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The Chef's Cut

Padma Takes On Top Chef, Judging Secrets, and the Evolution of Food TV!!

3/2/202659 min

Cooking competition shows are heating up this week as Padma Lakshmi’s new show (America’s Culinary Cup) takes on Top Chef. Adrienne and Joe debate which format will win out, and whether or not the Culinary Cup will capture our attention. In this episode, we discuss:

The new ACC format and fine dining focus

Judging vs competing: Which is more fun?

The secrets of judging on food tv

Would you rather: 30-minute quick fires vs doing a dish demo

How cooking shows used to be (teach us something!) vs t...

Clips

Biggest Prize Ever Announced
Padma’s New Format Reveal
Will They Acknowledge The Showdown?
Owning A First-Round Exit
How Bobby’s Judges Really Taste
Truly Blind, In A Tent
Iron Chef Secrets Start
Inside Advantage On Iron Chef
Balancing Ego And Perspective
Joe Picks His Battlefield

Transcript preview

First 90 seconds

  1. Adrienne Cheatham· Host0:00

    [gentle music] This week on The Chef's Cut we are going in on cooking competition shows. There are so many cooking competition shows now. Is the market too saturated? Is Padma's new show coming for Top Chef?

  2. Joe Flamm· Host0:15

    Bigger money pot, going against the Top Chef empire.

  3. Adrienne Cheatham· Host0:18

    And for a walking confession, we get a behind-the-scenes of Iron Chef from a baby Joe Flamm back in the day.

  4. Joe Flamm· Host0:25

    And I never signed anything, so I don't care, so I'm gonna, I'm gonna- [laughs] ... fucking blow this up.

  5. Adrienne Cheatham· Host0:29

    First, we need 10 seconds of your time. Please go back to rate and review this show wherever you are getting your podcast. It really helps a lot, and we appreciate all of your work to help keep the show going.

  6. Joe Flamm· Host0:41

    We have America's Culinary Cup coming up. We have Padma- Right ... who left Top Chef and now is launching. This seems to be... You know, she left. She did some other things, right? She wrote some books. She was doing, you know, Padma Takes America.

  7. Adrienne Cheatham· Host0:57

    She had her show on PBS, yeah.

  8. Joe Flamm· Host0:58

    Couple different things. But now this is same format, for the most part, launching on the same day.

  9. Adrienne Cheatham· Host1:05

    Mm.

  10. Joe Flamm· Host1:06

    Gathering of chefs, bigger money pot, going against the Top Chef empire of Tom.

  11. Adrienne Cheatham· Host1:12

    Yeah.

  12. Joe Flamm· Host1:12

    So it's like, who's Brady? Who's Belichick?

  13. Adrienne Cheatham· Host1:14

    Right, right.

  14. Joe Flamm· Host1:14

    It's like this is- I feel like we're gonna find out.

  15. Adrienne Cheatham· Host1:16

    [laughs] Well, Padma, it's like, in one way it's like Padma built Top Chef, but now she's, like, coming for Top Chef. It's like, ooh, I would- That's what I'm saying ... I would be surprised.

  16. Joe Flamm· Host1:28

    This is, this is early 2000s Patriots

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