Yes, Chef!

Are we watching a cooking competition show, which could inspire us making good food? Or are we watching a bunch so-called "best chefs" who need anger management help? The show doesn't care about making good food, it's about who is the least annoying person so they can survive for another week, even their food suck.

All the contestants looked miserable, upset, and angry. I know this is what this show all about, but do I really want to watch a bunch of angry people attacking each others after a long working day?

This show was trying to be clever and special, it didn't fail completely, at least they achieve one thing... "specially bad".

Oh, and the hosts were not good either...

Shame...

I love looking competition shows and so manynof then make me turn off the television. This is one.

The rules are completely asanine and I don't understand how no one saw this.

In a competition you should have an opportunity to control your fate but in this show you don't. The person from the team who wins who may or may not have the best dish has to cook again from someone they choose. That's not the oldest part of the person they choose wins they can send ANY contestant home. So you an excellent cook can go home with no hope of saving themselves.

That is not COOKING COMPETITION that is who shouldn't I piss off. This is a waste of time if you want to root for a chef because they may just be gone!

I knew I wasn't gonna like this when I first saw the previews. Someone threw a plate or whatever it was on the floor out of anger, and that was all I needed to know to form a conclusion. I am so sick and tired of people being nasty and tearing each other down. Don't we get enough of that every day as it is? Folks are often impatient and unstable: blowing their horn like a madman/woman the second a light turns green, driving up real fast next to you and hanging by your back bumper to block the lane and prevent you from getting over, pushing and shoving in the stores. And then you have toxic, opinionated coworkers. So why do we need to watch people acting rude on TV. Even from the previews, I could tell the premise of this show was different from other culinary competitions. The focus is more or less on the contestants' personality issues, and not so much on their lack of cooking skills. Volunteering to go on here wasn't the answer to resolving their short fuse, because all they're doing is embarrassing themselves in front of the whole country. I do think it would have potential, if the format wasn't cutthroat, you know? I don't understand why it has to be so mafia-like. It's one thing for the judges to choose people to send home, but then you also give the cooks the ability to eliminate their fellow competitors. That's just dirty, and I fail to see how it adds any value. Depending on who they send home, it comes off like they have some kind of vendetta, and not because what they cooked didn't have enough salt, or whatever phony reason they give. A show like this is doing nothing to encourage people to work together, and that's the last thing we need in today's climate.

If you're interested in in-fighting, back stabbing and finger pointing, then this is the show for you.

The basic idea is to get a bunch of chefs who are successful in the kitchen, but not so much in their interpersonal interactions.

A cooking challenge is provided and then...TWIST...they are given a direction by Martha Stewart and José Andrés that guarantees conflict and division.

Considering the amount of anger and division in the world right now, this show is the last thing any of us needs.

José Andrés is such a generous soul with his World Central Kitchen, I can't believe he signed on for this.

Nope. Won't be watching this one.

This is one of the worst "cooking" shows out there. They claim it's taking amazing chef's who are being held back by ego in some way. Yet, they allow a single contestant to screw everyone else over by hoarding ingredients he doesn't even use. Week after week. How is that about the cooking, or working on these chef's issues? Then they judge the contestants on what they make when they are tasked with making specific dishes, which they then CAN'T make because of one guy. This isn't a cooking show. This is clearly a staged "competition" with manufactured drama. If they at least advertised it like that, like shows like Survivor do, I wouldn't mind. But it's almost a bait and switch with the show they advertise and the show you get. But what do you expect for a show produced and hosted by Martha Stewart?