Cooking shows, you’ve seen ’em. Millions of people look at them, from classic home made meals to cooking competitions for a lot of money. Society sure made it a lot harder for chefs to make their dish.
Cooking shows give you only 2 impressions, that the dish tastes wonderful and that it is so easy to make. From the opposite point of view you would say that the dish tastes awful and will kill hours of time. In addition when the chef takes ingredients and says how you’ll have to chop them he or she only cuts one ingredient sets the rest back where it belongs and brings out the other stuff that he chopped earlier. Same goes for when the chef puts something in the oven, apparently there is already a duplicate that has been baked perfectly. This is not very noticeable and happens in each cooking show.
I understand that this is used to kill time so that in the program it looks made in 20 minutes but people often forget that in reality you’re not an experienced chef and that chopping onions might take longer than 5 seconds.
So cooking may look easier than it is, evidently people still get convinced when the popular chef says its easy to make. With people I mean billions of people.
The variations of cooking shows is something we shouldn’t underestimate. The influences from those actually triggers us to give much information about ourselves. An example is that female watchers often look female chefs rather than male chefs. This stereotype creates a paradox between male and female chefs. Not to mention that a number of cooking competitions lines up candidates just to see them fail under pressure only to gain viewing figures.
personal opinion
I think that cooking shows should be more rational and realistic in a way that it doesn’t affect the mind of the viewer. With realistic I do not mean cooking in a home to make a realistic ambiance or to make meals that even a grandmother can make but to just give reasonable numbers or achievable dishes.
Food blog made by Sietse Didden & Brian Cuppen 