'I had to politely tell her how ridiculous it looked': Kid prevents parent from baking disastrous TikTok recipe

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Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
Apr 14, 2024 11:00 AM EDT

Today is a great day to remember not to believe everything you read online. This is especially true if you're swiping through social media apps like TikTok and saving the recipes for later. A lot of them might look good on camera, but they won't actually taste good. 

I actually do sometimes make TikTok recipes but only by first looking up a proper recipe for it elsewhere. For example, there was a parmesan potato recipe going around that looked excellent, so I just looked up a proper recipe online, and made it that way. It's so easy and very delicious! I just don't have enough faith in the influencers who make attention-grabbing food, but I do trust the experts who write for cooking websites. As long as you follow this rule, you can make any TikTok recipe without having to sacrifice a meal. 

As this person learned, you've got to be careful when trying new recipes online. Hopefully, they can teach their mom about ragebait, or videos meant to garner engagement by cooking in the worst ways possible. These videos are just meant to be flashy, they don't actually work in the real world! Unless you want a pan full of milky raw noodles combined with a scorched log of faux cheese product… don't trust the influencers without doing your research. 

Next up, check out some design mistakes, like the library who advertised their free coffee, priced at only $1. 

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    My mom almost made one of those Tik-Tok dishes for dinner..
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    I'm visiting my mom this week and she said she found a new recipe online and was excited to try it. Yesterday she showed me the video and it was a Buffalo chicken baked pasta. It included a 13x9 aluminum baking pan, a whole block of velveeta cheese, 2 whole packs of shredded cheese, and of course raw pasta noodles.
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    I felt so bad telling her, but I had to politely tell her how ridiculous it looked and instead cooked her chicken Alfredo
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    Agreeable-Ad1221 Many of these recipes just do not work. They make something proper off screen and subsitute it during the camera cut, that's how like 95% of those food hacks are done.
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    Sailuker I mean you could have just offered a different non tik- toc recipe of Buffalo Chicken bake pasta if she really wanted to try it. There are legit ones out there that could have been followed instead.
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    Dawndrell my mom barely gets excited. for anything especially cooking, so when my mom made one of those stupid things (i think it involved. milk, shredded chicken, and a crockpot... it stunk up the house) i just let her ride out the joy and take the first bite herself (i got out of it bc i have bad lactose intolerance haha) and then i microwaved her a chicken pot pie
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    danarexasaurus Ugh my mother did this to at Easter. "I'll cook!" Bless her heart, I should have known better. It was some sort of canned chicken mixed with noodles and an entire thing of Italian dressing or ranch packets or something. I
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    don't even know. It had a lot of cheese on it. It wasnt "bad", really, but it wasn't good either. Just heavy midwestern food lol
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    TheMarkHas Been... It's kinda scary how common sense seems to just fly out the window when people are watching these videos and getting fooled into believing the end result isn't totally doctored and not what you get when you do it the way they tell you to..
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    ClarkTwain I would have let it play out, as a lesson about copying what you see on the internet
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    angrytwig i came in here hoping to read about someone eating one of these monstrosities. :(
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    bunnyfloofington I knew a lady who would constantly post those videos to her Facebook timeline and would tag her friends and family so excited to try new "recipes" on them. Not many ppl tagged even bothered to engage with those posts lol
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    Axedelic Remember when parents were the ones telling us not to believe anything on the internet? Was that just my mom? How are parents the ones. who fall for this the most now? What happened?
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    DA pepehandsx Oh god not the whole block of velveeta cheese
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    DO WinterWizard9497 Im so sorry, but Im glad you were able to stand your ground. I Dont think any of those dishes are safe to eat. See, this is why I am glad TikTok wasnt around when I was a kid. Worst food we ever had was mac and cheese with hot dogs in it.
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