Written by Epic Meal Time is one of the most popular channels on YouTube with nearly 3 million subscribers and over 486 million video views to date. Now, with the help of Collective Digital Studios and NextTime Productions, the channel has launched a new web series called Epic Chef, which is being described as “an over-the-top, calorie-filled take on the competitive cooking genre”. If you’re not familiar with Epic Meal Time, the channel is notorious among the college crowd (and like-minded viewers) for cooking up ridiculous, cholesterol-heavy dishes such as meat gingerbread houses and egg rolls the size of a human head.
Epic Chef, which will keep that notoriety intact, debuted Friday. The series pits two chefs against each other every week, as part of a bracket-style competition to determine who is, in fact, the most “Epic Chef” of them all. Each episode will feature a themed challenge such as “Epic Burger” or “Epic Mexican,” for which the competitors will have 45 minutes to create a meal worthy of the moniker, only using a box of mystery ingredients and a pantry that they will have access to.
Celebrity judges for the series include Duff from Ace of Cakes, Adam Gertler from Next Food Network Star, and a collection of YouTube stars, among others. Competing chefs include former contestants on shows like Top Chef and Iron Chef, as well as other notable food personalities.
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