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Rachael vs Guy ended with a Zagat critique of 2 restaurants. 
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Toffile posted:Rachael vs Guy ended with a Zagat critique of 2 restaurants. ...that was embarrassing to watch. Coolio's meltdown was adorable, though. COMFY CHAIRS
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Jan 30, 2012 08:01
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Ozmaugh posted:...that was embarrassing to watch. And partially warranted. Hey let's have a cooking competition be decided by interior decorating and restaurant management.  That being said, still shocked that Coolio can cook (really well apparently.)
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Jan 30, 2012 08:11
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Ozmaugh posted:...that was embarrassing to watch. It amazed me how they tried to give pithy Zagat reviews to both but pretty much said "gently caress it" when it came to the second one. "There are people who would dream of 23 stars [on a dumbed down scale] from Zagat in NYC"
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Jan 30, 2012 08:23
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Was the show doing really bad, and that's why they bundled the last two episodes together? Also, I'm not the only one who felt the competition was fixed, was I? Lou Diamond Phillips is a regular judge on Iron Chef, and his chosen charity was the same one that Food Network backs. How could he NOT win?
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Jan 30, 2012 08:53
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Jamesman posted:Was the show doing really bad, and that's why they bundled the last two episodes together? I'm kind of curious, but I imagine that can't have been the plan unless they planned on either going up against the superbowl (no way) or airing the finale right before the premiere of Worst Cooks in America. Fixed, no, but I can't really imagine how anyone else could have won that. The episode of Chopped that they had on right after it was amazing. Do they prompt people to tell the worst thing that's happened to them in interviews? A guy chooses cooking over his wife, a woman goes on national TV to talk about how her brother bullied her and told her she can't succeed at anything. Neat.
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Jan 30, 2012 09:09
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Jamesman posted:Was the show doing really bad, and that's why they bundled the last two episodes together? The second last episode had Guy and Rachael's friends and family determining which one member from each team would be staying on. This didn't really seem to make sense with the rest of the competition where anyone from either team could get eliminated. Like what if Team Rachael had won all the previous weeks? If they were going to have a final two, they should have just had a final two from either team and arrrrgggghhhhhhhhh So did they rig it or did they just not think it through? Either way my guess is yeah, they bundled the last two because the show was doing badly.
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Jan 30, 2012 09:14
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Ratings-wise, Rachael vs. Guy was a pretty clear success, a top-ten cable show, so that's not it. Of course, content-wise, Rachael vs. Guy was a miserable failure of epic proportions but that won't stop season 2!
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Jan 30, 2012 09:51
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Ozmaugh posted:The episode of Chopped that they had on right after it was amazing. Do they prompt people to tell the worst thing that's happened to them in interviews? A guy chooses cooking over his wife, a woman goes on national TV to talk about how her brother bullied her and told her she can't succeed at anything. Neat. Its been a recent trend. They always ask why the chefs are competing. And their answers have gotten more and more rediculous. Everyone's got a dying parent they haven't seen or dad died the day before.
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Jan 30, 2012 19:21
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I'm competing because this person I barely know had cancer and it was super upsetting, y'all.
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Jan 30, 2012 19:48
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ashpanash posted:Ratings-wise, Rachael vs. Guy was a pretty clear success, a top-ten cable show, so that's not it. I didn't believe you about the ratings, so I looked it up. I...how? Why?
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Jan 31, 2012 03:36
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spidoman posted:And partially warranted. Hey let's have a cooking competition be decided by interior decorating and restaurant management. Coolio wrote a cookbook and did a cooking show that I watched during 2008. Really want to buy his cookbook. gyrobot fucked around with this message at 07:03 on Feb 2, 2012 |
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Feb 2, 2012 06:58
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Elliot Rosewater posted:I didn't believe you about the ratings, so I looked it up.
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Feb 2, 2012 08:00
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gyrobot posted:Coolio wrote a cookbook and did a cooking show that I watched during 2008. Really want to buy his cookbook. I have his cookbook and it's not bad, definitely tends closer to the casual side of cooking, but that's what I like about it. Most of the dishes he made on the show are also in his cookbook, so if there's something on the show you liked, it's most likely in the cookbook too. I plan on making the soul rolls soon. 
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Feb 2, 2012 18:02
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Elliot Rosewater posted:I didn't believe you about the ratings, so I looked it up. It aired at 9 PM on a Sunday. There's nothing else on now after the NFL ended its regular season.
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Feb 2, 2012 20:15
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I know it's been brought up previously, but GODDAMN, watching Scott Conant bitch like a spoiled child when any tiny shaving of red onion is present on his plate is one of the most obnoxious things I've ever seen. I'm really starting to hate Chopped.
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Feb 8, 2012 05:40
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QuickbreathFinisher posted:I know it's been brought up previously, but GODDAMN, watching Scott Conant bitch like a spoiled child when any tiny shaving of red onion is present on his plate is one of the most obnoxious things I've ever seen. I'm really starting to hate Chopped. It's so pathetic. I actually don't like it either but you're judging a loving cooking competition, man up. This episode is sad, though. But seriously, plantain banana bread was going to be awful anyway.
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Feb 8, 2012 05:50
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QuickbreathFinisher posted:I know it's been brought up previously, but GODDAMN, watching Scott Conant bitch like a spoiled child when any tiny shaving of red onion is present on his plate is one of the most obnoxious things I've ever seen. I'm really starting to hate Chopped.
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Feb 8, 2012 06:37
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Raw red onion is his kryptonite. He shrivels up and dies like a slug in beer when it gets near him. Is it his own personal distaste, or is it a legitimately bad thing for a chef to do? A LOT of the chefs on Chopped seem to do it, so there must be some precedent for it and some people must enjoy it in that form as an element, so it would seem like the latter. But drat, does he acts like everyone that does it is some sort of monster. And speaking of Chopped, the one I'm watching now has a recovering alcoholic on it, and one of the rounds had alcohol as a basket ingredient. Dick move, Food Network.
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Feb 8, 2012 06:45
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FlamingLiberal posted:Which is hilarious to me because these judges have eaten some pretty disgusting things meat-wise before. But red onion? Now you've crossed the line! Alex Guarnaschelli's face practically lights up when it's testicles, I've noticed. Isn't there another judge who gets upset at raw red onion? I love it. I put it on burgers and sometimes make a white trash salad of baby spinach, raw red onion, tomato and frozen breaded calamari, with balsamic vinegar.
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Feb 8, 2012 06:56
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Jamesman posted:Is it his own personal distaste, or is it a legitimately bad thing for a chef to do? A LOT of the chefs on Chopped seem to do it, so there must be some precedent for it and some people must enjoy it in that form as an element, so it would seem like the latter. But drat, does he acts like everyone that does it is some sort of monster. Just kinda dumping anything bright like it on a meal is kinda a cheap way to add 'vibrant color' to a meal and hope to coast on 'well it LOOKS nice', but no it's almost 100% personal distaste making him a giant manbaby about it. Chopped is total poo poo.
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Feb 8, 2012 07:18
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Jamesman posted:And speaking of Chopped, the one I'm watching now has a recovering alcoholic on it, and one of the rounds had alcohol as a basket ingredient. Dick move, Food Network. They're always doing it to the people with deadly allergies, too. Giving seafood to people who are allergic to touching any kind of shellfish is really a dick move. Shouldn't there be some kind of control that goes through what the chefs can and can't deal with? I saw the alcoholic one and remember noting that the guy would mention his problem at every interview step, to the point where it was basically all I knew about him. Recovering alcoholic, got it, now please talk about something else? It made him just seem... whiny?
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Feb 8, 2012 10:29
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Understand that they have to try to build some sort of story arc among the hours of video they shot. It's possible that the only thing they could find interesting about the guy was his alcoholism. Or that was the best narrative thread. As much as classic TV is writer driven, reality TV is editor driven.
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Feb 8, 2012 12:21
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ashpanash posted:Understand that they have to try to build some sort of story arc among the hours of video they shot. It's possible that the only thing they could find interesting about the guy was his alcoholism. Or that was the best narrative thread. Yea they want to drive in GUYS, GUYS, HE'S AN ALCOHOLIC, REMEMBER THIS, THIS MAKES HIS STORY GRIPPING, GO ALCOHOLIC! AAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLCOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLLLLIIIIIIIIIC!
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Feb 8, 2012 15:56
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The_Doctor posted:I saw the alcoholic one and remember noting that the guy would mention his problem at every interview step, to the point where it was basically all I knew about him. Recovering alcoholic, got it, now please talk about something else? It made him just seem... whiny? Recovering alcoholics, at least most of the ones I've known, are always this way.
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Feb 8, 2012 16:51
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Jamesman posted:And speaking of Chopped, the one I'm watching now has a recovering alcoholic on it, and one of the rounds had alcohol as a basket ingredient. Dick move, Food Network. Didn't he also choose to use MORE alcohol that wasn't a main ingredient? He seemed almost proud that "I don't have this stuff at home, but it's here so I'll use it! I won't taste it to see if my dish is crappy or not, but I'll use it!" The kid with the red onion was a total douche. I have little sympathy when they don't listen to the judges after the first round. What the heck was the comment about the vegan sauce? "I'm glad I was able to make the sauce vegan. Yeah, the one I wanted them to use with the big hunk of meat." I was happy that the guy who had to reschedule because his father died didn't bring that up during the competition. I'm not interested in their personal lives/issues. I just want to see them cook. I'm sure I'm not a normal viewer though. I wouldn't be surprised if the average viewer LOVED all that fluff.
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Feb 8, 2012 18:37
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If I had the chance to cook for Scott Conant I'd make a raw onion and bell pepper relish and serve him a pint glass of it just to be a dick.
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Feb 8, 2012 22:25
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Jamesman posted:And speaking of Chopped, the one I'm watching now has a recovering alcoholic on it, and one of the rounds had alcohol as a basket ingredient. Dick move, Food Network.
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Feb 8, 2012 23:14
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Bonzo posted:Recovering alcoholics, at least most of the ones I've known, are always this way. I don't get people like that -- they act like martyrs. I see entirely too many of them on a daily basis. I'm an alcoholic in recovery, sober nearly three years, but I keep cooking wine in the house, and my wife keeps whiskey (loves her Irish coffees) and wine, but I don't walk around telling everyone I see "HEY I AM A RECOVERING ALCOHOLIC DO YOU SEE TELL ME THAT YOU SEE PLEASE VALIDATE MY EXISTENCE," or anything like that. It's not that not drinking is a huge point in my life -- it's just that drinking is something I don't do anymore. So, that's that.
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Feb 8, 2012 23:24
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I'm by no means and expert but I imagine that someone who is extremely addicted to something and had their addiction dictate their life feel compelled to continue discussing it simply because of their addictive personalities. 'OK, I don't drink now, but instead of defining my life by the alcohol consumed I now have no choice but to define it by the alcohol I'm not consuming because I'm obviously going to think about booze no matter what.' Anyway, yeah, it IS tedious to hear about it over and over again on Chopped but I've no doubt they're being prodded for information. It's the thing you need to assume with any reality show: they're not volunteering information about stuff, someone's asking (leading) questions. You don't necessarily pop in and say "god, I hate this contestant..." but instead someone off camera says "wasn't it annoying to you when ___ went over and did ____? I bet that really bothered you."
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Feb 8, 2012 23:28
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The_Doctor posted:They're always doing it to the people with deadly allergies, too. Giving seafood to people who are allergic to touching any kind of shellfish is really a dick move. Shouldn't there be some kind of control that goes through what the chefs can and can't deal with?
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Feb 9, 2012 03:28
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The_Doctor posted:They're always doing it to the people with deadly allergies, too. Giving seafood to people who are allergic to touching any kind of shellfish is really a dick move. Shouldn't there be some kind of control that goes through what the chefs can and can't deal with? I just watched one of these episodes, and one of the chefs cooked the shrimp on the rare side. Zakarian said it was so rare that even though he wanted to suck the head he couldn't because it was "bordering on cannibalism." I thought that was a hilarious error on his part considering what scum he has been lately.
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Feb 10, 2012 02:41
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Is that the one with the woman who claimed that if you tried to serve non-rare shrimp in Spain you'd be shamed out of the kitchen? Is there any truth to that? Eating rare shrimp seems awful, mostly because of the weird squishy texture. And I'm a sashimi and carpaccio nut.
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Feb 10, 2012 04:37
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criscodisco posted:Is that the one with the woman who claimed that if you tried to serve non-rare shrimp in Spain you'd be shamed out of the kitchen? Is there any truth to that? That does remind me that the flipside to the judges complaining about everything is the contestants that actually gently caress up and then claim "that's the way I like it" or "that's the way my Mom makes it" or some BS.
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Feb 10, 2012 05:17
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So the final Good Eats special aired last night about dark chocolate and thus ends Good Eats. yeah.
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Feb 11, 2012 10:27
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Jack Skeleton posted:So the final Good Eats special aired last night about dark chocolate and thus ends Good Eats. I went to bed dreaming about all the things he made and woke up very upset that I didn't have any of them waiting for me. 
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Feb 11, 2012 17:30
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criscodisco posted:Is that the one with the woman who claimed that if you tried to serve non-rare shrimp in Spain you'd be shamed out of the kitchen? Is there any truth to that? Yes, that's the episode I saw. I have no idea if there is truth to that, I agree with you the texture sounds weird.
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Feb 11, 2012 17:56
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Anyone else checking out Worst Cooks tonight? As much as I can't stand Bobby Flay, I've enjoyed past seasons so I'm going to give it a try.
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Feb 12, 2012 15:12
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Spigs posted:Anyone else checking out Worst Cooks tonight? As much as I can't stand Bobby Flay, I've enjoyed past seasons so I'm going to give it a try. I like it, I'll be watching on DVR anyway. I like Anne Burrell (spelling?) so I always root for her.
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I don't watch much TV anyways on Sundays so I'll give it a shot. I caught a little bit of a marathon they were doing yesterday.
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