Updated: June 9, 2022
Looking for interesting Cooking & Food Shows to help you sharpen your kitchen & hosting skills, expand your menu, or discover new cuisines? Here is a curated list of shows, grouped by theme: How-To Cooking Shows; Cooking Competitions; Baking; Shows with Online Recipes; Travel and more, updated monthly.
If you are looking to access Food Network shows on your basic Hulu plan, the choices are currently limited. However, more expansive Food Network programming is available as part of the Hulu + Live TV subscription package. On-demand and live streaming of Food Network programming can be also accessed by Hulu + Live TV subscribers using the Food Channel app on iPhone & iPad or Android devices.
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Table of Contents
- New Cooking, Food & Baking Shows on Hulu
- Best Cooking, Food & Baking Shows on Hulu
- How-To Cooking Shows on Hulu
- Shows with Online Recipes
- Restaurant, Taste Tests & Travel Shows on Hulu
- Cooking Competition Shows on Hulu
- Restaurant Turnaround Shows
- Baking Shows on Hulu
- Food Network Shows on Hulu
- Gordon Ramsay Shows on Hulu
- Hulu Original Food Shows
- Tastemade Food Shows on Hulu
- Outdoor & Grilling Shows
- Healthy Cooking Shows
- Budget Cooking Shows
- Unusual Cooking & Food Shows on Hulu
- Hulu Cooking & Food Show Links
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New Cooking, Food & Baking Shows on Hulu
- MasterChef Legends: Season 12 (Premiered May 26, 2022)
- The Food That Built America: Season 2 (Premiered February 15, 2022)
- Top Chef: Complete Season 18 (Premiered February 1, 2022)
- Next Level Chef with Gordon Ramsay (Premiered January 3, 2022)
- Candified: Home for the Holidays (Premiered December 1, 2021)
- Gordon Ramsay’s Road Trip (Available on December 14, 2021)
- Taste the Nation: Holiday Edition (Premiered November 4, 2021)
- Baker’s Dozen (Premiered October 7, 2021)
- The Next Thing You Eat (Premiered October 21, 2021)
Best Cooking, Food & Baking Shows on Hulu
Baker’s Dozen
This new and unique baking competition show has home bakers competing against seasoned baking professionals. Each episode entails three rounds of competitive challenges, with only a subset of the best scored results getting to compete in the subsequent round. Early reviews like that the show is light & good natured, not too competitive, and that the expert judge provides helpful feedback without attitude.
Host: Tamera Mowry-Housley and Bill Yosses
Themes: Baking, Competition, Hulu Original
See Baker’s Dozen on Hulu for episode details.
Behind The Dish
This series brings you into the professional kitchens of several of the world’s top chefs to learn about their unique signature dishes – both their inspiration and craft.
Themes: How-To, Recipes, Celebrity Chefs, Restaurants
See Behind The Dish on Hulu for episode details.
Visit Tastemade for recipes used on Behind The Dish.
Eater’s Guide to the World
Narrator Maya Rudolph takes the viewer to surprising places around the world to experience truly special meals, drinks, and ambience, “should-to-shoulder” with locals. Food destinations include: the Pacific Northwest; Casablanca; New York City; Costa Rica; Los Angeles; and Tijuana, Mexico.
Host: Maya Rudolph
Themes: Road Trip, Travel, Restaurants, Regional Cuisine, Hulu Original
See Eater’s Guide to the World on Hulu for episode details.
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The Food That Built America
This three episode mini-series explores the unique and lesser-known origins of iconic food brands of America and their back stories, including: Henry Heinz; Milton Hershey; John and Will Kellogg; C.W. Post and the McDonald brothers.
The opener of the first of three episodes states the following attention grabbing stats about the US Food Industry:
- Drives more than one fifth of the US Economy
- It provides 1 in 4 jobs
- Generates over $5 Billion… a day!
- 250 million Hershey bars a year
- 650 million bottles of Heinz ketchup a year
- 9 billion servings of Coca-Cola… a day!
Hosts: Campbell Scott, Adam Richman
Themes: History, Food Brands, Food Manufacturing, Entrepreneurship
Note: Season 2 premiered February 15, 2022.
See The Food That Built America on Hulu for episode details.
Gordon Ramsay’s Ultimate Home Cooking
The goal of this How-To show is to prove that it is still possible for even the busiest people to be able to cook stunning food at home. The show goes over recipes for breakfast, lunch and dinner that all meet Ramsay’s rules for home cooking, which are:
- Home cooking has to be easy
- Home cooking has to be fast
- Home cooking has to be delicious
Host: Gordon Ramsay
Themes: How-To, Recipes, Celebrity Chefs, Home Cooking
See Gordon Ramsay’s Ultimate Home Cooking on Hulu for episode details.
Jamie: Keep Cooking and Carry On
In this show Jamie Oliver focuses on how to make the most of kitchen staples and how to be creative with whatever ingredients you’ve got on hand, with whatever budget. From leveraging frozen food to relying entirely on what you have in the cupboard, Jamie shows home cooks how to make nutritious and delicious food using simple ingredients.
Host: Jamie Oliver
Themes: How-To, Recipes, Home Cooking
See Jamie: Keep Cooking and Carry On on Hulu for episode details.
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Make This Tonight
This popular long-running show by Tastemade showcases established professional chefs who demonstrate their go-to dinner recipes, while sharing the stories behind them. Tastemade has a browseable and searchable recipe database for this series that can be used before, during or after the corresponding episode. Each episode offers several opportunities to try something new, by averaging between 2 and 5 recipes a show.
Themes: How-To, Recipes, Celebrity Chefs, Home Cooking, Tastemade
See Make This Tonight on Hulu for episode details.
Visit Tastemade for recipes used on Make This Tonight.
The Next Thing You Eat
This docuseries, hosted by chef and Academy Award–winning documentary filmmaker David Chang, explores “what’s next for the world of food” and what the future of food science may be. Topics covered range from burger-flipping robots, to lab-grown fish, to insect farms, to artificial intelligence calling all the shots. Though most early reviewers find the topics to be quite interesting, more than a few have been quickly put off by the foul languange used by host.
Host: David Chang
Themes: Food Science, Technology, Futurism, Health, Nutrition, Sustainability, Restaurants, Celebrity Chefs, Hulu Original
See The Next Thing You Eat on Hulu for episode details.
Project Bakeover
In Project Bakeover, expert pastry chef and entrepreneur Steve Hodge helps struggling bakery businesses that are on the brink of closing shop. While Steve reinvigorates and inspires the overworked and distressed bakery owners, design pro Tiffany Pratt addresses interior design issues with the goal of turning the bakeries into warm and welcoming spaces. Together the pair aim to get these businesses quickly turned around and on the road to success. Entrepreneurial types that have been using YouTube to improve and expand their baking capabilities will definitely want to watch this series.
Hosts: Steve Hodge, Tiffany Pratt
Themes: Baking, Small Business, Entrepreneurship, Design
See Project Bakeover on Hulu for episode details.
Raw. Vegan. Not Gross.
Laura Miller of Sidesaddle Kitchen shows viewers how to make delicious recipes that happen to fall into the raw/vegan category. The goal of the show is to prove that a vegan menu does not need to consist of boring and uninteresting food. The show is a great way to expand one’s cooking repertoire, especially handy when entertaining for groups with varying dietary needs.
Host: Laura Miller
Themes: How-To, Recipes, Healthy Cooking, Raw, Vegan
See Raw. Vegan. Not Gross. on Hulu for episode details.
Visit Tastemade for recipes used on Make This Tonight.
Taste the Nation: Holiday Edition
This is a special 4-part Holiday Edition of Taste the Nation with Padma Lakshmi, where each episode explores unique holiday traditions of different immigrant communities througout the United States. Holidays covered include: Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, New Years, Christmas, Seollal (Korean New Year), and Nochebuena (Christmas Eve). Locations visited include: Cape Cod, Lower East Side New York City, Koreatown (AKA K-Town) in Los Angeles, and Miami.
Host: Padma Lakshmi
Themes: Culture, Travel, Holidays, Hulu Origional, Entertaining
See Tast the Nation with Padma Lakshmi on Hulu for episode details.
Tasty 101
Tasty 101, produced by BuzzFeed, offers short, easy-to-follow cooking tutorials primarily focused on popular classic recipes, all with the goal of helping the viewer become a better cook.
Themes: How-To, Recipes, Buzz Feed Original, Tastemade
See Tasty 101 on Hulu for episode details.
How-To Cooking Shows on Hulu
- Baking It Easy
- Behind the Dish
- Gordon Ramsay’s Ultimate Home Cooking
- Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution
- Jamie: Keep Cooking and Carry On
- Lightened Up
- Make This Tonight
- Raw. Vegan. Not Gross.
- Struggle Meals
- Tasty 101
Hulu Cooking & Baking Shows with Online Recipes
Here are links to online recipes for Taste Made cooking & baking shows that are currently streaming on Hulu, so you can follow along.
- Baking It Easy (Online Recipes)
- Behind the Dish (Online Recipes)
- Lightened Up (Online Recipes)
- Make This Tonight (Online Recipes)
- Raw. Vegan. Not Gross. (Online Recipes)
- Sourced (Online Recipes)
- Struggle Meals (Online Recipes)
Restaurant, Taste Tests & Travel Shows on Hulu
- Alice in Paris
- BBQuest
- Behind the Dish
- Big Food Bucket List
- Chuck’s World
- Eater’s Guide to the World
- Gordon Ramsay’s Road Trip
- Her Name is Chef
- Money Menu
- Somm 3
- Sourced
- Taste the Nation with Padma Lakshmi
- TrueSouth
- Worth It
Cooking Competition Shows on Hulu
- Baker’s Dozen
- Britain’s Best Home Cook
- Celebrity Best Home Cook
- Crime Scene Kitchen
- Cutthroat Kitchen
- Hell’s Kitchen
- Junior Chef Showdown
- MasterChef Legends
- MasterChef Junior
- Next Level Chef with Gordon Ramsay (Premiered January 3, 2022)
- Top Chef (Season 18 premiered February 1, 2022)
- Vegas Chef Prizefight
- Wall of Chefs
- Worst Cooks in America
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Restaurant Turnaround Shows on Hulu
Baking Shows on Hulu
- Baker’s Dozen
- Baking It Easy
- Crime Scene Kitchen
- The Great American Baking Show: Holiday Edition
- Project Bakeover
Food Network Shows on Hulu
Gordon Ramsay Shows on Hulu
- Gordon Ramsay’s 24 Hours to Hell and Back
- Gordon Ramsay’s Road Trip
- Gordon Ramsay’s The F Word
- Gordon Ramsay’s Ultimate Home Cooking
- Hell’s Kitchen
- Kitchen Nightmares
- MasterChef Legends
- MasterChef Junior
- Next Level Chef with Gordon Ramsay (Premiered January 3, 2022)
Hulu Original Cooking & Food Shows
- Baker’s Dozen
- Candified: Home for the Holidays (Premiered December 1, 2021)
- Eater’s Guide to the World
- Taste the Nation with Padma Lakshmi
- The Next Thing You Eat
Tastemade Shows on Hulu
- Baking It Easy
- Behind the Dish
- Lightened Up
- Make This Tonight
- Raw. Vegan. Not Gross.
- Sourced
- Struggle Meals
Outdoor & Grilling Shows on Hulu
Healthy Cooking Shows on Hulu
Budget Cooking Shows on Hulu
Unusual Cooking & Food Shows on Hulu
- Candified: Home for the Holidays (Premiered December 1, 2021)
- Crime Scene Kitchen
- The Food That Built America
- I Draw, You Cook
- Money Menu
- The Next Thing You Eat
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