When done properly, cooking shows have a distinct place in modern culture. However, shows that choose to establish a falsified personal connection between themselves and their own audiences should not be allowed to play. 

Shows that show a person living in what they claim to be their own home, recreating recipes that they claim to have single-handedly written whilst still flaunting their own brand of spatulas and whisks is what I imagine to be nothing more than a ploy to sell said cheap products. In all actuality, the people behind these shows will often buy these recipes and all rights thereof and use them to help promote their horribly misshapen ladles.

The idea of a cooking show which displays how to make a dish or set of dishes is a lovely idea. Yet, the majority of cooking shows that I find are acted out more as dramas, comedies or potentially even dramedies. This awkward take on a dish-preparing segment in a show that really just talks about the horrible lives of its millionaire producers while claiming to be teaching you how to make the perfect key-lime pies shows nothing more than greed upon their fellow humans. 

Not to say that there are not appropriately made cooking shows with an understandable amount of non-cooking dialogue just to keep the show running smoothly. But, many people don’t care to hear about a little kid’s baseball league that their great nephew is playing in when I would rather be learning how to make the perfect pineapple upside-down cake. 

The shows that successfully make food without taking up two hours with pure dialogue and the previously aforementioned Little League tournaments deserve to be held as the staples of the television community. However, these shows always have the worst background music playing over the explanation of the recipe that originally compelled the viewer to pull up the episode. 

Despite the downsides of poorly produced cooking shows, I would also like to provide the potential to see them in a different light. These shows are a great way to drown out annoying conversations at dinner parties, or maybe you could use them as background noise when working. However, the idea of simply sitting down and watching these shows is not great. There are certainly better educational dramas available that may be able to help a person engage in a meaningful conversation.

Besides these cooking shows staying on their respective back burner, I do believe that they should be allowed for public viewing, as they provide a healthy escape from reality, by listening to their endless train of lies regarding the clearly impoverished homes that these millionaires live in. But on occasion, we see the opposite, where people will instead try to fit themselves into a higher standard of living by applying a fake background and poor verbal communication skills to their viewers. 

In all actuality, these shows are more often than not a way for lonely people to flaunt their mediocre cooking skills while relentlessly faking their entire personality to make themselves more relatable to their target audience, when in all reality they only make a fool out of themselves with their clearly and poorly staged shenanigans.