When most viewers picture reality television, Keeping Up With The Kardashians or Love Is Blind come to mind, but The Food Network produced some of the most followed and lucrative reality stars. Founded in 1993, The Food Network is a subsidiary of Discovery Networks. As of 2018, more than 90 million households in the United States subscribe to The Food Network, which has offices around the country, including headquarters in New York City, Atlanta, Knoxville, San Francisco, and Los Angeles, among others.

Programming divides between “Food Network in the Kitchen,” which features mostly instructional related cooking material, and “Food Network Nighttime,” that covers entertainment, like competition shows, travel, and other reality shows. The Food Network boasts the careers of veterans Emeril Lagasse, Bobby Flay, and Alton Brown. Chefs Paula Deen, Rachael Ray, and Jamie Oliver released lines of cookware and other merchandise beyond cookbooks.

Read on for 15 Top Shows On The Food Network Today!

15 Baking Kings Face-Off In Buddy VS. Duff

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Buddy Valastro and Duff Goldman approach their craft with entirely distinct mindsets and to different results. Buddy leans toward over the top, kitschy styles, unlike Duff, who relies on smaller-scale works of art and hand paints aspects of every design. The series is in its second season, and tensions are running high between the two bakers.

14 Deliciousness Awaits On Diners, Drive-Ins, And Dives

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In 2006, Diners, Drive-Ins, And Dives aired what was supposed to be a one-off special. Since 2007, Guy Fieri has traveled through the United States, Canada, and other continents and has put hundreds of restaurants on the map. The show mostly features comfort food, like barbeque, deep-fried goods, and breakfast.

13 Duff Goldman IS The Ace Of Cakes

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Everything Duff touches turns to gold. Ace of Cakes launched in 2006 from famed confectioner Duff Goldman in his Baltimore bakery, Charm City Cakes. The series follows Goldman and his employees through the trials and tribulations of running a business. The show ran ten seasons, and now, he features on most of the “Big Bake” events.

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12 The Pioneer Woman Started An Empire

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Ree Drummond is the Pioneer Woman, blogger, baker, and brand builder. In 2011, Drummond stepped in front of the camera on The Food Network for her cooking show, The Pioneer Woman. The show features Drummond in her element as a rancher, wife, and mother, and films from her ranch in Pawhuska, Oklahoma.

11 Kids Baking Championship Highlights Some Early Talent

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Duff Goldman and Valerie Bertinelli host Kids Baking Championship, which takes eight aspiring bakers who compete against one another in challenges for the top prize. The series premiered in 2015 and is in its eighth season.

10 Creations Get Wild On Cake Wars

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Jonathan Bennett portrayed Aaron Samuels in the 2004 teen hit Mean Girls and now hosts the Food Network’s Cake Wars. The reality show premiered in 2015 and featured a competition where three contestants bake for high profile parties. The cakes fit specific themes, and some are indeed too beautiful to eat. While it went off the air in 2017, the show spawned several spinoffs.

9 Fans Flock To Girl Meets Farm

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Girl Meets Farm feels like a Millenial answer to The Pioneer Woman. The show premiered in 2018 and stars Molly Yeh, cookbook author, and chef, featuring midwestern farm meals with a twist, based on her farm on the Minnesota-North Dakota border. The Food Network renewed the series for a third and fourth season.

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8 Park On The Couch For The Great Food Truck Race

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Tyler Florence hosts the summer cooking show, The Great Food Truck Race. The Food Network announced in February 2020 a twelfth season, “The Gold Coast.” A range of six to nine trucks compete in challenges, face obstacles, and travel across the United States to win the top prize.

7 Chopped Gains Critical Acclaim

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Chopped is known for taking chefs and turning them into hotspot culinary destinations. The game show pits four chefs against each other for the chance to earn $10,000. The series premiered in 2006 and has aired more than 500 episodes.

6 30 Minute Meals Makes For Great Dinner Inspiration

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Rachael Ray built an empire as a celebrity cook, entrepreneur, author, and lifestyle guru. Her show, 30 Minute Meals is nearing two decades on the air after it premiered in 2001. Each episode, Ray prepares a three-course meal on the clock. The food ranges from classic home comfort to haute-cuisine, and the show is in its 29th season.

Related: 15 Surprising Secrets From The Set Of Food Network’s MasterChef

5 Worst Cooks In America Has A Different Kind Of Wow-Factor

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The series premiered in 2010 and is in its 18th season, The Worst Chef In America. Audiences thrive off the drama of watching teams of amateur chefs mentored by a professional chef and the chaos that ensues in building new cooking techniques.

4 The Barefoot Contessa Barrels On

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The Barefoot Contessa is currently the oldest show running on The Food Network. The cooking and home improvement show premiered in 2002, hosted by Ina Garten, named after one of her most successful cookbooks.

3 The Holiday Baking Championship Has Big Stakes

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Bringing three distinguished bakers together as a panel of judges and to guide contestants who compete in holiday-themed challenges. Holiday Baking Championship features two rounds in each episode, as bakers compete for the title of Holiday Baking Champion and $50,000.

2 The Kitchen Kills In Ratings

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The Kitchen is a cooking-themed and food talk show that premiered in 2014. The show is in its twenty-fourth season, which premiered in February of 2020 and is hosted by celebrity chefs Sunny Anderson and Jeff Mauro.

1 The Spring Baking Championship Has Come Again

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Nancy Fuller, Duff Goldman, and Lorraine Pascale are a literal baking dream team. The sixth season of the American television series Spring Baking Championship premiered April 2020 and featured a similar two-challenge competition format as Holiday Baking ChampionshipWhat Not To Wear’s Clinton Kelly assumed the role of host.

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