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100 Cooks (2026)

Reality-TV

It is the biggest home cook competition of all time. Actor, television host and former pro football player Terry Crews hosts as 100 of America's elite home cooks enter the stadium kitchen arena where they will be challenged to the most unpredictable, professional-chef level cooking competition ever. As the competition begins, chefs are selected at random to come to the floor to compete while the "Challenge Mixer" dictates the challenges they will face ranging from fast-paced trivia contests to 30-minute do-or-die cooking battles. Top culinary content creator Nick DiGiovanni and chef and NYT best-selling cookbook author Alex Guarnaschelli are the judges that determine who stays and who goes. Each round's winner will be given a chance to take the cash or add it to the ever-growing grand prize pot, which starts at $100,000...so as the number of cooks goes down, the grand prize goes up.

IMDb rating
6.2 (222 votes)
Episode average
7.7 +1.5 vs IMDb
Seasons
1
Streaming (US)
HBO Max
Language
EN
Type
TV series

Rating trend: this show's seasons do not settle into one shape. Rising Shows ranks whole shows by the shape of their rating trend rather than one average score, which is how you find a show that got better rather than a show that started well.

Ratings refreshed Oct 3, 2026 · 1 season indexed

Cast

Seasons

Season 1 (2026)

7.68 avg 9 episodes 7.2 → 8.4 51 min avg

Ep 1: 7.2 · 29 votesEp 2: 7.3 · 21 votesEp 3: 7.2 · 20 votesEp 4: 7.6 · 16 votesEp 5: 7.9 · 17 votesEp 6: 7.4 · 17 votesEp 7: 7.8 · 15 votesEp 8: 8.3 · 14 votesEp 9: 8.4 · 17 votes
Season 1 episodes - IMDb ratings
#TitleRatingVotes
1Give it 1007.229
271 Cooks Remain7.321
365 Cooks to Go7.220
455 Cooks Still Standing7.616
5Only 41 Cooks Left7.917
632 Cooks Persist7.417
718 Cooks Survive7.815
8The Last 148.314
98 Cooks Down to 18.417