The Best Cooking Shows You Can Watch Right Now

Citified country gal Ree Drummond, wife of an Oklahoma rancher, cooks up down-home dishes on their spread in this Food Network series.

Two contestants per episode face off in a cooking competition for the chance to take on celebrity chef Bobby Flay on the Food Network.

Celebrity chefs Bobby Flay, Giada De Laurentiis, and Bob Tuschman host the program that seeks a great chef who can host their own television cooking show.

Before she graced the airwaves with her own cooking show on the Food Network, Ina Garten was a policy analyst for presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter. She taught herself how to cook from Julia Child’s cookbooks. The name of her show comes from the 1954 movie “The Barefoot Contessa.”

Food Network fixture Guy Fieri hosts “Guy’s Grocery Games,” a competition show that takes place inside a 15,000-square-foot warehouse furnished and stocked to look like a grocery store, in which contestants have to whip up dishes from items found on the shelves. The show has run for 29 seasons (three seasons per year).

Buddy Valastro’s family business originated in a shop in Hoboken, New Jersey. His show, blending baking with family, involves his baking over-the-top cakes for all occasions. The show was on the TLC before moving to its sister network, Discovery Family.

This Fox program, co-developed and starring celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay, features a competition between the best young home cooks (between the ages of 8 and 13) in the country.

This Netflix show consists of four teams of chefs competing against each other, and the clock to create prize-winning confectionery.

The folks that brought you “Iron Chef” and “Iron Chef America” have rebooted the series as “Iron Chef: Quest for an Iron Legend.” The Netflix series features five newly minted Iron Chefs who take on challengers in the quest to become the first ever “Iron Legend.”

This Netflix series tracks the country’s best backyard smokers and competitive barbecuers who vie for the title of American Barbecue Champion.

Chef Gordon Ramsay, known for his exacting standards and prickly personality, takes aspiring young chefs through their paces with rigorous cooking challenges at his restaurant in Hollywood on this Fox show.

Chef Guy Fieri hits the road in this long-running series to discover the country’s unique casual eating places, interviewing the owners of the establishments, watching them cook, and sampling their signature items.

In a Cooking Channel show that could only take place in America, hosts Adam Richman and Casey Webb travel to take on local eating challenges. These involve portion size – a four-pound Reuben sandwich in Milwaukee; a gallon-sized ice cream sundae in New Orleans – as well as spiciness and other factors.

On this Food Network series, four chefs summon their culinary talents in a competition in which they prepare a three-course meal consisting of an appetizer, entrée, and dessert based on the ingredients the show provides, many of them bizarre. A panel of celebrity chefs judges each course and at the end of the episode, one contestant is eliminated, or “chopped.”

Home bakers with the energy but not the skills attempt to make edible creations on this Netflix series that doesn’t take itself too seriously.

Physically imposing Chef Robert Irvine, along with his sous-chefs, is tasked with completing a different culinary challenge in a limited amount of time in each episode of this Food Network series.

Famed chocolatier Amaury Guichon tries to elevate the culinary craft of eight top pastry and chocolate pros on this Netflix series.

Food competition goes international on this Netflix program. Teams of chefs are tasked with impressing the toughest palates as the chefs create iconic dishes from different nations.

Tom Collichio, himself a top chef, and Indian-American author and model Padma Lakshmi host this Bravo series. The cooking competition pits chefs against each other in various culinary challenges, judged by a panel of food and wine experts. One or more contestants are eliminated in each episode.

In the holiday-themed version of the original Netflix series, culinarily challenged bakers try to make edible creations.

If nothing else, “Ugly Delicious” gets the award for best oxymoronic title for a cooking show. The Netflix documentary follows chef David Chang around the world as he tastes food from different cultures.

This Emmy Award-winning ABC series starred English-born chef Jamie Oliver as he crusaded against obesity, heart disease, and diabetes in the U.S.

This Hulu series starring the Indian-American author and television personality takes viewers on a culinary odyssey across America, exploring the rich and diverse food culture of various immigrant groups and telling the stories of the people who created them.

Selena Gomez, who became a child star in Disney TV shows and movies (and now appears in the Hulu comedy series “Only Murders in the Building”) and has sold millions of records as a recording artist, takes advantage of the pandemic-inducted quarantine to try her hand in the kitchen in the HBO Max series.

Originally aired in Japan, “Iron Chef” became a Food Network hit when it was first shown here in 1993. On the program, chefs from various countries face off against one of the “Iron Chefs.” The challenger and the Iron Chef have an hour to prepare a meal in which each course must include that show’s featured ingredient.

The Netflix documentary series takes a deep dive into the lives and kitchens of four to six of the world’s most accomplished international chefs each season.

This BAFTA-winning Netflix series features bakers taking on three challenges each week in their attempt to impress the judges enough to advance to the next round and eventually be crowned Britain’s best amateur baker.

Acclaimed actor Stanley Tucci returns to his Italian roots with this Emmy Award-winning culinary travelogue on CNN – a paean to Italy’s cuisine.

You didn’t have to be a foodie to appreciate the relentless curiosity of the late ex-chef and world citizen Anthony Bourdain as he traveled to other countries and immersed himself in their history, culture, and, of course, their cuisine in this 12-time Emmy-winning series on CNN.

This celebrated 14-season series on the Food Network starred Chef Alton Brown. Behind the dishes he would create, Brown delved into the science behind what makes food so flavorful.