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23	-> ''"Terrible, isn't it? On a scale of one to ten, ten being the most revolting and one being almost edible, I believe that rating this recipe would require the use of exponents."''
24	-->-- '''Invidia''' (on the Vord Queen's cooking), ''[[Literature/CodexAlera First Lord's Fury]]''
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30	Some people cannot cook. They burn breakfast so bad that you lose your lunch preemptively. When they cook dinner, you can only think of dessert-ing. EvenTheRatsWontTouchIt. Sometimes, if you're lucky, they can cook something that can be charitably described as "food."
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32	Sometimes their food merely tastes bad. However, it has also been known to cause nausea, vomiting, or [[AmbulanceCut hospitalization]]. If you're [[GoneHorriblyWrong particularly unlucky]], it can cause, [[ScrewballSerum well, just about anything]]. If [[RussianReversal dinner eats you]], you're probably in a lethal chef's kitchen.
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34	At worst, if a dish ''looks'' abominable beyond comprehension, it may be censored for the sake of the audience.
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36	As you may have guessed, this is usually a comedy trope. In eastern media, most examples are female (emphasizing that they fail at [[FeminineWomenCanCook an aspect of traditional femininity]], or femininity in general, or that they're something of an ActionGirl, but increasingly used purely for the {{Moe}} factor), and in Japan is known as メシマズ or "meshimazu", but there are a ton of male examples in western media, probably tying in to the assumption that MenCantKeepHouse and DadsCantCook. Even the most chauvinistic of men with a "StayInTheKitchen" attitude towards women wants the exceptional lethal chef to Stay ''out of'' the Kitchen.
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38	There are a number of common variants. Sometimes someone is forced to stomach the lethal chef's food to avoid hurting their feelings. Sometimes they refuse to admit that they can't cook, despite mountains of evidence. And sometimes, if you're particularly lucky, their food merely ''looks'' bad, and [[TastesBetterThanItLooks tastes perfectly fine]].
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40	The primary reasons for their failures can vary from case to case, but common culprits tend to be either too klutzy, or too experimental. The first case is prone to burning things, mixing the wrong (or non-edible) ingredients, forgetting important steps, or even negelcting the basic "wash your hands" before starting. The other type seems to function on the idea that using a cookbook or recipe is cheating or that they're otherwise nonexistent, and instead attempt to make something from scratch with whatever they think works best, failing to realize that not all foods are meant to be mixed together.
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42	Lethal Chefs may be employees of a LethalEatery, and quite often can be found fixing up a stew of MysteryMeat. Most {{Camp Cook}}s fit this category. (TruthInTelevision for them, as their budgets and ingredients are limited.)
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44	Compare the CordonBleughChef, who can cook just fine, but often gets too creative, the OneNoteCook, who can ace one dish, but otherwise falls into this trope, and the EvilChef, who makes meals like this on purpose just to see you suffer. See also LethallyStupid when the character is so dumb that it would be dangerous to let him cook. Contrast the SupremeChef, who is the exact opposite of this trope, the AngryChef, who has nothing but contempt for his customers and peers (and will probably reserve his nastiest profanities for chefs like this), and the ChefOfIron, who can be either bad or good, but is lethal ''outside of'' their cooking. Not to be confused with actual homicide by cooking, which is CookedToDeath, nor using particular cooking utensils as weapons, which is FryingPanOfDoom.
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47	!!Examples subpages:
48	[[index]]
49	* LethalChef/AnimeAndManga
50	* LethalChef/ComicBooks
51	* LethalChef/ComicStrips
52	* LethalChef/FanWorks
53	* [[LethalChef/LiveActionFilms Films — Live-Action]]
54	* LethalChef/{{Literature}}
55	* LethalChef/LiveActionTV
56	* LethalChef/VideoGames
57	* LethalChef/VisualNovels
58	* LethalChef/{{Webcomics}}
59	* LethalChef/WesternAnimation
60	[[/index]]
61
62	!!Other examples:
63	[[foldercontrol]]
64
65	[[folder:Advertising]]
66	* In a commercial for ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' cereal, a mom attempts to cook her kids breakfast based on Pokémon characters. Unfortunately, in the process of doing so, she ended up burning the food.
67	* In ''Advertising/AVeryMuppetPortalCampaign'', the Swedish Chef and Beaker use Facebook Portal to cook, and Chef attempts to explain a soup recipe to Beaker. Despite Chef clearly ([[TheUnintelligible well, as clearly as you can expect from the Swedish Chef]]) saying "pepper", Beaker picks up every item in the room ''except'' the pepper to put in the soup, some of which aren't even edible. Eventually, Beaker gets the pepper, but when he sprinkles some into the pot, the entire thing boils over into a huge mess. In another (unrelated) spot, Beaker is seen burning something in the microwave, which gets Bunsen concerned.
68	%%* The Alka Seltzer commercial where a man's wife enjoys cooking more than his stomach can handle!
69	[[/folder]]
70
71	[[folder:Animation]]
72	* In ''Animation/FlowerAngel'', An'an's father is so bad at cooking that anyone who eats his food {{waterfall puke}}s on the spot. An'an knows this all too well and actively avoids eating her father's food at any opportunity.
73	* In ''Animation/HappyHeroes'', Sweet S. is shown on multiple occasions to be absolutely terrible at cooking, to the point where it's been said that her cooking is essentially a biological weapon. The other heroes and Doctor H. do everything in their power to keep themselves from having to eat dinner whenever Sweet S. prepares it. In the [[Animation/HappyHeroesTheStones third movie]], [[spoiler:she has finally learned to get her cooking skills improved and has become a competitor in the Master Chef Competition alongside an octopus chef]].
74	* ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf'':
75	** Wolnie seems to be competent at making fried rice. This can't be said for everything else as she's a horrible cook.
76	** In Episode 426, Jonie is shown to be a terrible cook, with the food she makes for the other goats causing even Paddi, who is ''ObsessedWithFood and a BigEater'', to stumble on the floor.
77	[[/folder]]
78
79	[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
80	* Cookie from ''WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire''. In one scene, some of his food gets thrown into the fire, and it explodes into a small ''mushroom cloud''. He's also horrified by a lettuce.
81	-->'''Helga:''' It's a vegetable, Cookie. The men need their four basic food groups.\
82	'''Cookie:''' I got your four basic food groups: beans, bacon, whiskey and lard!
83	* In ''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe3'', the girls make soup for Gru made from gummi bears and beef. (Justified, of course, as they're kids.) The look on Gru's face confirms he's only eating it to make them happy.
84	* ''Franchise/HowToTrainYourDragon'':
85	** Astrid in the first ChristmasEpisode ''WesternAnimation/GiftOfTheNightFury''. Nobody liked the smell let alone taste of the Yak Nog she invented. By the time of ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragonHomecoming'', seeing how far you can spray Astrid's Yak Nog with your mouth had become a holiday tradition.
86	** ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon2'' reveals that Haddock men have a habit of falling for Lethal Chefs, as Stoick points out that he didn't marry Valka for her cooking.
87	--->'''Gobber:''' I hope not! Her meatballs could kill more beasts than a battle axe.
88	* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLastUnicorn'' Cully's gang laments about Molly's cooking.
89	-->"Rat soup!"\
90	"For the third night!"\
91	"At least you could have used a different rat!"
92	* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Ratatouille}}'', Linguini, before meeting Remy, makes a soup so bad that when he tastes it he pukes and Remy nearly does too when he sniffs it. Yes. His food is so bad that not even the ''rats'' will eat it. (Though granted, the rat in question has the culinary inclinations of a master chef, but ''[[EpicFail rats don't have a gag reflex]]!!'')
93	* The standard food at the salvage yard cafeteria in ''WesternAnimation/TitanAE'' may be appetizing to the cockroach-like alien that cooks it, but he has no interest in catering to a human palate, serving feces and live "sushi" [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking without ketchup.]]
94	-->'''Cale:''' I'd just like them to kill my food before they serve it to me. I do an honest day's work, I want already-dead food.
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97	[[folder:Folklore]]
98	* An ancient Chinese story tells of a comatose general being saved from hunger by two beggars. The dish in itself was terrible (consisting of trampled spinach, rotten beancurd, and non-potable water), but he didn't notice because he was semi-conscious, instead thinking it delicious. When he became emperor, he ordered said beggars to present said meal to his ministers. Afraid to lose face, they all gulped it down. The Emperor, realizing how horrible the dish was, still drank it all. The two beggars ended up rich.
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101	[[folder:Jokes]]
102	* A husband and wife are eating at a fancy restaurant.
103	-->'''Husband''': The food is here! Let's eat!\
104	'''Wife''': Honey, you always say your prayers before dinner.\
105	'''Husband''': That's at home. Here, the chef knows how to cook!
106	[[/folder]]
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108	[[folder:Music]]
109	* The WWII Canadian army song "Gee Ma, I Wanna Go Home" - which has been adapted to be sung by summer campers and Girl Guides as well - features a literal one of these.
110	--> They say that in the army, the food is mighty fine/A bun rolled off the table and killed a friend of mine.
111	* Spike Jones' "Pass the Biscuits, Mirandy" is told by a Tennessee mountaineer whose wife is one. At least when it comes to her biscuits.
112	* "[[EveryoneHatesFruitCakes Miss Fogarty's Christmas cake.]]" from the song of the same name, was apparently bad enough to hospitalize a number of fully grown men with everything from stomach ailments to a full-blown dissociative fugue.
113	* In the Yiddish-language song "Hopf! meine homentashn" ("Hop, my Purim cookies!") the hapless protagonist of the song makes homentashn which are "halb roi, halb farbrente" (half raw, half burnt).
114	* ''Music/AnEveningWastedWithTomLehrer'':
115	** The mess sergeant from "It Makes a Fellow Proud to Be a Soldier":
116	--->''Our old mess sergeant's taste buds had been shot off in the war\
117	But his savory collations add to our ''espirit de corps''\
118	To think of all the marvelous ways\
119	They're using plastics nowadays\
120	It makes a fellow proud to be a soldier.''
121	** In "She's My Girl", this is one of the girl's shortcomings:
122	--->''So though for breakfast she makes coffee that tastes like shampoo,\
123	I come home for dinner and get peanut butter stew,\
124	Or if I'm in luck,\
125	It's broiled hockey puck,\
126	But, oh well, what the hell,\
127	She's my girl,\
128	And I love her.''
129	%%* "Boomer Johnson" (lyrics http://mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=852) is a version of this from the American Old West.
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132	[[folder:Manhua]]
133	* ''Manhua/RetiredHeroes'': Saliy used to be an absolutely horrible cook, but years of practice have made her food edible.
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135
136	[[folder:Myths & Religion]]
137	* From ''Literature/TheBible'': Somebody in [[Literature/BooksOfKings 2nd Kings 4:38-41]] finds a strange batch of gourds that he nearly poisons others with by making them into a stew. Fortunately, Elisha the prophet with the help of God makes the stew harmless to eat.
138	[[/folder]]
139
140	[[folder:Pinballs]]
141	* In ''Pinball/AmericasMostHaunted,'' Julienne Sikes, former cook of the Old Prison, is implied to be one by the epitaph on her tombstone.
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143
144	[[folder:Podcasts]]
145	* In ''Podcast/WelcomeToNightVale'' episode 56 Earl Harlan, sous chef at Night Vale's newest restaurant, shares a tiramisu recipe on the community radio show that he warns is highly poisonous and will probably kill you. Another time he shares his recipe for pulled pork, which includes killing the pig, and spends a lot of time on the subject of killing the pig, before quickly rattling off a seemingly normal recipe for pulled pork.
146	* [[ConversationalTroping Conversed]] in ''Podcast/MomCantCook'', which took its name from the number of Creator/DisneyChannel movies where the main character's mother would either be unable to cook at all or would prepare things like bowls of varietal tree bark regardless of the tastes of everyone else involved. At one point the hosts theorise that there was a New Agey healthy-eating fad in the late nineties that was popular with the wives of the people who wrote the movies. Naturally, they point it out whenever it shows up in the movie they're discussing, including cases like ''Genius'' where the main character's mother being unable to [[EndangeredSouffle keep a souffle from collapsing]] is ''the only thing we ever learn about her''.
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149	[[folder:Professional Wrestling]]
150	* During the [=InVasion=] angle, Debra started baking cookies that were, judging by the reactions of people that tasted them, inedible to the point of being practically poisonous. The problem was that she was married to Wrestling/SteveAustin. As he was the star wrestler of the Alliance it was imperative that Austin be kept happy, and since he got angry over anyone disrespecting to his wife, people had to pretend to like Debra's cookies. The gag where someone pretends to eat and then throws it away as soon as nobody's looking was used regularly.
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152
153	[[folder:Puppet Shows]]
154	%%* Parker in ''Mr Meaty''. This has got to be the reason why the food there is always so terrible.
155	* The Swedish Chef of ''Series/TheMuppetShow'' is generally a unique example of this (i.e. his cuisine is lethal to him), but he occasionally plays it straight -- in one instance, he went into cordon bleugh territory and made an onion cake; in another, he provided a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wtG5NI2HLc quite literal example]].
156	* Ma Gorg in ''Series/FraggleRock'', it seems. In one episode, she makes Junior a peach-and-garlic pie (which is [[BizarreTasteInFood just the way he likes it]], apparently) but when he tries to eat it, it's like rubber, ''literally''. Fortunately, the pie isn't wasted; later, when the Fraggles have to sneak into the Gorg's house, they're able to do so by using it like a trampoline.
157	[[/folder]]
158
159	[[folder:Radio]]
160	* In ''Radio/CabinPressure'', Arthur consistently fails to cook edible food. At one point, he spectacularly fails at reheating frozen food. Unfortunately for everyone, he's usually the cook.
161	-->'''Douglas:''' Arthur, you're aware the point of giving us separate meals is so that we can't both get food poisoning? There's really not much point if you're just going to poison us in two different ways.
162	* ''Radio/TheGoonShow'': Moriarty.
163	-->'''Grytpype-Thynne:''' ''[sipping soup]'' Tell me, Moriarty...what is this foul but economical recipe?\
164	'''Moriarty:''' It's a family secret!\
165	'''Grytpype-Thynne:''' Why?\
166	'''Moriarty:''' They died after the first mouthful. It was terrible! [[ItsAllAboutMe I had to do all the washing up myself!]]
167	* In ''Radio/TheMenFromTheMinistry'' Mr. Lamb's landlady Mrs. Bradby makes consistently terrible food. At one point Lamb describes having shepherds pie and rhubarb custard... on the same plate.
168	* In ''Radio/TheNavyLark'' Able Seaman "Fatso" Johnson's pies prove to be rather convincing as limpet mines, and less edible.
169	* Radio/RidersRadioTheater: Sidemeat's biscuits are the hardest substance known to man.
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171
172	[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
173	* Squee, from ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering''. The look on Gerrard's face after eating Squee's food on the card [[http://magiccards.info/tp/en/142.html Recycle]] is one of impressive shock and regret. The card [[http://magiccards.info/ex/en/133.html Medicine Bag]] has even more to say on the subject:
174	--> "My medicine bag and I have treated countless wounds and illnesses. But never have I seen so many made so sick for so long. We will never eat Squee's cooking again."\
175	'''—Orim, journal'''
176	* In Entropy Inc's ''Franchise/StarWars'' campaign, the title crew stole/refurbished a cooking droid. Unfortunately, everything it made tasted like bantha burger.
177	* This is the story behind the old Halfling Hot Pot Catapult in ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}''. [[{{Hobbits}} Halflings]] are normally {{Supreme Chef}}s, but once upon a time a team of Halfling cooks attached to an Empire army got caught up in an ambush by goblins. The plucky little cooks defended themselves with meat cleavers, but some goblin blood got in the stew, thoroughly ruining it. The head chef then snapped, dumped all the peppers and spices he had into the pot, looped ropes around the bubbling cauldron, had his team haul back on it, then fired the thing like a slingshot into the middle of the goblin horde. The resulting mixture not only scalded greenskins to death, it was strong enough to melt trolls! This ended up saving the day, and in subsequent campaigns, many halfling cooks have contributed during battles with their own attempts at weaponized stew, though even the original chef never could quite remember what he put into that first batch.
178	[[/folder]]
179
180	[[folder:Theatre]]
181	* In ''Theatre/LesMiserables'', Thenardier uses horse kidneys and cat's livers to make the food he serves.
182	* The entire plot of ''Theatre/{{Nunsense}}'' is set into motion in the aftermath of Sister Julia, Child of God, having killed all but five of the Little Sisters of Hoboken with a tainted batch of vichyssoise soup.
183	* In ''Theatre/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet'', we first meet Mrs. Lovett while she's telling Sweeney (and us) how awful her meat pies are ("The Worst Pies in London"). The song "God, That's Good!" subverts this trope, as it suggests that Mrs. Lovett is actually a pretty good cook, she just needs to buy high-quality ingredients ([[spoiler:such as with the money taken from Pirelli's corpse]]).
184	[[/folder]]
185
186	[[folder:Web Animation]]
187	* ''WebAnimation/HelluvaBoss'': When Fizz jokingly offers to cook breakfast, Ozzy's response is HaHaHaNo.
188	* ''WebAnimation/HunterTheParenting'': Big D's omelette recipe includes sulfur, graphite from an RMBK reactor, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking rice]]. He mentions that he'd probably die if he ate it; instead, he feeds it to Kevin as a form of torture.
189	* ''WebAnimation/LaceyGames'': PlayedForHorror in the bad ending route, where Lacey, in her SanitySlippage and anger towards her customers, serves food made of ''cigarette butts, dead roaches, porn magazines, meth, used condoms, broken glass, and [[TheSecretOfLongPorkPies human flesh]]''.
190	* ''WebAnimation/MoniRobo'':
191	** [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iXdDc1ETAJs&feature=youtu.be "My husband told me my cooking was disgusting…"]]: featured a zigzagged example. Sorao often accused Nano of being this and always happily praised his mother’s, Iyo’s, cooking. However, it soon becomes clear that Iyo doesn’t properly prepare the food (not cleaning fish and leaving vegetables undercooked) and overseasons her cooking, which Sorao grew used to. Everyone else immediately hates her food and vastly prefers Nano’s, complimenting her on cooking and seasoning everything perfectly, making her a SupremeChef instead.
192	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfbvSPwg0SI "My mother-in-law broke my computer because she thought I was being lazy…"]]: When Nano returned to the house to confront her abusive, mother-in-law Iyo for slandering her to other moms when picking up Sakura from school on top of mooching off of her and Masayoshi, she opened the door to a lot of smoke that came out of the kitchen; she tried to shallow-fry chicken and ''left it unattended''. Turns out it wasn't the first time these kinds of accidents happened, as she did the same while boiling vegetables.
193	* ''WebAnimation/{{Shishihara}}'': Yurika is so bad at cooking, it makes everything she cooks explodes, leaving nothing but smoke behind.
194	* ''[[WebAnimation/Supermarioglitchy4sSuperMario64Bloopers SMG4]]'': Meggy Spletzer, whether she is an Inking or a cute anime girl, had been shown to be ridiculously bad at cooking.
195	** The first meal she ever made is only the least deadly thing she made: a mutated teleported bread loaf with tentacles, rusted railroad spikes, and what looked like a pile of rust flakes. Since then, all she ever did was cause fires and explosions.
196	** Her cooking is so terrible that even being asked to help Meggy with the oven made [[HorrifyingTheHorror Death run like hell!]] She once even exploded the entire kitchen before she can even start to cook!
197	** Even Mario, [[TooDumbToLive who would drink bleach or urine from a bottle]], [[EvenTheRatsWontTouchIt refuses to eat Meggy's soup]], something that should be simple to make!
198	** Even just diluting Meggy's cooking by turning it into an ingredient (ex. when Mario made cake) doesn't stop it from killing people, as shown when Tari committed Darwinism by eating a cake that used Meggy's cooking as frosting.
199	* ''WebAnimation/TroubleBusters'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgBnNMS4NV4 The chef of a Chinese restaurant]] puts inedible things like rocks and grass in the food. Hailey and her friend Michelle couldn't finish on time and the chef wouldn't let them leave without finishing the food. They reported it to the health department and they suspended his business and it eventually shut down.
200	[[/folder]]
201
202	[[folder:Web Original]]
203	* ''ARG/ILoveBees'' (a ''VideoGame/Halo2'' ARG): Kamal is a male example. He microwaves a whole raw chicken, cuts it up in exactly equal slices, and in place of Worcestershire sauce and butter uses ketchup and butter-flavored popcorn oil.
204	* ''Website/{{Killerbunnies}}'': Gunhilde, otherwise known as "Greasestain" is one of these and, apparently, she isn't safe eating her own cooking, seeing as she uses "unconventional" ingredients and the fact she's suffering from some of the side-effects (she's balding as per her profile pic). Somehow, [[FridgeHorror she got a job as a lunch lady.]]
205	* ''Literature/{{Plonqmas}}'': Many of the stories in this series involve Plonq attempting to prepare an IndestructibleEdible for his holiday meal, which are normally [[IndestructibleEdible variants on "Christmas Dinner-in-a-Bag"]].
206	* On SB Nation, the topic Lunch Judgment (where one of the site bloggers asked what the readers ate) frequently attracted [[http://imgur.com/a/dAwfs the unorthodox recipes]] of [[CordonBleughChef Spilly]]. The website eventually added him as [[http://www.sbnation.com/spilly-food-recipes frequently disgust a regular]].
207	* ''Website/SCPFoundation'': [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-666-and-a-half-j SCP-666½-J]] is a crab-stuffed mushroom dish that was given SCP status the day after it was presented. According to the file, it tastes relatively fine, other than an odd salty flavor, but soon enough sets off what can only be called a localized apocalypse on the eater's digestive system. It’s effects are so bad that it was able to kill [[NighInvulnerable SCP-682]].
208	* In ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonEmerald'', the Mob tried their hand at making Pokeblocks. The result were level 10-11 Pokeblocks with 19-23 feel. Higher numbers are worse, and it used to be thought that you couldn't make anything higher than a level ''9'' Pokeblock. To quote Twitch Plays Pokemon's own EpicFail page: "So what we have is a previously incomprehensibly bad tasting Pokeblock that goes down worse than sandpaper embedded with razors." Then, in [[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonPlatinum the Platinum run]], they tried to make Poffins, which it turned out they couldn't do. ''Literally'' - they were unable to stir the mixture due to the input format and ended up burning their creations horribly.
209	* Let this be known, Madgie cannot make Kool-Aid [[http://akaichounokoe.deviantart.com/art/Why-Bunny-is-afraid-of-Kool-Aid-321367778]]. She included some rather unconventional ingredients, including [[spoiler:diesel, kerosene, butane, propane, Red Bull, and turpentine. As you may expect, [[EpicFail Bunny was hospitalized and was paralyzed down her left side for a week.]] ]]
210	-->'''Bunny:''' Accident my ass! When I was her age, at the time, I knew what to put in some damn Kool-Aid and what she used was NOT what you put in Kool-Aid.
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212
213	[[folder:Web Videos]]
214	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFdQk-jLhFI&feature=g-u-u&context=G2cb9e67FUAAAAAAAAAA In this video]] the chef almost poisons himself.
215	* "Cement pizza? Newbies, please!" [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVnXxCa3F-M This well-known O Fortuna Misheard Lyrics video]] fits, if accidentally (it has even a deadly cake at the end).
216	* The few times [[WebVideo/StuartAshen Ashens]]' Chef Excellence [[ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything actually attempts to do his job]], he's this in spades. [[WebVideo/AshensAndTheQuestForTheGameChild The film's]] version of the character is not actually a chef (though he sure as hell will talk you down like he's one), just the [[spoiler:former]] mascot of a frozen food company made entirely of Lethal Chefs.
217	* LetsPlay/{{Strippin}} has a reputation as one of these after his attempt to make protein cookies resulted in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iARE3GXBJY&list=UU90ThxjTNaHaqyPVtfyZ4hw this]]. When he and [[Music/Area11 Sparkles*]] try eating them, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06zz7kk6-qA#t=344 it goes very badly]].
218	-->'''Sparkles*:''' That is the most horrible thing I have ever eaten!
219	* Most videos on the WebVideo/HydraulicPressChannel and its sister channel, Beyond the Press that involve food being 'prepared' using the titular hydraulic press play this trope for laughs by not even attempting to make edible products. Between the two channels, they've squashed food flat with the press or with the host dropping his powerlifting weights on them, dropped canned food into a campfire until it explodes, shot it out of their homemade air cannon, attempted to roast it using a solar-powered 'death ray', attempted to use liquid nitrogen to brew coffee instead of water and if it's food that typically requires heat during the cooking process, they blast it with a flamethrower.
220	--> "In Hydraulic Press Kitchen, there is no time for oven." (starts up flamethrower)
221	* Swedish [=YouTube=] channel Webvideo/MonteFjanton has the series ''Basses Rätt i Skafferiet'', where Basse acts like a cheerful middle-aged cooking show host. The recipes usually start out decent, but then he will add ingredients that nobody likes and/or don't gel well together at all... Such as a pie that was revealed to contain dried insects, or fridge-cold spaghetti bolognese with mushrooms suspended in aspic. More generally, vinegar and Colman's mustard powder always sneak their way into his recipes. He never eats the results himself,[[note]]aside from some bonus material where he remarks that "the whole jaw is burning!"[[/note]] but a selling point of the series is watching his friends and family suffer.
222	* Swedish [=YouTube=] channel ''Webvideo/KilianExperience'' has the video "Crab Expert Prepares the Perfect Crab", wherein host Kilian reproduces the [[BlatantLies old Frankish seafood recipe]] ''Crabe al la Pebe Maximum'', also known by the English name [[spoiler:[[SuddenlyShouting "CRAB IN PEPSI MAX!"]]]]. It ended up [[https://www.reddit.com/r/shittyfoodporn/comments/bjygyd/crab_boiled_in_pepsi_max_for_2_hours_served_in_a/ exactly like you'd expect]] and according to WordOfGod it smelled like "dying in mud".
223	* The [=YouTube=] channel ''How to Cook That'' has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6abePkXncCM several]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEQaYdvs478&list=PLPT0YU_0VLHxJMqHBC2_OMTYWwQ5z_iP4&index=4 videos]] debunking ineffective and sometimes downright dangerous "food hacks" on [=YouTube=].
224	* Website/{{Vine}}: A mother asks her three children what they think of her cooking. The toddler cries, the daughter takes a bite and gags almost immediately, and the son shrugs and says "It's something".
225	* ''Creator/WillMcDaniel'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkpStMrZ_uQ How to Bake a Cake for a Racist]] is an {{Invoked}} example of this trope. Since the cake is supposed to be going to a racist, Will instructs the viewer to toss in laxative, gravel, broken glass, [[TakeThat and a page from The Daily Mail]].
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