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Cutthroat Kitchen had its fans, but Alton Brown, the show's host, probably wasn't one of them. If the Food Network did officially cancel its wacky competition where chefs bid on creative ways to sabotage their competitors' cooking, it was only because Brown quit. After nearly 200 episodes over 15 seasons, from 2013 to 2017, he had had enough.

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Brown dropped the news in July 2018 via Twitter. A fan on the platform asked if new episodes of Cutthroat Kitchen were coming. In his trademark way, Brown responded with a Post-it Note stuck to a computer monitor displaying the fan's tweet: 'Cutthroat Kitchen got cancelled. Sorry. #ProbablyMyFault.' Brown actually explained much earlier why he was done with Cutthroat Kitchen, during a Facebook Live video. 'I've had enough, guys,' he told fans in late 2016. 'I need to get back to what I do.'

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What Brown does was best displayed in his previous Food Network series, Good Eats, the award-winning show that revolutionized cooking shows, adding science, history, and humorous skits during its 13-year run. In Cutthroat, Brown appeared out of his element, according to a critic at Entertainment Weekly. 'It is NOT a show about cooking,' the EW critic wrote. Brown wanted to get back to cooking. 'I think I've game-show hosted about all I can take, and life is short,' he said on Facebook Live.

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At that time, late 2016, Brown planned to go independent and make his own internet-only show, on his own terms, As he explained on Facebook Live, 'I want freedom to do what I want, and say what I want, and work with the food that I want, without being concerned about what a larger corporate entity might or might not want from that.' For Brown, that meant cooking with rabbit, liver, or chicken gizzards — some of the items that were forbidden on the Food Network, he said.

Brown's internet series never materialized — although he did create a small online hit with Quarantine Quitchen on YouTube, co-hosted by his wife, Elizabeth Ingram (via Salon). The original internet show was to be called, simply, 'A Cooking Show,' and Brown envisioned hundreds of episodes that would basically amount to a Good Eats sequel. But the lure of a network's audience reach may have been too much for Brown to resist. Good Eats: The Return, the long-anticipated sequel, debuted on the Food Network in August 2019 (via Eater). Brown added new wrinkles to the old show, working with recipes and kitchen equipment that were less available or too expensive even seven years ago. He also brought in a real food scientist, admitting his own science background was limited. However, rabbit and liver have yet to appear among the show's published recipes.

Bite and Booze blogger, BBQ sauce creator and local culinary personality Jay Ducote is no stranger to the camera. He competed on Chef Gordon Ramsay’s cooking competition MasterChef in 2011 and faced the sabotage-happy Cutthroat Kitchen this year.

225 asked the well-traveled foodie to share the top five lessons he’s learned from his TV experiences.

1. Don’t take yourself too seriously. “These culinary shows can be described as reality TV or cooking competitions, but in reality they are more like game shows taking place in a kitchen. So much of the actual results are out of your hands that you can’t get too worked up about it.”

2. The cameras are always rolling. “Remember that anything you say on camera can be used on national television, so don’t say anything you’ll regret. On both shows I made every effort possible to represent myself how I wanted to appear on national TV at all times; that way they couldn’t possibly use any footage of me that I didn’t like.”

3. Some things are completely real; others are misleading. “There are specific, timed aspects of both MasterChef and Cutthroat Kitchen, so when Alton Brown said that we have 60 seconds to shop in the pantry or 30 minutes to cook our dish, that was absolutely true. But what you don’t see is how much time actually goes by between filming those timed segments, or that we actually film some things twice.”

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4. Alton Brown is exactly as he appears on TV. “Quirky, yes. Sarcastic, for sure. Geeky, absolutely. And he genuinely seems to enjoy what he is doing. He presented himself in a way that seemed very down to earth, approachable and enthusiastic about this job.”

5. It’s not all about winning. “Sure, winning a competition like these would be great, and one day, maybe I’ll come out victorious. But there is so much to gain other than the pride and prize money on the line. The experience itself of being on set at these shows has been great for my own professional development as well as personal enjoyment of life.” biteandbooze.com

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