MasterChef India season 7 is currently airing with their top 9 contestants already chosen. While the show is moving towards its finale, how about these 10 best cooking shows, that will get you droolingly hooked? From fierce competition to some laid-back, even healing food and travel shows – there are some equally great shows that everyone should watch.
10 Best Cooking Shows Like MasterChef India
The Final Table
The Final Table is a global culinary competition show featuring the world’s most talented chefs fighting for a spot at the elite, Final Table, made up of the greatest chefs from around the globe. The series features 12 teams of two chefs from around the world cooking the national dishes of Mexico, Spain, England, Brazil, France, Japan, the U.S., India and Italy.
Each episode focuses on a different country and its cuisine, with celebrity ambassadors, food critics and the country’s greatest chef eliminating teams until the finale. In that last episode, only one of our competing chefs will win a place at the Final Table, joining the nine legendary culinary icons – Enrique Olvera (Mexico), Andoni Aduriz (Spain), Clare Smyth (UK), Helena Rizzo (Brazil), Vineet Bhatia (India), Grant Achatz (US), Carlo Cracco (Italy), Yoshihiro Narisawa (Japan) and Anne-Sophie Pic (France).
Watch The Final Table on Netflix.
The Great British Bake Off
In this show, Twelve home bakers take part in a bake-off, which will test every aspect of their baking skills as they battle it out to be crowned the Great British Bake Off’s Best Amateur Baker. Paul Hollywood and Prue Leith are the judges, and the show is presented by Noel Fielding & Matt Lucas. It is available to watch on the Roku Channel.
MasterChef Australia
It is an Australian version of the competitive cooking reality show based on the original British MasterChef. Whenever talking about the show franchise, it always comes up as one of the best with creative challenges and fun episodes.
With 14 seasons released until now, Restaurateur and chef Gary Mehigan, chef George Calombaris and food critic Matt Preston served as the show’s main judges until 2019, when they were replaced by Series 4 winner and chef Andy Allen, food critic Melissa Leong, and restaurateur and chef Jock Zonfrillo.
Watch this show on Disney+ Hotstar.
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Cutthroat Kitchen
This show uniquely tests how far is a chef willing to go to win a cooking competition. Cutthroat Kitchen hands four chefs each $25,000 and the opportunity to spend that money on helping themselves or sabotaging their competitors. Ingredients will be thieved, utensils destroyed and valuable time on the clock lost when the chefs compete to cook delicious dishes while also having to outplot the competition.
With Alton Brown as the devilish provocateur, nothing is out of bounds when money changes hands and we see just how far chefs will go to ensure they have the winning dish. Watch it on Hulu.
Selena + Chef
If you are someone who wishes to learn cooking but doesn’t know where to start, then let Selena + Chef take you on a cooking journey, where the popular singer will learn to cook through trial and error. Also, for each episode, the show donates $10,000 to the charity of the Chef’s choice, often food related.
So far there have been four seasons of the show and you can watch it on Apple TV+.
Youn’s Kitchen
Youn’s Kitchen is a South Korean cooking reality show, where celebrities open a Korean cuisine restaurants in different parts of the world. The original cast includes acclaimed actress Youn Yuh-jung, Lee Seo-jin, Jung Yu-mi and Shin Goo. While actor Park Seo-joon joined the crew in the second season and Parasite actor Choi Woo-shik became a part of a spin-off series.
Even a new spin-off called Seojin’s is scheduled to be released this month, without the actress Youn Yuh-jung but a new addition of BTS’ V. You can watch the previous seasons on Viki.
Chef’s Table
In this Emmy-nominated series, meet culinary stars around the world who are redefining gourmet food with innovative dishes and tantalizing desserts. The first season serves up intimate visits with six of the world’s greatest chefs in their restaurants from every corner of the globe.
With 6 seasons in total, there are many spin-off series as well but the core element is that each episode places the spotlight on a single chef and explores the unique lives, talents and passions which influence their style of cooking.
Watch Chef’s Table on Netflix.
Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown
It is a travel and food show that follows Anthony Bourdain on his travels through places as diverse as Myanmar, Colombia, Libya, Congo, South Africa, Japan, and more. What makes this show enriching to watch is that Bourdain doesn’t necessarily seek the best fine dining but explores the local cuisine and even sometimes gets invited to local’s homes.
Watch it on Amazon Prime Video.
The Great Food Truck Race
Hosted by Tyler Florence, Seven of the country’s best food trucks compete for customers as they complete various challenges across the country. In the latest season 15, the show headed to the Wild West, where the seven teams will be using some of the West’s most distinct ingredients in challenges that test their culinary skills.
Each week, they’ll race across the desert landscape to a new town where they’ll face new challenges, cook incredible dishes and, as always, try to outsell the competition. The team that earns the least will have to walk away from the wagon trail, but the two teams that have the grit to make it to the end will square off for the $50,000 prize.
Watch it on Apple TV+.
Iron Chef: Quest for an Iron Legend
The legendary Iron Chef series is reborn with a supersized approach to the ground-breaking culinary competition that started it all. It’s been called the toughest culinary challenge a chef will ever experience. This is where world-class cuisine meets high-octane sports.
Five new trailblazing Iron Chefs will welcome brave Challenger Chefs to the reimagined Kitchen Stadium, where they’ll face off and be pushed to the limits of endurance and creativity, as they cook up extraordinary culinary creations. The competition’s most successful Challenger will return to battle in a grand finale for the chance to be named the first-ever Iron Legend.
Watch it on Netflix.
Which of the above-mentioned shows will you be adding to your watchlist? Let us know in the comments section below.
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