The kitchen fight
| Television broadcast | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The kitchen fight |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Year (s) | since 2008 |
| Production company |
Fernsehmacher GmbH & Co. KG |
| length | about 45 minutes |
| Episodes | 2750+ 359 (weekly review) |
| Broadcasting cycle |
Monday-Friday |
| genre | Cooking show , game show |
| Theme music | Aretha Franklin - Respect |
| First broadcast | January 14, 2008 on ZDF |
The kitchen battle is a 45-minute cooking show that has been broadcast on ZDF from Monday to Friday since January 14, 2008 .
The kitchen battle - the weekly review - was also shown on Saturday mornings until August 5, 2017 . The five days of the week were summarized in the mostly two-hour programs. Tom Vogt acted as off-speaker . On August 17, 2019, the summary returned on Saturday afternoon. The speaker is Constantin von Westphalen .
procedure
Six hobby chefs compete against each other in a kind of elimination competition every broadcast week. On Mondays the candidates cook their favorite dish, on Tuesdays a starter, on Wednesdays a main course, on Thursday in the pre-finals main course and dessert and on Friday two dishes based on the recipe of the prominent chef in each case. At the end of each program, another TV chef decides in a tasting which of the candidates has to be eliminated. The remaining players compete against each other again in the next broadcast. At times the weekly winner was allowed to appear as a prize in the program Kerner kocht or Lanz kocht! in addition to some prominent professional chefs prepare a dish, then it was only cooked by the TV chefs on the show. After the show Lanz cooks! Waved the winner as a prize to be present on the program Lafer! Lights! Delicious! , he was then cooked in this by Horst Lichter and Johann Lafer . Since 2015, the weekly winners have been competing against each other every six weeks in a qualification week, the so-called “ChampionsWeek”. The six winners of these weeks then cook against each other in the final week at the end of the year. The overall winner wins prize money of 25,000 euros.
In the Phoenixhof studios of Fernsehmacher GmbH & Co. KG in Hamburg, the programs are recorded for up to five weeks of broadcasting per recording series on five to six consecutive days and sometimes broadcast weeks later. There is often only about an hour between recordings for two days of broadcast.
Variations
On the high seas
In 2009 Die Küchenschlacht broadcast two weeks from aboard a cruise ship from the Mediterranean.
The children's kitchen fight
In the years 2009 to 2011 there was also the offshoot Die Kinder-Küchenschlacht at irregular intervals . In each show, five children cooked their favorite dishes. At the end of these programs, a TV chef decided in a tasting which of the candidates would emerge as the winner and win participation in a cooking course. These special editions were mostly broadcast on Saturday afternoons, but also on the normal broadcasting slot if a five-day broadcast was not possible due to program changes.
Advent weeks
With the motto “Coming home for cooking”, former candidates have been coming to the studio since 2015 during the Advent season. The respective weekly profit goes to a good cause.
Celebrity weeks
Celebrities have been competing in cooking at irregular intervals since 2016. The weekly winners donate prize money to a good cause.
Special weeks with star chefs
From March 23, 2020, the program had to be adapted to the circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic and the associated restrictions (no audience, keeping your distance, etc.). Instead of six amateur cooks a week, as usual, three professional cooks competed in the kitchen fight . The juror awarded three points a day for the best dish, the second received two and the third placed one point. From the week of May 4th to 8th, the number of points on the final day was doubled with 2, 4 and 6 points. At the end of the week, the chef with the most points was chosen as the winner . He received 3,000 euros, which he donated to a good cause. In the event of a tie, the sum was divided among the winners.
- Fat: winner of the week
| week | Moderator) | Cooks | Juror |
|---|---|---|---|
| 23-27 March 2020 | Cornelia Poletto | Christoph Rüffer , Karlheinz Hauser and Thomas Martin | Nelson Muller |
| 30. Mar. – 3. Apr. 2020 | Johann Lafer | Björn Freitag, Nelson Müller and Mario Kotaska | Christoph Rüffer |
| 20th - 24th Apr. 2020 | Mario Kotaska | Cornelia Poletto, Christoph Rüffer and Björn Freitag | Johann Lafer |
| 4-8 May 2020 | Nelson Muller | Christoph Rüffer, Karlheinz Hauser and Thomas Martin | Cornelia Poletto |
| 11-15 May 2020 | Johann Lafer | Mario Kotaska , Ralf Zacherl and Martin Baudrexel | Nelson Muller |
| 25-29 May 2020 | Bjorn Friday | Nelson Müller , Cornelia Poletto and Robin Pietsch | Johann Lafer |
| 2nd to 5th June 2020 | Alfons Schuhbeck | Cornelia Poletto , Johann Lafer and Ali Güngörmüş | Christoph Rüffer |
Since June 22, 2020, six amateur cooks have again been participating in the show without an audience. In order to maintain the minimum distance, a semicircle with seven individual cooking areas was formed from the cooking area for the candidates and the moderating cook.
Cooking professionals
Moderators
| cook | Period | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Current moderators | |||||
| Johann Lafer | since 2008 regularly | ||||
| Alfons Schuhbeck | since 2008 regularly | ||||
| Nelson Muller | 2010–2011 sporadically and since 2012 regularly | ||||
| Cornelia Poletto | 2010–2014 occasionally and 10/2018 once and regularly since 2019 | ||||
| Bjorn Friday | 2013–2019 occasionally and since 2020 regularly | ||||
| Mario Kotaska | since 06/2014 regularly | ||||
| Alexander Kumptner | since 07/2015 regularly | ||||
| Former moderators | |||||
| Sarah Wiener | 01/2008 - 02/2008 (1 week in total) | ||||
| Alexander Herrmann | 2008–2013 regularly, 2014 once, 08 / 2015–12 / 2016 regularly (71 weeks in total) | ||||
| Steffen Henssler | 2008-2010 regularly and 07/2011 once (a total of 19 weeks) | ||||
| Léa Linster | 2009 occasionally and 04/2011 once (a total of 5 weeks) | ||||
| Ali Güngörmüş | 2012–2013 occasionally (4 weeks in total) | ||||
| Kolja Kleeberg | 2008–2012 regularly and 2014 once (a total of 19 weeks) | ||||
| Horst lights | 2008-2015 regularly (67 weeks in total) | ||||
| Christian Lohse | Regularly in 2017 and sporadically in 2018 (9 weeks in total) | ||||
Jurors
All moderators are also active as jurors.
| Juror |
|---|
| Ilse Aigner (1000th broadcast) |
| Martin Baudrexel |
| Alfred Biolek (500th broadcast) |
| Stefan Marquard |
| Sybille Schönberger (since 09/2011–2014, since 06/2018) |
| Susanne Vössing (since 04/2013) |
| Andreas C. Studer |
| Ralf Zacherl |
| Thomas Martin |
| Frank Buchholz (since 01/2014) |
| Karlheinz Hauser (since 08/2014) |
| Ivo Adam (since 03/2015) |
| Franz Schned (since 03/2015) |
| Christoph Rüffer (since 03/2015) |
| Maria Groß (since 03/2016) |
| Meta Hiltebrand (since 03/2016) |
| Brian Bojsen (since 08/2016) |
| Markus Semmler |
| Tarik Rose (since 06/2017) |
| Richard Rauch (since 09/2017) |
| Johanna Maier (since 11/2017) |
| Julia Komp (since 05/2018) |
| Jan Hartwig (since 01/2019) |
| Sarah Henke (since 03/2019) |
| Robin Pietsch (since 05/2019) |
| Dieter Müller (since 08/2019) |
| Dirk Luther (since 01/2020) |
Web links
- Kitchen battle on zdf.de
- The kitchen battle in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The Children's Kitchen battle in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ The Kitchen Battle - The Weekly Review of August 5, 2017, ZDF; official information in the shipment
- ^ Second German Television (ZDF): Portrait: The moderators and jurors - ZDF.de. (No longer available online.) In: www.zdf.de. Archived from the original on May 4, 2016 ; accessed on May 4, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ The Kitchen Battle .
