There is a new cooking competition series on NBC and it was definitely pitched as something different from what we have seen before. The idea of Yes, Chef! is that it brings together chefs who are maybe not the best leaders in their kitchen. We aren’t talking about bad chefs at all, as some of the contestants are from shows like Hell’s Kitchen and Top Chef. Instead, these are chefs with over-inflated egos, bad attitudes and even a lack of real confidence.

The hosts of Yes, Chef! are two icons: Jose Andres and Martha Stewart. And they are there to not only see what the chefs are like in the kitchen, but of course to get them cooking.

Supposedly, the premise of this show is that we are going to see these chefs getting a better idea of how to work well with others in the kitchen. Too bad that has yet to happen after two episodes.

Not only do we have chefs that seem to be intentionally sabotaging other chefs because they already think they are the best, but we also have chefs who have no clue how to actually work together. It’s like the contestants completely ignored the reason they are even on this show. But the problem is that the hosts are also ignoring the issues in the kitchen.

If the point of this show is to get these chefs to change their ways, then they shouldn’t be rewarded for cooking amazing food if they were unable to actually work well with their fellow chefs. The fact that one chef is almost bullying the others and neither Martha Stewart of Jose Andres have actually called him out for his behavior seems to fly in the face of the whole point of Yes, Chef!.

What even is the point of this show if we are just going to talk about the bad behavior, but not do anything about it? Honestly, I will likely keep watching just to see if anything changes with these chefs, but at this point it is not actually doing what the premise of the show claims to be.

But maybe this is just me and I am missing something. So what do you think of Yes, Chef!? Do you think the show is actually living up to what they said it would do?