The Taste
2013 • ABC
4.1star
85 reviews
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Season 3 episodes (7)
1 Auditions and Childhood
12/4/14
In the two-hour series premiere, home cooks and professional chefs from across the country will battle it out in "The Taste" kitchen by creating their most delicious dishes for culinary superstars Anthony Bourdain, Nigella Lawson, Ludo Lefebvre and Marcus Samuelsson to taste. Every dish is always judged blind. At the end of the night, 16 cooks will be given a place on the mentors' teams.
2 Under the Sea
12/11/14
Seafood takes center stage next week when the 15 remaining hopefuls face off in "The Taste" kitchen and put their personal spin on the mentors' favorite seafood dishes. With a menu featuring steamed fish, seafood stew and shellfish in miso broth, in the end, two more competitors will eliminated.
3 Happy Holidays
12/18/14
Tis the season for all things delicious on ABC's "The Taste" with 13 remaining cooks competing in holiday-themed challenges. Tasked with creating dishes based on fowl, duck and spiced chocolate desserts, the cooks take to the kitchen to see who will make the best bite. In the end, two more competitors will be sent home.
4 Happy New Year
1/1/15
It's a new year and there's a new battle brewing in the kitchen when the remaining cooks are tasked with making delicious dishes bursting with decadent and elevated flavors with ingredients like champagne, shellfish and caviar. In the end, two more competitors will be sent home.
5 Latin
1/8/15
Bold, bright – and most of all – flavorful and spicy! It's Latin week on ABC's "The Taste" with the remaining competitors tasked with creating dishes like ceviche and tacos. With both a group and solo challenge ahead, in the end, two more cooks will be sent home.
6 Bring the Heat
1/15/15
The competition is getting even hotter when the remaining contestants fight to cook another day in a hot and spicy "bring the heat" themed challenge using ingredients like Szechuan pepper and pork. With solo and group challenges ahead, two more cooks will be sent home, and the remaining competitors will head to the finale where only one will be named "The Taste" champion.
7 The Finale
1/22/15
It's all come down to this. The search for America's Best Undiscovered Cook sees only five cooks remaining in "The Taste" kitchen, and the mentors give their final group challenge - creating Saints and Sinners-inspired dishes representing two very opposite ideas and culinary concepts.
About this show
One blind spoonful could change everything on ABC's "The Taste." This new cooking competition show is literally all about taste.
Sixteen competitors, from pro chefs to home cooks, whip up dishes attempting to impress four of the world's most notable chefs. The catch is all the dishes will be judged in a blind taste test. In this pressure-packed contest, the taste of a single spoonful can catapult a contender to the top or send him packing.
"The Taste" features no-holds barred chef Anthony Bourdain, British food star Nigella Lawson, expert chef and author Ludo Lefebvre and restaurateur Brian Malarkey. Each of the four culinary superstars and "Taste" mentors -- Bourdain, Lawson, Lefebvre and Malarkey -- will coach a team of four competing pro and amateur cooks chosen from a nationwide casting call as they vie to create the best tasting dish.
In each episode, the groups will face team and individual challenges with a variety of culinary themes through several elimination rounds. At the end of each episode, the mentors will have to judge the competitors' dishes blind, with no knowledge of whose creation they're sampling, what they're eating, how it was prepared or whom they could be eliminating.
Sixteen competitors, from pro chefs to home cooks, whip up dishes attempting to impress four of the world's most notable chefs. The catch is all the dishes will be judged in a blind taste test. In this pressure-packed contest, the taste of a single spoonful can catapult a contender to the top or send him packing.
"The Taste" features no-holds barred chef Anthony Bourdain, British food star Nigella Lawson, expert chef and author Ludo Lefebvre and restaurateur Brian Malarkey. Each of the four culinary superstars and "Taste" mentors -- Bourdain, Lawson, Lefebvre and Malarkey -- will coach a team of four competing pro and amateur cooks chosen from a nationwide casting call as they vie to create the best tasting dish.
In each episode, the groups will face team and individual challenges with a variety of culinary themes through several elimination rounds. At the end of each episode, the mentors will have to judge the competitors' dishes blind, with no knowledge of whose creation they're sampling, what they're eating, how it was prepared or whom they could be eliminating.
Ratings and reviews
4.1
85 reviews
Christopher Carroll
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February 13, 2013
I love cooking shows and this one falls short. Every episode feels the same and please do something with the design of the set is horrible.
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A Google user
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October 9, 2017
Really great show..... I miss it and wish the network will revamp it with perhaps some minor changes of twist and definitely bring back Marcus! Purdy pleeezee.....👍
Heather Girona
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February 7, 2013
Me and my 11 Yr old (who wants to be a chef) love watching this show!!!!
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