Yes, Chef!

Yes, Chef! is an American reality competition cooking show television series that aired on NBC from April 28 to June 30, 2025. The series is hosted by José Andrés and Martha Stewart. In March 2026, the series was cancelled after one season.

Production

On February 13, 2025, it was announced that NBC had ordered the series with José Andrés and Martha Stewart as the hosts and executive producers.

On April 3, 2025, the chefs were announced. On March 12, 2026, it was announced that the series was cancelled after one season.

Format

Contestants on Yes, Chef! are professional chefs that have been nominated by their supervisors, peers, or family members because of their inability to control the personal issues interfering with their performance in the kitchen (egotism, stubbornness, indecisiveness, etc.), despite their culinary potential. Hosts Andrés and Stewart guide these chefs through a series of challenges designed to test both their cooking skills and their behavior. The ultimate winner receives a cash prize of US$250,000.

Each episode (with the exception of the finale) features two challenges:

Main Culinary Challenge: Early in the season, the Culinary Challenges were team exercises designed to test the chefs' leadership, cooperation, and technique. The judges select the winning team and one chef from either team will be crowned that episode’s Most Valuable Chef (MVC), who receives immunity from elimination. Later episodes feature individual Culinary Challenges, with the winning chef of each challenge receiving the MVC title.

Cook-off: Initially a head-to-head challenge between the MVC and a member of the losing team (chosen by the MVC); if the MVC wins the cook-off, the nominee is eliminated from the competition, but a victory by the nominee allows that chef to select another chef from the losing team to be eliminated. In later episodes, the MVC is exempt from the cook-off and is asked to select which two chefs will compete, sometimes choosing which ingredients or restrictions the at-risk chefs receive; the loser of the cook-off leaves the competition.

Chefs

Elimination table

• This cook won the competition.
• This cook finished as a runner-up in the finals.
• This cook won the challenge.
• This cook was safe from elimination.
• This cook lost the challenge.
• This cook was eliminated.
• This cook won the elimination challenge.
• This cook won Most Valuable Chef of the episode.
• The contestant withdrew from the competition.

Episodes

Critical response

Notes

External links

• at IMDb