For those who love watching cooking shows with twists, rejoice! Netflix has announced an 8-episode series titled Easy-Bake Battle: The Home Cooking Competition. The show is ready to air starting this week. With Antoni Porowski as the host, we can expect a fun and feel-good type of series coming our way.
The inspiration behind the show is unique. Easy-Bake oven, a children’s toy introduced by Kenner in 1963 that’s still popular and is manufactured by Hasbro, is what made the show creators go: “Wow. We can make a show out of this”. We can’t blame them, as absurd as it is, the Easy-bake oven has been the source of many interesting YouTube videos where people try to use it as a real oven’s replacement. A whole cooking series inspired by that sounds quite fascinating.
The whole motto of the show is “Cooking doesn’t have to be complicated.” It’s filled with hacks and methods to cook up a Tasty dish with an “S” that stands for satisfyingly easy and not stressful.
Easy-Bake Battle: Not your Regular Cooking Competition
The number of contestants hasn’t been revealed as of yet. What we do know is that these contestants won’t be cooking the conventional way.
The competition will consist of two rounds. It will involve making a savory dish for one round and any sweet dish for the next. Each round can give the contestants a chance to win $25,000. If they end up winning both rounds, they can bag a whopping amount of $100,000.
When the trailer was released on September 28, it almost instantaneously had people wanting to know more about it, and many had already added the show to their watch lists. Such cooking shows have been a hit all over YouTube and Netflix.
Before the release of Easy-Bake Battle, Netflix already had shows such as Nailed it! and Best Leftovers ever! which were well received by the audience. With an ingenious concept, Easy-Bake is expected to have much more fans and home cooks who are inspired by the show’s dishes.
I can’t remember the last time I was this excited for a cooking show 😍
— Courtney (@lookatthesparks) September 28, 2022
Easy-Bake Battle: The Home Cooking Competition: The Judges
The show will have two judges, Jacques Torres and Kristen Kish, and a host, Antoni Porowski.
Jacques Torres:
Jacques, who’s also known for his role on the television series “Next Great Baker”, is back as a judge on this show. He will be giving his critiques on the dishes the contestants will have to make.
With a journey that started when he was 15, Jacques still hasn’t looked back and continues to make excellent Dessert and Pastry recipes. He was first a part of Hotel Negresco, where he worked with Jacques Maximin, and later on, he moved to work at Ritz Carlton Hotel and then at Le Cirque. In the year 2000, Jacques opened his Chocolate shop in New York along with a museum in Manhattan.
Jacques now has two children with the chocolatier, Hasty Khoei.
Antoni Porowski:
Anthony, the host of Easy-Bake Battle, was born in 1984 and is a self-taught Chef. He has a degree in Psychology and acting as well. Inspired by his Grandmother’s recipes, he decided to try his hand at being a cook and ended up loving it. A cookbook titled “Let’s Do Dinner” was also released recently by Antoni.
Porowski also has worked in several movies and series, some of the notable ones being The Blacklist and The Pretenders. Antoni is mostly recognized for his role in the Television show Queer Eye, where he was one of the experts.
Kristen Kish:
A well-known cooking show host, Kristen Kish is a talented chef and judge born in 1938. She has been a part of culinary institutes and also worked at the famous restaurateur Barbara Lynch’s hotel in Boston. Kish has an achievement as the 2nd female to win in any of the Top Chef series.
36 hours, Fast Foodies, and Iron Chef are some of the other shows she was a part of. Kristen is now married to Bianca Dusic, the vice president of the Standard hotels’ food and beverage department.
Easy-Bake Battle: The Home Cooking Competition Episode 1: Release Date
The first episode of Easy-Bake Battle will air on October 12, 2022. New episodes of the series will come out once a week on Wednesdays with a run time of 30 minutes.
Where to Watch Easy-Bake Battle?
Since Easy-Bake Battle: The Home Cooking competition is a Netflix original show, it will only be available on Netflix, Globally. So, tune in this Wednesday to witness the making of amazing recipes with little effort and much love.
