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With so many people stuck at home this year, there were countless opportunities to create crazy food trends and discover helpful kitchen hacks.
But not every attempt was a raging success. 2020 also had plenty of food failures for at-home chefs, but they also spanned grocery stores and even national parks.
Here are some of the biggest food fails of the year.
TikTok user rinses ground beef, confuses internet
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One TikTokker thought she was sharing good advice when she posted a video of herself rinsing her cooked ground beef with water before putting it back in the pan. However, viewers weren’t convinced, with many saying the "tip" would make the beef bland and dry. Others pointed out that pouring grease down the drain is bad for the pipes.
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Woman cooks boyfriend's steak in the toaster
@itsmeju1iette Cooking steak for my boyfriend ❤️🥩 ##foryou ##cooking ##chef
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Another TikTok user started her own controversy by appearing to cook two sirloin steaks in a toaster. Viewers noted that at the end of the clip, when she took a bite of her toaster-cooked steaks, the meat appeared chewy, instead of tender, as it should have been.
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'Inventor' uses deodorant container to spread avocado
@unnecessaryinventions This is the most millennial thing I’ve ever invented. ##unnecessaryinventions
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To capitalize on everyone’s love of avocado toast, one TikTokker decided to create a new invention that allegedly makes "the fastest avocado toast ever" — using what appears to be an empty deodorant container that has been filled with mashed avocado. Though some commenters were impressed, others thought it looked inedible.
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Shopper finds bag of wet eggs at the supermarket
U.K. grocery chain Morrisons was apparently selling bags of hard-boiled eggs in liquid earlier this year, much to the disgust of one Twitter user. This shopper posted a picture of the bags, calling them "the most wretched and cursed item I have ever witnessed." It turns out, the bags of eggs are meant to be opened and sold at the grocery store’s salad bar, though sometimes the company sells them directly to customers.
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Man 'chops' carrots with own teeth, spits them into blender
@steel.jobe "It’s efficient" ##TikTokFood ##HeinzHalloween ##fortheboyz ##fyp
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Instead of using a knife and cutting board to chop up his carrots, one TikTok user was filmed quickly biting a carrot into pieces and spitting them into a blender. Though many commenters on the clip were impressed with his method, at least one person said the video was "absolutely terrifying."
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Yellowstone visitors cook chicken over thermal geyser
A man was banned from Yellowstone National Park after he admitted to cooking chickens in a thermal geyser. (iStock)
A man was temporarily banned from Yellowstone National Park after he admitted to cooking chickens in a thermal geyser — which is against the park’s safety regulations. The man was sentenced to two years’ unsupervised probation, during which time he is not allowed to visit the park. He was also sentenced to pay two $600 fines.
Woman finds huge spider inside a gingerbread house
Just before Christmas, a woman in Australia was quite shocked to find a huge huntsman spider — and an egg sac — inside the box holding her ready-made gingerbread house from Woolworths. Thankfully, the supermarket chain apologized for the scare and promised to deliver a new gingerbread house.
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Fox News’ Michael Bartiromo and Michael Hollan contributed to this report.