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[Food] Favourite/ least favourite tv/celeb Chef ?



OzMike

Well-known member
Oct 2, 2006
13,329
Perth Australia
All of them, with the twatty Ramsey top of the list.
I don't need to be told by these what I like and don't like, I can figure out for myself.
Waste of time and TV space.
 










Cowfold Seagull

Fan of the 17 bus
Apr 22, 2009
22,130
Cowfold
Fave chef? (although he prefers to be labelled as a cook), is Rick Stein, he loves to cook seafood, and l love to eat it. His cookery programmes very often merge into travel guides.

Least fave? that's quite easy, that annoying Italian with the little man syndrome, Dino D'Campo.
 




stewart12

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Jan 16, 2019
1,956
I actually quite like Gordon Ramsey. I will happily binge kitchen nightmares (British one more than the American). For all his bluster and ego he can be pretty genuinely nice. Is always polite to waiters and waitresses and saves his anger for owners and head chefs who he thinks are taking the piss. Any hint of BS will see him fly off the handle of course.

Also enjoyed the one he did in prison.
 




Weststander

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NSC Patron
Aug 25, 2011
70,039
Withdean area
I actually quite like Gordon Ramsey. I will happily binge kitchen nightmares (British one more than the American). For all his bluster and ego he can be pretty genuinely nice. Is always polite to waiters and waitresses and saves his anger for owners and head chefs who he thinks are taking the piss. Any hint of BS will see him fly off the handle of course.

Also enjoyed the one he did in prison.

Our latest neighbours (it’s a rented out house) is a chef who used to work in London, he worked for Ramsey and knows them all ….it’s small world apparently. He likes and really rates Ramsey, he said his former aggressive TV personality was largely for effect and not the reality in the kitchen.

Nadiya …. anyone else here rate her food progs? Currently on BBC2, everything she creates appears achievable and looks delicious.
 








BrightonCottager

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Sep 30, 2013
2,868
Brighton
I’ve eaten a few times at The River cafe in Hammersmith … Excellant grub and I’m sure Jamie Oliver was sous chef there.
Quite a few seasons ago, I bribed my daughter to come with me to see Fulham against some unexciting Midlands team with the prospect of lunch at The River Cafe. What I didn't reveal until we emerged from Putney Bridge tube station was that I meant the greasy spoon opposite which shares the name, if not the menu, prices and Michelin star.

We now go to a fantastic Italian cafe in Putney that would be absolutely rammed if it was in Brighton.
 




Comrade Sam

Comrade Sam
Jan 31, 2013
1,951
Walthamstow
Can't stand Jamie Oliver, not that keen on the rest. Used to live Keith Floyd and like Paul Hollywood's travel shows, as he doesn't patronise us by showing how he cooks the natives cuisine.
 


jcdenton08

Offended Liver Sausage
NSC Patron
Oct 17, 2008
15,066
Reminder not to go to celebrity chef’s franchised restaurants:


£19 for this:

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Grim!
 


The Clamp

Well-known member
Jan 11, 2016
26,421
West is BEST






The Clamp

Well-known member
Jan 11, 2016
26,421
West is BEST
I don’t like many tv chefs.

Don’t mind Tom Kerridge these days.

Jamie Oliver used to annoy me. Quite like his stuff now.
 


North of Robertsbridge

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Sep 22, 2023
291
East Sussex
I enjoyed Marcus Waring’s recent series about his kitchen garden in East Sussex, as it’s just up the road from us and highlights a number of suppliers we shop at (should still be on iPlayer catch-up if you missed it)

I don‘t much like Rick Stein‘s programmes - I’m sure his original fish restaurant is fine, but he just appears like the clueless Brit abroad in his travel shows
 


Fignon's Ponytail

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Jun 29, 2012
4,523
On the Beach
Not sure you can call her a TV chef, but she does a lot of cooking on the socials...

Ive mentioned her before, but Ex GBBO contestant Lottie Bedlow does it for me. Not only is she drop dead gorgeous & a local girl, but she has a wicked sense of humour with a very naughty streak, & makes some bloody lovely looking food too.

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