40 Times People Tried To Cook And Accidentally Created Modern Art Instead

When culinary aspirations go sideways, they often end up as smoky disasters or inedible blobs. But sometimes, the chaos in the kitchen produces something… unexpectedly beautiful. A lopsided pancake becomes a Picasso. A burnt pizza resembles abstract expressionism. It’s not what they meant to cook, but it’s definitely something.

Here are a few times people tried to cook and accidentally created modern art instead—a hilarious and oddly impressive gallery of edible masterpieces gone wrong.

#1 Instead Of Cooking, Bro Attempted To Forge A Weapon Like No Other

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#2 Don’t Drink And Cook

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#3 I Think This Counts As A Hate Crime In The South

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#4 When You Drink Too Much And Make Muffouts Instead Of Muffins

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#5 When You Ask Your Wife For Crunchy Croissants And She Gives You Coalssants Instead

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#6 Bacon Wrapped And Barbecue Glazed Justin Biebloaf

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#7 Someone In My Group Chat Sent Me A Picture Of A “Cake” He Made

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#8 Not The Plastic Melt

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#9 There Was An Attempt To Grill Some Ribs

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#10 My First Attempt At Making Sushi

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#11 I Burnt My Bacon

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#12 Put Blue Food Coloring On My Chicken Because I’m An Adult And I Do What I Want

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#13 There Was An Attempt To Cook

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#14 My Husband Insisted This Chicken Was Perceftly Cooked

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#15 Accidentally Made Alien Food

Rice noodle stir fry with shrimp and red cabbage. Couldn’t look at it, but everybody had seconds.

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#16 Plastic Board

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#17 Made My Kid A Mickey Mouse Pancake

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#18 When I Was A Baker, Someone Left A Loaf Of Bread In The Oven, Which They Also Left On Overnight

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#19 But Were They Good Is The Question

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#20 My Daughter Asked Me For A Unicorn Cake

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#21 Had A Bad Day So I Made Some Comfort Food… Oh

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#22 That’s One Way To Propose

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#23 Time For A New Cake Tin

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#24 Guess What This Was

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#25 Accidentally Made Cookies From An AI Recipe

My mom sent me a recipe for red velvet cookies for me to try and didn’t think much of it. I never look at the text and pictures that closely I just skip straight to the recipe, so it didn’t register that it was AI.

The dough was so soft and sticky even after freezing it overnight (recipe said chilling in the fridge for an hour or 2 would be sufficient)! It stuck to everything so much and kept melting that we just said s***w it and just put in the oven as one big sheet cookie.

I looked more closely at the website while it was baking and it’s so obviously AI it’s honestly hilarious. The uncooked dough tasted great but trying it now it tastes like a bad brownie. Texture is really weird too.

Anyway check your recipes, folks, or else you might make the cookie equivalent of the Elephant’s Foot from Chernobyl.