Top Secret Recipe
Each week, our food hacker host, Todd Wilbur, investigates an iconic American recipe and attempts to recreate it as close as possible to the original, proving it with a blind taste test.
- 2011-2011
- 1 season
- CMT
- Documentary
Each week, our food hacker host, Todd Wilbur, investigates an iconic American recipe and attempts to recreate it as close as possible to the original, proving it with a blind taste test.
Season 1 Episode Guide
8 Episodes 2011
Episode 1
Kentucky Fried Chicken
Fri, Oct 7, 2011 40 mins
Todd Wilbur is a food hacker who travels the country to crack America's favorite recipes. This week, Todd takes on one of the world's most famous secret recipes, KFC's original recipe fried chicken. In his traveling kitchen that's known as the Mobile Food Lab, Todd finds his way to Louisville, Ky., to discover what it is that makes Colonel Sanders' recipe so finger lickin' good. He finds a few of the Colonel's friends and speaks to anyone with insider info, but he isn't afraid to do some undercover snooping to figure out the clues that no one will tell him. In a taste test, Todd will attempt to fool three expert judges with his clone of the recipe. Will he be able to do it?
Episode 2
Cinnabon
Fri, Oct 14, 2011 40 mins
Todd heads to Sandy Springs, Ga., to clone one of America's sweetest treats, Cinnabon's world famous cinnamon rolls. It's a race against time, and a multi-city whirlwind adventure as Todd tries to bake a batch of buns worthy of fooling the experts.
Episode 3
Outback Steakhouse
Fri, Oct 21, 2011 40 mins
Todd heads to Tampa, FL, home of the original Outback Steakhouse and birthplace of the Bloomin' Onion. In order to really understand this recipe, Todd must find the man who first created the Bloomin' Onion, but he's not so easy to track down these days.
Episode 4
Domino's Pizza
Fri, Oct 28, 2011 40 mins
This week, Todd takes on the world leader in pizza delivery, Domino's Pizza. His investigation takes him to Michigan, the birthplace of Domino's. Todd only has three days to clone a recipe that took two years to perfect.
Episode 5
Dippin' Dots
Fri, Nov 11, 2011 40 mins
After visiting the home of Dippin' Dots, Todd visits The Adventure Science Center in Nashville, TN to learn about liquid nitrogen from science educator, Becky Fox Matthews. Todd meets with the creator of Dippin' Dots at the YMCA and tries to uncover his secrets over a game of one-on-one basketball.
Episode 6
Mrs. Fields
Thu, Nov 17, 2011 41 mins
This week Todd heads to Salt Lake City, Utah to take on the sweet treat that sparked his career as a food hacker - Mrs. Fields' Famous Chocolate Chip Cookie.
Episode 7
Chili's
Thu, Nov 24, 2011 40 mins
This week Todd heads to Dallas to try and clone an American classic - Chili's Baby Back Ribs. After he stops off at Chili's headquarters to elicit some information, he sets out to replicate their famous entrée.
Episode 8
P.F. Chang's
Thu, Dec 1, 2011 40 mins
This week Todd is in Scottsdale, AZ, the home of P.F. Chang's Chicken Lettuce Wraps.Todd decides to try a whole new approach to his detective work this time, & gets himself hired as a waiter at a local P.F. Chang's, gaining valuable access to the kitchen.