Like many things in life, cooking is about our state of mind as much as anything else. We can take it as yet another chore that we have to think about in the day-to-day, feign helplessness as an excuse to keep on ordering takeout five times a week, or we can consider it a hobby that just happens to be useful in allowing us to sustain ourselves. Food is great, but the process of making things a higher level of edible isn't always a walk in the park. That is part of the appeal of cooking memes because they commiserate with our failures in the kitchen while also not losing the enthusiasm for all things that involve eating as their endpoint. The images below may not all exist as motivation to whip out the chopping board, but that's OK. Ultimately, they are as much about simple entertainment as they are relatability.