Chopped: Do They Get More Than The Stated Time?

Chopped is all fake and the winner is selected before the competition. The judges are informed who is to win and they give critical but supporting comments to the winner.

Watch the first round carefully and you will know who the winner is.

They film each episode over 12 hours. The judges are not present when the dishes are cooked, the whole thing is totally faked.

R1. Tell us more!

More what?

The winner is selected by the producers for the 'back story'. The judges come in and fake comments about the cooking. The food sits forever and is not fresh when 'tasted'. They cook all the food, the judges judge and then the judges stay and make comments written for them while pretending to watch the chefs cook.

The food close ups are done by stylists not the chefs themselves and they have an average of two hours per course.

How do I now...I was on this shit show.

Since this is a game show with prize money, I would think there would be a limit to how much they could actually "fake."

R1 doesn't have any idea what he's talking about.

If you actually watch the show, there are camera shots that show the contestants working and the judges in the background.

You going to claim that's CGI or something?

A lot of game shows have disclaimers at the end about editing, etc. -- does "Chopped" have one?

How much money did you bet on the outcome, OP? Because that's the only reason I can imagine someone would be upset by this.

I'm not upset by it, you cow, I still enjoy watching it.

Wrong R1. It's a legitimate game show, and has to follow the rules for such. They get exactly as much time as they indicate. Nothing is foretold. The asides and other bits are filmed after and edited in.

There's obviously a fair amount of time between the "courses" that is edited out.

R1 is a psychotic liar.

what an idiotic show

Chop Chop! I have a schedule to keep.

[quote]The winner is selected by the producers for the 'back story'.

Bullshit. Very often the most compelling back story does NOT get to the end. Sometimes they go in the first round, sometimes in the second. Sometimes the obnoxious jerk wins, and it's clear from the judges' attitudes that they'd have wished someone else had won.

[quote]The food close ups are done by stylists not the chefs themselves and they have an average of two hours per course.

Bullshit bullshit. We can see them plating, and those plates are shown for the camera, whether neat or messy. I know two of the contestants who have been on the show, and while there is time BETWEEN courses, the actual competition is very carefully timed.

[quote]How do I now...I was on this shit show.

Are you sure you're not confusing this with MasterChef (at least the US version), which definitely IS rigged, as disclosed by numerous former contestants?

R13, which former Masterchef contestants have said it is rigged?

I know nothing about this particular show. However, I do know that Congress changed the laws regarding Game Shows a few years ago because nearly every reality show was illegal under the old laws. What you think the rules are as a consequence of the Game Show scandals of the 1950s is no longer accurate.

R1/3 appears to be in violation of the NDA.

I love Chopped. It is the kind of show that always seems to be airing, and I find I can tune in at any point of any episode and become totally engrossed in the action.

I'm not naive enough to believe every second of what is portrayed, but I don't think what R1 says is accurate.

I don't like Cutthroat Kitchen, but have watched it from time-to-time when I see that former Top Chef contestants appear on the show. exp: Tiffany Derry was a contestant, Antonia Defasio was a judge, etc. I just don't like how they undermine each other--cooking under fire is hard enough without making another contestant use a pocketknife, for example.

I have to admit I like Guy's Grocery Games. The concept is interesting and it is fun to see the contestants run through the store with their grocery carts. Richard Blais was one of the judges on one episode and he has a whole new look now. No more spiky hair, but a darker comb over much more becoming to a man his age. He is wearing the black hipster glasses, though, so that is a step in the wrong style direction, I'm afraid. They didn't let Richard say much as a judge, however, about the food he was tasting. Perhaps it is a bit of hazing to welcome him to the channel.

Richard must need to put asses in the seats of his new restaurant pretty badly, to be on a show hosted by Guy Fieri....

[quote]R13, which former Masterchef contestants have said it is rigged?

Ben Starr, who competed on season 2 and was in the top 5, has written in his blog extensively about how different the reality of the show is from what you see, and discusses its slippery slide from true competition to being manipulated behind the scenes.

He has also highlighted several other chefs who didn't get anything remotely close to a fair shake because the producers favored a particular contestant, creating a storyline around them that was often very different from the reality.

The male chefs get more time if they suck Teds dick.

R19 is a liar.

R18, Guy's Grocery Games is quite fun. Must be expensive to produce though.

Cutthroat Kitchen surprised me. I hate gimmicks like sabotage but the chefs are talented so seeing what they make is fun.

The show they're having trouble revitalizing is Iron Chef. It just is boring.

Thanksgiving Live was a shitshow. Narcissistic hosts couldn't stop talking over one another (bobby, Ina, giada, Alton) and giada almost sliced her finger off.

Amazing to see another new Robert Irvine show. Pathological liar, proven, endlessly criticizing others psychological functioning. And fixing restaurants despite his own middling success as restauranteur.

Chopped teen edition fun; tapas edition terrible. No more stunt episodes!!!

The "Quiz Show" laws adopted in 1960 apply to any "contest of intellectual knowledge, intellectual skill, or chance." The FCC has declined to review allegations of cheating on Big Brother and American Idol by concluding that they were "for entertainment only" and were not genuine competitions.

Anyone who cooks for fun or profit knows that it is impossible to boil three quarts of water within 1.5 minutes after the cooking period begins. Some of the meat selections that contestants are required to prepare and plate in less than 30 minutes would be inedible if tried in the home kitchen under the same conditions purported to be authentic. This is not really a condemnation of the show's concept. Let's face it, we're watching television, an entertainment medium. No mean cook can take the disparate elements offered as "mystery ingredients" and transform them into credible fare worthy of consideration by real world cooking authorities. "That's Entertainment".

Giada almost slicing her finger off was the best part of the Thanksgiving show. You could actually see her go pale. I thought she was going to faint.

What got me about her was that throughout the entire show Giada kept remarking how much she was eating and how she was the only one eating and eating more than anyone. OMG, she was so trying to prove she doesn't puke up every bite she takes like we know she does.

Honestly, I don't think the show is as fake as R1 claims but I do think it's way more fake than real. Every "reality" and game show on the air is. It figures game shows were deregulated along with every other crooked thing in this country.

It's almost impossible to cheat a game show any more. Each network/channel has a Standards and Practices division that ensures the game is legit. There are actual laws on the books to make sure television game shows are fair and honest.

And R24, if you watch the show, you'd know that each contestant has a big stockpot of already boiling water at his/her station. They don't have to wait for it to come to a boil.

Giada used to fuck her own dad and is an enormous slut.

She's so fucking gross.

Here's where I think the editing is...

I think they get a chance to think after the basket ingredients are revealed and maybe walk around the pantry a bit.

I know there have been episodes where people can't find certain things, but that usually happens when they change ideas mid-stream.

The food competition show that is obviously fake is the cupcake one (Cupcake Wars?) on Food Network. It's quite obvious they've all been told what each different, required, ingredient is going to be. The competitors are horrible at acting "surprised."

ALL game shows are legit. See R23.

Did you ever wonder why cable channels like BUZZR and GSN have all of the old Kinescopes of ancient game shows? Because they were documented to avoid another game show investigation.

Stupidest show on TV, and the reason I unplugged.

Robert Irvine needs to do porn not stupid cooking shows.

R24. I heard Ted Allen say that water is hot and oven is warm before a round begins.

I like the show. Based upon some of the mistakes and injuries it's hard to believe much of it is staged. It seems to me it would be more expensive to stage the competition than let it play out.

r3, How do you explain judges' comments contemporaneous with events such as a chef cutting himself?

When we can watch food burn, the chefs cut and chop and blend and bread and deep-fry, where is the fakery?

Are the kid competitions real?

Are they voiceovers, R35?

I wanna go on Chopped.