Chopped Vs Cutthroat Kitchen Analysis

Chopped vs Cutthroat Kitchen, Similar but also different.
“Even if you don't watch reality television, it's becoming increasingly hard to avoid” (Reiss, S & Wiltz, J, 2010). In the exciting world of competitive cooking, there are two popular reality TV shows that was created by The Food Network; Chopped that premiered on January 13, 2009, is hosted by Ted Allen and Cutthroat Kitchen with host Alton Brown that premiered on August 11, 2013 (www.tvguide.com, 2016). Although both shows are aired weekly and share similar formats the path to being declared a winner differs in regards to the choice of ingredients, execution of the challenge and the judging of meals. Chopped allows up and coming chefs an opportunity to create an amazing three-course meal from random unrelated ingredients for a cash prize, in contrast, “Cutthroat Kitchen is the food competition genre’s jump the shark moment. Food Network took the basic formula of
On Chopped, each dish is critiqued based on presentation, taste and creativity by a panel of four judges which are usually culinary experts, then decide which chef is "chopped" and that chef is eliminated from the competition. Two chefs will remain by the final round where they prepare dessert. The winner of the competition is then based on the entire meal and not only the desert that was presented, that chef will then receive the $10,000 prize money (www.foodnetwork.com, 2016). However, unlike Chopped, On Cutthroat Kitchen there is only a single judge who is unaware of what hindrances certain contestants faced, the judge decides the winner of the round and the chef with least favorable dish is eliminated from the competition and is required to return the money and the remaining chefs continue competing with their remaining cash. The winner of the final round is allowed to take home the balance of the prize money (foodnetwork.com,