Episode
Cutthroat Kitchen: Pressed or Steamed
Overview
Cutthroat Kitchen takes things to the extreme when one chef loses everything but a roll of tin foil and heat while cooking a dish. Then, Alton auctions off his compost bucket forcing one chef to make a quiche out of the food bits that are normally thrown out. Finally, a clothes steamer and iron are the only sources of heat for a chef cooking mussels.
Details
- Series
- Cutthroat Kitchen
- Season
- Season 2
- Episode
- Episode 13
- Air date
- 2014-03-09
- Runtime
- 60 min
Episode context
Pressed or Steamed is Episode 13 in Season 2 of Cutthroat Kitchen. It aired on 2014-03-09. The runtime is 60 min.
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