- Terrible cooks have shared photos of the worst pasta dishes they’ve ever made
- Some feature overcooked pasta that has congealed into a solid lump or a cake
- Others have served the kitchen staple with ingredients that don’t go together
Pasta is cheap, filling and can be used in a variety of different and delicious meals.
But though it’s easy to cook and pairs with many ingredients, some amateur chefs manage to ruin this kitchen staple by overcooking it or serving it with some very odd items.
These photos, shared on the Reddit thread Sh***y Food Porn, are of the worst pasta dishes arguably ever made.
From congealed pasta cakes to unappetising sludge, these pictures show how even an easy-to-cook ingredient like spaghetti or penne can turn into a stomach-churning mess in the wrong hands.
And the pictures will make you feel a lot better about your own cooking skills.
Meal prep is the social media phenomenon where gym fanatics cook up healthy meals in advance and store them in plastic containers. However this lump of congealed pasta is probably not one of the meals that is regarded as an acceptable leftover
Curry sauce, fish fingers – and pasta. While the first two ingredients might work together, the addition of pasta makes this meal an abomination
Unicorn food was one of the biggest trends of last year, and involved dyeing foods bright colours. But some meals should not be given the unicorn treatment, and pasta is one of them
When you overcook pasta, it becomes glutinous and sticky, so it can form a congealed lump. This cook decided to sculpt their overcooked dinner into a stomach-churning cake, decorated with what appears to be shredded meat and cheese
This cook tried to make ‘red wine spaghetti’, a flash-in-the-pan food trend that fizzled out way back in 2016. However instead of thick rouged strands, theirs is overcooked and looks like a dog’s dinner
This pasta dish is an alarming shade of grey, and looks as if it has been gathering dust
We never knew there was such a thing as too much cheese but this amateur cook seems to have managed it as they can’t lift the pasta out of the pot without huge strings of cheese following suit
This cook has forgotten to drain the pasta properly so has been left with a bowl of watery mush
Pickles aren’t usually paired with pasta but this cook ran out of other toppings
Do you want some pasta with your oil? One woman said she left her partner for the weekend and said he managed to overcook pasta into a dome-shaped lump and serve with a ton of oil
One prankster served up a birthday cake made of congealed pasta with a candle in the middle
Carbs on carbs! This hungry snacker decided to make a pasta wrap filled with tomato covered pasta