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I came up with the idea of a "Iron Chef Real world challenge". Take these fancy chefs, send them to small towns in various parts of the country, give them $50, a car with quarter tank of gas, and 3 kids. Tell them they have 3 hours to make the best meal they can for 6 in a kitchen with nothing beyond a few pots and pans. No assistants, nothing in the pantry but flour, salt and sugar. Oh, and by the way, they're responsible for cleaning up after dinner.
I came up with the idea of a "Iron Chef Real world challenge". Take these fancy chefs, send them to small towns in various parts of the country, give them $50, a car with quarter tank of gas, and 3 kids. Tell them they have 3 hours to make the best meal they can for 6 in a kitchen with nothing beyond a few pots and pans. No assistants, nothing in the pantry but flour, salt and sugar. Oh, and by the way, they're responsible for cleaning up after dinner.
Oh, yeah - and it would be best of all if they had to do that in competition with some local in the same small community, who has to do that every day. I know who I'd bet on to win!
I came up with the idea of a "Iron Chef Real world challenge". Take these fancy chefs, send them to small towns in various parts of the country, give them $50, a car with quarter tank of gas, and 3 kids. Tell them they have 3 hours to make the best meal they can for 6 in a kitchen with nothing beyond a few pots and pans. No assistants, nothing in the pantry but flour, salt and sugar. Oh, and by the way, they're responsible for cleaning up after dinner.
I came up with the idea of a "Iron Chef Real world challenge". Take these fancy chefs, send them to small towns in various parts of the country, give them $50, a car with quarter tank of gas, and 3 kids. Tell them they have 3 hours to make the best meal they can for 6 in a kitchen with nothing beyond a few pots and pans. No assistants, nothing in the pantry but flour, salt and sugar. Oh, and by the way, they're responsible for cleaning up after dinner.
Better yet, forget the $50. Drop them off into the kitchen and have them prepare a nutritious and tasty meal with only the ingredients in the kitchen.
And c'mon, THREE hours? Few have that much time. Give them ONE hour.
It reminds me of some of the culinary programs I have seen in Chicagoland. It takes some of these students 30 minutes to clean and cut-up ONE chicken. The old standard was about 40 an hour.
I'm on the team of people who are sick of cooking reality shows. I'm actually sick of reality shows in general (never liked them, but man, that's all anyone watches anymore), but there are plenty of contest type cooking shows already. I don't even watch the Food Network anymore, and am very thankful to have The Cooking Channel, though I'm sure it's only a matter of time until they start showing a bunch of garbage too...
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Yet another vote AGAINST those reality cooking shows. The cake contests, the cupcake contests, the "worst cooks" contests. UGH
I love the shows like Ina Garten, Bobby Flay, Tyler Florence, Giada, etc. The cooking contests..not so much. I find myself watching less and less of that network....sad. I used to love it.
My wife did a series of shows where they "broke into" the homes of people, and tried to put together something edible from what they could find in the kitchen of the kinds of people who wouldn't care if you broke into their house and cooked in their kitchen. like single artsy males. This was for community television, and of course, the victims were insiders they knew would be cooperative with the spirit of the thing.
I used to love Gordon Elliot's Door-Knock Dinners.
He had a chef and a camera man, and he'd wander into some suburban town, knock on a door, and tell the person the chef would make a delicious gourmet meal from whatever they had in the pantry.
I couldn't relate to the fact that it was an expert chef doing this, but I could definitely relate to the idea that nothing I had on-hand could possibly make a great meal.
It was cool to see what could be done with stuff we all seem to have in our kitchens. In one show, they found herbs growing in the person's yard, that they hadn't even known were there.
Of course, I watched this back in my 20s when my pantry usually consisted of Triscuits, Cheerios, a can of green beans, and vodka. so it was nice to dream.
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Cooking Show that might work?
