Cooking With Dog

Hi, I am Francis, the host of this show, Cooking With Dog.

Cooking With Dog is a series of YouTube cooking videos showing how to prepare various Japanese dishes. The dog part comes from the show's "host" and narrator Francis, a grey Poodle, and not because they cook with dog meat.

You can watch the videos at their YouTube channel here.

Not to be confused with an allegedly traditional Chinese cooking ingredient.

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Tropes used in Cooking With Dog include:

• Author Existence Failure: Averted; at one point the chef had an accident on her bike and was hospitalized, but she recovered much more quickly than anticipated.
  • Francis himself died in 2016, all but ending the show. As of 2018, some episodes filmed before his death had been released.
• Catch Phrase: "Good luck in the kitchen!"
• Cooking Show
• Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": The chef is referred to only as "Chef."
• Holiday Mode: Francis wears a Santa Hat in the Christmas Cake video (no, not that Christmas Cake). Christmas Mode is in full effect for the Crepe video, with the back of the kitchen decked out in lights and decorations.
• Impossibly Delicious Food: According to some of the comments, at least.
• Lucky Charms Title: The "o" in "dog" is replaced with a paw print. Originally the two o's in "cooking" were as well.
• Precious Puppy: It wouldn't be quite as cute without a dog acting as the host for a cooking show.
• Please Subscribe to Our Channel: Every video has "RATE ME!" or "YOU LIKE BUTTON!"
• Public Domain Soundtrack: Frédéric Chopin's Minute Waltz plays in the background. It's also known as the Puppy Waltz.
• Spin-Off: Go! Francis!, in 2015. This web series features a stuffed toy version of Francis, traveling throughout Japan while exploring specific food topics, such as bento, Japanese bread, or ramen. Toy!Francis visits locations associated with the subject food and interviews experts on it.