Top 76+ Of The Most Appetizing Cooking Competition Shows
- #1 The Great British Bake Off
- #3 Top Chef
- #5 Cutthroat Kitchen
- #7 Chopped Champions
- #9 Hell's Kitchen
- #11 The Great Food Truck Race
- #13 Worst Cooks In America
- #15 Masterchef Junior
- #17 Food Network Challenge
- #19 The Taste
- #21 Throwdown! With Bobby Flay
- #23 Next Great Baker
- #25 Chopped Junior
- #27 Sugar Rush
- #29 Cake Wars
- #31 Holiday Baking Championship
- #33 The Great American Baking Show
- #35 Sweet Genius
- #37 Halloween Baking Championship
- #39 Cooks vs. Cons
- #41 Buddy vs. Duff
- #43 Chopped Canada
- #45 Nailed It! Germany
- #47 Rachael vs. Guy: Celebrity Cook-Off
- #49 Top Chef Family Style
- #51 Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat
- #53 Ugly Delicious
- #55 Top Chef Canada
- #57 Nailed It México
- #59 Christmas Cookie Challenge
- #61 Holiday Wars
- #63 Ready.. Set... Cook!
- #65 Chef Academy
- #67 Family Food Fight
- #69 Waffles + Mochi
- #71 Million Pound Menu
- #73 The Chefs Line
- #75 Be Our Chef
#1 The Great British Bake Off

The Great British Bake Off is a, as the name states, British television baking competition that first aired in 2010 and has 12 seasons as of now. The main thing that makes this series stand out from the crowd is the fact that the competing chefs are all amateurs, and virtually anyone can give this show a try. This series is actually so good that it has even won a BAFTA award (British Academy Television Awards) and reinvigorated the audience’s interest in baking throughout the country.
#3 Top Chef

The 2006 American reality show Top Chef features chefs competing against each other in various culinary challenges. These culinary masters are judged by a panel of professional chefs, wine, and food experts, with one or more contestants eliminated each episode. And although such a premise might seem like quite a simple one, simplicity is usually the key to making something eternally popular - Top Chef proves it with its eighteen seasons and multiple spin-offs dedicated to various topics, contestants’ professionalism, or age.
#5 Cutthroat Kitchen

Cutthroat Kitchen is an American cooking show hosted by Alton Brown that aired from 2013 to 2017. What sets this series apart from the others is that the contestants can sabotage one another during their cooking challenges. This sabotage can be restricting their movement, messing with their ingredients by adding something completely unrelated to their recipe, and shortening their cooking time. It’s fun to watch the good-humored malevolence hindering contestants’ chances of becoming the winner, and we just can’t get enough of this thoroughly entertaining show!
#7 Chopped Champions

Chopped is a reality-based cooking television game show series that first graced our screens in 2009 and continues to do so even with 50 seasons under its belt. With such a massive success, Chopped spawned quite a few spin-offs, and the one that made it straight onto our list is Chopped Champions. Here, thirteen previous winners were invited to compete once more against each other, and there was a prize at the end of each episode. That, of course, raised the stakes and the competitiveness of the chefs, making it into one helluva entertaining show.
#9 Hell's Kitchen

Hell’s Kitchen is an American reality series that premiered in 2005 and is created and hosted by none other than celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay. Now, this series is for professional chefs, and in each season, two teams of kitchen magicians compete to win the position of head chef. Also, this time, the contests live in dormitories up until their elimination, making it into a real reality drama. Of course, there are challenges, brutal eliminations, and cook-offs, all for our entertainment!
#11 The Great Food Truck Race

The Great Food Truck Race is a reality television and cooking series that definitely stands out from the crowd. Here, contestants are given a food truck to operate and are sent on an adventure spanning different states where they have to prepare food for the local crowds. The team that earns the least is eliminated at the end of each episode. And though at its inception, The Great Food Truck Race’s contestants were seasoned food truck operators, in the later season, the chance to win was given to teams of amateurs and wannabes. And who doesn’t love a road trip and adventure and a cooking show combined into one smashing series?
#13 Worst Cooks In America

Worst Cooks In America takes its contestants, who can gladly boast about their terrible cooking skills, through a cooking boot camp where they learn the ins and outs of fine cuisine. After their training is finished, the competition's winner is discerned by the final challenge where they have to make a restaurant-quality three-course meal for the critics and the judges. Worst Cooks In America is a highly entertaining show with 22 seasons under its belt, so you’d better start watching now if you wish to catch up!
#15 Masterchef Junior

MasterChef Junior is a cooking competition show involving kids from ages eight to thirteen. And together with a constant cuteness overload of kids cooking their hearts out, you also get to see a whole other side of the temperamental Gordon Ramsay. Here he is one of the judges, but instead of making ‘idiot sandwiches,’ he gladly helps the tiny chefs out. The format, though, is basically the same as in MasterChef - there are challenges and eliminations, just the chefs are way more adorable.
#17 Food Network Challenge

#19 The Taste

#21 Throwdown! With Bobby Flay

#23 Next Great Baker

#25 Chopped Junior

#27 Sugar Rush

#29 Cake Wars

#31 Holiday Baking Championship

#33 The Great American Baking Show

#35 Sweet Genius

#37 Halloween Baking Championship

#39 Cooks vs. Cons

#41 Buddy vs. Duff

#43 Chopped Canada

#45 Nailed It! Germany

#47 Rachael vs. Guy: Celebrity Cook-Off

#49 Top Chef Family Style

#51 Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat

#53 Ugly Delicious

#55 Top Chef Canada

#57 Nailed It México

#59 Christmas Cookie Challenge

#61 Holiday Wars

#63 Ready.. Set... Cook!

#65 Chef Academy

#67 Family Food Fight

#69 Waffles + Mochi

#71 Million Pound Menu

#73 The Chefs Line

#75 Be Our Chef
