History LethalChef / FanWorks

* In Chapter 15 of ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13701943/1/BlazBlue-Remnant-Alternative BlazBlue Alternative: Remnant]]'', Noel is shown to be this much like she is in the games. It's so bad that her food comes across more like an outright {{eldritch abomination}}, moving almost out of touch with reality and having a color that Jaune isn't sure even exists. Then when Jaune tries to eat it, he ends up hospitalized and gains ''several second-degree burns''. Makoto even mentions that Noel once cooked a soup so rancid that when she force fed it to a Beowolf, it melted the Grimm into a puddle.

* [[Anime/{{Pokemon}} Ash Ketchum]] of ''Fanfic/LatiasJourney'' is such a horrible chef that he lit water [[IncendiaryExponent on fire]]. Not burned, but actually ''on fire''.

* In canon, Fuuka of ''VideoGame/Persona3'' and Yukiko and Chie of ''VideoGame/Persona4'' are terrible cooks. One comic from [[https://dailymegaten.tumblr.com/ Daily Megaten]] (the comic is part of a collection sold on the site) demonstrates that they're bad in different ways. When [[SupremeChef Shinjiro]] gives out the recipe for an extremely simple cake (which amounts to dumping every ingredient in a bowl and stirring), Fuuka's cake comes out flaccid and she at least acknowledges that she's bad, while Yukiko and Chie dump all kinds of bizarre ingredients (like bacon bits and an unpeeled banana) and think they're good.

* [[Anime/KantaiCollection Hiei's]] fail-tastic cooking is well-established. ''Fanfic/BlizzardOfTheRedCastle'' adds nuance in that apparently she can at least brew ASpotOfTea. ''Kirishima'', however, apparently has the opposite issue: She can cook... But her tea is bad enough that Kongo can only stomach it [[INeedAFreakingDrink spiked with rum]]!

* In ''Fanfic/HeroAcademiaDXD'', Ibara's first attempt to make breakfast at the Midoriya apartment ends with her burning the eggs and juice (somehow). Momo is, somehow, ''worse'. Ibara will make chocolate with ''vinegar'' creating a sour concoction: Momo's chocolates not only have vinegar, but ice coffee, bell peppers, and fish sausages as ingredients, give off dark auras, and wipe out Izuku's sense of taste for a week after knocking him out.

* In ''Fanfic/HeroAcademiaDXD'', Ibara's first attempt to make breakfast at the Midoriya apartment ends with her burning the eggs and juice (somehow). Momo is, somehow, ''worse'. Ibara will make chocolate with ''vinegar'' creating a sour concoction; Momo's chocolates not only have vinegar, but ice coffee, bell peppers, and fish sausages as incredients, give off dark auras, and wipe out Izuku's sense of taste for a week after knocking him out.

* In ''Fanfic/HeroAcademiaDXD'', Ibara's first attempt to make breakfast at the Midoriya apartment ends with her burning the eggs and juice (somehow).

* Anna in the ''Disney/{{Frozen}}'' fanfic ''Fanfic/CafeLiegeois'' is described as one. She still manages her job as a barista just fine though:

* In ''Fanfic/BlueSky'', Wheatley tries to bake bread with Chell. While her loaf turns out fine, his loaf becomes a rock-hard, smouldering monstrosity that manages to devour half of Chell's bread in the oven and is ultimately sliced up and used for target practice.

** ''Fanfic/OnceMoreWithFeeling'': Shinji has very bad memories of Misato's horrid cooking skills. When she tells hims that he will be staying with her, Shinji is happy... until he remembers it means he will have to eat whatever she "cooks" again, and he gets terrified.

* ''Fanfic/TheWorstBakersInEquestria'' is about a lethal chef competition started by someone who earned her cutie mark in bad baking. The cooks are so bad that they make biscuits that explode, somehow attract a bear, manage to swap a major ingredient with a [[BlazingInfernoHellfireSauce sauce made of near-pure rainbow extract]], which probably wasn't in the ingredients to begin with, put a taster in a coma for a year, have eggs [[MillionToOneChance somehow turn out to have live chicks in them]], make food that went straight back around to being utterly perfect, and the reigning champion, Rainbow Dash, somehow managed to create blueberry muffins, ''while trying to make cookies''. Supervised. Nothing went wrong during baking process, and ''blueberries were not an ingredient''.

** Kiritsugu Jr manages not only to make food that you can't eat, but also to make food that eats ''you''. Whatever he cooks somehow comes to life as some kind of EldritchAbomination. This includes (but isn't limited to): Sliced cucumbers becoming tentacle beasts, boiled water becoming flaming water spirits, roasted chicken turning into an undead monstrosity that is almost impossible to kill, and fried bacon becoming sentient, escaping into the basement, building an underground civilization based on the worship of his daughter, and vowing vengeance on the surface world.

* Vili in ''FanFic/TheTaintedGrimoire'' put poison in the meal she cooked for Luso, Crow, Hurdy, Kanin and Adelle when she mistakenly thought it was just seasoning.

* Averted, but discussed by the main character of ''Fanfic/SleepingWithTheGirls'', who, being a human being from the Real World, points out that he isn't bound by the "Conventions" of the fictional universes he's in. As such, his cooking skills fall into neither this nor "Epic Win" status. At the bare minimum, he's shown moderate skill in making omelettes- neither toxic nor blissfully amazing, they're simply normal omelettes.

-->Anna had been banned from the kitchen at home for very good reason; every time she entered, insisting that she could help, something was bound to go wrong. Her very touch brought about the dinner apocalypse. The pot on the stove would boil over, the bread would first burn and then inexplicably catch on fire, the chicken would be roasted to a crispy sooty black, the meat would always come out rare no matter how long it was left in the oven, the cake crumbled in on itself into a mess of rock-hard chunks and her father was still traumatised badly enough by her 'Fruit Sundae of Epic Awesomeness' that, four years later, he still couldn't look at pineapples and corkscrews in the same way. They were lucky that Anna's mother had forbidden her from attempting to slice and dice vegetables, or their beloved but hopelessly clumsy daughter would be short a few fingers.

* ''Fanfic/TheAdventuresOfJaina'': [[HighPriest Azzanadra]] is quite literally legendarily bad at cooking, to the point that the citizens of the Zarosian Empire feared him going anywhere near a kitchen even after thousands of years had passed since his first attempt! As a [[HumanoidAliens Mahjarrat]] he doesn't need to eat, and his knowledge of cooking is basically 'it exists', and a general idea of what is healthy for humans. When he tries to make breakfast for Jaina, he forgets what parts of vegetables are edible, has to scrape the fish off the pan because he didn't oil it beforehand, and splatters burnt bread dough over the oven because he forgot to put it in a pan. He at least manages to satisfactorally slice fruit.

* In ''Fanfic/MyHuntsmanAcademia'' sidestory "Mystery Meat", Pyrrha, Weiss, and Nora try to make a chicken curry dinner for their team leader as thanks for cooking for them all semester. Unfortunately, none of them have set foot in a kitchen to cook before. The result is green, looks like it's covered in mold, and may or may not be moving. The four agree to [[LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain never speak of it again]], but the image of their dish would haunt their nightmares for the rest of their lives.

* In ''Fanfic/HeroAcademiaDXD'', Ibara's first attempt to make breakfast at House Midoriya ends with her burning juice.

* ''Fanfic/AdviceAndTrust'': Misato's cook is... dangerous. In chapter 8 Asuka accuses her from almost poisoning their penguin pet:
-->'''Misato:''' But it's Shin-chan's night to cook! [...] That's way better than even my best curry!\\

* ''Fanfic/GhostsOfEvangelion'': Not even Third Impact can improve Misato's cooking skills. Two years after, Asuka still doesn't want to try anything her guardian has cooked.
-->"Oh, and since you just woke up you must be hungry." She got up, heading for the pantry. "Why don't I —"\\\
Asuka's eyes widened, and she leapt after Misato. "No, that's okay! I'll make breakfast!"\\\
"Aw, but I had this neat idea for an experiment! All I need is some horseradish and some curry and —"\\\
"No, really, that's fine! I'm good here. Shinji made some rice balls before he left, so that'll be fine. Better than fine, great even! Shinji makes great stuff, right?" Her voice had a bit of a panicked edge to it.\\\
"Oh, you're no fun," Misato pouted, sitting down. "Fine, fine, we'll have Shinji's boring-yet-tasty food. But you'll have to try mine eventually."\\\
"Heh heh, sure, sure." Asuka's face turned a shade of green as she headed to the refrigerator to get the rice balls. She rolled her eyes and whispered a silent prayer to whatever deities might still exist that she be spared Misato's cooking for as long as possible.
* ''Fanfic/OnceMoreWithFeeling'': Shinji has very bad memories of Misato's horrid cooking skills. When she tells hims that he will be staying with her, Shinji is happy... until he remembers it means he will have to eat whatever she "cooks" again, and he gets terrified.
-->'''Misato:''' I'll cook you a huge welcome home meal!\\
'''Shinji:''' Oh...great. ''[thinking]'' ''Oh God in Heaven, not again, I can't go through that...food...again...''

* [[http://archiveofourown.org/works/244127/chapters/377214 This]] Webcomic/{{Homestuck}} fanfic describes Dave as one, to the point where his [[InventoryManagementPuzzle sylladex]] refuses to acknowledge his creation as "spaghetti", or "pasta", or even "food". It takes him and John only a few bites to decide it was right.
* [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Rainbow Dash]] in {{Fanfic/Assumptions}} isn't on the level of killing ponies yet, but she did manage to [[BeyondTheImpossible burn tea]] and insist Caramel still try it.
* [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Derpy Hooves]] isn't much better in FanFic/WereGonnaGetThereSoon. PlayedForDrama when she's tasked with bringing snacks for the next Weather Team meeting, and she promises herself she'll prove to them that she's able to complete a task without it ending in disaster. She's on the verge of tears after several attempts result in flaming muffins, muffins that are simultaneously undercooked and overcooked, and turning the kitchen into a disaster area that gave Thunderlane's mother an aneurysm.

* Vili in FanFic/TheTaintedGrimoire put poison in the meal she cooked for Luso, Crow, Hurdy, Kanin and Adelle when she mistakenly thought it was just seasoning.
* In the Fanfiction story Percy Jackson Olympus Divided, Thalia Grace is said to be this, with comments suggesting her oatmeal was bad enough to put Artemis, a goddess, in the hospital. When she ate her own pancakes...she ended up in the hospital.
* In the former series Naruto Alternate Dimension, Tayuya is described to be this, ending up turning a cheesecake into something from an alien movie that had to be buried in cement, her attempts at muffins ended up breaking holes through solid stone and randomly set things on fire just trying to make cereal. Tenten is also described to be a bad cook, blowing up a microwave at least once.
* In Fanfic/MoreThanHuman, [[WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls Blossom]] is such a disaster waiting to happen around cooking that Buttercup declares that there is a 15-foot perimeter around the grill that is a "No Blossom" zone. One ruined batch of hamburgers later, Blossom reluctantly complies with her sister's mandate.

* [[Anime/{{Pokemon}} Ash Ketchum]] of Fanfic/LatiasJourney is such a horrible chef that he lit water [[IncendiaryExponent on fire]]. Not burned, but actually ''on fire''.

* Lind in Fanfic/AhArchfall has terrible cooking skills, possibly linked to her lack of magic.

* In chapter 1 of ''Fanfic/ThousandShinji'', Shinji has to try Misato's cook. He seriously wonders if that... bizarre, highly-spicy glob resting on his plate won't kill him.

** Sweetie Belle gets her cooking skills from her dad. He once set cereal on fire.

* ''Fanfic/{{Kindred}}'': Tiana has banned Anna from cooking after the "[[NoodleIncident kitchen incident]]".

* Mido is one in [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13189099/1/The-Legend-Of-Zelda-Ocarina-Of-Time The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time]], and seemingly on purpose. Last time he cooked for Link's anniversary, his food was so spicy that it turned everyone into "[[FireBreathindDiner combat flamethrowers]]". His food is so bad that Link offered to cook during his next anniversary, despite Saria volunteering Mido again.

* Kitty Pryde from ''Fanfic/TheInstituteSaga'' manages to burn a salad and set a saucepan of water on fire.

* In ''Fanfic/MyHuntsmanAcademia'' sidestory "Mystery Meat", Pyrrha, Weiss, and Nora try to make a chicken curry dinner for their team leader as thanks for cooking for them all semester. Unfortunately, none of them have set foot in a kitchen to cook before. The result is green, looks like it's covered in mold, and may or may not be moving. The four agree to [[LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain never speak of it again]], but the image of their dish would haunt their nightmares for the rest of their lives.

* [[Anime/KantaiCollection Hiei's]] fail-tastic cooking is well-established. ''Fanfic/BlizzardOfTheRedCastle'' adds nuance in that apparently she can at least brew ASpotOfTea. ''Kirishima'', however, apparently has the opposite issue: She can cook... But her tea is bad enough that Kongo can only stomach it [[INeedAFreakingDrink spiked with rum]]!

* Alphamon in ''Fanfic/ADragonInShiningArmour'' likes to create... unique blends of tea, most of which are fairly noxious. The other Royal Knights are probably fortunate that he limits himself to tea.