100 Cooks Series to Be Hosted by Terry Crews
Food Network is celebrating home cooks this summer with the brand-new series 100 Cooks, the biggest home cook competition in the network’s history. Hosted by Terry Crews, the series welcomes 100 of the country’s best home cooks to run through an epic seven-week culinary gauntlet where 99 cooks will be eliminated, and only one is named America’s best home cook and wins as much as $250,000.
From firefighters and college students to corporate lawyers and stay-at-home moms and dads, these competitors come from all walks of life and share a passion for and talent in food. In each episode, competitors are selected at random by a lottery ball “Cook Mixer” to come to the floor after the “Challenge Mixer” dictates what food-themed battle they will face.
Each round is judged by top culinary content creator Nick DiGiovanni and Food Network all-star Alex Guarnaschelli, who will determine who stays in the competition each week and who is sent home.
100 Cooks premieres Sunday, June 7th at 9 pm ET/PT on Food Network and streams the next day on HBO Max. The premiere episode will also be available globally on Nick DiGiovanni’s YouTube channel. Following the U.S. launch, 100 Cooks will be localized and roll out in around thirty of Warner Bros. Discovery’s international territories, across networks, discovery+, and HBO Max.
“This is the kind of competition I live for – big energy, big stakes, and 100 talented home cooks bringing everything they’ve got,” said host Terry Crews. “Every challenge was unpredictable, every dish had a story, and the passion in that kitchen blew me away. Seeing their creativity up close was an incredible experience – and an absolute blast!”
In the supersized season premiere, host Terry Crews welcomes 100 of the best home cooks in America to the food world’s most unpredictable cooking competition. In this episode, over 50 cooks compete in five different challenges to impress judges Nick DiGiovanni and Alex Guarnaschelli.
The challenges include the best noodle-dish battle, a rotisserie-chicken face-off, an egg challenge, and the best party-bite competition. More than 20 cooks will be sent home, and the remaining amateur chefs will continue to compete for a life-changing amount of money.
In upcoming episodes, challenges include fast-paced food trivia contests, a spicy weeknight dinner battle, a bake sale bake-off, and a one-pot dinner competition. In the season finale on Sunday, July 19th at 9 pm ET/PT, the final eight home cooks work to impress the judges over the course of three challenges: breakfast, lunch, and dinner. In the end, only one will stand alone at the top of the food world and take home the life-changing cash prize.
“Thousands of people applied to compete on 100 Cooks, and along with Terry, Nick, and Alex, we were amazed at the passion and skill they brought to the table,” said Betsy Ayala, President, Food Network. “The 100 cooks chosen blew us away, and while they don’t cook for a living, they all live to cook – and it shows in everything they served.”
100 Cooks is produced by Lando Entertainment for Food Network.
