Sizzling Hot Summer

AUGUST 2009  |  Okay, so it's not been the hottest summer we've seen in Southern Ontario, but things are heating up every Sunday night on SunTV and Monday on MenTV as the Pressure Cooker TV series cooks up a storm. It's been described as Hell's Kitchen colliding with The Amazing Race, as 16 professional chefs compete in a grueling culinary elimination marathon.

Filmed in the summer of '08 at Niagara College's kitchen complex, this series is a relentless rollercoaster ride that gives viewers a behind-the-scenes look at the true intensity of a professional kitchen environment. 10 cameras rolled nearly 500 hours of footage that was edited down to nine one-hour episodes by the team at The Shooting Eye. The series is a production of Forevergreen Communications Inc. in association with The Shooting Eye and Graham Sanborn Media Ltd.

Full episodes are appearing online shortly after their television broadcast and can be seen here. Here's a traler to wet your appetite.