Beat the Chef

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Beat the Chef
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Genre Game show
Presented by Andi Oliver
Starring
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes25
Production
Executive producer
Running time23 minutes
Production companies Twofour
Motion Content Group
Original release
Network Channel 4
Release27 May 2019 (27 May 2019) 
present (present)

Beat the Chef is a British television cooking game show broadcast by Channel 4 [1] and hosted by Andi Oliver. The series features contestants preparing a home-cooked family recipe, while professional chefs Mark Sargeant, Frederick Forster and Clodagh McKenna make the same recipe in an upscale restaurant version. The two dishes are then judged by a panel of food critics including BBC Food Programme presenter Leyla Kazim. The series premiered on 27 May 2019. [2] [3] In 2022, the series was embroiled in controversy by continuing to employ Mark Sargeant after a jury in the U.S. ruled that he sexually assaulted an American woman in Germany. [4] . After the allegations were made public episodes featuring Mark Sargeant were not broadcast with repeat episodes from the previous series broadcast instead.

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Format

In this series hosted by restaurateur Andi Oliver, skilful amateur cooks go head-to-head with professional house chefs in fast-paced cook-offs to win a cash prize of up to £10,000. The house chefs to beat are Michelin-starred Mark Sargeant, bestselling cookbook author and celebrity chef Clodagh McKenna, award-winning chef James Tanner and Roux Scholar Frederick Forster. In each round the food jury blind taste the home cook's and the professional's dishes and vote on which they prefer. The more votes the amateur gets, the more money they win, but no votes and they go home empty-handed.

Production

The series is produced by Twofour.

A second series will begin filming in 2020. [5]

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References

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