30 Recipes That People Tried After Seeing Them On TikTok And Regretted It

Social mediais a great place to look for meal ideas. Nowadays, you can find recipes for almost all diet preferences: keto, vegan, vegetarian, Mediterranean, and so on. All you have to do is put two or three words into a search box and you’re bombarded with hundreds of recipes. TikTok can be great in that there’s also video instructions.

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The feta pasta needs to serve time.I thought my husband was gonna leave me after the feta pasta.

I made ‘healthy’ cookie dough out of cottage cheese that ‘tastes JUST like the real thing!’. It did not and was horrendous.

me when the cucumber dipped in soy sauce tastes exactly like cucumber dipped in soy sauce

Horrible recipes on TikTok are a genre of their own. Like themashed potatoesfrom Lay’s chips orchocolate milk ramen. The difference is that we know these things are gimmicks, and we don’t actually expect a good dinner out of them. The recipes in this list, however, are foods that are supposed to work.Nowadays, people are always looking for easy and quick lunch anddinner ideas. TikTok can be the perfect place for that. As an app created to shorten our attention spans even more, it’s the ideal conduit for short recipe ideas. However, this list has plenty of proof that what’s trending isn’t necessarily always worth making.

Nowadays, people are always looking for easy and quick lunch anddinner ideas. TikTok can be the perfect place for that. As an app created to shorten our attention spans even more, it’s the ideal conduit for short recipe ideas. However, this list has plenty of proof that what’s trending isn’t necessarily always worth making.

Lasagne soup

The million dollar spaghetti, everyone will pay for their crimes against my taste buds

The canned chicken crust Caesar salad pizza.“It was pizza crust made of chicken that you put salad on, and it was supposed to be like eating a crunchy chicken tender with Caesar salad. But the chicken was so dry in order for it to get crispy

So, are the recipes really that bad? Or do the people who call them ‘flops’ just happen to make a mistake or two? Turns out, it can be neither. Former editor forThe Kitchnand graduate of the Cambridge School for Culinary Arts Emma Christensen writes that many other factors influence whether a recipe turns out good or, in this case, inedible.“Recipes (and the people who write them!) aren’t fail-proof and they also can’t take into consideration every variable inyour kitchen, like how cold your eggs are or how strong your whisking arm is.“She tells people not to get discouraged about theircooking skills. And we shouldn’t blame the recipe, either. She says home cooks shouldn’t be afraid to make judgments and decisions. Tools and appliances can differ significantly, so if the recipe calls for cooking or frying something for 15 minutes, check if it’s actually cooked, and don’t be afraid to cook it for an extra two minutes if needed.

“Recipes (and the people who write them!) aren’t fail-proof and they also can’t take into consideration every variable inyour kitchen, like how cold your eggs are or how strong your whisking arm is.”

She tells people not to get discouraged about theircooking skills. And we shouldn’t blame the recipe, either. She says home cooks shouldn’t be afraid to make judgments and decisions. Tools and appliances can differ significantly, so if the recipe calls for cooking or frying something for 15 minutes, check if it’s actually cooked, and don’t be afraid to cook it for an extra two minutes if needed.

Avocado basil pasta RICKY WHEN I CATCH YOU

made a sesame noodle recipe, it called for 2/3 cup of peanut butter… imagine my surprise when I now have peanut butter noodles

I tried to make cauliflower wings the other day, came out soggy, extremely stinky, and stinky x2

And let’s face it, it’s not like we alwaysfollow the recipeto a T. I myself have substituted peanut butter with tahini for many a salad dressing. Whether you’re substituting ingredients or equipment, there is a chance the end result might not be as it was shown in the TikTok video. Especially when it comes to baking: there’s the saying “cooking is art, baking is science” for a reason. Don’t cut half the sugar from a cupcake recipe to make it more “healthy” and expect it to turn out just as the recipe intended.

Cowboy casserole.. trust me

some “viral recipes” are afraid of seasoning and spice

I have made marry me chicken 3 times thinking it was me…no it’s just bland

cloud bread

This was me with slow cooker pasta. Literally liquefied the pasta don’t reccomend

Me with the Big Mac salad

One thing I personally always had a gripe with was ovens and their temperatures. When I bake something in my oven, I always have to add an extra 10-15 minutes to the time written in the recipe. It’s annoying, mostly because I can never bake a perfect macaron, but at least I know it’s not the recipe’s fault. “Ovens are often several degrees warmer or cooler than the numbers on the dial,” Christensen explains. The solution? An oven thermometer, and even a cheap one will do the job.

Tried to make apple crackle squares… tasted like apple suspended in an eraser.

I made the green goddess chopped salad. It made me gag.I made that Green Goddess guacamole salad and it was so revolting… I’ve never made another viral recipe since.

The almond milk Alfredo still makes me gag

Food blogger Terrie Gura calls out TikTokers who post ridiculous recipes. Mostly those that immediately sound or look too good to be true. “If you honestly believe that self-rising flour and mashed sweet potatoes will produce the fluffiest dinner rolls you’ve ever seen, and that they can be baked in the microwave, then you might also be interested in buying some oceanfront property in Kansas,” she quips in ablog post.

I made the spaghetti with the red sauce and Alfredo mixed together… have not made it since

me when i tried the cup noodle ramen and milk

I once made adobo chicken from a TikTok recipe and my husband and I gained like 6 lbs from the salt

Gura also calls out recipes that give too many or too few details. Some authors, she says, assume that we’re all culinary graduates. “What if I didn’t know, for example, that ‘mix all ingredients together’ really means to cream together the butter and sugar until fluffy, then add the eggs one at a time, blending after each, then stir in the vanilla and then stir in the flour?”

Me with a soup that cost me $25 in ingredients lol

The Oreo mug cake

I made ‘the best snickerdoodles ever’ and they were literally rocks, and they didn’t even flatten out, they were still ball-shaped

The chopped Italian sub tasted like a soggy salad

Me after finding out the viral Mac and cheese really does just taste like macaroni noodles and cheese

anything with cottage cheese