TV Chef Fantasy League

Week 5 (Worst Cooks In America: Celebrity Heroes & Villains) Feb 26, 2025

Look, if beef tallow will make my face look like Dylan’s, I’m in.

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Week 4 (Worst Cooks In America: Celebrity Heroes & Villains) Feb 19, 2025

Rachel, just add more ground beef!!!

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BONUS TEASER - Top Chef 2025 Talent Scouting Feb 14, 2025

A small preview of our latest bonus episode, in which we scope out the cheftestants on the upcoming season of Top Chef and talk about who we're excited to draft. Plus: Ify reveals which chef(s) he has a crush on.

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Week 3 (Worst Cooks In America: Celebrity Heroes & Villains) Feb 12, 2025

Ify shares the secrets of Panera's broccoli & cheddar soup.

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Week 2 (Worst Cooks In America: Celebrity Heroes & Villains) Feb 05, 2025

C'mon, Cheryl, you're Filipina!

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Week 1 (Worst Cooks In America: Celebrity Heroes & Villains) Jan 29, 2025

This show is chaos. CHAOS!!!

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Week 0 - The Draft (Worst Cooks In America: Celebrity Heroes & Villains) Jan 22, 2025

We've decided: we're doing Food Network's Worst Cooks In America. 10 celebrities enter, 1 celebrity leaves. And we'll be done in time for Top Chef!

Also, while we here at TCFL are all safe, the rest of LA is currently on fire. World Central Kitchen is doing great work here, as are a bunch of local businesses. Help where you can!

Bye Week - Trying Out Hell's Kitchen Jan 15, 2025

Junior Bake Off isn't airing in America, so we're on the hunt for our next show. Today, we're testing the viability of joining Hell's Kitchen as they approach their season finale.

Also, while we here at TCFL are all safe, the rest of LA is currently on fire. World Central Kitchen is doing great work here, as are a bunch of local businesses. Help where you can!

Talent Scouting (Junior Bake Off 2025) Jan 08, 2025

We take a look at the bakers for the possibly-upcoming season of Great British Baking Show: Juniors.

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Great New Year Baking Show: Part 2 Jan 01, 2025

Our last episode of the year! Find out who wins the Winner's Snack for Great British Baking Show: Holidays. We'll see you in 2025!

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Great New Year Baking Show: Part 1 Dec 25, 2024

Kick off the countdown to 2025 (actually, 2024) in Part 1 of the New Year episode of the Great British Baking Show: Holidays!

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Great Christmas Baking Show: Part 2 Dec 18, 2024

It's Christmas, Part 2! We award Christmas points in advance of next week's New Year episode.

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Great Christmas Baking Show: Part 1 Dec 11, 2024

Part 1 of the Christmas episode of the Great British Baking Show: Holidays. Next week, Part 2!

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Week 10 - The Final (Great British Baking Show 2024) Dec 04, 2024

A reminder that anyone, no matter how talented, can choke at any time.

Next week starts Great British Baking Show: HOLIDAYS!

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Week 9 - Patisserie Week (Great British Baking Show 2024) Nov 27, 2024

We don't even need Ify to goof off this week. This is a SERIOUS challenge for SERIOUS baking.

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Week 8 - 1970s Week (Great British Baking Show 2024) Nov 20, 2024

Ass is the origin of poop.

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Week 7 - Dessert Week (Great British Baking Show 2024) Nov 13, 2024

And so begins Dylan's heel turn.

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Week 6 - Autumn Week (Great British Baking Show 2024) Nov 06, 2024

GIVE NELLY HER OWN SHOW!

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Week 5 - Pastry Week (Great British Baking Show 2024) Oct 30, 2024

Happy Halloween! 'Tis the season to c*m your skeleton out.

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Week 4 - Caramel Week (Great British Baking Show 2024) Oct 23, 2024

Tell us what YOU think Dylan's hat makes him look like!

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Week 3 - Bread Week (Great British Baking Show 2024) Oct 16, 2024

Bake Off 3: The Rise of Dylan. Also, some scoring updates.

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Week 2 - Biscuit Week (Great British Baking Show 2024) Oct 09, 2024

A showstopper handshake? In this economy?

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Week 1 - Cake Week (Great British Baking Show 2024) Oct 02, 2024

Ify does his best dom voice. Get well soon, Jeff!

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Publication day change! Sep 30, 2024

Great British Bake Off doesn't come out until Fridays in the U.S., so we'll be dropping episodes on Wednesdays to give us a little more time to put them together.

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BONUS TEASER - Interview with Kamay (MasterChef: Generations) Sep 25, 2024

A small preview of our interview with MasterChef: Generations runner-up Kamay Lafalaise! We talk all about her time on the show, her culinary inspiration, and that infamous passionfruit sauce.

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Week 9 - The Finale (MasterChef: Generations) Sep 23, 2024

We finally crown the winner of MasterChef: Generations, and find out once and for all which generation cooks the best.

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Week 0 - The Draft (Great British Baking Show 2024) Sep 23, 2024

Is it the Baking Show or the Bake Off? Is it Season 12 or Series 15? These are among the many questions we'll try to answer this season, but first we've gotta draft our bakers.

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Week 8 - Restaurant Takeover/Semi-Final (MasterChef: Generations) Sep 16, 2024

We get to the bottom of "Ramsay's Rooftop," and cook alongside Gordon himself.

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Week 7 - Hot Ones/The Wall (MasterChef: Generations) Sep 09, 2024

Everyone's a big fan of Sean Evans, and everyone is screaming over Horacio.

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Week 6 - Tag Team/Coffee (MasterChef: Generations) Sep 02, 2024

The "restaurant wars of MasterChef" is here, and it does not disappoint.

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Week 5 - Beer/Quarry (MasterChef: Generations) Aug 26, 2024

We cover another two episodes, and follow up on how the eliminated chefs are doing (spoiler alert: they're doing fine!). Also, Gordon throws not just a protein, but a whole bowl of lettuce too.

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Week 4 - Cakes/Memories (MasterChef: Generations) Aug 19, 2024

The Olympics are finally over and MasterChef is back, so we've got a mega-pod covering the two episodes that aired this week.

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Bye Week: Interview with Sam from Season 8 Aug 12, 2024

We get to interview Sam, who competed on Season 8 of MasterChef! We learn all about the audition process, what it's like to be on the show, and all the dirt on the production process.

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Bye Week MINI-SODE: Scott's Audition Stories, Part 2 Aug 05, 2024

Part 2 of Ify's friend Scott's tales from auditioning for MasterChef!
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Bye Week MINI-SODE: Scott's Audition Stories, Part 1 Jul 29, 2024

MasterChef is off this week, so we hear from Ify's friend who auditioned for MasterChef twice.

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Week 3 - Just Kickin’ It (MasterChef: Generations) Jul 22, 2024

The chefs cook for the LAFC, and we dive into Rebecka’s blog.
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Week 2 - A Sad Dog In The Rain (MasterChef: Generations) Jul 15, 2024

The contestants cook aged foods, and we reference both Jennifer Coolidge AND Megan Mullally.

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Bye Week MINI-SODE: What Would Your Cooking Competition Show Look Like? Jul 08, 2024

MasterChef took a week off for the holiday, so Mike & Ify pitch each other ideas for other cooking competition shows.

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Week 1 - Spicy Baby Food (MasterChef: Generations) Jul 01, 2024

The first proper week of competition for MasterChef, and the first of several international episodes for us!

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Week 0 - The Draft (MasterChef: Generations) Jun 24, 2024

Welcome to the post-Top Chef era! After 4 weeks of auditions, we finally have our contestants for this season of MasterChef, and we’re ready to draft our teams.

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Week 14 - A Few Grains of Salt Jun 24, 2024

It’s the finale!

We’re now part of the Maximum Fun family of podcasts. This is our last episode as Top Chef Fantasy League. You can find the first episode of TV Chef Fantasy League – wherein we draft our MasterChef rosters – right after this episode.

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Week 13 - Everyone Needs A Paycheck Jun 17, 2024

Okay, FINE, we'll go on a cruise.

ANNOUNCEMENT: Next week, we are changing both the name AND the artwork for this podcast! When we begin covering MasterChef, we will become TV Chef Fantasy League, so don't be alarmed when that pops up in your feed. Same great hosts, same dum-dum banter.

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Week 12 - Ch-Ch-Changes Jun 10, 2024

*Vin Diesel voice* one last ride (in Wisconsin)

Make sure to start watching the audition episodes of MasterChef, because that's what our podcast is covering once Top Chef is done!

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Week 11 - I Got 24 Questions, And "Is It Soup" Is 4 Of Them Jun 03, 2024

Ify's back!

In case you didn't hear, we're moving on to MasterChef when this season of Top Chef is done, so start your talent scouting (aka watching the audition episodes) now!

Also, if this episode sounds weird, it’s because at some point while I was editing I got up to do laundry and my dog walked on my keyboard. Some knobs were definitely twisted and Command+Z didn’t undo a single thing.

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Week 10 - The Cut (w/ An ANNOUNCEMENT & Another Special Guest!) May 27, 2024

Plenty more announcements to come, but here's the first big one: We're covering MasterChef next. Start watching this Wednesday and get ready to draft after the auditions are over!

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Week 9 - What Is Cranberries? (With Another Special Guest!) May 20, 2024

This week, we're joined by writer Laura Kleinbaum. Grab the kids and check out her show Vida The Vet on Netflix, and leave the kids behind when you watch House of Cleopatra at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival this summer!

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