Burnt Offerings: The Community Forum for Culinary Abominations

Welcome, fellow culinary catastrophes! Share your most heinous kitchen fails with us.

My neighbor's cat's 5th birthday cake was a disaster

It was supposed to be a majestic feline-themed masterpiece, but ended up looking like a failed soufflé. I mean, who needs fondant when you can just dump all the ingredients in a 5-gallon bucket and hope for the best?

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I tried to deep-fry a frozen pizza in a wok

I'm pretty sure I set off the fire alarm. The neighbors are still traumatized. Who needs a pizza when you can have a charred, smoldering ruin that's been sputtering like a dying animal?

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- SushiSlayer

Oh man, I once tried to make a vegan "meatball" out of a portobello mushroom and some breadcrumbs. Let's just say it was a real... um... 'experience'.

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