Kitchen Impossible

Television series
Original title	Kitchen Impossible
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Year (s)	2014, since 2016
Production ; company	Endemol Shine Germany
length	approx. 180 minutes
Episodes	39 (+ 3 Christmas editions) in 5 seasons
Broadcasting ; cycle	if in the program: weekly ; (Sundays, when first broadcast)
genre	Cooking show
First broadcast	December 23, 2014, February 7, 2016 (regular) on VOX

Tim Mälzer

Kitchen Impossible venues

Kitchen Impossible is a cooking show on VOX TV .

Two prominent star or TV chefs compete against each other in the show. The aim is to cook a local specialty from a local top chef, rarely a hobby chef, in two countries, without knowing the complete list of ingredients. Regular guests, friends or family members of the local chef are then asked to rate how close the taste of the cooked dish comes to the original. The chef with the overall better rating wins the duel. In most of the episodes, TV chef Tim Mälzer was set as one of the duelists.

Regular broadcast

Season	Number of episodes
Season	Number of episodes	Season premiere (of the first broadcast)	Season finale (of the first broadcast)
Pilot episode	1	December 23, 2014 / March 1, 2015	-
1	6th	February 7, 2016	March 13, 2016
2	7th	29th January 2017	March 12, 2017
The Christmas Edition (2017)	1	December 10, 2017	-
3	8th	4th February 2018	March 25, 2018
The Christmas Edition (2018)	1	December 16, 2018	-
4th	7th	3rd February 2019	17th March 2019
5	10 (2 + 8)	1st December 2019	March 29, 2020
The Christmas Edition (2019)	1	15th December 2019	-

The show was first broadcast on December 23, 2014 and achieved poor audience ratings. However, the broadcaster believed in the show's potential, which is why the pilot episode was re-broadcast on March 1, 2015. It convinced there with market shares above that of the first broadcast, which is why a season with six more episodes was ordered. These episodes were seen since February 7, 2016 and were repeated in the summer of 2016. In season 1 as well as in the pilot episode, the television chef Tim Mälzer was always set as one of the duelists. In fact, this is only the case again from season 4.

On February 29, 2016, a second season of the show was ordered. Mälzer was not involved in all episodes and was represented in individual episodes by Tim Raue or Roland Trettl . The broadcast took place since January 29, 2017. Here, too, a repetition took place in the summer of the same year, but it was not broadcast in the original order.

At the beginning of March 2017, VOX ordered a third season. For the time between the second and third season, a "Christmas Edition" was produced, which was broadcast in December 2017. The eight-episode third season ran from February 4, 2018 to March 25, 2018. In season 3, Mälzer competes in all but one of all duels. The episode in which he does not participate is material that was originally shot for season 2, but was not previously broadcast.

The extension by a 4th season, before which a Christmas special was broadcast again, was announced after the 3rd season. The repetition of the 3rd season began on October 7, 2018, with repetitions on Sunday instead of Monday evening for the first time. As with season 2, the repeats were broadcast in a different order, starting with the duel with Mario Lohninger , but for the first time also mixed with episodes from previous seasons, including the pilot episode, on which Mälzer together with Tim Raue four years after their production, in new looked back at the rotated material. However, this meant that not all episodes of season 3 were shown again. For the pre-Christmas period in 2017 and 2018, a so-called "Christmas Edition" was also filmed.

The fourth season of the show was broadcast from February 3, 2019 to March 17, 2019, followed by a repetition of season 3 in the following week. From this season the episodes were available for the first time in the week before the TV broadcast on TVNOW . Also in the summer of 2019, repeats from different seasons were in the program on Monday evening. In November 2019 it was announced that the start of a new season would be brought forward to December of a year for the first time, and that for the first time two seasons with new episodes could be seen within one year. The broadcast of this took place on December 2nd and 8th, 2019, followed by the 3rd Christmas edition on the following Sunday. The season was continued from February 9, 2020 to March 29, 2020, followed by the repetition of the episode with Max Stiegl from season 4, another broadcast of the episode with Nenad Mlinarevic from December 2019 and three best-of- Consequences.

broadcasts

The overall winners of the individual programs are shown in bold by name in the “Chefs” section below.

Pilot episode

Tim Raue

Andreas Caminada

#	First broadcast	Cooks	Tim Mälzer			Tim Raue
#	First broadcast	Cooks	countries	dish	Points	countries	dish	Points
1	23rd December 2014	Tim Mälzer , Tim Raue	Switzerland Schauenstein Castle	Saddle of venison wrapped in bacon (after Andreas Caminada )	5.6 / 10	Poland Kruszyniany	Tatar cuisine: tea with regional honey (Syte) and meat strudel (Pierekaczew), yeast plaited	5.0 / 10
		Tim Mälzer , Tim Raue	Ireland Cork	Tripe and Drisheen ( tripe and black pudding )	8.7 / 10	Spain Valencia	Paella Valenciana	4.0 / 10
		total	14.3 / 20			9.0 / 20

episode	Date of first broadcast	Total audience	Viewers 14 to 49 years	Quota total	Quota 14 to 49 years	swell	Repeat date	Total audience	Viewers 14 to 49 years	Quota total	Quota 14 to 49 years	swell
Pilot episode	23 Dec 2014	1.17 million	0.63 million	3.8%	5.9%		March 8, 2015	1.18 million	no information	no information	6.1%

season 1

Alexander Herrmann

Juan Amador

Roland Trettl

As counterparty for Tim maltsters were Juan Amador , Alexander Herrmann , Meta Hiltebrand , Christian Lohse , Roland Trettl and again Tim Raue selected.

season 2

Tim Mälzer can not be seen in all episodes. His opponents are Maria Groß , Hans Neuner , Holger Bodendorf and again Tim Raue . Mälzer also faced Christian Lohse again , the episode being unsent material intended for season 1. Raue competed against Meta Hiltebrand in a second competition . Furthermore, the re-running Roland Trettl measured himself against Christian Lohse. A second planned duel between Trettl and Peter Maria Schnurr was filmed, but not broadcast as part of the second season. In inquiries by the BILD newspaper , VOX referred to "reasons for programming" and that there was "a new broadcast date [...] not yet". In the end, the episode aired within the third season.

The Christmas Edition (2017)

For December 2017, a so-called Christmas edition was produced for the first time , which was broadcast on December 10, 2017. In it four cooks competed in teams of two. So Tim Mälzer and Tim Raue competed against Christian Lohse and Roland Trettl , where it was necessary to cook a complete traditional Christmas menu. Between the courses, the four cooks cooked for each other, Tim Raue prepared a starter (salmon with sam -tam salad), Tim Mälzer a main course (roast beef with tartar sauce and fried potatoes), Roland Trettl a dessert (fried apples), Christian Lohse boiled ham- Pancakes with Potato Salad.

#	First broadcast	Cooks	Christian Lohse & Roland Trettl			Tim Mälzer & Tim Raue
#	First broadcast	Cooks	countries	dish	Points	countries	dish	Points
1	December 10, 2017	Christian Lohse & Roland Trettl, Tim Mälzer & Tim Raue	United States Finger Lake	Deep fried king crab balls, rice crackers, raspberry marshmallows & graham crackers , warm potato salad, currant cocktail, reindeer fillet with parsnip puree	5.4 / 10	Latvia Cēsis	Pearl barley with pork's head, sauerkraut braised over fire, bacon piragi, pea balls, quark balls and buberts (semolina with cranberry sauce)	5.9 / 10

episode	Date of first broadcast	Total audience	Viewers 14 to 49 years	Quota total	Quota 14 to 49 years	swell
Christmas edition	Dec 10, 2017	1.91 million	1.19 million	no information	10.9%

season 3

Johannes King

Mario Lohninger

Roland Trettl and Maria Groß returned for season 3 . Furthermore, an episode with Peter Maria Schnurr , already announced for season 2, was broadcast, which was also the episode with Trettl. Accordingly, this was not a newly shot material. Except for this episode, Mälzer was seeded as one of the participants in all duels. His challengers were Konstantin Filippou , The Duc Ngo , Tohru Nakamura , Johannes King , Mario Lohninger and Christian Bau . It was first broadcast on February 4, 2018 at the usual slot on Sunday evening. Ex-contender Juan Amador , against whom Mälzer was victorious in season 1, appeared as one of the jurors at Mälzer's assignment in Vienna in episode 1 of the season.

During the episode of the VOX magazine Prominent! Which was broadcast after the final broadcast of the season . it has been announced that there will be another season of the show. This was confirmed again by VOX the following day.

The Christmas Edition (2018)

A so-called Christmas edition was produced again for 2018 . Tim Mälzer and Tim Raue came back as a team and dueled again with Roland Trettl , who was supported this time by Peter Maria Schnurr . In this episode, too, the four cooks cooked for each other between courses, Tim Raue prepared sugo al maiale, Tim Mälzer chicken fricassee. Trettl prepared a saddle of venison fondue and a radicchio salad with walnuts, Schnurr a chocolate brownie and buttermilk ice cream ("Dark Brownie Special PMS and Buttermilk Refreshment").

Sepp Schellhorn

#	First broadcast	Cooks	Roland Trettl & Peter Maria Schnurr			Tim Mälzer & Tim Raue
#	First broadcast	Cooks	countries	dish	Points	countries	dish	Points
1	December 16, 2018	Roland Trettl & Peter Maria Schnurr, Tim Mälzer & Tim Raue	Finland Kuusamo	Flamed salmon, Christmas ham with mustard, turnip casserole, carrot casserole, Christmas milk rice & gingerbread	5.0 / 10	Austria Salzburg / Goldegg	Chestnut and celery cream soup, Kletzenbrot, spinach dumplings, veal breast with endive and potato and cucumber salad and Buchteln on vanilla sauce (according to Sepp Schellhorn and family) (as a joke, panettone was served before )	5.2 / 10

episode	Date of first broadcast	Total audience	Viewers 14 to 49 years	Quota total	Quota 14 to 49 years	swell
Christmas edition	16 Dec 2018	1.60 million	1.06 million	10.5%	10.6%

Season 4

The episodes of the fourth season were broadcast from February 3, 2019. For the first time, the episodes were available on TVNOW in the week before they were broadcast . In fact, it was the first season since the first in which Tim Mälzer was the duelist in all episodes (in fact, since the duel between Roland Trettl and Peter Maria Schnurr that was filmed for season 2 was only broadcast in season 3). Ali Güngörmüş , Lukas Mraz and Max Stiegl were named as opponents of Mälzer , as well as Max Strohe and again Tim Raue . In addition, Klaus Erfort and Tanja Grandits were announced as opponents. Ex-contender The Duc Ngo from season 3 was seen again. While Mälzer sent him to Max Stiegl in the episode at that time, it was now the latter who had to master his challenge with this one.

Season 5

Steffen Henssler

One day after broadcasting the final episode of the 4th season, VOX announced that the show would be extended by a 5th season. In May 2019, Steffen Henssler was confirmed as Mälzer's competitor. In November 2019 it was announced that the start of a season would be brought forward to December of a year for the first time. This was the first time that two seasons with new episodes could be seen within one year. Mälzer's duel with Peter Maria Schnurr , who had previously been seen as Roland Trettl's duelist in season 3, as well as in the 2nd Christmas edition (2018), was announced. In addition, Mälzer duels with Nenad Mlinarevic , who, as u. a. Lukas Mraz and Max Stiegl , previously seen in Mälzer's short-lived show Knife Fight Club in 2018 . This will be broadcast on December 1st and 8th, 2019, followed by the 3rd Christmas edition on the following Sunday. In addition, there was an obligatory duel between Mälzer and Tim Raue , and they were presented with their common goal by Trettl for the first time as part of the Christmas Edition 2019 : they would both cook one and the same dish in Austria for one and the same jury. This and the rest of the episodes of the season have been seen since February 9, 2020. In them, Mälzer also measures himself against Franz Keller , Haya Molcho , Jan Hartwig , Christoph Kunz , Martin Klein and again Max Strohe , who was already an opponent of Mälzer in the previous season. Molcho had also been seen in the previous season, where Mälzer was challenged by Tanja Grandits .

The Christmas Edition (2019)

As in previous years, a Christmas edition was also on view in 2019. For the first time, Mälzer and Tim Raue did not compete in a team, but against each other. Mälzer was supported by Mario Lohninger , Raue by Roland Trettl . The broadcast took place on December 15, 2019. As in previous years, there was also cooking during the broadcast. Lohninger served a Canadian lobster poutine, Mälzer a cheese meat loaf and cabbage salad, Trettl shallots in hay salt batter with mountain cheese stock, Tim Raue Calpico Mousse with passion fruit, mango and lime. In addition, Mälzer and Raue received a black box from Trettl for their duel in season 5: in this, Mälzer and Raue compete against each other in one and the same location in Austria and independently cook the same dish for the same jury.

#	First broadcast	Cooks	Tim Raue & Roland Trettl			Tim Mälzer & Mario Lohninger
#	First broadcast	Cooks	countries	dish	Points	countries	dish	Points
1	15th December 2019	Tim Raue & Roland Trettl , Tim Mälzer & Mario Lohninger	Russia Moscow	Olivier salad , monastery fish, minister's schnitzel, Russian honey cake ("Medovnik")	6.9 / 10	Canada Montreal	Tarte Tourtière, capon with separate bread filling and crab apple sauce, grilled arctic char with pollen sauce and stuffed potatoes, pudding Chômeur	6.3 / 10

episode	Date of first broadcast	Total audience	Viewers 14 to 49 years	Quota total	Quota 14 to 49 years	swell
Christmas edition	Dec 15, 2019	not available	not available	not available	not available	not available

Best of episodes in spring 2020

Due to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on television programming , three best-of episodes of Kitchen Impossible were broadcast after the broadcast of season 5 and two subsequent reruns . In these, Mälzer and Tim Raue look back on the consequences of the past six years. The first of the episodes was subtitled "The Most Emotional Moments", the second was subtitled "The Biggest Breakouts", and the third episode was subtitled "The funniest moments".

episode	Date of first broadcast	Total audience	Viewers 14 to 49 years	Quota total	Quota 14 to 49 years
The most emotional moments	Apr 19, 2020	1.14 million	0.75 million	not available	8.2%
The biggest freaks	Apr 26, 2020	0.90 million	not available	not available	6.6%
The funniest moments	May 3, 2020	0.94 million	not available	not available	5.7%

More duels and continuation

Jamie Oliver

After Mälzer had only competed against German-speaking chefs who were active in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, Jamie Oliver was confirmed as Mälzer's first non-German-speaking opponent in December 2019.

In addition, it was announced at the end of May 2020 that the previously started filming for the next season should be resumed within the next few weeks, but that the episodes and duels were mainly filmed and held in Germany and German-speaking countries due to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic become.

Nominations and Awards

The show was nominated twice for the 53rd and 54th Grimme Prize in 2017 and 2018. In addition, the show won the German Television Award 2017 and 2018 in the Best Factual Entertainment category, outpacing competitors Bares for Rares and Die Höhle der Löwen . Furthermore, Tim Mälzer was nominated for his performances in the show in the audience category "Show / Entertainment" at the Romy Awards 2017 . In August 2017, this was followed by a nomination for the Rose d'Or in the entertainment category . For 2018 there was a nomination for the Golden Camera in the documentation area .

Adaptations abroad

EndemolShine was able to sell the format to France , where an adaptation with French chefs is broadcast as Cuisine Impossible on TF1 with chef Julien Duboué . Furthermore, an adaptation was made in the Netherlands with the title Herman Tegen De Rest with the chef Herman den Blijker , where the format has been shown on RTL4 since January 29, 2019 .