Probably the most deliciously tense entry on the 2025 TV schedule is unfortunately near leaving once more, with Prime Chef: Vacation spot Canada set to conclude Season 22’s two-part Milan-set finale. It’s been a wild cycle for each cheftestants and viewers, with sturdy rivals like Massimo Piedimonte and César Murillo going house as Chi-City’s Bailey Sullivan survived and thrived by way of Final Probability Kitchen. Host Kristen Kish paid this group the last word praise, whereas additionally telling CinemaBlend whether or not or not she’d prefer to compete once more.
After I talked to Kish about settling into her second 12 months as Prime Chef’s high-fashion host, I discussed that this season, maybe greater than another, had me switching my predictions for winner on a near-weekly foundation. She agreed with that evaluation, and shared that she mirrored greater than as soon as on how she would have felt to be cooking towards Vacation spot Canada’s hopefuls, saying:
All of them are on these highs and lows and journeys and it’s anybody’s sport. And it was like that from the very starting. Typically I take into consideration like, ‘Oh my God, if I needed to compete towards all of them, and this was my season?’ Terrified, completely terrified. [Laughs.] They’re all so good.
Contemplating Kristen Kish was the primary Prime Chef contestant to take house the highest honors after being eradicated and successful out on Final Probability Kitchen — which may be streamed with a Peacock subscription — one may suppose that she’d have an unwavering confidence within the realm of cooking. However such is the mixed expertise of Season 22’s chef pool that its proficient host could be so intimidated.
Would Kirsten Kish Compete On Prime Chef Once more?
Given her voiced hesitance to probably go up towards the various cooks vying for the prize this season, I needed to ask if she ever thought of competing once more and if that was a attainable purpose. To my shock, her reply was each resolute and towards the grain. As she put it:
No, Nope, nope, nope. [Laughs.] The great factor is that they most likely would not let me. However no, I would not do it once more.
As stunned as I used to be to listen to the previous Iron Chef host sound so satisfied that she’d by no means enter the Prime Chef gauntlet once more (presumably for a Masters season), I can absolutely perceive why that might be her stance. Even when it wasn’t a problem of being “terrified” to go up towards a very completely different batch of high-achieving cooks, leaping again into the competitors would not actually give Kish a leg up wherever professionally, contemplating she’s already internet hosting.
As such, she could be placing not solely her satisfaction and her regular blood strain in danger by participating in a future season, however she’d additionally probably put in danger her easy-to-qualify function as a “fomer Prime Chef champion.” If she’d compete in Masters and lose — fairly a longshot, I might suppose — then it would dim the gloss of her Season 10 victory.
Leaping again into the aggressive frying pan was a great transfer for chef Brooke Williamson, who got here in second place to Kish throughout Season 10. She joined different returning cooks inside Season 14’s newbs vs. vets lineup, prevented the dreaded early eliminations, and ended up taking the crown. However and not using a related want for vindication, Kish is completely pleased not placing that type of strain on herself once more.
Solely time will inform if Kirsten Kish ever does resolve to don an apron once more for the sake of competitors, even when it isn’t on Prime Chef, however I would not depend on it. Followers can positively discover her internet hosting the Season 22 finale, which can air on Bravo on Thursday, June 12, at 9:00 p.m. ET.