Thorsten Topf appeared in the Sesamstrasse episode 2302. He is a professional chef who Pferd has invited to show how to make spaghetti with tomato sauce. Rumpel is confident that he is a much better chef, so he challenges Thorsten Topf to a cooking competition, with the hungry Pferd as the judge. For the challenge, Rumpel makes shoelaces with a sauce cooked on a shoe.