Cooking Competition Rankings: Part 2

I loved doing the first part of this list even if it is silly. I've got two more blogs regarding cooking shows and then I have around 3 more rankings lists to show all of you. Thank you again for reading my ramblings. 15. Wildcard Kitchen: I think this is a wildly fun concept and for the most part it delivers. Having to bet your own money on how well you can cook against your other chefs with your wildcard ingredient is awesome. The show does need some more refining for my taste though. 14. Food Network Star: This should be way higher, but the judges annoy me so damn much. I understand they are looking for people with great personalities, but almost every time they take out the insanely talented chefs over them. I personally want to see a mix of both and the only real stars they got were Guy and Tyler. 13. Worst Cooks In America: This is a blast to watch and I never get bored. The one drawback is I wish we saw what happened to the winners down the line. Do they continue cooking? Do they just suck again? I just want more of a followup. 12. Iron Chef: The show that really started it all for cooking competitions. The fact that the show was mainly remembered for the rivalry Bobby Flay and Morimoto had is the drawback. Some seriously amazing chefs competed. It was also filmed in the 90s, so the production isn't the greatest. 11. Masterchef: I love this show so much, but the amount of times it has been rigged is crazy. Season 5 is the biggest example because Joe was cheating on his wife with the eventual winner Courtney. She was a horrible chef and still won over some amazing chefs. There's been at least 3 other seasons where it was obviously rigged too. 10. Iron Chef America: I think this lands a bit higher than the original. It's a lot more drama filled than the original. The competitors have actual beef with some of the Iron Chefs and it makes for a lot more drama. There's been a lot of crazy competitions too. The Jon Fraser battle is still etched in my mind. 9. Beat Bobby Flay: I love this show so much because of how unique it was at the time. The fact that Bobby had to cook whatever the winner of the qualifier told him and he still won most of the time is just crazy. It ranks lower because it hasn't evolved after all these years. 8. Top Chef: I really, really, really like this show. Some of my favorite chefs ever I found by watching this. I do think that all of the finalists in season 2 should have been DQ'D for what they did to Marcel. They do also not eliminate the worst chef each week. That really irritates me too. 7. The Great Food Truck Race: This is my favorite summer time cooking show. It also made me want to run my own food truck for so long. It was such a drastic change in what shows we were given at the time. Food trucks also weren't massive like they are now when the show first started. It has gotten worse as the seasons went on unfortunately. 6. Chopped: This was a tough one, but chopped just misses out on my top 5. I absolutely adore this show and think it was such a revolutionary change in cooking shows. They do adapt and change the show which a lot of these shows don't. I do like eating watching these shows and sometimes it's hard to watch this while eating.