The Best Cooking Secrets (Korean: 최고의 요리비결) is a South Korean cooking show that premiered on 2 October 2000 on EBS 1TV and airs from Monday to Friday at 10:50AM KST. It is the longest-running cooking program in South Korea. The program is hosted by Hwang Kwang-hee.
Format
The Best Cooking Secrets format focuses on food preparations and giving instructions to the viewers on the best way to cook everyday meals. A different guest made up of chefs and celebrities will attend the show every week and demonstrate on how to make different dishes in every episodes. At the end of an episode, the host will taste the dish and give their opinions.
The cooking show airs for around 30 minutes from Monday to Friday at 10:50AM KST. A compilation of the week's episode airs on Saturday at 11:00AM KST.
Hosts
The show had had twelve hosts since its inceptions:
- Kim Hye-young (2000–2002)
- Hwang Hyun-jung (2002–2004)
- Im Ho (2004)
- Jung Ae-ri (2004–2005)
- Jeong Ji-yeong (2005–2006)
- Kim Ji-ho (2006–2007)
- Myung Se-bin (2007–2008)
- Park Soo-hong (2008–2012)
- Yoon Hyung-bin (2012–2015)
- Hwang Kwanghee (2015–2017, 2022–2023)
- Leeteuk (2017–2020)
- Kim Dong-wan (2020–2022)
Episodes
The Best Cooking Secrets first aired on 2 October 2000. As of March 2015, 2830 episodes were aired.
| Year | Episodes | Originally released | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| First released | Last released | |||
| 2000 | 5 | 2 October 2000 | 6 October 2000 | |
| 2001 | 171 | 26 February 2001 | 31 December 2001 | |
| 2002 | 231 | 1 January 2002 | 31 December 2002 | |
| 2003 | 168 | 1 January 2003 | 19 December 2003 | |
| 2004 | TBA | 5 January 2004 | 31 December 2004 | |
| 2005 | TBA | 3 January 2005 | 18 November 2005 | |
| 2006 | TBA | 2 January 2006 | 29 December 2006 | |
| 2007 | TBA | 1 January 2007 | 31 December 2007 | |
| 2008 | TBA | 2 January 2008 | 31 December 2008 | |
| 2009 | TBA | 1 January 2009 | 31 December 2009 | |
| 2010 | TBA | 2 January 2010 | 31 December 2010 | |
| 2011 | TBA | 3 January 2011 | 30 December 2011 | |
| 2012 | TBA | 2 January 2012 | 31 December 2012 | |
| 2013 | TBA | 1 January 2013 | 31 December 2013 | |
| 2014 | TBA | 1 January 2014 | 31 December 2014 | |
| 2015 | TBA | 1 January 2015 | 31 December 2015 | |
| 2016 | TBA | 1 January 2016 | 30 December 2016 | |
| 2017 | TBA | 2 January 2017 | 29 December 2017 | |
| 2018 | 260 | 1 January 2018 | 31 December 2018 | |
| 2019 | TBA | 1 January 2019 | 31 December 2019 | |
| 2020 | TBA | 1 January 2020 | TBA | |
