Like most food enthusiasts, I like to brag about the excellent restaurants I’ve sampled. I’m less likely to talk about my far more frequent visits to 7-Eleven for Doritos and Diet Coke.

So it is with most of us and television. Everyone likes to talk about “Fargo” or “Homeland” or that great British drama they discovered on Netflix, but few will say much about the weekend they spent binge-watching “Storage Wars.”

Yet, as much as we want people to think we only watch the good stuff on TV, everyone knows that isn’t true.

Sometimes we need to indulge a particular obsession. Sometimes we want to enjoy other people’s bad behavior. (I get many emails from readers who confess to watching “The Real Housewives of Orange County” for that reason.) Other times, we just want to lie on the couch and laugh at a stupid joke.

As a television critic, it’s my job to defend the cultural aesthetic and warn people away from clearly bad programs. But just because I say you shouldn’t watch a show doesn’t mean I don’t watch it.

So here are 10 of my favorite guilty-pleasure shows of the moment (although by no means the complete list). They’re arranged in order of the amount of guilt they induce, from least to most.

10. “You’re the Worst” 10:30 p.m. Wednesdays, FXX: There’s an entire subgenre of comedies where the “heroes” are simply awful people. Most of these are simply awful themselves, but “You’re the Worst” is not. Crude and inappropriate, yes, but often funny. It is greatly enhanced by star Aya Cash, who really ought to be in a better show.

9. “Chopped” 10 p.m. Tuesdays, Food Network: Chefs are given a basket of mismatched ingredients and challenged to make something palatable in this game show. Usually, the results are less than successful, but it is fun to watch talented cooks be pushed out of their comfort zone.

8. “The Great British Baking Show” midnight Wednesdays, PBS and “The Great Holiday Baking Show” 10 p.m. Mondays, ABC: “The Great British Baking Show” became something of a sensation this fall on PBS. A dozen home bakers assemble under a tent for a series of challenges. The drama is slight — are those gingersnaps too soft? — and the results generally short of spectacular. Despite that, or perhaps because of it, the show is oddly appealing. It is in reruns now, but ABC’s smaller American version is in its first run.

7. “Rehab Addict” and “Rehab Addict: Detroit,” HGTV and DIY: Nicole Curtis buys an old house, sets about restoring it and — well, that’s pretty much it. Curtis is a rehab extremist, but we enjoy seeing her and her crew bring an old house back to glory — and we pick up a few tips in the process. Addiction to Curtis’s shows is easy, because they’re almost always on.

6. “Tiny House Nation” 6 p.m. Saturdays, FYI: I live in a 1,600-square-foot house with four other humans and a large dog, and I crave more space. So why do I enjoy this show about people desiring to live in houses under 500 square feet? Part of it is the ingenuity required to make such a small space function. Part of it is amusement at the folly of it all.

5. “Banshee,” Cinemax: Now here’s a show that contains pretty much everything you should feel guilty about: violence, wanton sex, gambling, thievery, fraud, adultery, violence, embezzlement, political corruption — did I mention violence? But “Banshee” moves with such kinetic force that it is hard to resist. It’s that charming friend from school who always got you in trouble. “Banshee” returns for its fourth and final season Jan. 29.

4. “Into the Badlands” 10 p.m. Sundays, AMC: I recommended that people not watch this new series, and they shouldn’t. It’s a ridiculous mishmash of genres that don’t really go together. Still, anyone who grew up a fan of kung fu movies (ahem) hears a siren’s song from this show.

3. “Castle” 10 p.m. Mondays, ABC: This romantic comedy/detective series used to be excellent, but it has jumped the shark so far that if Castle and Beckett looked back, they couldn’t even make out a fin. Still, I watch it loyally, pausing at the end of each episode to vow never to watch it again.

2. “48 Hours” 10 p.m. Saturdays, CBS and “Dateline” 10 p.m. Fridays, NBC: A case can be made that these true-crime “mysteries” are the worst shows in network primetime. Unbelievably repetitive — they pack 20 minutes of show into an hour — and so desperate in their attempt to create mystery where none exists. (Hint: The husband did it.) I never turn these on willingly, but if I happen upon one accidentally I am forced to stay until the obvious resolution.

1. “Judge Judy”: The cases are insanely petty and pointless, and Judge Judy Sheindlin gets far too worked up about them. But there is a certain enjoyment in seeing someone who deserves it be put in their place. Judge Judy stands in for our desire to impose rationality where we can’t.