‘Rat in the Kitchen’ Is a Cooking Competition With an Unusual Twist

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In the broad abyss of Tv cooking demonstrates, Rat in the Kitchen on TBS uncovered a distinctive way to stand out. Quite a few cooking competitions preserve issues lively by having contestants offer with unanticipated difficulties or road blocks. For instance, who won’t like the thriller baskets on Chopped?

Rat in the Kitchen takes anything to the next degree by which include a saboteur (aka rat) as 1 of the six competition who are made up of dwelling cooks and professional chefs. If the rat properly receives absent with sabotaging dishes and isn’t going to get caught, they get to maintain the prize revenue all for by themselves. Even better, the other contestants and the hosts, Chef Ludo Lefebvre and actor/comedian Natasha Leggero, don’t know who the rat is.

Leggero was on CNET’s I’m So Obsessed podcast to examine the display. Leggero, who has been a guest on quite a few cooking exhibits like Speedy Foodies, located herself on the getting conclusion of sabotaged foods dishes from the rat.

“Let us just say I’ve by no means eaten raw lobster prior to,” Leggero mentioned with a giggle. “There are a lot of various approaches to do it [sabotage food] and I will not want to give absent people’s secrets.”

She shared that there were being times that Ludo and her had been caught entirely off guard. They were being in the same kitchen area with the contestants and rat and did not know one from the other. Fortunately, hidden cameras capture the rat’s sneaky creativity.

For the duration of our conversation, Leggero mentioned her beloved food at Ludo’s restaurant and The Infinite Honeymoon podcast she co-hosts with her husband and fellow comic Moshe Kasher. A person of the lots of entertaining areas of her podcast is that people can share their deepest secrets to a cellular phone hotline and have them performed on the podcast.

“We have so lots of strategies that we experienced to do an supplemental podcast a 7 days of just everybody’s secrets and techniques. And I’m like, ‘why do individuals have so several tricks?'” Leggero reported. “Then I understood that just the act of telling a hotline some thing that you’ve got hardly ever told anybody right before is remedy.”

New episodes of Rat in the Kitchen air Thursdays on TBS. You can pay attention to my overall dialogue with Leggero in the podcast player over. Subscribe to I’m So Obsessed on your most loved podcast application. In each episode, Connie Guglielmo and I catch up with an artist, actor or creator to study about their do the job, vocation and present-day obsessions.