Cooking Channel TV Guide — Saturday TV Listings & Schedule

Browse the full Cooking Channel TV guide for Saturday, 8 August 2026. 32 programmes listed , including 9 tonight. US listings updated daily — scroll down to tonight's highlights or use the day tabs above to browse the weekly schedule.

Early Morning

00:00 1h

Kids Baking Championship

S13 · E2 · Amazing Animals: Macronimals Food

Amazing Animals: Macronimals

Hosts Duff Goldman and Kardea Brown challenge the kids to a macaron animals challenge in which they must create an edible habitat.

01:00 1h

Summer Baking Championship

S1 · E1 · Dockside Desserts Food

Dockside Desserts

The host uses his favorite floatie as inspiration for his first challenge, then hits the water while the bakers are busy creating gelatin water feature cakes.

02:00 1h

Summer Baking Championship

S1 · E2 · Let's Cool Off Food

Let's Cool Off

Jesse Palmer dives into childhood nostalgia with an ice cream truck brought straight to the kitchen to inspire the contestants for their next challenge.

03:00 1h

Kids Baking Championship

S13 · E1 · Amazing Animals: Scales, Feathers, Fur and Fins Food

Amazing Animals: Scales, Feathers, Fur and Fins

For the kickoff challenge, 12 kid bakers must create an animal texture tart decorated with creature-inspired features while also adding an edible tail.

04:00 1h

Kids Baking Championship

S13 · E2 · Amazing Animals: Macronimals Food

Amazing Animals: Macronimals

Hosts Duff Goldman and Kardea Brown challenge the kids to a macaron animals challenge in which they must create an edible habitat.

Morning

07:00 30m

Unique Eats

S1 · E2 · Meats Food

Meats

A chef offers a tour of the house-made sausages that are offered in his downtown restaurant; an eatery offers an all-you-can-eat buffet of grilled creations.

07:30 30m

Unique Eats

S6 · E4 · Swine Food

Swine

In Los Angeles, a restaurant offers an inspired take on bacon; a Nashville, Tenn., business prepares smoked whole hog in front of diners.

08:00 30m

Unique Eats

S2 · E7 · Sandwiches Food

Sandwiches

Chefs in San Francisco reinterpret Asian dishes using their classical French culinary training; a Portland eatery offers Southern-style biscuit sandwiches.

08:30 30m

Unique Eats

S4 · E7 · Wine Country Weekend Food

Wine Country Weekend

A foodie weekend in the heart of California's wine country is explored, featuring fried chicken at a local restaurant and delicious pasta cuisine.

09:00 30m

Unique Eats

S1 · E7 · Adventure Food

Adventure

An underground restaurant in Chicago offers a nine-course meal to its hungry patrons; eaters enjoy a meal on wheels in a double-decker bus.

09:30 30m

Unique Eats

S1 · E6 · Americana Food

Americana

A chef creates burgers that are stacked with toppings; an establishment in Los Angeles has developed a signature style for their desserts.

10:00 30m

Carnival Eats

S11 · E10 · Banh Mi, Myself and Irene Food

Banh Mi, Myself and Irene

Host Noah Cappe tastes loaded Bahn Mi fries in Omaha, a beef-loaded Birria Torta in Rochester, and a southern take on lasagna in West Virginia.

10:30 30m

Carnival Eats

S2 · E1 · From Livestock to Lemons Food

From Livestock to Lemons

Host Noah Cappe samples food in the south, including the Texas chili burger, the Big Texas Barbecue Baked Potato, tamales, waffles, pizza and a sushi burrito.

11:00 30m

Carnival Eats

S5 · E1 · Close Encounters of the Food Kind Food

Close Encounters of the Food Kind

Noah tries the Alien Egg and the Crashed UF-Dough at the UFO Festival in Roswell; Noah goes to the Orange County Fair for the Porky Leg and Deep Fried Pizza.

11:30 30m

Carnival Eats

S4 · E10 · The Rainbow Confection Food

The Rainbow Confection

Noah tries PB Meatballs, Jackfruit Torta, and cherry punch hot wings; treats are tasted at the Ice Cream Garden; the Pulled Pork Rainbow Melt is devoured.

Daytime

12:00 30m

Carnival Eats

S5 · E27 · The Mighty Meatless Food

The Mighty Meatless

Host Noah Cappe finds some vegetarian-friendly treats at fairgrounds across the country, where he enjoys some delicious and meatless salad-inspired snacks.

12:30 30m

Carnival Eats

S4 · E1 · Some Like it Popped Food

Some Like it Popped

Noah goes to the Big Butler Fair and tastes the Conevore, which is packed with smoked brisket, pork and chicken; foods at the San Mateo County Fair are tasted.

13:00 1h

Man's Greatest Food

S2 · E3 · Comfort Food

Comfort

Roger Mooking showcases 12 of the best comfort foods, such as macaroni and cheese, spaghetti and meatballs, pork chops and gravy, chicken and waffles and chili.

14:00 1h

Man's Greatest Food

S4 · E3 · Coastal Cuisine Food

Coastal Cuisine

The most delicious coastal dishes from shrimp and grits on the Gulf Coast to wasabi salmon burgers found on Alaska's coast and crab cakes by Chesapeake Bay.

15:00 1h

Man's Greatest Food

S4 · E8 · Brunch Food

Brunch

15 of America's best brunch plates include fried oysters Benedict, huevos rancheros hash, chicken and waffles, volcano eggs, brunch dogs and Bostock.

16:00 1h

Man's Greatest Food

S2 · E4 · Spicy Food

Spicy

Roger showcases the best spicy foods, including flaming-hot noodles, hot chicken, pepper-packed burritos, spicy jerk chicken wings and a soup of liquid flames.

17:00 30m

The Best Thing I Ever Ate

S8 · E13 · Small Plates, Big Taste Food

Small Plates, Big Taste

Chefs and food show hosts feature some of their favorite small plate dishes, such as scallops, chicken from Texas, fried pickles, and wine.

17:30 30m

The Best Thing I Ever Ate

S9 · E2 · Rise and Dine Food

Rise and Dine

Chefs and food TV personalities present some of the country's best breakfast dishes, including Martha Stewart, Scott Conant and Jeff Mauro.

Evening

18:00 30m

The Best Thing I Ever Ate

S8 · E3 · Life Changers Food

Life Changers

Food Network hosts and chefs reveal the dishes that changed their lives, including Alex Guarnaschelli, author Fanny Slater, Jonathon Sawyer and Duff Goldman.

18:30 30m

The Best Thing I Ever Ate

S10 · E3 · Chocolate Bliss Food

Chocolate Bliss

Food TV personalities present the best chocolate treats in America, including a dark truffle cake in San Antonio and a chocolate dessert in New York City.

19:00 30m

Man Fire Food

S4 · E1 · Pigging Out on Pork Food

Pigging Out on Pork

In Pit Stop, a Grand Rapids, Mich., barbecue take-out eatery, Roger tries their famous Green Menace Wrap, an unusual but delicious sandwich.

19:30 30m

Man Fire Food

S4 · E7 · Backyard Blowouts Food

Backyard Blowouts

In California, Roger samples a New England meets California-style clambake and prepares traditional Mexican barbacoa in an underground brick pit.

20:00 30m

Man Fire Food

S4 · E10 · Wine Country Cookouts Food

Wine Country Cookouts

Roger attends two parties in California's wine country and checks out a contraption at Tablas Creek Vineyard that cooks a whole pig over a wood burning fire.

20:30 30m

Man Fire Food

S4 · E11 · Three-Alarm Fire Food

Three-Alarm Fire

Roger helps three chefs cook a whole lamb on an asado cross, grill boar steaks on a repurposed windmill, and fry pig skins in a wood burning oven and stove.

21:00 1h

Iron Chef America

S9 · E6 · Garces vs. Solomonov Food

Garces vs. Solomonov

Chef Michael Solomonov decides to enter the heat of Kitchen Stadium and challenge Iron Chef Jose Garces to an intense passion fruit culinary competition.

22:00 1h

Iron Chef America

S9 · E8 · Symon vs. Hearst Food

Symon vs. Hearst

Chef Emma Hearst decides to enter the heat of Kitchen Stadium and challenge Iron Chef Michael Symon to an intense mozzarella culinary competition.

23:00 1h

Iron Chef America

S9 · E12 · Flay vs. Stein Food

Flay vs. Stein

Chef Todd Stein leaves his hometown of Chicago in order to enter the heat of Kitchen Stadium with New York Iron Chef Bobby Flay in a mussels battle.

Early Morning

Morning

Daytime

Evening

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