KYHeirloomer wrote:Some think Bobby Flay is the throwdown king, others that he needs to be thrown down.
Brook you been reading my mind again.
KYHeirloomer wrote:Brook you been reading my mind again.
Throw Down with Bobby Flay......That show ***ses me off to the fullest extent. He goes out and challenges people with award winning recipes. Cook the recipe with a twist of adding a chili pepper or goat cheese and everyone slaps him on the back. Bobby Flay couldn't even fry chicken with out burning it. I don't know where the judges come from but for some strange reason the ones not from the area of the throw down always vote for his dish.
As far as the food net work shows, there are several that I enjoy catching recipe ideas off of. Tyler Florence, Ina Garten, and the Nealies (the black couple that cooks what I consider normal type meals). Even the winner of that reality type show Big Daddy has more to offer than some of the stars that have been on there since forever. The Bam lost it wayyyyyy back.
I think that the food network should go back to the PBS type format and start producing cooking shows that the public actually wants to see. The line up that PBS has been running for years on the weekends and has always kept me interested. I think that Cooks Country went a little hoaky with the banjo music and all when it transformed from being Americas Test Kitchen but the show is still basically the same. I do wish they would come back with Chefs Class though because I really enjoyed the recipes that were prepared by the Chefs in front of the students.
As far as the food net work shows, there are several that I enjoy catching recipe ideas off of. Tyler Florence, Ina Garten, and the Nealies (the black couple that cooks what I consider normal type meals). Even the winner of that reality type show Big Daddy has more to offer than some of the stars that have been on there since forever. The Bam lost it wayyyyyy back.
I think that the food network should go back to the PBS type format and start producing cooking shows that the public actually wants to see. The line up that PBS has been running for years on the weekends and has always kept me interested. I think that Cooks Country went a little hoaky with the banjo music and all when it transformed from being Americas Test Kitchen but the show is still basically the same. I do wish they would come back with Chefs Class though because I really enjoyed the recipes that were prepared by the Chefs in front of the students.
I want to see people cook.
I don't enjoy cake challenges, bbq cook offs, vacation shows where they show all the places I'll never go and all the places I could never afford to eat at. Showing people cooking was what made the FN popular and they do seem to be getting away from that. After 7pm on the weekdays the channel stinks and after 2pm on the weekends it stinks. Back around the holidays you could catch a few holiday episodes where they were actually cooking in primetime but not much.
Like IC I don't care for Bobby Flay. I hate that Ace of Cakes. Boring as can be to me. I like Ina Garten, Giada, Paula Dean, Sunny Anderson, The Nealys, Jamie Oliver, Nigella Lawson, Michael Chiarello & Emeril. For some reason I have a hard time paying attention to Tyler Florence and Guy's recipes are just not my thing. I don't think I have ever made a Sandra Lee recipe and I do not care for Bobby Flay. Rachael Ray may make a recipe I want to try occasionally.
I don't enjoy cake challenges, bbq cook offs, vacation shows where they show all the places I'll never go and all the places I could never afford to eat at. Showing people cooking was what made the FN popular and they do seem to be getting away from that. After 7pm on the weekdays the channel stinks and after 2pm on the weekends it stinks. Back around the holidays you could catch a few holiday episodes where they were actually cooking in primetime but not much.
Like IC I don't care for Bobby Flay. I hate that Ace of Cakes. Boring as can be to me. I like Ina Garten, Giada, Paula Dean, Sunny Anderson, The Nealys, Jamie Oliver, Nigella Lawson, Michael Chiarello & Emeril. For some reason I have a hard time paying attention to Tyler Florence and Guy's recipes are just not my thing. I don't think I have ever made a Sandra Lee recipe and I do not care for Bobby Flay. Rachael Ray may make a recipe I want to try occasionally.
Funny how different we all are, and yet so alike in many ways. Janie I love to see shows where they travel and eat, for me it is like a taste of their vacation as I watch, I can just more easily visualize where they are at by watching it! I love when Rachael Ray travels and tries to stick to a $40.00 a day budget, which is a fortune to me I just know I could do it under $40.00:D
Believe it or not 1/2 the shows you mentioned I have never seen, I have not watched Sandra Lee :confused: have no earthly idea who she is, I do not know nor do I even care to know. From all I have read here she would fail to hold my interest!
I also love some of the cake challenges, and cook-offs (except for Bobby Flay's shows his are all rigged for him to win, and if I had to eat the crap he puts out I would die it all looks way too hot for even a lover of hot foods like me). Also Bobby Flay's pure egotistical, pompous personality sickens me.
I love all Iron Chef's wether it be American or the original. I can not watch it though when the slaughter live creatures like the night they did turtles...I turned that off before the slaughtering began and it was about 3 yrs later before I would watch Iron Chef again! The very thought of watching that disgusted me that much! I know I have had to do such slaughtering before but it is not for entertainment purposes, and I sure as he** am not going to watch that on TV!
Like you I really love the good ole' pure cooking shows from of old! I always loved the "Galloping Gourmet" when I was a child, and I guess all the modern shows that feature just good cooking hold my inetrest about as good as anything can. And I love humble down-to-earth for real people the best!!!
Believe it or not 1/2 the shows you mentioned I have never seen, I have not watched Sandra Lee :confused: have no earthly idea who she is, I do not know nor do I even care to know. From all I have read here she would fail to hold my interest!
I also love some of the cake challenges, and cook-offs (except for Bobby Flay's shows his are all rigged for him to win, and if I had to eat the crap he puts out I would die it all looks way too hot for even a lover of hot foods like me). Also Bobby Flay's pure egotistical, pompous personality sickens me.
I love all Iron Chef's wether it be American or the original. I can not watch it though when the slaughter live creatures like the night they did turtles...I turned that off before the slaughtering began and it was about 3 yrs later before I would watch Iron Chef again! The very thought of watching that disgusted me that much! I know I have had to do such slaughtering before but it is not for entertainment purposes, and I sure as he** am not going to watch that on TV!
Like you I really love the good ole' pure cooking shows from of old! I always loved the "Galloping Gourmet" when I was a child, and I guess all the modern shows that feature just good cooking hold my inetrest about as good as anything can. And I love humble down-to-earth for real people the best!!!