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'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 ...
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.
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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 ...
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.