• 1. Making okro soup or and don’t want to start cutting? My friend, blend that thing!

    Who has time for cutting or grating?

    2. The floor of your house needs to be cleaned and you don’t have time for that? Please find the mop!

    Is it not the same thing as sweeping?

    3. Do you hate washing the yama yama blender as much as we do? Just add small soap and water and blend something sharply.

    Blender that will want to wound you sef.

    4. Hate washing those white sneakers for hours don’t you? Just carry small brush, add toothpaste and use it to clean all the dirt away please.

    We bet you didn’t know you could do that.

    5. Use take away packs to eat so you never have to wash plates. YES!

    You people don’t know we’re very smart sha.

    6. If you can’t stand cooking after a long day of work, just cook plenty jollof on weekends and store in the freezer.

    Who has time for rubbish, please?

    7. Need to use hot water sharply? Please find the microwave.

    P.s If this happens, abeg no mention our name o!

    8. Throw your onions inside the fridge before slicing so they won’t blind your poor eyes.

    Let no onion come and wound you.

    9. Did you know you can use your hand whisk to make amala or semo?

    Seriously, try it!
  • 1. When she calls you to assist her in the kitchen:

    Hello ma there is no need to shout I’m here.

    2. When she feels you aren’t eager enough to sweat and suffer in the kitchen

    You better open those your teeth and be happy to be part f the process oh!

    3. But when you are excited to learn, she’s like:

    Let’s go!!

    4. When she get’s angry with you for not being able to do something you’ve never done before.

    But mummy I’ve never done this before how am I supposed to know how?

    5. When you know how to do some things without tutoring, your mother is like:

    Ehen! That’s my child!

    6. How she looks at you when you forget to add MAGGI:

    Mummy plis don’t kill me.

    7. Her reaction when you add too much salt:

    “And you know your father already has high blood pressure kuku kill all of us.”

    8. When she starts gisting you about something random while you’re cutting pepper.

    You have to be too careful not too laugh too much and cut yourself.

    9. You cutting onions:

    Tears everywhere!

    10. Your mother cutting onions:

    Always cool, calm and collected!

    11. When she holds a hot cooking spoon barehanded like it’s nothing:

    Is she superwoman? She must be superwoman!

    12. When you try to do the same thing:

    “It’s not that it’s paining me, water just likes coming out of my eyes.”

    13. Your mother when you take the pot off the fire too early:

    “So we should eat raw food because you want to finish on time abi?”

    14. Her reaction when you forget the pot on the fire:

    “Please explain to me where I got you from.”

    15. When you follow all her instructions but the food is not sweet.

    Which kind of problem is this?

    16. How your mother watches your movements in the kitchen:

    Please don’t kill yourself on my watch oh!

    17. When you try to make a suggestion.

    “Now you know more than me abi!”

    18. When your suggestion works she’s like:

    “Ahhhhh okay I see.”

    19. When you misbehave after messing up in the kitchen your mother is like:

    “You kuku don’t know how to do anything”

    20. When you finally master something she taught you, you’re like:

    I am now the master!

    21. And she’s like:

    But all jokes aside, Nigerian mothers are the best and as MAGGI turns 50, we want to celebrate the women who have been using MAGGI to create amazing meals for their loved ones.

    The big idea for the MAGGI 50th anniversary campaign is: Let’s Celebrate. We intend to do this primarily by sending gift boxes containing specially curated ingredients and gifts to women influencers pan Nigeria & beyond for trusting MAGGI in the past years, and in the future ahead. Clink the link below to learn more.
  • When a food lover and chef on Twitter asked Nigerians to share their worst cooking experience, the responses were hilarious as we expected.

    Share your worst cooking disaster

    — Thelmzkitchen (@Thelmzkitchen_) April 27, 2016

    1. This chocolate chip cookie fail.

    https://twitter.com/LamideOB/status/725292750850105344

    2. This person’s palm oil caught fire.

    3. This person made Jollof rice soup.

    https://twitter.com/utibe_/status/725275673821089793

    4. This one about adding Ogbono to Jollof rice.

    5. When your daddy throws soggy semo on your forehead.

    https://twitter.com/LadeKale/status/725278774867181568

    6. This person’s attempt at making fried eggs.

    @Thelmzkitchen_ this was meant to be fried eggs ? pic.twitter.com/NDDMgZ8YDa

    — The Special One (@swaynkaayyy) April 27, 2016

    7. This person that cooked rotten eggs with their Indomie.

    @Thelmzkitchen_ prepared indomie with sardine and a lot of veggies. D last phase was to break egg inside. I neva new d egg was rotten

    — ♥RAIN♥ (@rianatopeyemi) April 27, 2016

    8. The struggle of preparing pap and Custard.

    9. This person that wanted to cook fried noodles.

    @Thelmzkitchen_ used oil instead of water for indomie and fried the whole thing black

    — art (@Vaness_ah) April 27, 2016

    10. This person used kerosene to cook stew.

    11. This person cooked Efo Riro with Ewedu leaves.

    @Thelmzkitchen_ thought ewedu leaf was efo , so I made it normally as efo riro. Suddenly I noticed the efo was slippery. It was a disaster ?

    — Seksan (@diamondsek) April 27, 2016

    12. This person’s ocean of beans and palm oil.

    13. This person mistook Ogbono for crayfish.

    14. The one about making pancakes with semo flour.

    https://twitter.com/meema_ss/status/725269896582565888

    15. This one about an “eggsplosion”.

    @Thelmzkitchen_ I tried to boil my egg in the microwave ( I didn’t put it in water I just dropped the egg ) it exploded ?

    — Gold ✨ (@Wura_ola) April 27, 2016

    16. This one about a chicken coming back to life.

    https://twitter.com/PurpleEllipsis/status/725397785978220545

    17. This person didn’t know chicken had to be boiled before putting in stew.

    @Thelmzkitchen_ I put chicken inside cookin stew (without washing/boiling the chicken)

    Tasted like blood,I was a carnivores animal dat day — that dada guy. (@Josh__IK) April 27, 2016

    18. When someone used Chocomilo as Maggi.

    19. This person washed the Garri before making Eba.

    @Thelmzkitchen_ I wanted to make Eba so I washed the garri first.

    — Bambi (@Nwaabekee) April 27, 2016

    20. This person made burnt offering.

    @Thelmzkitchen_ here pic.twitter.com/4MXiy64lfK

    — Omoba KD (Ari Gold ) (@Kenydebo) April 27, 2016

    21. This person used Omo to wash rice.

    22. This person put live chicken in hot water and sat on the lid.

    23. When someone poured Nutri C in rice to make it look like Jollof.

    24. This person baked a cake with Amala flour.

    https://twitter.com/AmazonianCub/status/725294086626926592

    25. This person that cooked burnt mop.

    @Thelmzkitchen_ I came back frm club 5am,I said let me cook spagheti.I slept off,woke up 12pm.I saw medusa in my pot pic.twitter.com/lzbpNFuLI1

    — Infamous Minded (@PRODEEGY) April 27, 2016