Recipe For Deception

2016 • BRAVO
4.8
13 reviews
TV-14
Rating
Eligible
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Season 1 episodes (10)

1 Cooks Can Be Deceiving
1/21/16
Four chefs face off to see who can cook the best dish for two elite judges. They each have a secret ingredient that they must figure out. The catch? Only their rival chef knows the ingredient. Can they decode the lies and deceive their way to gastronomic glory?
2 Masters of Deception
1/28/16
Bryan Voltaggio, Rick Moonen, Lorena Garcia and Art Smith battle it out for big money in this special charity edition. But when culinary skill is matched at its highest in the kitchen, who will have what it takes to out-lie their opponents for the top prize?
3 To Each His Chicharrones
2/4/16
An arrogant Orange County chef gets crabby while his jocular opponent tries to work his magic to earn a spot in the final round. A young sous-chef tries to out-cooked her seasoned opponent who wants to hash things out in the final round.
4 Liar, Liar, Pans on Fire
2/11/16
A seasoned silver fox takes on a feisty black swan in a fight for the best broth. The East Coast West Coast rivalry is renewed when two chefs come out stoves a blazin' in a battle for the best dish and the best beard.
5 You're Bacon Me Crazy
2/18/16
It's a Recipe for Deception first! In one round, both chefs have no idea that they have the same secret ingredient. In another round, one chef uses his opposing chef's secret ingredient to try and knock him out of the game.
6 Celebrity Edition
2/25/16
Coolio and Lou Diamond Phillips go head-to-head, bringing their epic culinary rivalry to a boil. Alanna Ubach takes on old friend Steve Howey, using unconventional cooking techniques and strategy in hopes of winning.
7 Sweet Deceit
3/3/16
A tough mom from Philly and a skilled chef with attitude face off with sticky-sweet ingredients. Two young chefs form an unlikely friendship while battling for a ten thousand dollar prize.
8 Two Truths & A Lentil
3/10/16
An unprecedented tie from the judges puts Max in a powerful position. Can a private chef with something to prove put the restaurant chefs to shame, or will they crack him like a coconut?
9 We Can Pickle That
3/17/16
A cocky New York chef competes against a firecracker from Texas in the battle of rough versus smooth. In an East versus West showdown, a vegan chef is convinced that meat is her ticket to victory.
10 In the Can
3/24/16
A meticulous, by-the-book pastry chef from New York City faces a free-spirit from Los Angeles. In the battle of skinny versus fat, two chefs are blindsided by the truth.

About this show

The recipe for this innovative culinary competition series is equal parts cooking and cunning. Hosted by standup comedian Max Silvestri, "Recipe for Deception" pits four chefs against each other in head-to-head elimination rounds designed to test their abilities cooking with a featured ingredient. Unfortunately for the chefs, the main ingredient is a secret. Before they begin cooking, the competing chefs ask each other three "yes or no" questions to determine their secret ingredients, while the opposing chefs provide two truthful answers and one outright lie. Each chef will be operating on a knife-edge as they attempt to detect the deception and avoid the wrong ingredients.

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