Recipe for disaster: Vietnam embraces kitchen nightmares in lockdown

A woman wearing a face mask practises social distancing amid Vietnam's nationwide social isolation effort as a preventive measure against the spread of the coronavirus outbreak at a grilled meat shop in Hanoi on Sunday (April 19). - AFP

HANOI: Burnt bread, collapsed cakes and inedible potatoes: the kitchen failures of Vietnamese families in self-isolation are being shared online, with hundreds of thousands joining a Facebook group to commiserate over their culinary catastrophes.

With half the world in lockdown due to the (Covid-19) coronavirus pandemic, masterchefs-in-the-making across the globe have been posting snapshots on social media of their perfect sourdough and gorgeously gooey brownies as they while away the hours in the kitchen.