-- Cook along with your favourite TV chefs in Dishing It Up 7:30pm Thursdays from 29 September on SBS and SBS Food. All episodes streaming free on SBS On Demand. For recipes and more head to the program page. ---
We all love watching celebrity chefs dish up mouth-watering meals but are they as impressive in reality as they seem?
Dishing It Up puts celebrity chef recipes to the test with the toughest critics of all, home cooks.
From appliance malfunctions to fire alarms and misguided measurements, we wipe away the showbiz sheen to reveal the hilarious home truths behind your favourite cooking shows.
Here's a sneak peek...
Episode 1
Airs 7.30pm Thursday 29 September 2022 on SBS and SBS Food
Armed with whatever cooking equipment they own, high school sweethearts Fiona and Jeremy will be dishing up the queen of comfort food Nigella Lawson’s speckled brown butter colcannon; The Living Room’s Miguel Maestre’s caramelle with pesto alla Genovese; Poh Ling Yeow’s braided beef curry puffs; and internet renegade Matty Matheson’s sticky toffee pudding.
Episode 2

Source: SBS Food
Airs 7.30pm Thursday 6 October 2022 on SBS and SBS Food
Best friends Anna and Matthew put four family favourite recipes to the test: a very British bolognese with Jamie Oliver; Silvia Colloca’s labour of love, bigne alla crema; Australia’s first Indigenous hatted chef, Clayton Donovan’s kangaroo san choy bau; and Shane Delia’s cheesy middle Eastern dessert, knafeh.
Episode 3

Knafeh Source: Andrew Dorn
Airs 7.30pm Thursday 13 October 2022 on SBS and SBS Food
Hipster parents Waz and Jen will be dishing up ‘The Chocolate Queen’ Kirsten Tibballs’ babka knot; Rachel Khoo’s quirky chocolate cherry coupe; and decadent molten choc-chunk brownies with Australia’s favourite food stylist, Donna Hay.
Episode 4
Airs 7.30pm Thursday 20 October 2022 on SBS and SBS Food
Egyptian mum and daughter, Magda and Sara, will be dishing up Adam Liaw’s oversized seafood vol au vent; Mary Berry’s leek and stilton quiche; cooking show antithesis, Nat’s What I Reckon’s honey mustard chicken; and cooking’s sweetheart Justine Schofield’s fortune cookies.
Episode 5
Airs 7.30pm Thursday 27 October 2022 on SBS and SBS Food
Fiona and Jeremy will put three homegrown recipes to the test. They will be dishing up Masterchef alumni Hayden Quinn’s Vietnamese surf n turf wagyu & prawn bun thit nuong; chef Analiese Gregory’s cider-braised rabbit; and Australia’s foodie matriarch Maggie Beer’s chocolate, pear and almond tart.
Episode 6

Chocolate, pear & almond tart Source: The Great Australian Cookbook
Airs 7.30pm Thursday 3 November 2022 on SBS and SBS Food
In this episode, friends since school Jonathan and Hari will be testing Marco Pierre White’s buttery chip shop chips; the infectiously happy, Nadiya Hussain’s chicken doughnuts; and the baron of River Cottage Australia, Paul West’s honeycomb.
Episode 7
Airs 7.30pm Thursday 10 November 2022 on SBS and SBS Food
Doting husbands Stefan and Yash will put four street food recipes to the test. Will they be able to replicate Dan Hong’s choripan original and spin-off choribao? Silvia Colloca’s calamari and Marion Grasby’s char sui pork and prawn noodle soup; and YouTuber Uncle Roger’s egg fried rice?
Episode 8
Airs 7.30pm Thursday 17 November 2022 on SBS and SBS Food
Fiona and Jeremy will be dishing up UK-born presenter Rick Stein’s stargazey pie; South African trekker, Warren Mendes’ mussel curry; Vietnamese chef Luke Nguyen’s Vietnamese chicken rice; and French chef Guillaume Brahimi’s blueberry cake.

Blueberry cake (tourte des Pyrénées aux myrtilles) Source: Stefanie Forester