Reality TV as entertainment is all the rage, it all started many years ago from "Big Brother" and today we have all kinds, in our case it is appropriate to say, cooked and raw, therefore those of "kitchen". The cooking reality show par excellence is Masterchef and after that many imitations, to entertain and according to some to educate about "good food", but the stark reality is really another.
Nothing can be learned from these, let's face it, they are scripted, fictions whose purpose is not so much to promote good Italian cuisine, good food and our many high quality raw materials, what matters is to keep viewers glued, with fake quarrels, fake competitions and anything else to create anticipation and suspension.
The real purpose, as it is easy to understand, is to make plays in order to sell them to sponsors, in essence if we want, the real product of these television dramas is the viewers, they are the product to be sold to sponsors, lots of shares, lots of money , point!
If we really want to learn something about this profession, it will certainly not be by participating in one of these reality shows that we will become a professional chef or pizza maker, this is neither a school nor a laboratory where you can learn by watching the masters, in these programs there is no learn nothing but to pretend!
A real chef or pizza maker does not pretend, on the contrary, he sweats and struggles to reach a level of professionalism and high quality, it requires time and experience, but above all a good starting point, training that gives way to the talent that everyone has and that he just has to learn to point it out, this can't be done by pretending.
A serious career begins in a restaurant not in a cooking reality show where contestants are chosen not for their real professional skills but on the basis of how they know how to stay in front of the screen to entertain viewers.
It is good to clarify this once and for all, becoming a chef or pizza maker is a difficult job, where sacrifice and above all passion are the driving forces to achieve success.
What was once called "mess" is now called training, in other words practice in the field and even a little study, the only way to achieve excellence in this sector, following reality cooking is fun, but well far from teaching a trade!
