No Kitchen Required is an American food reality competition series produced by Notional that follows three chefs who are dropped off in remote locations where they must work with the locals to hunt, forage and collect ingredients for a locally-inspired meal, after which a winner is chosen by the community.
The series premiered in the USA on BBC America on 3 April, 2012.
No Kitchen Required premiered in South Africa on SABC3 on Thursday 13 December 2012, at 20h00. New episodes broadcast weekly. There are 10 episodes in the first season.
Episode Synopses
Synopsis
Get ready, get set... cook! A brand new cooking competition series comes to SABC3 this summer, packed with equal parts adventure and flavour. No Kitchen Required is an Adventure cooking competition.
No Kitchen Required is BBC America's original, unscripted series that follows three chefs who are dropped off in remote locations where they must work with the locals to hunt, forage and collect ingredients for a locally-inspired meal.
The show is a unique hybrid food/travel/adventure show that gives the audience fascinating insights into diverse cultures.
Join New York restaurateur Michael Psilakis, first ever Chopped Grand Champion chef Madison Cowan and international chef Kayne Raymond as they prepare dishes from 10 very different and remote locations including Dominica, New Zealand, Belize, Fiji, Chiang Dao, Thailand, Koh Lanta, Thailand, as well as Hawaii, New Mexico, Louisiana and Florida.
Each chef is free to choose the indigenous ingredients he wants to use - the challenge comes when he must acquire and prepare the ingredients in the same manner as the locals.
The chefs' meals will ultimately be judged by the community and one will be chosen as winner in each episode.
True to its name, No Kitchen Required takes the fearless chefs out of the kitchen and into the wild forcing them to gets their hands dirty and push their boundaries in order to experience incredible situations unique to any other typical food show.
Host and British presenter Shini Somara joins the chefs on the adventure which will find them, among other things, hunting wild boar and diving for oysters as they journey to compete (and cook!) around the world.
No Kitchen Required is produced by executive producers Kevin Greene, Chachi Senior and Jen Wagman.