A new cooking show, Celebrity Best Home Cook, is coming to BBC One hosted by Claudia Winkleman.
Each week the celebrity cooks are faced with two challenges, starting with Mary Berry’s Ultimate round, where contestants produce their tried and tested food for special occasions. Up next it’s Chris’s Rustle Up challenge - one surprise ingredient and one hour to create a mid-week masterpiece.
Those who haven’t impressed enough across these two challenges will be picked to take part in Angela’s dreaded Eliminator, where the cooks must follow one of Angela’s recipes, perfectly. The Eliminator is judged blind, and the cook making the weakest version of the dish will be sent home. Judges will not know which cook has cooked which dish until they’ve made their decision.
What celebrities are taking part?
Ferne McCann
Ed Balls
Ruth Madeley
Tom Read Wilson
Shobna Gulati
Karim Zeroual
Rachel Johnson
Ed Byrne
Desiree Burch
Gareth Thomas
Who are the judges?
Dame Mary Berry
Angela Hartnett
Chris Bavin
Week 1
Mary wants to know what home cooking means to them, so she challenges them to produce their ultimate home cooked dinner. We see a range of different dishes and skills, from comforting macaroni cheese and lasagnes to spicy, fragrant curries and ambitious Mexican taco feasts. At the end of this round, the judges each pick their personal favourites.
The next day the celebrity cooks return to the kitchen to face Chris’s Rustle Up challenge, just one hour to rustle up a dish from a surprise ingredient. With no notes, no recipe books and only a limited selection of other ingredients they have to create a dish that will impress the judges enough to keep them out of the Eliminator. The judges then decide, based on the cooks’ performance in both rounds, who is safe and who needs to prove themselves by cooking for the Eliminator.
The first Eliminator is no mean feat. Angela’s recipes may sound simple but with the cooks now cooking to stay in the competition even the smallest error could see them sent home. With the judges out of the way, the safe cooks watch on. At the end of this round the judges taste all the dishes, not knowing who made which, before all of the cooks return to the kitchen and everyone learns at the same time which cook is leaving the competition. 10 celebrity cooks become nine.
Celebrity Best Home Cook airs Tuesday 26th January at 9pm.
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