My Top Ten Anime Chefs

Note: Many characters on this list aren't really chef by profession, others are still students, but has great skills


10. Usui Takumi(Kaichou Wa Maid-Sama)

Not really a chef, more like a one time chef. since he became just a chef once on an emergency, But he definitely has the skills for it. How he slice every single ingredients, crack that damn egg and cooked it.

In just one scene in one episode, he proves how great of a cook he is. though that's how Usui always does it in just about everything else that he does.

9. Rin Okumura(Ao No Exorcist)

Rin Okumura is also not really a professional chef, more like it became one his many jobs. But he showed himself from time to time to be quite proficient at it.

As a matter of fact he has been cooking, ever since he was just a little toddler, so that at least shows that he has lots of experience in cooking already by the time that the series started, he really looks adorable as child.

Even at his time in True Cross Academy he still continues to cook when he can. so even though he might not be a chef by profession, he definitely has the skills to be a great one in case he chooses to pursue it.

8. Teuchi(Naruto)

Any list about cooking in anime couldn't be complete without this guy of course, the owner of Ichiraku Ramen, Teuchi. The guy whose ramen is wanted by all, ninja's, assasins, criminals, students, and many more, not just in Konoha but also those from other countries. probably the best ramen maker in anime history. His ramen just by watching the anime is just mouth watering.

Naruto probably won't be able to overcome some of his dark moments without Ichiraku Ramen. So in a way his cooking is partly responsible for saving the entire Ninja World. how can any ramen compete with that.

7. Sebastian Michaelis (Kuroshitsuji)

A bit unfair and somewhat of an overkill for others in this list since Sebastian is a Demon who can put everything into perfection, hence why I decided to put him a bit low on this list. Being the butler of the Phantomhive Family, and with the actual chef Bard being unable to cook, Sebastian is technically also the Chef of the Phantomhive House Manor.

As someone who serve Aristocrats and those high in society, each food that he serve must always be at high class and without fail. from breakfast, lunch, dinner, desserts and even the midnight snacks of his spoiled master.

He even at one time beat Indians at their own specialty which is curry, by making his own creation. A curry bread with their Phantomhive chocolate inside it. which looks really delicious.

6. Sanji(One Piece)

Samji, the Straw Hat Pirates one and only cook. As the first real professional chef in this list, Sanji is the former sous chef for Red Leg's Baratie, Sanji now dreams of finding the All Blue the chef's paradise. To appreciate Sanji as a cook. 1. their always at sea, 2.sometimes they barely have any good ingredients, 3. he has to feed their Captain Monkey D. Luffy who has a ginormous appetite, 4. the rest of the crew, 5. impress Namie and Robin with his cooking from time to time and lastly 5.make sure that the kitchen is always in good shape.

How can he not be a good chef? He's not just a good chef, he's an awesome chef.



5. Komatsu(Toriko)

Komatsu the partner of Toriko. by now he is already one the top chefs in Toriko world and at such a young. being able to cook ingredient that many would thought to be inedible or impossible to cook, Komatsu is already an excellent chef at a very young age. he has also cooked dishes in the world of Toriko what many think would take hundreds to thousands of years to prepare in just a matter of years or even just days, with only a very few help from other chefs.

And of course, all of this putting in consideration that he has to cook for the likes of Toriko, Zebra and Midora. who all has monstrous, nearly unbelievable,insane appetite. who's hunger is so hard to satisfy. but he does so anyway. Komatsu though he may not look like it, is one insanely talented chef.

4. Ajiyoshi Yoichi(Mr. Ajikko)

Being the main character of one of first anime that is all about cooking Ajiyoshi deserves to be high on this list despite being maybe out of date already. Despite being so young, he already goes up against many grown up talented chefs throughout the series. Not only that, with his family being poor, he most of the time has no real access to top notch ingredients. Impressing the great Murata Genjiro in their first encounter with only the ingredient available in their small restaurant, is already itself a great accomplishment and that just in the first episode.

3. Liu Mao Hsing(Cooking Master Boy)

Cooking Master Boy is perhaps my favorite Cooking Anime when I was young, and its main character Mao never failed to amaze me every time. Being born in Ancient China at an Era known as Cooking Wars Mao at a young age certainly has to face a lot of competition as everyone in this age aims to be on top. being already a chef at his mother's restaurant at a young age, Mao is a prodigious cook, not to mention throughout the series, mysterious organization use underhanded methods most of the time to win against their opponents yet Mao still manages to trump them all. In cooking Mao is someone who can put almost everything in consideration including the culture, climate and other factors that can affect the appetite of those whom he served his dishes too, despite his talent he is always very innovating and improvising

The only problem with Mao is that he is limited in Chinese Cuisines during his time, otherwise if he might be even higher on this list.

2. Azuma Kazuma(Yakitate Japan)

My favorite pastry chef in anime, and probably others personal favorite as well. Azuma Kazuma's personality is not hard to love. He is energetic,funny, talented, humble and yet ambitious. His goal is to make the best Ja-pan, bread of his creation which he hopes will one day represent Japan and be known throughout the world.

Azuma Kazuma has a certain talent known as Solar Hands. which helps many incredible breads. throughout the series he has continiously made unbelievable creative versions of his Ja-pan. One of his greatest accomplishment is that when one of the Judge ate his Ja-pan, it was so delicious that the Judge actually went to heaven, in effect he died because of how delicious it was.If that alone doesn't speak of how great of a pastry chef he is, just watch the series since he has more to offer.

1. Yukihira Souma

One of the most popular chefs in anime today, Yukihira Souma is the successor of the Yukihira Restaurant, being the son of its owner Yukihira Joichirou. Already a talented chef at the start of the series, he aims to surpass he's father one day, despite his almost 500th lost to him. But as it turns out before he can do that, he must first survive the school that his father enrolled him in Tootsuki Academy, where he is pitted not just against fellow child prodigy chefs like himself but survive tests from it Allumni who are now big on the culinary world, as this is the Academy's way of further imrproving its students. Only the greatest and most talented chefs survive in that Academy and now Souma determined to surpass his old man aims to be on top.