Kitchen

[deeva]

I stopped watching a few years ago too. It seems that the judges already know who they want to win the show. And once that person wins, their show rarely last more than one season. I'm so sick of seeing Guy F.

[Spurt]

On 6/9/2014 GoodStuff said:

I have watched a few of these competitions in the past.......but I've tired of them, as I consider very few of the contestants they've brought on to be real "star quality". Few of the winners actually go on to produce regular, high-profile shows. Most of them seem pretty mediocre, if you want to know the truth.

I've really tired of the overload of contest shows on Food Network, HGTV, everywhere. I'd rather just watch an accomplished cook with talent and personality show me how to cook delicious, tasty, healthy, imaginative meals. Or an accomplished decorator show me how to make a room beautiful and workable. No time clocks, no buzzers, no titles, no racing around the studio trying to get things done in an impossible time limit. Silly, and not so much fun any more.

Great post and ITA

I think HGTV/Food Network is using the same producer, Mark Burnett, that used to do SURVIVOR which explains all the contests and competitions that has for the most part made both of these networks not fun to watch anymore.....

And your right, "the winners" disappear into the sunset because they weren't very good in the first place.......

If you have the channel called CREATE-- you can see approach you are talking about--meals with recipes you want to make with standard ingredients, REAL cooks, gardening, and even arts and crafts. See if your cable system offers it....very refreshing!

And I really miss the decorating shows on HGTV --- not the far out decorating (that is why those "winners" did not connect with the auidence) real honest designers with good ideas .....now it's real estate showcase or Love It or List It, or Property Brothers ....

[Spurt]

On 6/9/2014 graycatsrule said:

I like this show and always watch it, but I wish the winner would actually get some air time. They end up with a show, but it airs only a couple times at off beat hours. Guy is the only one who really made it. He's on like 16 hours a day, he could give up a couple hours.

And what does he actually cook----he seems to have shows where he goes to different eating places tasting food (Diners and Dives).....is now a game show host on the Food Network and even the Game Show Network and NBC.....and I was never exactly fond of him......

[SydneyH]

I'm watching but I'm shocked at some of the rookie mistakes I'm seeing. What happened to last season's sandwich guy?

[Group 5 minus 1]

Watch Food Network a lot. Really like Rewrapped. Cutthroat Kitchen is another fav. Do not care for Next Star-feel it is fake. I also do like Bobby Flays style of ""acting"" or Giada. I thinik her smile is too toothy.

[Group 5 minus 1]

I think the sandwich guy is sometimes a judge on GGG's and on Cooking Channel.

[nomless]

The sandwich guy has a show on FN every weekend. And yes, he cooks.

[wildcat fan]

I really didn't care for the Cutthroat Kitchen format--too silly IMO.

Once again I thought they should have sent home at least 2 people. They don't like any of that woman's dishes (the one who added lots of red pepper flakes), so I see no need to keep her around since she will inevitably be on the chopping block. The guy they sent home shouldn't have been there in the first place!

[songbird]

On 6/9/2014 graycatsrule said:

I like this show and always watch it, but I wish the winner would actually get some air time. They end up with a show, but it airs only a couple times at off beat hours. Guy is the only one who really made it. He's on like 16 hours a day, he could give up a couple hours.

You're right about Guy. He's the only really successful Food Network find. He gets gets a lot of flack over his cooking ability. But he has the charm that translates on the camera. In the end, that's more important that actual cooking ability.

[chickenbutt]

On 6/17/2014 wildcat fan said:

I really didn't care for the Cutthroat Kitchen format--too silly IMO.

Once again I thought they should have sent home at least 2 people. They don't like any of that woman's dishes (the one who added lots of red pepper flakes), so I see no need to keep her around since she will inevitably be on the chopping block. The guy they sent home shouldn't have been there in the first place!

I didn't like that, either! I found myself fast-forwarding through a lot of it to just get to results. It just goes way past the point of ridiculous.

I tried to watch Alton's Cutthroat Kitchen show a couple of times and just couldn't hang.