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Cutthroat Kitchen
2013 · TV series · 60 min episodes · 15 seasons
Just how far is a chef willing to go to win a cooking competition? Cutthroat Kitchen hands four chefs each $25,000 and the opportunity to spend that money on helping themselves or sabotaging their competitors. Ingredients will be thieved, utensils destroyed and valuable time on the clock lost when the chefs compete to cook delicious dishes while also having to outplot the competition. With Alton Brown as the devilish provocateur, nothing is out of bounds when money changes hands and we see just how far chefs will go to ensure they have the winning dish.
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> It's like taking pasta, tomatoes, cheese, olive oil, raw chicken breast, etc and throwing them in a blender, tossing the paste into a pan and baking it, and being amazed that you somehow didn't reproduce a mouth-watering delicious chicken Parmesan.
Funny timing on that simile. Right now I'm watching a Cutthroat Kitchen episode where contestants almost have to do that very thing.
To bring it back to cooking, there are literally TV shows based around professional and solid home cooks struggling to use sub-par equipment. The new Ramsey show is literally this. Cutthroat kitchen is the extreme example.
Heat control is one of the hardest thing for home cooks to get right, and a real flame makes that WAY easier.
There was an episode of Cutthroat Kitchen where a contestant used truffle oil on a dish.
Jet Tela (judge): truffle oil, man, there's just no place for it in the kitchen.
Alton Brown (host): yes there is. throws the bottle in the garbage.
Harsh.
(I do agree that using truffle oil is a sign of an amateur chef)