Secret Chef

This show is good. I liked the concept. Was enjoying the chefs and challenges. I could only sit thru 2 episodes though. They use a CGI/AI host that gets irritating quickly. Definitely an AI wrote this because the jokes are horrible. Also the voice is high pitched I think it's that sound only dogs can hear. I couldn't take another minute of the cheffy host. If you're looking for a cooking show there are much better shows out there. If you do decide to watch you will probably need to mute the sound during the cheffy segments. I hope AI isn't the way tv is going because I won't watch. And no I'm not in the industry.

They added so many twists and turns that don't make any sense. Some of the contestants are not that competent and I'm referring here to the ones calling themselves "social media chefs". They put them to judge other contestant dishes while they're not even competent enough to do so? They don't even know popular foods from other countries that the real chefs made so when they were judging it they're like "I don't understand blabla feels like need more seasoning yada yada". One of the social media chefs even pronounced "karaage" as "karaaajeee" like lol seriously. And they're in this show looking for a talented cook? The whole show is ridiculous. Just skip it. I watched it first cause I read that it's made by the same people who made nailed it. I thought it's gonna be good but now I can see that they're just putting this show not to really make a competition between real talented cooks but just for fun or something. How disappointing. I feel sorry for the real chefs in this show cause they just wasted their time and talent there. At least if u gonna make the contestants judge the other contestants foods make them competent enough to do so!

Is dang annoying. And after seeing a picture of the actress behind the voice (I know it's altered a bit), I'm wondering why they didn't just have her there in person. Please. Do it for season 2 if there is one.

The premise of the show is pretty good. Some chefs anonymously prepare food for each other then get rated on it.

I will also say, because I have 241 characters left, that I didn't like the elimination on episode one. At least one person gets unfairly eliminated in my opinion. I don't want to spoil it, 82 characters left, but unfair it was. 42.

So in conclusion, this is a show that is good. Fin.

Good idea with some twists, but it needs a real presenter not a stupid cartoon chef hat. It felt really childish and patronising and kind of frustrated me as I watched the show. The contestants were great though.

I liked the fact they blind taste stuff as it removes bias and gets entertaining as they figure out who is who

I had a favourite chef and was rooting for them and it was cool to see how home cooks did against the professionals too.

It's would be kind of fun to do a celebrity chef version of the show to see what they say about each other lol!

I think 5/10 is fair since the format needs work.

So much of what makes competition cooking shows watchable is the host(s). When you're relying on civilians for your charisma you're already betting on long-shots. The central gimmick to this was good enough to grow from, but it just gets hindered over and over again by its own ostensibly clever machinations. And the biggest wart for me was how the challenges were so often unachievable by the competitors in the time allotted. Which leads me to the other reason to watch cooking competitions-to be educated/inspired. Since the completed dishes on this show were very often less than presentable, they definitely weren't inspiring and since a lot of the methods involved in preparing the dishes were rushed and constrained by bizarre parameters they also were rarely educational or edifying.

A somewhat entertaining spectacle but it needs retooling to become worth making another season.