The Great American Recipe

The cooks were delightful and the judges kind while being helpful. I can't wIth for the next season!! I hope that they publish the recipes. Every episode was wonderfully entertaining and fun.

It's not the recipes that are judged, it's the cooks who get sent home. It would make more sense if all the contestants stayed for the entire show, and each time a cook created something, the RECIPE would receive a numerical score. At the end, the top scoring recipe would get the award, as would the cook who brought it.

Each week, the cooks pretty much get to cook whatever they want. It's usually something they've cooked a million times before. Where's the challenge? Only on the week that they had to swap recipes did they have to do something unfamiliar. The challenges needed to be much more clearly defined, and they needed to be a genuine challenge so the cooks had to get out of their comfort zone.

Wow. I like a good cooking show as much as the next guy. But this show is a joke. They have categories like love on a plate and put your DNA on a plate. And then the judges go around and tell these people who have been making a dish for their whole lives how to do it properly. And then they base their decisions on whether or not they cry during the judging or have a heartfelt story. This is absolutely ridiculous. I can't believe I watched it as long as I did. Some of the dishes are actually quite good. But, the fake smiles, the ridiculous sappy stories and constant flashbacks to love and family gets so old. If I hear the word family one more time I'm going to vomit.

I'm not sure why the production is rendered in extra-vivid color, oversharpened. It has a look that reminds me of early astronomical photos from the Hubble telescope that were processed with unsharp masking. The result is unrealistic.

Who are these hosts and judges? No offense, but they make or break the show. Who are they? Could they afford some create chefs? And the host...its like they said let's make sure we get diversity over quality. Kind of annoying to watch. I just like watching pple cook. This concept doesn't get old to me. It is better than many of these corny netflix series though where everything looks cooky and upside down like a pee wee Herman show. I know if I stop watching, it wasn't the cooks. It was the judges and host. They were overkill, and who are they anyway? What qualifies them? That's my biggest annoyance right now. Otherwise, you tried Create. Thank you!

In the end, it was a robbery. Definitely disagree with the winner but then again, the judges weren't much to qualify anyone.