Fans of poker who likewise delight in whipping up a premium meal (or a minimum of seeing others do it)might wish to have a look at the brand-new program Wildcard Kitchen, debuting this March on the Food Network. The eight-episode series, which begins airing on March 12 at 9 p.m. (ET), brings a few of the network’s preferred chefs together to evaluate their abilities at the table and in the kitchen area. The program might use some genuine “high takes” as the action plays out.
“In each episode, host Eric Adjepong takes control of the test cooking area after hours with an unique invite for 3 chefs to bring $5,000 to play throughout 3 hands of his underground cooking poker video game,” the network notes of the brand-new program. “The rivals, who all understand each other well, have ratings to settle and individual stakes to lose as they fight to produce meals based upon the cards they are dealt and wagered utilizing their own impulses and cold difficult money.”
Cards To Kitchen
As one may discover in a poker competition, some difficulties appear along the method for these celeb chefs. Wild cards are dealt into the action sometimes, bringing some unforeseeable obstacles into the mix to evaluate the chefs.
The network detailed a few of the meals that appear on the menu throughout the series, consisting of surf-and-turf with peanut butter and live crab with kimchi. Secret visitor judges utilize blind trial run to pick the leading cooking poker shark who generates the money from their fellow chefs.
A few of the completing chefs consist of Chopped judges Maneet Chauhan, Brian Malarkey and Marc Murphy; Italian food masters Gabriele Bertaccini, Rocco Dispirito, and Antonia Lofaso; and friends Stephanie Izard, Joe Sasto, and Justin Sutherland. Visitor judges consist of Anne Burrell, Esther Choi, and Scott Conant.
“Wildcard Kitchen makes audiences seem like they are behind-the-scenes for a special late-night poker video game with their preferred chefs,” Warner Bros. Discovery head of food material Betsy Ayala stated. “The competitors and good-natured garbage talk is intense, amusing, and unlike anything Food Network has actually provided.”
The program uses another popular culture spotlight for the video game, which likewise consisted of a current Golden Globe election for the Peacock Network’s Poker Face.
