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* In a character video for ''[[VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosForNintendo3DSAndWiiU Super Smash Bros. for Wii U]]'', [[VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBindingBlade Roy]] hits a taunting [[VideoGame/StarFox Falco]] with his Flare Blade. The blow [=KOs=] him, but the explosion masking this and a roast pheasant food item spawning where [[BirdPeople Falco]] was standing makes it look like he was cooked.

*** In another Porky short, ''WesternAnimation/TheTimidToreador'', a rooster pilfers and eats one of the hot tamales that Porky is selling, and the tamale ends up being so hot that the chicken EXPLODES and drops back down from the sky as a roasted chicken.
** ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunesCartoons'': In ''The Curse of the Monkeybird'', one of the temple's booby traps incinerates Porky, turning him into a baked ham.

* In the LightGunGame ''VideoGame/{{Cheyenne}}'', shooting a Bison causes it to turn into a hamburger with the score for it below, before disappearing.
* "Pilgrim's Bounty", ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft's'' Thanksgiving event, has turkeys that can be hunted. When killed, they turn into a fully-dressed roast.
** One reward for completing the event is a non-combat pet that features the same turkey model. Under ordinary circumstances it's fine, but if it comes within a certain radius of a cooking fire it will leap upon it and instantly turn itself into a roast. Now ''that's'' efficiency!
** Really, ''any'' mob that uses the turkey model is capable of this trope. Turkey pet killed in a pet battle? Instant roast! Kill the turkeys in Howling Fjord for the achievement? Instant roast for each one! Get [[ForcedTransformation transformed into a turkey]] and get killed (or feign death) while in that form? ''You'' become an instant roast! Oh, and fire isn't required; any method of killing will do.

* In at least one SNES ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'' platformer, punching a boar turned it into a roast, which would heal the player character when eaten.
* In ''Asterix'' for the UsefulNotes/SegaMasterSystem, the last punch thrown by Asterix in the first BossBattle transforms a wild boar into a roast which is presented to Obelix in the following cutscene.
* ''VideoGame/DukeNukem'':
** In ''VideoGame/DukeNukemI'', shooting the chicken item turns it into a perfect roast worth much more health.
** [[VideoGame/DukeNukemII The sequel]] has live turkeys that run around by themselves. You can roast them with a single shot as before (even if you use a rocket launcher), but only if you can hit them before they reach you.

* ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda''
** In ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaCDiGames Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon]]'', Omfak's intro cutscene shows his three forms doing this: the wolf head shoots down a crow with EyeBeams, the lion head breathes fire which turns the dead crow into a roast within seconds, and his GagLips head eats it (bones and all). Despite this, his death cutscene shows several ''living'' birds flying out of his corpse.
---> "Whatever I see, I shall devour"
** In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'' and ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTearsOfTheKingdom'', killing a wild animal with a fire-based attack (e.g. Fire Arrows or the Fire Rod) will replace the raw meat normally dropped with a roasted version. While in the Death Mountain region, letting raw meat (both dropped directly by the player or a wild animal they just killed) sit on the ground for a few seconds will likewise roast it. In a (slight) concession to reality, the [[HyperactiveMetabolism health-restoring effects]] of this roasted food, while better than eating it raw, are still not as good as what you get by actually cooking it in a pot.
* In ''VideoGame/PlantsVsZombies2ItsAboutTime'', Zombie Chickens defeated via electric attacks (such as the ones from Lightning Reeds or Electric Peashooters) will have a chance of instantly turning into buckets of roasted chicken. Otherwise, there's the usual death animation of XRaySparks.
* In ''VideoGame/PuyoPuyo2'', this happens to Suketoudara when you defeat him, as he becomes a Japanese-styled seafood dinner in his defeat portrait.
* A similar thing happens in ''VideoGame/CastleCrashers'', where defeating the fish men in the Flooded Temple & Medusa's Lair stages will also turn them into fish fillets, complete with lemon slices and napkins!
* In a character video for ''[[VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosForNintendo3DSAndWiiU Super Smash Bros. for Wii U]]'', [[VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBindingBlade Roy]] hits a taunting [[VideoGame/StarFox Falco]] with his Flare Blade. The blow [=KOs=] him, but the explosion masking this and a roast pheasant food item spawning where [[BirdPeople Falco]] was standing makes it look like he was cooked.
* ''VideoGame/FarCry5'' has a parody. Animals normally drop meat when killed, which is extremely valuable ShopFodder. If you kill an animal by burning it, it will instead drop Burned Meat, which is nearly worthless.
* A non-food example: In ''VideoGame/{{Toonstruck}}'', Drew feeds a group of alligators a turkey that has been filled with dynamite. The resulting explosion instantly turns them into a purse, shoes, and belt.
* In ''VideoGame/PhoenotopiaAwakening,'' killing small critters (and only small critters) with bombs or exploding spears will make them drop Cooked Mystery Meat instead of the usual raw Mystery Meat.
* In ''[[VideoGame/{{Spelunky}} Spelunky 2]]'', if a turkey dies from fire damage, it turns into a roast which you can eat for health.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Subnautica}}'', slashing a fish with a thermal knife will instantly cook it to perfection. The game is usually far more realistic about things, so this can stand out as an oddity. Note that the regular cooking method explicitly makes note of removing bones and other inedible parts, something which probably can't happen when you're just swinging a knife around in the middle of the ocean.

Cousin Trope to MeatOVision and, for heat applied to vegetables, see PopcornOnTheCob. Contrast with the harsh aversion, OvenLogic, where a character forgets the "carefully-controlled time and temperature" bit. Similar to InstantlyDefeatheredBird, where the bird survives whatever caused it to lose its feathers.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Subnautica}} you can cook fish by putting it through a futuristic fabricator that removes the bones and neutralises all harmful components of the meat. Or you can achieve the same result by slashing the fish with your energised knife.

* In the strip "[[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/instant-bacon-2/ Instant Bacon]]" from ''ComicStrip/ThePerryBibleFellowship'', we see a guy strapping a pig with dynamite hopping to [[InvokedTrope invoke this trope]].