Completely different Ramsey than the loud and angry chef when he's in a pro kitchen. This is him going around the world and exploring all different kinds of cuisine and doing other experiences. Really interesting and different. He's got some good youtube videos when he's cooking with his family too.
Lidia Bastianich (note the Croatian name, ahem!) never gives amounts, proportions, etc. You will only get these if you buy her books. Seems to be all about making money. Not so much with ATK and Cooks Country. The issue I have with the ATK recipes is that they tend to undercook some meats. Example ---Filet Mignon at 125 degrees. That's basically raw and not to my taste. Also, tried their chicken francaise recipe -- total disaster and a disappointment. I do enjoy ATK's product and equipment tests.
Loved Lidia before she/they tried to 'tech her up'.
Loved Americas Test Kitchen(which I thought was Cooks County) when Christopher Kimbal was on. Don't like Milk Street or ATK anymore.
Love Jacques Pepin and Jacques daughter.
And I like Good Eats; a little science behind the cooking is interesting for me.
I really liked the Bobby Flay cooking on his rooftop show. Don't like any of the beat bobby flay shows.
A lesser known one I like is Mike Colamecos Real Food. I havent see it on lately but when it first came out I was a regular. I was living in the city at the time and actually ran into him a couple of times on different subways.
but I believe Ina Garten was the worst show on the food network. Shes incredibly boring and uptight and her food looked eh and I couldn't stand to listen to her voice. Seems like a nice person, but hated her show.
Love chopped and iron chef and beat bobby flay. I especially liked the one where bobby flay just grilled all the time.
to all of my roommates watching Everyday Italian with Giada. The window shades were down and nobody was talking. It was hilarious.
When it was on, I'd watch Restaurant Impossible with Robert Irvine, but that's been recently cancelled. We DVR Diners Drive Ins and Dives and watch whenevr we can't find something else on TV.
back on Food Network, before it was all competition stuff, there was a show with an Australian dude that would approach someone in a grocery and offer to come cook at their place.
One episode, this dude (who was a good lookin guy) landed this pretty hot chick and the whole time they were cooking they were slugging down red wine. You could pretty much tell by the end of the episode that they were both quite hammered and most-likely, had dessert after dinner (wink, wink)
It was funny to watch
Friday night comfort food viewing in my house. Pretty sure my mom was hot for the Galloping Gourmet when I was a kid, that guy brought the charm.
I used to like The Frugal Gourmet then it turned out the guy was a diddler.
ATK is good because they're really thorough but they want to sell you stuff, too. If you like something they do, you have to pause it and write it all down. They are on all day on the ROKU channels btw and there's a couple of channels that are just cooking shows 24/7 if you have a ROKU box.
Jacques Pepin (that man can take boot leather and make it into something and it is entertaining watching him use a knife)
Lidia (sentimental favorite because my mother, whose family was from Belluno, liked her. Her maiden name was Lidia Giuliana Matticchio. She is from Istria which was assigned to Yugoslavia from Italy in 1947. As a child, she and her family escaped Yugoslavia to Trieste.)
Nick Stellino- he always looks like he's having the time of his life.
Cooks Country/America Text Kitchens- basically, the same show, but always learn something.
but Man vs Food with Adam Richman was must see TV.
The food challenges were obviously a draw and fun (and sometimes uncomfortable) to watch but it was much more than that. His series on America's best sandwich was awesome. I made several after watching it (or attempted to). My favorite was the Blackened Grouper Reuben that I believe came from somewhere in Tampa/St Pete.
The new guy just lacked the charisma to make the show work.
MvF with Richmond was one of the few shows my whole family would block off time to watch. His health was fading fast as the seasons wore on to the point where we were getting worried about him actually surviving the challenges - glad he made it out ok!
As to the thread, David Rosengarten’s Taste was the first cooking show I really watched so that has its place for me. Good Eats is my all-time fav.
Boy Meets Grill-Bobby Flay and Bobby's Barbecue Addiction
Tyler's Ultimate- Tyler Florence
The Chef Show on Netflix with Jon Favreau and Roy Choi
Least, all of these cooking competition shows, wish they would go back to making shows you could learn from.
I always like the Bobby Flay BBQ shows, got a lot of tips from them when I first started grilling a lot
Through a personal connection I’ve heard he’s a piece of work in real
life…as a lot of celebrities become. But he can sure cook
Yeah, watching Flay, what I liked was picking up on tips on how to grill, but you learn so much more as well. I've met him a couple times, he seems like one of the few good ones, not pretentious.
Top Chef, DD &D, Tournament of Champions, Chopped,
First off, my mother was a lousy cook and my dad taught me to make eggs. Let me state upfront, I view cooking shows in 2 categories-shows that I can get recipes from and shows that are entertaining. These days I watch probably more than 90% from the former group.
For sure, my first influence was Graham Kerr, the Galluping Gourmet. I thought he was fun and he taught me to drink wine whilst ( :) ) cooking. Next was Paul Prudhomme, who gave me an appreciation of Cajun food, got me to join Mrs. in UT on her business trip to NOLA, and upon returning home I bought my first cast iron pan to make blackened fish. This was pre-cable iirc, and I didn't cook a lot at the time.
After PP, I moved on to Emeril. I don't remember if he was regular TV or early cable.
I really started to kick it up a notch in the late 90's, when I discovered Food Network/Cooking Channel. In those days I could pick up a ton of recipes, back when they actually had chefs cooking rather than hosting game shows. I watch almost nothing on FN anymore. The only thing is The Kitchen which had many good years ( I only pay attention to Mauro and Zakarian) but now makes me gag since they've become social media whores. I loved The Next FN Star and followed several of the winners thru the shows they got by winning-Bid Daddy, Melissa D'Arabian, Jeff Mauro, Guy Fieri.
I then discovered PBS and have gotten into about a half dozen shows. PBS and Instagram are where I spend almost all my time now. So, to likes and dislikes.
Bobby Flay- great chef, great flavors, but a bit of a one-trick pony and his recipes have too many ingredients, even for me.
Giada-don't care for her personality or recipes, for the most part
Ann Burrell- fun watch, I've got over 100 of her recipes but haven't made any in quite a while. I'll have to revisit her
Ina- fine chef, very into salt and lemon :) 2 or 3 of her recipes are in my 5 favorite desserts. But she's become too pretentous for me to watch anymore. It's "make sure you use good olive oil, make sure you use good wine, and did I mention my friend Max Zabar is coming for dinner tonight and bringing one of our favorite Broadway producers?"
Guy Fieri- has a bad rap as a bit of a clown, but he's a great chef. And the way he runs around on DDD and does his other shows is outrageous. His top chefs competition, I think it's been 4 seasons, is the one game show I watch.
Jeff Mauro- another guy with a bum rap. Yes, he does great sandwiches, but he's also a great all-around chef. Too bad I can't bear his personna anymore.
Some of the lesser know shows/chefs I really enjoyed were Laura Calder, who is probably my favorite French Chef (I love watching Pepin, but his recipes have been disappointing), Melissa D'Arabian, who did a show called Ten Dollar Dinners, Nadia, who was a kooky hoot, and Rachel Khoo, another French favorite with very different recipes, who cooks on a 1940s -burner range/oven in her tiny London apartment.
Almost forgot Michael Symon. I enjoy his current show where he grills in his back yard. I've got 97 of his recipes. I'm using the 3 recipes from a recent show as my dinner menu for my friends for an upcoming MNF at my house.
So I moved on the PBS- ATK and Cooks Country to start. I've got 934 of their recipes and very few that I've made suck. I started with the show after Kimball was already gone, but I've since picked him up on Milk Street, which has become my favorite recipe source. He's a bit of a pompous ass, but his show has really expanded my horizons into international cooking/flavors. I've got 721 of their recipes, in a shorter time than I've been doing ATK, and I don't think a week goes by that I don't do at least one MS recipe.
On PBS, I also enjoy Lidia and Pati Jinich, who is my secondary Mexican source after Rick Bayless.
Sorry, it was either say nothing or go all in :)
she does some test recipes for the magazine. We're going to the 25 year celebration and tour in Boston in December. I was a big Good Eats fan.
I've also been testing for ATK for the past year or so. I've done about a half dozen recipes. I've never noticed any of them going forward in the magazine or on TV. I'm getting a little pissed about that. What's her experience?
Another great show that's fairly new and not well known is Pat Martins' "Life of Fire". You have to be into BBQ, cuz that's all it's about. The show explores different cultures and styles of southern region BBQ - - in an old school backyard kind of way. Has some story telling with history and traditions along the way.....I love BBQ so I loved the show.
I view him as a media creation “personality”
and a cook at best. His nearby restaurant or 2 were not known for being anything noteworthy until his DDD thing took off.
Some recipes are BS. Giada is beautiful, but some of her TV recipes are crap.
I’ve had success with Ina and quite a few American Test etc. recipes.
Jacques has been around since forever, but he has some good ones. His skills are real. I’ll share this again. I still haven’t mastered this, but I will… one day. Deboning a Chicken with Jacques - ( New Window )
I bought Essential Pepin, sort of his bible during the pandemic and it's excellent. About a year ago I started selecting a recipe a week and making it. We've loved every one of them so far. So light, fresh and flavorful. I heartily suggest that book to anyone who likes to cook.
I view him as a media creation “personality”
and a cook at best. His nearby restaurant or 2 were not known for being anything noteworthy until his DDD thing took off.
I have 2 value judgements on the recipes I make. One is favorites, meaning I really liked it and would make it again, but it was not special. Then I have Top Choices, recipes that I think are terrific. I've made 32 Guy Fieri recipes. Eleven were Top Choices, 19 were Favorites. There were only 2 recipes I would not make again. I think that matches up against any other chef I've followed
Some recipes are BS. Giada is beautiful, but some of her TV recipes are crap.
I’ve had success with Ina and quite a few American Test etc. recipes.
Jacques has been around since forever, but he has some good ones. His skills are real. I’ll share this again. I still haven’t mastered this, but I will… one day. Deboning a Chicken with Jacques - ( New Window )
I've seen that chicken deboning before. Great video. Right up there with how to butcher a whole brisket :)
although it seems like that's been on a hiatus again. Maybe Casey got too big and needed to lose some weight?
Nope, I saw Casey two weeks ago, and he looked great, as did the young lady he was with. I didn't ask about the show, so sorry that there is nothing to report on that. Casey is a really nice guy, I'm happy for the success he has had.
My favorite cooking show has to be the Great Chefs series.
When I watch them now, some of the dishes look really dated, but it was my favorite show for a long time. Each show featured a starter, main course, and a dessert, each by a different chef from the area that series covered. If you watched the whole season, you would see each chef's three courses.
An example of what I mean by dated would be the chef introducing the audience to a 'new' unfamiliar ingredient, something really exotic like a Star Fruit, or a Chipotle chile, things you see in every supermarket now. IMO it's worth looking up. Sadly many of the once prominent restaurants are long gone, and some of the chef's have passed.
[quote] Grillin and Chillin with Bobby Flay and that other redneck guy.
Redneck Guy - Jack McDavid
Julia Child’s “The French Chef”.
+1 - I look forward to Bill's thread every week...
(even more than the pinned one I hope we get soon regarding a new starting QB)
Just awful.
Loved Americas Test Kitchen(which I thought was Cooks County) when Christopher Kimbal was on. Don't like Milk Street or ATK anymore.
Love Jacques Pepin and Jacques daughter.
And I like Good Eats; a little science behind the cooking is interesting for me.
I really liked the Bobby Flay cooking on his rooftop show. Don't like any of the beat bobby flay shows.
A lesser known one I like is Mike Colamecos Real Food. I havent see it on lately but when it first came out I was a regular. I was living in the city at the time and actually ran into him a couple of times on different subways.
Love chopped and iron chef and beat bobby flay. I especially liked the one where bobby flay just grilled all the time.
Love the pittmaster shows too.
Tyler's Ultimate- Tyler Florence
The Chef Show on Netflix with Jon Favreau and Roy Choi
Least, all of these cooking competition shows, wish they would go back to making shows you could learn from.
I always like the Bobby Flay BBQ shows, got a lot of tips from them when I first started grilling a lot
Through a personal connection I’ve heard he’s a piece of work in real
life…as a lot of celebrities become. But he can sure cook
When it was on, I'd watch Restaurant Impossible with Robert Irvine, but that's been recently cancelled. We DVR Diners Drive Ins and Dives and watch whenevr we can't find something else on TV.
unnecessarily complex.
:thumbsup:
One episode, this dude (who was a good lookin guy) landed this pretty hot chick and the whole time they were cooking they were slugging down red wine. You could pretty much tell by the end of the episode that they were both quite hammered and most-likely, had dessert after dinner (wink, wink)
It was funny to watch
I used to like The Frugal Gourmet then it turned out the guy was a diddler.
ATK is good because they're really thorough but they want to sell you stuff, too. If you like something they do, you have to pause it and write it all down. They are on all day on the ROKU channels btw and there's a couple of channels that are just cooking shows 24/7 if you have a ROKU box.
Eric. My wife is nuts for cooking shows too.
Jacques Pepin (that man can take boot leather and make it into something and it is entertaining watching him use a knife)
Lidia (sentimental favorite because my mother, whose family was from Belluno, liked her. Her maiden name was Lidia Giuliana Matticchio. She is from Istria which was assigned to Yugoslavia from Italy in 1947. As a child, she and her family escaped Yugoslavia to Trieste.)
Nick Stellino- he always looks like he's having the time of his life.
Cooks Country/America Text Kitchens- basically, the same show, but always learn something.
Good Eats- because of the science of cooking.
Nowadays, Moveable Feast, I guess... and that tall drink of water, Alex Thomopoulos.
Julia Child’s “The French Chef”.
Yes!
The food challenges were obviously a draw and fun (and sometimes uncomfortable) to watch but it was much more than that. His series on America's best sandwich was awesome. I made several after watching it (or attempted to). My favorite was the Blackened Grouper Reuben that I believe came from somewhere in Tampa/St Pete.
The new guy just lacked the charisma to make the show work.
As to the thread, David Rosengarten’s Taste was the first cooking show I really watched so that has its place for me. Good Eats is my all-time fav.
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Boy Meets Grill-Bobby Flay and Bobby's Barbecue Addiction
Tyler's Ultimate- Tyler Florence
The Chef Show on Netflix with Jon Favreau and Roy Choi
Least, all of these cooking competition shows, wish they would go back to making shows you could learn from.
I always like the Bobby Flay BBQ shows, got a lot of tips from them when I first started grilling a lot
Through a personal connection I’ve heard he’s a piece of work in real
life…as a lot of celebrities become. But he can sure cook
Yeah, watching Flay, what I liked was picking up on tips on how to grill, but you learn so much more as well. I've met him a couple times, he seems like one of the few good ones, not pretentious.
Not a big fan of the holiday specific shows.
For sure, my first influence was Graham Kerr, the Galluping Gourmet. I thought he was fun and he taught me to drink wine whilst ( :) ) cooking. Next was Paul Prudhomme, who gave me an appreciation of Cajun food, got me to join Mrs. in UT on her business trip to NOLA, and upon returning home I bought my first cast iron pan to make blackened fish. This was pre-cable iirc, and I didn't cook a lot at the time.
After PP, I moved on to Emeril. I don't remember if he was regular TV or early cable.
I really started to kick it up a notch in the late 90's, when I discovered Food Network/Cooking Channel. In those days I could pick up a ton of recipes, back when they actually had chefs cooking rather than hosting game shows. I watch almost nothing on FN anymore. The only thing is The Kitchen which had many good years ( I only pay attention to Mauro and Zakarian) but now makes me gag since they've become social media whores. I loved The Next FN Star and followed several of the winners thru the shows they got by winning-Bid Daddy, Melissa D'Arabian, Jeff Mauro, Guy Fieri.
I then discovered PBS and have gotten into about a half dozen shows. PBS and Instagram are where I spend almost all my time now. So, to likes and dislikes.
Bobby Flay- great chef, great flavors, but a bit of a one-trick pony and his recipes have too many ingredients, even for me.
Giada-don't care for her personality or recipes, for the most part
Ann Burrell- fun watch, I've got over 100 of her recipes but haven't made any in quite a while. I'll have to revisit her
Ina- fine chef, very into salt and lemon :) 2 or 3 of her recipes are in my 5 favorite desserts. But she's become too pretentous for me to watch anymore. It's "make sure you use good olive oil, make sure you use good wine, and did I mention my friend Max Zabar is coming for dinner tonight and bringing one of our favorite Broadway producers?"
Guy Fieri- has a bad rap as a bit of a clown, but he's a great chef. And the way he runs around on DDD and does his other shows is outrageous. His top chefs competition, I think it's been 4 seasons, is the one game show I watch.
Jeff Mauro- another guy with a bum rap. Yes, he does great sandwiches, but he's also a great all-around chef. Too bad I can't bear his personna anymore.
Some of the lesser know shows/chefs I really enjoyed were Laura Calder, who is probably my favorite French Chef (I love watching Pepin, but his recipes have been disappointing), Melissa D'Arabian, who did a show called Ten Dollar Dinners, Nadia, who was a kooky hoot, and Rachel Khoo, another French favorite with very different recipes, who cooks on a 1940s -burner range/oven in her tiny London apartment.
Almost forgot Michael Symon. I enjoy his current show where he grills in his back yard. I've got 97 of his recipes. I'm using the 3 recipes from a recent show as my dinner menu for my friends for an upcoming MNF at my house.
So I moved on the PBS- ATK and Cooks Country to start. I've got 934 of their recipes and very few that I've made suck. I started with the show after Kimball was already gone, but I've since picked him up on Milk Street, which has become my favorite recipe source. He's a bit of a pompous ass, but his show has really expanded my horizons into international cooking/flavors. I've got 721 of their recipes, in a shorter time than I've been doing ATK, and I don't think a week goes by that I don't do at least one MS recipe.
On PBS, I also enjoy Lidia and Pati Jinich, who is my secondary Mexican source after Rick Bayless.
Sorry, it was either say nothing or go all in :)
I've also been testing for ATK for the past year or so. I've done about a half dozen recipes. I've never noticed any of them going forward in the magazine or on TV. I'm getting a little pissed about that. What's her experience?
Life of Fire - ( New Window )
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loves cooking shows, but the only one that interests me is Early American (YouTube channel with over a million followers).
Eric. My wife is nuts for cooking shows too.
I like it. I find it relaxing for some reason.
I view him as a media creation “personality”
and a cook at best. His nearby restaurant or 2 were not known for being anything noteworthy until his DDD thing took off.
Beat Booby Flay
Some recipes are BS. Giada is beautiful, but some of her TV recipes are crap.
I’ve had success with Ina and quite a few American Test etc. recipes.
Jacques has been around since forever, but he has some good ones. His skills are real. I’ll share this again. I still haven’t mastered this, but I will… one day.
Deboning a Chicken with Jacques - ( New Window )
We are also regular watchers of TGBBO. Immensely enjoyable and I like the creativity.
Jacques Pepin and Julia Child are paragons of the genre though. I avoid anything Fieri.
I view him as a media creation “personality”
and a cook at best. His nearby restaurant or 2 were not known for being anything noteworthy until his DDD thing took off.
I have 2 value judgements on the recipes I make. One is favorites, meaning I really liked it and would make it again, but it was not special. Then I have Top Choices, recipes that I think are terrific. I've made 32 Guy Fieri recipes. Eleven were Top Choices, 19 were Favorites. There were only 2 recipes I would not make again. I think that matches up against any other chef I've followed
Some recipes are BS. Giada is beautiful, but some of her TV recipes are crap.
I’ve had success with Ina and quite a few American Test etc. recipes.
Jacques has been around since forever, but he has some good ones. His skills are real. I’ll share this again. I still haven’t mastered this, but I will… one day. Deboning a Chicken with Jacques - ( New Window )
I've seen that chicken deboning before. Great video. Right up there with how to butcher a whole brisket :)
Nope, I saw Casey two weeks ago, and he looked great, as did the young lady he was with. I didn't ask about the show, so sorry that there is nothing to report on that. Casey is a really nice guy, I'm happy for the success he has had.
An example of what I mean by dated would be the chef introducing the audience to a 'new' unfamiliar ingredient, something really exotic like a Star Fruit, or a Chipotle chile, things you see in every supermarket now. IMO it's worth looking up. Sadly many of the once prominent restaurants are long gone, and some of the chef's have passed.