Netflix’s new cooking competition series Pressure Cooker sounds sort of like Hell’s Kitchen with a cutthroat twist. Instead of a panel of judges dishing out compliments and/or insults, the chefs judge each other while competing to win the $100,000 grand prize
The trailer for Pressure Cooker shows the 11 chefs attempting to figure out the best strategy to outlast their competition. Do they vote based on the actual dishes served or based on how threatened they feel by a specific competitor? Also, with 11 chefs in the competition, there are bound to be alliances. How does that factor into judging each other?
Season one’s eight episodes premiere on January 6, 2023.
Netflix served up this description of their latest reality show entree:
“In this first-ever house reality cooking competition, 11 professional chefs must prove that they have all the qualities it takes to thrive in the real culinary world. Locked together inside a fortress of cuisine our group of confident chefs will cook, sleep and coexist with their rivals over a series of weeks. And if that wasn’t enough stress, they’ll also need strategy to balance impressing their peers while watching their own backs…because in the Pressure Cooker there is no panel of judges. The chefs judge each other. This is a high-stakes search for the ultimate chef’s chef.”
