User Reviews

This is a terrible, terrible, terrible show! I enjoy cooking competitions, and some shows, like Top Chef Junior, show kids with amazing skills and abilities. This show seems designed specifically to showcase the worst kind of helicopter parents, and to make kids break down. The parents are allowed to hover in the background, and then to give short periods of help or advice during the cooking period, which sounds like a good idea. Except these are the most annoying parents the producers could find. And interspersed interviews with the parents and children only increase the feeling that these are parents living through their children. The judges have no interest in encouraging good behavior- one cook makes healthier versions of classics- out, immediately! One kid helps another contestant when he's not going to get his dish plated- she's out! Maybe this is the attitude that has made restaurant kitchens a hostile environment for a lot of people, especially women.