Cooking Shows: Who do you want cooking for you?

Personally I find cooking shows boring, it gets worse when the presenters try to make it interesting with a gimmick, Jamie Oliver - I'm an Essex wide boy, Nigella Lawson - I pretend to have sex with the food, Gordon Ramsey - I say fuck a lot ect ect.
 
Peter Parka said:
Personally I find cooking shows boring, it gets worse when the presenters try to make it interesting with a gimmick, Jamie Oliver - I'm an Essex wide boy, Nigella Lawson - I pretend to have sex with the food, Gordon Ramsey - I say fuck a lot ect ect.
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I warch them for ideas. It depends if you like to cook or not. I do. Most shows = you are right - rely on gimmicks but I ignore that and actually watch what the fuck they are making and how.

Two of my favourites are Canadian so you won't have seen them. One is Michael Smith Chef at Home and the other is Ricardo and Friends. Canadian TV producers are not into a lot of gimmicks - unless they are American wanna-bes .
 
Gordon Ramsay has cooked for me before (well maybe it was in one of his restaurants lol!...so probably not) in Maze at Mayfair.

It was very nice, however not filling enough for this boy

At least I didn't pay

As for the others, I think I'd like Gary Rhodes cooking more due to his excessive use of gorgeous butter and sugar.
 
Tyler Durden said:
Gordon Ramsay has cooked for me before (well maybe it was in one of his restaurants lol!...so probably not) in Maze at Mayfair.

It was very nice, however not filling enough for this boy

At least I didn't pay

As for the others, I think I'd like Gary Rhodes cooking more due to his excessive use of gorgeous butter and sugar.
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Jamie Oliver has cooked for me before, he comes from a village just outside Harlow and was working as a cook, before he was famous, in a local pub for a bit.

lumpenstein said:
I warch them for ideas. It depends if you like to cook or not. I do. Most shows = you are right - rely on gimmicks but I ignore that and actually watch what the fuck they are making and how.

Two of my favourites are Canadian so you won't have seen them. One is Michael Smith Chef at Home and the other is Ricardo and Friends. Canadian TV producers are not into a lot of gimmicks - unless they are American wanna-bes .
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I like cooking but I use cookery books, bit hard to follow the instructions on telly unless you tape the show and keep pressing pause.;)
 
Peter Parka said:
Jamie Oliver has cooked for me before, he comes from a village just outside Harlow and was working as a cook, before he was famous, in a local pub for a bit.




I like cooking but I use cookery books, bit hard to follow the instructions on telly unless you tape the show and keep pressing pause.;)
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I never use books. I usually make things out of memory and a little bit of improvization. I watch to learn little things that gradually improve my skills, like one I learned a long time ago: add oil to your butter to keep it from burning.
 
jassilem said:
I swear my arteries clog just watching her... :willy_nilly::24:
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Indeed. I don't think she ever met a stick of butter or some form of fat or sweet thing that she didn't like.

I personally spend most of my time watching the Food Network, and I don't think I would want any of them cooking for me. A few of them are too loud, too quiet, or talk too fast for me to understand. And Paula Dean's accent makes me want to chop my ears off with a rusty butter knife.
 
Great find Lumpy :thumbup

That theme song fit perfectly with that goof.

I swear he was half in the bag when he filmed each show.

He looks like it took its toll on him. The you tube I saw made him look ancient but those shows were done probably in the late 70's and early 80's and I think it was about 10 years later we first had them. or at least when i noticed them.
 
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