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* ComicBook/GreenArrow is legendary amongst the hero community in Franchise/TheDCU for his chili recipe. There is zero indication that he knows how to cook anything else.
** Notably, his chili isn't necessarily regarded as ''good'', just really, ''really'' hot.

* The ''ComicBook/LuckyLuke'' album ''La Diligence'' had a RunningGag where every one of the cooks at the stagecoach stops only knew how to make (the stagecoach says it's company mandate) bacon and beans. During the high-class dinner at the end, they STILL only serve bacon and beans, with some random extra ingredients added for each dish. To say the characters are sick of bacon and beans at that point is an understatement. The only stop that serves something else has been bribed as part of a bet.

* In Creator/JamesHerriot's ''Literature/AllThingsWiseAndWonderful'', kitchen duties are temporarily taken over by Tristan Farnon, who can only cook sausage and mash - and even that is not always particularly well.

* Something of a reversal, rather than only making one dish, the cook in ''Literature/AliceInWonderland'' seems to think the only ''ingredient'' is pepper. It isn't elaborated whether or not she is actually able to make anything out of this or not, but given that it's ''Alice in Wonderland'' it is definitely possible.

* Most of Miss Mush's food in the ''Literature/WaysideSchool'' series causes extremely bizarre side effects, so the students avoid it. The exception is milk [[spoiler:and nothing. Some students even got seconds of nothing, but then Miss Mush ran out of nothing.]]

* In a variation, Molly Carpenter from the ''Literature/DresdenFiles'' series is totally incapable of cooking food (Harry claims she once burned a boiled egg), but is very good at [[MustHaveCaffeine coffee]].
* In ''Literature/TheHeroAndHisElfBrideOpenAPizzaParlorInAnotherWorld'', Kaito is reborn in a fantasy world with the power of... pizza. He can make really good pizzas, [[WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway and that's about it]], though he's later shown to make a very good apple pie as well.
* ''Literature/HarrowTheNinth'': The GodEmperor and his elite Lyctors never bothered to learn to cook in [[TimeAbyss ten thousand years]], so when they're holed up in their private SpaceStation between missions, they subsist on mediocre soups -- the one thing they can all manage.

* Subverted with Luke on ''Series/GilmoreGirls'' - supposedly only cooks diner food, but turns out to be into fusion cuisine and high-end Italian cooking.

* In ''[[WesternAnimation/MickeyMouseWorks Mickey Tries To Cook]]'', Minnie berates Mickey for only being able to make cheese, ham, and tomato sandwiches, and thus that's all they ever eat at picnics. Mickey's attempts to learn how to cook something else end in disaster.

* In Lawrence Block's ''The Thief Who Couldn't Sleep" Evan spends some time in a Turkish jail. All they serve him, three times a day, is rice pilaf. It happens to be ''excellent'' rice pilaf, but still...

** Tamasaburou Hime from ''Series/JAKQDengekitai'' was introduced to the show to be a ComicRelief TeamChef but all he cooks is ramen.

* Ren from ''Series/EngineSentaiGoOnger'' can only make eggs.

* In ''VideoGame/Persona5'', Joker can learn to make a damn good curry and coffee from Sojiro, but that's it. It's all Sojiro ever seems to make, because it's all anyone at his coffee shop ever orders. [[AvertedTrope Averted]] for Joker in the sequel ''Videogame/Persona5Strikers'', where he can replicate any gourmet dish after he gets a taste just once.

* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' is [[SupremeChef an excellent fry cook]], but shows little to no culinary ability otherwise. [[Characters/SpongeBobSquarePantsTitularCharacter He's]] once shown having no idea what a sa-''[[AccentOnTheWrongSyllable lad]]'' was, and when he learned, the concept of tomatoes and lettuce without a bun and patty freaked him out. When he trades places with a chef for a fancy restaurant, his attempts at ''haute cuisine'' end up turning into Krabby Patties (although they taste so good that even the most discriminating customers won't turn them down). One episode centers around him trying to make himself an ice cream sundae, but, lacking ingredients, he [[CordonBleughChef substitutes random junk]] that give him [[YouNeedABreathMint lethally bad breath]].

* In ''VideoGame/Persona5'', Joker can learn to make a damn good curry and coffee from Sojiro, but that's it. It's all Sojiro ever seems to make, because it's all anyone at his coffee shop ever orders. {{AvertedTrope Averted}} for Joker in the sequel ''Videogame/Persona5Strikers'', where he can replicate any gourmet dish after he gets a taste just once.

* In ''VideoGame/Persona5'', Joker can learn to make a damn good curry and coffee from Sojiro, but that's it. It's all Sojiro ever seems to make, because it's all anyone at his coffee shop ever orders.

* In ''VideoGame/PokemonSwordAndShield,'' the protagonist is only shown cooking variations of curry, though sometimes they shake it up by serving it with giant Chansey eggs, adding sausages, or including burger steaks. But they can potentially be very good at it, so much so that if a Charizard-class curry is fed to a Pokémon, it will completely heal their HP, PP, and status on top of giving them a chunk of experience and boosting their friendship with you.