Hosted by Ted Allen
The Story:
The Food Network offers yet another reality tv contest wherein 4 chefs are each given mystery baskets of ingredients. Over the course of 3 rounds they will create an appetizer, a main course and a dessert with those ingredients plus whatever else in the pantry suits their fancy.
At the end of each round, their dishes will be tasted and judged by a celebrity panel, and one of the contestants will be...
Chopped!
So simple, and yet so utterly watchable.
Unlike Cutthroat Kitchen, the ingredients of the basket are really the only sabotage in this game.
Forget to use an ingredient and you're likely going home.
While they say it's not an automatic disqualification, it's pretty darn close to automatic.
If you enjoy these cooking shows, odds are you've been watching them for years already.
For me, I've only just begun to dive in, so my Top 10 Television of 2015 is going to look like The Food Network took over programming.
:)
The judges all do a great job of evaluation on what they see and taste. The benefit of them being there is the banter at their table as they watch, and their impression of how well, or how poorly each chef really did in the time they are given.
Ted Allen gets to host and lift the silver lid off the platter in dramatic fashion, but his no-nonsense approach works well in a show like this were a more charismatic host could ruin the flow of the show or put the spotlight on their antics instead.
Very well done to all involved.
A few seasons are now streaming on Netflix as of this writing.
Final Grade: B+
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