BLOOMFIELD HILLS — Local chef Mike Eckles recently competed against 10 other chefs for $100,000 in “Pressure Cooker,” a Netflix cooking competition show. Eckles grew up in Bloomfield Hills and went to Lahser High School.
Eckles was the runner-up in Netflix’s first season of “Pressure Cooker,” which aired in January. Throughout the course of the show, 11 chefs lived under one roof to compete in culinary challenges and ultimately win the cash prize.
Instead of a standard cooking show where there is typically a host and judges, “Pressure Cooker’s” unique format has neither. After each competition, the contestants taste and judge each other’s food. In the place of a host, contestants receive information via a restaurant-style ticket machine.
Another thing that sets it apart from other popular cooking shows is there is a large social component, since they are all living together and judging each other’s food.