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Food Network announces new series Chef Boot Camp

By D. Goodman

PASADENA, CALIFORNIA - JANUARY 16: President, Food Network & Cooking Channel Courtney White speaks onstage during the Food Network portion of the Discovery, Inc. TCA Winter Panel 2020 at The Langham Huntington, Pasadena on January 16, 2020 in Pasadena, California. (Photo by Amanda Edwards/Getty Images for Discovery, Inc.)
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA - JANUARY 16: President, Food Network & Cooking Channel Courtney White speaks onstage during the Food Network portion of the Discovery, Inc. TCA Winter Panel 2020 at The Langham Huntington, Pasadena on January 16, 2020 in Pasadena, California. (Photo by Amanda Edwards/Getty Images for Discovery, Inc.) /
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It would seem that Food Network isn’t even close to being done giving fans of foodie television a look behind the scenes of what it’s like to be a chef in the high pressure restaurant world. The network released a press release this week announcing the latest edition to their schedule, Chef Boot Camp.

The series will take three chefs from restaurants across the country that aren’t cutting it in their respective kitchens and give them a chance to succeed. These are chefs who need to improve or their job may be on the line. Because as anyone who has watched Hell’s Kitchen knows, a kitchen is only as strong as its weakest member.

Those three chefs will be put through the ringer by former Top Chef and Season 2 Tournament of Champions contestant Cliff Crooks, the Culinary Director of a global restaurant brand whose job it is to evaluate chefs and fire the ones that he feels are bringing the entire kitchen down.

Each episode will see three different chefs competing to see if they get to keep their jobs. They will be put through a number of culinary tests and challenges to determine if they not only can improve, but if they actually have what it takes to run their own kitchens.

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It’s a good assumption that not every chef will walk away with a happy ending. When the prize is just getting to keep your job, it means all the nominated chefs will be putting everything into proving they are worth it.

While Food Network has done shows in a similar vein before, it would seem this is more of a step into what people love about Hell’s Kitchen so much. Watching chefs do real work for real jobs instead of just competing against each other. It sets the bar much higher and can make things much more dramatic.

Chef Boot Camp premieres on April 8 at 10 PM on Food Network.

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