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ToastyPotato posted:Edit: Oh jumping on the cutting board thing and screaming raise the roof. To be fair, if I spent a good part of an hour occasionally getting electrocuted I'd be happy too. For some reason, there was a puddle over an exposed electrical wire in the kitchen during the taping. Also I kind of want to see the original American Iron Chef. The one with William Shatner. Just to see how bad it could've been.
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Johnny Longtorso posted:Robert Irvine is going to be on next week's episode of Body of Proof (aka Dana Delany, M.E.). The thing is... he's not playing himself, he's acting. I guess pretending you're a big-time chef from England and probably faking a lot of Restaurant Impossible (which, regardless, is a show I enjoy) would give you some preparation for that. He's already good at playing Robert Irvine, chef to the Presidents.
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Anything that raises the profile of Zakarian which will undercut his current bankruptcy is fine with me.raditts posted:Well its kind of a lost cause from the beginning, because I can't think of a more boring thing to base a food show around than loving cupcakes. I saw an episode of that last night. Dear lord it was grating. "How do I run the cotton candy machine?" "Mommy, it's too pink" "Mommy, it's too Christmassy"
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FISHMANPET posted:TLC reality shows are absolutely the worst when it comes to "characters" and the forced drama, with the exception of maybe Say Yes to the Dress. I admittedly have a soft spot for whatever the baking competition that's hosted by the Cake Boss. Mainly because at the end of the day, no matter how great or lovely they look, the cakes are going to be smashed, smushed, exploded, crushed...
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Dec 6, 2011 07:44
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I Ozma Myself posted:Hm, maybe not the "answer" per se, but supposed to have more divergent content. I guess in some ways it does have stuff that FN doesn't have, but I wouldn't call Food Jammers a boon. I think it was always supposed to be more of a MTV2 to FN's MTV. Stuff on the Cooking Channel is more instructional cooking as opposed to the various reality shows, eatery profiling, hyper commercialization that makes up Food Network now.
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smackfu posted:Both chefs on Chef Hunter always seem to be terrible. One of them ended up on this season of Top Chef, actually. (though it appears Chef Hunter was done before it)
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I Ozma Myself posted:I'm telling youse, I think Elizabeth Faulkner is going to pull off Next Iron Chef. The secret ingredient challenge made me gag with all the plugs.
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Dec 12, 2011 23:42
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I Ozma Myself posted:I wonder if it's the same setup 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. Looks like it yeah. Oh hey, the promo has Alex G. calling Coolio "a crime against cooking". The contestants appear to be: Joey Fatone Cheech Marin Aaron Carter Lou Diamond Phillips Coolio Summer Sanders Alyssa Campanell Taylor Dayne
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Dec 13, 2011 05:28
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axleblaze posted:I think when I said D-list I was being FAR too kind. Yeah, when Cheech and Lou Diamond Martin are probably the biggest draw...yeesh.
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Dec 13, 2011 05:34
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TV Zombie posted:I had a thought...what happened to "The Next Food Network Star" winners? I always thought that the time slots for their shows helped killed their shows off but I was always hoping that they gone to better things than to just having their shows run on Sundays at 11. The first 2 flamed out pretty quickly. Then there was Guy, and then there were the people who they've stuck at 7 AM on the weekends.
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Dec 22, 2011 18:09
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Jamesman posted:So it seems Wednesdays, Food Network is doing some sort of pilot burn-off or something. Last week was a show they didn't promote, and it was just the one episode, and now tonight was a different show, also completely out of nowhere. I caught a replay of it. It wasn't horrifically bad, but it wasn't really interesting either. It was just...horribly mediocre.
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Dec 24, 2011 06:27
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iastudent posted:I know who people like Guy are and why you should hate them. What's Zakarian's deal? I'm finally watching a Chopped ep with him as judge. Zakarian is declaring bankruptcy in order to get around paying his workers overtime.
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Dec 28, 2011 02:23
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The_Doctor posted:God, Robert Irvine can go die in a fire. He's such a tool. I'm glad he has no recognition over here in the UK I'm glad to say. Is this really true, I heard he was knighted...
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Sweet Genius is an absolute trainwreck, and I love it for that.
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MAXIMUM SWEAT posted:The Guy & Racheal show is horrible, but not because Guy & Racheal are unbearable (they are) but because the "celebrities" are so loving full of themselves that it makes the show aggrivating. That swimmer lady can not go through one interview without mentioning how she was a pro swimmer and Lou Diamond "When people mention that they enjoy my films and now ALSO love my cooking!" oh my god when was your last movie 25 years ago. To be fair, they chose people who really needed to play themselves up for people to know who they are and Cheech Marin. Then again, Cheech Marin's only now relevant because he's starring as a father-in-law on the next surefire CBS sitcom hit ¡Rob! starring Rob Schneider. Is there a ¡Rob! thread in TVIV yet?
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ToastyPotato posted:Yeah the producers on Chopped clearly try to get judges to be jerks. Aaron Sanchez seems super laid back in about every other show, but usually seems uptight as a judge on Chopped. I think that basically they are all expected to behave like Alex G and Zakarian since those are the most common judges on the show. To be fair, Two and a Half Men didn't have guaranteed trainwreck written all over it. Even Allen Gregory got a thread.
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Jan 30, 2012 08:00
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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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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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Jamesman posted:Well, just saw Robert Irvine throw up. Because when you're watching a channel called Food Network, it needs to be as disgusting and unpleasant as possible for the viewer. Haven't you seen When Food Attacks?
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Feb 23, 2012 04:28
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ToastyPotato posted:Woa woa, he's not really that way? I couldn't watch more than a couple of episodes because I was totally put off by him. Why would they make him do that? Watch the first 30 seconds of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBfjxuSohek
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Mar 12, 2012 04:07
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Timby posted:Food Network-related ... the new issue of the magazine came in the mail today. (I know, I know ... my wife likes it, and occasionally there are some pretty great recipes in it.) There's a feature in it titled, "50 Grilled Cheeses." You know, fifty ways to prepare a grilled cheese. Did Sandra Lee write any of the recipes?
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Mar 13, 2012 02:34
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Indentured Servant posted:Ketchup hate seems to be an American thing. Maybe because your ketchup is sweet as poo poo and just gross in general. The actual combo of ketchup + meat isn't that weird, though. If mushroom ketchup is good enough for Heston Blumenthal's steak, it's good enough for you One of the weird American idiosyncrasies is that we never use anything but tomato ketchup. I honestly have no idea why walnut/mushroom ketchups fell so out of favor. Might have something to do with the Great Depression.
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Robviously posted:Ketchup is very much an american thing. I still remember sharing similar what the gently caress looks the first time I ate a hot dog while visiting family in Italy. Me with my ketchup, they with their mayo. I was so young and naive back then. Actually by origins, ketchup is Chinese. It wasn't until it eventually got to Great Britain/US that they started making tomato ketchup though.
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criscodisco posted:I guess I have some learning to do. I just assumed that ketchup was watered down pureed tomato, which somehow didn't end up tasting like tomato at all. Tomato puree with vinegar, sugar, and some spices mixed in. bunnyofdoom posted:ARguably, it's Roman actually. It was originally Garrum, and things were added to it, and subtracted from it until it evolved into what we now have. I was really going by word etymology. Ketchup is an Anglicized version of the Chinese name.
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Apr 10, 2012 07:31
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TV Zombie posted:I was thinking about the recent Food Network star winner Aarti something and I was wondering whether she's had a show on Food Network yet or not. Yes, her time is Saturday at 8 am with all the other NFN stars winners not named Guy Fieri.
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jscolon2.0 posted:
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May 12, 2012 14:40
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May 13, 2012 21:49
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Melting Hershey kisses in foil and then stuffing it through a strainer.
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May 28, 2012 02:20
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2 words Vegemite s'mores
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Timby posted:Dude looks and behaves like an ax murderer, though. This is the network that has Guy Fieri, Sandra Lee, and Paula Deen.
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Jul 4, 2012 05:01
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Didn't he get married to a pro wrestler?
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I really wish I could have seen Iron Chef USA when it was on.
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Cavenagh posted:I thought lamp posts were made to be frail and fall over when hit by something. So that in an accident the impact isn't so deadly. Yeah, this is the case. They're designed to break away at the bottom like that as a safety feature. Slamming into a rigid object has a greater chance of driver fatality. I couldn't even get through one episode of the food truck race this season. Its just bad.
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Conduit for Sale! posted:I have a feeling alcohol is an integral part of Sandra Lee's "cooking". Well, for the people eating it anyway. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLMNZ6xY6YY&t=83s
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Oct 15, 2012 02:12
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Cream_Filling posted:It's an integral part of watching, too. Paula Deen
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Conduit for Sale! posted:Hilariously enough, after all this talk of Sandra Lee being a lush, I just saw a commercial for her new show on Cooking Channel: Sandra Lee's Taverns, Lounges & Clubs. Someone get her to go to that pirate bar from bar rescue please.
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Y Kant Ozma Post posted:It was just on the other day! Flood Tide episode?
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Nov 24, 2012 19:03
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LionsBelow posted:He was kind of a jerk in person, too. With Challenge, the hosts were at least HUMAN. They would come up and chat with you both on set and off. This guy only appeared for his lines and then was gone. You were on Challenge as well?
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Is it wrong that I want Marcel to win so they can bring in Ilan.
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