A KFC Double Down. Pizza. Bluff oyster shots. Sponge cake. Real pork roast. And a Hurricane pie.

I was the only one who got to try all of these creations so your votes will be based on a more subjective criterion - which team's efforts in the kitchen did you find the most entertaining?

We've put together a highlight video as well as included the links to the full-length versions of Super Rugby Chef but I'll try to fill in some of the behind-the-scenes gaps to help with your decision.

It all started with a few shy Chiefs and a sickly KFC Double Down.

Jackson Willison, Ben Afeaki and Romana Graham were wonderful, but so painfully bashful and unprepared so I probably deserved having to take a bite out of that "burger".

I realised with the next team, I was going to have to take a more active role in the planning.

Enter: the Blues, and two-thirds of what Pat Lam has named the 'Tripod', Luke McAlister and Stephen Brett (Alby Mathewson is the third 'leg') in the Eden Park industrial kitchen.

Brett had suggested pizza so I wrangled up a few ingredients and picked up a takeaway pizza (ah, the magic of video) and the guys did the rest.

As a sidenote, McAlister really did hit that olive 'kick' on his first attempt.

Next the lovely gentlemen of the South (I unapologetically love the men down there; they remind me of my dad with their values).

I asked for Tony Brown because I wanted to show it wasn't just the younger generation who were able to have a little fun with my outrageous requests.

Down Town is a legend in person, too. As we were walking into Speight's Ale House he looks at me, very frightened and goes, "S*$t, you know I'm not funny, right?"

Him and James Paterson (with one arm, no less) killed it, Tom Cruise Cocktail style all in one take, nerves or not.

Back up North I gave the Chiefs another chance. I drove to Isaac Ross' house with Scott Waldrom and a promise from him that they would be much funnier this time.

The innuendo in this one was thick, the giggling was school girl-esque and the kitchen and my face ended up a mess but Waldrom absolutely came through on his promise.

In Christchurch, I was a bit nervous to see what Adam and Sam Whitelock had in store.

All I did was bring a few sides for pork sandwiches - Adam actually cooked a huge roast that his brother, George, had killed on a hunting trip.

As for the little piggy who stars at the beginning? He was just a neighbour's pet but everything else about this video was real, including the audio of us trying to catch the pig when it blacks out. I still have the scabs and bruises on my elbow to prove it.

Lastly, the Hurricanes. James Broadhurst, Aaron Cruden and Tyson Keats kindly had me over to their apartment while they casually made dinner.

Keats took the reigns as the chef in the video but really, Broadhurst and Cruden did most of the work.

If it sounds like I'm fawning over these guys without agenda, I guess I kind of am. In all of my interactions with the players and coaches this season, I have been floored by their personalities, manners and lack of ego, especially for professional athletes.

I attribute it to the self-regulating nature of the New Zealand culture.

Have a gander at the highlight vid and peruse the full-length versions and be sure to vote all week for your favourite Rugby Chef.

I'll announce the winner next Friday.

Thanks for watching.