My Kitchen Rules NZ
| My Kitchen Rules New Zealand | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Cooking |
| Judges |
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| Country of origin | New Zealand |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of series | 2 |
| Production | |
| Running time | 60-120 minutes per episode |
| Production company(s) | Seven Network (2017) |
| Release | |
| Original network | TVNZ |
| Original release | 24 August 2014 – present |
| Chronology | |
| Related shows | My Kitchen Rules |
| External links | |
| Website | mkrnz |
My Kitchen Rules NZ is a New Zealand reality show based on the popular Australian reality television series My Kitchen Rules. The show premiered in New Zealand on TV1 on 24 August 2014.
Season 2 premiered on TV2 on 12 October 2015.
On 29 September 2016, Pete Evans and Manu Feildel, hosts of the Australian MKR, were announced as the hosts for the third season of My Kitchen Rules NZ, set to air in 2017.
The New Zealand version of show initially had teams of two contestants with pre-existing relationships —competing against each other to transform an ordinary home into an instant restaurant complete with theme and table decorations for one pressure-cooker night.
The current judging panel consists of celebrity chefs and hosts Ben Bayly and Gareth Stewart. Filling four spots at the Kitchen HQ judging table are local celebrity chef and former Masterchef NZ Winner, Nadia Lim; former Food Network producer/ director and MasterChef US contestant, Grace Ramirez; international award-winning chef, Robert Oliver; and acclaimed restaurateur, Sean Connolly.
In 2015, My Kitchen Rules Australian Judge, Liz Egan joins the Tasting Panel, replacing Sean Connolly.
Grouped into two, the teams initially are to compete in an instant restaurant round. Each episode focuses on one team's day of cooking, setting up their instant restaurant and serving a three-course dinner—entrée, main, and dessert—for the judges and their opposing teams. Teams could only start cooking three hours before the other teams and judges arrive at their house. After the team served all three meals to the judges and their opposition, each opposing team must rate the total meal out of ten, then each main judge must rate each of the three courses separately out of ten. The lowest scoring team will be then at risk of elimination.
Contestants do not necessarily cook in their own homes. In most cases when this happened it is the home of a family member or friend or a holiday home of one or both members of the team.
There were variations on format in team progress and elimination process in this round.
After the instant restaurant, the remaining teams compete in a four-round format and went from People's Choice directly to Sudden Death.
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