded piece of chicken. How depressing.


41) Trying Too Hard
Here, we can see someone trying way too hard. Theyโre doing their best Gordon Ramsay impersonation, thinking that their ugly food will sound tastier if they describe all the ingredients in detail and use phrases like โa sprinkle of sea saltโ. We can see through all of that. You smashed some avocado and put strawberries on top. Thatโs all. And itโs horrible.


42) Can We Get A Glass Of Water?
The whole of Mexico just shuddered from looking at this photo. This awful, hideous dish should never be described as โnachosโ.


43) Itโs Not Cooked!
Again, we have some crazy person who thinks that chicken doesnโt need to be cooked properly and can be eaten basically raw. Thatโs how you get salmonella, kids.


44) Kill Me
What was it!? What was it supposed to be?! It looks like a deformed sumo wrestler gingerbread man with a bacon diaper. Put this thing back in the oven and let it burn!


45) Makes Sense
What do you do when youโre missing an ingredient? You find the next best alternative, right? So, if you donโt have crabs, use peanuts!


46) You Are Barred From Italy
Whoever made this mess and called it a โlasagnaโ really should never be allowed to cook again. The cheese slices (yes, those are cheese slices, according to the caption) have almost gone green and the whole thing just looks so bad!


47) Please Donโt Eat This
Oh no. No, no, and no again. What is this person thinking!? They wrote in the caption that people season their chicken in the sink, so itโs fine to prepare a potato salad in there too! First off, that sink is utterly disgusting and seriously needs to be cleaned, and secondly, what are you thinking!?


48) Not Quite
We all know cinnamon buns. They have that classic, distinctive shape that everyone loves. Definitely not like the dog turds on this tray. Not too bad for a โfirst attemptโ, but you really need to improve on the second attempt!


49) Am I Having A Nightmare?
Have we been transported to some kind of parallel dimension? How did anyone think that this was a fine and normal recipe idea? Someone should call the cops if they ever see the person responsible for this in a kitchen ever again.


50) Clean Eating?
No, eating โmedium rare chicken stripsโ is not โclean eatingโ. Medium rare chicken strips donโt even exist because chicken canโt be cooked medium rare! Please stop with this nonsense, everybody. Youโre putting yourselves in danger.


51) Just A Plate Of Cheese
Believe it or not, there is actually something under that horrible, processed cheese. Thereโs a little layer of potato and some meat too. Itโs basically supposed to be a traditional English cottage pie, but something went terribly wrong.


52) Grape Jelly Blue Cheese?
Peanuts can work with chicken. Satay is great. But covering chicken wings in peanut butter and then serving them alongside โgrape jelly blue cheeseโ, whatever that is, is really not a good idea.


53) Inverted Hot Dog
Someone clearly though they were oh so clever when they came up with the idea of the inverted hot dog. They used the dog itself as the bun, slicing it open and putting bits of bread inside. Itโs a mess, itโs stupid, and it should never be made again.


54) Unidentified Baked Object
Here we have a fascinating example of a dish that nobody can quite understand. You can stare at the picture as long as you like, but youโll never be able to figure out what this was supposed to be. Itโs no surprise they decided to order pizza instead.


55) Nope
Weโre shaking our head at this one all day long. The caption beside the image says โBologna Cakeโ. Yes, someone though that it would be a good idea to bake a cake filled up with sausage. Ew.


56) Stop With The Slices
The sliced cheese strikes again! Those hash browns might not have been so bad to begin with, but then the ugly little square of shiny yellow cheese just ruins the whole look of the plate.


57) Salad Tacos?
Tacos are supposed to be fun, filled up with delicious veggies, sauces, cheeses, and meats. This person totally ruined that, basically using a tortilla as a plate for their messy salad.


58) Not Dog
This is how hot dogs should not be made. The cheese hasnโt melted (because itโs those gross squares again) and the onions badly balanced on top just look messy.


59) Five Meals In One
If you love carbs, weโve got the perfect meal for you! Someone filled this plate up with different kinds of pasta, bread, rice, corn, and other random mushy pastes to create a whole buffet of badness in just one meal.


60) Gross Grits
Grits might be old fashioned but can be tasty when well-made. These grits, however, have not been well made. Someone thought that putting a slice of cheese in the center would make them better. It doesnโt.


61) A Heart Attack In A Dish
Hey, if you want to boost your blood pressure to unhealthy levels and give yourself a cholesterol kick, go ahead and chow down on this hot cheesy mess.


62) Is That Dog Food?
Looks like someone ran out of actual food so decided to simply grab a can of their pet pupโs favorite mush and plop it out onto a plate.


63) Stop, Stop, Stop!
How hard is it to just buy a bag of grated cheese and give it a little time to melt? Apparently, itโs way too hard for some people. The omelet actually looks pretty good, but that cheese ruins everything.


64) Some Things Just Donโt Go Together
You know what goes well with peaches? Cream. You know what doesnโt go well with peaches? Beans.


65) Back In The Oven
When youโre cooking, the number one rule is to actually cook the food. You donโt just leave it for a few minutes near something hot and then serve it up to your friends! Nothing about this plate actually looks cooked.


66) Not Again!
Why? Why would you ruin a perfectly good piece of apple pie by putting sliced cheese on top? Apparently, this is a popular dessert in some areas, but youโre supposed to use proper cheddar, not processed slices.


67) We Have No Words
Once again, we see some hideous cheese squares sitting atop a bowl of grits. They look so shiny, it seems like someone even forgot to take the plastic off!


68) Not Hungry Anymore
Itโs fine to keep leftovers of many meals. Letting food go to waste is never a good thing, especially with so many hungry people out there, but putting your spaghetti in something like this is just gross.


69) Unloaded Fries
Someone heard about loaded fries and decided to give it a tryโฆ by putting a single slice of cheese over their fries and letting it melt just a little bit. Oh dear.


70) Keep This Person Away From Tacos
This โculinary mastermindโ decided to grab some canned spaghetti and pour out the contents into soft-shell tacos. They actually presented them nicely in this little flower-style shape, but no matter how you serve this, itโs never going to be nice to eat.


71) Just Stop
Another struggle slice makes an appearance on this plate. Some of the food here doesnโt look all that bad, just a little simple. But then the slice comes along and totally ruins the dish.


72) Cat Food And Spam
We donโt know what this is. We donโt know what it was supposed to be. And frankly, we donโt want to know anything else about it!


73) Saladsagna?
Someone must have thought they were pretty clever making a โvegan lasagnaโ using nothing but lettuce and tomato. This is the exact opposite of โtastyโ.


74) Did It Fall In A Volcano?
One of the keys to cooking is making sure you time everything just right. If you leave something just a little too long in the oven, it might be ruined. If you leave it way too long, it ends up looking like this.


75) Oh Hell No
A hot dog, in a cotton candy bun, covered with actual candy. This is why so many people have health issues!


We feel so sorry for anyone who had to eat any of those disgusting dishes! And the worst part of all is that people probably did eat a lot of them, as they felt sorry for the friend or family member who had gone to so much trouble.
Letโs hope none of them got sick! Whatโs the worst thing youโve ever cooked or had cooked for you? Did you eat it? Would you eat anything on our list? Share it around with friends and family!