Eleven years ago, local cook John Chandler uploaded his lasagna recipe to AllRecipes.com. Today, the recipe is still the web sites top-rated recipe and has a 5-star rating after 10,501 reviews.

Chandler is not a restaurateur, celebrity chef or self-proclaimed foodie. Instead, Chandler is a home cook from Frisco, a neighborhood in Dallas, Texas. His girlfriend encouraged him to put his recipe on the Internet. Today, thousands have tried to create the world's best lasagna using his method.

"It's a very simple, easy recipe that everyone can appreciate and that everyone has in their pantry the things to make this," Chandler said during an interview on ABC's "Good Morning America." "You don't need a masters in cooking. People have made it their own. They've changed it and added red wine or rosemary. It's not just my lasagna; everyone has shared in it."

Chandler is not exaggerating when he says that "everyone has shared in it." In fact, the recipe has accumulated 12 million views in the past five years. Chandler's lasagna also has 13,000 Facebook "likes" and has been shared on Pinterest over 30,000 times.

Despite the popularity, Chandler did not even consider his recipe the world's best when he posted it. He was just avoiding the boring title of "John's Lasagna."

"I did not think much about it and did not think it was the world's best but named it tongue-in-cheek," Chandler said.

Years after posting the recipe, Chandler looked it up on AllRecipes.com, and, to his surprise, it was the number one recipe on the web site.

"Here I am today: reprinted in countries all over the world and in many languages, mentioned in the same sentence as Gordon Ramsay. Crazy," Chandler said excitedly on "Good Morning America." "And I am a man from the South who loves to grill and is not a foodie. Imagine that."

You can try the World's Best Lasagna yourself by cooking with Chandler's recipe.