cooking this week
3:00 p.m.
KVEW The Rachael Ray Show (CC)
FOOD Guy’s Grocery Games Four rising
star chefs compete for big bucks. (CC)
4:00 p.m.
FOOD Guy’s Grocery Games Three
pairs of twins team up. (CC)
5:00 p.m.
FOOD Guy’s Grocery Games A slot ma-
chine determines dinner ingredients. (CC)
6:00 p.m.
FOOD Guy’s Grocery Games Chefs get-
ting married try to earn some cash. (CC)
7:00 p.m.
FOOD Guy’s Grocery Games Four chefs
must try to make their signature dish. (CC)
8:00 p.m.
FOOD Guy’s Grocery Games Four of
the best young chefs seek to make their
mark. (CC)
5:30 p.m.
FOOD Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives
Guy goes to an authentic Cuban joint in
Chicago. (CC)
6:00 p.m.
FOOD Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives
Oahu’s Hawaiian dishes; Sicilian sand-
wiches in Chicago. (CC)
6:30 p.m.
FOOD Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives Guy
fills up with stuffed specialties in Mas-
sachusetts. (CC)
7:00 p.m.
FOOD Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives Guy
visits the San Francisco coast. (CC)
7:30 p.m.
FOOD Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives
Local faves in Kansas City, Mo. (CC)
8:00 p.m.
FOOD Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives Guy
starts this trip in Cincinnati at a Jamaican
joint. (CC)
THURSDAY
SATURDAY
3:00 p.m.
KVEW The Rachael Ray Show (CC)
FOOD Beat Bobby Flay Singapore and
Long Island meet before Bobby. (CC)
3:30 p.m.
FOOD Beat Bobby Flay A new school
versus old school showdown. (CC)
4:00 p.m.
FOOD Beat Bobby Flay Katie Lee and
Laura Vitale hope to kill Bobby’s record.
1:00 p.m.
OPB Steven Raichlen’s Project Fire
American barbecue meets authentic
ethnic grilling. (CC)
FOOD Wedding Cake Championship
The teams make toppers that pay homage
to dating. (CC)
1:30 p.m.
OPB America’s Test Kitchen From
Cook’s Illustrated (CC)
2:00 p.m.
OPB Annabel Langbein: The Free
Range Cook Annabel combines lavender
and merino lamb. (CC)
FOOD Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives
Guy hits up a diverse roster of Vegas
joints. (CC)
2:30 p.m.
OPB Martha Bakes Use the crunch and
flavor of seeds. (CC)
3:00 p.m.
KTNW America’s Test Kitchen From
Cook’s Illustrated The secrets to making
the perfect Pane Francese. (CC)
FOOD Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives
Guy’s hittin’ up all sorts of favorites of
Flavortown. (CC)
3:30 p.m.
KTNW A Chef’s Life Vivian prepares a
Feast of the Seven Fishes dinner. (CC)
4:00 p.m.
FOOD Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives
Guy’s cruising the East Coast for classic
joints.
5:00 p.m.
FOOD Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives
Guy’s in the kitchen with real Triple-D
all-stars. (CC)
6:00 p.m.
OPB The Great British Baking Show
The Showstopper is a mighty layered
meringue. (CC)
FOOD Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives
An exclusive peek at the lost footage of
DDD. (CC)
7:00 p.m.
KTNW The Great British Baking Show
Mary and Paul show their signature
sponge puddings. (CC)
FOOD Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives
Late night joints with great food at all
hours. (CC)
8:00 p.m.
FOOD Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives Guy
Fieri zeroes in on Chico, California. (CC)
WEDNESDAY
Cooking curiosity: ‘Chopped Junior’
contestants check out what’s in the baskets
By Andrew Warren
TV Media
K
ids love surprises! I think
it’s all part of the curiosity
of youth, the need that kids
have to always be exploring.
To paraphrase a favorite kids
cartoon character, it’s all about
taking chances, making mis-
takes and getting messy.
That’s probably why the
competitors in “Chopped
Junior” tend to do so well
with those mysterious basket
ingredients that “Chopped” is
so famous for. A new season of
the pint-sized competition gets
underway Tuesday, June 25, on
Food Network, with a bunch
of new baskets and a group
of new competitors ready to
tackle them head-on.
Ted Allen hosts each episode
as four contestants between
the ages of 9 and 15 enter the
“Chopped” kitchen eager to
see what ingredients are hid-
den inside of the iconic baskets.
These aren’t your run-of-the-
mill kids, though: they’re all
maestros in the kitchen, with
palates and skills far ahead of
what most of their peers can
boast.
Besides the age of the
contestants, the competi-
tion is more or less classic
“Chopped.” In each round, the
contestants are each given a
basket containing four mystery
ingredients, each of which must
be featured in their dish. Once
time runs out, the plates are
presented to a panel of judges,
who then rate the dishes based
on taste, presentation, creativ-
ity and use of the basket ingre-
dients before chopping one of
the contestants and sending
him or her packing.
Of course, while the contes-
tants in “Chopped Junior” may
be skilled, they’re still amateurs
and a far cry from the profes-
sional chefs that compete in
the regular “Chopped.” While
the judges’ standards are defi-
nitely high, they do pull their
punches a bit more than they
do in the adult version — after
all, you can’t expect a 9-year-
old to have the same level of
expertise as a culinary school
grad!
What the kids do have,
though, is way more experience
and skill in the kitchen than a
lot of adults do, and watching
their faces light up with curios-
ity, joy, confusion and terror
when they crack open those
baskets and see what’s inside
is a delight to behold. The latest
season of “Chopped Junior”
premieres Tuesday, June 25, on
Food Network.
(CC)
4:30 p.m.
FOOD Beat Bobby Flay Two chefs try to
break their own losing streaks. (CC)
5:00 p.m.
FOOD Beat Bobby Flay Bobby’s
protégée Leia Gaccione has a surprise in
store. (CC)
5:30 p.m.
FOOD Beat Bobby Flay Martin Rios and
Geoff Johnson hope for an edge. (CC)
6:00 p.m.
FOOD Beat Bobby Flay Ryan Hackney
and Nora Haron try to beat Bobby. (CC)
6:30 p.m.
FOOD Beat Bobby Flay Cody and Sam
Caroll prove love is a battlefield. (CC)
7:00 p.m.
FOOD Chopped The competitors face
four separate mystery ingredients. (CC)
8:00 p.m.
FOOD Chopped The chefs must make
ice cream work with halibut. (CC)
FRIDAY
3:00 p.m.
KVEW The Rachael Ray Show (CC)
FOOD Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives Guy
visits viewers’ recommended restaurants.
(CC)
Ted Allen hosts “Chopped Junior”
3:30 p.m.
FOOD Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives Guy
chases down some funky joints. (CC)
4:00 p.m.
FOOD Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives
Guy’s heading out for some family cook-
ing in Minnesota. (CC)
4:30 p.m.
FOOD Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives A
1920’s candy and ice cream place. (CC)
5:00 p.m.
FOOD Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives Guy
travels to find feel good food.
SUNDAY
1:00 p.m.
FOOD The Kitchen The Kitchen prepares
a week’s worth of easy meals. (CC)
2:00 p.m.
FOOD The Kitchen The Kitchen wel-
comes the flavors of summer. (CC)
3:00 p.m.
FOOD Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives Guy
Fieri’s bringin’ the heat. (CC)
4:00 p.m.
FOOD Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives
Guy’s going coastal for the best eats on
the beach. (CC)
5:00 p.m.
FOOD Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives
Guy’s soaking in the sunshine and grab-
bing some grub. (CC)
6:00 p.m.
FOOD The Great Food Truck Race
The teams are mandated to sell classic
Carolina BBQ. (CC)
6:30 p.m.
KVEW Chance of Wine (CC)
7:00 p.m.
FOOD Guy’s Grocery Games Four chefs
compete in Guy’s summer games. (CC)
8:00 p.m.
FOOD Guy’s Grocery Games Four
island-born chefs are challenged by Guy
Fieri. (CC)
MONDAY
3:00 p.m.
KVEW The Rachael Ray Show (CC)
FOOD Best Baker in America: Extra
Icing Bakers must make perfect mini
princess cakes.
4:00 p.m.
FOOD Best Baker in America: Extra
Icing This challenge is all about molten
lava cakes.
5:00 p.m.
FOOD Best Baker in America: Extra
Icing Flaming bombe Alaska awaits the
seven remaining bakers. (CC)
6:00 p.m.
FOOD Best Baker in America: Extra
Icing The bakers recreate the classic
eclair. (CC)
7:00 p.m.
FOOD Best Baker in America: Extra
Icing The bakers start making Toy Story-
themed mini desserts. (CC)
8:00 p.m.
FOOD Best Baker in America: Extra
Icing (N) The bakers are challenged to
make miniature pastries. (CC)
TUESDAY
3:00 p.m.
FOOD Chopped Junior In the dessert
round, a hybrid fruit. (CC)
4:00 p.m.
FOOD Chopped Sixteen chefs are fired
up to grill. (CC)
5:00 p.m.
FOOD Chopped The grill masters are
given a seafood-heavy basket. (CC)
6:00 p.m.
FOOD Chopped The grill masters pound
away in the first round. (CC)
7:00 p.m.
FOOD Chopped A new group of furi-
ously compete for the final spot. (CC)
8:00 p.m.
FOOD Chopped Four champion grill
masters return! (CC)
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