You take the saying, “If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen,” quite literally. Cooking is no easy task and the smoke alarm serves as a constant reminder. Whether you’re making something as simple as a grilled cheese sandwich or trying your hand at a more challenging recipe, the outcome is somehow always the same — disastrous.

While you used to wish you had a little more talent in the kitchen, you’ve come to accept that there’s a lot of microwave use in your future.

So, here are 10 signs that you’re better off eating out or not at all.

1. To you, baking and cooking are the same things.

You’ve never really understood why people say cooking and baking are different because you’re inherently terrible at both. Whether you’re making steak or sugar cookies, the outcome is all the same—burnt.

2. The delivery guy knows your name.

You’ve ordered out more times than you’d like to admit. However, there’s no hiding the fact that you have to-go containers and a million pizza receipts scattered all over your kitchen. Good luck explaining why you haven’t had a homemade meal in over a month.

3. You manage to screw up something like toasting a slice of bread.

You tend to realize your food is ready only after the smell of charred toast fills your apartment. Next time, you’re probably better off taking the toaster out of the equation.

4. When you say you're cooking something, others perceive it as a threat to their existence.

Your number one threat always has to do with you attempting to make something. This is all because you and pretty much anyone else involved is still scarred from the last time you stepped in the kitchen.

5. Mastering the basics, like using a microwave, is an impossible task.

You have yet to learn the kitchen fundamentals. Between melting foam in the microwave and an unruly amount of eggshells in your batter, no one’s really sure how you still end up in the kitchen.

6. At gatherings, you're the one who shows up with the store-bought pie.

Whether it’s a last-minute potluck for the holidays or a dinner party with friends, anything you contribute will obviously be store-bought, and your friends not only thank you but so do their stomachs.

7. You've probably never REALLY enjoyed something you cooked yourself.

When you would rather steer clear of your own cooking, you know it’s bad. Don’t worry, so does everyone else.

8. The smoke alarm goes off about as often as the alarm clock.

9. You aren't even asked to help during Thanksgiving preparations, and you're very thankful for that.

It’s your favorite holiday. You get to eat like royalty without ever having to lend a hand in the kitchen. Gobble. Gobble.