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How would you do on Food Network's Chopped?

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by Bubbler, Jul 5, 2012.

  1. JR

    JR Well-Known Member

    No, it's about aiming for the "lowest common denominator".
     
  2. JR

    JR Well-Known Member

    Well, "Chuck's Day Off| is about as far from precious cooking as you can get. But he's a trained chef with one of the most popular restaurants in Montreal.

    I also miss "Tyler's Ultimate". Tyler Florence cooked real food but on almost every show you'd learn a little trick from a pro

    I'm talking about old fashioned how-to cooking shows.

    I just got bored with Chopped after a while. .
     
  3. JR

    JR Well-Known Member

    It's mostly local legislation. Hamilton, yes, Hamilton was in the vanguard of the food truck movement in the GTA. In Toronto, the government is so fucking paternalistic that they're still now allowing trucks on city property. That's why they pop up in places like Liberty Village.

    It's growing and at some point Toronto will have to recognize that they're not going away.

    And your objection to "profanity laden" made me laugh.
     
  4. Iron_chet

    Iron_chet Well-Known Member

    I am still a sucker for a lot of the food porn shows.

    I used to love Iron Chef Japan but have absolutely no use for the American version. Alton Brown is such a complete pompus, douchey windbag that I would kick in the nuts if given the opportunity.

    Top Chef on Bravo is probably my favorite cooking show.

    Gordon Ramsey jumped the shark years ago, the humour of him yelling at a bunch of goobers has long since worn out.

    I am waiting for a network to bring back Canadian TV legend Martin Yan complete with his pun covered aprons.
     
  5. JR

    JR Well-Known Member

    Martin Yan was doing food shows before there was a Food Network. Wok With Yan.

    Michael Smith from PEI is great...I hear he has a new programme. The guy is a total self-promoter but he's a solid chef.

    But no one beats Laura Calder. :)
     
  6. Iron_chet

    Iron_chet Well-Known Member

    Wok with Yan was a TV staple along with The Price is Right when I was home sick as a kid.

    Not a big Michael Smith fan, not sure what it is but he is a little too earnest for me.
     
  7. JR

    JR Well-Known Member

    Yeah, he can be preachy sometimes. Maybe I'm just jealous of his house on PEI. And his kid Gabe is cute.
     
  8. Batman

    Batman Well-Known Member

    The "nuts and bolts" cooking shows are on during the day. The "entertainment" and "game show" cooking shows like Iron Chef and Chopped come on at night.
    I'm not a gourmet chef by any means but do like to screw around in the kitchen. I've picked up a few pointers from shows like Iron Chef and Chopped, like certain ingredients that mix well together or some techniques that can be dumbed down and used.
     
  9. Oggiedoggie

    Oggiedoggie Well-Known Member

    I've watched enough of Alton Brown's "Good Eats" to think that he's just sort of doing his riff on a pompous windbag.

    I could be wrong (and usually am).

    I've been a bit disillusioned with "Iron Chef America" since it dawned on me that the Chairman probably isn't really the nephew of the Japanese Iron Chef chairman.

    It's interesting to me how little about actually cooking stuff I learn from watching "Iron Chef America."

    And, it does seem to be pretty much the same show over and over.

    I'd like to get all sanctimonious and say that I don't watch it anymore. But, truth be told, after scrolling through TV wasteland when I come home from work at 1 a.m., I often wind up back there asking myself, "Will Morimoto finally be beaten?"

    Oh and now that Geoffrey Zakarian is an Iron Chef, Alexandra Guarnaschelli occasionally helps him out with the cooking (I think that he occasionally might be stuffing her partridge), so there's a slight possibility of seeing them fricasseed in some sort of kitchen miscue.
     
  10. Bubbler

    Bubbler Well-Known Member

    You said screw.
     
  11. Iron_chet

    Iron_chet Well-Known Member

    @Oggiedoggie, re: Alton Brown.

    I used to enjoy Good Eats but it seems Brown has grown out of being a likable nerd and into a douche.

    His turn on Next Food Newtwork Star is a studdy in pomposity. I saw him upbraid a contestant for not knowing that "all salt is sea salt because it came from a sea at one time" just hhave no use for the guy.
     
  12. Bubbler

    Bubbler Well-Known Member

    I must have been ahead of the curve because I've always thought Alton Brown was a douche.
     
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