Cooking Duel: Difference between revisions

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[[I Thought It Meant|Just to be clear,]] [[Tropes Are Flexible|does not have to actually involve cooking]], it just has to be that silly.

Essentially, this is the [[Evasive Fight Thread Episode]] made silly with plenty of silly [[Trash Talk]]. In shows where the '''Cooking Duel''' is [[Serious Business]], expect many a [[~~What~~ ~~Do You Mean It's Not~~ Awesome?]] moment.

Essentially, this is the [[Evasive Fight Thread Episode]] made silly with plenty of silly [[Trash Talk]]. In shows where the '''Cooking Duel''' is [[Serious Business]], expect many a [[Mundane Made Awesome]] moment.

When it actually involves cooking, the female combatants of an [[Unwanted Harem]] will view it as the ultimate battle for the guy of their dreams. After all "the way to a man's heart is [[Through His Stomach]]." [[Hilarity Ensues]] as one or more of the girls are often [[Lethal Chef]]s, [[Official Couple|ESPECIALLY if she is the designated girl who will win the guy]]. But [[Supreme Chef]]s can be involved as well.

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Compare [[Chef of Iron]].

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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

* ''[[Ranma ½]]'' took about half of its plots from this trope, ranging from gymnastics to fast food sales to a "martial arts marriage contest" in [[The Movie|one of the movies]], almost all of which had their own [[Martial Arts and Crafts|ridiculous fighting style devoted solely to it]]. The hot-headed Ranma was easily maneuvered into such contests - even, memorably, a Cooking Duel to see who was more ''feminine''. At least two were ''literal'' cooking duels that didn't involve any unlikely fighting techniques (though one did include some [[Implausible Fencing Powers|impossible use of cooking knives]]).

{{quote|'''Akane:''' Cooking... [[Lethal Chef|Why does it always have to be cooking]]?}}

* ''[[Digimon Xros Wars]]'' has one in Sweets Zone.

** ~~Similarily~~, Frontier has "You Want Fries With That." It's regarded as one of the best episodes, as it focuses on JP, Zoey, and Tommy who were otherwise forgotten.

** Similarly, Frontier has "You Want Fries With That." It's regarded as one of the best episodes, as it focuses on JP, Zoey, and Tommy who were otherwise forgotten.

* ''[[Kujibiki Unbalance]]'' is set at a [[High School]] where the student body is set up in an enormous [[Tournament Arc]] of Cooking Duels. (The first of which is literally a cooking duel.)

* The "[[Yamato Nadeshiko]] Cup" from ''[[Tenshi na Konamaiki]]''. Megumi and Genzo also fight an actual Cooking Duel at one point.

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* In the ''[[Star Trek]]'' [[Expanded Universe]] novel ''How Much For Just The Planet?'' by [[John M. Ford]], Scotty gets challenged to a duel by a Klingon security officer. He chooses "the ancestral weapon of the Scots"—that is, golf.

== [[Live Action TV]] ==

== [[Live-Action TV]] ==

* Numerous [[Game Show]]s and [[Reality Show]]s are more or less entire series of literal Cooking Duels—in live action, to boot.

** ''[[Iron Chef]]'' (which is technically the [[Trope Codifier]]) and its [[Cultural Translation|Americanized]] [[Spin-Off]] ''[[Iron Chef America]]''

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** Food Network runs or has run several other Cooking Duel-based shows, such as ''Throwdown'', where Bobby Flay challenges another famous chef at his own specialty, and ''Date Plate'', where two guys compete for a date with a hot woman by cooking her dinner.

** ''[[MasterChef]]'' in Britain and Australia. ''Cooking'' doesn't get ''tougher'' than ''this!''

** ''Ready Steady Cook'' (''Ready.. Set... Cook!'' in the USA) - Debuted in Britain in 1994, USA in 1995, ~~independant~~ of any [[Iron Chef]] ~~populairty~~ (1993 in Japan, then to the USA a few years later). Two chefs each team up with a normal person, receive a mystery bag of ingredients and have to prepare a meal with it.

** ''Ready Steady Cook'' (''Ready.. Set... Cook!'' in the USA) - Debuted in Britain in 1994, USA in 1995, independent of any [[Iron Chef]] popularity (1993 in Japan, then to the USA a few years later). Two chefs each team up with a normal person, receive a mystery bag of ingredients and have to prepare a meal with it.

** And ''[[Chopped]]'' which takes the secret ingredient concept from ''[[Iron Chef]]'' and multiplies it.

*** The ''[[iCarly]]'' episode "iCook" has a parody of these shows complete with an [[Expy]] of Bobby Flay who has a nervous breakdown when he loses.

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* An episode of ''[[The Colbert Report]]'' featured an [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|amazing]] dance-battle-turned-''[[Dance Dance Revolution]]'' game between Stephen Colbert and his archnemesis, Korean pop singer Rain.

* Tendo Souji was not only the title character and [[The Ace]] of ''[[Kamen Rider Kabuto]]'', but also a genius chef. Naturally, this meant that any feud he had with another character would inevitably come down to a cooking duel. A short two-episode arc called "The Dark Kitchen" took this premise to its logical, yet highly absurd conclusion.

** Then there's that make-up duel between Kazama Daisuke and a rival make-up artist. It's hilarious. Daisuke {{spoiler|barely}} won by doing the impossible: {{spoiler|eyeliners on his opponent. ~~WHILE~~ HE ~~WAS~~ ~~WEARING~~ ~~GLASSES~~.}}

** Then there's that make-up duel between Kazama Daisuke and a rival make-up artist. It's hilarious. Daisuke {{spoiler|barely}} won by doing the impossible: {{spoiler|eyeliners on his opponent. ''While he was wearing glasses.''}}

*** Also note this was a ''[[Single-Stroke Battle]]'' - they each did a makeup job on the other in a fraction of a second while leaping past each other.

** Also, in [[Real Life]], ''[[Kamen Rider Black]]'' star Tetsuo Kurata is a master steak chef, beating ''[[Kamen Rider Blade]]'' star Takayuki Tsubaki [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Hfumi9_Pkc in an episode of a cookoff show.]