Is it time for “Top Chef” to pack its knives and go?

After 11 years on the air, and many excellent seasons, the Bravo reality cooking show has turned unbearably creepy, replete with uncomfortable remarks about physical appearance, crass sex jokes and an overdose of dude.

The current season is set in Colorado, but it might as well be called “Top Chef: Pervnado.”

This sexist shift comes at the worst possible time. Like Hollywood, the restaurant industry has been embroiled in multiple sexual harassment scandals involving major industry players, including John Besh, who was a frequent guest judge on “Top Chef,” and Mario Batali, who was fired from ABC’s “The Chew.”

The Bravo reality cooking show has turned unbearably misogynist, replete with uncomfortable remarks about physical appearance, crass sex jokes and an overdose of dude.

Some of these bombshell allegations began several weeks before this season premiered, giving the show’s producers and editors plenty of time to cut out cringe-worthy sections. “Top Chef” did wisely remove Besh from an upcoming episode. But many gross scenes remain in all their shameful glory.

During the season premiere’s “Meat and Potatoes” challenge, host Padma Lakshmi and head judge chef Tom Colicchio approach chef Joe Sasto’s booth to taste his lamb tartare.

“Should I put it all in at once?” Lakshmi says, with a giggle. Then, Colicchio piles on: “Go ahead, Padma. Open wide!” Bringing the bit to its nasty conclusion in an interview segment, Sasto goes full bore: “Padma can’t fit all of my meat in her mouth.” Yuck.

It’s not the first time Lakshmi has been objectified on the show, but this is certainly a new low. Meanwhile, Colicchio’s banter isn’t only creepy, it’s hypocritical: “Deep down men know that sexist s–t-talk is just a lazy substitute for real wit,” he wrote in a November Medium.com essay reacting to his industry’s troubles.

So, disgusting oral sex jokes amount to real wit, Tom?

The bad behavior doesn’t end there. “Top Chef” contestants often group themselves into friendly cliques. Famously during Season 5, the LGBT chefs formed “Team Rainbow.” It was sweet and inclusive. In Season 8, a group of European chefs understandably palled around. Now in “Colorado,” we have the Bear Den, a group of three burly men — chefs Tyler Anderson, Joseph Flamm and Bruce Kalman — who are “some of the bigger guys in the house,” according to Flamm. They make frequent mention of it, and occasionally even roar. Watching them choose to work mostly with their fellow bears certainly backs up reports of kitchens nationwide being “boys’ clubs.”

Strangely, some of the women play into their Neanderthal nonsense. Contestant chef Fatima Ali admits on the show that she could never be a part of their exclusive club, so she instead decides to infantilize herself and go by the demeaning moniker “Baby Bear.”

“Baby Bear is not a part of the Bear Den,” she says. “But I named myself Baby Bear because Baby Bear needs bear hugs.”

Where have we heard that before?

In December, a former server at Batali’s erstwhile eatery Po alleged to Eater.com that an aspect of the chef’s aggressively inappropriate behavior was his propensity for unexpected squeezing in the kitchen. Once, she said, he came up from behind her and embraced her “like a linebacker, like a disgusting bear hug.” That sort of workplace interaction should be discouraged, not turned into a cutesy joke. But this season is all about objectification of both women — and men.

When Curtis Stone was a guest judge, contestant chef Carrie Baird didn’t seem as familiar with his work as she was with his physique. “He’s tall. Tall gets me going,” she says. “It’s amazing. His accent. He is so handsome.”

The tone-deafness is unfortunate. So much abysmal reality TV preys on damaging stereotypes and manufactured conflict, but till now “Top Chef” has been a beacon of diversity — always putting together a smorgasbord of ages, cultures and socioeconomic backgrounds. Their commonalities? Skill, experience and professionalism. As it should be.

Getting the show back on course could be “Top Chef”s toughest challenge yet.