Cooking Duel: Difference between revisions

[[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.

 

 

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|Lethal Chefs]], [[Official Couple|ESPECIALLY if she is the designated girl who will win the guy]]. But [[Supreme Chef|Supreme Chefs]] can be involved as well.

 

Compare [[Chef of Iron]].

 

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

== [[Live Action TV]] ==

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

** ''[[Top Chef (TV)|Top Chef]]''

** 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.

== [[Video Games]] ==

* The Playstation game ''[[Suikoden II]]'' included a minigame with cooking duels between your army chef Hai Yo and various wandering chefs, including the two army chefs from the first ''[[Suikoden]]'' game. Complete with the twirling of weapons, the leaps of agility, and the bursts of energy from some of the opponents.

* You can play a Cooking Duel minigame in ''[[Star Ocean the Second Story (Video Game)|Star Ocean the Second Story]]'''s amusement park city, complete with a "secret ingredient" revealed with much fanfare.

** Including a battle with ''slime'' as the secret ingredient.

** Speaking of Parappa, a Japanese commercial had him competing with ''[[Crash Bandicoot]]'' by playing this trope straight. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dhu3DCQPYVk It's delightfully amusing.]

* In ''[[Breath of Fire]] II'', [[Bratty Half Pint|Princess Petape]] comes up with the idea to expose the impostor posing as her brother Tapeta by having the two engage in a [[Cooking Duel]]. The player's involvement in this consists of plumbing a dungeon to gather the ingredients {{spoiler|(all of which happen to be ''boss monsters''). It's a shame that the odds were in favor to Kuwadora/Quadra, because he threatened the judges, and so he would be victorious. Even they had to be reluctant to the fact that one of the prepared food contained the valuable Golden Fly/Greenbottle}}.

** In fact, all of the multiplayer scenarios in [[Ouendan]] and EBA could count as this trope, as well as a few singleplayer levels in both Ouendan games.

* The cooking themed game, ''Order Up!''

** The episode "Fry Cook Games" has Spongebob and Patrick compete in fry-cooking themed athletic events like ice-cream high-diving and bun wrestling.

* ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender (Animation)|Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' - in "Tales of Ba Sing Se", Sokka gets knocked into a poetry class and ends up in a haiku duel with the teacher. Which, stylistically, he treats as a rap battle.

** Yet another ''[[Spongebob SquarePants]]'' ep tells the same story.

* In ''[[Futurama]]'', Bender is an aspiring chef. Unfortunately as a robot he has no taste buds and is appalling. But once he entered into a chef duel with the famous Elzar, and won by using a magical ingredient. It was ordinary tap water... {{spoiler|laced with nothing more than a few tablespoons of LSD.}}

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