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CMV: All competition based cooking shows should be decided by blind taste tests

So I’m a huge food network fan, Guy Fieri and Alton Brown are personal hero’s of mine, and I even cook a bit myself. I watch a good bit of cooking shows centered around a one time “cook-off”, (Chopped, Guy’s Grocery Games, Cutthroat Kitchen, Iron Chef, etc.) and I enjoy them all to different extents.

However, I can’t help but think about how contestants can sort of influence the judges in describing their dishes. Fellow fans have definitely heard the classic tropes “my momma made it this way”, “deconstructed”, etc. which essentially function as excuses rather than descriptions of what’s in the dish itself. 

While I understand the TV viewership value of having narratives for contestants experiencing hardship or allowing them to express their personality on camera, I think we could limit that to the mid cooking interview cutaway segments. 

In my opinion, judges for these cooking shows should not know which dish belongs to which contestant to ensure that the most successful plate, and not the most compelling story, comes out on top.
gpt
I think this would be true if the experience of cooking was entirely about tasting without seeing, experiencing the place and people and so on. The  experience of  food is complex.  Resturaunts are enjoyable for reasons that are massively in excess of the "blind taste test"  qualities of their  food.

Why would we artificially isolate one dimension of food experience?