Royco Fuata Flava

Royco Fuata Flava
Genre	Reality television
Directed by	Vincent Mbaya
Presented by	Benjamin Nyaga Benta Ochieng' Kobi Kihara
Theme music composer	David Hamill
Country of origin	Kenya
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	2
Production
Executive producer(s)	Amber Prior Kiran Kethwa
Producer(s)	Alex Coutts Sarah Jethwa Michael Chege Evans Gathogo
Location(s)	Nairobi
Camera setup	Multi-camera
Running time	24-27 minutes (season 1) 40-45 minutes (season 2-)
Production company(s)	Unilever
Release
Original network	NTV Citizen (former)
Picture format	SDTV 480i
Original release	October 5, 2014 (2014-10-05) – present (present)
Chronology
Related shows	Hell's Kitchen
External links
Production website

Royco Fuata Flava is a Kenyan reality cooking competition show produced by Unilever.^[1] It hosted by renowned chef Benjamin Nyaga, Benta Ochieng and Kobi Kihara. It engages a range of professional and aspiring cooks that audition per region in Kenya. Royco, a spice popular in Kenyan households is the mandatory ingredient for every weekly challenge. The show was renewed for its second season in September 2015 on NTV.

Format

Royco the key ingredient in the show must be used in all the meals prepared by the contestants. Weekly, the contestants face the task of preparing a meal from a secret ingredient that the judges have decided on and therefore it is mandatory for it to be used. Based on the performance, originality, creativity and quality of one's meal, the contestant that impresses the judges least, is eliminated from the competition. Rules such as under-cooking and over-cooking meals, completely avoiding using the secret ingredient and discipline among contests may lead to immediate elimination from the competition.

Cast

Head chef

• Benjamin Nyaga^[2]

Co-hosts

• Benta Ochieng
• Kobi Kihara^[3]

Seasons

Season one

The first season debuted on October 5, 2014, ran for 13 episodes and it had 32 contestants short-listed out of the thousands of other Kenyans picked all over the latter country. Two eliminations were made were made per week depending on the satisfactory status of their meals prepared. From 32 down to 2 contestants, Amanda Gicharu and Tirus Thini. On the season's finale, the finalists were asked to pick ingredients prepared and covered by the judges from the Royce Flava Store in random but to their surprise, they were later instructed to exchange cooking points and thereby adding an ingredient that would give the other counterpart hell of time during his/her cooking. Amanda Gicharu was named the winner for impressing the judges. Tirus was awarded ksh 200K for being the runners-up.^[4][5][6] The season's finale was broadcast on December 7, 2015.

Season one contestants

Season two

The second season incepted on October 3, 2015 with 12 contestants. Kobi Kihara joined chef Ben Nyaga as one of the judges.

Season two contestants

Finalists

Season	Original run	Winner	Runner-up	Reason for winning	Contestants	Winner's prize
1	October 5 – December 7, 2014	Amanda Gicharu	Tirus Thini	High standards[19]	32	in Nairobi Season 1 winner Amanda was awarded ksh. 1 million.
2	September 28 – December 14, 2015	Angela Kisoryo	Jean Ouma		12	in Nairobi Season 2 winner Angie was awarded ksh. 1 million.

Broadcasting

The first season was broadcast in Citizen TV. Episodes were 30 minutes long. It occupied the 5:30pm timeslot on Sundays and ran for 13 episodes. The second season kicked off on September 25, 2015 on NTV. It occupied the 7:30 pm timeslot with 45 minutes-long episodes with 12 contestants.

References

External links

• Official website