Cooking Competition Shows On Netflix

With the current TV landscape up in the air, one genre that's always there for audiences is the cooking competition show. During quarantine, people who would never consider themselves foodies discovered cooking and baking.

All of a sudden, social media was flooded with posts about sourdough starters.

As viewers have become reacquainted with their kitchens, cooking competition shows have taken on a new life. Now more than ever, when viewers are watching they are wondering how they would fare on their favorite series.

Get your aprons on and preheat the oven, these are 15 cooking competition shows we'd love to be on. We know that some of these are strictly for professionals, but we're dreaming big anyway.

1. MasterChef

Gordon Ramsay has made a name for himself as the toughest chef on television. On MasterChef , he and a rotating cast of famous chefs help home cooks as they compete for $250,000 and food-centric prizes.

The appeal of MasterChef is that the contestants are all regular people who just love to cook. The challenges are based in the real world and don't feel made up for TV.

Every time we see a mystery box challenge, we're instantly imagining how much better our food would be than some of the contestants. We also really want in on all those little Gordon Ramsay masterclasses.

It's the one show in the genre that we have an actual shot at winning.

2. The Great British Baking Show

Arguably the most popular cooking show on TV right now, The Great British Baking Show is a heartwarming contest that gives amateur bakers ample room to showcase their skills.

Fans immediately connected with the show's positive vibe.

For true baking aficionados, The Great British Baking Show provides the perfect opportunity to show off their technical skills, as well as their creativity. One second you're making 12 fig rolls that must be exactly the same, and the next you're working on savory and sweet amuse-bouche pairs.

Fun fact: goat cheese almost always works in savory baking.

The judges are tough but fair, there's no intentional meanness here. The bakers are so supportive of one another, the drama is contained to the actual baking.

It's the ultimate baking showcase.

3. Chopped

Four ingredients, 20 minutes, and the only thing holding you back is your imagination. Chopped is among the longest-running cooking shows on television. The Food Network staple leads to instant debates about how fans would use the basket ingredients.

You know how during the Olympics, everyone becomes an expert on sports they could never possibly compete in? The same thing happens while watching Chopped .

No matter how weird the basket ingredients get, we all know we would use them better than the chefs who've worked their whole lives to get to this level.

At the very least, we know enough not to burn caramel or leave paper towels in the oven. Frankly, just seasoning properly would keep us in the competition.

And absolutely no one is beating us to the ice cream machine.

4. Holiday Baking Championship

No time of year is more synonymous with baking than the holidays. From Thanksgiving to Hanukkah to Kwanzaa to Christmas, there are plenty of reasons to enjoy sweets. Food Network capitalizes on this every year with its Holiday Baking Championship .

With accomplished pastry chefs competing against home cooks, it provides an interesting contrast in styles. Several seasons have seen the home cooks make it to the finals, so it proves that expensive schooling and fancy titles aren't always better than real-world experience.

It's the signature holiday flavors and spices that makes this such an intriguing idea. Everyone has their own special pumpkin pie, jelly roll, or sugar cookie cutout recipe, so putting ours up against the best is an irresistible idea.

Considering all the recipes we've stolen from the show, we figure we might as well take the leap and become one of the bakers.

5. Chopped: Sweets

Even though it's the deciding factor in who wins Chopped , desserts get the short end of the stick. Enter Chopped: Sweets to give fans all the anxiety of the original, while also featuring the added stress of baking.

Bakers still get four basket ingredients, but the time limit is increased to 45 minutes, which is not very long for baking.

Baking does not always lend itself to wild exploration. There are only so many changes you can make to a chocolate cake. Under the restrictions of Chopped: Sweets , it forces the chefs to break out of the well-established rules of baking.

In the cooking world, dessert doesn't always get the respect it deserves. However, Chopped: Sweets lets viewers see what a truly difficult high wire baking can be.

6. Nailed it!

Nailed It Season 3

Let's be honest, the No. 1 reason we love Nailed It! is host Nicole Byer. It's certainly not the food. This is a show for those with more enthusiasm than skill.

So far, all the shows we've discussed require a very knowledgeable cook. Nailed It! only wants its participants to be excited about trying something new.

Bad bakers show up to recreate difficult desserts, trying to "nail it" for $10,000. Everyone is in on the joke and it's all in good fun. Byer and pastry chef Jacques Torres keep things positive and light, something we don't always get from the more serious, competitive shows.

This show puts the fun back in the kitchen.

7. Guy's Grocery Games

We couldn't do a list of food shows without talking about Guy Fieri. Mainly because he's on so many.

On Guy's Grocery Games , the chefs compete in wild games around Flavortown Market, often cooking on a budget or only shopping in certain aisles.

It's the most realistic competition of the genre. Making dinner for four with only $12 isn't that big of a challenge for most regular people. It's basically everyday life.

We would never be horrified by cooking with frozen food the way some of these competitors are.

While everyone wants to win $20,000, there's so much fun on this show, that it doesn't have the same serious nature as others.

The best episodes revolve around Guy messing with his chef friends. Being in a supermarket makes it feel less intimidating and more approachable.

8. Supermarket Stakeout

If you're the person who snoops at other people's carts in the supermarket, this is probably your favorite show on the list.

Alex Guarnaschelli leads competitors through themed challenges, with their food coming from shoppers as they leave the market.

Cooking is about planning and preparation, so Supermarket Stakeout provides cooks a chance to use their improvisation skills. When you're in the kitchen, there's something strangely appealing about the unknown.

Nothing is more fun than the cooks running into someone who clearly had a date night planned or the bachelor who bought just enough for one night. It's also the kind of show that's easy to play along with, and wonder what you would make with the groceries.

9. Sugar Rush

At a certain point all these shows start to get redundant, so standing out from the crowd can be difficult. Netflix's Sugar Rush chose to make time the major obstacle for competitors.

Professional bakers have three rounds to make desserts, but the time from each round rolls over into the final round.

Sugar Rush features a lot of creative themes and ingredients, which makes it the perfect choice for those of us who always want to put something crazy in the cupcakes.

Who doesn't want to add a little bacon into their cupcakes?

It's nice to see a show reward time management, a crucial kitchen skill.

10. Top Chef

One of the longest-running cooking shows on television, Top Chef features professionals on the rise and makes them into stars.

Michael Voltaggio, Richard Blais, and Carla Hall are just a few of the contestants who've gone on to culinary superstardom.

Look, we know we're not anywhere near the level of the chefs on this show. However, that doesn't stop us from not so patiently waiting for "Restaurant Wars" every season, so we can pretend our restaurants would be so much better than what they've come up with in two days.

Plus, we're not forced to shop at Whole Foods for everything, therefore we could get the job done on half the budget.

11. Be Our Chef

For foodies who are also Disney fanatics, Be Our Chef is literally a dream come true. Families compete in challenges with Disney themes. It all takes place at DisneyWorld, which adds an extra layer of magic to the competition.

If we're going to cook food inspired by The Princess and the Frog , we absolutely want to talk to Tiana first.

Since the show is all about Disney, and naturally airs on Disney+, it feels like the food takes a backseat to the Disney marketing.

Though, having families compete together allowed the kids to take the lead, which showed that the food world is in good hands.

12. Cupcake Wars

Food Network made cupcakes into a craze with Cupcake Wars . The show has teams of two professionals creating unique cupcakes for a special event.

For the uninitiated, cupcakes seem deceptively easy. Of course, every episode proves that idea completely wrong.

Personally, we wouldn't put Flaming Hot Cheetos in cupcakes, but that's probably the tamest ingredient you'll see in this kitchen, where bakers must use everything from cucumber to blue cheese.

Through the first two rounds of taste and presentation, we know we can hang, but the last round of 1,000 cupcakes in a special display is where we will be lost.

That final round gets intense and we're not sure we're ready for that.

13. Food Network Star

When Food Network executives decided to use a competition show to find new personalities, they probably didn't realize just how many stars they would get.

Food Network Star winners Guy Fieri, Aarti Sequira, Jeff Mauro, and Eddie Jackson are regulars on the channel.

YouTube has given so many home cooks a chance to build their own channels and brands. However, there's a big jump between 10-minute videos and a full Food Network show.

The level of difficulty is upped in this series, as competitors must also be good on camera and understand how to communicate to the audience. It's not just about the cooking, which makes every challenge so much harder.

All those cooking shows we love aren't as easy as they look.

14. Hell's Kitchen

For food service professionals who want to make the jump to the next level, but aren't quite ready for fine dining, Hell's Kitchen is the toughest training course there is.

Gordon Ramsay suffers no fools as he tries to mold the cooks into restaurant caliber chefs.

Here's the thing, underneath all that yelling and screaming is one of the greatest chefs in the world teaching you the tricks of the trade. Totally worth it.

Food service is not for the faint of heart. It's an extremely stressful business, so if you can't handle Ramsay yelling, it's probably not the path for you.

Many of the formats and challenges are the same each season, so we often wonder why prospective contestants aren't practicing their scallops, beef wellington, and risotto.

Since Hell's Kitchen tends to also lean heavily on reality TV drama, it's hard to get past that to the cooking.

15. Worst Cooks in America

If you end up on Worst Cooks in America , it's not a good thing. As the title suggests, the competitors on this show probably dine out and order in a lot.

Anne Burrell and a rotating cast of Food Network chefs try to teach horrible cooks how to make dishes ranging from basic to intermediate.

As exasperated as the pros are, everyone seems to be having fun, and it can be inspiring to see people making recipes they never thought possible.

We all have a friend or family member who is completely hopeless in the kitchen. Sometimes they know and sometimes they don't. Watching this show with them may open some eyes.

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Stephanie Holland is a nerdy lover of Star Wars, Disney, Doctor Who, Arrowverse, Star Trek and WWE. Is living the dream of turning a lifelong obsession with TV into an actual job. Still waiting for a reboot of the '80s classic Small Wonder.

Cooking Competition Shows On Netflix

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