38 Times “Anyone Can Cook” Was Proven Horribly Wrong

John Summers • Contributor

May 27, 2025 11:00 PM EDT

"Anyone can cook," said a talking rat in a Pixar movie.
And honestly? That rat was lying!

Sure, anyone can enter a kitchen and start throwing ingredients together like a toddler in a Play-Doh factory, but cooking? Actual cooking? That's an art. A skill. A thing that should maybe require a license, or at least a warning label.

These 35 photos prove it. They are not appetizing. They are not creative. They are the culinary equivalent of a car crash in a microwave.
We're talking food that's gray, yet somehow still burnt. Dishes that are both bone-dry and mysteriously wet. Plates that look like they were styled by a raccoon with trust issues.

Do some of them taste amazing? Possibly.
Do they look like they were plated in the Upside Down? Absolutely.

So grab a snack (a real one), and prepare your eyeballs for 38 of the most unholy abominations ever served on a plate. Just don't say we didn't warn you.