Fans of poker who additionally get pleasure from whipping up a connoisseur meal (or no less than watching others do it) could wish to try the brand new present Wildcard Kitchen, debuting this March on the Food Network.
The eight-episode sequence, which begins airing on March 12 at 9 p.m. (ET), brings some of the network’s favorite chefs together to check their abilities on the desk and within the kitchen. The present could supply some actual “high steals” because the motion performs out.
“In each episode, host Eric Adjepong takes over the test kitchen after hours with an exclusive invitation for three chefs to bring $5,000 to play across three hands of his underground culinary poker game,” the community notes of the brand new present. “The competitors, who all know each other well, have scores to settle and personal stakes to lose as they battle to create dishes based on the cards they are dealt and bet using their own instincts and cold hard cash.”
Cards To Kitchen
As one would possibly discover in a poker match, some challenges pop up alongside the way in which for these movie star cooks. Wild playing cards are dealt into the motion at instances, bringing some unpredictable challenges into the combo to check the cooks.
The community detailed a number of of the dishes that present up on the menu through the sequence, together with surf-and-turf with peanut butter and stay crab with kimchi. Mystery visitor judges use blind style exams to pick the highest culinary poker shark who rakes within the money from their fellow cooks.
Some of the competing cooks embody Chopped judges Maneet Chauhan, Brian Malarkey and Marc Murphy; Italian delicacies masters Gabriele Bertaccini, Rocco Dispirito, and Antonia Lofaso; and finest associates Stephanie Izard, Joe Sasto, and Justin Sutherland. Guest judges embody Anne Burrell, Esther Choi, and Scott Conant.
“Wildcard Kitchen makes viewers feel like they are behind-the-scenes for an exclusive late-night poker game with their favorite chefs,” Warner Bros. Discovery head of meals content material Betsy Ayala mentioned. “The competition and good-natured trash talk is fierce, funny, and unlike anything Food Network has offered.”
The present presents one other popular culture highlight for the sport, which additionally included a current Golden Globe nomination for the Peacock Network’s Poker Face.
