| The Taste | |
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| Genre | Cooking |
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| Country of origin | Germany |
| Original language | German |
| No. of series | 6 (+3 Specials) |
| No. of episodes | 45 |
| Production | |
| Running time | 120–180 minutes |
| Production company | Redseven Entertainment GmbH |
| Original release | |
| Network | Sat.1 |
| Release | 13 November 2013 – present |
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| The Taste (U.S.) | |
The Taste is a German cooking game show series on Sat.1. It began airing on November 13, 2013. [1] [2]
| Series | Judges/Coaches | Host | |||
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| 1 | Frank Rosin | Alexander Herrmann | Léa Linster | Tim Mälzer | Christine Henning |
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| 3 | Cornelia Poletto | ||||
| 4 | Roland Trettl | ||||
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| 6 | |||||
| 7 | Maria Gross | Tim Raue | |||
| 8 | Alexander Kumptner | Angelina Kirsch | |||
| 9 | |||||
Colour key
| Season | Premiere | Finale | Winner | Runner-up | Other finalist(s) | Winning coach | Presenters | Coaches (order) | ||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |||||||||
| 1 | November 13, 2013 | December 18, 2013 | Felicitas | Dennis | Gabriel | Christa | Tim Mälzer | Christine Henning | Tim M. | Léa | Alexander H. | Frank |
| 2 | October 8, 2014 | November 19, 2014 | Jan | Ole | Timo | Rosina | Alexander Herrmann | |||||
| 3 | September 2, 2015 | October 14, 2015 | Kristof | Tobias | Helena | Jan Thorben | Tim Mälzer | Cornelia | ||||
| 4 | October 12, 2016 | November 23, 2016 | Marco | Frank | Jörg | Boris | Alexander Herrmann | Frank | Roland | Alexander H. | ||
| 5 | October 11, 2017 | December 6, 2017 | Lisa | Joel | Christian | Hansjörg | ||||||
| 6 | October 10, 2018 | December 5, 2018 | Gary | Semi | Christoph | Melanie | Roland Trettl | Alexander H. | Cornelia | Roland | ||
| 7 | October 2, 2019 | November 27, 2019 | Marko | Susanne | Michi | Tobias | Alexander Herrmann | Tim R. | Maria | Alexander H. | ||
| 8 | September 2, 2020 | October 28, 2020 | Lars | Yvonne | Yassin | Jan | Alexander Kumptner | Angelina Kirsch | Alexander K. | Tim R. | ||
| 9 | September 1, 2021 | October 27, 2021 | Upcoming season | |||||||||
The first season of The Taste: Celebrity Special began airing on September 10, 2017 and the coaches were, as in the fourth season Alexander Herrmann, Frank Rosin, Cornelia Polletto and Roland Trettl. The host was Christine Henning. The season was won by singer Patrick Lindner.
The second celebrity special was aired on September 17, 2017, with the same concept, same coaches, and same name as the first celebrity special. The winner was Evi Sachenbacher-Stehle.
On December 12, 2018, one week after the sixth season finale, a Christmas special was aired. As in the previous seasons, the coaches were Alexander Herrmann, Frank Rosin, Cornelia Poletto and Roland Trettl . Each coach selected two candidates from his past teams.