Chopped

So if you watch the Food Network Channel, you might've seen the show "Chopped". I love this show so much. During each episode, four cooks face off to make 3 courses: an entree, a main course, and a dessert. The thing is, though, they must use four specified ingredients from a black basket for each course. These ingredients are crazy and weird and often throw the contestants for a loop. (For example, the ingredients they have to use in one dish could be oysters, cottage cheese, green tea, and brussel sprouts.) And the contestants only have 20 to 30 minutes to prepare each full course! It's crazy!
I love watching this show with my family. We get really intense, guessing and betting on which cook will win, crowding around our small TV in our kitchen and watching with baited breath. Sometimes my dad leaves the room, saying, "I can't take this pressure, guys, my heart's starting to hurt!"
Then the judges eat the food, judge the contestants, and each round one cook is eliminated until the dessert round, when one wins! I just love this show, because, as weird as it sounds, it's fun watching it with my family, and I get some interesting cooking tips. I never cook, to be honest, and maybe I also just watch the show because I hope all of the cooking genius flowing around the TV screen will be absorbed into my brain by some magic process of osmosis.
And, you know, I love food, too.