9 YouTube Food Fails

There are many reasons one would film oneself while baking, cooking, or concocting something in the kitchen. Maybe you are going to send the video to your best friend from college who lives all the way on the other side of the lower 48, because she swears she followed your mom's peppermint-cookie recipe but it keeps turning out as piles of mush. Or possibly you are branching out with a new take on an old dish and you want to remember what you did later, on the off chance it's a huge hit with your guests. Whatever the reason for filming yourself while cooking in the confines of your humble abode, you probably wouldn't waste your time uploading, editing, and publishing a failed pan of whatchamacallit unless there were either a cash prize or world record on the line, right? Thank God the following crazy cooks have no shame, for without their fails, what would we laugh at?

Sweet Popcorn
Many questions come to mind here: Why are we putting food coloring into hot oil (let alone popcorn)? Where did you hear this would work? Why did you think this would work? And why are we secretly hoping the whole thing catches on fire?

Cookie Pucks
Besides being totally annoyed that you have to watch FOUR VIDEOS to get to the end of this cookie failure, you may actually get a kick out of watching these two siblings ruin quite possibly the easiest baking recipe ever known to mankind.

Microwave Chocolate Cake
On more than a few occasions, I have made this, friends have made this, you've probably even made this. The whole point of the microwave chocolate cake is that you can't ruin it. Or so we thought . . .