History LethalChef / LiveActionTV

*** Ironically, Chelsea herself becomes this in the spinoff series ''Series/RavensHome''. In the pilot episode, she accidentally set a fire while trying to cook twice and Levi even ordered pizza in case she decided to cook again. In the third episode, the CrankyLandlord accused her of trying to poison him with the coffee she made.** ''Series/{{Hannah Montana}}'' has this as a running gag:

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** Ironically, Chelsea herself becomes this in the spinoff series ''Series/RavensHome''. In the pilot episode, she accidentally set a fire while trying to cook twice and Levi even ordered pizza in case she decided to cook again. In the third episode, the CrankyLandlord accused her of trying to poison him with the coffee she made.** ''Series/{{Hannah Montana}}'' has this as a running gag:

** ''Series/{{Hannah Montana}}'' has this as a running gag:

** Chelsea in ''Series/RavensHome''. In the pilot episode, she accidentally set a fire while trying to cook twice and Levi even ordered pizza in case she decided to cook again. In the third episode, the CrankyLandlord accused her of trying to poison him with the coffee she made.

* ''Series/TheSuiteLifeOnDeck'': Zack and Cody always look forward to their mother's blueberry muffins... because they bounce like superballs and make great erasers.

* In the second episode of ''Series/{{Jonas}}'', the boys order pizza from a place that makes very disgusting pizzas, simply because they have a crush on the delivery girl.

** A Televi-kun DVD released for ''Series/KamenRiderDouble'' deals with the main characters cooking donburi. Shotaro's cooking is perfectly fine, except that his obsession with being a hardboiled detective means he hardboils his eggs to ridiculous degrees, making them as hard as rocks and completely inedible.

-->'''Agri:''' I know we’ve hit a brick wall, but I didn’t think you’d actually be serving us bricks.

%%* Comicbook/LoisLane is that in ''{{Series/Smallville}}''. Also has elements of that in ''Series/LoisAndClark''. Makes one wonder whether it's a ComicBook thing.
* ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'':
** Neelix is legendarily bad, often cooking meals that are disgusting to the human palate. When he sticks to the basics or uses a recipe then things turn out fine, but when he tries to show off his exotic skills (anything with Talaxian spices is a warning bell) the wheels come off. In one episode, he nearly caused ship-wide failure by infecting the ship's neural gel packs with bacteria from curdling cheese.
** Captain Janeway manages to ruin food that comes ''from the replicator''!
** The series finale, "Endgame", tells us that the Bolian crewman Chell wants to take Neelix's place as the chef. He presents some...interesting dishes in his proposal to the captain, including "Red Alert Chili" and "Chicken Warp Cordon Blu" (say it aloud). Thankfully, the ship made it home before his skills could be put to the test.
* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': In "Time Squared", Riker invites a few of the other officers over to show off his experimental cooking: an omelette prepared with alien eggs. Most of them are clearly attempting to conceal their distaste, while Worf [[ExtremeOmnivore eagerly scarfs up his portion]].
-->'''Riker:''' A cook is only as good as his ingredients...
-->(''beat as everybody watches Worf finish his serving'')
-->'''Worf:''' Delicious.
* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'':
** Quark was apparently a Lethal Chef, necessitating certain defensive measures.

** At one point late in the last season, Sisko walks in on his now-wife Kasidy Yates to find she's tried to cook dinner for him and failed miserably. (This is a setting where most food is [[MatterReplicator replicated]], remember.) He spends a few moments mourning the loss of the hot peppers he'd spent several weeks growing himself. The Sisko men are gourmet chefs with Grandpa Sisko running a Creole restaurant on Earth.

* Mako from ''Series/SamuraiSentaiShinkenger'', complete with dubious knife-cutting style (she actually uses her Shinkenmaru to cut the poor veggies!). By episode 25, the sight of her holding an apron has traumatized the Kuroko. The only person who can eat her food and genuinely enjoy it is Kotoha. The last time she is shown cooking, the Kuroko are standing by with antacids and ''a stretcher'' since Takeru was sick in bed for days after the previous time she had cooked. The Kuroko actually have standing orders to keep Mako out of the kitchen at all costs, but she managed to slip past them that time.

* [[TheDitz Eri]] in Series/TensouSentaiGoseiger prefers to simply throw whatever food is lying around together and serve it as food. Only fellow [[{{Cloudcuckooland}} Skick Tribesman]] Alata is shown looking at it with anything resembling excitement. Her attempts at following a recipe don’t work much better, as she ends up burning a cake.
-->'''Agri:''' I know we’ve hit a brick wall, but I didn’t think you’d actually be serving us bricks.

* ''Series/HellsKitchen'' features as least one of these every season.

* Seen repeatedly on ''Series/KitchenNightmares'', with Creator/GordonRamsay being presented awful dishes, often improperly cooked and[=/=]or featuring spoiled ingredients. In interviews, Ramsay says he suffered from indigestion and acid reflux for weeks on end while the show was in production. In a subversion, it's occasionally shown that the cooks are actually competent but are hampered by owners who insist on complex menus or cut corners and end up shining when given a chance to work without interference.

%%** ''Series/StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds'': Three little words: Toilet plomeek soup.

** ''Series/StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds'': Three little words: Toilet plomeek soup.

** The series finale tells us that the Bolian crewman Chell wants to take Neelix's place as the chef. He presents some...interesting dishes in his proposal to the captain, including "Red Alert Chili" and "Chicken Warp Cordon Blu" (say it aloud). Thankfully, the ship made it home before his skills could be put to the test.
* In one episode of ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', Riker invites a few of the other officers over to show off his experimental cooking (some sort of alien omelette). Most of them are clearly attempting to conceal their distaste, while Worf [[ExtremeOmnivore eagerly scarfs up his portion]]. In a later episode, Riker is shown apparently enjoying Klingon dishes.
-->'''Worf:''' More, please.

** Ellen James from Series/DogWithABlog is said to be such a terrible cook that the other moms nicknamed her "Smellen". But unlike Amy, at least her husband and kids will eat what she serves them.

* ''Series/{{Hannah Montana}}'' has this as a running gag:
** Robby cooking eggs with the shells still on.
** Miley breaking a filling and later hurting her unfilled tooth on a huge toffee bomb (she was scared to go to the dentist).
** A massive hair getting into the food on more than one occasion.
** Jackson mistaking Roxie’s cold remedy for soup and eating it, requiring Roxie to make an antidote, which is presumably even more foul-tasting.
** Mamaw’s lima beans.
** As a child, Miley ate a few too many raspberry pies in a pie-eating contest. Now, she can’t even smell raspberry perfume without wanting to throw up. Needless to say, her interview about said perfume did not go over well...
** The cream cheese cake Thor gives to Jackson.
-->'''Jackson:''' “I gained five pounds just looking at the thing.”

* Chelsea in ''Series/RavensHome''. In the pilot episode, she accidentally set a fire while trying to cook twice and Levi even ordered pizza in case she decided to cook again. In the third episode, the CrankyLandlord accused her of trying to poison him with the coffee she made.

* Usually averted with Victor from ''Series/ThatsSoRaven'' since he's an outstanding chef. But in one episode, he had Cory, Eddie, and Chelsea try out his mother's Pickled Artichoke Mash Potatoes, which didn't taste good at all, and the three tried in devious ways to get rid of the food before Victor found out. In the end, they finally confess, and Victor himself concedes that he hated the recipe himself.

* ''Series/{{227}}'': Pearl once entered her rhubarb pie in a baking contest and she not only lost, but made the judges sick. When her grandson Calvin points out that she still makes that pie, she replies "And it's still making people sick!"

* ''227'': Pearl once entered her rhubarb pie in a baking contest and she not only lost, but made the judges sick. When her grandson Calvin points out that she still makes that pie, she replies "And it's still making people sick!"

** Gladys and Murphy from ''Series/{{Bunkd}}'', ''Jessie'''s spinoff series. While it's CampCook Murphy who does the cooking, Gladys has been shown to cut corners around the camp. Including knowingly buying spoiled or expired food to feed to the campers.

** Neelix is legendarily bad, often cooking [[AlienLunch meals that are disgusting to the human palate]]. When he sticks to the basics or uses a recipe then things turn out fine, but when he tries to show off his exotic skills (anything with Talaxian spices is a warning bell) the wheels come off. In one episode, he nearly caused ship-wide failure by infecting the ship's neural gel packs with bacteria from curdling cheese.

* In one episode of ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', Riker invites a few of the other officers over to show off his experimental cooking (some sort of alien omelette). Most of them are clearly attempting to conceal their distaste, while Worf [[AlienLunch eagerly scarfs up his portion]]. In a later episode, Riker is shown apparently enjoying Klingon dishes.

* Yukito from ''Series/BakuryuuSentaiAbaranger''. He's a horrid cook, but insists that he's THAT good and forces his teammates to eat his cooking, and if they don't, it's the cooking equivalent to Wiki/TVTropes' [[MemeticMutation "You have no soul"]] for them. Hell, his cooking rendered Asuka to hole up in the toilet for the whole episode.

** Michael from Season 14 also skirted seriously hurting someone with his kitchen skills when he put a red-hot pan next to the cold ones.

* Season 3's Johanna got kicked out for trying to make crab spaghetti with crab that was clearly rancid. She's ''lucky'' that Ramsay caught her mistake before the spaghetti was served to any customers, or she might have been a ''literal'' lethal chef.