Dinner Impossible Review

 I've watched several episodes of Dinner Impossible on Food-Network and I must agree with the general consensus.  The show has a great pretense, but, the host is just too much.  I, too, expected a little something different when I first saw the show.  Yes, some of the challenges are interesting and the idea of the show is a winner.  Chef Irvine takes all the fun out of it with his overbearing, self centered antics and the abuse of his "volunteer" staff.  Besides, how "impossible" can it be with food, pans, money and staff available to help you?  He is what makes "dinner" impossible.

 Ask any busy, working, married mother of more than three children what Dinner Impossible is and they will tell you it's nothing like the Food Network show.  Try getting four kids dressed, fed and ready for school, the husband off to work, the dog walked and making sure you get to your eight hour a day five day a week job on time.  Now come home from work, help with homework, after-school activities and don't forget the dog again.  Start dinner and realize you don't have all the ingredients because you didn't stop at the store due to a traffic jam and you didn't want to be late picking up Junior.  Go to the corner store only to arrive home to find your Sister and her three kids waiting inside (you told her to come stay at your house while her's is being re-painted inside).  OK it's spaghetti, now where are those two jars of  sauce?   Did I mention that your husband absolutely hates spaghetti so you still have to fix something else for him?  Now THAT'S Dinner Impossible, and you don't get any help whatsoever, let alone extra food, money or wait-staff.  Your sister only knows how to order take-out.

 This type of situation can happen to anyone at anytime and is usually unscripted, unlike Chef Irvine's challenges that give him hours and sometimes days, as well as assistants, etc. to prepare meals.  Add in kids fighting over the Play-station and that's what I call dinner impossible, Chef Irvine.  Take that challenge.