What can be so hard about frying an egg or making some toast? But some chefs de cuisine manage to turn even the simplest dish into a mess and a half because they know the secret ingredient for any recipe, which is… bad luck. Just a pinch of a fiasco is just enough to make everything go wrong, and these pictures of the culinary victims only prove that.

1. It finally happened to me

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2. NutriBullet living up to its name

SluggishStudent

3. Forgetting about your pizza for 8 hours. So it looks like a double-chocolate brownie

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4. To crack a nut…

MightyMille

5. My brother put a chopping board under the pizza to catch the stuff it drops

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6. My coffee cup managed to fall out of the cupboard on top of my bowl of cereal this morning

DenHus23

7. I made a lasagna for lunch. Here’s the result

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8. Tried cooking a sweet potato in my new air fryer today

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9. Guess who thought the soy sauce was syrup this morning

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10. When you try to cook chicken stock and the recipe said to pour it through a strainer. God damnit

iwillbebetterforu

11. Easy microwave mug cake

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12. I love my girlfriend. She tries really hard to cook us nice meals. Today she burned water

 imastopbullshittin

13. Sat down to enjoy a nice Saturday morning cup of coffee

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14. So excited to use my pizza cutter for the first time

BCFire22

15. My friends mother thought that the croissants would just roll themselves up while cooking

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16. So I tried my hand at cooking today

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17. How is this even possible?

PacMax