History Main / CordonBleughChef

** Also in challenges when chefs want to try something new, Ralph from season 1 tried a ribeye steak with white peaches.

* Dawn in ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' has some questionable food choices, including anchovy and pineapple pizza.

* From ''Anime/LostUniverse'', Millie's cooking [[SupremeChef actually IS excellent]]: in spite of producing such horrible-sounding concoctions as bacon ice cream and raisin jerky pizza, everyone likes it if they try it. On the other hand she is something of a LethalChef... Due to obliterating the kitchen in fiery explosions every time she cooks, explosions which nonetheless leave the fruits of her labor unblemished.

Cordon Bleugh Chef is not about "chefs" who make food that either looks absolutely disgusting or is even harmful to the one unlucky enough to eat it; that's LethalChef. It also isn't when someone adjusts already-created food to make it more "appealing"; that's BizarreTasteInFood. Though it could make them into an AngryChef, feeling like everyone else just can't appreciate "original works of art" like he can.

** Played with in the case of Arthur's father David. He's actually quite a good cook and runs a successful catering business, but he tries experimenting at home so much that the audience mainly sees the more questionable meals he makes. Arthur and D.W. are often grossed out by his experimental dishes, and there's a song devoted to his culinary abominations in the MusicalEpisode. Whenever he makes something ''good'', it becomes the centerpiece of an entire episode.
** Buster himself is another played with example, as he actively creates weird combinations of food, but due to his aforementioned iron-clad stomach, actually enjoys them and never seems to understand why others don't.

* An accidental example on ''Series/{{Friends}}''. Because the pages of an English cookbook were stuck together Rachel ended up combining a trifle and a shepherd's pie. All her friends felt obliged to eat it anyway (except Phoebe who got out because she's a vegetarian); when out of her earshot, Ross commented, "ItTastesLikeFeet!" [[BigEater Joey]] ended up liking it anyway. "Custard? Good. Jam? Good. Meat? ''Good''."

** Arthur's paternal grandmother is much the same, and only Buster, who has an iron-clad stomach, would eat the cookies she made for the bake sale. Perhaps David learned to cook early on because of this.

* ''Anime/ProjectAKo'': In the English dub, Shiiko (C-ko) notes learning from the Cordon Bleugh school.

* ''Film/{{Frenzy|1972}}''. Given the choice between wading through grim murder scenes and tasting his wife's experimental cuisine -- pig's feet, fish head soup, etc. -- Inspector Oxford always opts for the former.

* ''Film/{{Frenzy}}''. Given the choice between wading through grim murder scenes and tasting his wife's experimental cuisine -- pig's feet, fish head soup, etc. -- Inspector Oxford always opts for the former.

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* Baldroy in ''Manga/BlackButler'' would probably be a decent cook if he didn't think the goal of cooking was to destroy the food violently. [[spoiler:The real reason he's on the Phantomhive household staff is because he's one hell of a gunner. The cooking part is mainly for looks.]]

* In ''Anime/{{Clannad}}'', this is the general impression of Sanae Furukawa and her attempts at baking bread.

* In ComicBook/ArchieComics the Lodge family chef (also named Gaston) absolutely ''loves'' when Jughead comes over, because then he can "experiment" with someone who will truly appreciate it.

* I ''ComicBook/TheBeano'' comic, The Bash Street Kids' cook, Olive, is notorious for having terrible cooking, including custard so thick you have to cut it with a knife.

* ''Fanfic/ArsGoetia'': [[VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses Byleth]] is this when she gets in a mood, according to her father.
--> '''Jeralt:''' The last time your sword broke, you ate raw chicken and waffles covered in soy sauce; last year, when I took back the mead you tried to hide from me, you started eating bacon-wrapped celery and oysters with a side of goat milk; six years ago, I spend one day in the Alliance by myself and come back to find you covered pasta sauce, chocolate ice cream, and fried peaches. Don't even get me started on the Grilled Byleth—\\
'''Byleth:''' It wasn't one day, and all of those were good ideas, conceptually.\\
'''Jeralt:''' For whom?

* The protagonist of James Hamilton-Paterson's ''Cooking With Fernet Branca'', as the title suggests[[note]]Fernet being a very bitter Italian liqueur[[/note]], has dozens of qualifying dishes, ranging from relatively normal to "Alien Pie," featuring kerosene, a buzzard feather, and "1 kg smoked cat, off the bone."

* Charlie, Major Adams and then Chris Hale's assistant and cook on ''Series/WagonTrain''. Everyone complains about Charlie's cooking, although he seems borderline competent and occasionally good. One of his major problems seem to be adding less-than-popular ingredients to his stews, like gopher or even buzzard. One episode had him make birds nest soup out of an actual bird's nest.
* At the end of the ''Series/TwoBrokeGirls'' episode "And the Cronuts", Caroline and Max stumble upon the idea of combining cupcakes and ... French fries.[[note]]Fortunately it has not reared its head again. Yet.[[/note]]
* ''Series/AgathaRaisin'': In "Agatha Rasin and the Curious Curate", the second VictimOfTheWeek is a woman who is attempting to start up a boutique jam business. The problem is, most of flavours she makes feature combinations of ingredients that shouldn't even be made into jam; let alone used together.

** In "Chocolate Milk", the hipster chocolate milk restaurant owner presents Jake and Terry with an ink-black concoction he calls "dark milk" that uses bitter chocolate to enhance the sourness of raw milk. Jake and Terry are not pleased.

** In "Boyle's Hunch", Boyle is fond of eating takoyaki, a Japanese octopus fritter which Jake dismissingly refers to as a "fish doughnut". Later, Jake tries to approximate it by putting lox on a chocolate éclair.

* ''Series/WelcomeBackKotter'' had a running gag about Mrs. Kotter's "famous tuna casserole." It's not known to have ever put anybody in a hospital, but at one point, Mr. Kotter noted that ''nobody'' puts ''prunes'' in a tuna casserole.

* Contrary to what you might expect, Kyouko actually can cook in ''VisualNovel/AseliaTheEternalTheSpiritOfEternitySword''. It just ''looks'' like an absolute horrible catastrophe waiting to happen. Helion did not help in that respect despite her best efforts. Read: Put flowers into the mouths of fish or turning things purple.

* In ''VisualNovel/{{Clannad}}'', Sanae Furukawa is always baking bizarre kinds of bread with ingredients like rice crackers, M&Ms and lobster. Unfortunately, she just happens to be extremely sensitive about it, and runs out of the store crying when her work is insulted. The first time it happens, Tomoya does so without knowing what would happen, and every other time, her own husband, Akio, does it, leaving him to run after her with the bread in his mouth shouting "I LOVE IT!", which becomes a RunningGag in the anime. Apart from her bread, she's actually a good cook.

* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'': Patch 5.3's main scenario quest reveals that ''most of the population of Sharlayan'' are these. Since they're a country of scholars who prioritize efficiency over all else, their food is often [[MinMaxing made to be as nutritious as possible]] [[NondescriptNastyNutritious at the cost of taste and tactile experience]]. Tataru ends up following a recipe for a loaf of bread that includes ground-up ''fish and vegetables''. While the resulting product allegedly ''smells'' delicious, it tastes like crap and is incredibly dense. In ''Endwalker'', it is revealed that Sharlayan's entire population is so used to this that there isn't a restaurant that serves delicious food, save for a cafe founded by a Studium dropout who got so sick of its cuisine appropriately named the Last Stand.

* ''VisualNovel/IkemenSengoku'':
** Mitsunari has enough of a reputation for this that the main character dreads having to eat a rice ball he personally chose the filling for in one story event. The filling turns out to be a mixture of red-bean paste and strawberries which, while tasty in a daifuku mochi, is not so tasty when combined with the salted vinegar rice shell of a rice ball.
** In another story event, Sasuke and the main character make a birthday rice cake for Kenshin that has chestnut icing and is decorated with egg slices, cucumber, and shrimp... which is actually ''more'' appealing than their initial plan of wasabi icing and sushi toppings. In fairness, they had to make do with the ingredients available in the Sengoku period where foods like chocolate and vanilla are scarce and knew and Kenshin, a man who would happily eat nothing but pickled plums all day if he could, seems to enjoy it well enough.

* Do tomato, tuna and soy sauce pancake sandwiches sound good to you? No? They sound good to Hatsune in ''VisualNovel/KaraNoShoujo''. And they're surprisingly edible.
* Hanako Ikezawa from ''VisualNovel/KatawaShoujo'' is technically an okay chef. According to Lilly, however, she likes to experiment once in a while, and whenever that happens.

* In ''VisualNovel/YearningAGayStory'', whoever makes the fries for the college campus's burger place seems to have an alien's sense of which combinations of foods qualify as tasty. Some of the numerous "creative" flavors the fries have been served in are: spinach and kumquat; garlic and anchovy juice; durian and sour cream; and tabasco, horseradish, and chocolate (which Nikhil refers to as "pain, torture, and eternal torment"). The same burger place has also been known to serve other things like squid burgers and spinach onion rings.

* ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'' has so many mixed-up foods, ranging from reasonably edible to downright disgusting/dangerous, that its respective wiki has a whole page [[http://www.hrwiki.org/wiki/Concoctions dedicated to them]].

* Crystal, the local bartender from ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'', does this with mixed drinks. One of her creations is the "Cheeseburger Margarita".
* In [[http://xkcd.com/720/ this]] ''Webcomic/{{xkcd}}'' the protagonist uses genetic algorithm on food.

* In ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja'', the Doc's mom, Mitzi, is an otherwise excellent cook, but she has a peculiar specialty in her pickled beets, which are apparently too vile to choke down even when they aren't poisoned as part of TrainingFromHell.
* ''Webcomic/{{Sombulus}}'' has a cursed cook who's lost her ability to bake sensible things ever since she entered a cursed clocktower. [[http://www.sombulus.com/comic/14 Mmmm, slugs]].
* Namco from ''Webcomic/{{Consolers}}'' likes making ice cream in various flavors, but certain of his flavors are somewhat... strange, like curry, snake or horse.
* ''Webcomic/StandStillStaySilent'' gives us the unfortunate TeamMom that is Mikkel Madsen. His hot meals tend to run towards the "bland, boring, horribly watery fish stew/soup/whatever" school of not-again. Mind you, this isn't by choice: he's working with a ''severly'' limited larder which he didn't select. Tins of tuna, oatmeal and carrots predominate. Possibly with tallow candle back-up. Don't ask; don't tell. Also, it's not his fault if other team members dump, say, a whole, undressed squirrel into the pot behind his back. They can't afford to waste even one furry disaster, so...

* ''WebVideo/LoadingReadyRun'':
** The Iron Stomach challenge which crosses this with MasochistsMeal. One notable challenge was the [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Banana Onion Juice]].
** There have also been a couple of different variations of challenges meant to make something as good as possible with odd combinations (such as sandwiches with non-sandwich toppings, or having to do something with what you get from two different fast food restaurants), which tend to ''sound'' like this -- some of the actual results were apparently tasty, however.
* ''WebVideo/EpicMealTime'' is about a bunch of trained chefs doing this for TestosteronePoisoning. The results are [[NutritionalNightmare highly caloric and fatty]] (with extra bacon).
* Of all people the WebVideo/NostalgiaCritic did this once when he created "''Film/AChristmasStory 2'' Eggnog" as a huge TakeThat: a single drop of classical eggnog, a chicken drumstick (used for unneeded slapstick beforehand), a pack of vegan hot dogs (because this can't contain any meat whatsoever), a single star fruit that probably aged past its time (because it's cheap and available) watering everything down as much as possible, blending until it becomes a creamy liquid, put into a festive mug and garnish with a lit cigarette. They taste this onscreen. With predictable results.
* ''WebVideo/SuperMarioLogan'': Chef Pee Pee is flanderized into this in videos from 2017 onwards. A strange example indeed since he used to be more competent regardless if he hates his job cooking for Bowser and Junior.

* [[https://youtube.com/channel/UCKQ-wNdh0kO5qnpPfXa2hjQ Ranboo]] often gets a bit too creative during his cooking videos.
** In the first video, he made a bowl of Minecraft Creeper Crunch cereal, to which he added ''an entire cinnamon roll''. As he quickly finds out, cinnamon rolls do ''not'' taste good when soaked in milk.
** In the second video, he adds [=M&Ms=] to pre-made cake batter. This does not go well, all the [=M&Ms=] sink to the bottom of the mixing bowl, and the dye bled into the cake itself during baking, which does not help its appearance.
--->'''Ranboo:''' We have our cake here, it looks, um... ''({{Beat}})'' Diseased, to say the least.
*** Ranboo then tries to fix his cake by adding ''three'' tubs of frosting on the top, which he then tops with more M&M's and gummy worms. With the size of the cake, three tubs of frosting means that the layer of frosting is as thick as the cake itself.
---->'''Ranboo:''' It is half frosting, half cake, [[LampshadeHanging and FULL abomination]].

* The croutons Bonnie and WebVideo/{{Gayle}} make for their business venture have granite as a key ingredient. And when they run out they resort to using cement from the neighbors' driveway. The motivation seems to be dissatisfaction with the croutons currently on the market and wanting to be surprised.
--->"Never let your guard down when you're eating my salad!"
* Part of WebVideo/BrandonFarris' channel is running a recipe through [[TranslationTrainwreck Google Translate]] and then attempting to make the recipe. What Brandon comes up with (provided it isn't a large smear all over the kitchen) is barely edible, much less even remotely tasty.
* ''WebVideo/TastingHistoryWithMaxMiller'': A staple, but not so much due to Max culinary skills as the extreme shifts in people's palates across millenia and the entire world.

* ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog'''s Wolfgang Puke, a side character from the episode "Sonic Gets Trashed", was designed by Robotnik to be his own personal chef... but somehow the wiring in his head got crossed. This even leads to Tails throwing up.

* On ''WesternAnimation/Ben10'', Grandpa Max's survival-skill recipes and other exotic dishes make his grandkids regard him this way, with aspects of ForeignQueasine mixed in.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' episode "Nectar of the Odds", Timmy's attempts to find a "secret ingredient" for his lemonade to make it taste better (since the first batch of lemonade he made is '''horrible''') has him trying cheese, taco sauce, and peas. [[spoiler:His choice of ingredient ended up being sweat from Cosmo's socks, which made the lemonade magical both figuratively and literally]].
* In the ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episode "When You Wish Upon a Weinstein", Peter invites his new Jewish friend Max Weinstein for dinner. However, when Max sees that Lois has made marshmallow and fish casserole, he tries to politely tell her he can't eat it. Luckily for him, she assumes it's because it's not kosher, and, after a long sideways look at the "dish", [[SureLetsGoWithThat Max agrees]]. There's also "The King is Dead" when Lois makes Peter "French toast," actually a pile of mismatched foods including an entire fish, to show him how changing something too much can make it unrecognizable and bad.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In "Scenes from the Class Struggle in Springfield", Mr. Burns bakes a cake as a welcoming gift for Homer and his family into the country club. Smithers eats some and is less than enthralled.
-->'''Burns:''' I pickled the figs myself.

* Taeko of ''Manga/AiYoriAoshi''. Three words: "Strawberry jam curry." Or try her tomato-in-chocolate tempura.
** [[SweetTooth Her tendency to put chocolate in everything]].

** And Nina, too. That hot dog sauce... [shiver]

* In a game that encourages experimentation, ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'' allows Link to be a cordon bleugh chef with the game's cooking system. Mixing blatantly incompatible materials (such as bugs or monster parts) with any other food items produces [[CensoredForComedy Dubious Food]], while cooking only clearly inedible objects like ore or firewood produces Rock-Hard Food. They don't recover much health, and poor Link's eating animations for these items have him forcing himself to eat the Dubious Food and struggling to eat the Rock-Hard Food.
* This ended up happening to a group of travelling chefs in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTearsOfTheKingdom'' after they got a recipe for a meat and rice bowl from Princess Zelda some time before the events of the game which is fairly straightforward with meat, rice and rock salt. However, one of them had the bright idea to use ''monster'' meat instead, leading to all of them passed out and trying not to puke after downing what was likely Dubious Food, with them warning Link to always follow the recipe like the footnote specifically told them to.

* Possibly Professor E. Gadd from ''VideoGame/LuigisMansion1''. After Luigi captures Bogmire, the second boss, he offers to make dinner, saying he'll make his "old family recipe", pickled dandelions with barnacles in a diesel marinade. (Of course, we never see it or Luigi's reaction... ''Maybe'' it tastes better than it sounds...)
* In the ''VideoGame/{{MOTHER}}'' series, there's an item called Strawberry Tofu, which was meant as a joke on bad combinations of food. Well, someone literally made it and Itoi tried it and it does not work well. There's a video on Website/YouTube of someone suffering while trying to eat it.
** Since Americans would be much less likely to show revulsion from it (particularly if familiar with tofu-based vegan ice cream), Nintendo translated the item as "trout ice cream" in ''VideoGame/EarthBound1994''. HilariousInHindsight for fans of the game that later went on to watch ''Series/IronChef''.

* ''VideoGame/TalesOfDestiny2'': Harold is one deliberately, as she can cook food for herself with no trouble (though she fails at lab safety and makes her food in beakers and flasks) but when cooking for others she can't resist adding something she's [[MadScientist trying to test out on humans]], often making everyone sick.
* Raine Sage from ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia''. She wouldn't be the worst chef in the game if not for her nasty habit of experimenting with cooking. For example: everyone makes sweet cake; chocolate, vanilla, carrot, it's always sweet. So Raine decides to be a pioneer and bake a ''spicy'' cake[[note]]There are, in fact, such things as "spice cakes". They are not, however, supposed to be "spicy" in the same manner as, say, curry[[/note]]. Or how about lemon rice cooked ''inside'' a lemon, and topped with garam masala? She can, however, [[OneNoteChef cook spaghetti]].
* For all that he's TheAce, Flynn Scifo in ''VideoGame/TalesOfVesperia'' is revealed as one in the cooking competition sidequest. Yuri notes that he's great when he sticks to the recipe, but his sense of taste is so terrible that when he modifies a recipe, he ruins it.

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* Contrary to what you might expect, Kyouko actually can cook in ''VisualNovel/AseliaTheEternalTheSpiritOfEternitySword''. It just ''looks'' like an absolute horrible catastrophe waiting to happen. Helion did not help in that respect despite her best efforts. Read: Put flowers into the mouths of fish or turning things purple.
* In ''VisualNovel/{{Clannad}}'', Sanae Furukawa is always baking bizarre kinds of bread with ingredients like rice crackers, M&Ms and lobster. Unfortunately, she just happens to be extremely sensitive about it, and runs out of the store crying when her work is insulted. The first time it happens, Tomoya does so without knowing what would happen, and every other time, her own husband, Akio, does it, leaving him to run after her with the bread in his mouth shouting "I LOVE IT!", which becomes a RunningGag in the anime. Apart from her bread, she's actually a good cook.
* In ''VisualNovel/IkemenSengoku'', Mitsunari has enough of a reputation for this that the main character dreads having to eat a rice ball he personally chose the filling for in one story event. The filling turns out to be a mixture of red-bean paste and strawberries which, while tasty in a daifuku mochi, is not so tasty when combined with the salted vinegar rice shell of a rice ball.
** In another story event, Sasuke and the main character make a birthday rice cake for Kenshin that has chestnut icing and is decorated with egg slices, cucumber, and shrimp... which is actually ''more'' appealing than their initial plan of wasabi icing and sushi toppings. In fairness, they had to make do with the ingredients available in the Sengoku period where foods like chocolate and vanilla are scarce and knew and Kenshin, a man who would happily eat nothing but pickled plums all day if he could, seems to enjoy it well enough.
* Do tomato, tuna and soy sauce pancake sandwiches sound good to you? No? They sound good to Hatsune in ''VisualNovel/KaraNoShoujo''. And they're surprisingly edible.
* Hanako Ikezawa from ''VisualNovel/KatawaShoujo'' is technically an okay chef. According to Lilly, however, she likes to experiment once in a while, and whenever that happens...
* In ''VisualNovel/YearningAGayStory'', whoever makes the fries for the college campus's burger place seems to have an alien's sense of which combinations of foods qualify as tasty. Some of the numerous "creative" flavors the fries have been served in are: spinach and kumquat; garlic and anchovy juice; durian and sour cream; and tabasco, horseradish, and chocolate (which Nikhil refers to as "pain, torture, and eternal torment"). The same burger place has also been known to serve other things like squid burgers and spinach onion rings.
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* In the ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episode "When You Wish Upon a Weinstein", Peter invites his new Jewish friend Max Weinstein for dinner. However, when Max sees that Lois has made marshmallow and fish casserole, he tries to politely tell her he can't eat it. Luckily for him, she assumes it's because it's not kosher, and, after a long sideways look at the "dish", [[SureLetsGoWithThat Max agrees]].
** There's also "The King is Dead" when Lois makes Peter "French toast," actually a pile of mismatched foods including an entire fish, to show him how changing something too much can make it unrecognizable and bad.

** Played with in regards to Lynn Loud Sr. He's an excellent chef to the point that he was able to set up his own restaurant midway through the show. Sometimes however, he likes to do experimental dishes that end up being so bad, they send his wife and children running to the bathroom. His apparent appeal for casseroles provide a couple examples, including one made of cabbage in "House of Lies" and another with liverwurst, shrimp and mayo from "Pets Peeved".

*** Trout ice cream? [[VideoGame/EarthBound1994 That sounds vaguely familiar...]] (Incidentally, Creator/ShigesatoItoi was actually a panelist on ''Iron Chef'' four times, but these appearances came ''after [=EarthBound=]'' was released.)

** Amy from "Amy's Baking Company" is a similar example in that she uses a variety of unconventional recipes and cooking methods for her decent-quality ingredients. While only a few of the recipes are explored, it's apparent that Amy does this for the restaurant's entire menu, as nobody is satisfied with their food during the course of the dinner service. Gordon's mentions include the following:
*** The pizza Amy made for him was rather sweet with an undercooked crust.
*** Her Blue Ribbon Burger is overloaded with extra ingredients and flavors, on top of being soaked through with grease.
*** The Red Pepper Ravioli's flavor is a combination of sweet and spicy, which Gordon considers a bad flavor mix for ravioli.
*** Amy's salmon burger is overcooked to the point of being dry and flavorless.

** This is, in part, EarlyInstallmentWeirdness. Like all great Cordon Bleugh Chefs, Mrs. Davis' cooking is beyond reproach when applied to conventional dishes. In the main, that's exactly what Davis does in later radio episodes and in the television series.
** Still, her passion for Cordon Bleugh never dies entirely. Her dreaded Pensacola popovers are guaranteed to sicken man or frog. She can make a soup so spicy it sends her pet cat Minerva flying over the backyard fence. Her limburger omelette frightens away birds. Her veal parmesan may be excellent, but isn't exactly appetizing when served at breakfast.

* Neelix, the ship's cook on ''Series/StarTrekVoyager''. He does prove on several occasions that he ''can'' cook food the crew likes (in one episode, he does a Rokeg blood pie for B'Elanna) provided he has the ingredients and sticks to the recipe. However, between his love of experimental cooking and ''Voyager'''s erratic access to ingredients (some of which are previously unheard of and/or edible InNameOnly), the result is complaints and avoidance of the mess hall more often than not.

* ''Series/TopChef'': Bacon ice cream. Which is then subverted by Richard Blais in the finale of Top Chef: Chicago. His bacon ice cream was generally very well-received. Blais himself would seem to fit the trope at first glance, but his food overall was often among the judges' favorites throughout the season.
** Lampshaded earlier in the season by the judges' panel when Blais served them smoked salmon with a white chocolate-wasabi sauce. One judge's comment to him (paraphrased) was "When you described the dish, my immediate reaction was 'White chocolate and wasabi? What were you ''thinking''[='=]?" In the final judging, though, ''every single judge'' deemed that dish far and away the best of the night.

%%* ''VideoGame/GenshinImpact'': She loves experimenting with weird ingredients, and most people do find her cooking to be questionable and odd at times; the twist is that her culinary knowledge and even culinary ''intuition'' is so great that she can turn anything into the most delicious dish you have ever tasted. Her specialty, however, involves hot and spicy dishes. Her character story reveals that her love of experimenting began with the monopoly of ingredients' stock by the high-class restaurants in Liyue. Her enormous knowledge about cooking and ingredients is because she has experimented, even if she had to pay for it with bouts of diarrhea and bruised knees, among others.

* Raine Sage from ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia''. She wouldn't be the worst chef in the game if not for her nasty habit of experimenting with cooking. For example: everyone makes sweet cake; chocolate, vanilla, carrot, it's always sweet. So Raine decides to be a pioneer and bake a ''spicy'' cake[[note]]There are, in fact, such things as "spice cakes". They are not, however, supposed to be "spicy" in the same manner as, say, curry[[/note]]. Or how about lemon rice cooked ''inside'' a lemon, and topped with garam masala?
** She can, however, [[OneNoteChef cook spaghetti]].

* In December 2020, deep in the throes of the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic, a man had a dream one night about a dish called the "King's Hand", the big main course of a feast topping off a festival celebration of some kind. What is the King's Hand, you ask? A hollow, hand-shaped M&Ms cookie... filled with Greek salad. [[https://twitter.com/thatfrood/status/1335689951640494080 Which he then made and ate in real life.]]

* The app ''Pokémon Sleep'' allows you, the player, to be able to cook dishes for your Snorlax, with one such unusual meal being a ''chocolate sauce and meat salad''. Granted, Snorlax in lore ''is'' [[ExtremeOmnivore capable of eating anything without getting sick]], but still.

* The app ''Pokémon Sleep'' allows you, the player, to be able to cook dishes for your Snorlax, with one such unusal meal being a ''chocolate sauce and meat salad''. Granted, Snorlax in lore ''is'' [[ExtremeOmnivore capable of eating anything without getting sick]], but still.

-> ''"You have to try my latest treat''\\

* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': Orihime is very fond of putting ingredients together in ways that stop the hearts of everyone listening to her recipes. As a result, very few people have ever had the courage to actually try her dishes. Those that do discover she's actually an excellent cook who makes the food, against the odds, taste wonderful, as confirmed both by Rangiku in the manga and the [[AllThereInTheManual databooks]]. She eventually gets a part-time job in a bakery, settling down for bakery products like bread and pastries: the gang seems to like her bread well enough, and according to the novels she's good enough to be employed full-time. The {{anime}}, however, [[{{Filler}} deviates from the manga]] solely for [[RuleOfFunny comedy purposes]] to create a RunningGag about Orihime's food being stomach-churning.

* The [[GameGourmet cooking mechanics]] in ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress'' make ''every single dwarf'' fit the trope. Prepared meals are classified as biscuits, stews, or roasts based on number of ingredients used (2,3, and 4 respectively), and any dwarf you set as your cook will make whatever type of meal you ask... out of ''any'' ingredients you have available. Biscuits made of quarry bush leaves and radish wine, durian/ostrich egg/giant flying squirrel liver stew, and roasts cooked from tallow, llama milk, olive oil, and chili peppers, are all entirely possible. Thankfully, the game doesn't track taste (besides dwarves having favorite foods), so you can feed whatever culinary abomination your cooks come up with to your dwarves without negative effects.

** Arthur's father David is actually quite a good cook, and he even runs a successful catering business, but he tries experimenting at home so much that the audience mainly sees the more questionable meals he makes. Arthur and D.W. are often grossed out by his experimental dishes, and there's a song devoted to his culinary abominations in the MusicalEpisode. Whenever he makes something ''good'', it becomes the centerpiece of an entire episode.
** Arthur's paternal grandmother is much the same, and only Buster, who has an iron-clad stomach, would eat the cookies she made for the bake sale. Perhaps Mr. Read learned to cook early on because of this.
** Buster himself seems like a subversion of this trope, as he actively creates weird combinations of food, but due to his aforementioned ironclad stomach, actually enjoys it and never seems to understand why others don't.

* Billy of ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'' has several instances of this, such as in a dream where he makes an extremely caustic batch of cookie dough out of assorted junk food (he doesn't bake it because [[NoodleIncident he's not allowed to use the oven anymore]]).

** Partially subverted, Lynn Loud Sr. is usually an excellent chef, to the point that he's got his own restaurant. But sometimes, he does some experimenting and ends up making dishes that are so bad, they send his wife and kids running to the bathroom. Examples include his cabbage casserole from "House of Lies" and liverwurst, shrimp, and mayo casserole from "Pets Peeved".
** Played straight with his dad, Leonard, who makes s'mores with ''fish'' in them, as shown in "Bummer Camp". The kids are understandably disgusted.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Madeline}}'' episode ''Madeline at Cooking School'', the girls and Pepito have to make lunch for Lord Cucuface when their cook Mrs. Murphy gets sick. Having never cooked before, they set out to make simple sandwiches, but get overly creative with the ingredients: brie, roquefort, camembert, lingonberry jam, olives, chocolate syrup, whipped cream, chili peppers, and (by accident) a whole shaker of salt. Predictably it makes Lord Cucuface sick and leads him to promptly enroll them in cooking school.

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'' episode "Reeking Havoc": Last time Professor Utonium concocted his chili for a chili cook-off, the Hazmat units had to be called in and [[{{Pun}} cordon]] off the home.