• Underwaterbob@sh.itjust.works
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    5 days ago

    I have never seen this show, but I have a hard time believing he managed to entirely cook the wrong thing and no one told him at any point. Unless it was done on purpose to make a good story…

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        4 days ago

        Often on cooking shows like this, contestants will do something creative and different in order to stand out, so it makes sense that they’d wait and see what he’s cooking up.

        Honestly I think they took the best possible approach, they let the creative create, and when it was revealed that there was in fact a communication breakdown, they handled it fairly and made sure to not penalize the contestant for the host’s failure to effectively communicate. This is especially important with such an exceptionally regional dish with many different ways to prepare it. People who haven’t spent time in the region that its regularly served in may entirely misunderstand how its supposed to be prepared and served, and that causes there to be incredible variation between recipes and approaches

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          4 days ago

          The main point of any TV show is to entertain. They aren’t there to be a fair sports competition to find earth’s greatest cook. Especially not for such a low-brow entertainment-first cooking show as cutthroat kitchen.

          That part of the episode was decent drama. The mix-up clearly made the scene more interesting. If this was an actually serious cooking show it would not have gone like that. But it’s an entertainment show and that’s ok as well.

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        4 days ago

        Idk when it got so common for people to basically say “I have no idea what I’m talking about and have zero experience in this matter but this feels like bullshit” but pretty sure it’s actively destroying the planet.

        Yeah, it’s quite common to claim that someone else has zero experience on the matter and accusing them of actively destroying the planet, without actually having a point.

        Here’s the source: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8hd6r9 (from 18:55 on).

        So yes, everyone else noticed it right from the beginning and they neither told him about his misunderstanding nor did they let him just redo the 60 second “shopping” part where they collect the ingredients they need.

        So stop being fake-outraged and look at the source.

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        4 days ago

        I didn’t feel like this requires expertise. It’s a cooking show, contestants are surrounded by other people who can plainly observe what they are doing. The complete lack of biscuit preparation while getting out the meat would have been very obvious.

        All these reality shows love to foster misunderstandings and exacerbate through editing. Frankly they’d be even more boring otherwise.