Starring Alton Brown
The Story:
Alton Brown hosts possibly the most diabolical game show/reality show on The Food Network. 4 chefs compete in 3 rounds of cooking competitions. They have between 20-30 minutes to create a dish. After the judge comes out and tries each of the 4 dishes, that judge sends one cook home each round until only one survives.
Sounds simple?
So arm each of the chefs with $25,000 and offer them a series of auctions where they bid to make life miserable for anyone else.
The last chef standing gets to keep whatever money they didn't spend to get there.
Brilliant!
The dishes themselves range from simple to fairly complex.
They have 60 seconds to grab whatever they need to make the dish.
Invariably, someone realizes that they left a crucial component such as eggs, or flour, or milk, or bread behind in the pantry. How will they make do?
They get creative, or if they are lucky, an auction item comes along that allows them to steal or replace ingredients with someone else.
The show is a lot of fun to watch and see the creativity of the chefs.
The main thing I'm noticing in the first few episodes, it seems like whoever spends the most money in the first round invariably loses.
The other chefs either gang up on them with later challenges, and they just no longer have the money to try and compete.
Some challenges push their imagination...some challenges are just too hard to overcome.
There is a season now streaming on Netflix as of this writing.
I'm hoping they will add the other episodes soon!
Final Grade: A
Rewatchability/Purchase Factor: Not sure yet, but I definitely want to see them all.
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