How about becoming an ace chef by watching television? What? Is it possible? Well of course it is possible. There are numerous types of cookery competition shows being featured on numerous channels of DISH Network. You will get to know how the top chefs guide the amateurs while preparing authentic dishes on their own. The experts will give tips and techniques on how to make several flavored dishes out of day to day simple ingredients. Witness how the participants make use of their skills and creativity to cook several mouth-watering flavors to win such cookery competitions. The best of the recipes by a particular participant is also featured again and again in these shows for those viewers who love to cook and has the passion to create something new and authentic in their kitchens.

Let us take a sneak peek into one such show from where you can learn a lot about cooking and acquire ideas and tips provided by the show experts and judges.

‘Top Chef’ Season 7

One such cookery competition show featured on the Bravo Channel on your Satellite TV is ‘Top Chef’. The season 7 was recently premiered on June 16, 2010. This Emmy and James Beard Award-winning series is a hit series on Bravo. The foodies will love to watch this show. This time the series is taken place in Washington D.C. You will get to know and might probably meet some of the noteworthy people in Washington D.C. Few of the high-profile personalities include pollo Astronaut Buzz Aldrin, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, White House chef Sam Kass, MSNBC host Joe Scarborough, Congressman Aaron Schock of Illinois, Senator Mark Warner of Virginia, CIA Director Leon Panetta and NBC White House Correspondent Savannah Guthrie.

Seventeen contestants will be participating in this cookery competition show aired on your DISH HD TV. All the contestants are bent upon winning this prestigious tile of ‘Top Chef’ and are ready to face any challenge thrown to them. So guys besides learning all the exquisite delicacies you will also get to meet so many esteemed personalities. What else can you ask for? You will have a wonderful time watching all the yummy recipes being prepared on your DISH TV in high definition mode.

Get to meet the show host, Padma Lakshmi, who is also a renowned actress and a cook-book author. Joining her on board the judge’s table will be James Beard Award-winner Tom Colicchio. James is the chef and owner of Craft Restaurants. Then we have Gail Simmons of Food & Wine magazine being one of the judges. Joining the rest of the crew is the regular guest judge Eric Ripert. He is an award-winning chef and owner of the acclaimed Le Bernardin restaurant in New York City.

The contestants will be closely scrutinized by the judges who will be judging their culinary skills and creative thinking while preparing mouth-watering dishes. And do you know what the best part of the show is? Well, besides winning the title, the winner will receive a grand prize of $ 125,000 furnished by Dial Nutriskin, a showcase at the Annual Food & Wine Classic in Aspen and getting a chance to feature in Food & Wine magazine.

So guys any one the episodes exciting episodes of ‘Top Chef’. But if you think that you are going to miss some of the episodes, there is no need to worry at all. All you need to do is put on the timer on your Satellite TV DVR and those episodes will be recorded which you can watch at your convenient time.