TIme to get chopped!

This week the show Chopped seemed to be one the food network a lot, while most of them were re runs they were so interesting to watch! This shows concept truly does hit home for me! The way that they take crazy food combinations and put them together to make them taste good i will never understand.
So for your views who dont know alot about the show chopped, here is some back round.

This show in general is more for the average chef. You do not need to be a world renowned chef to appear on the show. Some chefs that have been on it haven't even been to culinary school. Chopped really does seem to caputre the idea that anyone can be made into a good chef through creativity. Each week four competitors appear on the show. Like other food network shows the winner receives a check for ten thousand dollars. What is interesting about chopped is that they have numerous secrete ingredients involved when cooking. Each competitor receives a basket with five items in it. Each of the items has to be used in order for the competitor to even be considered to move on. There are three rounds in chopped. An appitisor round, and entree round, and a dessert round. Each round you receive thirty minutes to create your dish. The competition truly does get to be intense. Most of these chefs do not have the experience that the chefs do from the other related food network shows so i feel as a viewer that i can relate more to the stress they are feeling.
What hits home for me about chopped is that they truly do have to uses every once of creative ability that they have in order to be successful. Its not just about cooking good food, ints about being initiative and creating food that no one else ever have. I personally love creative chefs and this show truly does capture that idea!

"Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all"