The FN Dish blog recently posted a revealing video tour of the Food Network basement, where they store every prop that’s ever been used on the Food Network programs (I’d post the video here, but they’re lame about their videos and have embedding disabled). Here’s the most interesting stuff they uncovered.

TOP 10 THINGS COLLECTING DUST
IN THE FOOD NETWORK BASEMENT:

10. The only existing copy of Aaron McCargo’s GED

9. Rachael Ray’s size 6 jeans

8. Nicole Kidman’s prosthetic nose from “The Hours” (possibly once used by Alton Brown in an episode of Good Eats)

7. An entire line of Paula Deen’s lingerie that just never caught on

6. A team of college interns, feverishly trying to come up with new catchphrases for Rachael Ray

5. A fully functional Dollar Store, which provides all the props for Semi-Homemade

4. Six lifesize wax replicas of Bob Tuschman

3. An entire box of Giada’s push-up bras

2. A vat of Bobby Flay’s sunblock that expired in 1997

1. And in the deepest recesses of the Food Network basement you’ll find… a bunch of talented chefs, bound and gagged so that they may never surface to make the actual Food Network talent look even worse than they often do on their own.

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