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Sometimes It’s Hard To Come Up With Fresh Baskets

The most integral element of Chopped is the basket of mystery ingredients the competing chefs must use. As they pull out each ingredient, you think it would be a piece of cake until something completely random comes up, like marshmallows.

The producers of the show spend a lot of times coming up with these combos. If they can’t think of a recipe in 15 seconds, they scrap the idea. They also have to cross-reference a list of previous baskets to make sure they don’t keep using the same ingredients. Unlike Iron Chef America, the chefs on Chopped are truly shocked because they don’t know the ingredients beforehand.