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

[Herr Tubthumper]

I really can't stand "professional northerner" james martin, and now that I know he's thoroughly unpleasant I like less. The hairy bikers seem pleasant enough but really aren't cooks. For all of his lad persona Oliver is a good chef. My own faves, sadly very little seen on TV but celebs nonetheless are Sean Brock & April Bloomfield

Good shout for Bloomfield. The Spotted Pig was one of my favourite restaurants until it closed amidst dodgy goings on.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Saw her once in Borough market. Once she’s out of the TV makeup she’s rough as f***.

Even better.

 

[Machiavelli]

I’m not a great connoisseur of celebrity chefs, but I really can’t stand Nigella Lawson.
To say she “uses” the fact that she is a woman is an understatement.

Are you saying that she's somewhat transparent in what she does?

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

One book I return to a lot is Jack Monroe’s A Year In A 100 Recipes. It’s perfect for tasty quick meals when you don’t have much time or energy. I have cooked her puttanesca dish many times.

 

[vegster]

On to your topic: I like Yotam's recipes, they work well and don't tend to take as long or be as difficult as most think. And not on TV but, if you don't know her, Rachel Roddy is another treasure, and the recipes are wonderful.

But where do you get that 'ndga stuff ? It's the weird stuff that cheeses me off...I actually have ramped up my home grown Chilli plants to include Ancho's, Pasarilla and Guaillio's but some ingredients are almost impossible to source...and that is what really pisses me off !

 

[Machiavelli]

But where do you get that 'ndga stuff ? It's the weird stuff that cheeses me off...I actually have ramped up my home grown Chilli plants to include Ancho's, Pasarilla and Guaillio's but some ingredients are almost impossible to source...and that is what really pisses me off !

I don't tend to try a recipe if I don't have the ingredient, although will substitute at times. Kudos to you and chapeau to Yotam for your expanding chilli connection: you know it makes sense.

 

[Paulie Gualtieri]

Steven Frederic Seagal

Never gets flustered and delivers

 

[Gwylan]

But where do you get that 'ndga stuff ? It's the weird stuff that cheeses me off...

'Nduja is not difficult to find. all the big supermarkets stock it. I'm a vegetarian so I don't use it myself but it's not that obscure.

I don't find many TV chefs are that veggie friendly so I rarely watch cookery programmes. But it's interesting reading about Keith Floyd: I thought his drinking was a bit of an act until I was at a breakfast event with him and saw him knocking it back at 8.30 in the morning.

But Floyd was an amateur compared to Raymond Oliver, take a look at his pancake recipe. Try explaining to the cop that you'd not been drinking but had just been eating crepes (this is in French but it's perfectly understandable),

 

[vegster]

I don't tend to try a recipe if I don't have the ingredient, although will substitute at times. Kudos to you and chapeau to Yotam for your expanding chilli connection: you know it makes sense.

I started growing the rarer chillies after seeing Rick Steins The Road to Mexico...his stuff is not
too complicated but does need a degree of " local " ingredients.. luckily, I can grow Chillies although getting some of the seeds was hard work.

 

[vegster]

'Nduja is not difficult to find. all the big supermarkets stock it. I'm a vegetarian so I don't use it myself but it's not that obscure.

I don't find many TV chefs are that veggie friendly so I rarely watch cookery programmes. But it's interesting reading about Keith Floyd: I thought his drinking was a bit of an act until I was at a breakfast event with him and saw him knocking it back at 8.30 in the morning.

But Floyd was an amateur compared to Raymond Oliver, take a look at his pancake recipe. Try explaining to the cop that you'd not been drinking but had just been eating crepes (this is in French but it's perfectly understandable),

Thanks for that, where in a supermarket do you find 'Nduja, what section does it come under ? What is it near ? Cheers

 

[Gwylan]

Thanks for that, where in a supermarket do you find 'Nduja, what section does it come under ? What is it near ? Cheers

Here's the Sainsbury one

https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/product/sainsburys-itc-nduja-60g?istCompanyId=1e096408-041f-4238-994e-a7cf46bf9413&istFeedId=689af7a8-5842-4d88-be59-1ee5688a81b5&istItemId=ltliqpmtw&istBid=t&&cmpid=cpc&utm_source=Google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=20333793068&utm_content=shopping&utm_term=%257Bsku%257D&utm_custom1=&utm_custom2=759-449-0952&gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQiAkeSsBhDUARIsAK3tieczaXUihcrVTKNsPPuO85uvm9_Xc1CW_Pk0qADU-s44eJAiiM4_GhwaAuosEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds

In cooked meats/sausages

You could probably find more authentic stuff in an Italian deli - if you're in Brighton, the deli at Seven Dials will probably sell it

 

[Questions]

I think of Delia and Jamie Oliver as chefs/bakers who’ve never claimed to have a classic training, almost self taught, who’ve brought practical cooking to the hoi polloi.

Ronay, Worrall Thompson and Rhodes all mocked Delia in the past. Snobs.

I’ve eaten a few times at The River cafe in Hammersmith … Excellant grub and I’m sure Jamie Oliver was sous chef there.

 

[kojak]

But it's interesting reading about Keith Floyd: I thought his drinking was a bit of an act until I was at a breakfast event with him and saw him knocking it back at 8.30 in the morning.

I worked in France some 20 years ago
My first job was in a restaurant
The chef was knocking back the red stuff at 6.30
And no one battered an eye lid

 

[Wickham Wanderer]

Gordan is the most talented, but understand he is not everyone’s cuppa tea, but Tom Kerridge is the best for me.
Jamie and Nadiya are just manufactured for TV.

 

[Weststander]

I’ve eaten a few times at The River cafe in Hammersmith … Excellant grub and I’m sure Jamie Oliver was sous chef there.

I liked his Italian chain, lovely food.

He attracted a lot of hate from fat parents and right wing ‘libertarians’ (happy to have obese kids) when he dared to improve school grub.

 

[WATFORD zero]

Maybe it's just me, but isn't the whole concept of watching someone on TV cook something that you can't smell or taste just a little bit strange

 

[Questions]

Maybe it's just me, but isn't the whole concept of watching someone on TV cook something that you can't smell or taste just a little bit strange

It’s just you

 

[7:18]

Ramsay & Hells Kitchen

 

[CheeseRolls]

I think there have been numerous top quality TV Chefs over the years, it just seems that right now very few of them are making any programmes.

Mary Berry ? Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear and people say Nigella is not authentic!
John Torrode and James Martin can both do one.
Nadiya is cleraly a talented baker, but some of her family meal recipes are just terrible.

One who is suprisingly both informative and entertaining is Gok Wan.

 

[HeaviestTed]

Maybe we could have a thread where people post their favourite simple recipes (with thread rules on max no. of ingredients or prepare time). I'd like to be better at cooking simple food.

My entry:

Toast a la HT:

Put a slice of bread in toaster.
Remove when toasted.
Eat.