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Matty Matheson in season three of Just a Dash.

Don’t watch this cult cooking show if Jamie Oliver is as weird as you ever want to get

Just a Dash with Matty Matheson sees The Bear star bringing his cult YouTube show to the Netflix mainstream. So, is it any good?

  • Ben Pobjie
Somebody Feed Phil captures Rosenthal’s wide-eyed, drop-jawed wonder at the food he tastes.

In the overstuffed buffet of celebrity foodie travelogues, this is the most charming

He may be best known for creating ’90s sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond, but Phil Rosenthal’s greatest television legacy may well be Somebody Feed Phil.

  • Ben Pobjie
Is It Cake? Holiday

‘Prepare to be stunned’: This festive show crackles with the sweet, jolly, ridiculous things in life

Think you know what cake looks like? ‘Is It Cake? Holiday’ will have you questioning everything, literally.

  • Ben Pobjie
Clockwise from top left: Alison Hammond, Noel Fielding, Prue Leith and Paul Hollywood.

Quirky humour over manufactured tension? No wonder this cooking show still reigns, 16 seasons in

Lapsed fan Ben Pobjie returned to review GBBO with some trepidation. Could it still measure up to the giddy heights OG hosts Mel and Sue took it to? You bet it can.

  • Ben Pobjie
Hosts Jose Andres and Martha Stewart.

This cooking competition − and its judge, Martha Stewart − is ‘horrifically mesmerising’

“Yes, Chef” is best viewed as a comedy, because the only other way to view it is as a harrowing look into the darkest heart of humanity, writes Ben Pobjie.

  • Ben Pobjie
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The 80 “black spoons” gather for an interminable explanation of the competition rules.

‘Aspirationally epic’: This Korean cooking show is equal parts weird and wonderful

Culinary Class Wars trades the usual emotional theatrics of Western reality TV shows for bonkers nicknames and a quirky, dramatic flair.

  • Ben Pobjie
Midnight Diner on Netflix

This ‘exquisitely simple’ TV show is the perfect antidote to these frantic times

Quiet Japanese gem Midnight Diner will leave you with new cooking skills, a strange and beautiful new perspective on life – and most likely in tears.

  • Ben Pobjie
Chicken wings play a supporting role in Hot Ones.

This show highlights an aspect of food rarely discussed: its capacity to inflict pain

Fame, food and pain collide in this outlier in the food entertainment ecosystem.

  • Ben Pobjie