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A TV cooking show is a television program that presents the preparation of food, in a kitchen on the studio set. The host of the show, often a celebrity chef, prepares one or more dishes over the course of the show, taking the viewing audience through the food's preparation showing all intermediate stages of cooking. These shows are often intended to be at least partly educational, as the host teaches the viewing audience how to prepare different meals with each episode of the show; though some cooking shows (such as Iron Chef or "Junior Masterchef") are intended simply for entertainment.

While rarely achieving top ratings, cooking shows have been a popular staple of daytime TV programming since the earliest days of television. [1] They are generally very inexpensive to produce, making them an economically easy way for a TV station to fill a half-hour (or sometimes 60 minute) TV episode.

A number of cooking shows have run for many seasons, especially when they are sponsored by local TV stations or by public broadcasting. Many of the more popular cooking shows have had flamboyant hosts whose unique personalities have made them into celebrities.

Famous cooking shows include:

The cable TV channel Food Network has showcased many cooking shows.

List of Cooking Shows[link]

• 30 Minute Meals

A[link]

• America's Test Kitchen

B[link]

• Baking With Julia
• Barbecue America
• Barefoot Contessa
• Best Recipes Ever
• Big Daddy's House

C[link]

• Can't Cook, Won't Cook
• Celebrity Cooking Showdown
• Chef's Story
• Chefs A' Field
• Chinese Food Made Easy
• Chocolate with Jacques Torres
• Cooked TV
• Cook's Country from America's Test Kitchen
• Cookin' Cheap
• Cooking Live
• Cooking with Master Chefs: Hosted by Julia Child
• ...Cooks!

D[link]

• Daisy Cooks!
• Dinner and a Movie
• Dinner: Impossible
• Domestic Goddess
• Down Home with the Neelys

E[link]

• East Meets West
• Emeril Green
• Emeril Live
• Epic Meal Time
• Essence of Emeril
• Everyday Italian

F[link]

• The F Word
• Food Poker
• Food and Drink
• The French Chef

G[link]

• Get Stuffed
• Giada at Home
• Glutton for Punishment
• Good Eats
• Gordon Ramsay: Cookalong Live
• Gordon's Great Escape
• The Gourmet Next Door
• Great British Menu
• Great Chefs
• Great Food Live
• Greatest Dishes in the World
• Guy's Big Bite

H[link]

• The Hairy Bikers' Cookbook
• The Hairy Bikers' Food Tour of Britain
• Have Fork, Will Travel
• Hell's Kitchen (U.S.)

• Hippy Gourmet
• How to Boil Water
• Hot Kitchen

I[link]

• In the Kitchen with Stefano Faita
• Inside Dish
• Iron Chef

J[link]

• Jamie at Home
• Joanne Weir's Cooking Class

K[link]

• Kitchen Criminals
• Kitchen Superstar
• Kelcey's essentials

L[link]

• Local Food Hero

M[link]

• Martha
• MasterChef
• Mexico: One Plate at a Time

N[link]

• Nigella Bites
• Nigella Express
• The Naughty Kitchen with Chef Blythe Beck
• New Scandinavian Cooking

O[link]

• Oliver's Twist

P[link]

• Party Line with The Hearty Boys
• Paula's Best Dishes
• Paula's Home Cooking
• Post Punk Kitchen
• Pigsty In The Kitchen

Q[link]

• Quick Fix Meals with Robin Miller

R[link]

• Ready Set Cook
• Rock Dinner
• The Rich Tradition

S[link]

• Saturday Kitchen
• Simply Ming
• Sugar Rush
• The Surreal Gourmet
• Sunday Feast
• Selera Nusantara

T[link]

• Ten Dollar Dinners
• The Best Thing I Ever Ate
• The Chew
• Throwdown! with Bobby Flay
• Top Chef
• Top Chef Masters
• Turn Up the Heat with G. Garvin
• Two Fat Ladies

U[link]

• Unwrapped

W[link]

• What Would Brian Boitano Make?
• Woman's World
• World Class Cuisine

Y[link]

• Yan Can Cook

See also[link]

• Television chefs