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[ghost_light]

Chopped on the Food Network.

 

I watch a lot of cooking competition shows, but this is my favorite.  It is kind of a smash-up of Iron Chef and Top Chef.

 

4 competitors start.  They are given a mystery basket of ingredients - flour tortillas, rattlesnake, hen o the woods mushrooms and gummy bears, let's say - and they have 20 minutes to cook an appetizer.  1 chef is eliminated and the remaining chefs get a new basket and 30 minutes to do an entree.  Another elimination, another basket and then 20 minutes to make dessert.

 

Way too entertaining.

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Comments

[layrenelement.livejournal.com]

My favorite ones are The Next Iron Chef and Iron Chef. :D

[ghost-light.livejournal.com]

I'm watching Next Iron Chef but I like the Japanese Iron Chef better than the new series.

[layrenelement.livejournal.com]

I never could get into the original. We are big fans of Alton Brown at our house though, love his commentaries. :D We also love Jeffrey Steingarten's comments whenever he is a judge.

[ghost-light.livejournal.com]

We do everything Alton Brown tells us.

[aine-willows.livejournal.com]

I. adore. chopped. I've seriously watched every episode I could find anywhere. I found it last year.

[ghost-light.livejournal.com]

We found it last year too. I love that I am still not caught up so I can watch several episodes a week.

[aine-willows.livejournal.com]

hehe.. unemployed last year = lots of bulk TV seasons.. ;-)

[ghost-light.livejournal.com]

That always meant Sims for me..

[aine-willows.livejournal.com]

Oh, for a while, it was WoW til it got too $$. But I don't own any of the Sims anymore so I did tv.

[artemis_wandering]

Haha, that's one of my favs because I just like seeing all the crazy shit in the baskets.

[ghost-light.livejournal.com]

Me too!

[dreamcowgirl.livejournal.com]

One of my favorite shows! I love the crazy stuff in the baskets. Plus I like they tell you what some of the off the wall things are so you are not totally clueless.

[ghost-light.livejournal.com]

I like that too. I saw one basket where I had never heard of 3 of the ingredients.

[harrietbrown.livejournal.com]

I kinda wish I had a TV so I could watch cooking shows.

[ghost-light.livejournal.com]

That is about the only kind of tv I watch these days.

[inspiredlife.livejournal.com]

I think Chopped is my fave! I like Next Iron Chef as well. I'm really, really missing Food Network here in Prague as I often had it on in the background while I worked.

[ghost-light.livejournal.com]

Years ago we would have Saturdays where we lost (or "lost") the remote and we would leave the tv on Food Network all day.

[impetusofadream.livejournal.com]

Do they have to use ALL of the ingredients? CAuse I'm not seeing how gummy bears works at ALL.

[ghost-light.livejournal.com]

That is part of the fun. There is a fuck you ingredient in every basket....sometime three!