Culinary Class Wars leans heavily on casting decisions based on identity, and plotlines often revolve around highlighting characters' backgrounds over actual cooking skill. Several core contestants lack traditional culinary expertise but advance due to personal stories and identity, making it feel as if narrative coherence took a back seat to ideological messaging.

The series routinely pokes fun at traditional family meals and mocks time-honored cooking techniques as “outdated.” Masculinity is caricatured, with strong father figures either absent or the butt of jokes, while alternative lifestyles are positioned as inherently superior.

Dissenting or traditional culinary values are portrayed through cartoonish antagonists who rarely get sincere dialogue. The cast and judges all universally praise modern ideological buzzwords, leaving virtually no room for sincere engagement with more traditional viewpoints.