• 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.
  • CptHacke@piefed.socialOPEnglish
    9·
    6 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·
      6 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”.