Lethal Chef / Visual Novels

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• Aselia the Eternal - The Spirit of Eternity Sword: Uruka and Aselia have a little too much confidence for people who have never cooked before. Aselia at least makes an effort to start learning to cook properly after this.
• Brass Restoration: While she can make rice just fine, anything else Minori tries to cook falls squarely in the lethal category.
• Canvas 2: Elis is apparently completely unaware that she's a horrible cook.
• CLANNAD:
  • Ryou's cooking made a piglet keel over after one bite.
  • Sanae's bread is rather dangerous, though her regular cooking is quite delicious. It tends to glow in bright, ominous colors. It's also a bit of a sore subject for her.
  • The anime actually managed to combine Sanae's bread with Ayu's special jam listed below. The result was truly something to behold.
• Code:Realize: The products of Van Helsing's cooking are never shown on-screen, but when he offers to make breakfast in his extra scenario, all of the other guys go into full Color Failure from sheer horror and leap to prevent Cardia from accepting. Even Saint-Germain seems slightly shaken.
• Fleuret Blanc: Judge Grams revels in this trope. It's entirely possible that she knows how bizarre and disgusting her recipes are, and serves them anyway just for kicks. Fortunately, her cooking is never actually dangerous, just very off-putting. Le Neuvieme is particularly bothered by her cooking, and poisons the judges' food in an attempt to make them revoke her privileges. Interestingly, Judge Nickels doesn't seem to mind her cuisine.
• Full Metal Daemon Muramasa: Muramasa’s cooking is less a question of whether the end result will be edible or not and more one of whether you will be able to use the kitchen ever again afterwards. And that if there's even a kitchen left at all after she is done.
• Kanon: Early on, Ayu was a terrible baker, but thankfully she was quickly instructed in decent baking by Akiko in the absence of any real Supreme Chef characters. That being said, before she improved, Ayu managed to burn rice and turn eggs into what seem to be solid lumps of charcoal. The cookies were so inedible that he couldn't even eat them to be polite as his teeth couldn't break them! Her special jam, however, is never edible.
• Katawa Shoujo:
  • Akira is said to often have "blow(n herself) up" while cooking, with her blind younger sister Lilly doing a better job.
  • Shizune Hakamichi doesn't even seem to understand the theory behind the food she cooks. Could be explained by the fact that she's filthy rich and may not have had to ever do much cooking herself, not to mention she tends to order take-out food more than once.
• My Girlfriend Is the President: Yukino to the point where when she tries to make a bento for the player character, it's covered in censor mosaics.
• In the Nasuverse...
  • Hisui cooks so badly it's considered poison if anyone but her eats it. For various reasons, no one but Ciel is willing to tell her how bad she is.
  • In Fate/stay night, Taiga generally gets Shirou to cook for her. When she makes omelet rice herself, Saber is furious at Shirou for letting it happen.
  • Caster in Fate/hollow ataraxia; since she's a Greek witch, she's entirely unfamiliar with Japanese ingredients. Kuzuki eats everything she makes, but after a while, he has enough and asks Shirou to teach Caster. Rider is mentioned to have a similar issue, though not as bad as Caster.
• Never 7: Yuuka. Her attempt to make toast ends up producing a horribly burnt mess with an even more horrible spread.
• Nightshade: Almost none of the shinobi can cook very well, but Kyara stands out the most of the group. On the first night of their mission, she attempts to cook dinner for the group and somehow manages to literally destroy the kitchen.
• Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Trials and Tribulations: Jean Armstrong has a tendency to make the most basic-looking dishes taste terrible. He can't even get coffee right.
  Armstrong: Suddenly I find myself so deep in la debt. It is a sign of la bad, bad world we live in, uh?
  Phoenix: (No, I'd say it's more of a sign of la bad, bad culinary skills...)
• Polyphonica: Corti only once tried to make her favorite dish - fried eggs sandwich. It was once more than wanted.
• A Profile: Presumably out of amusement, Riko occasionally makes completely inedible lunches for Masayuki. She's a perfectly competent cook, she just does it for fun.
• Reflections on the River: Prince Shun, despite being Zheng's captive, is keen to cook a meal for both of them, having not had much opportunity to try it before. However, he isn't very good at it, resulting in an opportunity to make friends depending on what Zheng says.
  Zheng: Did you always have chewy congee at the palace? Ow! And what's this? Crunchy, too? Is this some kind of congee and clay pot rice fusion?
• Rewrite: Although Chihaya's sandwich tastes good, her Miso Soup From Hell has a weird taste that manages to knock out even Sakuya, who mentally forces himself to eat it.
• Sengoku Rance: Kouhime’s dango is actually praised by a ninja... as a great assassination tool, with said dango made under the guidance of the ninja, who is a Supreme Chef.
• Songs of Araiah: Both Jason and Melissa in the beginning of the visual novel. In Melissa's case, she's been eating her own horrible cooking for so long that she enjoys Jason's cooking, which would be lethal cooking by anybody else's standards. Both improve their skills to a degree by the end of the game.
• Touchstarved: Kuras, whose character sheet describes him as "possibly the worst cook in the entire city".

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