Natasha Leggero deals with rats in the kitchen on TBS cooking show

Comedian Natasha Leggero was initially reluctant to get on her latest gig hosting the TBS collection “Rat in the Kitchen.” 

“At initial I was like, wait around, what? I shouldn’t be section of a cooking clearly show, I’m famously a horrible chef,” Leggero, 48, explained to The Publish. “I’ve obtained to make my daughter lunch each individual early morning, and which is a feat I wouldn’t wish on everyone. I have been attempting to make kale chips for like, 5 years now, and they often come out at the same time wet and burnt.

“I really do not have the touch.”

“Rat in the Kitchen area,” airing Thursdays at 9 p.m., is a reality collection which is aspect cooking levels of competition and component “whodunit” secret. Just about every episode capabilities a various team of cooks (both equally dwelling properly trained amateurs and individuals with culinary-school knowledge) who cook a number of dishes with the purpose to get a income prize up to $50,000 and break up it amid the group.

The catch: one human being in their ranks is a “rat” who is secretly aiming to sabotage their dishes. They should guess who it is, and thwart the rat’s endeavours … or else, the rat could possibly get residence the prize income alternatively of the group. 

“When I found out [celebrity chef judge Ludo Lefebvre] was concerned, he’s these kinds of an wonderful chef, and I acquired to fulfill him,” claimed Leggero. “He’s so talented and passionate about food stuff. It was a definitely pleasurable blend, mainly because he can remain critical about food items, and his standards are so large. And I can just be there making jokes about it all. It was also enjoyment to roast the foodstuff — no one particular receives mad at factors you say to food items.”

Leggero, greatest acknowledged for the Comedy Central series “Another Time period,”  (2015-2018, claimed that she and Lefebvre (ABC’s “The Taste”), were just as in the darkish as most people else. 

“Neither of us knew [who the rat was] and that was element of the enjoyment,” she mentioned. “It’s practically like ‘Clue’ or ‘Knives Out.’ We get to figure out each individual episode who the rat is together with the audience. That was the outrageous detail — we were being floored.

“I’m so glad that we didn’t know,” she mentioned. “It was so fun for Ludo and I to convene after absolutely everyone experienced introduced their dishes and just really try to determine out who the [saboteur] was. Honestly, we ended up not proper really often, so the rats definitely did an awesome position. You have these preconceived notions in your head. And you’re like, well this particular person would definitely be the rat! And from time to time these men and women would be so proud of these dishes that ended up essentially disgusting, just because their recipes have been bad! So, there was that, way too.”

She stated that the most unappetizing dishes she experienced to consume on the demonstrate had been raw hen and uncooked shrimp, immediately after rats experienced effectively sabotaged the cooking system in advance of the meals was offered to Leggero and Lefebvre.

“I was usually rooting for the staff, since a lot more people would get the cash. It is either 5 persons get to break up the money or a single particular person gets all of it,” she said. “But, if I was on the show, I’d want to be the rat, because it seems like it would be so enjoyment to figure out how to trick all people.”