Compliments to the Chef

This week we are holding space for Christiaan finally getting his just desserts! But before we get into the fabulous Great British Bake Off semifinal, we do a debrief of the Wicked movie and ponder the safety of yacht chef footwear on below deck. You don't want to miss this riveting discussion of fruit-shaped cakes, lamination and flagrant rule violations!

This week, we welcome to the tent Luca and Sal from The LA Food Podcast! Join the girls and the guys as we dissect 70s week, for all of its peace, love, shag carpets and retro pastries. Tune in to find out who's in the groove and who leaves the tent.

GBBO Episode 7 is one for the history books! We have meringue nests, tiramisu and the british dessert to end all british desserts: spotted dick! We giggle, we judge, and we go on a really long tangent about the Gilded Age.

It's bonfire night in the UK and the Great British Bake Off tent is on fire with talent! The bakers face off in Autumn Week, a celebration of worldly fall festivals. Things are getting witchy and Noel is feeling very at home. Tune in to hear the girls gab about crunchy leaves, pumpkin spice and everything nice!

The girls are joined by the exceptional Abena Anim Somuah to discuss the toughest challenge yet: Pastry Week! Nelly is wearing a beret so you know we are ready for business! Get your sheets of butter and prepare to see some phyllo dough for pastry week. The technical skill is high and our bakers are up to the task, so put in your headphones and join the gals to discuss this week's episode of Great...

Get out your candy thermometers because Caramel Week is upon us in the Great British Bake Off tent! The bakers show off their skills in sticky challenges and a multi-part technical challenge that brings us our most controversial moment of Bake Off EVER. You won't want to miss the commentary or another Paul Hollywood fake out handshake. Tune in!

It's bread week in the tent! The most technical and anticipated week of the season is here and the bakers are ready to impress Paul Hollywood, the breadfather himself, and PROOVE who's the best bread baker in the tent.

The whole gang is (still) here and we're moving on to week 2! There's something in the water because the contestants are dropping like flies, literally. But that doesn't stop them from making show stopping cookie dioramas!

The Compliments to the Chef girlies are BACK and they are ready for dessert! Join hosts Bits and Nancy as they venture into the bucolic English Country side to cover this season of Great British Bake Off. We'll dive into every sweet morsel of Series 12 and have fun along the way!

Top Chef 21 may be over but we're still cooking! Join Bits and Nancy as they interview Ellen Marie Bennett, Founder of Hedley & Bennett, the exclusive apron provider for Top Chef. Hear about her journey to becoming food-industry fashion royalty and how she became the go-to designer for your favorite chefs, from the brothers Voltaggio to Kristen Kish herself! Ellen's new show "Kitchen Glow Up"...

We have reached the end of the voyage with our Wisconsin chefs. The finalists are asked to cook the meal of their lives for an elite panel of guests. Savannah, Dan and Danny put it all out on the line, but who will be named the 21st Top Chef? Tune in to find out!

Put on your swim trunks and let's head to the Caribbean! After six weeks of relaxation, the Top Chef finalists head to warmer weather to compete in the finale at sea. Focusing on fish and local delicacies, the chefs cook up three dishes this episode, all highlighting chicken of the sea. Have some fun in the sun as we cheers to part 1 of the Top Chef finale!

It's our last night in Wisconsin and we're going out with a bang! On this week's episode of Top Chef we have the fan favorite blind taste test challenge followed by a high stakes elimination challenge. The chefs are ask to show their growth over the course of the show in a single dish. Who will be the biggest grower and who will be shown the door? Tune in to find out!

This week we have CEO and Founder of Square Pie Guys Marc Schechter! Mark is a pizza enthusiast who left a life of corporate misery to pursue his passion of breaking bread and filling the world with joy through pizza. Listen to this episode as we discuss the universality of crust, sauce and cheese and have some fun along the way! Marc on instagram: @pizzaman_420 @pizza

This week is an exciting new episode of Top Chef, with a quickfire challenge that is one for the history books! The chefs have to recreate a dish from absolutely nothing and a high stakes game of 20 questions. Then the judges ask the chef to use the table as their serving dish, creating a dish plated directly on the surface. Who will leave it all on the table and who will be under it? Tune in to f...

This week is the finale of Last Chance Kitchen! An action-packed two part epsiode with a cameo from Season 12 winner Mei Lin! Plus, Bits and Nancy vie for a spot on Watch What Happens Live.

Slip into something more comfortable and join us at the first ever Top Chef fish boil!! On this week's episode of Top Chef we have two more Wisconsin food traditions: the meat raffle and the fish boil, both of which Chef Dan Jacobs would care to forget. We meet the most bizarre entry to the Top Chef Cinematic Universe (TCCU) who goes by the name of TORCH, a flame loving fish boil master. This epis...

We've got another supersized Second Helping for Top Chef S21E9! We start with the fan-favorite mise en place relay in LCK. Chefs Amanda, Laura and Kevin battle it out to see who will stay in the running to return to the competition. After that, we have Jamie Lauren (Top Chef Season 5, All Stars) talking about her time on the show as a cheftestant AND culinary producer. You are absolutely not going...

On this week's episode of Top Chef we see the contestants stepping out of their comfort zone into the world of indigenous foods. But before that, they get bogged down in a cranberry quickfire that brings Tom, Gail and Kristen into the Top Chef kitchen to announce a huge rules shake up. Who will shine and who will pack their knives? Tune in to find out!

Another heaping second helping of Top Chef! We unpack this week's episode of LCK, where Kaleena enters the kitchen to face off against Kevin. We get into The Dish With Kish and then we move onto an interview we taped with Kendra Vaculin of Bon Appetit. Kendra talks about what it's like setting up temporary restaurants, pop ups and her work at BA. Don't miss this great episode!

Prepare for battle! This week on Top Chef the chefs armor up for a surprise restaurant wars! The group splits up into two teams and duke it out between their hastily decided concepts. We get 70 minutes of unadulterated combat as we delight in some of the most creative work we've seen all season. We also heat up some delightful leftovers and introduce a new fan-generated Potluck segment. So which r...

LCK is back and it's time to play ball...again!! Rasika and Kevin face off in a nine inning race to see who can score the most home runs. Then, stick around for our interview with Top Chef Production Designer James Connelly, who will WOW you with his encyclopedic knowledge of every top chef kitchen. James has incredible knowledge and talent and sheds light on the BTS of Top Chef that you won't wan...

We've got sausages in the house...in more ways than one! CTTC welcomes the hosts of The LA Food Podcast. We take a look at episode 7 of Top Chef and it's time to play ball! An uproarious sausage race with an all-star panel of judges has the chefs facing off head to head with some of the best food we've seen all season. Who's wiener will reign supreme? Tune in to find out. Check out @TheLACountdown

Back to basics, with a Dish with Kish recap, where we try once more to understand what chaos cuisine actually is. Spoiler alert, we still don't know. The gals also predict where the next Top Chef city will be using their incredibly scientific powers of prediction.

This week's episode is pure chaos!!!!! The chefs compete in a dairy-based dessert quickfire and then move onto achaos cuisine elimination challenge. Guest judge Matty Matheson puts the chefs through their paces and inspires some of the best performances of the entire season. The shocking eliminaton at the end still has us shook! Whose dish will be chaotic good and whose chaotic evil will send them...