Dinner: Impossible

Posted January 16th, 2009 at 2:33 pm by Nicki Dugan, Blog Editor

 4 Comments / Filed in: Behind the Scenes, Cool Stuff

What do you do when one of your teams hits a milestone anniversary? Host a reality TV show!

The Food Network’s “Dinner: Impossible” crew descended on our campus this week to pull off an episode that honored the anniversary of Yahoo! Search (specifically, the fifth year of our proprietary Yahoo! Search Technology). Celeb chef Robert Irvine arrived at our headquarters early in the morning to be given a seemingly impossible culinary challenge by Chief Yahoo Jerry Yang.

Since the show isn’t slated to air until April, we can’t tell you what we asked him to do, how many people he cooked for, and in how many hours, but let’s just say those of you who searched for food items on Yahoo! last year played a big hand in it. And I can tell you that some serious innovation was definitely required!

And we didn’t let Chef Robert do it alone. We lent him Yahoo! Search SVP Tuoc Luong and VP of Marketing Raj Gossain to help out in the kitchen. Two gourmands with a killer history with hot dogs. The best I can describe it as is sheer and utter mayhem — frenetic chopping, mixing, grilling, slicing, flouring, deep-frying, shouting, accusing, burning… as the hours and minutes ticked away.

Did Chef Robert achieve his mission? Wild horses can’t drag it out of us, but we do hope you’ll tune in to the Food Network to find out. In the meantime, a hearty happy anniversary to the Yahoo! Search Team.

Photos from the production and ensuing party can be found here.

UPDATE: The “Yahoo! Search Scramble” episode will premiere on the Food Network on April 15th at 10pm ET/PT.

Nicki Dugan
Blog Editor

Photo from CeciliaC

Tagged: yahoo! search

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Debbie | April 23rd, 2009 at 12:59 pm

We are trying to challenge them to feed 800 + scouts February 2010 at an outdoor snow camp. Who or how did you get in touch with them. No-one will answer my emails.
Please help

Debbie Shaner

executive chef glenn ronchetti | May 6th, 2009 at 7:58 pm

i find it hard to understand and a hygien violation that food network channel would allow a chef to be on television,that uses his hand in all food aspects and not wear gloves when working with food products and preperation. For sanitary safey of food handeling and food borne diseases it is required by the states health board that kitchen personal wear protection as a methods of stopping food borne disease with the added precautions of proper hand washing. I find this program mission impossible a total disgrace to the culinary arts a basic first year culianary kid would know better than executive chef michael irvine, maybe it’s time for chef mike irvine to go back to school for a hygien course.

hope all do not get sick from his miss handeling of food, as for me i would not hire him in my restaurant as a dishwasher with his crude handeling of food products.best regards executive chef glenn ronchetti

Nicki Dugan | May 6th, 2009 at 11:28 pm

@executive chef glenn ronchetti – there was plenty of handwashing going on but it doesn’t make for good television. and btw, it’s robert irvine

Mike | August 21st, 2009 at 11:49 am

Chef Glenn, are you so sure that if multiple TV cameras descended upon your kitchen for the daily peak period that they wouldn’t film something that could be criticized as bad food handling practice by someone who wasn’t really there?