A Blog About Cooking Shows From A Guy Who Can't Cook

Hello everybody! Let’s go back in time a little bit right now! In May 2023, I graduated from SUNY Purchase. While most people probably have everything figured out at this point in time, and know what they want to pursue, the same could not be said for me.  I figured that I would take the summer off, and then try to figure something out in the fall. At this time, I went to a variety of places with my family and took a lot of pictures of these places, in hopes that I would want to pursue photography as a potential career path. Unfortunately, I found that it wasn’t that exciting, and my posts to social media got fewer and fewer likes, so I didn’t pursue this any further once the summer ended. Around the time Fall 2023 started, my dad encouraged me to start writing. I didn’t know what I was going to write about, but that didn’t last very long, as I remembered one of my classes that I enjoyed at SUNY Purchase involved me pretending to run a business that promoted concerts, so through th...

After another great episode last week, it was time for the next episode of Season 16 of MasterChef! But this wasn’t just any regular episode of MasterChef, this was the infamous Tag Team Challenge! For those of you wondering what that entails, it’s where all the contestants are working in teams of two to recreate a certain number of dishes, but only one can cook at a time, and they switch out every ten minutes. It gets as crazy as you think it does.  With that explanation out of the way, let’s get into the actual episode! The kitchen was decorated like some sort of tropical jungle or forest for some reason this episode, and when you find out the reason, you are going to cringe as hard as I did.  You see, the show has frequently done product placement for a number of challenges, but for the most part, they have all been cooking related, minus the one from earlier in the season where the challenge was sponsored by The Home Depot, and gave us the first time in history that someon...

Hello everybody!  Here’s a fun fact for all of you reading right now: The next season of Hell’s Kitchen is premiering next month!  To celebrate such a momentous occasion, I will be doing write-ups of all the episodes from the previous season, which was Season 24, because if there is anybody in this world who has taken the job of getting people excited for shows they don’t care about, it’s me. So, with that out of the way, let’s get into it! Season 24 was filmed at Foxwoods Resort Casino in Connecticut, because even though everybody lives out in California, the producers love Connecticut’s cost structure. And if you don’t believe me, they have just filmed the next two seasons at Foxwoods as well.  Also, for reasons that I assume are just because they can, since Season 17, every season has had a gimmick to it that has had almost no effect on how the season has played out, and Season 24 was no exception. The gimmick this season was “Battle Of The States.”  It started of...

After a great episode last week with the wedding of last season’s winners, it was time for another Mystery Box Challenge! I was greatly looking forward to this episode, as I love when they do regular challenges like this one, and seeing all the unique dishes the home cooks make. So obviously, I was totally thrilled when Fox prioritized The WNBA over the show for us here in New York, and I was even more thrilled when Fox One, the only way I can watch the episode right now, was not working earlier this morning. Yeah, this really is a season where it feels like they are either trying to get me to fall out of love with the show or feel inconvenienced in every way imaginable. So, with that quick little rant out of the way, let’s get into the actual episode! The home cooks entered the kitchen to find Mystery Boxes at all of their stations, because as I said, it’s a Mystery Box Challenge this episode. For whoever cooked the best dish in this episode, that person and everyone else from their t...

Hello everybody! I had so much fun writing about Kitchen Nightmares last week, that I have decided to do it again! But as there have been over 100 episodes, I am not going to write about all of them. That’s just way too much for me. So instead, I am going to choose what I feel are the craziest episodes that will make for amazing write-ups. And it just so happens that after a truly crazy premiere, the next episode that was just as crazy was THE VERY NEXT EPISODE.  The restaurant that Chef Ramsay visited in this episode was an Indian Restaurant in New York City called Dillon’s, which also happened to be two blocks away from his own restaurant that he used to have in the city. I actually don’t know if Chef Ramsay’s New York City restaurant is definitely closed, but considering all his restaurants in America these days are in Vegas or at casinos, and I haven’t heard anything about his restaurant in the city, I think it’s fair to assume that it’s closed.  The problems with Dillon’s...