Kelsey's Essentials

{{short description|American food reality television series}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox television | image = Kelseys Essentials intertitle.jpg | image_size = 240 | caption = | genre = {{plainlist| * Cooking show * Food reality television}} | creator = | based_on = | developer = | writer = | director = | creative_director = | presenter = Kelsey Nixon | starring = | judges = | voices = | narrator = | theme_music_composer = | open_theme = | end_theme = | composer = | country = United States | language = English | num_seasons = 6 | num_episodes = 69<ref name="tvg_s6">{{cite web|url=https://www.tvguide.com/tvshows/kelseys-essentials/episodes/362660|title=Watch Kelsey's Essentials Episodes Online {{!}} Season 6 (2016) {{!}} TV Guide|work=TV Guide|publisher=CBS Interactive|accessdate=March 29, 2020}}</ref> | list_episodes = List of Kelsey's Essentials episodes | executive_producer = | producer = | editor = | location = | cinematography = | camera = | runtime = {{duration|m=22}} | company = Rock Shrimp Productions<ref name="imdb">{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2995946|title=Kelsey's Essentials (TV Series 2010– ) - IMDb|work=IMDb|publisher=Amazon|accessdate=March 29, 2020}}</ref> | channel = Cooking Channel | first_aired = {{start date|2010|11|6}} | last_aired = {{end date|2016|12|14}}<ref name="imdb"/><ref name="tvg_s6"/> | related = }}

'''''Kelsey's Essentials''''' is an American cooking show that aired on Cooking Channel. It was presented by chef Kelsey Nixon, who came to prominence as a contestant on the fourth season of the Food Network series ''Food Network Star''.<ref name="womenshealth">{{cite web|url=https://www.womenshealthmag.com/weight-loss/a19938439/kelsey-nixon|title=How Food Network Star Kelsey Nixon Lost 20 Pounds While in Culinary School|work=Women's Health|publisher=Hearst|last=Hilmantel|first=Robin|date=February 26, 2014|accessdate=March 29, 2020}}</ref><ref name="usweekly">{{cite web|url=https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/kelsey-nixons-kitchen-essentials-cooking-channel-stars-best-gadgets-20141711|title=Kelsey Nixon's Kitchen Essentials: Cooking Channel Star's Best Gadgets|work=Us Weekly|publisher=American Media, Inc|last=Corneau|first=Allison|date=November 17, 2014|accessdate=March 29, 2020}}</ref> The series featured Nixon teaching viewers how to cook and follow recipes "with confidence" and by utilizing "essential" kitchen utensils.<ref name="usweekly"/>

''Kelsey's Essentials'' premiered on November 6, 2010, and concluded on December 14, 2016, after six seasons.<ref name="imdb"/><ref name="tvg_s6"/>

==Episodes== {{main|List of Kelsey's Essentials episodes}}

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==External links== * {{official website|https://www.cookingchanneltv.com/shows/kelseys-essentials}} * {{IMDb title|id=2995946}} * [http://rockshrimp.tv/ Rock Shrimp Productions {{!}} The Full-Service Production Team] {{Cooking Channel series}}

Category:2010 American television series debuts Category:2010s American cooking television series Category:2016 American television series endings Category:Cooking Channel original programming Category:English-language American television shows Category:American food reality television series Category:Television series about chefs Category:Television series by Rock Shrimp Productions