Hilarious Ramadan cooking fail: Malaysian attempts Khairul Aming recipe, ends with messy kitchen and blender disaster
RAMADAN is a time of reflection, discipline, and, as it turns out, spectacular cooking disasters — and one Malaysian’s very relatable kitchen catastrophe on Day One has had the internet in stitches.
A user on Threads shared what can only be described as the full spectrum of a first-day cooking fail: a photograph of a kitchen counter thoroughly coated in the aftermath of a blender that had clearly lost the battle, with food splattered across the surface in every direction.
The culprit? An attempt to recreate one of Khairul Aming’s recipes from his ninth annual Ramadan series, now rechristened “30 Hari 60 Resipi” — 30 days, 60 recipes, two dishes every single day of the fasting month.
The post was addressed directly to the man himself, opening with a single, painfully honest word: “Sorry.”
What followed was even better. “Day one, but I think I want to drop out… Maybe I could turn it into ‘30 Days to 1 Recipe,’” the user wrote — a self-aware riff on KA’s series title that landed perfectly.
Accompanying the post was a video clip, in which a voice can be heard delivering the verdict with equal measures of pride and uncertainty: “To Khairul Aming, I did it, but I’m not sure if it worked or not. I followed the steps. I’m not sure if I passed or not.”
The internet, however, had no such ambiguity. Viewers unanimously concluded that the attempt had not passed.
The comments section erupted with the warmth and humour that only the Malaysian internet can produce.
One standout quip arrived in the form of “Pop chicken, pop blender” — a playful reference to Khairul Aming’s well-known Pop Chicken recipe, and simultaneously a perfect description of what had apparently happened to the blender.
Others rallied around the cook with encouragement: “Don’t give up, bro,” and similar exhortations appeared throughout the thread.
Khairul launched this year’s series, KA opened not with a recipe but with a compilation video of previous years’ cooking fails from followers — burnt cakes, broken bowls, a kitchen fire, and a mortar and pestle snapped clean in two — accompanied by a caption that read: “Sesi pembelajaran akan bermula tak lama lagi. Doakan dapur students tak terbakar tahun ni.”
Translation: “The learning session will begin soon. Pray that students’ kitchens don’t burn down this year.”
For this Ramadan, Khairul Aming invested over RM100,000 into producing his content — spending heavily on ingredients, production quality, and planning, with his team taking two months to prepare the series in advance.
The stakes, in other words, are high on his end.
The bar for “students,” meanwhile, remains refreshingly grounded in reality.
Failure, after all, is just a recipe that hasn’t been perfected yet.
The blender can be cleaned. The kitchen will recover. And somewhere in Malaysia, someone is already gearing up for the next recipe.
The Sun Malaysia
