Crazy Delicious is a really strange new cookery competition programme produced for Channel 4 in the UK, which will also be available via Netflix. It instantly wins the prize for THE most pretentious cookery show on British television.
The foodie contestants are challenged to take humble ingredients such as strawberries and everyday foods like hot dogs and come up with their own unique (often bizarre) dishes. The dishes are tasted by the panel of 3 judges, contestants eliminated and a winner for each episode declared. Comedian Jayde Adams is the host. Sounds like other cookery shows? Think again.
The contestants have to get some of the ingredients for their recipe from a "magical" edible set that looks like something out of a Tim Burton film and has rabbits and things running around it! The judges are dubbed "Food Gods" and wear togas. The prize awarded to the winner of each episode is a golden apple. Once they have made their dish the contestants have to ascend a stairway to present their offering to the food gods. Jayde Adams hovers around the contestants saying Wow (a lot) and trying to make "funny" observations - when she is particularly impressed/excited/bored she says Wwwoooooooooooooowwwwww!!!. The recipes frequently involve stomach-churning "experimental" combinations of ingredients such as mackerel and chocolate. In essence the whole programme is simply bizarre from beginning to end. Crazy...yes, Delicious...no.
Maybe, just maybe, there will be enough people dotted around the world who are looking for a very quirky, highly unusual new take on the standard cookery competition to make this work on Netflix - however it has flopped very badly here in the UK and is unlikely to be re-commissioned by Channel 4.
The foodie contestants are challenged to take humble ingredients such as strawberries and everyday foods like hot dogs and come up with their own unique (often bizarre) dishes. The dishes are tasted by the panel of 3 judges, contestants eliminated and a winner for each episode declared. Comedian Jayde Adams is the host. Sounds like other cookery shows? Think again.
The contestants have to get some of the ingredients for their recipe from a "magical" edible set that looks like something out of a Tim Burton film and has rabbits and things running around it! The judges are dubbed "Food Gods" and wear togas. The prize awarded to the winner of each episode is a golden apple. Once they have made their dish the contestants have to ascend a stairway to present their offering to the food gods. Jayde Adams hovers around the contestants saying Wow (a lot) and trying to make "funny" observations - when she is particularly impressed/excited/bored she says Wwwoooooooooooooowwwwww!!!. The recipes frequently involve stomach-churning "experimental" combinations of ingredients such as mackerel and chocolate. In essence the whole programme is simply bizarre from beginning to end. Crazy...yes, Delicious...no.
Maybe, just maybe, there will be enough people dotted around the world who are looking for a very quirky, highly unusual new take on the standard cookery competition to make this work on Netflix - however it has flopped very badly here in the UK and is unlikely to be re-commissioned by Channel 4.