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[Image: © 2010 Food Network]As promised, here’s another review of the best one-episode competition reality series. This time, I’m reviewing Chopped on the Food Network.
Former Queer Eye member, Ted Allen, hosts the show and each episode/competition has three very well known chefs to judge the finished dishes. Sounds pretty simplistic, right?
That would be wrong! 
We get a chance at the beginning of the episode to find out a bit about each of the competing chefs, then they are tossed to the sharks, so to speak.
In each of three rounds, they will be given a basket of crazy ingredients that absolutely do not go together and they will have an insanely short amount of time (like 20 minutes) to prepare a delicious dish. The first round is an appetizer, second round is a main entrée, and third round is predictably the toughest, dessert.
After frantically cooking as fast as they can, when the time is up, they must present a finished dish to each of the judges. Each dish must include all of the mystery items in some way, but with such a short time frame, often one will be left out or not cooked properly. That sets the chef up to be “Chopped.” After each round one of the competitors is cut from the competition, i.e. Chopped.
When all three rounds are over and the one chef is left standing, he or she wins a $10,000 prize. Not bad for a day’s work!
I haven’t seen many dishes that I would actually want to make or even eat, but to watch these talented people pushed so hard is fascinating. Some buckle under the pressure, some stay calm and collected. And we’ve seen more than our share of blood from them trying to cut things too quickly. And don’t get me started about the people who “double dip” while they cook. The judges can scold them, and they continue to do it! I hope I never eat in their restaurants!!
I do enjoy this series. And surprisingly, I almost always have a favorite chef that I hope will win each episode. I recommend that you watch and see if it’s a show you’ll enjoy too.
