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{{quote|''"I'll show you 'mere cook' after I fillet each and every last one of you bastards!"''|'''Sanji''', ''[[One Piece]]''}}
A [[Lethal Chef]] is someone whose cooking is so terrible that it could fall under the Geneva Convention as an inhumane weapon. A [[Supreme Chef]] is a superb cook, particularly the kind that participate in televised [[Cooking Duel
Combine the lethal potential with sublime cooking skills and you get the
Chefs of Iron fall into different, frequently overlapping types, not limited to:
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* "Ordinary" (or more ordinary than the following examples at least) people who are skilled in normal combat and mundane, if excellent cookery; one or the other tends to be his day job. If the day job is fighting (i.e. military, police work) being a cook may show the character has a sensitive side (sometimes a case of [[Real Men Wear Pink]]); if cooking is the day job, they may be leading a double life of hidden [[Badass]]. Or, they might be a chef for an army or suchlike, where they do both at the same time. In this form, may overlap with the [[Almighty Janitor]].
* A cook whose special skills include using cooking implements in combat. They may be an [[Improbable Weapon User]]; there are many ways you can hurt people with boiling liquids, big chef's knives, [[Fork Fencing|eating utensils and cutlery]], [[Frying Pan of Doom|heavy skillets]], etc.. An angry [[Apron Matron]] brandishing a skillet or rolling pin at you may cross over into this trope slightly, especially if it's their primary means of defending themselves. Compare [[I Know Madden Kombat]].
* A chef for whom cooking ''is'' their means of fighting, and we're not talking about [[Cooking Duel
May overlap with [[Evil Chef]] as a villainous version. Compare [[Battle Butler]].
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== Anime and Manga ==
* When the crew of the ''[[Cowboy Bebop|Bebop]]'' [[Perpetual Poverty|have food to cook,]] [[Badass]] ex-cop bounty hunter Jet can be counted on to whip something up, even if he only has one or two ingredients to work with.
* Kouji Kabuto from ''[[Mazinger Z]]'' was a
* Ukyo from ''[[Ranma ½]]'' may be one of the more famous examples: a practitioner of [[Martial Arts and Crafts|Martial Arts]] [[wikipedia:Okonomiyaki|Okonomiyaki]] (Japanese omelete-pizza...''stuff'') and wields spatulas from normal to giant size.
** Cologne, when she moves to Japan, opens a noodle shop and picks up some martial arts moves of the entangling noodles variety. She also has her granddaughter Shampoo learn Martial-Arts Takeout Delivery.
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** In the 2001 series, he manages to re-open his restaurant and proves that his cooking skills haven't gone down at all.
* The second season of ''[[Slayers]]'' has in one episode a chef who knows how to prepare Dragon Cuisine. Of course, the first step in cooking a dragon is collecting fresh ingredients.
* In ''[[Hunter X Hunter]]'', two of the test-givers in the Hunter Exam were "Gourmet Hunters", who specialized in tracking down rare foods and ingredients and were expert cooks, but were just as capable of kicking ass as any other Hunter; in particular, the [[Action Girl]] of the duo, the [[Tsundere]] Menchi, ''almost killed a guy with her bare hands'' when he pressed her [[Berserk Button]] by openly doubting her
* Makoto/Sailor Jupiter of ''[[Sailor Moon]]'': Being a soldier of justice, she's also a very good cook and respectable domestic figure (she has to be, given she lives alone and was [[Parental Abandonment|orphaned]]) which balances out her tough bruiser personality.
* Tenii in ''Shin [[Koihime Musou]]''. She impresses the main cast with her cooking at a local tavern, and is called on to prove her skill by Sousou. Then she grabs a raging bull by the horns and throws it into the air.
* [[Toriko]]
* Simon Brezhnev from ''[[Durarara!!]]'' is a Russian sushi chef and former member of the special forces. He demonstrates veritable [[Charles Atlas Superpower
* After more than a decade (viewer time) of being little more than the munchkin in the kitchen, ''[[Tenchi Muyo!]]''’s Sasami Masaki Jurai showed in the third OVA series that as well as cooking up a storm on a regular basis, she could not only out-think a highly-trained and heavily-armed Galaxy Police officer, but also hand her ass to her with little effort. Sasami would have been about nine years old at the time, and did not appear to use her divine connections or avatar powers at the time--just a quarterstaff that she kept tucked away in her hair. Seriously.
* Masaru Aoki from ''[[Hajime no Ippo]]'', a ramen restaurant cook who also is training to become a professional boxer.
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* If Colette is to be believed, ''most'' of the chefs in Gusteau's kitchen in [[Ratatouille]] are some form of this. The most amusing one is the sous chef who was in prison and tells a different story of his crime every time someone asks, including "I killed a man. With ''this thumb''."
* In the [[Stephen Chow]] film ''[[God of Cookery]]'', the world famous chef and title-holder is disgraced by an underling. He picks up a knife and is disarmed with a teaspoon by the underling who claims that the title-holder has not cooked for so long his grip has grown weak. The disgraced cook then embarks on a journey to become a Chef Of Iron once more.
** A better example of a
* Let's not forget Hanzo Hattori from [[Kill Bill]], people! After [[Retired Badass|retiring]] from [[The Blacksmith|his blacksmith duties]], he became a sushi chef in Okinawa. And then he came out of retirement to forge The Bride's iconic katana.
* Po from ''[[Kung Fu Panda]]'' was raised by a noodle chef, prior to being chosen to be trained as a kick ass warrior. As a result, he knows a little something about cooking, and while it's not played up, he's definitely good at it. Once he receives his kick ass martial training, he's a classic type 1.
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== Literature ==
* In [[Robin McKinley]]'s ''Sunshine'', Sunshine, a baker, falls into the first category of
* Tamora Pierce's Trickster series has Chenaol, who is a superb cook (at least once the protagonist (who grew up in the western-Europe-fantasy-counterpart-culture) gets used to the southern-Asia-fantasy-counterpart-culture's cuisine) is also {{spoiler|one of the four leaders and the armorer of the rebel group and apparently is very effective with a meat cleaver in hand-to-hand combat}}.
** [[Circle of Magic|Winding Circle's]] [[Supreme Chef|Dedicate Gorse]] is implied to be this as well, if he ever left his kitchen for anything.
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