Comfort Food Tier List, Decided Head-to-Head
All 24 dishes here, ranked by 98 players. Pizza leads: it wins 77.6% of its matchups (n = 245) and was champion in 24 of 98 brackets. Disagree? Your first pick is right here. No sign-up.
Size
Fried ChickenCrispy & juicy
Chicken & WafflesSweet meets savory
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Comfort Foods: the community’s best
Win rate across 1,998 head-to-head picks from 98 finished brackets. n is the number of matchups behind each win rate; only entrants with 30 or more are listed.
| # | Comfort food | W–L | Win rate | vs .500 | Titles | n |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 190–55 | 77.6% | 24 | 245 | ||
| 2 | 140–65 | 68.3% | 10 | 205 | ||
| 3 | Mac & CheeseCheesy pasta perfection | 174–84 | 67.4% | 11 | 258 | |
| 4 | 131–65 | 66.8% | 13 | 196 | ||
| 5 | 137–80 | 63.1% | 7 | 217 | ||
| 6 | 124–83 | 59.9% | 3 | 207 | ||
| 7 | 115–83 | 58.1% | 6 | 198 | ||
| 8 | 101–84 | 54.6% | 2 | 185 |
Comfort Foods: the community tier list
From 1,998 head-to-head picks in 98 finished brackets. Placed by win rate, steadied toward 50% for entrants with few matchups: S is 75% or more, A 60%, B 50%, C 40%, D 25%.
Stier, win rate 75% or more
- Pizza
Atier, win rate 60% or more
- French Fries
- Mac & Cheese
- Fried Chicken
- Spaghetti & Meatballs
Btier, win rate 50% or more
- Chicken Tenders
- Ramen
- Grilled Cheese
- Mashed Potatoes
Ctier, win rate 40% or more
- Lasagna
- Chicken & Waffles
- Loaded Baked Potato
- Tater Tots
- Pot Roast
- Chicken Pot Pie
Dtier, win rate 25% or more
- Biscuits & Gravy
- Chicken Noodle Soup
- Shepherd's Pie
- Chili
- Cornbread
- Beef Stew
- Pho
- Tomato Soup
- + 1 more
Ftier, win rate 0% or more
- Nobody yet
How the Comfort Foods bracket works
This comfort food tier list is played, not dragged into rows. You get one matchup at a time — Mac & Cheese or Grilled Cheese? Chicken Noodle Soup or Pizza? — and after 15 picks the bracket has a champion, with everything else placed by how far it got. By the end you have ranked the 16 in today's draw without ever looking at more than two at a time; play All 24 for the whole field.
This bracket runs 4 rounds at the default 16-slot size (Round of 16, Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Final), drawn from a pool of 24 choices. The draw changes every day and New draw reshuffles it whenever you like, so the same choice can meet a different opponent in round one and finish somewhere else entirely. You can also play it at 8 or 24 slots for a shorter or longer run.
15 picks, 4 rounds
- Round of 168 matchups
- Quarterfinals4 matchups
- Semifinals2 matchups
- Final1 matchup
Roughly 1-2 minutes start to finish at the default size.
All 24 entrants
All 24 entrants are listed below, including Mac & Cheese, Grilled Cheese, Chicken Noodle Soup and Pizza. Updated
- Mac & CheeseCheesy pasta perfectionPhoto: Texasfoodgawker / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Grilled CheeseButtery & meltyPhoto: Willis Lam / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Chicken Noodle SoupFeel-better foodPhoto: Hoyabird8 / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
- PizzaEveryone's favoritePhoto: igorovsyannykov / Wikimedia Commons · CC0
- Mashed PotatoesCreamy & butteryPhoto: sousvideguy / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
- Fried ChickenCrispy & juicyPhoto: Evan-Amos / Wikimedia Commons · CC0
- LasagnaLayered Italian comfortPhoto: Sambawamba / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Chicken Pot PieFlaky & heartyPhoto: avlxyz / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- MeatloafClassic American
- ChiliWarm & spicyPhoto: Carstor / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.5
- Pot RoastSlow-cooked perfectionPhoto: Mark Miller / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Tomato SoupPair with grilled cheesePhoto: Ella Olsson / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
- French FriesSalty & crispyPhoto: StockSnap / Wikimedia Commons · CC0
- Spaghetti & MeatballsItalian-American classicPhoto: jeffreyw / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
- Biscuits & GravySouthern staple
- Shepherd's PieMeat & potato casserolePhoto: Oxfordian Kissuth / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Chicken TendersCrispy stripsPhoto: FotoosVanRobin / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- CornbreadSweet & crumblyPhoto: Zankopedia / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Beef StewHearty & richPhoto: FiveRings ( talk ) / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 3.0
- Tater TotsCrispy potato nuggetsPhoto: Willis Lam / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Loaded Baked PotatoCheese, bacon & sour cream
- Chicken & WafflesSweet meets savoryPhoto: arnold inuyaki / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
- RamenWarm noodle bowlPhoto: Lombroso / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
- PhoVietnamese noodle soupPhoto: SerraKnightz / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 4.0
Tier list instead?
Load all 24 into the tier list maker and sort them into S through F yourself: same entrants, no matchups.
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- Answer as if both options were in front of you and you could only eat one.
- Start at 16 slots. If the result feels too obvious, replay at 24 so more of the 24 choices make the field.
- Undo exists for a reason: an early-round mistake propagates all the way to the final, and there is no shame in taking it back.
Questions people ask
What is the best comfort food?
According to 98 BracketRanker players, Pizza (Everyone's favorite). It wins 77.6% of its head-to-head matchups (n = 245) and was champion in 24 of 98 brackets (24.5%).
How many choices are in the Comfort Foods bracket?
The pool holds 24 choices. A default run uses 16 of them and takes 15 picks across 4 rounds: Round of 16, Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Final. Other field sizes are available too — 8, 16, 24 slots.
Which choices are included?
Mac & Cheese, Grilled Cheese, Chicken Noodle Soup, Pizza, Mashed Potatoes, Fried Chicken, Lasagna, Chicken Pot Pie, Meatloaf, Chili, Pot Roast and Tomato Soup, plus 12 more. Every entrant is listed further down this page with its artwork.
How long does the Comfort Foods bracket take?
About 1-2 minutes — 15 choices at the default size, or 7 if you drop to an 8-slot bracket. No account is needed, and a run saves after every pick, so you can stop and jump back in later.
Can I turn the result into S/A/B tiers?
Both are here, and the bracket is closer to a tier list than it looks. It ends with a champion, a runner-up and then every other choice grouped by the round it went out in — which is exactly a set of tiers, decided by 15 direct comparisons rather than by your first guess at a layout. What it deliberately does not do is claim a precise gap between two choices that never met. If you would rather place the choices into S through F rows yourself, the tier list maker loads all 24 of them at bracketranker.com/tier-list-maker.
Can I compare my order with other people's?
Every completed bracket feeds the Comfort Foods community results page, which aggregates win rates across all plays and tracks how often each of the 24 entrants takes the title. It updates continuously, so it moves as more people play.
What if a choice I wanted is missing?
Use the bracket maker: add your own choices, name it, and share the link so other people play the same field. That is the route to take when this pool of 24 is missing something you would have picked, or when you want a version scoped to one era, label or franchise.