Published By: Urbee Sarkar

Lights, Camera, Cook! Behind The Scene Secrets Of Celebrity Cooking Shows

Love watching your favourite chefs throwing the spice around a set? Here’s what really goes on behind the scenes in a celebrity cooking show!

Cooking shows can be one of the most relaxing and yet thrilling to watch. Love for food is a universal language and the love for celebrity cooking shows hits a different spot altogether. For all those who love watching celebrity chefs flaunting their skills around a kitchen set, here are some secrets that would blow your mind!

Most Celebrity Chefs Don’t Show Their Own Recipes On the Cooking Shows

No matter how many signature dishes a celebrity chef presents in a cooking show, some of the recipes are not even their own. One of the reasons is probably that celebrity chefs don’t want to give away their secrets to the world. The other reason is that some chefs are more focussed on the TV than creating a recipe. It might be a little heartbreaking to know this secret, but it is what it is!

Celebrity On Cooking Shows Don’t Have The Best Knife Skills

You may have noticed that some celebrity chefs cut themselves a little too often while cooking a dish on the shows. This is because most celebrity chefs don’t always have the best knife skills when it comes to chopping off the vegetables. At the restaurants, it sis the job of the sous-chef to do all the knife related stuff while cooking with the celebrity chef. Naturally, the knife skills of the celebrity chefs require a little sharpening!

Food Stylists Make The Food Look So Good On The Plate

It is not the celebrity chef who is always presenting the final look of the dish. They surely do cook the delicious delicacies, but there are other people helping the chefs with the styling of the food. Most celebrity chefs appoint food stylists who decorate the plate and style the food before it is presented before the camera. So, the next time you a gorgeous looking plate on camera, it’s probably not the work of the chef!

Cooking Shows Take Hours To Film

Just like any other show on TV, even cooking shows take about twelve to fourteen hours for filming. It does not really work like how it does at a restaurant’s kitchen where everything is done super fast. Celebrity cooking shows take quite a number of takes to get those perfect shots.