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Chef and My Fridge: the South Korean cooking show that will get you to clean out your fridge

Four chefs have 15 minutes to create dishes using only what’s in the depths of a celebrity guest’s refrigerator. What’s not to like?
Hosts Kim Sung-joo and Ahn Jung-hwan in the South Korean cooking show Please Take Care of My Refrigerator, also known as Chef and My Fridge. Photograph: Mystic Entertainment

South Korean TV producers don’t shy away from voicing our deepest, inner desires. At least, this was what I told myself as I tried to figure out how to best explain the appeal of the variety cooking show that is Chef and My Fridge (Please, Take Care of My Refrigerator), with a selection of episodes from its four

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