Dinner Impossible On Food Network
Dinner Impossible sets show host Chef Robert Irvine in difficult to impossible situations when it comes to creating meals for special events. The premise of the show is for Chef Irvine and his crew to arrive at a location without knowing what the challenge will be. Chef Irvine creates a menu allowing certain ingredients and following whatever specific set of rules are provided in order to create the meal for lucky participants of the event within an allotted challenge time.
Chef Irvine has a tendency to go beyond the requirements of each Dinner Impossible task, adding additional items to the menu. Irvine pushes himself and his kitchen crew, usually comprised of his chefs George and David, along with other kitchen help provided at the location. Sometimes the kitchen help at locations can be helpful, such as other professional chefs while other times Chef Irvine works with location staff or volunteers who barely know how to peel a potato. The combination of the unknown along with quick action needed to create a menu of food suitable for the event in a timed manner can be challenging even to this experienced chef.
Dinner Impossible’s missions have included cooking with candy ingredients, in an 18th Century kitchen, a football tailgating event, a cowboy cattle drive, re-creating a menu for the Culinary Institute of America and their master instructors, a dinner for employees of Mall of America and and creating a menu at a hotel created out of ice.
Chef Irvine is host of Dinner Impossible on The Food Network. A native of England, Chef Irvine joined the British Royal Navy at age 15 and began his culinary career in the Navy kitchen. Irvine worked on board the Royal Yacht Britannia where the Royal Family often dined. During his 25 year career, Chef Irvine trained US Navy chefs in a guest chef program as well as working in the White House kitchens serving government officials. Chef Irvine has been Executive Chef for Donald Trump’s Caesars Atlantic City and Trump Taj Mahal Casino Resort.
Chef Irvine is president and founder of Irvine Thyme, LLC., an Irvine-branded line of oils, spices, and vinegars. Irvine’s first cookbook, Mission: Cook!, written with Brian O’Reilly, was published in 2007.
Watch Dinner Impossible Wednesdays at 10:00 p.m. ET/PT
