As a kid, entertainment on Friday nights can vary when your parents leave to go on a date and you’re stuck with the babysitter. Back in those days, my babysitter would allow my brother and I to experiment in the kitchen and try the recipes my mom’s cooking books. We would search for the perfect recipe (and one that we had the most ingredients for.) Most of the time, the finishing piece was nothing like what the image had shown, and nowadays, fails like that have become famous.
While looking at the recipes on Pinterest, people get high expectations of what their outcome will look like. Pinterest cooking fails on various websites highlight how people’s expectations didn’t quite hit the mark and how cooking failures can happen throughout a physical or digital “cookbook.”