History LethalChef / AnimeAndManga

* ''Manga/BlackButler'' has Baldroy, whose idea of cooking usually involves ''flamethrowers'', meaning there's a RunningGag of Sebastian having to do damage control. Though during the [[TournamentArc cricket tournament]], he actually weaponizes this, switching the meat pie Baldo brought along for the rest of the Phantomhive household with one meant for the opposing team, giving them food poisoning and getting them disqualified.

* Takeshi Gouda from ''Manga/{{Doraemon}}'' seems to be unable to cook a good meal. Might his [[BizarroUniverse Parallel World]] counterpart [[SupremeChef invert the trope]]? (This persists into the [[Anime/{{Doraemon}} anime adaptation]].)

** {{Subverted|Trope}} beautifully by [[PsychoLesbian Nao]] [[StalkerWithACrush Sadatsuka]]. The dish she presents to the judges at the Fall Classic is not only extremely vile looking, but the smell of it is so bad that just about flattens everyone within the building. However, one incredibly brave judge tries it (despite being on the verge of vomiting from the smell alone)...and it's so delicious that she ''can't stop eating it''. This prompts the other judges to follow suit, and they proceed to give her the high score up until that point.

** Also, [[VideoGame/KirbySuperStar Chef Kawasaki]]. The only reason that he gets any customers at all is because he owns the only restaurant in Cappy Town. Though, [[BigEater Kirby]] likes his food just fine. In one episode, Kawasaki and a MonsterOfTheWeek tried to one up each other with spicier food, which led to their customers, sans Kirby, spitting out fire in pain from how hot everything was. Kawasaki managed to save the day with a special curry that was so spicy that not even Kirby could take and he was spitting up fire, killing the monster. [[ExtremeOmnivore Kirby can eat actual fire, explosives, and even lightning]], and '''[[BeyondTheImpossible the curry was still too hot for him]]'''.

* Yuka Nitta from ''Manga/Touch1981''. After taking Minami's place as team manager, Yuka's cooking is like this, due to being too exotic. she eventually tones it down.

* Yuka Nitta from ''Manga/{{Touch}}''. After taking Minami's place as team manager, Yuka's cooking is like this, due to being too exotic. she eventually tones it down.

* Seraphim from ''LightNovel/IsThisAZombie'' 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...

* Taken UpToEleven in ''Anime/TheStoryOfCinderella'' with Charles. When he is forced to prepare supper for Cinderella's stepfamily and Duke Zaral, Charles is given a cookbook. Because he doesn't understand any of the directions, he cooks the food without them. Charles over-bakes the bread until it's burnt to a crisp. He also screws up the soup 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.)

* 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".

** 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.

* ''Manga/BlackButler'' has Bard, whose idea of cooking usually involves ''flamethrowers'', meaning there's a RunningGag of Sebastian having to do damage control. Though during the [[TournamentArc cricket tournament]], he actually weaponizes this, switching the meat pie Bard brought along for the rest of the Phantomhive household with one meant for the opposing team, giving them food poisoning and getting them disqualified.

* Himeji Mizuki in ''LightNovel/BakaAndTestSummonTheBeasts''. [[ButtMonkey Poor Akihisa]] 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.

* Variation in ''Manga/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/DetectiveConan'', the direct reason for Kogoro and Eri's separation is the latter's cooking was too awful. [[spoiler: Actually, she once tried to cook for him after a ShootTheHostage situation and he called her out for it ''way'' more harshly than he intended.]] Even Shinichi knows how awful Eri's cooking is.
* Yuuko Kamiya, Tai and Kari's mother in the [[GagDub dub]] of ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'' is characterised as a terrible cooker with a fondness for cooking weird foods. In the second part of the Digimon movie, her "beef jerky shakes" almost kill Izzy. Compare it to the single movie "Our War Game" in Japan where Koshirou simply has a PottyEmergency from drinking Oolong tea.

* Hina in ''Manga/DomesticGirlfriend'' can't manage much more than microwaving leftovers. Despite her efforts, any real attempt at cooking goes horribly wrong and is lucky if it is even edible.

* [[AllThereInTheManual According to the manga and Sound Stages]] of ''Franchise/LyricalNanoha'', 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''.

** 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. The cake was later re-used as garden blocks that created the following effects: Flowers wilt in half a day, the cake didn't rot after ten years had passed, radiation was detected from the Katsuragi family garden.

** In the Sun and Moon series, Ash and Pikachu attempted to cook when Kukui was out, but Ash ''really'' needed proper instructions, and the [=RotomDex=]'s instructions left a lot to be desired... including how much salt and pepper is the right amount. Its failure to clarify what to flambé something means probably didn't help either. The result was an inedible purple mess that Pikachu didn't even attempt to eat due to the awful smell and which produced ''sparkles'' when Ash [[VomitIndiscretionShot puked it out]]. Ash's other attempts in previous series were similarly bad. There are some foods he can prepare well, so he's not completely incompetent; but he's not good at improvising and tends to burn things.

* A hilarious double subversion occurs in ''Anime/RODTheTV'': 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.

* In the anime adaptation of ''Literature/RunWithTheWind'', Hanako offers to cook breakfast for the Kansei track team when their usual cook Haiji is unwell. Unfortunately her cooking (which looks discoloured and has... some sort of purple fumes coming out of it) is so horrific it sends majority of the members to the bathroom and gives them a case of ColorFailure. Only Kakeru and Prince are unaffected and somehow find her food delicious. Her family apparently can't bring themselves to criticise her, as she mentions they love her food and that her dad even cries whenever he eats it (obviously tears of agony, but she thinks they're TearsOfJoy).

* In ''Manga/TheSevenDeadlySins'', Meliodas always cooks food that ''looks'' prefect but ''tastes'' absolutely disgusting. The only character who doesn't mind eating it is Hawk, a talking pig. Elizabeth isn't much better.

** Subverted with Asa, who are surprised despite her {{Tomboy}} personality that she is an excellent cook.

* Taken UpToEleven in ''Anime/TheStoryOfCinderella'' with Charles. When he is forced to prepare supper for Cinderella's stepfamily and Duke Zaral, Charles is given a cookbook. Because he doesn't understand any of the directions, he cooks the food without them. Charles over-bakes the bread until it's burnt to a crisp. He also screws up the soup 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.)

* Several examples from the ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' anime:
** Misty had also tried her hand at cooking when Brock was sick. It wasn't pretty. The ingrednients involve liberal doses of ketchup, chocolate syrup, and lots of enthusiasm.

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* In ''Manga/CardcaptorSakura'', [[AnimeChineseGirl 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. Touya talks about Sakura's cooking as if she were a Lethal Chef, but given the fact several characters with working taste buds enjoy her cooking, [[BigBrotherBully he is clearly just messing around with her]].

It is apparently shown in season 2 that her lack of common sense is a major cause of her horrendous cooking skills. While teaching her how to cook, Houki, Charlotte and the latter's roommate, Laura, all get sick from her attempts to make the food look better. Later, when Rin to teaches her how to make sweet & sour pork, Cecilia decides to use her IS's laser upon hearing Rin's advice that Chinese cooking is all about "firepower". [[StuffBlowingUp Much explosion ensues.]]

* During the curry-making contest in ''Anime/KanColle'', Hiei adds... ''something'' to her sister Kongou's curry, hoping to improve it. Undeterred by the fact that the formerly orange dish has turned an evil shade of purple-blue, they give it a taste - only to freeze in shock, turn several vibrant colors, and collapse to the ground in perfect unison.

* In episode 5 of ''Manga/KotouraSan'', 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.

** The anime adaptation of the series [[BeyondTheImpossible somehow]] makes Miia an even worse cook: in the manga, Suu is shown to be the only one who can safely eat Miia's cooking thanks to her innate immunity to poison - she was originally attracted to Kimihito's house by the smell given off from Miia's first cooking disaster. In the anime, though, Suu showed up before that and even she was poisoned by Miia's cooking.

* Akane Tendo in ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'' is infamous for her poor cooking skills, which first debuted in the Bakusai Tenketsu arc. Unlike some examples of this trope, the reason why Akane's food looks and tastes awful is made self-evident when we actually get to see her cooking; she's impatient and easily distracted, being prone to mixing up her ingredients (not helping is that she [[CordonBleughChef likes to make weird culinary experiments]], a trait more prominent in the anime but originating from the manga), and her usual clumsiness and "brute force over finesse" mentality follows into the kitchen--stirfried carrots containing slivers of wood from the cutting board due to how hard she was chopping, for example. Though she tries hard, by the end of the series, the best she's accomplished of her own accord has been either a block of tofu in an anime filler story[[note]]which isn't saying much; tofu comes precooked[[/note]] and a single decent curry in the manga. Her food is shown as incredibly disgusting in a mundane sense, prompting gagging, pained winces, and stomach distress--only Ryoga Hibiki, who has SuperToughness and who is infatuated with her, can willingly choke down her food with few ill effects. ''Ranma ½'' {{fanfic}}tion, however, has created a body of {{fanon}} that attributes far more outrageous results to her efforts.

* Hikari in ''Manga/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.]]

* Taken UpToEleven in ''Anime/TheStoryOfCinderella'' with Charles. When he is forced to prepare supper for Cinderella's stepfamily and Duke Zaral, Charles is given a cookbook. Because he doesn't understand any of the directions, he cooks the food without them. Charles over-bakes the bread until it's burnt to a crisp. He also screws up the soup 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.)

** 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.]]

* Takeshi Gouda from ''Manga/{{Doraemon}}'' seems to be unable to cook a good meal. Might his [[BizarroUniverse Parallel World]] counterpart [[SupremeChef invert the trope]]? (This persists into the [[Anime/Doraemon anime adaptation]].)

* In the CookingDuel in ''Anime/MyHime'', 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. The cake made by team Shizuru/Haruka/Yukino was dropped on the ground (Shizuru of all people invokes the five second rule), and the cake made by team Natsuki/Nao/Mikoto actually made an Orphan (one of the monsters in the series) sick to its stomach long before it got to the judges.

* In the CookingDuel in ''Anime/MyHime'', 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.

* Multiple characters from ''Franchise/{{Anpanman}}'' are horrible chefs, standing out in a world filled with [[SupremeChef supreme chefs]].

* ''LightNovel/MoonLedJourneyAcrossAnotherWorld'': Mio has a number of problems when she first tries cooking, first and foremost among them being that as an ExtremeOmnivore, she hasn't got her head around the idea everyone else does ''not'' see everything in sight as edible: when she tries making curry and rice, the result (which among other things includes emeralds on the assumption that the "green" she's seen in it must be the most delicious gems) incapacitates everyone else who eats it and melts the pot. She at least understands the basic idea of toast, heating bread over a weak flame, but her idea of a "weak flame" burns it so badly there's nothing left.

* According to the light novel sidestories to ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'', Momo's mother is one. It apparently stems from not thinking her recipes through. When attempting to make cookies for a study session 1-A was having, she tried to help by making the cookies with brain food. Which meant that she put as many ingredients that were considered brain food into the batter without thinking about whether they go together or belong in a baked good at all. The resultant cookies included sardines, oysters, cacao powder, green tea, curry powder, cabbage, spinach and mixed nuts. Reactions to the cookies include terms such as "bioweapon" and "unfit for human consumption". Fortunately, Momo's family is rich, so they usually just pay someone else to cook for them.

* In ''Manga/TheSevenDeadlySins'', Meliodas always cooks food that ''looks'' prefect but ''tastes'' absolutely disgusting. The only character who doesn't mind eating it is Hawk, a talking pig.