Post by manekineko on Aug 12, 2013 1:36:29 GMT -5
Recently, I had gotten into Chopped!, although to be fair, I didn't want to see it on ten hours a day like The Food Network does on Tuesday. Then I saw a program called Cutthroat Kitchen, which opened my eyes. I was interested and had to watch.
Cutthroat Kitchen is essentially Chopped! in reverse. Whereas Chopped has competition but camaraderie, Cutthroat Kitchen has one agenda in mind: Win at any cost.
The game starts with four chefs, each one of which is given $25,000 in cash. They are given a task, such as "cook a chicken dinner" and then they are given 60 seconds to go through the pantry and get all the ingredients they need.
Afterwards, Alton Brown, the host, puts up an item for auction. Each of the contestants can bid for it and they can spend whatever they want out of the $25,000. These items have one purpose, to ruin the opponents. For instance, making one chef cook a dish using only a pocket knife to cut the ingredients, or saying they can't taste the item while they're cooking it. Bids can be done in increments of $100. This is done three times during each round, excepting in the final round where it is only done twice.
Once the auction is over, the chefs have to go and make the dish with the restrictions imposed on them. During the cooking time, the host will come out with another item for auction, and they can again handicap the player of their choice.
When the time is up, a culinary expert is called in that has no idea what happened to the chefs and he or she tastes the dishes and then makes a decision on who will not move on to the next round.
If that person is cut, they lose all their money and are eliminated from the game, then this goes on two more times.
In layman's terms, this game is evil, insidious, nasty, vicious, cruel and if you want to see what would happen if the show "Chopped!" was done with real competition, then you should check out "Cutthroat Kitchen". Sometimes I feel the gimmicks are over the top, but if you think about it, life is kinda like that. We all grew up playing Monopoly and you know first place takes everything and second through eighth place ends up hocking their clothes and eating discarded fast food for the rest of their lives as they're hopelessly in debt.
The one chef at the end of the three rounds who survives keeps whatever money was not spent on auctioning items. In the premiere episode, the amount won was $11,900.
Like Chopped!, this show makes you improvise when life throws you a curve. You will be dealing with low-down, double-dealing, backstabbing, larcenous, perverted worms and anyone who ends up making a dish out of it in the time allotted earns every dime they get. This is definitely not a family-friendly game, but it is an interesting concept.
Rating: 7.5/10. I always have a problem with the concept that money actually goes down and not up in this game, but it makes sense. Also, some of the things that happened are VERY cruel, but it's all in the name of the game.
Cutthroat Kitchen is essentially Chopped! in reverse. Whereas Chopped has competition but camaraderie, Cutthroat Kitchen has one agenda in mind: Win at any cost.
The game starts with four chefs, each one of which is given $25,000 in cash. They are given a task, such as "cook a chicken dinner" and then they are given 60 seconds to go through the pantry and get all the ingredients they need.
Afterwards, Alton Brown, the host, puts up an item for auction. Each of the contestants can bid for it and they can spend whatever they want out of the $25,000. These items have one purpose, to ruin the opponents. For instance, making one chef cook a dish using only a pocket knife to cut the ingredients, or saying they can't taste the item while they're cooking it. Bids can be done in increments of $100. This is done three times during each round, excepting in the final round where it is only done twice.
Once the auction is over, the chefs have to go and make the dish with the restrictions imposed on them. During the cooking time, the host will come out with another item for auction, and they can again handicap the player of their choice.
When the time is up, a culinary expert is called in that has no idea what happened to the chefs and he or she tastes the dishes and then makes a decision on who will not move on to the next round.
If that person is cut, they lose all their money and are eliminated from the game, then this goes on two more times.
In layman's terms, this game is evil, insidious, nasty, vicious, cruel and if you want to see what would happen if the show "Chopped!" was done with real competition, then you should check out "Cutthroat Kitchen". Sometimes I feel the gimmicks are over the top, but if you think about it, life is kinda like that. We all grew up playing Monopoly and you know first place takes everything and second through eighth place ends up hocking their clothes and eating discarded fast food for the rest of their lives as they're hopelessly in debt.
The one chef at the end of the three rounds who survives keeps whatever money was not spent on auctioning items. In the premiere episode, the amount won was $11,900.
Like Chopped!, this show makes you improvise when life throws you a curve. You will be dealing with low-down, double-dealing, backstabbing, larcenous, perverted worms and anyone who ends up making a dish out of it in the time allotted earns every dime they get. This is definitely not a family-friendly game, but it is an interesting concept.
Rating: 7.5/10. I always have a problem with the concept that money actually goes down and not up in this game, but it makes sense. Also, some of the things that happened are VERY cruel, but it's all in the name of the game.