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Bender is also fascinated with cooking, being the Planet Express ship's chef, though he is shown to have no sense of actual human taste, in fact, his early dinners were so horrible that even the literally omnivorous Zoidberg could not eat it.

In his first attempt, he creates a dinner for the crew that is so over-salted they all gag ( which is aggravated further when their drinks turn out to be salt water, or " Salt with water in it ," as Bender puts it ), then tells them that the food was fine since the salt content was 10 % below a lethal dose ( Dr. Zoidberg remarks that he " shouldn't have had seconds ").

In " The Problem with Popplers ", he creates dinner consisting of nothing but capers and baking soda and mistakenly expresses the belief that humans eat rocks.

He seems to improve his cooking skills over the series, cooking a lavish cake for Nibbler's birthday party and beating Elzar for the title of Iron Cook ( though he uses a potion called " The Essence of Pure Flavor ," consisting of water and a generous portion of LSD to make the judges hallucinate that his food tastes good ).

In Into the Wild Green Yonder, he mistakenly bakes prison guards a cake with nutmeg thinking it was a natural human sleep drug, before being corrected by Amy that nutmeg is in fact a baking drug.