Best cutthroat kitchen episode is definitely the one where big man smashes a coconut with his bare hands and tells his opponent it's his head, but the runner up is probably where the first round challenge is to make toast and one chef forgets to get bread.
I absolutely love cooking shows that have an absolutely off the wall premise, and refuse to watch anything else.
Cutthroat Kitchen- you can SABOTAGE your fellow cooks, but you have to buy them with your prize money. Alton Brown is 1 egg away from being institutionalized.
Crime Scene Kitchen- figure out what was cooked, and duplicate it. Make the right thing badly? You're fine! Make the wrong thing absolutely beautifully, so perfectly that the judges cry from the pure and wonderful flavor? You're fucked go HOME.
Is It Cake? You must make a cake look like a thing and then people must guess which thing is cake among a group of the things. The judge then tries to cut open a shoe with a butter knife. Chaos.
Are there any other cooking shows out there that clearly show that at least one executive out there still has a sense of humor?
At some point as a child I just decided Alton Brown was gay. I have no idea when or why. So now I'm watching cutthroat kitchen and he's like "make a quesadilla with my wife's hair straightener". Anyways did y'all know Alton Brown isn't gay 'cause I fucking didn't.
Weird thing my brain dreamt up while napping today: Cutthroat Kitchen but set in Hell.
Specifically, Charlie decides to host a cooking contest as a way to promote the Hazbin Hotel, but her intention of running a cute, Great British Bake Off-esque challenge gets overrun by the other hotel residents and morphs into something far more Hellish.
I can't decide who I'd want the host to be, or the contestants though, because there are many entertaining combinations:
Scenario one -
Vox gets wind of this and convinces Charlie to let him host and promises to televise the event to promote the hotel. Really he's only doing this because Alastor has promised to compete and he wants to finally get him on camera + make the competition living hell for the Radio Demon. However he becomes increasingly frustrated when Alastor instead focuses all his attention on Lucifer, who is also competing.
Scenario Two:
Lucifer as host, with Alastor as a competitor. Lucifer has a whole pile of sabotages specifically designed to hinder Alastor but somehow he breezes through all of them.
Scenario Three:
Vaggie as host (she absolutely could be ruthless enough) and both Alastor and Lucifer as competitors, who spend so much time sabotaging each other the one of the other competitors wins (maybe Angel Dust or a completely unexpected competitor)?
Scenario Four:
Alastor as a competitor, who goes into it thinking this will be a piece of cake and absolutely crashes and burns.
We have here a set of lockers, and, surprise, they're locked up tight. Some of them contain some pretty useful stuff: pie crust, sugar, and so on. Some of them are...less useful, like this one, which contains a CD for Sublime's album Santeria.
Win this auction, and your opponent will have to give up their basket and fumble with this full keyring to find usable ingredients in these lockers.
me, someone who is not good at cooking, watching professional/trained chefs in a cooking competition show: wow look at those bad decisions how could you fuck up like that i would never do that
I feel like we need to revisit the way that Alton Brown is dismayed at people being upset that something featured as a sabotage is in fact, not a great kitchen appliance.