Critics Cut Chopped to Pieces

[Food Network Fan]

Critics Cut Chopped to Pieces
-- Grub Street: New York Magazine's ...
Ted Allen, as host, was dry and mechanical, simply going through the paces, and the production quality was pretty high (as far as the Food Network goes), but still nowhere near Bravo's. It's just three Top Chef elimination challenges, ...

[Food Network Fan]

I watched the first half of this last night then I realized it was going on beyond 30 minutes and I lost interest.

[Food Network Fan]

Food Network's 'Chopped': TiVo worthy?
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
Long before "Chopped" premiered Tuesday night on Food Network, the blogosphere had summarily labeled it a ripoff of Bravo's Emmy-winning TV show and pop ...

[ibcheft]

I caught parts of it, did not see anything I wanted to run out and try. Prune soup ? not something I would want unless I needed loosening up. Whats the deal with duck ? how many of us can afford to buy it, and it seems to be more of an acquired taste that one that is immediately liked, last time I remember it was greasy and if not greasy it was dry. I am going to have to go back and watch the whole thing, since the alarms were going off after we lost power and had to replace all the batteries in them when it was on. Sounds like it was pretty boring.

[Food Network Fan]

Chopped Has Some Fans, Too -- Grub Street: New York Magazine's ... Perry Pollaci of Bar BlancPhoto: Courtesy of Food Network. While Ed Levine, Adam Kuban, and Eat Me Daily were pretty down on Chopped, our commenters were more forgiving, as was Time Out’s Feed blog: “It’s a very ...

[Food Network Fan]

I thought Ted Allen would be more involved than he was. It's almost like they just added him for star power. I would have liked to have seen him do more.

[Bentley Green]

I saw it also when it debuted Tuesday night.

And I, also, summed it all up as a ripoff, but a ripoff of NFNS, Iron Chef America and Throwdown.

I don't see this one lasting long or even getting a renewal. Too boring to me!

[Pluff Mudder]

Product Placement in Chopped [scandal] - Eat me daily

[isilzha]

It was sort of interesting. But I couldn't figure out why they even bothered putting a vegetarian/vegan chef on there.

[Bentley Green]

I don't know, but this one, as far as I can see, has a big question mark hanging over it.

If it even gets renewed, I'll be quite surpised. I like his other show Food Detectives much better.