I had a dream: someone from television said to me: Peter, you're doing a 30-minute cooking show at the moment and you're rushing through it. In addition, you have now cooked the burger with fish, beef and other variations so that it sits there like mush from a fast food restaurant. Why don't we do a longer cooking show with contestants, cooking and winners? I offer you EUR 50,000 per shipment and you do what you can: snark, cook, roast aromas. We'll make you big!
The dream was perhaps a bit arrogant, because I'm not Tim Mälzer. And he actually took part in a television show with candidates, a lot of stage, a lot of audience and little cooking. I don't know what his salary looks like, but I wholeheartedly begrudge it to him. The show is called “Born To Cook” and I’m sure many people have watched it. However, the change from the evening show to the cooking candidate game show is comparable to the departure of Jürgen von der Lippe. His show “So isses” on Third was once the ratings winner and was replaced with similar ambitions. That was the end for Jürgen. He became unfunny and it became boring because his people (cameraman Günni) and the ambience were missing. It was missing that slightly private touch and that little bit that wasn't perfect, but seemed a bit improvised, but served as a joke.
That's how it is in Tim's new show "Born To Cook". It's a perfect stage now, but it lacks the charisma that was there before. He especially misses his assistant Nina. So they tried to Americanize a show, with fake clapping, far too much audience, great cooking equipment, more and more surreptitious advertising and far too stupid questions that are reminiscent of third-rate quiz shows. The viewer asks himself what this has to do with cooking in almost every minute of the program, which is far too long. Only the grandma was real. This is probably the last thing you will see of Tim. That's a shame. If only he had been given a really good cooking show, with a little more time, in prime time with Nina at his side. That would have been it. Unfortunately, that's how it boiled down for now, because what Tim definitely isn't: he's not a moderator. Otherwise he's a great guy and cook.
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Hi Peter,
I gave Tim a little more time, but I came to the same conclusion as you.
There is almost nothing left of the cooking itself. People rush from one corner to the other. And the sayings that come from Tim are not refreshing, as in other opinions, but in my opinion can be compared to backyard jargon.
The previous evening broadcast with (probably) pre-written texts were more solid. In my opinion, such a show is not his thing and he would do well to concentrate on his strengths.