Wedded Genius [HD]

Season 3 is still a joy to watch
My girlfriend and I both love watching competitive cooking shows, partly for the dramatic nature, and partly because we end up learning about interesting techniques and ingredients we might research and use later. In Season 3, Ron Ben-Israel has re-upped his judging standards compared to Season 2 to around the level in Season 1, though he has retained his zany, nearly insane persona. One episode in particular has stuck out so far: Wicked Genius. The competitors in that episode were all high-profile, award-winning chefs. It was refreshing to see the creative and gorgeous plating done by Francesco and the others, when plating is typically lackluster technically, or just unpolished (due to time constraints) even if the flavors are good. Fantastic episode, which actually makes some of the following episodes almost disappointing. I hope there are more like it. Overall, a great show, and a pretty good season.

Love Sweet Genius and Chef Ben. Good learning for 'sportsmanship' based on the participants acting and reacting.
Entertaining series all about desserts. How can you make a desert with black radishes? Cheese curds? Beer? This series will give you some ideas. I think this series is great too because I watch it with my kids and we talk about the good way to compete (as in "wow, her plate looked good but I still think I have a good chance" instead of "well, her plate looked good but I am sure mine tasted better" or when they get 'released' the difference between their reactions "I'm disappointed that I made that mistake (or that Chef Ben thought I didn't transform the ingredient well, etc. etc.) but it was great to be given the opportunity to be on the show" versus "I think he made a mistake and I didn't deserve to be cut because ParticipantX did such-and-such-thing wrong". Honestly, I like that part of the show as much as the content itself.

Always good and entertaining
Sweet Genius is my husband's and mine favorite show! Chef Ron is a quirky guy with a heart of gold and always makes his shows entertaining!

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