Yes, Chef!

This show is the worst of cooking. They bill the show that they'll rehabilitate these people but 0 effort into that. Instead they have horrible people just be horrible to each other with no one controlling anything.

The bullies do things that cross the line in cooking competitions like taking all of one ingredient and not even utilizing the ingredient taken. The judges do nothing about repeat offenses and instead criticize other contestants for not adapting. A competition requires rules and decorum. You crossed way over that line multiple times. This is exponentially even more important when you claim your objective is to rehabilitate the contestants.

The worst person is hands down the producer for glorifying bullying and treating those that actually came to better themselves as nothing but fodder for the bullies. You say you wanted to help these people, but all I see is harm. Please stay out of cooking and go back to producing Big Brother.

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.

I thought I would enjoy this show. The premise had a potential: established chefs would work together to get over their biggest setbacks. Plus juried by Jose Andres and Martha Stewart.

Think: Top Chef All Stars sans Padma, but with some ego trips.

What happened was a disaster.

First, the rules of the game were quirky and actually promote weaker performance.

But most importantly, the casting is the problem. Starting with the judges, who don't seem to enjoy their setting and don't control the group or the show itself.

Then there's Katsuji, planted for some vicious reason to make the show more spicy.

Absolutely disgusting character that made me give up on the show after 1st episode.

It's not a good time to make another show fuelled by terrible human flaws.

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!

Somehow I managed to get through 2 episodes of Yes, Chef! I should have stopped at one. I gave it a chance because I think José Andrés is a wonderful person. It is nothing more than an angry, backstabbing, poorly conceptualized mess. If this is the future of cooking competitions, then it's probably best that they just fade away. I found Katsuji to be one of the most annoying contestants on both seasons of Top Chef and he is more over the top and arrogant on this show. Who invited him, again? I just hope that the money that is made from this bizarre schoolyard bully driven nonsense goes to José Andrés many charities. Also, Martha Stewart seems incredibly bored. I may skip to the end episode though, just to see if it ends like The Menu.