Nadiya Hussain: Tensions will rise in Big Family Cooking Showdown
The new show is thought to be the BBC’s rival to Bake Off.
Great British Bake Off winner Nadiya Hussain has warned that tensions will rise in her new BBC programme where family members team up in the kitchen.
Alongside Zoe Ball, Hussain is presenting BBC Two’s The Big Family Cooking Showdown, which is thought to have been created by the broadcaster as a rival to Bake Off, which has switched to Channel 4.
The show will pit 16 families from around the UK against each other with challenges set in their kitchens at home and also at the programme’s studio.
Hussain said the competition is “not just about the food, but also about the dynamics of the family”.
She added: “And it’s not one person cooking, so it falls on everybody to have a role in the group and that’s really interesting to watch because it’s no different to most family homes when you’re all in the kitchen together.
“These are family members: you can see sometimes there is tension and sometimes they work really well together – but when you cook together you cook very differently.”
She added: “Seeing all these recipes that have gone back through the families, handed down and taught from generation to generation, adapted slightly as people are modernising them, and these are recipes that you’d never find in a cookbook.”
The Big Family Cooking Showdown launches Tuesday August 15 at 8pm on BBC Two.
Channel 4’s Bake Off is yet to have a transmission date confirmed.
