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* Sora Hasegawa in ''[[Manga/AhMyGoddess Oh My Goddess!]]'' (in the manga, her nickname is "The Chef Assassin"). Fortunately, she got better, thanks to Belldandy.
** In ''Manga/AhMyGoddess'', the TV series, she was actually a ''great'' cook, but suffered a HeroicBSOD whenever asked to cook for an audience, causing her skills to deteriorate. This tied into the plot of the episode, where she had performance-anxiety issues about a go-kart race for NIT's Auto Club. Again, [[AllLovingHero Belldandy]], being the kind of "[[PhysicalGod person]]" she is, helped Sora get (heh) back on track.
** In ''Manga/AhMyGoddess'', the TV series, she was actually a ''great'' cook, but suffered a HeroicBSOD whenever asked to cook for an audience, causing her skills to deteriorate. This tied into the plot of the episode, where she had performance-anxiety issues about a go-kart race for NIT's Auto Club. Again, [[AllLovingHero Belldandy]], being the kind of "[[PhysicalGod person]]" she is, helped Sora get (heh) back on track.
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* Arianna of ''LightNovel/{{Campione}}'' is noted to have two failings as a [[{{Meido}} maid]]: [[DrivesLikeCrazy She cannot drive]] and [[LethalChef she can't cook stews]]. Any other type of food she can prepare to perfections, but her stews and soups taste so bizarre they're impossible to describe.
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* In contrast to SupremeChef Usui, Misaki in ''KaichouWaMaidSama'' can't even make riceballs correctly. Fortunately her few attempts at cooking stop short of being actually toxic, because Usui insists on eating it anyhow (and then complains about it).
* Sakura Haruno from ''{{Naruto}}'' in the anime once made a strength potion, but we don't know if it was any good. No one ever was able to put it down their throat (Except Naruto, when he was doing some VERY important training. Though he probably would have eaten it anyway since [[{{LoveInterest}} Sakura]] was the one that made it).
* A variation occurs in ''{{Love Hina}}''. Naru's cooking consistently looks inedible, but just as consistently tastes good.
* Sakura Haruno from ''{{Naruto}}'' in the anime once made a strength potion, but we don't know if it was any good. No one ever was able to put it down their throat (Except Naruto, when he was doing some VERY important training. Though he probably would have eaten it anyway since [[{{LoveInterest}} Sakura]] was the one that made it).
* A variation occurs in ''{{Love Hina}}''. Naru's cooking consistently looks inedible, but just as consistently tastes good.
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* In contrast to SupremeChef Usui, Misaki in ''KaichouWaMaidSama'' ''Manga/MaidSama'' can't even make riceballs correctly. Fortunately her few attempts at cooking stop short of being actually toxic, because Usui insists on eating it anyhow (and then complains about it).
* Sakura Haruno from''{{Naruto}}'' ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' in the anime once made a strength potion, but we don't know if it was any good. No one ever was able to put it down their throat (Except Naruto, when he was doing some VERY important training. Though he probably would have eaten it anyway since [[{{LoveInterest}} Sakura]] was the one that made it).
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* Akane Tendo in ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf''. Starts out horrible and slowly learns how to cook certain dishes such as curry and tofu acceptably (but still generally very bad tasting results) from her older sister Kasumi over the course of the manga. ''Ranma ½'' {{fanfic}}tion, however, has created a body of {{fanon}} that attributes far more outrageous results to her efforts -- as seen in the quote above.
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* Sora Hasegawa in ''[[Manga/AhMyGoddess Oh My Goddess!]]'' (in the manga, her nickname is "[[IncrediblyLamePun The Chef Assassin]]"). Fortunately, she got better, thanks to Belldandy.
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* In ''LightNovel/ShakuganNoShana'', Wilhelmina Carmel is known as [[TheAce The Specialist of Everything]], but she can't cook to save her life. She was able to feed Shana and herself solely on melon bread, instant noodles, and other things that don't need to be cooked. She gets jealous of Chigusa for her SupremeChef skills. Wilhelmina's attempts to improve her cooking skills end up burning the kitchen down.
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* C-ko Kotobuki in ''{{Project A-Ko}}''
** the Card Game ''Ani-Mayhem'' even used it along with Akane's Cooking as minor disaster which, if combined in play, were nearly irremovable. She seemingly cannot tell the difference between edible and inedible ingredients; her bento has been known to contain pebbles and bottle caps.
** the Card Game ''Ani-Mayhem'' even used it along with Akane's Cooking as minor disaster which, if combined in play, were nearly irremovable. She seemingly cannot tell the difference between edible and inedible ingredients; her bento has been known to contain pebbles and bottle caps.
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* C-ko Kotobuki in ''{{Project A-Ko}}''
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* C-ko Kotobuki in ''{{Project A-Ko}}''; the Card Game ''Ani-Mayhem'' even used it along with Akane's Cooking as minor disaster which, if combined in play, were nearly irremovable. She seemingly cannot tell the difference between edible and inedible ingredients; her bento has been known to contain pebbles and bottle caps.
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* C-ko Kotobuki in ''{{Project A-Ko}}''; A-Ko}}''
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** the Card Game ''Ani-Mayhem'' even used it along with Akane's Cooking as minor disaster which, if combined in play, were nearly irremovable. She seemingly cannot tell the difference between edible and inedible ingredients; her bento has been known to contain pebbles and bottle caps.
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* Millenium Fera Nocturne a.k.a. Milly on ''LostUniverse'' is a variant on this: she's a ''great'' cook, but always causes a massive explosion in the kitchen whenever she prepares a meal, much to the consternation of Canal (who, being a SpaceshipGirl, is also less than happy about having a part of her body ''blow up'' every time Milly wants to make a pie).
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* Millenium Fera Nocturne a.k.a. Milly on ''LostUniverse'' ''Anime/LostUniverse'' is a variant on this: she's a ''great'' cook, but always causes a massive explosion in the kitchen whenever she prepares a meal, much to the consternation of Canal (who, being a SpaceshipGirl, is also less than happy about having a part of her body ''blow up'' every time Milly wants to make a pie).pie -- not to mention how expensive it is for them to have to repair it all the time).
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** In ''Manga/AhMyGoddess'', the TV series, she was actually a ''great'' cook, but suffered a HeroicBSOD whenever asked to cook for an audience, causing her skills to deteriorate. This tied into the plot of the episode, where she had performance-anxiety issues about a go-kart race for NIT's Auto Club. Again, [[TheMessiah Belldandy]], being the kind of "[[PhysicalGod person]]" she is, helped Sora get (heh) back on track.
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** In ''Manga/AhMyGoddess'', the TV series, she was actually a ''great'' cook, but suffered a HeroicBSOD whenever asked to cook for an audience, causing her skills to deteriorate. This tied into the plot of the episode, where she had performance-anxiety issues about a go-kart race for NIT's Auto Club. Again, [[TheMessiah [[AllLovingHero Belldandy]], being the kind of "[[PhysicalGod person]]" she is, helped Sora get (heh) back on track.
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* Taken UpToEleven in ''Anime/CinderellaMonogatari'' with Charles. When he is forced to prepare supper for Cinderella's stepfamily and Duke Zaral, Charles is given a cookbook. Charles screws up the stew by throwing in a potato without peeling it first, dumping a whole basket of other vegetables in, and accidentally dumps in the entire containers of salt and pepper. Naturally, when Duke Zaral tastes the soup, he is disgusted - which causes him to leave early. (Though since Charles is a prince, and he's used to servants doing all the cooking for him, his cluelessness is justified.)
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* Kaoru Kamiya in ''RurouniKenshin'' produces rice balls that taste like mud. She even admits that she can't cook.
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* Kaoru Kamiya in ''RurouniKenshin'' produces rice balls that taste like mud. Sanosuke once mistook her feeding him some of her miso soup while he was asleep for poison. She even admits that she can't cook.
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* Anthy Himemiya in ''RevolutionaryGirlUtena'' produces magically dangerous meals (her curry causes people to switch bodies in a classic FreakyFridayFlip) but quickly learns not to cook whenever there is an alternative available to her. She can safely produce shaved ice with fruit toppings, and limits herself to that.
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* Anthy Himemiya in ''RevolutionaryGirlUtena'' ''Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena'' produces magically dangerous meals (her curry causes people to switch bodies in a classic FreakyFridayFlip) but quickly learns not to cook whenever there is an alternative available to her. She can safely produce shaved ice with fruit toppings, and limits herself to that.
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** Cinderella herself was a minor example early on. She got much better after that.
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** Cinderella herself was a minor example early on. She got much better after that.
** Cinderella herself was a minor example early on. She got much better after that.
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* Asuka from ''Anime/FutureGPXCyberFormula''. She makes parsley and durian juice for Hayato because she hears that he is lacking in vitamins, but he doesn't want it...so she drinks the juice instead. And then she drinks her own "concoction", cries that it was bitter and faints from it.
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* Asuka from ''Anime/FutureGPXCyberFormula''. She makes parsley and durian juice for Hayato because she hears that he is lacking in vitamins, but he doesn't want it...it due to the smell...so she drinks the juice instead. And instead, and then she drinks her own "concoction", cries that it was bitter and faints from it.drinking her own "concoction".
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* Cecilia Alcott in ''LightNovel/InfiniteStratos'' qualifies for this trope as well, despite being TheOjou character of the story. Her cooking was described as "[[FoodPorn looking exactly as depicted in the cookbook]], but tastes just like the cookbook", as evident when she gave Ichika a bite of one of her sandwiches. Later on confirmed in the OVA when she tried cooking a dinner meal. ''Using one of [[PoweredArmor Blue Tears]]' {{Attack Drone}}s.''''
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* Cecilia Alcott in of ''LightNovel/InfiniteStratos'' qualifies for this trope as well, despite being TheOjou character of the story. Her cooking was described as "[[FoodPorn looking exactly as depicted in the cookbook]], but tastes just like the cookbook", as evident when she gave Ichika a bite of one of her sandwiches. Later on confirmed in the OVA when she tried cooking a dinner meal. ''Using one of [[PoweredArmor Blue Tears]]' {{Attack Drone}}s.''''''
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* Cecilia Alcott in ''LightNovel/InfiniteStratos'' qualifies for this trope as well, despite being TheOjou character of the story. Her cooking was described as "[[FoodPorn looking exactly as depicted in the cookbook]], but tastes just like the cookbook", as evident when she gave Ichika a bit of one of her sandwiches. Later on confirmed in the OVA when she tried cooking a dinner meal. ''Using one of [[PoweredArmor Blue Tears]]''' {{Attack Drone}}s.''
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* Cecilia Alcott in ''LightNovel/InfiniteStratos'' qualifies for this trope as well, despite being TheOjou character of the story. Her cooking was described as "[[FoodPorn looking exactly as depicted in the cookbook]], but tastes just like the cookbook", as evident when she gave Ichika a bit bite of one of her sandwiches. Later on confirmed in the OVA when she tried cooking a dinner meal. ''Using one of [[PoweredArmor Blue Tears]]''' Tears]]' {{Attack Drone}}s.''''''
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* Cecilia Alcott in ''LightNovel/InfiniteStratos'' qualifies for this trope as well, despite being TheOjou character of the story. Her cooking was described as "[[FoodPorn looking exactly as depicted in the cookbook]], but tastes just like the cookbook", as evident when she gave Ichika a bit of one of her sandwiches. Later on confirmed in the OVA when she tried cooking a dinner meal. ''Using one of [[PoweredArmor Blue Tears]]''' {{Attack Drone}}s.''
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* In the ''BlueExorcist'' anime, Mephisto's attempt at breakfast is red and bubbly, and causes Rin to shoot a puff of steam from his mouth and pass out.
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* Otae Shimura from ''Manga/{{Gintama}}'' can only cook tamagoyaki, but it's so inedible that it actually gives Gintoki and Kondou ''amnesia'' at one point when she feeds it to them, and is reputed to be the cause of her brother's bad eyesight. And yet, she never seems to understand just ''how'' lethal it is and continues to serve it no matter what. Once she was making sushi with the rest of the cast. No fire was involved but somehow the sushi turned into ashes moments later. ''Tamagoyaki ashes''.
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* Otae Shimura from ''Manga/{{Gintama}}'' can only cook tamagoyaki, but it's so inedible that it actually gives Gintoki and Kondou [[spoiler:[[BrickJoke (and later Otsuu, too)]]]] ''amnesia'' at one point when she feeds it to them, and is reputed to be the cause of her brother's bad eyesight. And yet, she never seems to understand just ''how'' lethal it is and continues to serve it no matter what. Once she was making sushi with the rest of the cast. No fire was involved but somehow the sushi turned into ashes moments later. ''Tamagoyaki ashes''.
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* Taichi and Hikari's mother Yuuko, at least in the [[GagDub dub]] of ''DigimonAdventure''. In the second part of the movie (the single movie "Our War Game" in Japan), her "beef jerky shakes" almost kill Koushirou.
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* Kirie's cooking in ''Manga/GirlsBravo'' causes local pervert Fukuyama to WaterfallPuke.
* ''Anime/JuraTripper'' features LoveInterest Princess (Hime), who bakes a dreadful birthday cake for Gatcha
* In ''LoveRoma'' Negi cannot cook to save her life, even her boyfriend claims her cooking brings back bad memories.
* Lum in ''UruseiYatsura''. There's nothing technically ''wrong'' with her cooking, it's just that she tends to overuse the spices to make it taste like [[AlienLunch the food on her home planet]] (and by alien standards, she's actually a ''SupremeChef''). She comments that earth made food is completely flavorless and enjoys drinking Tabasco sauce straight out of the bottle. Also, candy from her home planet causes earth creatures to grow into giant monsters and she forbids Ten from giving it to earth creatures (a warning which he ignores). Despite all her observations she manages to remain oblivious to the issue, probably due to rule of funny. It should also be noted that once, in the manga, Lum's attempts at cooking on Earth opened a portal in the Moroboshi kitchen, from which miniature space fleets erupt and begin to do battle. And once, in the {{OVA}}, Ataru is turned into a werewolf by her food.
* Two examples from ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'':
** In one episode, Asuna bakes a cake for a teacher she has a crush on. Said cake not only has green frosting and uses a tentacle, several eyes, and a lobster claw as ingredients, but actually ''screams'' whenever on screen and ''bleeds'' when cut into. (Fortunately, it was only her "practice" cake, and the second one she cooks -- and which she really intends to serve -- is bakery-perfect.)
** In the ''[[NegimaSecondSeason Negima!?]]'' anime, Takamichi becomes obsessed with making ramen, eventually inventing a ramen that makes everyone sick -- even Evangeline.
* Aoba in ''CrossGame''
* The super ditz in ''Manga/GirlsSaurus DX'' said that when cooking she could mix up sugar and potassium cyanide!
* Akane Tendo in ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf''. Starts out horrible and slowly learns how to cook certain dishes such as curry and tofu acceptably (but still generally very bad tasting results) from her older sister Kasumi over the course of the manga. ''Ranma ½'' {{fanfic}}tion, however, has created a body of {{fanon}} that attributes far more outrageous results to her efforts -- as seen in the quote above.
** Shortly into the last third of the manga series, Akane is capable of cooking a decent, tasty curry, which sends the entire family into shock. However, later in that same story, she unwittingly uses a magical water that is capable of healing all wounds, and makes her soup incredibly delicious. She puts her faith in this water, so when it runs out, her rice cakes are once again potent enough to knock out a grown man.
** In the anime, at least, Akane actually straddles the border between this and CordonBleughChef; while she does get distracted, not pay attention to what ingredients she's using, and generally acts much like a Lethal Chef, she doesn't help her case by the fact she often actually intends to make her own "unique" concoctions when she's cooking, ignoring the real recipe for one of her own devising. And refusing to taste her own cooking can't help...
** Fanfic exaggerations of Akane's kitchen incompetence can be wonderful sources of comedy. "It wasn't trying to molest you! It was just being friendly, OKAY?!"
** In one late manga {{Filler}} story, Ranma actually gets the bright idea to try and use Akane's cooking as a {{Masochists Meal}} challenge to try and earn money for Ukyō after she takes to her bed sick and Akane insists on cooking.
** In the RPG, The Curse of the Red Cat Gang, Akane's cookies and lunches are items which cause one or all enemies, respectively, to be instantly defeated.
* Sara in ''FutakoiAlternative'' once served up a pitch black "hot cake" that had another character shoot flames out his mouth when he had some. She also ruined a dish her twin sister was trying to make by dumping what looks like the entire contents of the fridge and garbage into the pan.
* Sakurazaki sisters in ''{{Futakoi}}'', what with being [[{{Ojou}} so aristocratic]]. Though with an effort they improved their cooking skills, trying both for their father's "[[RiteOfPassage exam checklist]]" and Nozomu.
* C-ko Kotobuki in ''{{Project A-Ko}}''; the Card Game ''Ani-Mayhem'' even used it along with Akane's Cooking as minor disaster which, if combined in play, were nearly irremovable. She seemingly cannot tell the difference between edible and inedible ingredients; her bento has been known to contain pebbles and bottle caps.
* Sora Hasegawa in ''[[Manga/AhMyGoddess Oh My Goddess!]]'' (in the manga, her nickname is "[[IncrediblyLamePun The Chef Assassin]]"). Fortunately, she got better, thanks to Belldandy.
** In ''Manga/AhMyGoddess'', the TV series, she was actually a ''great'' cook, but suffered a HeroicBSOD whenever asked to cook for an audience, causing her skills to deteriorate. This tied into the plot of the episode, where she had performance-anxiety issues about a go-kart race for NIT's Auto Club. Again, [[TheMessiah Belldandy]], being the kind of "[[PhysicalGod person]]" she is, helped Sora get (heh) back on track.
* Kaoru Kamiya in ''RurouniKenshin'' produces rice balls that taste like mud. She even admits that she can't cook.
-->'''Kaoru:''' ''(to Kenshin, after eating some rice balls he made)'' Those taste bad... but you know, you're a better cook than me.
* Pacifica Casull, the titular ''ScrappedPrincess'', a.k.a. "The Poison that will Destroy the World"... but not in fact by her dreadful cooking (her foster brother actually teases her about this...).
* Sanzenin Nagi in ''Manga/HayateTheCombatButler''. One of her attempts would probably have turned out pretty well... had she not confused ''detergent'' for flavoring oil. Even attempting to make a cup of tea usually destroys the whole kitchen.\\
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She tries to serve soup to a large party. Nagi is chopping up the most random things (daikon, chocolate, fish, oranges, what looks like raw pork, mushrooms, barnacles...). Note that she is tossing everything into a pot, not caring to look what she's chopping up. And because Hayate is such a DoggedNiceGuy, he just has to taste it, vomit it up, and quickly make something not only edible, but quite delicious, just so Nagi won't embarrass herself.
* Anthy Himemiya in ''RevolutionaryGirlUtena'' produces magically dangerous meals (her curry causes people to switch bodies in a classic FreakyFridayFlip) but quickly learns not to cook whenever there is an alternative available to her. She can safely produce shaved ice with fruit toppings, and limits herself to that.
* The various women pursuing Akito in ''MartianSuccessorNadesico'' vie to impress him through cooking; this is doubly ironic, as not only are they all borderline lethal chefs, but Akito ''himself'' is a restaurant quality cook. The first time they tried to cook for him, the head chef on the ''Nadesico'' quarantined the kitchen as a biohazard for a while afterwards. Ryoko eventually wises up and serves Akito some of his own cooking. He deems it "pretty good" before she points out that he's the one who just cooked it.
* In ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'', Misato Katsuragi is portrayed as a CordonBleughChef. NGE {{fanfic}}s, however, usually {{flanderize}} her cooking skills to Lethal Chef levels. Even when they compensate by making Shinji an expert chef, Misato's cooking is almost always played for laughs; for example, ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5072271/1 Clone and Clonability]]'' have [[spoiler:her "Secret Ingredient Soup" '''making the Reiquarium develop sentience and an unnatural fixation on Shinji''']]. ''FanFic/AeonNatumEngel'' and ''FanFic/AeonEntelechyEvangelion'' are two exceptions to this tendency.
* ''{{Maburaho}}'' contains an episode where Rin's "cooking" is forced down to make her feel better.
* ''Manga/AiYoriAoshi'' had two lethal chefs, both of whom took lessons from the female lead Aoi (another example of the YamatoNadeshiko teaching them, though only one actually improved.) Taeko, in particular, had the double disadvantage of being [[{{Dojikko}} clumsy]] and [[CordonBleughChef considering things like strawberry curry and chocolate-covered tomatoes to be delicious]]. Tina on the other hand is a variation, who cooks horrible looking food that actually tastes just fine.
* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': In a {{Filler}} [[BizarroEpisode episode]], a [[OneShotCharacter ghost]] needs the help of a couple of shinigami to [[UnfinishedBusiness make a cake for his mother]]. Unfortunately for the ghost, his helpers, [[GotVolunteered Yumichika]], [[TheHeart Hanatarou]] and [[SweetTooth Rin]], are absolutely hopeless chefs and their taste testers (Renji and Sado) end up going into hiding because of the amount of times they were forced to eat vomit-inducing cake.
* Millenium Fera Nocturne a.k.a. Milly on ''LostUniverse'' is a variant on this: she's a ''great'' cook, but always causes a massive explosion in the kitchen whenever she prepares a meal, much to the consternation of Canal (who, being a SpaceshipGirl, is also less than happy about having a part of her body ''blow up'' every time Milly wants to make a pie).
* A subversion and a straight example from ''{{Saiyuki}}''
** Subverted in the second season: Sanzo's companions encounter a woman whose cooking is so notoriously bad, her meat buns are used as ammunition to fight demons. Cho Hakkai steps into the teacher role, only to see her "improved" cooking (apparently) just as lethal as ever... until the man she loves tries it anyway as a show of devotion, and finds it perfectly likeable. (Turns out, she had a rare gift to create, essentially, holy cooking -- so even her ''good'' cooking is lethal to demons, which happens to include both Hakkai and his friend Sha Gojyo.)
** Gojyo himself, on the other hand, is so awful a cook that it's a running gag in the series. His signature dish is 'Everything in the Fridge Curry', which is so disgusting (hot dogs and tentacles are just the ''visible'' ingredients) that the mere smell of it drives his teammates off-screen to puke. And these are guys who deal out mass death on a daily basis.
* Xellos of ''TheSlayers'' notoriously lost a CookingDuel by using his amazing culinary techniques to produce a stew so unpalatable as to cause its component vegetables to writhe and scream in agony. Then again, that was exactly as he intended -- he was under the impression that in any sort of "duel", the point is to kill the other person. [[{{Trickster}} According to him]].
* Variation: Ren, in a cooking contest in ''{{DearS}}'', causes humans' eyes to bleed... but the other [=DearS=] ''love'' it.
* A few examples from ''Anime/SaberMarionetteJ'':
** Luchs continues to consider gunpowder a staple ingredient (although Panther pioneered the technique), despite the AmusingInjuries that regularly result.
** Lime's cooking regularly yields a charred thing that bounces around on the plate. Over the course of the show she improved enough to make food that Lorelei found tasty in Saber Marionette J to X. And Luchs was just as good a cook as Cherry in the Saber Marionette audio dramas, at least.
* In the CookingDuel in ''Anime/{{Mai-HiME}}'', none of the three teams succeeds in producing an edible cake, resulting in the judges being hospitalized. Mai's team comes closest (because Mai herself is actually a competent cook), but Shiho ruins it by getting too excited and smashing her face into the cake before it's given away for tasting.
* Arika in the (subverted) BeachEpisode in ''Anime/{{Mai-Otome}}''. Upon seeing her food, Shiho initially gives it zero points, but after Arika tricks her into tasting it (with disastrous results), the rating is dropped to -10 (negative ten) points.
* The title character of ''Manga/VideoGirlAi'', Ai Amano, is designed to be an excellent cook... but her faulty incarnation, among its many other defects, is incapable of producing edible food. Still, Youta eats it out of affection for her.
* Usagi and Minako are both terrible cooks in ''Manga/SailorMoon'', though in one case, Usagi does manage to produce a curry that looks horrid but tastes really good. (she later makes some cookies which have the opposite attributes). In the anime at least, Rei can't cook, but has the sense to limit herself to instant curry.
* Two examples from ''LightNovel/FullMetalPanic'':
** Lieutenant-Commander Andrei Kalinin has his special borscht (an eastern-European beet soup) -- a recipe made by his late wife that he has spent years of experimentation to successfully replicate, including on-the-second stirring, pH sampling, and adding such outlandish components as cocoa powder and miso paste. Said borscht is sufficiently gruesome (Tessa states it tastes like "hot Dr. Pepper") to scare away even intractable [[TheStoic stoic]] Sōsuke, which was the whole point -- Kalinin's wife was rather vindictive of his prioritizing his career over her. Kalinin himself, however, is completely oblivious to this and finds it delicious.
** Sōsuke himself is also shown to be a rather Lethal Chef (at least in the manga). Most of it stems from [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} his lack of common sense]], which results in him cooking rice in a rice cooker... over a fire. Indoors. Which causes the others to faint from the fumes. And in the end, he misinterprets Kaname's "a pinch of salt" as being a whole handful of salt.
* Hinako in ''MyselfYourself'' is a textbook case of this.
* Kana in ''{{Minami-ke}}'' to the extent that she can use her being required to cook as a ''threat''. She did spend an entire episode trying to get better in ''Okawari'', though taste testers [[{{Bifauxnen}} Touma]] and [[{{Crossdresser}} Mako-chan]] got very well acquainted with the bathroom in the process.
* Miaka Yuuki in ''FushigiYuugi''. She becomes better halfway through the second arc of the manga, but before she does, Taka lies about it to her. And she never tastes it.
* In the manga of ''Manga/FruitsBasket,'' Kazuma Sohma (Kyo's adoptive father, and a rare male example) is extremely inept at cooking, though not through lack of effort (he even has trouble making tea). This had the side effect of making Kyo a halfway-decent cook; he had to learn just to survive. Yuki, is also horrible at cooking.
* Bianchi from ''Manga/KatekyoHitmanReborn'' Her cooking is so horrendous that, as a professional assassin, it's literally her WeaponOfChoice. In fact, it is referred to as an explicit superpower -- anything she cooks turns into lethal poison, regardless of any other factor. As is normal for this trope, she is immune to this poison.
* [[AllThereInTheManual According to the manga and Sound Stages]] of ''MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha'', the other [[RidiculouslyHumanRobots Wolkenritter]] wouldn't even dare touch Shamal's cooking unless Hayate declares it safe. While it has suffered from a touch of NeverLiveItDown, the creators have [[http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y191/Liinna/Nanoha/Hayate/1264208642230.png leapt to its re-affirmation]] in ''The Battle of Aces''.
* Otae Shimura from ''Manga/{{Gintama}}'' can only cook tamagoyaki, but it's so inedible that it actually gives Gintoki and Kondou ''amnesia'' at one point when she feeds it to them, and is reputed to be the cause of her brother's bad eyesight. And yet, she never seems to understand just ''how'' lethal it is and continues to serve it no matter what. Once she was making sushi with the rest of the cast. No fire was involved but somehow the sushi turned into ashes moments later. ''Tamagoyaki ashes''.
* Variation in ''ThePrinceOfTennis''. Sadaharu Inui uses his [[GargleBlaster horrible juices]] as a ''punishment'' for his teammates when they fail in training. These juices are so bad that everyone in the team (except for Shusuke Fuji, the local ExtremeOmnivore) is actually ''terrified'' of receiving juice punishment.
* In ''Manga/CardcaptorSakura'', ChineseGirl Li Meiling is amazing at cooking Chinese dishes but hopeless at Western bakery - so much that her inability to bake a cake becomes a running gag. Sakura herself is a subversion. Touya talks about her cooking as if she were a Lethal Chef, but several characters with working taste buds enjoy her cooking.
* Nozomi of ''YesPrettyCure5'' has this among her [[ThisLoserIsYou impressive number of failings]]. It seems to be contagious, as when all the girls try to cook together they have a tendency to mainly just produce chaos (and rice you should probably avoid), even though Urara at least can cook perfectly well on her own.
* In ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'', Nia's cooking looks ''delicious'' -- however, it is horrendous enough to knock Rossiu out of commission for the entire episode. And, since Nia is Sparkly Princess Jesus, nobody wants to hurt her feelings. Bizarrely, Simon and Boota genuinely enjoy her food and suffer no ill effects.
* In ''DaCapo'', Junichi's sister, Nemu, is considered to be a lethal chef, at least for the first season. However, Nemu's cooking was so bad that Junichi even calls her a "Murderous Chef" behind her back.
* In ''KaleidoStar'', Rosetta Passel is not only a Lethal Chef, but is [[FeminineWomenCanCook quite incompetent in anything related to housework]] for quite a while. At the same time, Layla Hamilton seems to have difficulty brewing coffee ''even'' with a machine, relying on her maid's advice and even ''then'' screwing it up. And also, Julie complains that her best friend Charlotte is too fond of using salt on everything.
* Cecile Croomy of ''Anime/CodeGeass'' sort of qualifies; her cooking isn't lethal so much as a crime against the culinary arts due to her [[CordonBleughChef experimenting and mixing various ingredients]]. Some such examples include onigiri (riceballs) with blueberry jam in the center and sandwiches with ginger, sugar, and wasabi added for flavoring. Apparently, nobody has the heart to tell her the truth...
* Risa from ''{{DNAngel}}'' is a terrible cook, however, Takeshi doesn't hesitate to tell her so. He also tells her that she'll never improve if she takes advantage of a nice guy like Daisuke, who'll only eat her food to spare her feelings.
* Hatsumi [[spoiler: (Eve)]] of ''{{Yami to Boushi to Hon no Tabibito}}'' is known in her home economics class and beyond for her lethal pancakes. They look perfect, but the taste... Of course, [[spoiler: her love-struck adoptive younger sister (and, as it turns out, love interest)]] Hazuki chokes them down them anyway, correctly interpreting them as an expression of Hatsumi's feelings for her. Lilith is less forgiving, refusing even to touch them and saying that anyone who eats them is incapable of ever feeling happiness again.
* Subverted in ''MagicalPokaan'': the first time we see the girls eating Aiko's food, they carefully taste it... and right when you expect them to hurl, they say "Average".
* In ''Manga/AILoveYou'', Number Thirty's experience of food is limited to having seen pictures of finished recipes in books, and her attempts to reproduce them fail because she has no idea that they're supposed to be made of edible substances. Of course, being a robot, she had no sense of taste. This get fixed fairly quickly when it's discovered, however, making Thirty (with a little training) a decent, non-lethal cook.
* Jin in ''SamuraiChamploo''. After accidentally taking a job at an unagi stand (he had thought the "kiru" job would involve, well, killing), he cooks one for a stranger who had helped him with the eels. He burns the living Hell out of it, and she calls it "the worst thing I've ever tasted." This is part of a running gag about Jin having absolutely no aptitude for anything but kendo.
* ''ChronoCrusade'''s Rosette Christopher is one of these. As a child she baked a batch of cookies so bad it caused Chrono to foam at the mouth. She later improved (she was accepted as cook in public kitchen, even Chrono says that when her soup looks horrible, the taste is decent).
* The "looks horrible, tastes fine" variant occurs in ''{{The Law of Ueki}}'': while Mori Ai's cooking looks unappetizing (it seems to contain live, squirming purple octopus tentacles), it actually tastes quite good and doesn't have any ill effects on the eater.
* Tsukamoto Tenma and Sawachika Eri from ''SchoolRumble'' qualify. Their rice balls led to ... bad things.
* Kyouka from ''KyouranKazokuNikki''. Only Yuka is able to eat her cooking without ill effect.
** Subverted in episode 7. A pair of former assassin siblings open a restaurant, where their cooking nearly kills all of their customers, until [[spoiler:Chika realizes that the cooking is too good to be consumed by normal humans]].
* From ''Manga/BlackCat'', Professor Tearju is such an awful cook that when Train and Sven opened the door to her home, they were completely overwhelmed by the horrific smell. Professor Tearju is a bit of a klutz, so when she trips, and spills the resulting mess on Sven's hat, he starts screaming that his hat is covered in living puke. {{Hilarity ensues}}.
* In one episode of ''HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi'', Keiichi's parents are out of town, and he has to cook for himself. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0myhBf4wfc He almost burns the house down.]]
* The flying pie monster from the ''{{Kirby}}'' [[KirbyOfTheStars anime]] produces pies that not even [[BigEater Kirby]] can eat.
* In the third season of ''Anime/MonsterRancher'', it's revealed that Golem dreams of becoming a chef and opening his own restaurant. Unfortunately, as a creature that eats rocks and drinks sand, his recipes need a ''lot'' of work.
* England from ''AxisPowersHetalia'' loves to cook, but the food he makes is terrible to the point that Austria even tells him that he's sorry for England for having such horrible cuisine. One comic jokes that his lack of taste is the reason America's cuisine is what it is now; in another, England does ''NOT'' like how America tells him his scones suck and mauls him in front of everyone.
* Inspired by a poll of what qualities boys desire most, Luna tries her hand at cooking in the ''MegaManStarForce'' anime to win [=MegaMan=]'s affection. The terrifying results lead her to seek training from Geo's mom. It doesn't help; fortunately for Geo, she's soon distracted when "cleaning skill" wins the next poll. She comes back to cooking at some point before the sequel series ''Tribe'' starts, and makes actual progress this time -- in fact, the food she brings turns out to be the only reason anyone comes to Hyde's art classes.
* Carrera and Anju in ''{{Karin}}'' attempt to make a normal human dinner when Karin brings her {{Muggle}} friend Maki over for the night. Since they're both vampires (and literally don't have any sense of taste for anything except blood) and don't actually eat human food, they don't know how to cook it either (Karin, being an "unvampire", is the only one that cooks) and the results only ''look'' edible.
* Hikari in ''{{Lamune}}'' likes her food ''really'' spicy... leading to those familiar with her to fear any time she decides to cook. Also results in a humorous incident during the ClassTrip when the group leaves the curry pot unattended and she goes to take a look...
* Sawanaguchi Sae, in ''Anime/MagicUsersClub'', lives in Tokyo with her older sister Saki. Sae usually does the cooking. One time in the OVA she comes home and finds Saki trying to cook. Sae asks what she's making, and Saki says, "Tomato Stew." Sae asks why she's making it out of red chili paste, and Saki asks, "What's that?" At which point Sae says, "I think you should let me do the cooking."
* Both Ryoko Mitsurugi and ''Azumi Kiribayashi'' (potentially) of ''SamuraiGirlRealBoutHighSchool'' live up to this trope in a parody of Iron Chef. When the judges are about to taste the bento lunches made by the girls, they are stolen by Shizuma Kusanagi and consumed on the run, which causes him to turn green and vomit improbable quantities of grey foam.
* In ''DetectiveConan'', the direct reason for Kogoro and Eri's separation is the latter's cooking was too awful. Even Shinichi knows this.
* Played with in ''Anime/YuGiOhGX''; Professor Sartyr is, himself, a very good cook, but his ''deck'' is constructed with killer cooking in mind, complete with vegetable warrior monsters, spice-based spells and traps that screw with the opponent's monsters, and his key card, a demonic chef by name of "Curry Fiend Roux".
* Miyabi of ''NininGaShinobuden''. Episode 6 sees her taking making dinner for the ninjas after Shinobu gets stuck at Kaede's house by a typhoon. She creates a stew that includes leeks, chicken legs, broccoli, lettuce, apples, a whole duck (complete with feathers and beak), a boot, an umbrella, and what appears to be somebody's buttocks as ingredients. She then adds pepper [[spoiler: actually gunpowder, but she can't tell]], which causes the whole mess to explode.
* There are three in ''HellTeacherNube'', albeit with a slight justification for each: [[AnIcePerson Yukime]] can cook well, but her food is frozen solid and instantly freezes whoever eats it (she improves after [[BackFromTheDead events of some magnitude]] and learns to cook hot meals.) [[{{Tsundere}} Kyoko]]'s food is indistinguishable from roadkill, but she's still in fifth grade. And [[NobleDemon Minki]] tries really hard, but her meals (which still twitch and stare back at you) [[AlienLunch are not meant for]] ''[[AlienLunch human]]'' [[AlienLunch consumption]].
* Nana of ''ElfenLied'', having been raised in a lab, is a terrible cook, often burning the food she makes. Oh, and watch out when she handles a cleaver too...
* The boss of the Gaba thieves in ''[[MahoujinGuruGuru Doki Doki Densetsu Mahoujin Guru Guru]]'' is a Lethal Chef who loves to cook. To make it worse, criticizing his cooking will cause him to become lethal in more traditional ways. He allows Nike to become his disciple solely on the basis of making Kukuri teach him to cook better.
* Hikari in ''SpecialA'' has a habit of overexerting her strength, resulting in ingredients getting pulverized. She also overloads on the base ingredients for her dishes, which combined with the above results in a perfectly smooth rice ball dense enough to crack the floor. Oddly, for this trope, she tends to add too ''little'' seasoning - so even her curry ends up watery and bland. She also tends to blow up the kitchen. In fact [[spoiler: later in the manga when Hikari and Finn are being held captive in Finn's castle, Finn takes Hikari to the kitchen and has her cook something. This causes an explosion which gives Kei and Ryuu a general idea of where they were. And Finn uses Hikari's food to knock out the guards.]]
* A hilarious double subversion occurs in ''Anime/ReadOrDie TV'': Sumiregawa-sensei comes home to find a fancy dinner and a beaming Michelle, her hands covered in bandages. Sensei sits down and gingerly tastes it... and to her surprise it's delicious. She praises Michelle, but Michelle corrects her, saying she had a go at cooking earlier and since that didn't go so well she ordered something instead, upon which she hands Sensei the check.
* Both Hagu and Yamada from ''HoneyAndClover'' are terrible cooks with chocolate and mushroom curry, chocolate mintkin (a pumpkin topped with chocolate mint icecream), and Grapefruit Pilaff. In an interesting subversion, the manga's English language editor made Grapefruit Pilaff herself, thought it was nice, and published the recipe.
* In ''SasamekiKoto'', Sumika's cooking tends to result in StuffBlowingUp. [[{{Dojikko}} Miyako]] isn't much better.
--> '''Sumika:''' "...What kind of food explodes when cooked, and who invented it?"\\
'''Miyako:''' "''...You did''."
* [[HimechanNoRibon Hime-chan's cookies]] make little girls cry.
* Lead ''Manga/{{Onidere}}'' character Saya's cooking is so lethal that her fellow gangmembers collapse, including one who experienced actual poison. It seems to run in the family, since her sister can not only drink the tea she makes, but actually enjoys it. Her food causes those who eat it to flashback to their worst pain ever (such as the aforementioned poison) and calculate how much worse Saya's cooking is. Saya's tea makes people flash back to her ''cooking.''
* Natsuki from ''YoakeMaeYoriRuriiroNa'' gets the nickname "Carbon Master" because everything she cooks tends to end up looking like charcoal (even a salad). She improves somewhat in Moonlight Cradle.
* Several examples from the ''{{Anime/Pokemon}}'' anime:
** May once caught a buttload of berries and blended them into Pokeblocks. The team tried them and subsequently gagged. Only a [[BigEater Munchlax]] could eat them without collapsing in pain.
** According to Meowth, Jessie is also an example: "The last time you cooked you wiped out eight of my nine lives."
** Misty had also tried her hand at cooking when Brock was sick. It wasn't pretty.
* Yako's mother from ''MajinTanteiNougamiNeuro''. Yako is just as famous for her [[BigEater immense appetite]] as she is for being a detective, yet even she is afraid of the meals her mother cooks. Some examples of how disastrous her cooking can get:
** Her idea of preparing is to visit a hardware store. Sure, some tools can be used for cooking, but a power drill, hacksaw and chainsaw don't really suit cooking.
** She apparently forgets that some of the ingredients she puts in a cake (egg shells, whole chicken wings, fish bait, balloons, oil paint) are inedible. It starts to smell like rubber when it's baking. Then for the icing, she mixes in nitroglycerin. Neuro provided the icing recipe.
** For a town carnival, she brewed some pork soup. 95% of the tasters were hospitalized.
** Her Valentine's Day chocolate looked like a chunk of steel and smelled like a dead animal.
* In ''{{Shuffle}}'', Nerine says that all her cooking attempts ended up in disasters, including explosions. She eventually manages to make an omelette, but never managed to expand the repertoire. In the graphic novel, her father was so happy he wanted to make it a holiday.
** Subverted with Asa, who are surprised despite her {{Tomboy}} personality that she is an excellent cook.
* ''{{Kenichi the Mightiest Disciple}}'' has Shigure and Apachai starting out like this, although they (or at least Shigure) becomes more competent later on. Their joint attempt to make tea for Kenichi's sister resulted in what appears to be [[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/history_s_strongest_disciple_kenichi/c040/9.html a fishbowl filled with seaweed.]]
* Comes in two forms in ''Anime/ErgoProxy''. Pino is a robot who doesn't eat and as such has no idea how to make food palatable to humans. In episode 16, Re-l shows a different form of this, failing to boil pasta successfully. In her case, it's the consequence of a life lived in a seemingly Utopian dome with all work done by robotic servants, and perhaps a bit of FeminineWomenCanCook as well.
* In a surprisingly cute side-story of ''VisualNovel/UminekoNoNakuKoroNi'', we discover that there's a ''reason'' Beatrice has Ronove do the cooking.
-->"Half a day was spent in spectacular violence that would have shocked the culinary world."
* Lampshaded in ''Anime/LuckyStar'' when it's revealed Kagami is the worse chef of the Hiiragi twins, as she and Tsukasa take turns making their lunches:
-->'''Konata:''' What? Kagami, are you the kind that can make pots ''explode'' when you cook?
* Taichi and Hikari's mother Yuuko, at least in the [[GagDub dub]] of ''DigimonAdventure''. In the second part of the movie (the single movie "Our War Game" in Japan), her "beef jerky shakes" almost kill Koushirou.
* In ''GAGeijutsukaArtDesignClass'', [[TeamMom Namiko]] is a "surrealist" in cooking, while [[CuteClumsyGirl Kisaragi]] is a "cubist".
* Himeji Mizuki in ''[[LightNovel/BakaToTestToShoukanjuu Baka to Test to Shokanju]]''. Yoshii has violent hallucinations of being dragged off by grim reapers just by smelling it. And when [[FromBadToWorse he actually has to eat it...]] It's explained later that this is because she uses a lethal poison as a preservative. Oddly enough, her food looks beautiful.
* [[FushigiboshiNoFutagoHime Princess Fine and Rein]] once made croquettes to find a thief. It made a bunch of birds[[spoiler:, including the one who stole Altezza's necklace,]] sick.
* Elsie, from ''Manga/TheWorldGodOnlyKnows'', prides herself on her cooking skills. Unfortunately, she's a demon from the Underworld, and her idea of good cooking involves such ingredients as eyes, hands, and ''living tentacle creatures''. While it may be [[AlienLunch delicious to demons]] ([[OurDemonsAreDifferent Haqua]] certainly likes it), it typically sends humans running for the toilet instead. Oddly enough, however, her curses make pretty good curry.
* In contrast to SupremeChef Usui, Misaki in ''KaichouWaMaidSama'' can't even make riceballs correctly. Fortunately her few attempts at cooking stop short of being actually toxic, because Usui insists on eating it anyhow (and then complains about it).
* Sakura Haruno from ''{{Naruto}}'' in the anime once made a strength potion, but we don't know if it was any good. No one ever was able to put it down their throat (Except Naruto, when he was doing some VERY important training. Though he probably would have eaten it anyway since [[{{LoveInterest}} Sakura]] was the one that made it).
* A variation occurs in ''{{Love Hina}}''. Naru's cooking consistently looks inedible, but just as consistently tastes good.
* Inner Moka (but not Outer Moka) in ''RosarioToVampire'' is this. Her attempts to handle common kitchen utensils were incredibly dangerous (to her), and the pie she attempted to make appeared to be alive and hostile. Her second attempt, with every other girl in Tsukune's harem helping, made an edible (if slightly burned) pumpkin pie, at the expense of destroying the kitchen and rendering all the other girls unconscious. Her normal cooking is so disastrous that it can send a full blood vampire to the hospital with a single bite.
* ''TenchiMuyo'' has a few examples:
** Ryoko is one of these. Her first attempt in cooking in the [=OVAs=] ends up bubbling up pink froth that dissolved the stove (What she was trying to make was never specified, but by the ingredients, it looked like vegetable soup). Later incidents in the [=OVAs=] and manga toned her lack of culinary skills down, but her cooking still could be divided into two categories: The ones that turned out wrong, and the ones that nobody got a chance to taste for some reason. She does have a very good excuse: As she says, she has no sense of taste whatsoever. Thus, explaining why she doesn't just taste it herself. She is quite literally incapable of tasting anything.
** The manga-only character Asahi was also one of these. For some unspecified reason, she felt that food had to be extremely spicy to be flavorful, and so tended to season each ''helping'' of food she prepared with multiple tubes of wasabi.
** The manga also paints Ayeka like this. One story has Tenchi falling ill due to one of her and Ryoko's fights knocking him into the lake and, to make it up to him (and to win points towards winning his heart), she attempts to make a meal and refuses to get Sasami to help. She does realize her ineptitude of it all and, in the end, gets Sasami's help. [[spoiler:Sadly, by the time they were done, Tenchi's fine - it's ''Mihoshi'' who's sick from ''her'' attempts to get Tenchi better.]]
** In the case of Washu, it's a different story: the Mihoshi Special shows her being unable to cook fish (which she blames on Terran stoves being too primitive; considering who we're discussing, it's decidedly possible), but when we see her in episode 8 of the OVA series, she's just as good a cook as any. It probably helps that the Mihoshi Special [[CanonDiscontinuity isn't canon.]]
* ''Videogame/{{Touhou}}'' manga ''Inaba of the Moon and Inaba of the Earth'' depicts [[EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses Princess Kaguya]] as one when she attempts to play nurse for a sick [[TheMedic Eirin]]. Her first attempt caused Eirin to collapse. Her second attempt was so horrible, it required a [[TakeOurWordForIt mosaic censor]]. Her third attempt actually went pretty well... if you ignore the fact that she used [[IntoxicationEnsues psychedelic mushrooms for the main ingredient]].
* Rath of ''DragonKnights'' is a rather horrible cook. The soup he made for Cesia when she was sick included hot sauce and other improbable ingredients and tasted awful.
* Jun, from ''[[Anime/ScienceNinjaTeamGatchaman Gatchaman]]'', was a terrible cook. So much, that she, herself, wouldn't eat her creations.
* In the ''VisualNovel/SchoolDays'' Valentine's Day OVA, Kotonoha. Her attempt at making Valentine's Day chocolate for Makoto is an EldritchAbomination. With tentacles. And it's ''alive''.
* Asuka from ''Anime/FutureGPXCyberFormula''. She makes parsley and durian juice for Hayato because she hears that he is lacking in vitamins, but he doesn't want it...so she drinks the juice instead. And then she drinks her own "concoction", cries that it was bitter and faints from it.
* Grandis from ''[[NadiaTheSecretOfBlueWater Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water]]'' is a subversion. Her cooking ''looks'' absolutely well beyond amateurish and more in the realm of horrific, but it's actually quite good.
* Sweetly subverted in ''{{The Lucifer and Biscuit Hammer}}''. Sami is actually well aware of how terrible her cooking is and is even vocal about it. Yuhi, on the other hand, eats every bite and tells her it's delicious. He's actually lying to spare her feelings; he finds her cooking to be quite unbearable. But seeing him eat it makes her happy, so to him, it's worth it. Awww.
* In ''ToLoveRu'' F, Lala's alien cooking almost killed Rito the first time he tries it.
* Seraphim from ''KoreWaZombieDesuKa'' brings this trope UpToEleven with a vat of bubbling purple... stuff. Anything put in it will melt afterwards, like spoons or chopsticks. When attention focuses back on the cauldron, the cauldron is empty and has a huge hole in it... as well as the table... and the floor...
* Nana of ''NanaToKaoru'' tries her hand at Valentine's Day chocolate for her totally-just-a-friend Kaoru. Unfortunately, she has no idea what she's doing, [[SacrificedBasicSkillForAwesomeTraining given her focus on studying over cooking]], and "melting chocolate" becomes "chocolate cake". Kaoru is overjoyed to receive it, but the bout of diarrhoea it causes means he has to skip school.
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cy2xSFcwokc Apis]] from ''OnePiece''.
* [[TheJinx Asebi]] from ''{{Bento}}'' is an odd variation of this trope. Her friend acts as though she's one, and given her credentials at inadvertently causing bad luck you would expect it. But when the main character tries her food he finds it looks perfectly nice, has expected texture and smell and also tastes fine... If not for the minute detail that ''nothing she makes tastes like it's supposed to''. Her fried pork tastes like fresh banana. Her boiled broccoli tastes like honey. The spiced prawns have no taste at all. Even perfectly ordinary rice ends up tasting strongly of coriander for some bizarre reason.
* The hot pot in LightNovel/BokuWaTomodachiGaSukunai is black boiling, causes a VomitIndiscretionShot, and as Rika puts it (visibly nauseated) "The closest flavor to this in my memory banks is... RUBBING ALCOHOL!"
* In the ''BlueExorcist'' anime, Mephisto's attempt at breakfast is red and bubbly, and causes Rin to shoot a puff of steam from his mouth and pass out.
* ''SorcererStabberOrphen'': Cleao. She even makes a soup called Stone Cold Killer Stew.
* In ''LightNovel/{{Durarara}}'', the author drew up a picture of all the girls involved in a cooking contest. While some of them did [[SupremeChef really well]], others...did not. The second worst was Anri, who managed to get a worse score ''than the girl without a head to taste with''. Then there's Emilia, who got a score of -20... but she seemed to be under the impression that she was supposed to be making a bomb.
* Some examples from the ''KingdomHearts'' manga:
** While it's not brought up in her [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII original game]], the omakes paint Aerith as one. This includes making lemonade with salt and adding milk to soda.
** Cid's cooking is presented as suspect in the Chain of Memories 1st volume. He literally dumped EVERYTHING from the fridge to make a stew... including Yuffie's cheesecake. She was not amused.
* Multiple characters from ''{{Franchise/Anpanman}}'' are horrible chefs, standing out in a world filled with [[SupremeChef supreme chefs]].
** Any time Baikinman tries to cook a character's [[OneNoteCook specialty meal]], he'll butcher it horribly, making Dokinchan, who he normally makes the food for, upset at him even more than when he refuses to make it (his fish broth was sickly green and still had bones and scales in it, despite being made out of katsuobushi, which dissolves into a clear brown color).
** Komaki-chan tries her best to follow in Tekkanomaki-chan's footsteps. Unfortunately for her, the tuna sushi she makes has too much vinegar in the badly cooled and mixed rice, and is overloaded in the sushi until it burts and leaks out of the nori.
** Finally, Horroman flip flops between being a horrible chef and an okay one. When he makes a simple recipe with no specific motif (like a rice omlette or cooked vegetables), they turn out edible. However, when he decides to learn how to make the specialty item of another character, he'll butcher the recipe horribly. The unfortunate part about Horroman's cooking is that he uses it as a way to get to Dokinchan's heart...which never works out for him.
* Subverted in the ''LightNovel/ChuunibyouDemoKoiGaShitai'' LightNovels. Rikka somehow is able to make a delicious cake despite not knowing how to cook and using unorthodox ingredients.
* In episode 5 of ''Manga/{{Kotoura-san}}'', the contrast between Hiyori's "cooking" with Haruka's (good but not yet SupremeChef levels, as Daichi commented) is clear. Manabe just calls the hamburger steak she made--shaped wrongly and emitting a purple aura--poison. Then in episode 6, she made a meal so bad, that it had not only infernally bad taste, but was also mind-altering: it made her want to get frisky right now first with Manabe, then with [[LesYay Haruka]]. Manabe in delirium mistook a vase for Haruka.
* In ''HaruhiSuzumiya'', the main character says that she became a SupremeChef to counter her mother's horrible cooking.
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* Kirie's cooking in ''Manga/GirlsBravo'' causes local pervert Fukuyama to WaterfallPuke.
* ''Anime/JuraTripper'' features LoveInterest Princess (Hime), who bakes a dreadful birthday cake for Gatcha
* In ''LoveRoma'' Negi cannot cook to save her life, even her boyfriend claims her cooking brings back bad memories.
* Lum in ''UruseiYatsura''. There's nothing technically ''wrong'' with her cooking, it's just that she tends to overuse the spices to make it taste like [[AlienLunch the food on her home planet]] (and by alien standards, she's actually a ''SupremeChef''). She comments that earth made food is completely flavorless and enjoys drinking Tabasco sauce straight out of the bottle. Also, candy from her home planet causes earth creatures to grow into giant monsters and she forbids Ten from giving it to earth creatures (a warning which he ignores). Despite all her observations she manages to remain oblivious to the issue, probably due to rule of funny. It should also be noted that once, in the manga, Lum's attempts at cooking on Earth opened a portal in the Moroboshi kitchen, from which miniature space fleets erupt and begin to do battle. And once, in the {{OVA}}, Ataru is turned into a werewolf by her food.
* Two examples from ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'':
** In one episode, Asuna bakes a cake for a teacher she has a crush on. Said cake not only has green frosting and uses a tentacle, several eyes, and a lobster claw as ingredients, but actually ''screams'' whenever on screen and ''bleeds'' when cut into. (Fortunately, it was only her "practice" cake, and the second one she cooks -- and which she really intends to serve -- is bakery-perfect.)
** In the ''[[NegimaSecondSeason Negima!?]]'' anime, Takamichi becomes obsessed with making ramen, eventually inventing a ramen that makes everyone sick -- even Evangeline.
* Aoba in ''CrossGame''
* The super ditz in ''Manga/GirlsSaurus DX'' said that when cooking she could mix up sugar and potassium cyanide!
* Akane Tendo in ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf''. Starts out horrible and slowly learns how to cook certain dishes such as curry and tofu acceptably (but still generally very bad tasting results) from her older sister Kasumi over the course of the manga. ''Ranma ½'' {{fanfic}}tion, however, has created a body of {{fanon}} that attributes far more outrageous results to her efforts -- as seen in the quote above.
** Shortly into the last third of the manga series, Akane is capable of cooking a decent, tasty curry, which sends the entire family into shock. However, later in that same story, she unwittingly uses a magical water that is capable of healing all wounds, and makes her soup incredibly delicious. She puts her faith in this water, so when it runs out, her rice cakes are once again potent enough to knock out a grown man.
** In the anime, at least, Akane actually straddles the border between this and CordonBleughChef; while she does get distracted, not pay attention to what ingredients she's using, and generally acts much like a Lethal Chef, she doesn't help her case by the fact she often actually intends to make her own "unique" concoctions when she's cooking, ignoring the real recipe for one of her own devising. And refusing to taste her own cooking can't help...
** Fanfic exaggerations of Akane's kitchen incompetence can be wonderful sources of comedy. "It wasn't trying to molest you! It was just being friendly, OKAY?!"
** In one late manga {{Filler}} story, Ranma actually gets the bright idea to try and use Akane's cooking as a {{Masochists Meal}} challenge to try and earn money for Ukyō after she takes to her bed sick and Akane insists on cooking.
** In the RPG, The Curse of the Red Cat Gang, Akane's cookies and lunches are items which cause one or all enemies, respectively, to be instantly defeated.
* Sara in ''FutakoiAlternative'' once served up a pitch black "hot cake" that had another character shoot flames out his mouth when he had some. She also ruined a dish her twin sister was trying to make by dumping what looks like the entire contents of the fridge and garbage into the pan.
* Sakurazaki sisters in ''{{Futakoi}}'', what with being [[{{Ojou}} so aristocratic]]. Though with an effort they improved their cooking skills, trying both for their father's "[[RiteOfPassage exam checklist]]" and Nozomu.
* C-ko Kotobuki in ''{{Project A-Ko}}''; the Card Game ''Ani-Mayhem'' even used it along with Akane's Cooking as minor disaster which, if combined in play, were nearly irremovable. She seemingly cannot tell the difference between edible and inedible ingredients; her bento has been known to contain pebbles and bottle caps.
* Sora Hasegawa in ''[[Manga/AhMyGoddess Oh My Goddess!]]'' (in the manga, her nickname is "[[IncrediblyLamePun The Chef Assassin]]"). Fortunately, she got better, thanks to Belldandy.
** In ''Manga/AhMyGoddess'', the TV series, she was actually a ''great'' cook, but suffered a HeroicBSOD whenever asked to cook for an audience, causing her skills to deteriorate. This tied into the plot of the episode, where she had performance-anxiety issues about a go-kart race for NIT's Auto Club. Again, [[TheMessiah Belldandy]], being the kind of "[[PhysicalGod person]]" she is, helped Sora get (heh) back on track.
* Kaoru Kamiya in ''RurouniKenshin'' produces rice balls that taste like mud. She even admits that she can't cook.
-->'''Kaoru:''' ''(to Kenshin, after eating some rice balls he made)'' Those taste bad... but you know, you're a better cook than me.
* Pacifica Casull, the titular ''ScrappedPrincess'', a.k.a. "The Poison that will Destroy the World"... but not in fact by her dreadful cooking (her foster brother actually teases her about this...).
* Sanzenin Nagi in ''Manga/HayateTheCombatButler''. One of her attempts would probably have turned out pretty well... had she not confused ''detergent'' for flavoring oil. Even attempting to make a cup of tea usually destroys the whole kitchen.\\
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She tries to serve soup to a large party. Nagi is chopping up the most random things (daikon, chocolate, fish, oranges, what looks like raw pork, mushrooms, barnacles...). Note that she is tossing everything into a pot, not caring to look what she's chopping up. And because Hayate is such a DoggedNiceGuy, he just has to taste it, vomit it up, and quickly make something not only edible, but quite delicious, just so Nagi won't embarrass herself.
* Anthy Himemiya in ''RevolutionaryGirlUtena'' produces magically dangerous meals (her curry causes people to switch bodies in a classic FreakyFridayFlip) but quickly learns not to cook whenever there is an alternative available to her. She can safely produce shaved ice with fruit toppings, and limits herself to that.
* The various women pursuing Akito in ''MartianSuccessorNadesico'' vie to impress him through cooking; this is doubly ironic, as not only are they all borderline lethal chefs, but Akito ''himself'' is a restaurant quality cook. The first time they tried to cook for him, the head chef on the ''Nadesico'' quarantined the kitchen as a biohazard for a while afterwards. Ryoko eventually wises up and serves Akito some of his own cooking. He deems it "pretty good" before she points out that he's the one who just cooked it.
* In ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'', Misato Katsuragi is portrayed as a CordonBleughChef. NGE {{fanfic}}s, however, usually {{flanderize}} her cooking skills to Lethal Chef levels. Even when they compensate by making Shinji an expert chef, Misato's cooking is almost always played for laughs; for example, ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5072271/1 Clone and Clonability]]'' have [[spoiler:her "Secret Ingredient Soup" '''making the Reiquarium develop sentience and an unnatural fixation on Shinji''']]. ''FanFic/AeonNatumEngel'' and ''FanFic/AeonEntelechyEvangelion'' are two exceptions to this tendency.
* ''{{Maburaho}}'' contains an episode where Rin's "cooking" is forced down to make her feel better.
* ''Manga/AiYoriAoshi'' had two lethal chefs, both of whom took lessons from the female lead Aoi (another example of the YamatoNadeshiko teaching them, though only one actually improved.) Taeko, in particular, had the double disadvantage of being [[{{Dojikko}} clumsy]] and [[CordonBleughChef considering things like strawberry curry and chocolate-covered tomatoes to be delicious]]. Tina on the other hand is a variation, who cooks horrible looking food that actually tastes just fine.
* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': In a {{Filler}} [[BizarroEpisode episode]], a [[OneShotCharacter ghost]] needs the help of a couple of shinigami to [[UnfinishedBusiness make a cake for his mother]]. Unfortunately for the ghost, his helpers, [[GotVolunteered Yumichika]], [[TheHeart Hanatarou]] and [[SweetTooth Rin]], are absolutely hopeless chefs and their taste testers (Renji and Sado) end up going into hiding because of the amount of times they were forced to eat vomit-inducing cake.
* Millenium Fera Nocturne a.k.a. Milly on ''LostUniverse'' is a variant on this: she's a ''great'' cook, but always causes a massive explosion in the kitchen whenever she prepares a meal, much to the consternation of Canal (who, being a SpaceshipGirl, is also less than happy about having a part of her body ''blow up'' every time Milly wants to make a pie).
* A subversion and a straight example from ''{{Saiyuki}}''
** Subverted in the second season: Sanzo's companions encounter a woman whose cooking is so notoriously bad, her meat buns are used as ammunition to fight demons. Cho Hakkai steps into the teacher role, only to see her "improved" cooking (apparently) just as lethal as ever... until the man she loves tries it anyway as a show of devotion, and finds it perfectly likeable. (Turns out, she had a rare gift to create, essentially, holy cooking -- so even her ''good'' cooking is lethal to demons, which happens to include both Hakkai and his friend Sha Gojyo.)
** Gojyo himself, on the other hand, is so awful a cook that it's a running gag in the series. His signature dish is 'Everything in the Fridge Curry', which is so disgusting (hot dogs and tentacles are just the ''visible'' ingredients) that the mere smell of it drives his teammates off-screen to puke. And these are guys who deal out mass death on a daily basis.
* Xellos of ''TheSlayers'' notoriously lost a CookingDuel by using his amazing culinary techniques to produce a stew so unpalatable as to cause its component vegetables to writhe and scream in agony. Then again, that was exactly as he intended -- he was under the impression that in any sort of "duel", the point is to kill the other person. [[{{Trickster}} According to him]].
* Variation: Ren, in a cooking contest in ''{{DearS}}'', causes humans' eyes to bleed... but the other [=DearS=] ''love'' it.
* A few examples from ''Anime/SaberMarionetteJ'':
** Luchs continues to consider gunpowder a staple ingredient (although Panther pioneered the technique), despite the AmusingInjuries that regularly result.
** Lime's cooking regularly yields a charred thing that bounces around on the plate. Over the course of the show she improved enough to make food that Lorelei found tasty in Saber Marionette J to X. And Luchs was just as good a cook as Cherry in the Saber Marionette audio dramas, at least.
* In the CookingDuel in ''Anime/{{Mai-HiME}}'', none of the three teams succeeds in producing an edible cake, resulting in the judges being hospitalized. Mai's team comes closest (because Mai herself is actually a competent cook), but Shiho ruins it by getting too excited and smashing her face into the cake before it's given away for tasting.
* Arika in the (subverted) BeachEpisode in ''Anime/{{Mai-Otome}}''. Upon seeing her food, Shiho initially gives it zero points, but after Arika tricks her into tasting it (with disastrous results), the rating is dropped to -10 (negative ten) points.
* The title character of ''Manga/VideoGirlAi'', Ai Amano, is designed to be an excellent cook... but her faulty incarnation, among its many other defects, is incapable of producing edible food. Still, Youta eats it out of affection for her.
* Usagi and Minako are both terrible cooks in ''Manga/SailorMoon'', though in one case, Usagi does manage to produce a curry that looks horrid but tastes really good. (she later makes some cookies which have the opposite attributes). In the anime at least, Rei can't cook, but has the sense to limit herself to instant curry.
* Two examples from ''LightNovel/FullMetalPanic'':
** Lieutenant-Commander Andrei Kalinin has his special borscht (an eastern-European beet soup) -- a recipe made by his late wife that he has spent years of experimentation to successfully replicate, including on-the-second stirring, pH sampling, and adding such outlandish components as cocoa powder and miso paste. Said borscht is sufficiently gruesome (Tessa states it tastes like "hot Dr. Pepper") to scare away even intractable [[TheStoic stoic]] Sōsuke, which was the whole point -- Kalinin's wife was rather vindictive of his prioritizing his career over her. Kalinin himself, however, is completely oblivious to this and finds it delicious.
** Sōsuke himself is also shown to be a rather Lethal Chef (at least in the manga). Most of it stems from [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} his lack of common sense]], which results in him cooking rice in a rice cooker... over a fire. Indoors. Which causes the others to faint from the fumes. And in the end, he misinterprets Kaname's "a pinch of salt" as being a whole handful of salt.
* Hinako in ''MyselfYourself'' is a textbook case of this.
* Kana in ''{{Minami-ke}}'' to the extent that she can use her being required to cook as a ''threat''. She did spend an entire episode trying to get better in ''Okawari'', though taste testers [[{{Bifauxnen}} Touma]] and [[{{Crossdresser}} Mako-chan]] got very well acquainted with the bathroom in the process.
* Miaka Yuuki in ''FushigiYuugi''. She becomes better halfway through the second arc of the manga, but before she does, Taka lies about it to her. And she never tastes it.
* In the manga of ''Manga/FruitsBasket,'' Kazuma Sohma (Kyo's adoptive father, and a rare male example) is extremely inept at cooking, though not through lack of effort (he even has trouble making tea). This had the side effect of making Kyo a halfway-decent cook; he had to learn just to survive. Yuki, is also horrible at cooking.
* Bianchi from ''Manga/KatekyoHitmanReborn'' Her cooking is so horrendous that, as a professional assassin, it's literally her WeaponOfChoice. In fact, it is referred to as an explicit superpower -- anything she cooks turns into lethal poison, regardless of any other factor. As is normal for this trope, she is immune to this poison.
* [[AllThereInTheManual According to the manga and Sound Stages]] of ''MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha'', the other [[RidiculouslyHumanRobots Wolkenritter]] wouldn't even dare touch Shamal's cooking unless Hayate declares it safe. While it has suffered from a touch of NeverLiveItDown, the creators have [[http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y191/Liinna/Nanoha/Hayate/1264208642230.png leapt to its re-affirmation]] in ''The Battle of Aces''.
* Otae Shimura from ''Manga/{{Gintama}}'' can only cook tamagoyaki, but it's so inedible that it actually gives Gintoki and Kondou ''amnesia'' at one point when she feeds it to them, and is reputed to be the cause of her brother's bad eyesight. And yet, she never seems to understand just ''how'' lethal it is and continues to serve it no matter what. Once she was making sushi with the rest of the cast. No fire was involved but somehow the sushi turned into ashes moments later. ''Tamagoyaki ashes''.
* Variation in ''ThePrinceOfTennis''. Sadaharu Inui uses his [[GargleBlaster horrible juices]] as a ''punishment'' for his teammates when they fail in training. These juices are so bad that everyone in the team (except for Shusuke Fuji, the local ExtremeOmnivore) is actually ''terrified'' of receiving juice punishment.
* In ''Manga/CardcaptorSakura'', ChineseGirl Li Meiling is amazing at cooking Chinese dishes but hopeless at Western bakery - so much that her inability to bake a cake becomes a running gag. Sakura herself is a subversion. Touya talks about her cooking as if she were a Lethal Chef, but several characters with working taste buds enjoy her cooking.
* Nozomi of ''YesPrettyCure5'' has this among her [[ThisLoserIsYou impressive number of failings]]. It seems to be contagious, as when all the girls try to cook together they have a tendency to mainly just produce chaos (and rice you should probably avoid), even though Urara at least can cook perfectly well on her own.
* In ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'', Nia's cooking looks ''delicious'' -- however, it is horrendous enough to knock Rossiu out of commission for the entire episode. And, since Nia is Sparkly Princess Jesus, nobody wants to hurt her feelings. Bizarrely, Simon and Boota genuinely enjoy her food and suffer no ill effects.
* In ''DaCapo'', Junichi's sister, Nemu, is considered to be a lethal chef, at least for the first season. However, Nemu's cooking was so bad that Junichi even calls her a "Murderous Chef" behind her back.
* In ''KaleidoStar'', Rosetta Passel is not only a Lethal Chef, but is [[FeminineWomenCanCook quite incompetent in anything related to housework]] for quite a while. At the same time, Layla Hamilton seems to have difficulty brewing coffee ''even'' with a machine, relying on her maid's advice and even ''then'' screwing it up. And also, Julie complains that her best friend Charlotte is too fond of using salt on everything.
* Cecile Croomy of ''Anime/CodeGeass'' sort of qualifies; her cooking isn't lethal so much as a crime against the culinary arts due to her [[CordonBleughChef experimenting and mixing various ingredients]]. Some such examples include onigiri (riceballs) with blueberry jam in the center and sandwiches with ginger, sugar, and wasabi added for flavoring. Apparently, nobody has the heart to tell her the truth...
* Risa from ''{{DNAngel}}'' is a terrible cook, however, Takeshi doesn't hesitate to tell her so. He also tells her that she'll never improve if she takes advantage of a nice guy like Daisuke, who'll only eat her food to spare her feelings.
* Hatsumi [[spoiler: (Eve)]] of ''{{Yami to Boushi to Hon no Tabibito}}'' is known in her home economics class and beyond for her lethal pancakes. They look perfect, but the taste... Of course, [[spoiler: her love-struck adoptive younger sister (and, as it turns out, love interest)]] Hazuki chokes them down them anyway, correctly interpreting them as an expression of Hatsumi's feelings for her. Lilith is less forgiving, refusing even to touch them and saying that anyone who eats them is incapable of ever feeling happiness again.
* Subverted in ''MagicalPokaan'': the first time we see the girls eating Aiko's food, they carefully taste it... and right when you expect them to hurl, they say "Average".
* In ''Manga/AILoveYou'', Number Thirty's experience of food is limited to having seen pictures of finished recipes in books, and her attempts to reproduce them fail because she has no idea that they're supposed to be made of edible substances. Of course, being a robot, she had no sense of taste. This get fixed fairly quickly when it's discovered, however, making Thirty (with a little training) a decent, non-lethal cook.
* Jin in ''SamuraiChamploo''. After accidentally taking a job at an unagi stand (he had thought the "kiru" job would involve, well, killing), he cooks one for a stranger who had helped him with the eels. He burns the living Hell out of it, and she calls it "the worst thing I've ever tasted." This is part of a running gag about Jin having absolutely no aptitude for anything but kendo.
* ''ChronoCrusade'''s Rosette Christopher is one of these. As a child she baked a batch of cookies so bad it caused Chrono to foam at the mouth. She later improved (she was accepted as cook in public kitchen, even Chrono says that when her soup looks horrible, the taste is decent).
* The "looks horrible, tastes fine" variant occurs in ''{{The Law of Ueki}}'': while Mori Ai's cooking looks unappetizing (it seems to contain live, squirming purple octopus tentacles), it actually tastes quite good and doesn't have any ill effects on the eater.
* Tsukamoto Tenma and Sawachika Eri from ''SchoolRumble'' qualify. Their rice balls led to ... bad things.
* Kyouka from ''KyouranKazokuNikki''. Only Yuka is able to eat her cooking without ill effect.
** Subverted in episode 7. A pair of former assassin siblings open a restaurant, where their cooking nearly kills all of their customers, until [[spoiler:Chika realizes that the cooking is too good to be consumed by normal humans]].
* From ''Manga/BlackCat'', Professor Tearju is such an awful cook that when Train and Sven opened the door to her home, they were completely overwhelmed by the horrific smell. Professor Tearju is a bit of a klutz, so when she trips, and spills the resulting mess on Sven's hat, he starts screaming that his hat is covered in living puke. {{Hilarity ensues}}.
* In one episode of ''HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi'', Keiichi's parents are out of town, and he has to cook for himself. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0myhBf4wfc He almost burns the house down.]]
* The flying pie monster from the ''{{Kirby}}'' [[KirbyOfTheStars anime]] produces pies that not even [[BigEater Kirby]] can eat.
* In the third season of ''Anime/MonsterRancher'', it's revealed that Golem dreams of becoming a chef and opening his own restaurant. Unfortunately, as a creature that eats rocks and drinks sand, his recipes need a ''lot'' of work.
* England from ''AxisPowersHetalia'' loves to cook, but the food he makes is terrible to the point that Austria even tells him that he's sorry for England for having such horrible cuisine. One comic jokes that his lack of taste is the reason America's cuisine is what it is now; in another, England does ''NOT'' like how America tells him his scones suck and mauls him in front of everyone.
* Inspired by a poll of what qualities boys desire most, Luna tries her hand at cooking in the ''MegaManStarForce'' anime to win [=MegaMan=]'s affection. The terrifying results lead her to seek training from Geo's mom. It doesn't help; fortunately for Geo, she's soon distracted when "cleaning skill" wins the next poll. She comes back to cooking at some point before the sequel series ''Tribe'' starts, and makes actual progress this time -- in fact, the food she brings turns out to be the only reason anyone comes to Hyde's art classes.
* Carrera and Anju in ''{{Karin}}'' attempt to make a normal human dinner when Karin brings her {{Muggle}} friend Maki over for the night. Since they're both vampires (and literally don't have any sense of taste for anything except blood) and don't actually eat human food, they don't know how to cook it either (Karin, being an "unvampire", is the only one that cooks) and the results only ''look'' edible.
* Hikari in ''{{Lamune}}'' likes her food ''really'' spicy... leading to those familiar with her to fear any time she decides to cook. Also results in a humorous incident during the ClassTrip when the group leaves the curry pot unattended and she goes to take a look...
* Sawanaguchi Sae, in ''Anime/MagicUsersClub'', lives in Tokyo with her older sister Saki. Sae usually does the cooking. One time in the OVA she comes home and finds Saki trying to cook. Sae asks what she's making, and Saki says, "Tomato Stew." Sae asks why she's making it out of red chili paste, and Saki asks, "What's that?" At which point Sae says, "I think you should let me do the cooking."
* Both Ryoko Mitsurugi and ''Azumi Kiribayashi'' (potentially) of ''SamuraiGirlRealBoutHighSchool'' live up to this trope in a parody of Iron Chef. When the judges are about to taste the bento lunches made by the girls, they are stolen by Shizuma Kusanagi and consumed on the run, which causes him to turn green and vomit improbable quantities of grey foam.
* In ''DetectiveConan'', the direct reason for Kogoro and Eri's separation is the latter's cooking was too awful. Even Shinichi knows this.
* Played with in ''Anime/YuGiOhGX''; Professor Sartyr is, himself, a very good cook, but his ''deck'' is constructed with killer cooking in mind, complete with vegetable warrior monsters, spice-based spells and traps that screw with the opponent's monsters, and his key card, a demonic chef by name of "Curry Fiend Roux".
* Miyabi of ''NininGaShinobuden''. Episode 6 sees her taking making dinner for the ninjas after Shinobu gets stuck at Kaede's house by a typhoon. She creates a stew that includes leeks, chicken legs, broccoli, lettuce, apples, a whole duck (complete with feathers and beak), a boot, an umbrella, and what appears to be somebody's buttocks as ingredients. She then adds pepper [[spoiler: actually gunpowder, but she can't tell]], which causes the whole mess to explode.
* There are three in ''HellTeacherNube'', albeit with a slight justification for each: [[AnIcePerson Yukime]] can cook well, but her food is frozen solid and instantly freezes whoever eats it (she improves after [[BackFromTheDead events of some magnitude]] and learns to cook hot meals.) [[{{Tsundere}} Kyoko]]'s food is indistinguishable from roadkill, but she's still in fifth grade. And [[NobleDemon Minki]] tries really hard, but her meals (which still twitch and stare back at you) [[AlienLunch are not meant for]] ''[[AlienLunch human]]'' [[AlienLunch consumption]].
* Nana of ''ElfenLied'', having been raised in a lab, is a terrible cook, often burning the food she makes. Oh, and watch out when she handles a cleaver too...
* The boss of the Gaba thieves in ''[[MahoujinGuruGuru Doki Doki Densetsu Mahoujin Guru Guru]]'' is a Lethal Chef who loves to cook. To make it worse, criticizing his cooking will cause him to become lethal in more traditional ways. He allows Nike to become his disciple solely on the basis of making Kukuri teach him to cook better.
* Hikari in ''SpecialA'' has a habit of overexerting her strength, resulting in ingredients getting pulverized. She also overloads on the base ingredients for her dishes, which combined with the above results in a perfectly smooth rice ball dense enough to crack the floor. Oddly, for this trope, she tends to add too ''little'' seasoning - so even her curry ends up watery and bland. She also tends to blow up the kitchen. In fact [[spoiler: later in the manga when Hikari and Finn are being held captive in Finn's castle, Finn takes Hikari to the kitchen and has her cook something. This causes an explosion which gives Kei and Ryuu a general idea of where they were. And Finn uses Hikari's food to knock out the guards.]]
* A hilarious double subversion occurs in ''Anime/ReadOrDie TV'': Sumiregawa-sensei comes home to find a fancy dinner and a beaming Michelle, her hands covered in bandages. Sensei sits down and gingerly tastes it... and to her surprise it's delicious. She praises Michelle, but Michelle corrects her, saying she had a go at cooking earlier and since that didn't go so well she ordered something instead, upon which she hands Sensei the check.
* Both Hagu and Yamada from ''HoneyAndClover'' are terrible cooks with chocolate and mushroom curry, chocolate mintkin (a pumpkin topped with chocolate mint icecream), and Grapefruit Pilaff. In an interesting subversion, the manga's English language editor made Grapefruit Pilaff herself, thought it was nice, and published the recipe.
* In ''SasamekiKoto'', Sumika's cooking tends to result in StuffBlowingUp. [[{{Dojikko}} Miyako]] isn't much better.
--> '''Sumika:''' "...What kind of food explodes when cooked, and who invented it?"\\
'''Miyako:''' "''...You did''."
* [[HimechanNoRibon Hime-chan's cookies]] make little girls cry.
* Lead ''Manga/{{Onidere}}'' character Saya's cooking is so lethal that her fellow gangmembers collapse, including one who experienced actual poison. It seems to run in the family, since her sister can not only drink the tea she makes, but actually enjoys it. Her food causes those who eat it to flashback to their worst pain ever (such as the aforementioned poison) and calculate how much worse Saya's cooking is. Saya's tea makes people flash back to her ''cooking.''
* Natsuki from ''YoakeMaeYoriRuriiroNa'' gets the nickname "Carbon Master" because everything she cooks tends to end up looking like charcoal (even a salad). She improves somewhat in Moonlight Cradle.
* Several examples from the ''{{Anime/Pokemon}}'' anime:
** May once caught a buttload of berries and blended them into Pokeblocks. The team tried them and subsequently gagged. Only a [[BigEater Munchlax]] could eat them without collapsing in pain.
** According to Meowth, Jessie is also an example: "The last time you cooked you wiped out eight of my nine lives."
** Misty had also tried her hand at cooking when Brock was sick. It wasn't pretty.
* Yako's mother from ''MajinTanteiNougamiNeuro''. Yako is just as famous for her [[BigEater immense appetite]] as she is for being a detective, yet even she is afraid of the meals her mother cooks. Some examples of how disastrous her cooking can get:
** Her idea of preparing is to visit a hardware store. Sure, some tools can be used for cooking, but a power drill, hacksaw and chainsaw don't really suit cooking.
** She apparently forgets that some of the ingredients she puts in a cake (egg shells, whole chicken wings, fish bait, balloons, oil paint) are inedible. It starts to smell like rubber when it's baking. Then for the icing, she mixes in nitroglycerin. Neuro provided the icing recipe.
** For a town carnival, she brewed some pork soup. 95% of the tasters were hospitalized.
** Her Valentine's Day chocolate looked like a chunk of steel and smelled like a dead animal.
* In ''{{Shuffle}}'', Nerine says that all her cooking attempts ended up in disasters, including explosions. She eventually manages to make an omelette, but never managed to expand the repertoire. In the graphic novel, her father was so happy he wanted to make it a holiday.
** Subverted with Asa, who are surprised despite her {{Tomboy}} personality that she is an excellent cook.
* ''{{Kenichi the Mightiest Disciple}}'' has Shigure and Apachai starting out like this, although they (or at least Shigure) becomes more competent later on. Their joint attempt to make tea for Kenichi's sister resulted in what appears to be [[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/history_s_strongest_disciple_kenichi/c040/9.html a fishbowl filled with seaweed.]]
* Comes in two forms in ''Anime/ErgoProxy''. Pino is a robot who doesn't eat and as such has no idea how to make food palatable to humans. In episode 16, Re-l shows a different form of this, failing to boil pasta successfully. In her case, it's the consequence of a life lived in a seemingly Utopian dome with all work done by robotic servants, and perhaps a bit of FeminineWomenCanCook as well.
* In a surprisingly cute side-story of ''VisualNovel/UminekoNoNakuKoroNi'', we discover that there's a ''reason'' Beatrice has Ronove do the cooking.
-->"Half a day was spent in spectacular violence that would have shocked the culinary world."
* Lampshaded in ''Anime/LuckyStar'' when it's revealed Kagami is the worse chef of the Hiiragi twins, as she and Tsukasa take turns making their lunches:
-->'''Konata:''' What? Kagami, are you the kind that can make pots ''explode'' when you cook?
* Taichi and Hikari's mother Yuuko, at least in the [[GagDub dub]] of ''DigimonAdventure''. In the second part of the movie (the single movie "Our War Game" in Japan), her "beef jerky shakes" almost kill Koushirou.
* In ''GAGeijutsukaArtDesignClass'', [[TeamMom Namiko]] is a "surrealist" in cooking, while [[CuteClumsyGirl Kisaragi]] is a "cubist".
* Himeji Mizuki in ''[[LightNovel/BakaToTestToShoukanjuu Baka to Test to Shokanju]]''. Yoshii has violent hallucinations of being dragged off by grim reapers just by smelling it. And when [[FromBadToWorse he actually has to eat it...]] It's explained later that this is because she uses a lethal poison as a preservative. Oddly enough, her food looks beautiful.
* [[FushigiboshiNoFutagoHime Princess Fine and Rein]] once made croquettes to find a thief. It made a bunch of birds[[spoiler:, including the one who stole Altezza's necklace,]] sick.
* Elsie, from ''Manga/TheWorldGodOnlyKnows'', prides herself on her cooking skills. Unfortunately, she's a demon from the Underworld, and her idea of good cooking involves such ingredients as eyes, hands, and ''living tentacle creatures''. While it may be [[AlienLunch delicious to demons]] ([[OurDemonsAreDifferent Haqua]] certainly likes it), it typically sends humans running for the toilet instead. Oddly enough, however, her curses make pretty good curry.
* In contrast to SupremeChef Usui, Misaki in ''KaichouWaMaidSama'' can't even make riceballs correctly. Fortunately her few attempts at cooking stop short of being actually toxic, because Usui insists on eating it anyhow (and then complains about it).
* Sakura Haruno from ''{{Naruto}}'' in the anime once made a strength potion, but we don't know if it was any good. No one ever was able to put it down their throat (Except Naruto, when he was doing some VERY important training. Though he probably would have eaten it anyway since [[{{LoveInterest}} Sakura]] was the one that made it).
* A variation occurs in ''{{Love Hina}}''. Naru's cooking consistently looks inedible, but just as consistently tastes good.
* Inner Moka (but not Outer Moka) in ''RosarioToVampire'' is this. Her attempts to handle common kitchen utensils were incredibly dangerous (to her), and the pie she attempted to make appeared to be alive and hostile. Her second attempt, with every other girl in Tsukune's harem helping, made an edible (if slightly burned) pumpkin pie, at the expense of destroying the kitchen and rendering all the other girls unconscious. Her normal cooking is so disastrous that it can send a full blood vampire to the hospital with a single bite.
* ''TenchiMuyo'' has a few examples:
** Ryoko is one of these. Her first attempt in cooking in the [=OVAs=] ends up bubbling up pink froth that dissolved the stove (What she was trying to make was never specified, but by the ingredients, it looked like vegetable soup). Later incidents in the [=OVAs=] and manga toned her lack of culinary skills down, but her cooking still could be divided into two categories: The ones that turned out wrong, and the ones that nobody got a chance to taste for some reason. She does have a very good excuse: As she says, she has no sense of taste whatsoever. Thus, explaining why she doesn't just taste it herself. She is quite literally incapable of tasting anything.
** The manga-only character Asahi was also one of these. For some unspecified reason, she felt that food had to be extremely spicy to be flavorful, and so tended to season each ''helping'' of food she prepared with multiple tubes of wasabi.
** The manga also paints Ayeka like this. One story has Tenchi falling ill due to one of her and Ryoko's fights knocking him into the lake and, to make it up to him (and to win points towards winning his heart), she attempts to make a meal and refuses to get Sasami to help. She does realize her ineptitude of it all and, in the end, gets Sasami's help. [[spoiler:Sadly, by the time they were done, Tenchi's fine - it's ''Mihoshi'' who's sick from ''her'' attempts to get Tenchi better.]]
** In the case of Washu, it's a different story: the Mihoshi Special shows her being unable to cook fish (which she blames on Terran stoves being too primitive; considering who we're discussing, it's decidedly possible), but when we see her in episode 8 of the OVA series, she's just as good a cook as any. It probably helps that the Mihoshi Special [[CanonDiscontinuity isn't canon.]]
* ''Videogame/{{Touhou}}'' manga ''Inaba of the Moon and Inaba of the Earth'' depicts [[EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses Princess Kaguya]] as one when she attempts to play nurse for a sick [[TheMedic Eirin]]. Her first attempt caused Eirin to collapse. Her second attempt was so horrible, it required a [[TakeOurWordForIt mosaic censor]]. Her third attempt actually went pretty well... if you ignore the fact that she used [[IntoxicationEnsues psychedelic mushrooms for the main ingredient]].
* Rath of ''DragonKnights'' is a rather horrible cook. The soup he made for Cesia when she was sick included hot sauce and other improbable ingredients and tasted awful.
* Jun, from ''[[Anime/ScienceNinjaTeamGatchaman Gatchaman]]'', was a terrible cook. So much, that she, herself, wouldn't eat her creations.
* In the ''VisualNovel/SchoolDays'' Valentine's Day OVA, Kotonoha. Her attempt at making Valentine's Day chocolate for Makoto is an EldritchAbomination. With tentacles. And it's ''alive''.
* Asuka from ''Anime/FutureGPXCyberFormula''. She makes parsley and durian juice for Hayato because she hears that he is lacking in vitamins, but he doesn't want it...so she drinks the juice instead. And then she drinks her own "concoction", cries that it was bitter and faints from it.
* Grandis from ''[[NadiaTheSecretOfBlueWater Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water]]'' is a subversion. Her cooking ''looks'' absolutely well beyond amateurish and more in the realm of horrific, but it's actually quite good.
* Sweetly subverted in ''{{The Lucifer and Biscuit Hammer}}''. Sami is actually well aware of how terrible her cooking is and is even vocal about it. Yuhi, on the other hand, eats every bite and tells her it's delicious. He's actually lying to spare her feelings; he finds her cooking to be quite unbearable. But seeing him eat it makes her happy, so to him, it's worth it. Awww.
* In ''ToLoveRu'' F, Lala's alien cooking almost killed Rito the first time he tries it.
* Seraphim from ''KoreWaZombieDesuKa'' brings this trope UpToEleven with a vat of bubbling purple... stuff. Anything put in it will melt afterwards, like spoons or chopsticks. When attention focuses back on the cauldron, the cauldron is empty and has a huge hole in it... as well as the table... and the floor...
* Nana of ''NanaToKaoru'' tries her hand at Valentine's Day chocolate for her totally-just-a-friend Kaoru. Unfortunately, she has no idea what she's doing, [[SacrificedBasicSkillForAwesomeTraining given her focus on studying over cooking]], and "melting chocolate" becomes "chocolate cake". Kaoru is overjoyed to receive it, but the bout of diarrhoea it causes means he has to skip school.
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cy2xSFcwokc Apis]] from ''OnePiece''.
* [[TheJinx Asebi]] from ''{{Bento}}'' is an odd variation of this trope. Her friend acts as though she's one, and given her credentials at inadvertently causing bad luck you would expect it. But when the main character tries her food he finds it looks perfectly nice, has expected texture and smell and also tastes fine... If not for the minute detail that ''nothing she makes tastes like it's supposed to''. Her fried pork tastes like fresh banana. Her boiled broccoli tastes like honey. The spiced prawns have no taste at all. Even perfectly ordinary rice ends up tasting strongly of coriander for some bizarre reason.
* The hot pot in LightNovel/BokuWaTomodachiGaSukunai is black boiling, causes a VomitIndiscretionShot, and as Rika puts it (visibly nauseated) "The closest flavor to this in my memory banks is... RUBBING ALCOHOL!"
* In the ''BlueExorcist'' anime, Mephisto's attempt at breakfast is red and bubbly, and causes Rin to shoot a puff of steam from his mouth and pass out.
* ''SorcererStabberOrphen'': Cleao. She even makes a soup called Stone Cold Killer Stew.
* In ''LightNovel/{{Durarara}}'', the author drew up a picture of all the girls involved in a cooking contest. While some of them did [[SupremeChef really well]], others...did not. The second worst was Anri, who managed to get a worse score ''than the girl without a head to taste with''. Then there's Emilia, who got a score of -20... but she seemed to be under the impression that she was supposed to be making a bomb.
* Some examples from the ''KingdomHearts'' manga:
** While it's not brought up in her [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII original game]], the omakes paint Aerith as one. This includes making lemonade with salt and adding milk to soda.
** Cid's cooking is presented as suspect in the Chain of Memories 1st volume. He literally dumped EVERYTHING from the fridge to make a stew... including Yuffie's cheesecake. She was not amused.
* Multiple characters from ''{{Franchise/Anpanman}}'' are horrible chefs, standing out in a world filled with [[SupremeChef supreme chefs]].
** Any time Baikinman tries to cook a character's [[OneNoteCook specialty meal]], he'll butcher it horribly, making Dokinchan, who he normally makes the food for, upset at him even more than when he refuses to make it (his fish broth was sickly green and still had bones and scales in it, despite being made out of katsuobushi, which dissolves into a clear brown color).
** Komaki-chan tries her best to follow in Tekkanomaki-chan's footsteps. Unfortunately for her, the tuna sushi she makes has too much vinegar in the badly cooled and mixed rice, and is overloaded in the sushi until it burts and leaks out of the nori.
** Finally, Horroman flip flops between being a horrible chef and an okay one. When he makes a simple recipe with no specific motif (like a rice omlette or cooked vegetables), they turn out edible. However, when he decides to learn how to make the specialty item of another character, he'll butcher the recipe horribly. The unfortunate part about Horroman's cooking is that he uses it as a way to get to Dokinchan's heart...which never works out for him.
* Subverted in the ''LightNovel/ChuunibyouDemoKoiGaShitai'' LightNovels. Rikka somehow is able to make a delicious cake despite not knowing how to cook and using unorthodox ingredients.
* In episode 5 of ''Manga/{{Kotoura-san}}'', the contrast between Hiyori's "cooking" with Haruka's (good but not yet SupremeChef levels, as Daichi commented) is clear. Manabe just calls the hamburger steak she made--shaped wrongly and emitting a purple aura--poison. Then in episode 6, she made a meal so bad, that it had not only infernally bad taste, but was also mind-altering: it made her want to get frisky right now first with Manabe, then with [[LesYay Haruka]]. Manabe in delirium mistook a vase for Haruka.
* In ''HaruhiSuzumiya'', the main character says that she became a SupremeChef to counter her mother's horrible cooking.
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