Food Network Pulls the Plug on The Kitchen After a Decade of Cheese Pulls and Casserole Puns

After more than ten years of hearty laughs, heavier cream, and an endless loop of seasonal recipes, Food Network has finally turned off the stove on The Kitchen. The weekend staple that somehow made broccoli rabe feel like a personality trait will air its final episode on December 13, 2025. That’s right — the brunch bunch is packing up their ramekins.

Fans of The Kitchen might be stirring with shock, but the cancellation comes as part of Food Network’s broader shake-up, a resource reallocation as the network pivots to serve both its linear audience and the ever-hungry streaming crowd.

Translation: goodbye comfort food chat show, hello budget reshuffling.

Debuting in January 2014, The Kitchen outlived most daytime food shows thanks to its perfect blend of recipe demos, cooking hacks, and banter that ranged from genuinely charming to painfully pre-scripted. Hosted by a revolving lineup of food personalities including Sunny Anderson, Jeff Mauro, and Katie Lee Biegel, the show tried very hard to be the View of food television — only with more carbs and fewer walk-offs.

But somewhere between the fifteenth way to reinvent deviled eggs and the thousandth use of store-bought puff pastry, the glossy countertops began to lose their luster. Maybe the format just felt stale. Maybe viewers finally realized they could Google how to make chicken parm without sitting through a segment about fall tablescapes.

Still, there’s something oddly comforting about The Kitchen that will be missed. Like a casserole your aunt insists on bringing to every holiday — it wasn’t always your favorite, but it felt wrong without it.

So what’s next for Food Network’s weekend lineup? That remains to be seen. But if you’re feeling nostalgic, there’s no shortage of reruns, cookbooks, and social media content to keep the Kitchen spirit alive — whether you asked for it or not.

Let’s pour one out (probably into a mason jar) for The Kitchen. It may be gone, but the cheese pull reaction shots will live forever.