Has Superman ever used his heat vision to cook food?

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Superman's heat vision is a cool tool that allows him to project rays of energy (IR, X-Ray,or whatever the writers come up with) over an undefined range. He has used it for many great (and not so great) feats, including melting glaciers, shaving and leaving writings on walls.

There is one more use one can think of for such a versatile power: cooking! Has Superman ever used his heat vision to cook (not his enemies!) food?

In the Everyday Heroes webcomic, Summer tries to defrost a chicken in a few seconds with her heat vision, with disastrous results. http://eheroes.smackjeeves.com/comics/1891177/chain-of-events/ — b_jonas, Feb 19 '17 at 14:20
“There is one more use one can think of for such a versatile power” — just one? — Paul D. Waite, Feb 19 '17 at 16:04
Forget Heat Vision... Meat Vision is my superhero power of choice. — CakeDragon, Feb 20 '17 at 10:53
In my youth I had a superman comic from the 1960s or 1970s where Superman travels in time to ancient Rome and invents popcorn, which is cooked with his heat vision. — Eric Lippert, Feb 20 '17 at 16:04
@Eric post it as an answer and ride the wave of up votes with us :D — Gallifreyan, Feb 20 '17 at 16:59
I seem to recall an episode of, I think it was New Adventures of Superman where Louis and Clark were having guests over, but the food was undercooked. Clark heatvisioned it up a bit, but couldn't turn the vision off, so the meal was ruined. Red kryptonite was mentioned as a possible cause, but I don't remember anything else from the episode. It was a lot of years ago. — Arthur, Feb 20 '17 at 19:53
There was also an episode of Smallville (I don't know if that counts as a version of Superman to you) where Clark used his heat vision to speed toast some bread, but I forget which season and episode it occurred in. — Theyna, Aug 01 '17 at 21:07
General Zod and Company fried a rattle snake in the second movie - does that count? Technically cooked, and it is food... — ivanivan, Sep 24 '17 at 17:04

Gallifreyan · Answer 1 · 2017-02-19T16:01:27.097

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There are two examples that I know of:

In the epilogue of Kingdom Come, the Trinity meets in a cafe. Bruce orders "Steak. Well-done.", but the steak he's brought is not even "a shade over medium". Instead of calling for a waiter, Clark decides to make himself useful for once:
In a deleted scene from Superman II (1980), with Christopher Reeve, titular hero uses his heat vision to cook a soufflé in his Fortress of Solitude:

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I didn't even realize that was a deleted scene. They must've added it back to some other cut that I watched. – Hack-R Feb 20 '17 at 02:38
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Doesn't Dean Cain do it in Lois and Clark at one point too? – Chris Feb 20 '17 at 15:42
@Chris no idea what you're talking about, since I haven't seen this film – Gallifreyan Feb 20 '17 at 17:00
Clark should have zapped blasted Bruce for ordering his steak well done and put him out of his misery. – whatsisname Feb 20 '17 at 17:32
That's not a deleted scene. It was in the original release of Superman II. Not sure if it's also in the Richard Donner recut version. – Kyralessa Jun 25 '21 at 12:19

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In the (rightfully) maligned Superman IV, Superman and Clark Kent somehow end up on a sort of double date with Lois Lane and Lacy Warfied (played by Mariel Hemingway), at the latter's apartment. He has to distract the two women so he can change back and forth, and one way he does this is using his heat vision on the roast in the oven. It starts smoking, and Lacy runs to deal with it, finding it perfectly cooked when she pulls it out.

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wouldnt he burn the door first? – lois6b Feb 20 '17 at 12:02
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@lois6b must be something between x-rays and heat vision... I'd call it microwave vision! – Theraot Feb 20 '17 at 12:07
@Graipher: The oven in the gif is a regular oven, not a microwave oven. – raznagul Feb 20 '17 at 14:08
@raznagul Ah, you are right. Somehow it looked very small, which my brain immediately associated with it being a microwave oven. – Graipher Feb 20 '17 at 14:09
@lois6b If it was focussed from a large area to a small one, it would only heat the door up a bit. Perhaps Superman can warp the path that light travels in some way... (Gravity manipulation, anyone?) – wizzwizz4 Feb 20 '17 at 20:09
@lois6b Superman can of course create an Einstein-Rosen bridge across Spacetime. – user931 May 19 '17 at 03:21

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Here's a comic cover from the early 1960s. Another cover featured a one-shot character, Superman Junior, who roasted hot dogs with his xray vison as Superman (Sr.) chilled lemonade with his super-breath.