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* Baldroy in ''[[Black Butler]]'' has a habit of destroying the kitchen along with the food. He seems to have gotten a little better later on though, even once managing to make a [[Cordon Bleugh Chef]] style pie, however clumsy and incompetently prepared. The other people were afraid to eat the pie though, fearing poison. It was a reasonable fear.

* Zigzagged with Romin from ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! SEVENS]]''. In the first episode where she tries to cook, she admits she's never even made a peanut butter and jelly sandwich before, and everyone expects a disaster. When she does so, however, her curry is often lethal in ways that don’t require someone eating it. She flooded Roa’s entire apartment complex trying to make Dragias Curry, and her Prima Guitarna Curry is an explosive, literally. Gakuto and Luke considered using it this way against Yugo, but aborted that idea when Gavin feared it might destroy the entire city. A mixture of both currys has been ''legally designated as a WMD''. Regardless, anyone brave enough to eat either curry has found them to be okay, and Romin seems able to cook decent food when following someone else’s recipe or a cookbook. Unfortunately, that hasn’t stopped her from trying to “perfect” her curry…

 

== [[Comic Books]] ==

* Olive from ''[[The Beano]]'' (she's a "School Dinner-lady", who is a Lethal Chef subtype of her own). Her "Tea" was actually a highly-reactive acid-like corrosive; her oxtail soup moos and flicks its tail; the skin on her custard couldn't be broken with a pickaxe, and so on.

* Bruce Wayne. That's right, children, there's one skill [[Batman]] ''[[Memetic Badass|entirely failed to master.]]'' It goes from ruining the kitchen as he attempts to prepare chicken soup to, well...

:* This exchange in ''Batman #621'':

{{quote|'''Allen:''' What are you doing?

** As part of their feud, the Sergeant once added motor oil to his soup. The soldiers didn't notice the difference until a motorist asked back his motor oil can.

* Monica from Brazilian comic ''[[Monica's Gang]]'' is prone to cooking awful things such as gumbo flan, yogurt pizza, or a "[http://www.monica.com.br/ingles/comics/dino/images/p09-03.gif health juice]{{Dead link}}".<ref>in case you're wondering, the characters become dinosaurs because of a serum that fell on the juice, not the juice itself</ref>

** Also, Orube, an alien friend who, when first arrived on Earth, mistook money for food (she complained it didn't taste well) and has apparently set on fire the kitchen the first time she tried to cook. Differently from Will, it's more about lack of familiarity with Earth cooking implements and ingredients (in a later special it's confirmed she never set the kitchen on fire again) and clumsiness when trying to cook for other people (she destroyed the water tap in her kitchen while preparing pasta due being in a hurry), even if she still has a long way to go (in that special she managed to [[Epic Fail|''burn the pasta'']].

* There was a short arc in ''[[Spider-Man]]'' comics where Aunt May was dating Willie Lumpkin; Peter was seriously turned off by his lasagna. In one story, he took them and Mary Jane to a special art exhibit after eating it, and spent most of the time trying to find a place where he could throw up. In the second part of the story the next issue, he implies that he's taking Kristy (Mary Jane's cousin) to the museum simply to avoid having to eat it again.

** His sister Chiyo also cooks notoriously badly, but while her food might taste so bad it almost kills you, it's so healthy you feel like a million bucks afterwards.

* Vili in ''[[The Tainted Grimoire]]'' put poison in the meal she cooked for Luso, Crow, Hurdy, Kanin and Adelle when she mistakenly thought it was just seasoning.

 

== [[Film]] ==

* In ''[[Artemis Fowl]]'' for a example, the lead attempts to make a sandwich that is described as an explosion on a plate.

** Mulch [[Big Eater|eats it anyway]], and appreciates it. That's not actually reasuring since, as a dwarf, Mulch mainly eats ''soil''.

{{quote|"To be frank," said Nanny Ogg, "I think the cat pissed on some of it."

The spokesdwarf looked up, his eyes aglow.

"Hot damn!" }}

** Of course, the trope is also subverted by the Vimes household; Lady Sybil is a bad cook, but Sam has spent so much time eating low-quality food on the streets of Ankh-Morpork that he actually ''enjoys'' it.

** Let's not forget Archchancellor Ridcully, who swears by (or, swears ''at'') Wow-Wow sauce, a dangerous and highly unstable condiment that includes sulfur and saltpeter, and an [[Gargle Blaster|equally potent alcoholic drink]] called scumble. Wow-Wow sauce might have been a contributing factor in the explosive death of his uncle, who invented the stuff. He also had a charcoal biscuit to settle his stomach after he had a lot of Wow-Wow sauce. That didn't help much. {{spoiler|Gunpowder is made of sulfur, saltpeter, and charcoal (mixed properly).}}

** Albert counts too, but it's not so important when you're the cook in Death's household. He firmly believes in grease, fat and black gritty bits. Inventor and sole eater of fried porridge. ''It eats spoons''.

*** "Could I interest you in some yoghurt? Onna stick?"

** [[Bungling Inventor]] Bergholt Stutly "Bloody Stupid" Johnson took up cooking on a few points in his life. His attempt to make a pie took out a significant portion of Ankh-Morpork. The actual recipe was fine; it was just that Johnson approached it with his usual indifference to measurements, resulting in something so large that it achieved culinary instability and exploded under its own weight.

* Mrs. Samuel Whiskers from [[Beatrix Potter]]'s ''Tale of Samuel Whiskers and the Roly Poly Pudding''.

** As [[Supreme Chef|Shinjiro]] points out (pitying the burned pots along the way), Fuuka's failure in cooking is her tendency to not prepare in advance and to try to deviate from the recipe without first understanding the basics, and then panic and further compound her mistakes as a result. For instance, when making chocolate truffles, if the recipe asks for one teaspoon of liqueur, she adds ''[[Cordon Bleugh Chef|a cup]]'' on the basis that [[Oven Logic|she wants a bigger portion to share with everyone]]. Which is a moot point, since she mistakenly used ''vinegar''...

* All three main girls of ''[[Persona 4]]'' have very questionable cooking abilities, ranging from Rise ([[Blazing Inferno Hellfire Sauce|way too spicy]]), Yukiko (who can make an omelet that, through a process that can only be described as alchemical, has no taste ''at all'') and Chie (just plain awful). When the latter two combine their powers, the result is dubbed "Mystery Food X" and manage to take out both the main male leads in one spoonful. ([[The Anime of the Game]] implies that they put thick starch, three different kinds of pepper, kimchi, and soy milk into it.)

* Euphoria's cooking in ''[[Soul Nomad and The World Eaters]]'' is so bad that there is a body count associated with it. It is described as the rest of the cast as nothing short of biological warfare -- {{spoiler|Which turns into a [[Funny Aneurysm Moment]] once you've played the game through once and learned that Raksha was using her to develop a concentrated form of Scarlet Iago that was near-instantly fatal.}}

* The cooking contest in ''[[Breath of Fire|Breath of Fire 2]]''. Not only do you have to get the ingredients (cockroaches, worms and flies) yourself, in the end you are forced to [[Eat That|eat it all]]. Although I suppose this also has to do with the chef in question being a frog.

* ''[[The Legend of Zelda]]'':

** Moza from ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild|Breath of the Wild]]''. You have to admire her dedication, she wakes up at five in the morning and works until midnight on her attempts at cooking, but sadly, it seems she is just not cut out to be a chef. Link finds her by following a plume of black smoke that he assumes is a distress beacon, but it is in fact, one of her failed attempts to cook. She seems obsessed with finding a way to make edible food out of ore, machine parts, and monster parts, but as any experienced player in this game knows, trying to cook with these ingredients will only result in Rock Hard Food or Dubious Food. And given the huge piles of garbage around her campsite, she’s obviously been at this a long time.

 

=== [[Visual Novels]] ===

* Played for laughs in an episode of ''[[Superman: The Animated Series]]'', where John Irons (aka Steel) is starting to dread his wife's cooking (such as her pork chops with bean curd in cilantro sauce), though it's his fault for giving her a California cuisine cookbook.

* In ''[[Helluva Boss]]'' this is implied to be the case with [[Villainous Harlequin| Fizzarolli]]; in the episode "Oops", offering to make breakfast elicts a [[Ha Ha Ha No]] reply from Asmodeus.

 

== [[Real Life]] ==

 

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