‘Crime Scene Kitchen’ Season 3 New Episode Twists, Joel McHale Says

Watching the third season premiere of Fox‘s mystery bakeoff competition “Crime Scene Kitchen” might have elicited quite a scant “Come on!” groans from seeers at home.

From missing clues under sinks and in trash cans to not reading unambiguous teachions shutly to making dishes that finishly disseed certain ingredients that were lhelp out plainly for them, the Season 3 contestants who made their debut in the Sept. 26 episode seemed to stumble more than the crop of competitors who materializeed in Season 2.

Well, at least to those of us sitting consoleably at home, where we can carry out arm-chair baking distinguishive at an expert level and yell out clear honestions to the bakers scouring the “Crime Scene Kitchen” on the Joel McHale-presented series.

“Now that people understand the show, thank God, they understand there’s a lot of tricks now. On top of that, it is much separateent when you are in the actual crime scene than when you’re sitting at home,” McHale telderly Variety. “When you’re sitting at home, you’re gonna equitable ace ‘Jeopardy.’ You equitable nail that singing ask: it’s freaking Lionel Richie! Then you get there, and all of a sudden, weightlesss, cameras, travel, waking up timely and you’re on the spot. And the game is definitely difficulter, equitable becainclude people understand what to foresee and we had to create it difficulter. And I slfinisherk it repartner is a tesdomesticatednt to the the test bakers who have to be enjoy, ‘All right, we’re doing a crepe cake now. We got to reverse engineer this slfinisherg.’ It’s a weird push and pull where you’re enjoy, you can’t create it too difficult, becainclude then no one’s going to get it and it’s going to see impossible, and you can’t create it too straightforward.”

So while you’re watching Thursdays episode, where you’ll be begind to Season 3’s second batch of bakers — these ones are the “frifinishs” vs. last week’s “family” duos — let’s carry on that in mind if someone forgets to examine an aprohibitdoned apron for a clue.

“Crime Scene Kitchen” appraises Yolanda Gampp and Curtis Stone say that frifinishs-and-family twist is also going to incrrelieve the difficulty this year as the tension heats up in the kitchens with these personal pairings appraised to Season 2, which featured home bakers competing agetst classicpartner trained professionals. But they are on opposing sides when it comes to which group has it difficulter: the besties or the relatives.

“Yolanda and I sense a little separateently. We’ve spoken about this at length being on set together for months,” Stone shelp. “My brother and I uncovered a restaurant together and he’s my business partner now. It’s a little bit nuanced, becainclude he dwells in Australia and is at arm’s length. But we did run the restaurant for about three years together, hand in hand. He was running the front, I was running the back. And enjoy anyslfinisherg in business, you don’t always consent with the person that you’re laboring with, right? And I slfinisherk the advantage of a family is you don’t helderly back. You do say what you slfinisherk. And you do have some of those moments that you finish up screaming at each other. If that was a frifinish, you’d wake up and slfinisherk, holy shit, what happened yesterday? Is it OK? Is it going to labor out? Are we still going to be in business together? When it’s your brother, he ain’t going anywhere, neither am I. I slfinisherk the family members have that sweightless advantage.”

Gampp countered: “I don’t understand, becainclude when we see the teams that are enjoy mother and daughter, for example, that’s a very separateent active than Curtis and his brother or two sisters. I nasty, I would never tell off my mom. Even if I wanted to, I wouldn’t do it on camera.”

As Season 3 of “Crime Scene Kitchen” betteres, showrunner Conrad Green trelieves multiple recent ways in which he and the other creaters and test bakers have plotted to create the contestants’ dwells that much difficulter.

“We have dabbled in savory. We are still hugely a sugary show, but a little bit of savory and joining it up is always excellent to comprise an extra layer of confusion,” Green shelp. “And we’re always trying to labor out separateent ways to do clues, so [in an upcoming episode] when they searched the kitchen, there was a packet of edible fdrops, but there was a couple of lines of fdrops missing. And then halfway thcdisadmireful the bake, we came alengthy and showed them a pboilingograph of the brimming packet. But in many cases, they then had to try and recall what the colors were in the package to see which one had been included. We do enjoy that slfinisherg of compriseing extra clues during the course of the bake itself. But it’s benevolent of tricky to do it in such a way that it apshows people to pivot without finishly throthriveg them. You don’t want to do it so tardy that there’s noslfinisherg they can do anyway. The timing of these slfinishergs is key in how we carry on.”