Former Cooking Show Contestants Reveal The Secrets Behind The Shows They Were On

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Some of the cooking shows you’ve seen weren’t filmed in actual kitchens, or even real TV studios.

“I was a contestant on Ready Set Cook in the 90s (the American one, not the British Ready Steady Cook). The studio in NYC it was filmed in was previously a TV studio used by Sesame Street when it was starting out. Which was cool. 

But originally it was a live theatre — so when you looked up or at the walls, there was all this cool plaster work and ornate decorations etc. from a real, old-school theatre. But with holes busted through to drop chains to hangs light bars and cables and stuff. 

Just kind of weird that surrounding all this TV studio equipment and modern set pieces was the shell of a dead Victorian theatre.”

–u/blackhorse15A