Cookery programmes

[Acker79]

A new series that started on food network uk recently: Bitchin' Kitchen.

 

[Norman Potting]

May be the only man in history to admit this but 'come dine with me' is one of my favourite shows. Generally on when I do dinner (I do all the cooking in house) and having it on in the background provides a few laughs!

May I say that the other Pottings love this show, I have to leave the room before my urge to try and nail my ear to a plank as a more attractive option to watching it kicks in. It is claimed on Wikipedia that the voice over, Dave Lamb, is a Sussex/Brighton resident and follower/shareholder of Lewes FC.

 

[MJsGhost]

You miserable bugger

Guilty as charged!

 

[Kumquat]

I quite like his books/recipes, but watching him on the telly makes me want to stick my foot through it. There's something about his presenting style that makes my blood boil (and I'm generally speaking very easy going).

UNWATCHABLE

You are of course entitled to your opinion, but I am NEVER going to agree with you.

He's getting better but yes his presenting style is very clumsy and awkward. Nice chap though and his written stuff in the Observer is excellent.

 

[Weststander]

I am surprised no one has mentioned Keith Floyd yet. Good cooking, and such a larf watching him slurping away.

My thoughts exactly.
Talented chef, charismatic, tipsy, straight talking, genuine and not stage managed.

I also like Ramsey. I know he's a bully and probably not a very nice person, but he's bloody good and the directness aimed at incompetence is in my opinion good viewing.

 

[TheJasperCo]

I quite like his books/recipes, but watching him on the telly makes me want to stick my foot through it. There's something about his presenting style that makes my blood boil (and I'm generally speaking very easy going).

UNWATCHABLE

You are of course entitled to your opinion, but I am NEVER going to agree with you.

You're not wrong there, it's just the way he talks in that patronising, disjointed tone of voice that annoys me. He's still one of the best TV cookery people out there though, which says a lot about the others.

Thing is I enjoy cookery programs, ut once you've seen one you've seen them all - there's nothing original in any new cooking show.

 

[Westdene Seagull]

I like the cookery shows that are mixed with something else like travel. The recent Hairy Bikers series on America was very good.

 

[Jesus Gul]

Action Bronson is the man

 

[Knightsworld]

I like that Jewish woman with the huge norks and suggestive finger licking. Nigella lawson, daughter of the ex chancellor.

My wife thinks I am bonkers but there is something primeaval about her

 

[m20gull]

I quite like his books/recipes, but watching him on the telly makes me want to stick my foot through it. There's something about his presenting style that makes my blood boil (and I'm generally speaking very easy going).

UNWATCHABLE

You are of course entitled to your opinion, but I am NEVER going to agree with you.

Unwatchable is exactly the word for Nigel Slater. Saturday Kitchen excellent or anything with Floyd in it.

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

Unwatchable is exactly the word for Nigel Slater. Saturday Kitchen excellent or anything with Floyd in it.

I would be exactly the opposite. can't stand Saturday Kitchen and the like, don't like cookery shows in general, but at least Nigel Slater tends to do things with real food that one could imagine doing oneself at home.

And the hairy Bikers are at least real people - I liked their Diet stuff recently, which was genuine and human.

And for pure cookery stuff, I would not go out of my way to watch, but will latch on to if I come across them, both Keith Floyd and Rick Stein.

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

PS - I also really like Raymond Blanc. I did actually follow a series he did recently about going round various regions in France and cooking regional meals, but then I am a Francophile. I knew some of the places he went to, particularly in Alsace.

 

[Brovion]

Not a cookery programme as such (more of a food programme) but Man vs Food is one of my favourite shows on TV. They don't make it now but, fortunately, it is shown on Dave. A lot.

Spot on. The rest are just poncy middle class twats cooking poncy middle class food for other poncy middle class twats.

(Although I do quite like watching the Hairy Bikers. And my wife has loads of Jamie Oliver books and his stuff's pretty good - even if he IS a poncy middle class twat for trying to interfere with school lunches. She also has Nigel Slater's Kitchen Diaries and his stuff's largely inedible)

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

Spot on. The rest are just poncy middle class twats cooking poncy middle class food for other poncy middle class twats.

(Although I do quite like watching the Hairy Bikers. And my wife has loads of Jamie Oliver books and his stuff's pretty good - even if he IS a poncy middle class twat for trying to interfere with school lunches. She also has Nigel Slater's Kitchen Diaries and his stuff's largely inedible)

The next time you're feeling peckish, you should take a bite out of that sizeable chip on your shoulder

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Not a cookery programme as such (more of a food programme) but Man vs Food is one of my favourite shows on TV. They don't make it now but, fortunately, it is shown on Dave. A lot.

Not so much a cookery programme as a piggery programme. Always end up starving hungry after watching it.

Much prefer the travelogue-based cookery programmes to the studio-based ones.

 

[KNC]

Sometimes watch Saturday kitchen but don't like the host as he made my friend cry with his bullying ways. Worst chef on TV, why it's on the most badly presented TV show in history, Sunday Brunch. The scouse baldy and the incompetent Lovejoy are both are a pair of cants.

Tell us more about the bullying.

 

[vegster]

Sometimes watch Saturday kitchen but don't like the host as he made my friend cry with his bullying ways. Worst chef on TV, why it's on the most badly presented TV show in history, Sunday Brunch. The scouse baldy and the incompetent Lovejoy are both are a pair of cants.

So, you know James Martin is a bully ? he seems ok to me ?

 

[desprateseagull]

cooking competitions on tv are tosh- the 'judges' may as well just get a room, and w@nk over pics of Nigella..

Only ones I like(d) are reasy steady cook, and man v food.

 

[Billy the Fish]

Got all of the latest Gordon Ramsay series on sky+, some really good easy recipes in there.

I despise nigella, she's just a massive c***. Boring shit unhealthy food, presented in a contrived and dishonest way.