What's the worst food you have ever eaten that was cooked by someone else?

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Under cooked bacon wrapped around philidelphia cheese. It was a starter that a friend did,I vomited that night,might have been unrelated but doubt it.Urgh can still taste it years later

A friend cooked me and DH a full English breakfast in a steamer. How can you fry an egg in a steamer? You can't. It was the slimiest concoction ever. She was on a health kick at the time and everything went in the three tier steamer

My mil used to put packet marsala graveyard on everything.Suet pudding made by exh where he read the recipe wrong and doubled the suet,it was nearer leather.
When we were young my brother offered to make minced pies.I used the leftover pastry for turkey pie.He had made sweet pastry,I still remember being gutted as we picked out the turkey before admitting it was inedible.This was the first time my bro made pastry and so had followed a recipe ,no one had imagined anyone making anything so fancy as sweet pastry.

A summer evening party. Lots of buffet dishes all laid out with serving spoons, help yourself kind of thing. Problem is the bachelor friend was a university lecturer and had never prepared his own food before. It had been one of these long, very hot summers and he whips off the tablecloths that had been laid over to keep the flies off and it was clear most of the food had been prepared at least 24 hours before, left out on the table and had dried in the heat. One particular dish, some kind of egg mayonnaise, was so dry the top has turned in to a hard cracked skin that had started to turn green. It was a disaster.

I went to my nanas once and she was desperate to make me lunch... I eventually relented and said I'd have a cheese sandwich. I offered to make it but she insisted. She asked if I wanted a bit salad (I thought she meant in the sandwich, like lettuce and tomato). Any way she eventually appeared with a huge plateful of salad, and two massive cheese sandwiches. Just before i tucked in the then brought through a jug of microwaved scrambled eggs and poured it all on top of the salad

Rabbit stew and baked Alaska at a dinner party. I have never recovered

packet marsala graveyard

Sounds gruesome

I had what I thought was going to be a rump steak in Arromanche in France. I could smell it before it left the kitchen, and it smelled better than it tasted. There was absolutely no doubt that whatever it was, it was definitely dead, and it smelled like it had been dead for quite some time. I have still no idea what it was (I have had cheval and it wasn’t that).

So first time meeting future mil and she gave me a bacon sandwich, the bead was thickly buttered with stork and the bacon had just touched the pan. 30 years later it still make me sick at the thought.
I also worked in a high school where one of the students made sausage casserole, uncooked sausages with a tin of tomatoes on top, I never got to taste it thank God but it looked appalling.

At a french exchange in france as a school girl, the mother in the family served something i now can sogball sausages. It came out if a tin and was a sort of white sausage in a bisque type sauce. It is the most revolting thing I have ever eaten. Even now I cannot stand bisque. Bleurgh. Whenever anyone says french women are the best cooks, i remember that bloody meal.

Also my poor departed mother used to make tuna’n’rice which was basically long grain rice, boiled for about six weeks, with a tin of undrained tuna in oil added. She loved it. Me, not so much

I never actually ate it but a friend's DH made a carrot cake and because he'd no cream cheese for the icing, he just used Cheddarie spread. For those that don't remember, its the spreadable equivalent of a kraft cheese slice.

Fish with skin on , cooked in tinned mushroom soup. 🤢🤮

Hahahaha TaliZorah. A Leticia Cropley cookbook would be fun to read but only when stomach is calm.

Friend once did dinner for four of us. Very dry steak, mushrooms and new potatoes from tins. Potatoes were very tough and were cold at the centre plus no gravy at all to soften the food.

We told her some time later and thankfully her cooking has improved.

An old BF of mine prided himself on his cooking, but what he actually did was grab every possible ingredient in the kitchen, stew it to hell, and then add whatever case to hand from the spice rack. I used to gamely force these concoctions down with a smile, but the truth came out one day when he cheerily announced that he’d cooked enough that we could have some tomorrow, too. I’m afraid I burst into tears. 😭

The worst cup of tea I ever had (I am a tea fanatic so it was traumatic ) was from a van in Nottingham Castle. Not only was it in a polystyrene cup, not only was it clearly a Happy Shopper teabag, not only was the water NOWHERE NEAR boiling - the milk was UH fucking T.
I actually feel angry just remembering it.

My friend’s dm was a combination of terrible cook and skinflint. Two meals I remember at her house as a child in the 1970s were spaghetti - just spaghetti, boiled for an hour, which I daringly had to confess I could not finish, and with great embarrassment had to hand it back under the disapproving glare of her father, and a baked onion. Just one onion, totally plain. At least I could eat that, but years later I marvel at how little money they were spending on food (and they were not poor).

Dm’s 1980s masterpiece was spaghetti bolognese consisting of heavily boiled spaghetti with a tin of meat and gravy on top. The thought of that now is making me feel a bit sick.

In hospital, in a little side ward of the labour ward, and we were offered very sad looking sandwiches. As I was ravenously hungry I asked for a cheese one, which transpired to be half a slice of bread with no butter on and a tiny dried piece of cheese hiding in it. I cried lots and sent DH out for food!

I was offered by an old boyfriends Mum to stay for dinner and have bubble and squeak - one of my favourites.

What I was served was mashed potato and vegetables all cooked in a saucepan with baked beans. It was vile. It was also about 12 years ago and still bothers me now!

My parents brought us up vegetarian, and my mum bless her was obsessed with two things - nut roast, which was always sooooo over cooked and sooooo nutty, and peanut butter and parsnip soup. Yes, it is as vile as it sounds. She also once made me a very suspect tasting peanut butter sandwich for school lunch when I was about 7/8 and I projectile vomited all over the school toilets. I can still remember the taste now. My mum isn't one for going by best before dates, but to the extreme.

We're not veggie anymore and she's a much better cook.

Why did I read this thread whilst suffering awful morning sickness

I made a potato bake with one of those jar sauces that were popular in the 90s. A helpful serving suggestion was to add leftover meat, so I thought “good idea! I’ll slice and use the leftover beef from Sunday”.

Served it up and I just looked at it and thought fucking hell, I can’t believe I’ve jut dished up cheesy beef. It looked revolting (but actually tasted quite nice).

The first time I went to an ex partners mothers for dinner she cooked pork chops in batter

Pork chops in batter are lovely. Our local Chinese does them.

Microwaved chicken breast you could use as a discus.

My nanny’s curry had all the old fruit from the fruit bowl in made with mince beef

My mums pork and apricot tagine. She claims I loved it I don’t like pork (apart from smoked bacon and sausages) and I don’t like dried fruit

Lime and soy granita made by a colleague who invited all the team round for a gourmet 7 course meal. It was basically just salty crushed ice. I couldn't bring myself to swallow it and didn't know what to do so eventually swallowed it and nearly came straight back up.