Beat The Chef is a television show shown on ABC-TV in Australia. It is a part game show part cooking show where two contestants cook a meal out of strange ingredients within 25 minute time limit. This show was influenced by the world-popular Japanese cooking show Iron Chef.
The show was cancelled in 2006.
A cooking show, cookery show, or cooking program is a television genre that presents food preparation, often in a restaurant kitchen or on a studio set, or at the host's personal home. Typically the show's host, often a celebrity chef, prepares one or more dishes over the course of an episode, taking the viewing audience through the food's inspiration, preparation, and stages of cooking.
Food reality television is a genre of reality television programming that considers the production, consumption and/or sociocultural impact of food.
The Food Lovers' Guide to Australia is an Australian food and travel television show presented by Maeve O'Meara and Joanna Savill and produced and broadcast by SBS. In the series, O'Meara and Savill travel across Australia, discovering the country's multicultural culinary delights and showcasing the talents of home cooks and professional chefs. The series first aired on 21 December 1996, and ran for five seasons, with the fifth season premiering on 14 September 2005. The series has won numerous awards, including the World Food Media Award for Best Food/Drink TV show in 2005; and a plethora of Australian food broadcasting awards.
Jamie's Kitchen Australia is a 10 part Australian television show which premiered Thursday 14 September 2006 on Network Ten. The show stars international chef Jamie Oliver and Tobie Puttock. Puttock is a friend of Oliver's and having previously worked for Oliver in England, is in charge of establishing the restaurant, Fifteen Melbourne.
Huey's Cooking Adventures is an Australian television series featuring chef Iain Hewitson. It screened at daytime on Monday to Friday throughout its run on Network Ten, including most recently at 4:00pm. The show began airing in 1997 on the Seven Network, before defecting to Ten soon after where the show has found popularity with daytime audiences. The program was replaced with a new, albeit similar, series Huey's Kitchen from March 2010.
The Cook and the Chef is an Australian television series featuring cook Maggie Beer and chef Simon Bryant. The Cook and the Chef was screened on ABC1 and was filmed in the Barossa Valley, South Australia, with the first episode going to air on 8 February 2006.
MasterChef Australia is an Australian competitive cooking reality show based on the original British MasterChef. It is produced by Endemol Shine Australia and screens on Network 10. 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.
Alive and Cooking was an Australian television cooking show hosted by celebrity chef James Reeson. The program was produced by WIN Television, airing five days a week on the WIN Network.
Iron Chef Australia is an Australian cooking show based on the Japanese show Iron Chef, as well as its American adaptation Iron Chef America. The program is a sort of culinary game show, with each episode seeing a challenger chef competing against one of the resident "Iron Chefs" in a one-hour cooking competition based on a theme ingredient.
Huey's Kitchen is an Australian television series featuring chef Iain Hewitson cooking recipes that everyday cooks can try. The show airs on the Ten Network at varying times.
Everyday Gourmet with Justine Schofield is an Australian television cooking show, that is hosted by former MasterChef contestant Justine Schofield. It was first broadcast on Network Ten in 2011. The show is directed towards the home-cooked meals and features recipes ranging from simple to the more complex. It regularly features guests, including chefs, food specialists and other former Masterchef contestants. The series also screens on Lifestyle Food.
Good Chef Bad Chef is an Australian television cooking show. The "Good Chef" presents health conscious recipes, while the "Bad Chef" presents indulgent recipes. The show's presenters are Joanna McMillan, Tim Bone, Jacqueline Alwill and Mike Reid.
Audrey's Kitchen is a satirical television cooking series produced by Working Dog Productions in Melbourne, Australia, for ABC Television. Each episode is only three minutes in length and features fictional writer, chef, life coach and choreographer Audrey Gordon, played by Australian actress Heidi Arena. The first series of ten episodes aired in 2012. The second series started airing in 2013.
What's Cooking? was an Australian cooking television series, that aired on the Nine Network in 1991 until 1999.
Boys Weekend is an Australian cooking television series that originally aired in 2009 on Australia's Network Ten. The 13-part series was hosted by the four Australian-based chefs Gary Mehigan, Manu Feildel, Miguel Maestre and Adrian Richardson, who visit different locations across Australia to sample and cook local produce. The series was sold to more than 100 countries and a DVD of the series was released in 2010. The four chefs have since become regular hosts on Australian TV, with Maestre on The Living Room, Feildel on My Kitchen Rules, Mehigan on MasterChef Australia and Richardson on Good Chef Bad Chef. In March 2016 the series started screening on the SBS Food Network.
Ben's Menu is an Australian television cooking series which airs on Network Ten. It started on 8 September 2014.
Recipe for Deception is an American reality competition television series that premiered on January 21, 2016, on Bravo. Hosted by Max Silvestri, the cooking competition series features four chefs in each episode who compete with each other and get eliminated in head-to-head rounds. The chefs will be judged for creating various dishes containing one specific ingredient. Chris Oh and Jonathan Waxman are the judges.
The Chefs' Line is an Australian reality competitive cooking show. The series features four home cooks in each episode who compete against professional chefs in a studio kitchen. The challenge is to create their personal versions of a chosen dish from the week's featured cuisine. Dishes are then blind-tasted and judged by executive chef Dan Hong, food writer Melissa Leong, and chef Mark Olive. The contestants are eliminated until the week's winner is chosen. On the fifth night, Maeve O’Meara goes into the kitchen of the week's featured restaurant to uncover their culinary secrets.
7food network was a short-lived Australian free-to-air television channel owned by the Seven Network which launched on 1 December 2018. The channel marked the start of Seven's new deal with Discovery, Inc., immediately after the end of SBS's previous deal with Discovery which saw the creation of SBS Food in 2015. The channel was a hybrid of the Seven Network and the American Food Network, and featured shows about food and cooking from around the world.
Three Blue Ducks is a six-part Australian television cooking show which follows hosts Mark Labrooy, Darren Robertson and Andy Allen, the co-owners of Three Blue Ducks Group, as they travel Australia in search for inspiration to create six new dishes for their restaurant's menu. It premiered at 7:00 pm on 13 February 2021.