• Contestants are not chefs.
  • Contestants are low-to-mid level income parents.
  • A cupboard filled with a small amount of random ingredients found at a local grocery store. NO exotic ingredients. NO pricey ingredients.
  • Contestants must also incorporate randomly selected ‘leftovers’ from a pre-cooked meal into their dish.
  • The judges are kids ranging in age from 10-18. NO celebrity judges. NO chef judges.
  • First prize is free groceries for a year.
  • 37piecesof_flare@lemmy.world
    6·
    4 days ago

    This sounds like a less interesting version of chopped.

    Kids in general fucking suck at determining good food… I don’t know many people who’d want to watch who can make the best chicken nuggets or french fries.

    Put judges on the panel who can at least determine a well balanced/cooked meal from a crappy one. Doesn’t have to be a professional chef, just someone with some level of experience with cooking… Home cooks, line cooks, etc. Not some 14 year old who thinks stouffers French bread pizza is a meal. That opinion is null and void in the world of cooking.

    • CptHacke@piefed.socialOPEnglish
      9·
      4 days ago

      I’m going to assume that you don’t have kids. Parents will understand where I’m coming from, I think.

      • Scipitie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        2·
        4 days ago

        All kids including my own match exactly what was said: they’re Absolutely shitty judges (all on the younger end of your range and even below though! That might influence this quite a bit but “this taste bad, I don’t like it” because of a bad night is not shocking, about a food favorite.

        It’s about consistency that such a show would need and that’s tough with kids to get - it’s more gambling if you have no idea what your benchmark will be.

        Alternatively you could lean fully into it and the contestants could have a brief interview with each judge before each round.

        Now that I think about I like your idea better and better, just needs a few details to lean into the chaos kids would bring!

        Talk about a 180 … And I’m supposed to be the “stable adult”.

  • chrash0@lemmy.world
    3·
    4 days ago

    as someone who has been watching far too much Food Network on the treadmill: just give em some freakin time to cook. the best things i’ve made personally are low and slow or from scratch pasta or slaw that sat in the fridge overnight. the 15-45min time frame has produced so many undercooked or otherwise mangled $80 steaks. like, even for a weeknight dinner i’m using things i marinated overnight or whatever. and in a kitchen setting you literally have all morning to prep in addition to doing overnight prep or even coming in super early to start your fresh bread. the format precludes entire classes of dishes.