Snackmasters

Great idea for a show, it's fascinating and fun to see chefs try and recreate snacks.

But the presentation just totally ruins it and makes it unwatchable, for me anyway.

The presenter is not very interesting, funny or charming, the comedian is horribly unfunny and the script is just painful.

If you cut all that out of the show you end up with 20 minutes of something really interesting and amusing.

Only seen first episode yet, so this review will be updated later... Fred is an old favorite with his wondeful energy and french accent. Nobody can say "wafer pattern" like him :D

The Kit Kat challenge was fun :)

The so called comedian girl was totally bland though, shame when England have so much wit otherwise.

The first 15 mins of these shows should be 5 mins maximum, introducing the chefs and what they are going to attempt to 'recreate' then add to that the fact that the presenters English need subtitles to decipher what he's actually saying. A good idea but far too drawn out and get rid of that presenter, he comes close to ruining it entirely.

Snackmasters was a fun show, with the bulk of the entertainment derived from watching world-class (and sometimes Michelin-starred) chefs trying to figure out and recreate popular food from production-line process. Naturally, the frustrations as their efforts fall apart was gold for audiences. The now-ubiquitous Jade Adams brought the required educational content to allow its blatant product plugging to go ahead, and good old Fred Sirieix is a personable enough host when he's not blatantly course-correcting some of the contestants, but with respectable ratings and an international franchise, many wonder why it only ran for a short time.

When looking closely, it becomes obvious. Everything was fine whilst the contestants where making more specialist things like chocolate bars, which taxed the chefs' skills to try and replicate them on a smaller scale, but it was when fast-food was brought into the show that the trouble soon started. When confronted with reproducing a Domino's pepperoni pizza, true-blue Italian Francesco Mazzei was downright hostile about the product from the start, and became increasingly vitriolic about it as the episode progressed, which must have REALLY annoyed the owners of Domino's. Things weren't quite as venomous when teams competed to re-create KFC's top secret recipe, but there was still a good deal of resentment. It really wouldn't have helped the shows' fortunes when, after his work was described one of KFC's senior representatives, as being "the closest they've tasted", winner Tom Aikens addressed the camera and listed the entire recipe to blow the lid of the secrecy.

Is it any wonder it didn't come back?

It's a shame they only run 3 episodes at a time. I've only seen the first 3, but loved them.

The programme has two elements. There is the challenge delivered to two professional chefs to reproduce the episodes featured snack. While the chefs and their kitchens work out the recipe and method, we are shown the actual manufacturing processes behind the snacks, although the recipes lack the details of the guarded secret ingredients.

It's very entertaining to see professional chefs try to reproduce our favourite snack foods, they are so competitive, the lengths they'll go to to win the challenge. I will now go on the hunt for the episodes I didn't know existed.