Blind Taste is a light-hearted cooking game show in which a keen amateur chef nominates a dish and challenges a top professional chef to cook that same dish better than they do. The dish chosen is always something recognizable - spaghetti vongole, devilled lamb, baked Alaska, lamb pasanda etc. - but while our contestant will have been practising this dish for weeks, the first time our guest chef gets to know what he or she has to cook is live on the program.

Cookery programs come in all shapes and sizes but when it comes to the competitive ones, be it Master Chef or Ready Steady Cook, one thing is always puzzling – how do you judge which cook is best when the dishes are always different? And so to Blind Taste’s unique element – the contestant and guest chef are cooking the same dish and at the end of the show they, along with three members of the studio audience, have to judge which dish is best. What’s more, presentation plays no part in this decision (the jury are blindfolded) – it’s all about taste.

The format was commissioned by Taste/CFN in 2001 and 25 half hour shows were produced.