Secret Chef

I love the premise of this show. It could be, or could have been, absolutely top quality. Stop trying to "reality tv" everything?? Just the premise that they are reviewing themselves and each other and working blind is SO FUN. It is absolutely destroyed by the brutally grating animated glove and sound effects. Grab a chef host, a real one, and replace those two things and you have a winner. As it stands right now I don't know that I even *can* finish these episodes. The buzzer noise that they play over and over are awful. I think I would like the 80's electro sound effects if that's all there was to contend with. I think the animated "Cheffy" and the included voice over are just straight bad television.

This show is good. I liked the concept. Was enjoying the chefs and challenges. I could only sit thru 2 episodes though. They use a CGI/AI host that gets irritating quickly. Definitely an AI wrote this because the jokes are horrible. Also the voice is high pitched I think it's that sound only dogs can hear. I couldn't take another minute of the cheffy host. If you're looking for a cooking show there are much better shows out there. If you do decide to watch you will probably need to mute the sound during the cheffy segments. I hope AI isn't the way tv is going because I won't watch. And no I'm not in the industry.

I thought it was super entertaining and i binged watched it all in like a day and a half. I would deff watch season 2. Was it fantastic? No. Entertaining enough? Yes! I thought Cheffy was super cute and i loved the animation. It was fun to see. I also liked how they all secretly judged each others meal.

However, I was disappointed in the finale and the ending with David Chang was weird to me. Why was he looking throughaathe window as the last two cooks were cooking? His personality wasn't pleasant either. He was constantly cratiquiag at the last two contestants (Don't want to spoil the names.)

So much of what makes competition cooking shows watchable is the host(s). When you're relying on civilians for your charisma you're already betting on long-shots. The central gimmick to this was good enough to grow from, but it just gets hindered over and over again by its own ostensibly clever machinations. And the biggest wart for me was how the challenges were so often unachievable by the competitors in the time allotted. Which leads me to the other reason to watch cooking competitions-to be educated/inspired. Since the completed dishes on this show were very often less than presentable, they definitely weren't inspiring and since a lot of the methods involved in preparing the dishes were rushed and constrained by bizarre parameters they also were rarely educational or edifying.

A somewhat entertaining spectacle but it needs retooling to become worth making another season.

Good idea with some twists, but it needs a real presenter not a stupid cartoon chef hat. It felt really childish and patronising and kind of frustrated me as I watched the show. The contestants were great though.

I liked the fact they blind taste stuff as it removes bias and gets entertaining as they figure out who is who

I had a favourite chef and was rooting for them and it was cool to see how home cooks did against the professionals too.

It's would be kind of fun to do a celebrity chef version of the show to see what they say about each other lol!

I think 5/10 is fair since the format needs work.