History Main / CookingDuel

%%** The episode "[=SpongeBob=] vs the Patty Gadget" tells the same story.

* This makes up much of the plot of the second WesternAnimation/StrawberryShortcake special ("...in Big Apple City").

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', Bender is an aspiring chef. Unfortunately as a robot he has no taste buds and is appalling. But once he entered into a chef duel with the famous Elzar, and won by using a magical ingredient. It was ordinary tap water... [[spoiler:laced with nothing more than a few tablespoons of LSD.]]

* ''Manhwa/DragonRecipe''. Incia's life was saved when a chef on his way to a cooking duel chose to save her life... by using the ingredients he had intended to use to win that competition to save her from starving to death, including the legendary dragon's meat.

-->'''Suzu''': Don't worry. Shadow Mei is a fragment of the ayakashi medium. It'll be like [[ScrewYourself kissing myself]].

--> '''Akane:''' Cooking... [[LethalChef Why does it always have to be cooking]]?

--> '''The Amazing Cook-Off!'''

-->'''Cucumber:''' Uh, Nautilus, I kind of think we have more important things to-
-->'''Nautilus:''' NO, CUCUMBER

-->'''Addendum 3''': As of ██/██/20██, all members of Mobile Task Force Lambda-4 are required to be proficient in various non-violent, competitive activities, including but not limited to: Sports, board games, card games, videogames, trivia, riddles, and rock-paper-scissors.\\
'''O5-██''': ''Are you serious? The fate of one of our [=SCPs=] could be decided on the outcome of rock-paper-scissors?!''\\
'''Captain ████████''': ''I assure you sir, you have nothing to fear. We are [[SeriousBusiness dead serious]] about these matters.''\\
'''O5-11''': ''Captain, couldn't you have chosen a more... dignified... game as your primary conflict resolution method? Seeing two grown men in all-black tactical gear taking a children's card game so seriously is... off-putting.''

-->'''Brendon:''' Oh. It looks like we're gonna have to complete the fight ''without'' weapons!
-->'''Jason:''' You mean a battle of wits?
-->'''Brendon:''' Close...we fight with ''jazz!''
-->'''Jason:''' Bring it ''on'', daddy-o!

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* ''Manga/KoeDeOshigoto'' has an erotic voice acting contest (it's [[WidgetSeries that kind of series]]) between Kanna and Fumika with one particularly timid and reserved colleague as their target. They themselves don't take too seriously, unlike resident HotBlooded pervert Sakanami, who suggested the whole thing in the first place.

** [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs Along with deadly poisons, forbidden recipes, and secret societies.]]

* Played for laughs in ''Manga/SoulHunter'': after the hot blooded Seiki general Nankyu Katsu gets angry at Kou Hiko's clan for their dislike for Seiki's [[FireBreathingDiner very spicy cuisine]], Taikoubou tries to calm things down by having Nankyu Katsu and Kou Hiko square off in a cooking challenge with vegetarian-only ingredients with himself, his Reijuu Supushan and Duke Ki Shou as the judges to see which one of them is the best chef. Parodied where after an over-the-top gathering of vegetables, mushrooms and spice they end up producing cold Japanese deserts (Zenzai and Annintofu). [[spoiler: [[MoodWhiplash The challenge takes a turn for the worst when Ki Shou faints when he's about to taste the food]], revealing that the shock of having to eat his own son Hakuyuko left him weak and unable to eat anything, meaning that his days are counted. Taikoubou's secret plan was to use this challenge to have Ki Shou eat something and recover.]]

* Spoofed in ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}}'', where the main characters must dress up in animal costumes and pass several ridiculous tests in order to reach the top of an enchanted tower, one of which is an actual cooking battle in which the [[OurDemonsAreDifferent mazoku]] Xelloss (who elects to flamboyantly clothe himself for the occasion in a frilly cap and apron) creates such a deliberately noxious concoction -- after all, it's a cooking ''duel'', right? -- that he almost kills them all with the fumes, and then wonders why he loses even though he created exactly what he aimed for. The price of losing these contests is being turned into adorably [[{{Chibi}} chibified]] dolls, which is the sort of thing you grow to expect from this series. The characters tend to [[LampshadeHanging hang lampshades]] on this quite forcefully as they protest the unfairness (and the ridiculousness) of it all.

* An episode of ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' did this with a restaurant run by two sisters, who let their Pokémon do the cooking. One's Sneasel does it the old fashioned way, while the other's Mr. Mime does it using its powers. The Sneasel's food is delicious but looks terrible and is presented with no style, while the Mr. Mime's food looks amazing and the cooking is done with extreme flair, but in the end tastes wretched. In the end, they find a way to combine to two styles into one bigger, more successful restaurant.