Returning: Snackmasters
Scott Pickett, Poh Ling Yeow and Yvie Jones return as top Aussie chefs tackle Tim Tams, classic meat and Pepperoni pizza.
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Food contest Snackmasters returns to Nine for a three week season as eight of Australia’s top chefs go head-to-head in a new knockout cooking competition to replicate favourite Aussie treats.
Scott Pickett and Poh Ling Yeow return as hosts with Yvie Jones hitting the production lines to see peek inside the factories where the snacks are made.
From the classic Arnott’s Tim Tam that’s adorned kitchen cupboards since 1963 and the hugely popular Aussie Four’N Twenty classic meat pie to a Domino’s Pepperoni, the nation’s most popular pizza, our culinary maestros will have nothing but limitless supplies of these products and their own taste buds as they try to crack the secrets of the snack.
Over the course of three days we follow each chef as they go through a process of trial and error to replicate the exact taste, look and texture, discovering that it’s far more complicated than they thought, before bringing everything they’ve learnt to a dramatic face-to-face kitchen cook-off where they’ll try to replicate the snack under extreme time pressure.
In this knockout competition we start with eight highly skilled chefs. The four winners from each heat advance to an action-packed semi-final where two more chefs are knocked out, leaving the last two to battle for the honour of Ultimate Snackmaster champion.
Sunday, December 4, at 7.00pm on Nine.
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6 Responses
I bet they won’t show us the particularly mouth-watering process of boiling/crushing the cochineal used in Tim Tams.
Good one, I’ve no doubt If they did we would all be feel over excited and “buggered”😂
I am happy to see this show return for a second season – it’s a fun family show and easy summer viewing. You learn a bit about the reality of how these products are actually made, and have a bit of fun watching chefs try to recreate them.
Every Australian is familiar with these snacks, even if they choose not to eat them as in the comments below. Don’t think it hurts any of us to learn a bit more about some of the most common processed foods and consider what goes into making them.
Great show to watch and actually see what really does go into manufactured food is “Inside The Factory” or “How it’s Made” and see how they farm some fish/prawns imported from Thailand grown in fish farms feed on hormones or worse still plucking one eye out of a female prawn with tweezers so she can produce more that get added to your food or canned foods.
This is as bad as cracking Colonel Sanders 11 herbs and spices and that “zesty” (supposed secret recipe sauce) on your Mig Mac. Worst still the bright spark who thought it a great idea to deep fry Tim Tams. As for Four and Twenty pies I gave up eating “rat coffins” years ago along with those awful “snot logs” called vanilla slices. Just no accounting for bad taste.
Cool – how to replicate junk food at home – great for the national obesity crisis ! Kind of destroys the idea of why people buy fast food as well doesn’t it – the midnight after pub dash to a Maccas for some greasy goodness ? Why would you even bother to make this stuff , and does it come with less fat, less salt ? I’m betting a big no.