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I honestly think FN wants Irvine to be Ramsey far more than Irvine actually wants to be Ramsey.
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# ¿ Dec 6, 2011 19:25 |
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# ¿ Apr 17, 2024 21:48 |
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OrangeCrush posted:I guess so, is there anything out there to satisfy what im looking for? You might like the original series that exposed Gordon Ramsey to the world which was called Boiling Point. Rather than being a reality show it was just a doc that followed him as he was opening a restaurant and trying to get a Michelin Star.
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# ¿ Dec 6, 2011 19:41 |
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All this talk of AB reminds me that the FN hate thread wasn't up when he posted his Fanifesto so we as a thread never got to revel in what an rear end he can be.
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# ¿ Dec 7, 2011 03:22 |
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Jamesman posted:Why do people like Anne Burrell? I cannot stand her even the slightest bit. Her food, her look, and her personality are all being annoying and I despise her being on my TV. Burrell gets HUGE bonus points for being a Batali disciple. Related to that her food usually looks really really good. quote:Oh and this Monday there's a new Diners Drive-Ins and Dives with Kid Rock on it. Guy Fieri gravitates towards to worst kind of people. Guy is the worst kind of people.
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# ¿ Dec 8, 2011 03:34 |
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I think at this point I think we can all pretty much agree that the fact that the best man won the first Next Iron Chef was a fluke.
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# ¿ Dec 8, 2011 13:55 |
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Jamesman posted:That just counts against her for me, since I always hated Mario Batali too. How in the hell does one hate Mario Batali?
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# ¿ Dec 8, 2011 20:31 |
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To be fair to Guarnaschelli, I don't think we should judge people by how they are as judges on Chopped. I'm almost positive that they ask the judges to act the way they do and to be as picky as possible. If you see Guarnaschelli as a judge on Iron Chef, she isn't nearly as bad. Same with Scott Conant really. When he has judging people o that 24 Hour restaurant show he had, he was far FAR kinder. I think FN wants the judges on Chopped to ac like asses because it creates more fake drama. That being said, I don't think Guarnaschelli should win. When she was on Iron Chef, I'm pretty sure Cora destroyed her. She's not a bad chef from what I can tell but hardly worthy of being called one of the best in the world.
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# ¿ Dec 8, 2011 22:48 |
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I just saw an ad for "Rachel vs Guy: Celebrity Cook Off", a competition reality show in which Guy Fieri and Rachel Ray each take a team of D-list celebrities and put them against each other. This is a real show. This is happening. Can we just destroy food network so it doesn't manage to get any worse than this?
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# ¿ Dec 13, 2011 05:15 |
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I Ozma Myself posted:I wonder if it's the same etup as Worst Cooks in America, where Ray/Fieri each have a "team" of cooks, with the teams competing and the losing team losing a member. It looks like that's the case.
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# ¿ Dec 13, 2011 05:22 |
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I think when I said D-list I was being FAR too kind.
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# ¿ Dec 13, 2011 05:29 |
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TV Zombie posted:Have the other two new Iron Chefs been featured/on the show at all? I don't remember watching a Garcia/Forgione episode at all. Once in a while. They even had a Flay/Symon vs Garcia/Forgione battle where Garcia/Forgione obviously got destroyed. I still really do enjoy Iron Chef though. I know the newer ones suck but I still enjo watching and, god damnit, I like Flay
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# ¿ Dec 22, 2011 03:02 |
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There's honestly so many things to hate about Guy Fieri that it's hard to choose just one. I too hate when he tries to awkwardly explain every step the cook is doing, but I also hate his awful jokes, I hate his awful catch phrases that he tries to promote, I hate the way he acts fake annoyed when someone actually uses one of his catch phrases, I hate the way he acts like it's a big deal when he's eating even slightly abnormal food, I hate how he acts like leaning forward while eating a messy sandwich is something he created...I just don't like him.
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# ¿ Dec 22, 2011 03:20 |
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robot roll call posted:Don't forget that he wears his sunglasses on the back of his head. I was keeping his actual appearance out of it because that's just far too obvious. I was watchign a Christmas episode recently and he went to a Chinese restaurant, and I was kind of annoyed that he tried to connect it because of that one "crazy" scene in a Christmas Story rather than the fact that half the Jews in America eat Chinese on Christmas.
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# ¿ Dec 22, 2011 03:25 |
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When you think about it the concept of Next Food Network Star is really odd. Food Network over the last few years has realized that normal cooking shows don't get great rating and have been doing everything they can to rid the schedule of them yet they have this show where the prize is you get a cooking show.
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# ¿ Dec 22, 2011 18:42 |
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Next Food Network Star predates Top Chef. Also Iron Chef is one of their more popular shows, not to mention being on it makes you synonymous with being on e of the best chefs in the country, so getting on that is not really the same as being handed some random 10am cooking show.
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# ¿ Dec 22, 2011 19:04 |
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TV Zombie posted:Why not just have Symon, Garcia, Forgione and Zakarian out there as your only choices and say that the others were busy with other things. Symon already gets picked alot. It's less than Flay (who by far gets picked the most) but right now he's a strong second. I can't complain about this though because Symon is my favorite of the bunch and pretty much the most fun to watch. I don't care if the other two ever get picked again though. Garces is less creative than Flay and he seems like he trying to fulfill the role of Iron Chef rather than actually being one, while Forgione just isn't that fun to watch. I will easily take Forgione over Garces though. The Garces truffle battle might have been the worst episode that ICA has ever had.
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# ¿ Dec 23, 2011 06:21 |
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TheBigBudgetSequel posted:Edit: Has Bobby Flay EVER one a Throwdown? He's such a cock in every episode and all I'll spice up their lovely recipe! and then loses everytime it seems. I watch that show just to watch the grin get wiped off his face by whatever awesome person he decided to spend 30 mins. making GBS threads on. He wins quite a bit but it's almost always in places where even he feels he has no right to win (like he won the cheesecake battle). I find it odd that your impression of Flay on that show is because he always seems to be trying his hardest to be humble on that show, constantly being self deprecating and constantly praising his opponent. He doesn't always try and spice it up either. I think early on he did that but he quickly realized it was making him lose so then he started going traditional, but when he did that the opponent would be someone who had spiced up an old classic and he would lose. Either way he would never be directly countering what their doing anyways because the whole concept included him usually having no idea exactly how his opponent approached their dish. Also being fair to him, most battles on that show are really close.
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# ¿ Dec 23, 2011 15:23 |
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TheBigBudgetSequel posted:They gave Dinner: Impossible to Michael Symon...and then took it away from him. Poor Symon. To be fair...Symon wasn't very good at it (though he was more fun to watch). Symon also said that when they handed the show to him it was going to be a temporary thing so he knew what he was getting into. Irvine's skillset was custom made for that show. He's good at large scale organizing under pressure. He can produce a lot of food in little time but when he goes up against someone on a smaller scale, he doesn't even come close. Why he thought he could win on Iron Chef, or Chopped is beyond me. He lost to Guy Fieri for fucks sake.
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# ¿ Dec 29, 2011 07:24 |
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CornHolio posted:I don't care what you guys say, I would eat Zakarian's food any day of the week. At least judging from other people's reactions to his cooking. I don't think anyone is saying he's a bad chef, just an rear end in a top hat who doesn't pay his staff.
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# ¿ Dec 29, 2011 17:39 |
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Kung Fu Jesus posted:Scott Conant has a very rear end in a top hat way of delivering his criticisms. I don't know why he's like that since he seemed pretty cool and nice on his 24 Hour Restaurant show. I am fairly sure they ask the judges to be as big of assholes as possible because they know that poo poo gets people like us talking. I have no evidence of this but none of the judges are as bad on any other show as they are on Chopped.
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# ¿ Jan 5, 2012 16:24 |
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Bonzo posted:Wow. So instead of taking the high road and promote a healthy diet to counteract the disease, she's instead using it to promote a new line of medication. Sorry, no one can out whore Simmons:
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# ¿ Jan 13, 2012 21:20 |
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raditts posted:No, the "Fortune Teller" character would be Mo Rocca, the guy who was the worst correspondent The Daily Show ever had and is arguably the worst enduring television personality. I can get behind this. Mo Rocca is basically a Morning Show DJ as interpreted by NPR.
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# ¿ Jan 16, 2012 22:07 |
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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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Jamesman posted:Food Network subtitles 90% of people with accents on their channel (somehow Florian gets a pass even though he's the one person that needs them), and dubs Morimoto over even though he speaks English better than most of their other personalities. I still like to think that they dub Morimoto as an homage to the original Iron Chef. They even use the same voice.
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# ¿ Mar 12, 2012 06:18 |
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TheBigBudgetSequel posted:So I guess Mario Batali and his company are kind of dicks. How greedy do you have to be to do this? His restaurants must make poo poo loads. The amount they'd make from pinching tips likeley wouldn't even be THAT much. I mean I work at a lovely Dominos and they'd never touch my tips.
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# ¿ Mar 12, 2012 06:44 |
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I think my favorite thing about bizarre ingredients on Chopped is one contestant always uses it perfectly. If they all failed to use then the judges would have to admit that the ingredient just isn't usable, but there's always the one and it makes the other chefs look bad. What makes it all the better is the chef that perfectly uses the bizarre ingredient often fucks up some basic cooking thing like undercooking the meat or leaving plastic in the dish or something.
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# ¿ Apr 5, 2012 03:39 |
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The_Doctor posted:I don't like raw onions either, and wouldn't eat them if they were served up to me. vv But would you then act like the Chef made a a horrible mistake because it is a fact that raw onions are terrible and because you dislike them no one could ever possibly like them making the act of even thinking of serving them is a culinary faux pas?
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# ¿ Apr 9, 2012 15:29 |
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I just want to say that if the winner from the Iron Chef round of Chopped All Stars doesn't beat the poo poo out of the winners from the other rounds, they should be forced to renounce not just ever having been an Iron Chef, but cooking forever.
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# ¿ Apr 23, 2012 05:29 |
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The_Doctor posted:Yes. Guy Fieri catered. It looks like Morimoto also catered. What an odd combination.
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# ¿ May 12, 2012 15:44 |
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The latest Food Network Show seems to focuses on two guys who take other people's inventions and pitch them to investors. It seems to be Dragon's Den with a couple of middle men that make the whole thing far less interesting. They are justifying the show being on Food Network by having them focus on Kitchen Appliances. They are really, really, really stretching what constitutes a food related show at this point.
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# ¿ May 15, 2012 02:10 |
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Like 90% of that was revealed in the Unwrapped episode they did on Food Network Shows. The only new stuff in there is that AB films some of his stuff later and that the Iron Chef picks the ingredient (which I'm not even sure I believe because it would be kind of pointless over giving them a list of three). It's cool that the writer is acting like he's revealing some huge secret that THE MAN at FN don't want you to know, though.
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# ¿ Jun 6, 2012 06:15 |
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Who is the audience for Mystery Diners? Why do they think it's a good idea in this economy to have a show about people with lovely jobs getting yelled at for not acting like their minimum wage job is their life and getting fired? It's not like this is Kitchen Nightmares where the staff is acting outrageously bad. The stuff that was going on in the episode I saw was bad service but not to the point where I started sympathizing with the owner. The whole thing is also hilariously faked. The cameras are places in locations where it'd be impossible for the people not to see them, not to mention the sound quality indicates that the waiters must be miked. Even the "how restaurant is doing now" seemed really fake. The person they fired had not been there long yet firing her turned the restaurant around...right
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# ¿ Jun 12, 2012 01:18 |
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Timby posted:God, Symon is so amazing -- I don't think Food Network has anyone more charismatic than him, outside of possibly Alton Brown. I was so depressed when his episodes of Dinner: Impossible tanked in the ratings, leading FN to re-hire Robert Irvine, who's just a smarmy douchebag. According to Symon they never meant to keep him on as permanent host anyways, so don't feel too bad. I did like D:I for some reason, though by far my favorite episode was the only one where Irvine failed. Symon really is the best Iron Chef though (well either him or Batali). Morimoto is probably the best chef amongst them all but he's just not the most fun to watch. I do like Cora and Flay as well. Of the new one's they're almost all bad, though Zakarian is a drat good cook. Looking back on the season of Next Iron Chef Symon one, it's amazing how good the lineup was compared to all other season. I mean the guy he beat out is one of like 3 people to beat Batali.
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# ¿ Jun 21, 2012 00:12 |
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Bonzo posted:The judging that makes my eyes roll is when a non white person makes a modern dish and they something like, "I'm disappointed that you didn't present us anything from your asian/african/cuban/indian heritage." You know, because if you are Asian then you automatically know how to make Peking duck, right? They had the opposite thing happen on the first season of Next Iron Chef with Aarón Sanchez. He kept making typical Latin style dishes and they kept telling him that he was good but they needed to see SOME range outside of his comfort zone and he took it as a major insult and lost.
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# ¿ Jun 22, 2012 20:19 |
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QuickbreathFinisher posted:Just wanted to let everyone know that the host of Cupcake Wars makes my blood boil. I laugh every time I see the ad where he kinda smugly mentions he's a magician. There is so much douchiness in that five seconds it's unbelievable.
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# ¿ Jul 18, 2012 13:42 |
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Red Warrior posted:Yeah that's why it's on prime time on Sunday nights and the shows from it are on weekend mornings. That wasn't even his FNS show anyways. He had Guy's Big Bite and like many FN people he got a second, non-cooking show and that one took off.
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# ¿ Jul 23, 2012 15:01 |
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Frot Lesnar posted:The only thing better than a smug chef on Chopped losing in the appetizer round is a smug chef on Chopped losing in the finals. I honestly think that unless they gently caress up majorly they purposely let the assholes through to the last round for drama's sake.
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# ¿ Jul 23, 2012 15:47 |
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Frot Lesnar posted:Won't eat garlic or onion but has no problem blowing Hugh Hefner. I'm pretty sure if eating garlic and onion meant that she could live in a mansion and not worry about money at all, she would pick the garlic and onion in a heartbeat. On an unrelated note, did anyone else watch Wedding Impossible. It was pretty standard and uninteresting but it was worth it just to watch Morimoto drunkenly singing to the couple during his toast. Also it had more genuine behind the scene footage from Dinner: Impossible than that lame as behind the scenes Dinner Impossible special.
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# ¿ Aug 24, 2012 00:39 |
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Why is there another "spying on the low paid staff of a restaurant" show, this time hosted by a guy that makes Donald Trump seem warm and inviting? I made it through 30 seconds of him before I just had to shut it off. It doesn't help that I don't find "successful because he watches everything his staff does through dozens of cameras" to be an endearing thing to be known for. This looks much worse than Mystery Diners or whatever it was called, and that was also pretty unwatchable.
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# ¿ Aug 26, 2012 00:05 |
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# ¿ Apr 17, 2024 21:48 |
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Y Kant Ozma Post posted:I finally caught the episode of 3 Days to Open that someone talked about already in here (the Sticky one or whatever) and it was better than the hot dog episode I'd seen, but also maddening. I want that guy to fail miserably. I caught it recently too and agree completely. That guy was maddening and Flay is usually good at keeping his cool on camera but you could tell he just wanted to throttle that guy (even though the voice over kept saying how much he liked him). That was the most annoying, ADD motherfucker I've ever seen. It was kind of impressive. The episode was still fakey as hell though, from Bobby just kind of making it so the journalists wouldn't publish their stories to the miraculous 11th hour change from the main guy. Still, I enjoy the show for some reason.
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# ¿ Aug 26, 2012 04:14 |