Recipe for Disaster is an American cooking competition television series that premiered on August 5, 2023 on The CW and completed its first season on September 3, 2023.
[9] In each episode of Recipe for Disaster, three new chefs and their cooking buddies, who are complete novices in the kitchen, must create spectacular dishes to impress the judges, all while they are dodging a variety of over-the-top disasters which are themed to the episode's subject matter and serve to create mess, distract and throw off the teams' cooking processes.
The judges taste the dishes and designate one team as the winner, which is given a benefit ahead of the next round.
The participants can cook anything they want, although there are still some parameters assigned that all must adhere to (for instance, in one episode the dish must be "floating."
[10] The series incorporated a number of themes on-screen related to sustainability, with at least one plant-based cooking challenge, reference to sustainable ingredients, comedic climate-related jokes, visuals of a compost chute, forgoing gas-powered stoves, and casting multiple vegan and plant-forward chef contestants.