"Kylie Jenner Ramen 'Recipe'": 30 Stupid Food Trends Started On Social Media, According To Folks Online

The fact that when you click on a recipe, you have to scroll down through adverts and rubbish telling you all about the food, when you just want the recipe!!

Most of the responses here are just bad taste, but bad taste isn't criminally negligent.

The crimes are coming from some of that viral tiktok s**t. People are deep frying with a pot 90% full of oil, dropping thing into the oil towards themselves, and pulling it out dangerously under cooked. I saw a woman the other day say "if you like rare steak, you'll like rare sausage."

Some of those videos, man, if you follow them to the letter you're going to get 2nd degree burns and salmonella poisoning. But these f*****s present themselves as some kind of experts. They are, in a legal sense, actually criminally negligent.

Wearing giant fake nails in the kitchen. It's disgusting and you'd be thrown out of any commercial kitchen if you showed up wearing them.

Less about food or food preparation itself, but about how food videos are titled. I'm at a point where I unsub from cooking channels once they start resorting to shi*baity video titles like: *This Romanian casserole is my DAILY DRIVER* *I can't STOP eating this boiled Norweigan dessert* *I'm OBSESSED with this South Pacific second breakfast treat* *This Appalachian raw horse foot literally SAVED my summer* *Watch as this single Afghani pea made me CUM and SEE CHRIST* I'm looking at you, Chlebowski and Yeung Man Cooking

I hate when people make something just to troll. Just for rage clicks. Including super expensive or really indulgent. You know the food is just getting wasted. I don’t mind tossing a mistake. But intentionally f*****g it up for clicks is so “spoiled rich kid with no empathy.”

The lie that onions can be caramelised in 5-7 minutes of frying.

Anything that is titled "food hack"

Putting onions and garlic in the pan at the same time...

That cover-the-whole-table-top with nachos, spaghetti, whatever gross food they dump out over the surface for everyone to dig in at once. That should be reserved for seafood boils only.

Any of those wanna-be charcuterie boards where cream cheese (or icing, butter, hummus, etc) is spread over the whole tray and topped with stuff for everyone to just dig in and get their fingers on everything.

Trying to use appliances in a way they're not meant to be used.

Saw this one video on Facebook a while back of someone making a full breakfast in a toaster. Yes, including the bacon and eggs.

I've also seen a couple posts of people trying to cook salmon in the freaking dishwasher.

You. Have. A. Stove. Use it!

That crazy lady who made mashed potatoes out of potato chips. I'm 99% sure she's a troll but it still makes me deeply sad.

How often I see extra virgin olive oil used to fry or sauté items. It surprises me how many otherwise (seemingly) well-seasoned home/internet “chefs” pour really high-quality, visibly green EVOO in a med-high skillet and start cooking meat or veg in it. What a waste, and it usually ends up burning the oil obviously.

Edit: To be clear, I’m not saying regular or light olive oil are a problem for high temperature cooking. But **extra virgin** has more particulate left from the olives and has a much lower smoke point than more filtered versions. Personally I use light olive oil or avocado oil for high temp cooking.

Touting food such as the Kylie Jenner ramen “recipe” as some kind of magnificent amazingly weird and unique thing. People have been doing that for a long time and there is absolutely nothing special about it.

Adding stupid amounts of cheese to everything. Sure, cheese is tasty, but I want to be able to taste the food, not just mask everything with the taste of melted cheddar.

Also, for some reason, the algorithm seems to insist on showing me "clever" ways to cook eggs that mostly just involve frying an egg in a less convenient way that makes more mess than just cracking an egg into a hot frying pan with a bit of oil

Those ladies who dump like 15 raw ingredients into an aluminum pan, including whole logs of Velveeta and raw pasta, and mix it all together and throw it in the oven with a caption that says "I learned this in Texas" or some stupid s**t. You know it's literally going straight in the trash because whatever is coming out of the oven is completely inedible. It's just a blatant waste of food for Tiktok views.

This is specific to bread, but when they take a loaf of bread fresh out of the oven and it's still steaming hot and they cut it in half to show you the inside. They just ruined that loaf of bread, it needs to rest!

Making cooking seem way more complicated than it really is. It turns people off from actually cooking themselves. Like measuring each spice separately into a tiny bowl

For me it’s the addition of sugar, or sugary ingredients, to savoury dishes. No, you don’t need to ‘balance flavours’ by adding all 4 (or 5) to everything. Some dishes are supposed to lean towards acid, or bitter. And many foods have plenty of natural sweetness in them already.

I hate all the f*****g rage baiting. They're just destroying and wasting food. And thousands of people are watching them, and they're making money off of it.

Washing chicken.