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Mike Eckles, from Bloomfield Hills, was a contestant on Netflix's cooking contest "Pressure Cooker."

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BLOOMFIELD HILLS — Local chef Mike Eckles recently competed against 10 other chefs for $100,000 in "Pressure Cooker," a Netflix cooking competition show. Eckles grew up in Bloomfield Hills and went to Lahser High School.

Eckles was the runner-up in Netflix's first flavour of "Pressure Cooker," which aired in January. Throughout the course of the show, xi chefs lived under ane roof to compete in culinary challenges and ultimately win the greenbacks prize.

Instead of a standard cooking testify where in that location is typically a host and judges, "Pressure level Cooker's" unique format has neither. Afterwards each contest, the contestants taste and judge each other's food. In the place of a host, contestants receive data via a restaurant-style ticket machine.

Some other thing that sets information technology autonomously from other popular cooking shows is there is a large social component, since they are all living together and judging each other'due south nutrient.

"The social element made information technology definitely more than challenging," Eckles said. "My goal was to cook good food so I would never have to be up for emptying."

He was successful in his goal of not existence up for elimination until one of the last episodes, yet; he was kept by the people in the firm.

Eckles made information technology to the finale, so he was in all eight episodes of the show.

After living in a house with the other contestants for two weeks, Eckles said he made lasting relationships during the show. He said he still talks to a handful of them, specifically Robbie Jester and Ed Porter.

Eckles said the meal he was most proud of came out of the "monochromatic challenge" in the second-to-last episode.

With a firm total of talented chefs, Eckles said, he was able to pick up a few new recipes and techniques from other contestants.

"I definitely got some good recipes from them, similar things that I wouldn't commonly know how to make or cook," Eckles said.

At the age of 26, Eckles is already an accomplished chef and possessor of Abode Fine Dining, a private dining service. He is a graduate of the Culinary Plant of America in New York. He and co-owner Marcus D'Onofrio met while working at Coach Insignia in Detroit.

"Ultimately, Mike'southward been my friend first, always, and so I simply was excited for him to kind of go and showcase himself. … I idea, in all facets, he represented really well," D'Onofrio said.

Since the show aired, D'Onofrio said, they take seen plenty of business organisation from the testify. He said they often go calls asking for specific dishes that Eckles made on the bear witness.

"We always tell people we can essentially make annihilation they can imagine," D'Onofrio said.

Specifically, the dessert caviar that Eckles made in the finale is one of their virtually pop requests at the moment. Hand-made pasta and ravioli are too very popular; however, those are part of every bill of fare anyway.

To follow Eckles on his culinary journey, bank check out his Instagram @mikehasthe flav or his business website at abodefinedining.com.