'The Kitchen' is closing: Food Network stars react to the cooking-themed talk show's cancellation

It’s astir a wrapper for “The Kitchen.”

Food Network announced Monday that its long-running play culinary speech amusement “The Kitchen” is coming to an end. The last occurrence of the series, co-hosted by web favorites Sunny Anderson, Katie Lee Biegel, Jeff Mauro, Geoffrey Zakarian and recurring impermanent Alex Guarnaschelli, volition aerial Dec. 13.

“It’s the extremity of an era,” Biegel said successful her Instagram communicative sharing the news. “Thank you truthful overmuch to each of our fans. The Kitchen was the top nonrecreational grant of my beingness and I volition beryllium everlastingly grateful.” Biegel has served arsenic 1 of the show’s co-hosts since its 2014 premiere.

Mauro, who has besides been with the amusement since the beginning, echoed her sentiments connected his ain Instagram post.

“I ever knew what we had was peculiar — rare, a unicorn, an anomaly,” Mauro said successful a lengthy caption thanking fans and colleagues. “I got to walk a twelve years with my champion friends — cooking, laughing, and eating life-changing bites from immoderate of the world’s top chefs and cooks.”

Currently successful its 40th season, the Daytime Emmy-nominated cooking-themed speech amusement featured its hosts and guests sharing recipes, discussing nutrient trends and offering different nutrient tips. In summation to celebrated chefs and culinary personalities, “The Kitchen” opened its doors to assorted actors, musicians and celebrities.

“For implicit a decennary Sunny, Katie, Jeff, Geoffrey and much precocious Alex person engaged audiences with their idiosyncratic and chiseled nutrient sensibilities and consciousness of wit that unneurotic marque ‘The Kitchen’ a delicious mode to walk an hour,” Warner Bros. Discovery caput of nutrient contented Betsy Ayala said successful a statement.

“Everyone knows each bully parties extremity up successful ‘The Kitchen,’ wherever the conversation, laughs and nutrient flow; the champion parties astir apt extremity a small spot earlier than immoderate guests would like, but we’ve got 12 years of memories and wanted to observe this team’s hard enactment during 1 last vacation season.”

Food Network titan Bobby Flay congratulated the show’s squad for “an iconic run” successful the comments connected Food Network’s Instagram station sharing the news.

“Thank you to the Kitchen and its fabulous chefs and hosts for holding it down successful daytime connected [Food Network] for the past decade,” Flay wrote.

Other Food Network stars besides chimed successful with tributes successful the comments responding to the announcement.

“I loved this amusement due to the fact that it reminded maine of wherefore I fell successful emotion with cooking successful the archetypal place,” wrote Aarti Sequeira, Season 6 victor of “The Next Food Network Star,” “lots of voices and hands moving unneurotic successful a room with adjacent servings of emotion and sass!!!!”

“[C]ongrats connected an unthinkable amusement — 1 of my favorites to ticker and to beryllium portion of,” “Chopped” justice Marc Murphy wrote. “You’re each legends.”

Fellow “Chopped” justice Tiffani Faison besides congratulated the show’s unit for “a tally worthy lone of this team.”