Four chefs try to prove that everything goes better with bacon, beginning with a delicious bacon lunch using only ingredients that start with the letter "B." Next, chefs have to create an international bacon dish that incorporates a bizarre ingredient. The final two must create the ultimate bacon dinner with only one minute to shop and a mere three aisles to shop in!
Top 5 Restaurants is living high on the hog, showcasing restaurants that highlight bacon in crazy, inventive dishes. From New England pizza to a joint in Chicago that wraps a whole meatloaf in bacon to a sweet and salty dessert you have to see to believe, you'll never look at bacon the same way again!
Four wildly carnivorous cooks are thrilled to get a bacon theme for their competition, but can they do justice to one of their favorite foods? In the appetizer round, a bold breakfast sandwich joins Berkshire bacon in the basket. Whoever said "an apple a day keeps the doctor away" was not thinking of the bacon-forward apple creation in the entrée basket. Then, as the final round flies by, the chefs are not particularly concerned about how to include bacon in their desserts. The cruel clock, on the other hand, gives them plenty to worry about.
Chef Alex Guarnaschelli and three skilled chefs from across the country meet host Eric Adjepong to take on one of America's favorite ingredients: bacon! Joining the fight from California, Massachusetts and Colorado, these bacon experts take their shot at knocking Alex out of the top spot. They'll have to prove their abilities and bacon know-how in front of judges Chris Cosentino and Cara Nicoletti to best Chef Alex with the country's most-loved protein.