Which of These Species Cooks Like You?
Nature, Cooking
22/09/2025
Forget the air fryer; these species take cheffing one step further.
Welcome to Nature’s kitchen – chances are we all know a friend who channels one of these cooking styles. (Maybe even ourselves!) Take a look and then send it to someone who needs some natural validation.
Komodo Dragon – cooks whatever’s in the house
Totally unbothered, staying in your lane – which consists of cooking whatever you can get your hands on. No recipe. No big ideas. Food is fuel, and you’re good at eating, just like the Komodo Dragon. They’ll eat anything with a pulse, or without, consuming up to 80% of their body weight in a single sitting.
Leatherback Turtle – follows an exact recipe
If your measurements need to be precise, you have more in common with the Leatherback Turtle than you think. They’re after a different kind of snack, though – jellyfish. They need to eat 73% of their weight per day (which can be up to 1000kg) to stay stacked – that’s around 300 jellies!
Blue Whale – batch cook babe (then eat everything at once…)
You know the one; it’s Sunday, and you have a big week ahead. You don’t have time to cook meals. Do as the Blue Whale does: gulping vast amounts of krill, potentially up to 16,000kg of krill in one day, that’s about the same as 8,800 quarter-pound burgers! You are a busy blue whale. You are a batch cooker.
Venus Fly Trap – slow cooker icon
Loves a stew. Or whatever you can cook low and slow. Fire that up before work and you’re done for dinner – just like the Venus Fly Trap… and our Chief Content Officer. Once the VFP lures a tasty morsel into its trap, it snaps shut, trapping the unsuspecting victim before releasing a cocktail of digestive enzymes that slowly dissolve the prey, allowing Venus to absorb all the nutrients over several days.
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