I would love to see a cooking show where they do everything in a home kitchen (a small one).
No little glass bowls of each spice set out. No pre-prepared chicken breasts read to go. Everything done by scratch.
Then let them say "it's an easy meal to whip up in 30 minutes!"
Fuck you.
I’ve seen shows where they give amateur home cooks professional grade equipment and high quality ingredients (particularly, a baking show where all of the contestants have pretty much never baked before), which is an interesting shift from the formula, sure, but what I want to see is professional chefs having to cook in a small apartment kitchen. Limited counter space, older budget appliances, no fancy tools or equipment. They should have at most what my mother has access to - standard home kitchen equipment, lucky to even have tongs and oven mitts and more than one whisk. And they have ingredients from the supermarket. On a working class budget. Maybe a week long competition cycle, where they have to meal plan, shop, and prepare a week of meals on a reasonable working class budget for a week’s groceries. So they have to come up with multiple ways to use the things that are only affordable in bulk, and inventive ways to use basic kitchen tools. I agree with you on bonus points for less dirty dishes. Make whoever dirtied the most dishes wash all of the dishes.
I’ve seen shows where they give amateur home cooks professional grade equipment and high quality ingredients (particularly, a baking show where all of the contestants have pretty much never baked before), which is an interesting shift from the formula, sure, but what I want to see is professional chefs having to cook in a small apartment kitchen. Limited counter space, older budget appliances, no fancy tools or equipment. They should have at most what my mother has access to - standard home kitchen equipment, lucky to even have tongs and oven mitts and more than one whisk. And they have ingredients from the supermarket. On a working class budget. Maybe a week long competition cycle, where they have to meal plan, shop, and prepare a week of meals on a reasonable working class budget for a week’s groceries. So they have to come up with multiple ways to use the things that are only affordable in bulk, and inventive ways to use basic kitchen tools. I agree with you on bonus points for less dirty dishes. Make whoever dirtied the most dishes wash all of the dishes.