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Families battle for the chance to be crowned the nation's best family of home cooks.

Competitive food show celebrating the families who make ordinary food extraordinary, presented by Angellica Bell and Tommy Banks.

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Family Cooking Showdown: Series 2: Episode 8

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Episode 8

BBC Two - Family Cooking Showdown, Series 2, Episode 8

Four new families cook it out for a place in the next round of the competition.

Competitive food show. Four families - the Whittakers, the Walker-Kings, the Varmas and the Mistrys - are tasked with making a one-pot wonder for a tenner.

The competitive food show that celebrates the families who make ordinary food extraordinary is back! Over three weeks, 16 family teams battle it out in the showdown studio kitchen. They face a series of challenges based around family cooking, and they are judged by presenters Angellica Bell, herself a Celebrity MasterChef winner and cookery book author, and Tommy Banks, Britain's youngest ever Michelin-starred chef. In each episode, the teams are given two tasks - one they have had time to practise at home, the other a complete surprise, testing their collective ability to work together and think on their feet. 

This time, the Mistrys from south London take on the Whittakers from Lancashire, the Walker-Kings from Wandsworth and the Varmas from Walsall. All four families enter the Showdown kitchen totally unprepared for their first challenge - to make a £10 one-pot wonder with a surprise selection of ingredients.

Their second challenge is to cook up their family's take on fishcakes. Taking both dishes into account, judges Angellica Bell and Tommy Banks decide which three families can cook for them again in next day's heat.

Family Cooking Showdown: Series 2

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