100 Cooks (2026): cast, story & where to watch

Released in 2026, 100 Cooks is a reality series.

What it’s about. It is the biggest home cook competition of all time. Actor, television host and former pro football player Terry Crews hosts as 100 of America's elite home cooks enter the stadium kitchen arena where they will be challenged to the most unpredictable, professional-chef level cooking competition ever. As the competition begins, chefs are selected at random to come to the floor to compete while the "Challenge Mixer" dictates the challenges they will face ranging from fast-paced trivia contests to 30-minute do-or-die cooking battles. Top culinary content creator Nick DiGiovanni and chef and NYT best-selling cookbook author Alex Guarnaschelli are the judges that determine who stays and who goes. Each round's winner will be given a chance to take the cash or add it to the ever-growing grand prize pot, which starts at $100,000...so as the number of cooks goes down, the grand prize goes up.

Who’s in it. 100 Cooks stars Terry Crews as Host - Self, Nick DiGiovanni as Judge - Self and Alex Guarnaschelli as Judge - Self.

How it landed. With an audience score of 10.0/10, 100 Cooks sits among the best-reviewed titles in the catalogue.

Where to watch. In US you can stream it on HBO Max Amazon Channel, Philo, Discovery+ Amazon Channel and YouTube TV and rent or buy it from Amazon Video, Apple TV Store and Fandango At Home. See the full, country-by-country breakdown on our where to watch 100 Cooks page.

If you liked it. Fans of 100 Cooks tend to enjoy The Kardashians, The Simpsons, Drawn Together and Clarkson's Farm.