which cooking reality show has the best chefs?

[nageov3t]

ok, this is really just about Top Chef versus Chopped because I think they're head and shoulders above anything else

excluding celebrity chef shows (Iron Chef, Top Chef Masters, etc), which reality tv show do you think has the most capable chefs on it?

 

[Platypus]

I think Top Chef usually has more consistently good chefs although some of the people that have gone on Chopped are insanely good. You can almost guarantee one really, really shitty chef on both shows.

 

[BrunoPuntzJones]

I can you tell how good a chef is by watching him cook food?

 

[Platypus]

I can you tell how good a chef is by watching him cook food?

and how they deal with constraints and problems that arise.

 

[yllus]

I just can't get into a competition show where all of the chefs are actually competent (and Hell's Kitchen is just too far in the opposite direction now). I guess this is a sign that I liked the drama more than I care about food.

 

[ElFenix]

when did we start calling game shows 'reality tv'?

 

[HardcoreRobot]

top chef

 

[Juddog]

Top Chef - master chefs edition. This was my favorite series of all of the cooking shows, because they took actual chefs that had staff and ran their own restaurants competing (well for the most part).

 

[MJinZ]

Master Chef!!!

Breaking the rules yah

 

[gsellis]

Shows? Bah... I go straight to Big Daddy's House. Aaron McCargo Jr rules.

 

[Ns1]

top chef by a mile

 

[TwiceOver]

Never even heard of "Chopped". One thing for sure is that the "cooks" on Hell's Kitchen are poor at best.

 

[nageov3t]

Never even heard of "Chopped". One thing for sure is that the "cooks" on Hell's Kitchen are poor at best.

it's kinda cool.

professional chefs are given a box of random ingredients and have to make a dish with them.

3 rounds, 1 chef "chopped" after each round (appetizer, main course, dessert). seems to mostly be NYC-area chefs competing.

 

[The Boston Dangler]

i like chopped

 

[Elbryn]

what about iron chef? the japanese ones versus the american version? some of those chefs were quite accomplished also.

 

[Ns1]

what about iron chef? the japanese ones versus the american version? some of those chefs were quite accomplished also.

"excluding celebrity chef shows (Iron Chef, Top Chef Masters, etc), which reality tv show do you think has the most capable chefs on it? "

 

[911paramedic]

Of those two, Top Chef.

I really like Master Chef Australia/New Zealand though. (The US version sucks so far.) In the down under version there are always some very good cooks.

 

[Ben90]

I'm gonna have to go with South Park's Chef

 

[alfa147x]

Giada DeLaurentis

 

[Homerboy]

Giada DeLaurentis

Even though her head is WAY too big for her body.... giggity.

 

[Jadow]

Top Chef and Chopped both usually have really good chefs. The last 2 seasons of Top Chef were awesome, this season, not so much.

Watching the trailer trash chuds who can't crack an egg in Hell's Kitchen makes me laugh compared to Top Chef.

You ever watch the BBC Kitchen Nightmares? That's a really good show and they are pretty smart about it. The US one is just full of people yelling and trying to go overboard for the camera. Pisses me off that they have to dumb it down and make it more "edgy" for us Americans.

 

[DrPizza]

Easily the greatest chef of them all:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7UmUX68KtE