You have to see this! Woman goes viral for sharing video of ‘one pan Thanksgiving dinner’ recipe that left viewers in disgust
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WOULD YOU EAT FROM THIS? — A content creator shared a “one-pan Thanksgiving dinner” idea online and while she may have thought it was genius, most viewers seem to think it was a recipe for disaster from the start.
The viral video was shared by Kate Heintzelman, who’s also known by her handle name online as @katewilltryanything.
Heintzelman starts the clip off by putting an unwashed chicken in an aluminum pan. She opens a can of yams, can of green beans and can of corn and pours the food items out and around the chicken.
She then adds a packet of powdered mashed potatoes to a corner of the pan before stuffing the chicken with boxed stuffing.
“One pan Thanksgiving dinner is a lifesaver,” her Instagram caption reads.
But most viewers seem to strongly disagree, and they made sure their voices were heard.
“What in the thousand ways to die is this,” someone commented.
Another says, “Disappointed and disgusted. Cross-contamination to the max. Someone gonna be so sick! Food poisoning at its finest.”
Others mentioned they almost threw up watching the video and that Heintzelman shouldn’t be allowed in the kitchen.
“This does not save. It takes lives,” one comment states.
There are very few positive comments directed at Heintzelman but one of them says they “Believe she is doing the best she knows how” but the viewer quickly adds, “No thanks though.”
Heintzelman told the New York Post there’s nothing wrong with putting a raw chicken in a pan with raw veggies, and that she doesn’t understand all the comments about her not washing the chicken.
“You could have 100 people telling you you need to rinse off your chicken. Then, if you rinse off your chicken, people are like, ‘Why are you rinsing off your chicken?'” she told The Post.
She also explained why she used canned and boxed ingredients rather than cooking from scratch, like many people — granted not all — do for Thanksgiving.
“I’m not my grandmother. And it’s really hard to remember how to make all these things homemade and it takes a lot of time,” she said.
Heintzelman added, “I want a whole Thanksgiving dinner and if it’s just going to be me and two or three other people, and it’s 100 pans to make of things … I was like, ‘What if we just throw it all in one pan?'”
Heintzelman reportedly tasted the finished product and mentioned “the potatoes were a little burnt, but everything else turned out great.”
She is planning a one-pan ham for Christmas.