Steffen Henssler: The TV chef’s fortune

How rich is Steffen Henssler?

The German chef is known for his easy-going mouth. Steffen Henssler always has a snappy saying on the lips and is not at a loss for an answer. The celebrity chef runs six of his own restaurants and is best known from television. The kitchen battle and pot money hunters on ZDF made him public. Since 2013 he has had the successful format “Grill the Henssler“Good luck on VOX and a great audience rating. The fee is around 20,000 euros per show. Not only his own restaurants, but especially the television shows, have Steffen Henssler for his estimated fortune of 7 million euros helped.

The beginning of the career

Henssler was born with gastronomy, his father was also a restaurateur. The cook grew up in Pinneberg and Hamburg. He completed his cooking apprenticeship in Andresen’s inn in Bargum, which was awarded a Michelin star. Steffen Henssler was lucky and won the lottery, and he invested his 44,000 D-Mark winnings in sushi training. He was the first German to graduate from the Sushi Academy in Los Angeles, which is run by Japanese masters.Professional sushi chef“Even with top marks. He then gained further experience in American restaurants.

4 own restaurants in Hamburg

In 2001 he opened his first restaurant in Hamburg together with his father. The name was quickly found: Henssler & Henssler. The second followed in 2009, namely the “ONO “. Since 2015, Steffen has also had his own cooking school, which was called one of his earlier television shows, “Henssler’s kitchen” is operated. The third restaurant “Ahoy “ for fast food & snacks was opened in 2017 and 2018 came with “GO“The fourth restaurant in the form of a sushi place with delivery service was added. In addition, the businessman should also hold other stakes in restaurants.

Steffen Henssler: Money with cookbooks and as a TV cook

Own restaurants wash some money into the coffers of the chefs. However, television is the means to become famous and also to lure guests into one’s own restaurant. Steffen Henssler is definitely a prominent television chef. In 2004 his television career began on NDR with guest appearances alongside Rainer Sass. Only 2 years later, NDR produced two seasons of Henssler’s kitchen. In his own cooking show, Henssler showed dishes that had Japanese and Californian influences. At that time, Tim Mälzer was very successful with Schmeckt nicht gives ist nicht on VOX. It was he who recommended Steffen, the TV freak, to the broadcaster. In 2007, the cooking show Ganz & Gar Henssler followed on VOX. From then on, his TV career really got rolling and Steffen Henssler was able to quickly win over the audience with his funny, cheeky manner.

Like many other successful TV chefs, Steffen toured with a live program. His Live Show: You don’t cook mermaids! was very successful in the German-speaking area that a new program followed in 2015, namely “Hamburg, New York, Tokyo – my culinary trip around the world”. The chef toured Germany and Austria with “Henssler tishes up” until spring 2017. With programs like this, the cook replenishes his income splendidly.

He can also increase his fortune by selling his so far 6 cookbooks.

Beat the Henssler on ProSieben

The TV chef was also hired by ZDF, for the kitchen battle, for the pot money hunters and for some guest appearances in Lanz cooks !. At VOX in 2017 he gave his own show, “Grill den Henssler”, which was very successful until the end. A new television era was to begin for Henssler on September 30, 2017 – ProSieben ran “Beat the Henssler “. Steffen wanted to take on the difficult legacy of Stefan Raab, but after “only” 8 broadcasts (September 22, 2018) the chef threw it out due to the poor audience ratings.

The viewer doesn’t want to see me in this role and you just have to accept that

The funny chef has also had countless guest appearances in a wide variety of television formats. 5 against Jauch, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire ?, Welcome to Mario Barth, Do you understand fun ?, Gottschalk live, Wok World Cup are just some of the programs where Henssler was a guest. We are sure that his television career will last a long time and we look forward to it when the cheeky cook amuses us with his sayings and brings us new cooking ideas. After a year and a half he returned to VOX and his successful format “Grill den Henssler” and can look forward to working with the Fee from the television shows continued to grow his fortune. Together with Tim-Mälzer he can also be seen in the show “Mälzer und Henssler deliver!” (Since 2021).

Steffen Henssler – his girlfriend and private things

The chef has two daughters from two relationships, Sukie Jools, born in 2008, is from the relationship with Nadja Braun. The name of the first daughter is not publicly known. Steffen Henssler has also been married once, but he manages to keep his private life under lock and key. Definitely Steffen Henssler has a girlfriendalthough nobody knows her name. Some time ago he announced that he had been happily forgiven for a long time. The cheeky cook doesn’t rule out a wedding either.

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