I hate cooking shows

[3mnkids1]

My husband watches them and I hate them! :cussing: He is watching one right now. Where do they find these people.

OH, isnt this yummy looking? who talks like that?

evoo... extra virgin olive oil... yes we know!!! you say it every freakin time. :cussing:

Im bawling the water.. you mad it cry? oh, you mean you are boiling the water. gotcha.

lets talk about the peanut. yes, we are going to spend an entire hour just discussing the peanut. different shapes and sizes.. oh, its going to be so much fun.

 

[ping1970]

I can't watch them either...the only one that I can stand is Ace of Cakes ~ I love the cakes that they decorate!! Plus I think Duff is hysterical!

 

[3mnkids1]

I can't watch them either...the only one that I can stand is Ace of Cakes ~ I love the cakes that they decorate!! Plus I think Duff is hysterical!

I do like that. I also like the food challenge shows. They cook. or bake. I dont know maybe I just have a problem with people who get really really excited over celery and the like. Its celery. :scratch:

 

[completelyme]

Very seldom do I see any of them cooking something that actually looks good. And the recipes usually are NOT kid-friendly. I'm not asking them to cook up chicken fingers and mac-n-cheese but must everything be cooked with eggplant and squash?

evoo...lemme guess who he's watching :laughing: Now, I will say her recipes look good most of the time. You just have to get past the cutesy talk and the MMM! every 5 seconds.

I liked that old man chef who was from Louisiana. He wore overalls I believe. He's since past and I miss him. He had a very southern drawl. He made fabulous-looking dishes!

 

[gorgor]

I liked that old man chef who was from Louisiana. He wore overalls I believe. He's since past and I miss him. He had a very southern drawl. He made fabulous-looking dishes!

Justin Wilson. I adored him except his accent was fake and he was NOT cajun. He liked to say he was but he and his family were from outside of Baton Rouge.

I can't stand Rachel Ray. She is not a chef. Her father is and all the reports of her being a chef are both lies and inaccurate. She did work in her father's kitchen.. as someone who prepped.

 

[completelyme]

I liked that old man chef who was from Louisiana. He wore overalls I believe. He's since past and I miss him. He had a very southern drawl. He made fabulous-looking dishes!

Justin Wilson. I adored him except his accent was fake and he was NOT cajun. He liked to say he was but he and his family were from outside of Baton Rouge.

I can't stand Rachel Ray. She is not a chef. Her father is and all the reports of her being a chef are both lies and inaccurate. She did work in her father's kitchen.. as someone who prepped.

I don't know what he was and I don't care. That man could cook!

So, how do you know so much about Rachael?

 

[gorgor]

I don't know what he was and I don't care. That man could cook!

So, how do you know so much about Rachael?

Lol. My best friends BF is a chef who worked in LA for years. She is not a chef

 

[completelyme]

So, what is she?

 

[darkislandcs]

I'm an Anthony Bourdain fan. But his show really isn't a cooking show I guess. Everyone else gets on my nerves. I play a game with Rachael Ray's shows. If she says something annoying I get to mute her out for 20 seconds. Consequently, I haven't heard anything she's said for the last year. :laughing:

 

[3mnkids1]

I'm an Anthony Bourdain fan. But his show really isn't a cooking show I guess. Everyone else gets on my nerves. I play a game with Rachael Ray's shows. If she says something annoying I get to mute her out for 20 seconds. Consequently, I haven't heard anything she's said for the last year. :laughing:

:laughing:
He is a jerk right? :laughing: I think I have seen him on top chef or something as a judge.

And Rachael is so damn perky I just want to smack her. The stuff she cooks does look good, and even looks like something I could make but I cant get past the cutsey sayings... yummo, and evoo... extra virgin olive oil... why say evoo if you are just going to say the entire phrase? Its stupid. give me that paperwork ASAP.. As soon as possible. see how stupid that sounds.

 

[completelyme]

And Rachael is so damn perky I just want to smack her. The stuff she cooks does look good, and even looks like something I could make but I cant get past the cutsey sayings... yummo, and evoo... extra virgin olive oil... why say evoo if you are just going to say the entire phrase? Its stupid. give me that paperwork ASAP.. As soon as possible. see how stupid that sounds

:laughing: :laughing:

It's all boring. I've never watched an entire show all the way through from beginning to end. I'm too busy making a sandwich :laughing:

 

[darkislandcs]

:laughing:
He is a jerk right? :laughing: I think I have seen him on top chef or something as a judge.

He's not so much a jerk as he is outspoken. He's got a great distaste for Rachael Ray and he makes no bones about it. :laughing: I'm pretty sure he just hates the Food Network in general...except Mario Batali. I'm not sure about the Top Chef thing but then again I never watch that show. He's got a show on Travel Channel called No Reservations. It's always interesting. No cooking on his part, just eating and hanging out with the locals.

 

[gosweepwin]

Okay, I'm the geek who likes these shows. I never actually make the recipes, but I do watch. I like Anthony Bourdain because he is irreverent. I also like Andrew Zimmern, the guy who eats all the weird stuff. They've both on Travel Channel. On Food Network I especially like "Who Will Be the Next Food Network Star". Guy Fieri, who won two years ago, is pretty entertaining. I like some of the other competition ones, though I always wince at how much food is wasted at sugar sculpture events and the like. Alton Brown's show is also good. As for Rachel Ray, she'd be the first one to tell you she's not a chef. She has said that she was underqualified for every job she ever got and has been very lucky. As perky, perky as she is, I think it would be hard not to like her in person.

The kind of stuff I wonder about - a whole week devoted to grilling? Flame, meat, what else do you need to know? And the "barbeque circuit" folks are nuts. Some of these people spend their time driving RV's and portable bbq pits from one competition to the next all year long. Crazy.

 

[pmeek]

:wave: I have my favorites that I love to watch. I love watching Guy in the Diners, Drive ins and Dives; Throwdown with Bobby Flay, Anton Brown always has an interesting show on Good Eats, Ace of Cakes is a riot and such wonderful looking cakes and I also like to watch Ironchef America.

 

[gorgor]

:wave: I have my favorites that I love to watch. I love watching Guy in the Diners, Drive ins and Dives; Throwdown with Bobby Flay, Anton Brown always has an interesting show on Good Eats, Ace of Cakes is a riot and such wonderful looking cakes and I also like to watch Ironchef America.

All great shows except Anton. That guy is annoying. lol.

Bobby Flay really amazes me with Throwdown. Almost every time, he loses yet he is gracious and often admits that they did their speciality better than he did. Not too many chefs can do that.
I do love watching the two woman who work with him on Throwdown nag.. I mean, talk, to him about the food he's cooking. They are honest and sometimes he doesn't listen. lol

 

[3mnkids1]

:wave: I have my favorites that I love to watch. I love watching Guy in the Diners, Drive ins and Dives; Throwdown with Bobby Flay, Anton Brown always has an interesting show on Good Eats, Ace of Cakes is a riot and such wonderful looking cakes and I also like to watch Ironchef America.

All great shows except Anton. That guy is annoying. lol.

Bobby Flay really amazes me with Throwdown. Almost every time, he loses yet he is gracious and often admits that they did their speciality better than he did. Not too many chefs can do that.
I do love watching the two woman who work with him on Throwdown nag.. I mean, talk, to him about the food he's cooking. They are honest and sometimes he doesn't listen. lol

That's the main one I hate. :laughing: My husband watches it only to aggravate me. He is annoying!.

I do however love shows like top chef, next food star and the food challenges. They had one the other day about mac & cheese.. It all looked so good. I guess I like those shows because they aren't cutesy like the other cooking shows. I cant handle perky. I cant. Call me defective but I just don't believe that its honest ya know. It just looks so phony to me.

Makes me think of the stepford wives or something. ewwww

 

[tharedhead]

Back in the dark ages when I was in a punk band-we used to do a version of Them's "Gloria", only with the lyrics changed so it was about Julia Child-"JULIA! J-U-L-I-A-she walks to the stove, she stirs the Bearnaise" etc.

 

[gorgor]

That's the main one I hate. :laughing: My husband watches it only to aggravate me. He is annoying!.

I do however love shows like top chef, next food star and the food challenges. They had one the other day about mac & cheese.. It all looked so good. I guess I like those shows because they aren't cutesy like the other cooking shows. I cant handle perky. I cant. Call me defective but I just don't believe that its honest ya know. It just looks so phony to me.

Makes me think of the stepford wives or something. ewwww

I like that southern lady. What is her name? She started with a cart and it's all really fatty stuff. Great looking food and she is pretty honest acting.

I loved Iron Chef in the Japanese one. They didn't know the ingredients and didn't know what the hell they were going to do. The US ones know before hand what the main ingredient is so they have weeks to prepare. I do not see that as interesting.

Red, Remember the Galloping Gourmet? I loved that show. THe drunker he got, the better his food! :laughing:

Julia Child was a great lady. Her food was wonderful and you could make it and she could laugh at herself.

Ace of cakes is great too. I like the people who work with him.. what a bizaare bunch! lol. Randy thinks that the guy who runs it and the one guy are bfs with each other. They seem to be together a lot more than just on the show. ROFL.

 

[ping1970]

That's the main one I hate. :laughing: My husband watches it only to aggravate me. He is annoying!.

I do however love shows like top chef, next food star and the food challenges. They had one the other day about mac & cheese.. It all looked so good. I guess I like those shows because they aren't cutesy like the other cooking shows. I cant handle perky. I cant. Call me defective but I just don't believe that its honest ya know. It just looks so phony to me.

Makes me think of the stepford wives or something. ewwww

I like that southern lady. What is her name? She started with a cart and it's all really fatty stuff. Great looking food and she is pretty honest acting.

Paula Dean???

 

[3mnkids1]

That's the main one I hate. :laughing: My husband watches it only to aggravate me. He is annoying!.

I do however love shows like top chef, next food star and the food challenges. They had one the other day about mac & cheese.. It all looked so good. I guess I like those shows because they aren't cutesy like the other cooking shows. I cant handle perky. I cant. Call me defective but I just don't believe that its honest ya know. It just looks so phony to me.

Makes me think of the stepford wives or something. ewwww

I like that southern lady. What is her name? She started with a cart and it's all really fatty stuff. Great looking food and she is pretty honest acting.

Paula Dean???

That's what I was thinking to. I mentioned her :laughing: She is the one that says the water is bawling. no, its not crying.. its boiling. drives me crazy. I know Georgia folks have an accent. I have an accent, but when she says bawling It bothers me.