Food Fighters features 12 year old Danielle McKay. (Greg Gayne/NBC)
While Gordon Ramsay‘s Masterchef Junior brings out the best in the belligerent chef, who wants to see his prepubescent contestants succeed, two new cooking shows coming this summer seek to shame children who once loved to cook with a mean-spirited dominance championed by Stephanie March‘s Bobby Flay‘s Throwdown. On NBC, Adam Richman’s Food Fighters features 14 year-olds playing with liquid nitrogen, and on host Adam Gertler‘s FYI’s Man vs Child: Chef Showdown stars children as young as 7 being judged by the like of Mike Isabella and Hubert Keller.
Watch the trailers below.
Food Fighters premieres July 2nd at 8pm on NBC; Man Vs Child: Chef Showdown premieres on FYI on July 23rd at 9pm.
