who's your favourite celebrity chef?

[hiccup]

I like the Hairy Bikers Cookbook chaps (don't know their names). Not sure that they count as "celebrity chefs" though. I like Gordon & Heston. As a veggie Hugh FW gets on my nerves with his obssession for killing and eating things. It wouldn't surprise me if he's tried cooking with human flesh.

Well if you count placenta as flesh...

 

[DJ Squelch]

Well if you count placenta as flesh...

Oh .yes he's already started with his placenta pate. They'll find the odd corpses with some prime cuts missing buried on his farm in a few years time. Just you wait.

 

[dilute micro]

Too many shows are more about the personality of the cook rather than the food.

 

[souljacker]

I rate Hugh fearnley-wobblyballs and Rick Stein. But there is only one god of the celeberity chef world:

He's fucking great.


Dislike:

Delia (Norwich scum)
Gary Rhodes (fuck how it tastes as long as it looks good)
The hairy bikers (shit chefs, rubbish presenters)

 

[la ressistance]

The hairy bikers (shit chefs, rubbish presenters)

your right there.they really fucking annoy me.

 

[Chairman Meow]

I love Hugh fearnley - thingy, Gordon {strangely attractive} Ramsey, Heston, because he is barking, Nigella (want to be her, except she's a bit of a black widow type }. I can't watch that fat-tongued mockney twat Oliver at all [well, i do, but I scream at the tv and not in a good way}. Delia's ok, but boring to watch. And Keith Floyd is the daddy - his old house outside Kinsale was on sale a while ago - wish I could have bought it.

 

[Dirty Martini]

Heston Blumencrantz, though I've only seen one of his progs, Hugh Frimley-Whittlescrawl and, off of Ready Steady Cook, Tony Tobin and Phil Vickery, because they cook interesting food with a bit of flair.

Can't stand Gary Rhodes and Nigella Lawson, and I don't like Gordon Ramsay much.

Agree with people about the River Cafe women. I've never watched their programme but their cookbook recipes are among the most precious and uncookable I've seen.

 

[stavros]

Am I the only person who wishes that "celebrity chef" meant that they boiled alive anyone who appears in Heat, OK or Hello?

 

[Epico]

I could happily live without any of the smug bastards.

Only watch cooking shows when channel hopping and rarely see anything I'd want to eat, let alone spend three weeks preparing.

 

[DotCommunist]

Ennit amazing how the cunts on ready steady cook manage to produce a lovely meal in such a short time? Has NOTHING to do with the fact that they have every ingredient and tool to hand, plus ovens already warmed up of course.
I'd like to see them produce such gourmet stuff when forced to cook in my kitchen. The smug wankers. I especially hate that beardy ginger who resembles the mental picture I have of peadophiles.

 

[Paris Garters]

Hugh ferny wobblebobble, even though he's a posh bugger. I love all the self sufficient sustainability stuff, and though I don't eat meat aside from the odd lucky bit of roadkill, I have a lot of respect for people willing to get down and dirty and do the job themselves, rather then buying dead stuff shrink-wrapped off a supermarket shelf with no connection to what it was or how it lived and died.

Ray Mears. Not a chef as such, but he does cook things.

 

[gentlegreen]

Ray Mears. Not a chef as such, but he does cook things.

My mouth has frequently watered watching his programmes, but I draw the line at ants

 

[Kenny Vermouth]

The older I've got, the more I like cooking programmes.

I think Keith Floyd and Tony Bourdain are the most entertaining.

 

[Treebeak]

Hugh I like but then he cooks things like tripe... much prefer the 'rear your own livestock' side to his progs

Gordon is ace but more in those Kitchen Nightmare/Hells Kitchen shows...the way he does actual recipes... STIR! BOIL! BLACK PEPPER! Far to trendy for me...

Have to say then that I like Jamie the most - like the way he does his recipes, like the food itself and like him as a presenter type person... good package I say. But the boy has sold out ..the fat tounged mockney git /shakes head.

Come to think of it that Fat Duck fella is pretty sound... but how long does it take to cook any of his stuff! Dear oh dear oh dear...

 

[Larry O'Hara]

my partner--she's very good, adaptable, creative, experimental, & pretty too!

And certainly a celebrity in my eyes..................

 

[la ressistance]

my partner--she's very good, adaptable, creative, experimental, & pretty too!

And certainly a celebrity in my eyes..................

never heard of her.

 

[SubZeroCat]

I really like Rick Stein cos I love fish and seafood and I really enjoyed his boat trip around the South of France. My housemate's cousin works as a chef in his restaurant in Cornwall, housemate's just returned from a weekend there after having a FREE slap up meal....wow.

I also really like Hugh Fearnly-Whittingstall for his back to basics approach and his passion. He puts a lot of effort and work into his food making and his River Cottage Treatment show is wonderful. He seems like such a nice man too.

 

[academia]

Especially after Jonathan Ross called her a 'MILF' on Friday, and she just smiled and said 'Thank you'. I've no idea what her recipes are like though.

For food and being a surprisingly down-to-earth dude: Heston Blumenthal (he's got weird glasses though).

 

[Mogden]

Mr Bourdain is top of the pile.

Bubbling under is Nigella cos she makes me feel all proper domestic goddess-like. And her recipes are bloody good even if I don't follow them properly. And I like that she just says she's an enthusatic cook and foodie rather than a chef.

Hugh cos he's all for the good stuff. And Ramsay cos I'd be just like him if I ran a kitchen. He's not a bully, cos he knows he swears and stuff and switches it off as soon as service is over.

 

[Sigmund Fraud]

Best: Rick 'try and keep in in your pants!' Stein

Worst:German bloke who served up penis suprise.

 

[DotCommunist]

How could I forget Rick Stein! He's a ledge.

Love his seafood recipes

 

[Kanda]

Delia!!!!! ffs!

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

Heston makes ice cream at your table with liquid nitrogen.

'Nuff said

 

[rhod]

Just a quick heads up that Travel & Living Channel are showing new(ish) episodes of Anthony Bourdain's "No Reservations" - series 3 & 4 - weekdays at 7:00pm.

Just watched the Cleveland episode, including a visit to an old factory that made Twinky bars, but is now used to store rare books (!) - Some of the old pipework was still full of the fructose goo they used to fill the Twinky bars. Apparently the flies and rats won't touch it, but when Bourdain siphoned off a bit to taste he thought it tasted delicious (of course)

 

[The Boy]

Just a quick heads up that Travel & Living Channel are showing new(ish) episodes of Anthony Bourdain's "No Reservations" - series 3 & 4 - weekdays at 7:00pm.

Just watched the Cleveland episode, including a visit to an old factory that made Twinky bars, but is now used to store rare books (!) - Some of the old pipework was still full of the fructose goo they used to fill the Twinky bars. Apparently the flies and rats won't touch it, but when Bourdain siphoned off a bit to taste he thought it tasted delicious (of course)

Don't know what Bourdain is like as a chef, but I saw his episode of "No Reservations" when he visited Scotland. The first hald of teh show involved him going to a chippy with his mate and eating deep fried, battered fish; deep fried haggis; deep fried, battered pizza; and a deep fried, battered, pickled egg.

Then he went to Edinburgh and got involved in the age old brown sauce/vinegar argument so they went to the chippy again and he had a king rib.

He loved it all

 

[Artie Fufkin]

bill granger. oz chef supreme.

 

[Pieman]

http://www.esquire.com/women/women-we-love/delaurentiis0807

Giada Delaurentiis. Zow-wie!

 

[brianx]

Sophie Grigson. I do sometimes flirt with Nigella and look wistfully at Delia but Sophie's the one.

 

[Scarlette]

Nigel Slater and Rick Stein. Love the way they both make cooking seem rather cerebral and beautiful.

 

[Dillinger4]

ooo I like Rick Stein as well.

Did you see his Mediterranean adventures thingy?

nom nom nom.