Special Magic Kitchen

I have been seeing in cooking magazines recently an advertisement for the Top Chef Quickfire Challenge Game. I love watching the show and was just about to buy the game to try it out when I read a bad review at Amazon. Apparently, the reviewer says that the questions about the show are so obscure that they will mostly stump you. In the Eat Me Daily blog, the writer also concurs that the game is a bit ridiculous and makes no sense. Who really remembers the lives of contestants from four years ago? I don’t, and nor do I want to.

Of course, out of the 750 questions there are general food-related ones that have nothing to do with the show or contestants, but I still think the game is a bad idea. Why not just make a game about cooking in general and leave out the reality TV element? I would imagine that this product will get mediocre-at-best reviews as people leave more feedback, but at the time of writing there is only one review at Amazon. We’ll see.

With that said, I did find one website/blog for Top Chef enthusiasts that did play the game and liked it. You can read the post at All Top Chef, and I guess if you really love the show in a cultish way, the game may be more accessible. So even though I won’t be buying the game, maybe these sample questions will help make up your mind. Just ask yourself if this type of game would be fun to play with friends or family.

• Which Season 1 contestant was a part-time model at the time of the show?
• Which Top Chef judge earned three Michelin stars by the age of 26?
• In Season 4’s Restaurant Wars challenge, what dish of Lisa’s did Anthony Bourdain call, “baby vomit with wood chips?
• Who was the youngest competitor in Season 3 – Casey, Lia or Sara N.?
• What are the two ingredients in a roux?
• True or false: Adding sugar to water raises its freezing point.
• What are the two integral ingredients in ganache?

If this sounds fun to you, then you can purchase the game at Amazon for under $14.