The evolution of the television cooking show
Website design By BotEap.comThe main goal of a cooking show is basic: to give celebrity, aspiring, or celebrity chefs the opportunity to cook their signature dishes in a kitchen in front of a camera. This television show format has become extremely popular with the viewing public. Cooking shows are one of the most popular television shows today. Most people enjoy cooking, and when you add the reality TV dimension, you get hooked on the viewer throughout the entire run of the show.
Website design By BotEap.comHell’s Kitchen, which is a cooking reality show directed by chef Gordon Ramsey and broadcast on Fox Network, is a good example. The viewer gets almost sadistic satisfaction watching Ramsay verbally abuse rookie chefs competing for a chef position at one of Ramsay’s renowned restaurants. The show consists of weekly contests where contestants who have a passion or love for cooking show off their skills and experience against each other. It’s a fast-paced competitive environment. The general recipes they cook require a more professional skill level, yet most viewers remain hooked.
Website design By BotEap.comA similar reality television show on the Food Network is, “Who Wants to Be the Next Food Network Star” and contestants with a variety of culinary skills, from beginners to professionals, compete for the coveted prize. Most people identify with one or two contestants and engage in their personal journeys throughout the show. The winner receives his own cooking show on television.
Website design By BotEap.comWhy is there such a fervent interest in cooking shows today? Somehow it might take away the mystery of cooking well. Other people enjoy seeing the latest appliances available or feel a connection to the people who star in these shows. Typically, the presenters for these shows are not professionally trained through a specific culinary school. This makes her cooking seem easier to accomplish for an average Jane and helps an average cook improve her culinary skills.
Website design By BotEap.comAll of these interests account for the enormous popularity these cooking shows now enjoy with viewers. A changing of the guard is also taking place with the deaths of great chefs like Julia Child, leaving room for new celebrities and experts to rise up in the culinary arts. People enjoy the theatricality of chefs like Emeril LaGasse while shouting, “BAM” or the acronym Rachel Ray that develops, which somehow becomes their own language, like EVOO (Extra Virgin Olive Oil) and they all they engage in programs and empower us in our own culinary endeavors.
Website design By BotEap.comIt is becoming somewhat competitive among television networks to host the best cooking show and for those shows to involve fierce competition among contestants, as this is what really gets the viewer hooked. Of course, having a chef who likes profanity is not the cornerstone of every show’s success as often what people are looking for are the helpful tips and secret recipes on offer and somehow the different terms used in these programs find their way into our own language.