Is this good, /ck/?

Not anymore.

They've turned it from a cooking competition into a who has the biggest sob story competition.

Every judge is a fucking faggot and I can't stand any of them.

The only good parts are the mystery basket reveals.

Tbh the best shows on Food Network rn are The Kitchen and Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives.

>>7292588
The only judges that really suck are Guarnaschelli and Scott Conant. I like Zakarian, Samuelsson, Freitag, and even Maneet. I think the show is perfectly watchable.

A lot of the food network shows are garbage. The contestants and judges seem like caricatures of themselves. desu I actually think Jack Scalfani should get a cooking show to get away from all the other clowns on the network,

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>>7292860
>Diners, Drive ins, and Dives

>>7292878
>Samuelsson
that fussy little prick? literally everything "doesn't have enough salt"

>>7292881
>watching diners, drive-ins and dives
>chef makes a chicken sandwich
>guy takes a bite as big as possible, getting food all over his face
>notice the chef recoil in disgust for a second
in one episode, i also noticed that guy had some pale streaks on his neck. then i realized his neck fat covered some sections of skin while he was tanning.

>>7292424
Mostly this. When the show was about cooking, and chef comments were about the food, the reason behind their cooking choices, or about their cooking history, I enjoyed the show. Now, I generally fast forward chunks of the chef explanations, as they focus in whatever sob story the chef has (gay, cancer, single mom, etc.). I don't give a fuck, talk about the food.

I'm oddly attracted to Indian judge, but besides that once you watch the show a few times you can literally predict who's going to win pretty easily.

>All the judges compliment an aspect of the meal
>Then bring up a negative, that's usually nit-picking so it makes it seem more even and increases the drama
>Implying that someone who doesn't use a basket ingredient and [one other negative] will be in the same boat as someone who "didn't quite balance the flavours"

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>>7292889
I'm both disgusted and fascinated by him. Too weird to reproduce. Too rare to let die.

>>7292886
Think he's p. objective. He's barely on the show that much anyways so that shouldn't be all the skin off of your nose.

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>we will never have Fieri judge an episode of Chopped