The Taste

2013 • ABC
4.1
85 reviews
TV-14
Rating
Eligible
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Season 1 episodes (8)

1 Auditions Part 1
1/22/13
Professional and amateur chefs compete in the first round of taste tests.
2 Auditions Part 2
1/29/13
Professional and amateur chefs compete.
3 Comfort Food
2/5/13
The mentors work with teams of four cooks to create comfort food dishes.
4 Dairing Pairings
2/12/13
Each team must use five unique ingredients to create the best dish.
5 The Art of the Sandwich
2/19/13
As the contestants are tasked with creating the perfect sandwich.
6 Nose to Tail
2/26/13
The contestants are pushed out of their culinary comfort zones.
7 Seduction
3/5/13
The seven semi-finalists must seduce the judges with a single spoonful.
8 Finale: Triple Threat
3/12/13
The final four contestants each present three dishes to the judges.

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.

Ratings and reviews

4.1
85 reviews
Christopher Carroll
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
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.....👍
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Pamela Crockett
February 19, 2013
I luv watchig the Taste, such different talents..
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