Cutthroat Kitchen is a cooking competition television show that originally aired on the Food Network from 2013 to 2017. The show is hosted by Alton Brown, and it pits four chefs against each other in a series of three rounds. Each round, the chefs are given a certain amount of money that they can use to bid on sabotages to give to their competitors, making it more difficult for them to cook their dishes.

The sabotages range from minor annoyances, like forcing a chef to wear oven mitts for the entire round, to major handicaps, like taking away a chef's cooking utensils. The goal is to force the other chefs to struggle with the sabotage while still producing a high-quality dish, all while trying to maintain their own equipment and ingredients. The chef with the weakest dish at the end of each round is eliminated, and the last chef standing wins a cash prize.

Cutthroat Kitchen is known for its humorous and over-the-top sabotages, as well as the competitive and often cutthroat nature of the chefs. The show has been praised for its unique format and entertaining premise, as well as for the skill and creativity of the participating chefs. However, it has also been criticized for promoting a negative and toxic environment, and for encouraging chefs to prioritize sabotage over actual cooking skills.

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