April 22, 2008

  • REALITY COOKING!

    I don't watch Survivor or Big Brother or any of that type of show, but for some reason or another, I've gotten into reality cooking shows.

    There are three series airing at present that I'm following, Top Chef on Bravo, Hell's Kitchen on FOX, and Last Restaurant Standing on BBC.

    Top Chef is in Chicago this year and features 16 cooks from different backgrounds who compete against each other for a prize of $100,000. They are judged by a panel of chefs on how well they cook on different challenges and various locations and environments. One chef is eliminated each week.

    Hell's Kitchen divides 16 cooks from various backgrounds into teams and they compete in the same kitchen for the entire series. They cook for and serve diners while being bullied, embarrassed, cursed at and intimidated by Gordon Ramsay.  At the end of each episode, Ramsay eliminates one person.  The winner becomes the head chef in one of Ramsay's restaurants.



    Last Restaurant Standing takes place in Great Britain and consists of 9 pairs of contestants who compete to open a restaurant with Raymond Blanc. The competing couples in the beginning were twin sisters, brothers, mother and son, and various couples with diverse backgrounds who had never run restaurants before.  Each couple was given a key to an empty restaurant and their goal was was to start-up and create a successful business.  Their progress is judged according to specified goals and then the lowest ranked pairs compete on an elimination challenge.

    In each series, the competitors live together and are filmed constantly for additional drama.

    I'm anxiously waiting for the next season of:

    Does anyone else watch these shows?
        

Comments (3)

  • I don't, but I watched a few minutes of a funny one the other day. It was like American Idol for dog groomers called "Groomer Has It", complete with a house for participants to live in and judges who insulted them endlessly on their grooming technique. When contestants are eliminated, they are then "in the dog house". It cracked me up.

  • I don't watch much TV at all, but my friend watches ALL of them, including the cooking ones.  I watched a Hell's Kitchen ep at her house.  It was interesting.  I just gotta say, they must be pretty desperate for jobs to allow someone to belittle them like Ramsay does.  I wouldn't put up with it. 

  • I watch them and if I was rested enough

     could give these shows a run for their money.

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