I’ve been a Food Network fan all of my life. I grew up watching the channel with my mom, and we would try to replicate the recipes we watched in the kitchen later that day. As I got older, and new shows joined the daily broadcast, my obsession with watching people cook didn’t change. I hope I’m not the only one that binge-watches "Chopped."
With 36 seasons and over 400 episodes, you will always be surprised with what comes out of those baskets. Thank goodness "Chopped" is on TV basically every day because I’m not sure what I would do without it. Coming from a "Chopped" fanatic, here are a couple thoughts I have while watching an episode.
1. You have to pick a person to root for, and if they don’t win, you’re devastated for the rest of the day.
2. If it’s viewer’s choice baskets, you know you’re in for a crazy episode.
3. You’re basically best friends with the judges.
4. Or you’re secretly in love with one of the judges. (I mean Alex Guarnaschelli and Geoffrey Zakarian are basically the loves of my life.)
5. You have a hard time pronouncing Alex’s last name. (I had to google it while writing this article.)
6. You groan every time someone has a sob story.
7. And groan even more when they start crying.
8. But you laugh when Ted Allen has to awkwardly try to change the subject to move on.
9. There’s always that one person that’s going to propose to their significant other once they win the prize money.
10. “Oh, I could totally make that.”
11. You try to figure out what you would cook once you see what the ingredients are.
12. You didn’t know canned chicken or mashed potato candy were things until you saw the episode of it. Like, where do they find this stuff?
13. It grosses you out whenever someone cuts themselves and has to awkwardly cook with a glove on while their finger is profusely bleeding.
14. When Ted Allen counts down you can feel your heart rate speeding up.
15. Your heart rate goes even faster when you see one of the contestants in the pantry with 10 seconds left on the clock.
16. “I DON’T CARE IF YOU WANT SOMETHING FRESH ON THE PLATE CAROL! YOU DON’T HAVE TIME TO CHOP UP THAT BASIL. YOU HAVE 5 SECONDS LEFT AND YOU STILL HAVE YOUR CHICKEN ON THE STOVE!”
17. You always wonder how awkward it is for the contestants to wait in that little room between rounds.
18. You get mad whenever someone decides to use the ice cream machine.
19. Whenever a contestant runs out of time to put an ingredient on all of the plates, you feel bad for the one judge that got left out.
20. You don't understand why the winner in every episode always does a weird victory dance, but you're all for it.
21. “Alright, time for the next episode.”
This article has not been reviewed by Odyssey HQ and solely reflects the ideas and opinions of the creator.
