5 bizarre cooking shows
Inspiration can come from every nook and cranny. And while we also enjoy Jamie Oliver whipping up a 15-minute pasta, or yet another Top Chef winner, sometimes things could be a little more exciting. A little more thinking outside of the pan. And what happens when the ideas rise out of the pan? You get these bizarre, yet oh-so binge-worthy cooking shows.
Cooking on High
After the weed burger, weed lollipops and weed sauce, it doesn’t come as a surprise to us that this green stuff gets its own cooking show. This Netflix show is exactly what you think it is: cooking with weed. Every episode features a cook-off between two chefs. What do they have to make? That’s entirely up to them, as long as weed is used. You really can’t imagine it being any crazier. Can’t get enough? Viceland also has its own weed cooking show: Bong Appétit. Cannabis quinoa, anyone?
Frankenfood
Genetically modified food, if we are to believe the dictionary. The dishes in this programme aren’t genetically modified, but they come pretty close. Picture Shark Tank, but with food. Contestants present their not-so-basic (or, let’s be honest: strange) dish to a jury of chefs and restaurateurs. The winner receives ten thousand dollars and a spot on one of the jury members’ menus. Whether we’re excited about a deep-fried fish stick with peanut butter and jam, we’re not sure, but it does make for hilarious TV. Unfortunately, the series is no longer broadcast in the Netherlands. If you search carefully, you can find it online.
Cutthroat Kitchen
The rules are simple: four chefs each start with $25,000. They can use this money to sabotage the other chefs. Are you the last one standing? Then you’ve won and take home the remaining amount. Winning this cooking competition, on the other hand, is anything but simple. The sabotages the chefs inflict on one another are truly cutthroat. Because how exactly do you make pasta in an aluminium espresso maker? And preparing a dish while sitting in a ball pit? We’ll give these chefs that.
Epic Mealtime
The men behind this YouTube channel aren’t too concerned with their daily calorie intake. In fact, their philosophy on calories is: the more, the better. A fan of bacon and Jack Daniel’s whiskey? Then these will become your new best friends. These two ingredients are almost always present in the mise en place on this show. For example, they made an all bacon burger: they wrapped the bun in bacon, the cheese in bacon, onions in bacon, the burger in bacon… End result: 12,000 calories and footage we can keep watching (while drooling) forever.
Who wants a bacon sandwich with over 1000 Bacon Strips?! https://t.co/9ffm3RfUrz pic.twitter.com/jPVwjytyoy
— Epic Meal Time (@EpicMealTime) July 24, 2018
My Drunk Kitchen
This cooking show on YouTube is hosted by vlogger Hannah Hart. Like many of us, she enjoys spending time in the kitchen. The difference between you and Hannah? Hannah cooks on YouTube under one condition: she is always drunk. And as you may have guessed, cooking doesn’t go quite as smoothly after you’ve downed six tequilas. With 260 million views on her channel in the meantime, Hannah has the key to our heart found.
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