Top 5 Cooking Shows

Last week, we talked about Dating Shows, because, there are hundreds of them and not that many are very good, and I really don’t have the energy to cover them all. Luckily this week is all about MUNCH, and Jordan Loves to MUNCH!

While you can simply say it’s a “talent-based” competition series, only instead of Dancing and Singing, it’s making a good pizza, there are hundreds of these shows, from the informational “Ready Steady Cook” to the borderline illegal “X-Treme Chef”

But luckily, I got five of them to check out….

Iron Chef - The ultimate gauntlet of chef vs chef, one hour, to make a full course meal out of one star ingredient.

Chopped - The mystery box challenge on Masterchef, but as a knockout style competition series, What is essentially the Jeopardy! of the culinary world. Only the smartest, most creative chefs will win.

The Taste - Highlighting that “Cooking Contest is just Singing But Food” here is essentially The Voice, but with a spoon to determine your fate, featuring Nigella Lawson, Chef Ludo from “Rat in the Kitchen” and the late great Anthony Bourdain.

The Great British Bake Off - The television version of warm, inviting television, a baking contest that was so fondly loved, it got ripped off on NBC, twice (I See You “Baking It” and “Making It”) and also transformed many creative shows after it’s popularity, like Ink Master and Top Chef.

Cutthroat Kitchen - The meanest cooking contest, however, the most “game show” as well, contestants get $25,000 if they win 3 rounds, but can spend any of that money to sabotage others in basic cooking contests. It’s a harmless pizza contest, until you make a chef have to dig in a giant cherry pie for ingredients.

All this, plus a sad truth about the game show world - BUDGETS ARE GETTING CUT, AND THE $1,000/$10,000 might be here to stay.