For pure kitchen chaos, it’s hard to beat FOX's NextLevelChef. GordonRamsay cooking
Sometimes, I can’t help but wonder about the minds of those nameless individuals who dream up the central gimmicks at the heart of newly conceived TV competition series.
isn’t quite like any other cooking competition on TV today. It takes an array of seasoned cooks and professional chefs, and then confronts them with a gimmick designed to scramble their brains with split-second panic. You think opening a basket of mystery ingredients onposes a difficult conceptual challenge? At least those ingredients were thought out by a team of chefs or producers, and presumably the producers feel like everybasket has the potential to create exceptional dishes.
I really can’t overstate the pure chaos that is infused into those 30 seconds of gathering ingredients, and the way it reduces many of thecontestants to instinctual grabbing and hoarding of anything within reach. The time passes so quickly, and there are so many other bodies crowded around you, that contestants move in a panicked blur, their faces etched with horror.
And that’s before you even get into the inherent and intentional unfairness of the three-tiered kitchen gimmick, where chefs on the top floor are cooking with premium equipment—shameless advertisements for Ramsay’s own line of Hexclad pans, naturally—and cooks in the basement are trying to make do with warped pans, ovens that don’t get hot, and faucets that barely work at all.
It’s this frenetic energy, the seeming feeling that things can go disastrously wrong for any given contestant on any week, that makesa guilty pleasure among culinary competition shows. A contestant can be on top of the world one week, putting together
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