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I'm obsessed with 'Top Chef'.

I love 'Top Chef.'

'MasterChef' is pretty good.

I remember in the first season going, 'This is retarded. I can't believe they're making chefs do this.' But then it actually does show off certain skills. And at the end of the day, this is entertainment and this stuff is very entertaining. Is a lot of it ridiculous? Of course it is. But that's what makes it interesting.

I love doing 'Worst Cooks' so very much.

'MasterChef' delivers all the reassuring, cadenced repetition of an endless chore without any of the bothersome elbow grease.

'Top Chef' is always entertaining - it's hard to stop watching, like a good hockey fight, but no one gets hurt. It's great that the format is so inherently dramatic and can make cooking so entertaining to people who might not ordinarily be interested in a cooking show. Good for the industry all round.

I would love to go on 'MasterChef'. But while I really like cooking, I'm doubtful anyone would ever want to pay for what I'd cooked.

Nobody who cooks does it with full hair and makeup in front of a TV camera.

I competed in a test round of 'Kitchen Casino.' I feel like it's good to know what the competitors are going through.

I'm obsessed with cooking shows, even though they make everything look so easy when it isn't.

There's way more pressure cooking for cooks than rowing at the Olympics.

Kitchen competition shows are so action-packed. They just get your adrenaline pumping.

I have a cooking show that's coming on that I did in Albany. It will be on The Cooking Channel.

I love 'Top Chef.' I think it rewrote the book on how food shows are presented on TV.

We are not really privy to all that crazy stuff that goes on in the show. I go to work, eat, and talk about food. The wild things happen when we aren't around. I expected Top Chef to last three or four seasons and we are now shooting season ten.

You'll see me on 'Top Chef' someday. My Midwestern hospitality needs an outlet, you know?

I watched the first week of 'Hell's Kitchen'. It was fascinating to see Marco Pierre White because I've only ever seen him in moody photographs.

I have to admit to the occasional need for 'Come Dine with Me.' I am the most atrocious cook, and that's probably why I find it so entertaining. It looks exotic to me.

'Kitchen Wars' makes 'MasterChef' look like a walk in the park!

You'll never see me on anything like 'MasterChef.' I'm just not interested.

'MasterChef''s preliminary stages deliver just the right level of almost-drama for viewers feeling shagged out after a hard day's fruitless existence.

I have been invited to do something called 'Celebrity MasterChef' in England, which, of course, I can't do. It's complete nonsense. You have to be a decent cook to begin with. I'd be the joke one.

I became friends with a lot of chefs. I was a judge on 'Top Chef' last year. It was a dream come true.

I am so proud of 'Top Chef' - I think it's got great cred.