Cookku with Kirikku

Cookku with Kirikku is a Kannada-language comedy-based cooking competition show aired on Star Suvarna and streams on Disney+ Hotstar where the contestants are paired each week with comedians who are amateur cooks. It premiered on 10 April 2021. The contestants along with their kirikkus are challenged every week and judged by Sihi Kahi Chandru, Chef Venkatesh Bhat and Chef Adarsh. The show is a remake of Tamil reality show Cooku with Comali.

Production

Game format

Every week, the show starts with celebrity chefs getting paired with their Kirikkus. Then the teams compete in Advantage Task 1 and Task 2. The teams then compete in Main Task and Immunity/Elimination Task. The Advantage task involves a minimal task in which a team does a small task and the winner of the Advantage task is given an advantage during the main task where the team can choose a time frame to work without any obstacles. During the Main task, every team is a given a challenge or an obstacle that will make the cooking harder. The teams are given a specific time limit where they must cook with that time frame. Most of the cooking tasks are to be done by Kirikkus. The cook that gets Immunity is safe from next week's elimination and does not participate in that week. Some weeks are celebration rounds with no elimination.

Season 1

Weekly activities

; Advantage Tasks

Week	Task	Winner
1	Cone Dosa Making	Chandan Kumar - Abhijna Bhat Vanitha Vasu - Lokesh
2	Half Boil Making	Chandan Kumar - Lokesh Vanitha Vasu - Karunya Ram Kirik Keerthi - Abhijhna Bhat
3	Cola Making	Lasya Nagraj - Vishwa
4	Find the Ingredients	Chandan Kumar - Jagappa
5	Samosa Making	Sunethra Pandit - Chaitra Vasudevan
6	Onion Slicing	Apoorva - Karunya Ram
7	Panipuri Eating	Kavitha Gowda - Arun Sagar
8	Taking Coconut Slices	Kavitha Gowda - Jagappa
9	Murukku Making	Kirik Keerthi - Jagappa
10	Making Star Chapatis	Chandan Kumar - Jagappa
11	Moosambi Juice Making	Lasya Nagraj - Pratham
12	Cooking Mini Dosas and Omelettes	Chandan Kumar - Pratham
13	Icing the cake	Ishita Varsha - Vishwa
Finale	Chapathi Making using Iron Box	Kirik Keerthi - Abhijna Bhat Ishita Varsha - Jagappa
Finale	Peeling the Pumpkin using Knife	Ishita Varsha - Jagappa

; Main Tasks

Week	Task	Ingredient Selection	High Scored Contestant	Immunity Task Participants	Immunity Task Winner	Elimination Task Participants	Evicted Person
1	Contenstants are Hand-cuffed	Any Ingredient	Chandan Kumar - Abhijna Bhat Vanitha Vasu - Lokesh	Not Conducted	None	Not Conducted	None
2	Contenstants are Blind folded	Banana	Sundar - Nayana	Sundar - Nyana Vanitha Vasu - Karunya Ram Lasya Nagraj - Arun Sagar Kirik Keerthi - Abhijna Bhat	Vanitha Vasu - Karunya Ram	Not Conducted	None
3	Contestants and Kirikkus are provided with high sound Headphones	Ingredient selected by respective Comalis	Keerthi - Arun Sagar	Kirik Keerthi - Arun Sagar Chandan Kumar - Abhijna Bhat Apoorva - Karunya Ram	Chandan Kumar - Abhijna Bhat	Not Conducted	None
4	Contestant and Kirikkus in Back-to-Back postures alternate cooking in 10 minutes	Milk Products	Chandan Kumar - Jagappa	Chandan Kumar - Jagappa Apoorva - Arun Sagar Kavitha Gowda - Vishwa Sunethra Pandit - Abhijna Bhat	Chandan Kumar - Jagappa	Not Conducted	None
5	Contestants should wear boxing gloves and Kirikkus should cook	States Special	Lasya Nagraj - Vishwa	Not Conducted	None	Sunethra Pandit - Chaitra Vasudevan Arun Hariharan - Pratham	Sunethra Pandit
6	Contestants should balance the egg plate and Kirikkus should cook	Colour of Dish and the ball must be same	Arun - Pratham	Keerthi - Nayana Chandan - Vishwa Arun Sagar - Ishitha Varsha Arun - Pratham	Ishitha Varsha - Arun Sagar	Not Conducted	None
7	Contestants are locked and blindfolded, comalis cook the dish	Sea Food	Chandan Kumar - Abhijna Bhat	Not Conducted	None	Vanitha Vasu - Vishwa Remo - Nayana Arun Hariharan - Lokesh	Arun Hariharan
8	Traditional Cooking	Traditional Vegetables	Chandan Kumar - Arun Sagar	Vanitha Vasu - Vishwa Chandan Kumar - Arun Sagar Keerthi - Nayana Ishitha Varsha - Karunya Ram	Ishitha Varsha - Karunya Ram	Not Conducted	None
9	30 Minutes Back-to Back Postures	Ingredients given by Judges	Remo - Nayana	Not Conducted	None	Vanitha Vasu - Pratham Chandan Kumar - Abhijna Bhat Kavitha Gowda - Karunya Ram	Vanitha Vasu
10	Face-off Challenge	Indian, Continental and Chinese Food	Ishitha Varsha - Vishwa	Not Conducted	None	Chandan Kumar - Abhijna Bhat Kirik Keerthi - Arun Sagar	None
11	45 Minutes Alternate Cooking by Cook and Kirikku	4 Main Courses	Kavitha Gowda - Arun Sagar	Not Conducted	None	Remo - Jagappa Kirik Keerthi - Abhijna Bhat	Remo
12	45 Minutes Cooks and Kirikkus should Cylce alternatley and cook	Biriyani and Curd	Lasya Nagraj - Jagappa	Lasya Nagraj - Jagappa Chandan Kumar - Pratham Kirik Keerthi - Nayana	Chandan Kumar - Pratham	Not Conducted	None
13	Semi-Finals	Wrong Combination Vegetables	Not Applicable	Not Applicable	Ishita Varsha - Vishwa	Ishita Varsha - Vishwa Kirik Keerthi - Pratham Kavitha Gowda - Arun Sagar Lasya Nagraj - Jagappa	Lasya Nagraj
14	Grand Finale	4 Dish Platter	Chandan Kumar - Abhijna Bhat - Chaitra Vasudevan	Not Applicable	Not Applicable	Not Applicable	Not Applicable

Reception

The series gained popularity among viewers and was appreciated mainly on hotstar app.