Who are some TV Chefs you can’t stand and why?
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I’ll go first - Jamie Oliver, self promotion thinly disguised as concern for the youth of Britain
FreezerCop@reddit
Greg Wallace.
Fuck his extra 'g', the guys is a knob.
KolymaTales122@reddit
I can’t stand when he acts like a renowned authority for good food. All he’s done with food is bankrupt a few green grocers.
lucwhy@reddit
Have you read that 'My Saturday' article he did?
UnpredictiveList@reddit
He’s not a chef
Doctor_Nowt@reddit
He’s a fucking barrow boy. Boiled onions!
Current_Scarcity_379@reddit
My brother in law remembers him from his market days, he reckons he was ok then actually but like many before him , became a knob when he became a regular on tv.
FreezerCop@reddit
No extra G for you either
Current_Scarcity_379@reddit
You beat me to it. Although he’s not a chef, he thinks he’s a fuckin Michelin starred one . Can’t stand the man.
BroodLord1962@reddit
Not a chef
Familiar_Remote_9127@reddit
As far as I've head, Gregg is the good guy in that duo. John Torode is supposed to be a pretty nasty piece of work.
ShirtedRhino2@reddit
A friend of mine was on MasterChef, and said that John was a bit of a creep, but "Gregg is a cunt, and I choose that word very deliberately."
velos85@reddit
Does Ramsey count? Think the guy is an utter tool.
Incredible chef and one of the greatest ever no doubt...but he knows it and I think he's so fucking arrogant, more so when he's around other chefs and celebrities than when he's doing things like Hells Kitchen or Nightmares.
Seems to have the presenting/social skills of a potato as well.
Suspicious_Driver345@reddit
I think he's a great chef! He sounds more like a coach when he screams, but yeah I do dislike his way of screaming in people's faces though.
Martin_y1@reddit
The way he treats people is completely unacceptable . Same lack of humanity as russel brand
velos85@reddit
I wouldn’t go that far
woocheese@reddit
Saw him with his family a few years ago. He was eating at a restaurant / cafe where we were eating too. We didnt speak to him because you dont want to be that person, but obviously you notice because its a celebrity. He didnt really have any banter with the staff and was smiling and polite. Just living life with his family.
It was just fish and chips.
I think the TV personality and the person are different.
Bit like Cilla Black, massively arrogant with a huge superiority complex. But on TV nice friendly.
Lammtarra95@reddit
Gordon Ramsay was on course to become a footballer and was part of the Rangers youth setup until injury ended his dreams, but you can see echoes of that when a switch flips inside his head and he goes into coaching mode, or team-building mode. It's not just sweary rants with Gordon.
Huge-Brick-3495@reddit
Early Gordon I liked- he seemed to genuinely care about trying to help failing businesses in kitchen nightmares uk. When he did the US versions he became a cunt.
wildOldcheesecake@reddit
Have you seen American tv shows? They love the drama. His persona was engineered to fit the market.
7148675309@reddit
That’s just the US producers thinking they know what the audience wants.
-myeyeshaveseenyou-@reddit
I’m a former chef, I commented on James Martin and Tom kitchin above. Both wankers.
I’ve only ever heard good things about Gordon Ramsey from people I know in the industry who have worked for him.
B_n_lawson@reddit
Gordon Ramsay is such a complete prick. Cant stand any of the content he’s a part of.
Plus he’s just straight weird. He was on a US talk show years ago and was super weird to Sofia Vergara. Like creepy weird.
Hayesey88@reddit
His recipes I actually find a bit... Crap.
Suspicious_Driver345@reddit
Jamie Oliver. Think a lot of people hate him at this point.
DavosLostFingers@reddit
Can't quite put my finger on why, but I think Paul Hollywood is an absolute ball bag
Dutch_Calhoun@reddit
Up-himself fucking twerp. You judge cakes on the telly mate, you're not training the next generation of heart surgeons. His self-seriousness isn't even some entertaining schtick, he's just a legit wetwipe of a man who's lucked into an undeserved position of national attention.
Miserable-Ease-3744@reddit
Greg Davies should be on Bake Off in some capacity. Criminal he isnt.
Quirky_Discipline297@reddit
He opens the oven and shouts “It’s Little Alex Horne!” at a self-basting Alex.
Miserable-Ease-3744@reddit
I’ve never needed any programme more.
Quirky_Discipline297@reddit
A light sheen of warm juices glistens over his face, cheeks fully flushed just before the Maillard reaction kicks in, a crown of parsley and leeks, his eyes like two plumped sultanas, his smile an inviting salt pig.
upadownpipe@reddit
Gregg* As he'd point out himself. He's worse.
Expert_Temporary660@reddit
Greg off Taskmaster is Greg Davies, extremely funny and can take a joke against himself. Are you thinking of Gregg Wallace?
upadownpipe@reddit
Jeez! I read that way too early this morning and thought it was about Gregg Wallace and Masterchef
Expert_Temporary660@reddit
Your opinion of him is correct though!
InternetkilledTVstar@reddit
Legit wet wipe of a man. I'm having that one. Thank you Sir.
J1M7nine@reddit
He has that smarmy, sex pest vibe. He thinks he’s smooth, women avoid him like he’s a walking UTI
Hot_Friendship_6864@reddit
Used to work in pub in his hometown. Got told he came in sometimes and was letchy with women.
He came in. Him and partner had meal. Then he spent entire night at bar drinking champagne with two women while his wife was just sat at the table alone.
It was so weird I don't know why she just sat there and accepted it.
pajamakitten@reddit
Because he is. He left his wife for a woman much younger than her after he was caught cheating on her.
Fancy-Licker-66UK@reddit
Or your fingers even!
Peter_Sofa@reddit
Pretty much all of them are unwatchable
Cold_Table8497@reddit
Nigella. Won't appear on telly without looking beautiful and sexy. She absolutely refuses to marry me, I hate her.
fussyfella@reddit
Sorry about the great one night stand I had with her.
Oh hang on, that was just a dream.
barrythecook@reddit
Jamie Oliver not for the usual reasons but because of an article he wrote years ago about how English kids aren't prepared to do 14 hour shifts for minimum wage cos we're all lazy or something after basically getting his chance though being posh and connected the smart gimp
fussyfella@reddit
He got his chance because he was in the background when a different food programme was filming where he worked. They thought he was more entertaining than the actual chefs, and the rest is history.
Pure chance.
Like him or not his break did not come from being posh and connections, although now he probably has loads of connections I am sure he exploits them.
fussyfella@reddit
Paul Hollywood. You just know there is a file on him somewhere.
WhatCanIDoUFor@reddit
Tom Kitchin - something off about him. Plus https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=tom%20kitchn%20bullying
-myeyeshaveseenyou-@reddit
I’m a former chef, he’s known in the industry to literally burn chefs in his kitchen. Would not ever entertain the idea of working for him from things I’ve heard
Daisy_bumbleroot@reddit
Friends is mine worked in the Scran and Scallie, something like 7am till midnight, six days a week. I've no idea if those hours are normal in the industry but it seemed utterly inhumane to me.
-myeyeshaveseenyou-@reddit
Yeh I’ve worked hours like that for salary so you aren’t even bringing home good money. I always compare being a chef to bring in an abusive relationship. It also become very addictive. Some of the best and worst years of my life have been while I worked in kitchen. Your brigade become like a family, but it’s because you don’t see your actual family
Daisy_bumbleroot@reddit
Yeah he used to sleep all day on his day off, very lonely time for his partner. They're in a better place now happily.
Kaylee__Frye@reddit
He's a known cunt.
andronicustard@reddit
Nigel Slater, and I don't need to justify myself
Late-Champion8678@reddit
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall - I’m not sure why but he bothers me immensely
Nigel Slater - so very pretentious
FloydEGag@reddit
Tbf his Real Fast Food book from around 30 years ago is great, he seems to have got more pretentious with age
brokenbear76@reddit
I used to call one of his TV series "paedophiles suppers" - he genuinely makes my skin crawl.
millyloui@reddit
The way he talks about ‘supper’ & ‘nursery food’ i just can’t bear watching him .
meinnit99900@reddit
oh is that Stacey’s brother?
amboandy@reddit
how to make a beautiful soup with your leftover celeriac, guanciali and chestnuts, all you need is 500g of parmesan rind.
missbewtyifulness@reddit
Don't forget a little bit of cream.
cowie71@reddit
His books are amazing though
cloche_du_fromage@reddit
He's very up himself
pajamakitten@reddit
Jamie Oliver's fifteen minute meals are a lie. I like to think I am a good cook and even I cannot make them in fifteen minutes.
John Torode is mediocre at best and is in no way fit to find a Masterchef when he himself is not even mid-tier.
Lammtarra95@reddit
John Torode is good enough for Masterchef and better than MC Celebrities but of course the BBC needed to bring in Michelin-starred chefs for Masterchef Professionals, because JT would be a contestant not a judge on that show.
FloydEGag@reddit
They did one of those Masterchef ‘cook for an entire workplace’ shows at my mate’s depot, apparently him and Wallace barely interact unless the cameras are on them
b1fter@reddit
They're all horrendous. Endless faux 'rizz up your nan' energy, while giving an unnerving sense that they regularly sink into black rages and beat their families.
InternetkilledTVstar@reddit
But not Rick Stein. They are all horrendous, apart from Rick Stein.
formal-monopoly@reddit
Can't stand him. Constantly talks with his mouth full of food
Sunset-Out-West@reddit
Rick Stein is one of the worst!
Nasty piece of work off-camera by all accounts.
walkm1@reddit
Marcus Wareing and his small holding. Thinking everyone can easily live off the land.
TheDawiWhisperer@reddit
Jamie Oliver used to bug me, before he got into ruining school dinners.
I can't find it now but years ago I came across a thread where a dude was complaining about Jamie Oliver's 15 minute meals only taking 15 minutes if you have a full kitchen staff on hand to assist and tidy up after you and it was full of shitty upper middle class comments like "get some tarragon from your herb garden"
The guy ended the post with "fuck off Jamie, you fat tongued mockney cunt"
adamMatthews@reddit
I picked up his 5 Ingredient Meals book from a charity shop a while ago and got disappointed at the same thing.
Apparently there are some pantry items that everyone has, so he doesn’t need to put them in the ingredients list. Salt and pepper I can understand, but I’m pretty sure it was things like chilli or pickled ginger. I’d buy all the things the recipe says it needs, then read through it and realise I need to go back to the shop.
colin_staples@reddit
Having watched the TV series that accompanies this book, the "store cupboard ingredients" are
All fair enough, most households have the first 3. And the last one only costs £1.30 and lasts for about a year. And they provide 3 of the 4 "Salt, fat, acid, heat" elements of tasty cooking.
In the TV show he does only use 5 ingredients in addition to those listed above.
But if I got the book and found that there were other "store cupboard ingredients" in addition to the 4 listed voice I'd be pretty pissed off.
Ok-Negotiation1530@reddit
Doesn't that just mean you didn't read through the whole recipe the first time? How is that the book's fault?
adamMatthews@reddit
If I was making just one thing, I think that would be fair enough. But if I'm planning out a few meals between different cookbooks and websites, I just go from the ingredients list to make up my shopping list.
If there are ingredients that aren't included in the list, that gets pretty annoying.
Unhappy_Peanut9470@reddit
You would think you’d read through the method before you go shopping but it sounds like the issue is some things aren’t added to the ingredients list which you should expect to be a list of all the ingredients you will need
Interrogatingthecat@reddit
God yes, so many cookbooks and YouTube channels who claim X ingredients and then go "store cupboard ingredients don't count" before saying "Okay so now get your store cupboard garlic compound butter and store cupboard udon noodles"
GatorShinsDev@reddit
He did some eating for cheap thing and one section was aimed at students. One of the ingredients was a bunch of duck some lass had in her freezer. I'm sorry but which students just have duck sitting around? Same issue with the spices as well, expecting students to have a spice rack 😅
Yorkshire_rose_84@reddit
Rich students have duck lying around in the freezer that’s who! I went to uni and one of the people I knew had a pheasant in theirs! A fucking pheasant that had been shot on their farm. It still had the bullet in it. They didn’t eat anything that was t free range or organic. Once had a go at me for eating a pot noodle. Told them when they buy my food then they can tell me what to eat.
GatorShinsDev@reddit
It just seemed disingenuous, presenting itself as being cheap meals for people on a budget.
I guess I didn't spend much time around rich people, we were all poor as shit haha. They sound like fannies, if ye want a pot noodle have a pot noodle
Dimac99@reddit
I don't know if things have changed that much since my student days 20-25 years ago, but we always had a decent selection of spices. However, it was only the French exchange student who had duck. Her parents were coming over for a visit so she had them bring giant tins of duck legs so she could make us all a proper French meal. I remember it being quite nice, apart from the green beans, obviously. Never saw giant tins of duck legs in the local Tesco, strangely.
GatorShinsDev@reddit
Fair, we had spices as well. It was just assumed you'd have a bunch of different spices, which tbh most of my pals houses I went to when I was a student didn't have any spices other than maybe chilli flakes.
TheDawiWhisperer@reddit
"sorry Jamie we sold the spice rack to buy more weed"
pajamakitten@reddit
Jamie's Italian was also terrible. It was no surprise it went under when it was a poor chain in a sea of terrible Italian restaurants.
waamoandy@reddit
I ate there once. I still haven't forgiven him
willard_price@reddit
I stole four tea towels that came with the dishes the one time I went there. They were charging £15 for one in the gift shop bit.
I like to think I contributed to the downfall of Jamie's Italian.
FromYoTown@reddit
Assuming this is a throwaway account. Next to the D B Cooper and the Zodiak killer mysteries, the 4 Tea Towel heist is up there.
toughfluffer@reddit
Thank you for your service
rubber-bumpers@reddit
Tbf any recipe that says “15 minutes” or “20 minutes” is a load of lies
EdmundTheInsulter@reddit
When he was a Mockney but then became posh.
mh258@reddit
It’s all the made up bullshit mockney words he came up with like “pukka”
Lammtarra95@reddit
I understand the complaint but Jamie's 15-minute meals taught me that same thing as an important lesson for work and life.
Mise en place. Chef-speak for get everything in place before you start.
Mise en place has saved my posterior so many times. I no longer get caught out halfway through important jobs because of a missing paintbrush or password or even not knowing who to escalate to and their phone number.
So I think it entirely fair for Jamie Oliver not to start his 15-minute timer until all his pans are at hand and his ingredients weighed out into ramekins.
nosuchthingasa_@reddit
Mise en place, good. Not including the time it takes to prep your ingredients, bad. I think that’s the primary complaint. If it takes an hour to prep your ingredients, you really have no business advertising as a fast meal. Just be honest about what it is.
allcretansareliars@reddit
About the mockney thing, guy I know went to school with his sister. He said you could have used her accent to cut glass.
Sir-HP23@reddit
It was naming his first program Naked Chef & then in no way naked (not the I wanted to see him naked), that first launched my hatred and then the mockney accent that cause me to sell my soul to Satan. When Oliver dies there is a huge flaming spike to impale his arse on.
Dry_Action1734@reddit
I hated his crusade against school meals.
I have not and know nobody who has ever had a turkey twizzler or something else as unhealthy since school.
Yeah, you could say it sets a bad relationship with food, but there’s much bigger culprits for that than schools.
Telling school kids to not eat absolute shit is like telling students not to drink. A few years of it won’t do long-term damage, but it does bring joy to people plenty of which don’t really want to be there.
panopoly4@reddit
British kids are too fat it’s all over the news. We should be actively trying to fix that and the school dinners are the easiest access the govt have to children’s diets
Dry_Action1734@reddit
Yes the kids I see these days are, but back when Jamie was doing his thing I was at school and there were barely any fat kids. Maybe 5 in my year with a school of about 1000 children.
But honestly if parents are giving kids takeaway several nights a week, loading them with crisps and fizzy drinks, a change to the cooked school lunch matters not at all.
TheDawiWhisperer@reddit
I feel like he has (or had) a fundamental misunderstanding of the cost of eating well too, in a book I had about eating well for less a couple of recipes required stale bread to make into breadcrumbs and I was like "yes Jamie, but cheap breed doesn't go stale, it goes mouldy"
Huge-Brick-3495@reddit
I remember him being asked about the government's approach to unhealthy eating when the sugar tax was coming, and get said he was "apolitical". I realised at that moment that he was an insufferable prick.
tmr89@reddit
Yup, those “15 minute meals” are a scam. Maybe it’s 15 minutes if you’ve already put in the time to chop, prepare all the ingredients and put them in little bowls. And have the right pots and pans that heat up immediately on a gas hob and retain their heat, etc
rice_fish_and_eggs@reddit
He should have been arrested for what he did to his kids.
Interrogatingthecat@reddit
What did he do? (Besides the crap names)
rice_fish_and_eggs@reddit
That was it, the crap names.
Interrogatingthecat@reddit
You've got a lot of parents to arrest then
So many Khaleesis...
New_Expectations5808@reddit
Entirely this. I bought one of his books thinking it would help me eat better and the amount of investment on equipment was absurd. Put me off to be honest.
TheDawiWhisperer@reddit
Yep, I swear to god one recipe needed not one, not two but three fucking blenders. Not to mention about 17 pans and mixing bowls
I'm lucky if I can find the spinny bit for one blender tbh.
Fancy-Licker-66UK@reddit
At work we used a pic of Jamie Oliver, with that written underneath as a screen saver.
Garfie489@reddit
Jamie Oliver is so bad, I wouldn't even consider him a TV Chef
He's a TV Cook - Chef implies a standard
The issues school dinners arose were entirely foreseeable by anyone with any management experience. Nevermind how school dinners were relatively unchanged in decades and not the underlying issue - hence why obesity continued to rise.
QuimFinger@reddit
That bald one who’s on the thing with the fella from Soccer AM. Just looks smug as fuck all the time and creepy.
Rocky-bar@reddit
All of them, they're jumped up self important cooks who got lucky.
mangodmango@reddit
Tom Kerridge I like, and I’d say he worked pretty hard to get where he is now. Then again he’s a proper chef, not just a TV one who’s uncle was the head of programming at BBC2
Mc_and_SP@reddit
Damn right
Mc_and_SP@reddit
This is the way
Sunset_Red@reddit
I can't stand Jay Rayner.
orange_lighthouse@reddit
Isn't he a critic rather than a chef?
Sunset_Red@reddit
Yeah I sort of realised. Still a nobhead
cowie71@reddit
James Martin - he shouts at the camera
GosmeisterGeneral@reddit
Met him in real life once and he’s gigantic. Man has hands the size of giant hams.
svenselecta@reddit
I saw him at Goodwood festival of speed. His car was a Mini Cooper. Still don’t understand how he fit in there…
GosmeisterGeneral@reddit
An old one or a new one?
CharringtonCross@reddit
Lots of famous people are tall
bertieqwerty@reddit
Also lots of famous people are short.
Hayesey88@reddit
I thought this when I saw him too... He was a hell of a lot taller than he looks on the telly.
Asconodo@reddit
His "guests" just look so bored and the sets are just awful, cramped as f.
-myeyeshaveseenyou-@reddit
I worked in one of his former restaurant after he had left but a lot of staff had worked with him. Not a nice thing to say at all.
earlgreytoday@reddit
And delivered one of the greatest Freudian slips on TV
b1fter@reddit
Functionally illiterate, I am reliably informed.
FreezerCop@reddit
He's a charisma vacuum and quite unpleasant..if he was a middle-manager.in your office you'd absolutely hate the prick.
KingKhram@reddit
I've met him before and he's an arrogant wanker
blue_mermaid__@reddit
Jamie Oliver for sure! He's so out of touch with his pretentious pish "budget" meals. All the while the recipes call for herbs which must be harvested at midnight by magic elves.
LloydCole@reddit
Thinking a chef is pretentious for using herbs in a recipe is absolutely batshit.
Says a hell of a lot about the dour, joyless British psyche.
Emotional-Web9064@reddit
Michel Roux Jr.
Not because of his TV persona - I thought he was great - but then I went to a charity event where we’d all paid quite a lot of money. He hosted and basically ran a kitchen where the attendees all cooked.
It was clear that he thought we should basically worship him and proceeded to make loads of rude jokes about the attendees (as a group, not specific individuals) that fell really flat.
They do say you should never meet your heroes. He wasn’t really a hero of mine, but I did want to like him - made me realise that TV personalities ain’t always real life personalities.
NecroVelcro@reddit
Matt Tebbutt from Saturday Kitchen, who not only sneered at Sharleen Spiteri's coeliac disease and dismissed it but also put her at risk by passing food to her on a plate which contained gluten-containing bread. An absolute fucking scumbag who deserved to both contract the disease and die of amoebic dysentery.
Emotional-Web9064@reddit
I read that article with interest as I’ve always thought Matt is great. I haven’t seen the episode, but the article doesn’t seem anywhere near drastic enough to merit your comment. Is it much worse in the episode?
He appears to have served some bread on a plate - potentially a mistake as there’s no detail in the article? - to someone who the article notes “Despite this, Sharleen said she occasionally has gluten”.
CoffeeNoSugar6@reddit
Mary Berry - coffin dodging misery maker.
GosmeisterGeneral@reddit
The coffin dodging made me laugh, but in what way is she a misery maker? Seems very sweet. Boring, yes. But not exactly Stalin.
orange_lighthouse@reddit
I dunno, she's got that look that makes me think she'd destroy you if you wronged her! Terrifying!
CoffeeNoSugar6@reddit
Stalin didn’t kick people off Bakeoff!
Drop_The_Puck@reddit
To be fair, not kicking people off makes the whole thing pretty pointless.
New_Expectations5808@reddit
Probably would've though
GosmeisterGeneral@reddit
Probably would’ve done a bit more than just kick them off.
New_Expectations5808@reddit
Bit of a rotter, that Stalin. And get me started on Hitler!
Late-Champion8678@reddit
That’s so wrong 😂
meinnit99900@reddit
my dad hates her and no one can quite get why as he never really explains he just starts cringing when she comes on screen
curiouscat146@reddit
And beat her kids https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/12/10/great-british-bake-off-mary-berry-smacking-children_n_4417390.html
Certain_Arachnid7113@reddit
Oh for goodness sake, smacking as she describes is completely different to to what one might imagine as "beating her kids". It's of her time, debateably fine anyway and and I won't think any the less of her for it.
H0vit0@reddit
Woman born 4 years before WW2 kicked off did not have the same values towards parenting as we do in the modern times....shocking eh?
InternetkilledTVstar@reddit
James Martin. Saw him in Winchester once. Smarmy. Didn't realize it was him until later that day. He gave me and my friend the " yes, I've been spotted" wink, which was odd because I didn't spot him.
InfectedWashington@reddit
Nobody has said John Torode or Wareing yet?!?
FreezerCop@reddit
Really like Marcus, he's a genuinely top tier chef and gives the contestants good advice, he's never unfairly critical and he's really supportive in the later episodes, seems like a nice guy.
cursed_cucumbers@reddit
Ooh yeah Marcus Wareing. He is one slimey shark-eyed snake. I don't trust him.
Asconodo@reddit
Rick Stein. Everything seems to be just thrown together and not in a good way.
Marcus Wareing. Doing the Good Life with an army.
Fancy-Licker-66UK@reddit
I used to like Anthony Worrell Thompson. Until he started spouting some bollocks about nuts , he was disguised but we saw through it. My Daughter has been a nut allergy sufferer for nearly 30 years. Not impressed!
FreezerCop@reddit
Anthony Worrell Thompson was in disguise spouting bollocks about nuts to an unimpressed you and your nut-allergic daughter??
OwnKing4640@reddit
We used to call him Anthony Wanker Thompson lololol hey do you remember Alistair McGowan’s impression of him? Logs and dogs Mr Worrell T!
privateTortoise@reddit
The shoplifting angry midget as my pal once called him.
waamoandy@reddit
Loves his Tesco cheese and wine
MisterWednesday6@reddit
Ainsley Harriot. His constant gurning drives me nuts.
CPH3000@reddit
James Martin is an awful, smug prick. HE'S FROM YORKSHIRE YOU KNOW - not that he ever mentions it.
I think Tom Kerridge has the potential to be a nasty piece of work.
I think chefs in general are broken human beings. I think the military-style perfectionism of preparing food is laughable and unnecessary.
Finally, the fascination with watching unlikeable characters cook - together with watching people view houses they might be - are two genres of TV programme I will never understand.
upadownpipe@reddit
Gino D'campo. Never forget
mightbeyourpal@reddit
James Martin. Everything is "nice and..."
Cook it till it's nice and...
Serve that when it's nice and...
Dude's been on telly for like 30 years now- LEARN SOME NEW WAYS TO DESCRIBE THINGS, JAMES!!
EdmundTheInsulter@reddit
That Gino d'acampo bloke who told people he'd bummed his wife. He shouldn't go around telling people what he did with his wife or gf.
BroodLord1962@reddit
Jamie Oliver and Gordon Ramsey
Dear_Possibility8243@reddit
A few people I know have encountered Ramsay in various contexts.
From what I've heard he's a nice guy (the persona in his American programmes is all an act), good to work for, and the food in his restaurants is excellent.
This is essentially the exact opposite of what I have heard about Oliver.
ZookeepergameOk2759@reddit
Jane from come dine with me all the grace of a reversing dumptruck.
WritePissedEditSober@reddit
I don’t get it
SirGeorgeAgdgdgwngo@reddit
Well you wouldn't, love.
mh258@reddit
Uncle_Beanpole@reddit
They’re referring to this video from Come Dine With Me
amboandy@reddit
Nisha Katona, mostly from shorts on Saturday kitchen. She'll be walking around the charming side streets of Palermo gaining inspiration for what to cook and end up doing a chicken "carbonara". Ok Hun, it's vaguely Italian but if anything, northern Italian and has nothing to do with the mezzogiorno. She does this so often it grinds my gears
jjgill27@reddit
And her restaurants suck. I’m part Indian, my partner is Punjabi and we had a (white) waiter explain to us what a paratha is.
South_Afternoon3436@reddit
Wtf has skin colour for to do with it? You sound worse than the actual chef you're talking about.
coraIinejones@reddit
Is that not just their job though
jjgill27@reddit
Do you need a waiter to explain bread to you?
wildOldcheesecake@reddit
Right because fuck the guy just trying to do his job. And why bring race into this?
amboandy@reddit
"this is created using the Chorleywood method"
RIPNINAFLOWERS@reddit
Is this the same woman who judges the dishes in Great British Menu?
Because absolutely fucking yes there is always something that bothers me about her...
amboandy@reddit
yes the same one
mh258@reddit
Any chef that suddenly decides to have friends and family over after cooking when they happen to have a tv crew filming it at the same time
Gramswagon77@reddit
Gregg Wallace should not be anywhere near Masterchef.
james9483@reddit
Gino decampo. Christ what a bellend. I wonder if Paul young ever got his stuff back off him.
KaraM4R1@reddit
Also, his nonna's pizza is shite.
meinnit99900@reddit
I always get him confused with the bloke on Strictly and wondered what made him qualified to open a bunch of (not brilliant, they closed the two near me cos no one went) restaurants
wildOldcheesecake@reddit
Ah but he’s a laugh. Gino is not.
cloche_du_fromage@reddit
Cannot stand the fake / OTT Italian routine.
Certain_Arachnid7113@reddit
He is actually Italian, you know.
privateTortoise@reddit
Never knew Sheffield was in Italy
cloche_du_fromage@reddit
I know. He can also speak normal English when he wants to.
Cam_Sco@reddit
Nadia fucking Hussein. Won bake off, thinks she's a fucking comedian. Pisses me right off. Can't stand her. Fast forward her clips on Saturday Kitchen.
Late-Champion8678@reddit
Not sure why you’re being downvoted for literally answering the post’s question. I find her harmless, not particularly enjoyable but I don’t dislike her, so here’s my upvote!
rosechells@reddit
Hugh Ferning Whittingstall - mum used to have it on all the time, absolutely cannot stand him
KaraM4R1@reddit
My sisters did the same. Did you ever see the episode where he got electrocuted by a fence that he just grabbed? That was hilarious 😂
Finally realised they watched him because he always cocked up in some way but was forced to keep his nose in the air cos that's what he's like. Absolute mug.
Ok_Help516@reddit
one thing that annoys me about all the TV chefs is when they try make their own version of other countries famous dishes and call it ''traditional'', to my knowledge if you add an ingredient that shouldn't be there it's no longer a traditional dish, for example, if I make cottage pie and add sour crout to it or decide to use Polish pierogi in cottage pie that automatically ruins the dish and its no longer allowed to be called a traditional British dish. 2 people I can think of that add random ingredient that shouldn't be in that specific dish is jamie oliver and gordon ramsey.
Late-Champion8678@reddit
It’s so bizarre to me. “I’m here in Rajasthan. The air is heady with the spices wafting from the local markets. I’ve enjoyed the homemade dishes made by accommodating families, posh restaurants. Here is my, inferior, version of this beloved dish”
ElectricTomatoMan@reddit
Giada. "Spageetti".
Late-Champion8678@reddit
It’s how she speaks with her teeth (ALL of them) for me. And lollipop head.
Late-Champion8678@reddit
Ainsley Harriott- just so cringey and over the top
Late-Champion8678@reddit
James Martin - so flipping pleased with himself. Also, petty nitpick - he had training in France and still speaks French (when doing his series about France and French regional cooking) with such a dreadful accent it feels like he’s mocking the people he speaks to.
Rick Stein - so very very dull
calif4511@reddit
As a human being, Gordon Ramsay seems to be a very decent fellow. As a food television personality, he is an insufferable bitch.
MellifluousWine@reddit
Nigella Lawson or whatever her name is. Awful recipes and a horrendous watching experience
Spottyjamie@reddit
I like James Martin but not how everything he serves is served on a big plate (sorry but if i used the word platter id get told to f**k off back to Eton!) for everyone to “dig in”
BrokenFist-73@reddit
Ainseley fucking Harriott. Or however you spell it.
iimMrBrightside@reddit
Ainsley is a gentleman
OwnKing4640@reddit
He told viewers to give their meat a rub he’s no gentleman!!
privateTortoise@reddit
Not a chef but an entertainment wizard that puts the graft in.
Gooooglemale@reddit
Nah for me the man’s a legend! Knows he’s firstly and fore-mostly an entertainer. Lovely guy as well.
eww1991@reddit
On a similar vein I was glad not to see Nigela on here. She and her team know that half her audience tune in for the softcore show, not the cooking.
FreezerCop@reddit
Bad take, sorry. Listen to his Off Menu episode, he's a legend.
Purple_ash8@reddit
Gordon Ramsey.
He’s just an all-’round cunt.
BrambleBum@reddit
He's a bully who hams it up for the camera. Teat
SirGeorgeAgdgdgwngo@reddit
Are you basing this off the American shows he does? Watch him on literally any other show and he's the complete opposite.
I'm not saying you have to like him but he doesn't come across as a bully at all.
castielsbitch@reddit
I cannot stand the way he talks. And he uses the same adjectives over and over.
rmc1211@reddit
Not only. That. But he. Talks in weird. Broken sentences.
ElectricTomatoMan@reddit
Stunning
heliskinki@reddit
Weird take. He genuinely seems concerned for the youth of Britain’s diet choices.
I can’t think of a TV chef I hate, maybe Ramsey just because he’s less about food and more about brand Ramsey.
NumeroRyan@reddit
Yeah but I loved those cheeseburgers and chocolate donuts my school sold and the cunt got rid of it.
That is deep seated hatred for that man for ruining one of the few positives of spending 5 years at secondary school.
heliskinki@reddit
Those cheeseburgers and chocolate donuts were shit for your health though, so…
leinadwen@reddit
Data on childhood obesity since the changes Jamie Oliver made had shown obesity rates going up.
School dinners make up 5 of 21 meals in a week. Olivers actions did nothing to change poor eating habits instead shine a light on a relatively irrelevant part of it and take the focus away from the true cause.
Remarkable-Wash-7798@reddit
Your first statement is a bit bold. Factually true. But your making it look as if his contributions made childhood obesity rise. They didn't.
What he did was make school meals healthier. If it wasn't him, it would have been someone else.
Assuming all kids have 21 meals a week is bold too. Many kids have their only meals in school. Lots of kids will not have 21 meals a week.
Childhood obesity was always going to increase when the UK lost great cooks due to households needing two working parents. This and a huge increase in fast easy cooking, ready meals, microwave meals, pre-packaged shite. The amount of kids that live off chicken nuggets and chips X times per week is stupid. The marketing is sickening too, oh look they are unicorn shapes now. Piss of Bernard Matthews.
Generations have passed, many people getting to uni age before learning how to make pasta. The skills are no longer passed down.
I don't like Jamie Oliver though, never have.
NumeroRyan@reddit
Hasn’t done me any harm right now, so….
UnderpantsInfluencer@reddit
Tbf, there aren't many people on TV who aren't wankers.
imtheorangeycenter@reddit
Counter: I like JO because he democratised cooking in the age of 90s micronolate with food stacked in rings. Made flavours available to the masses. Granted I can see how he went from cooking to "being a mum" though.
Gordon Ramsey can get stuffed - all.his talk is "beautiful this...", "amazing that...", "ooh, eggs...". It is all just guff filler adjectives.
OG-Brass-Monkey@reddit
I honestly can't think of one I like. They all seem like arseholes.
bpleshek@reddit
Gareth Blackstock :)
shivapower23@reddit
All of them except Bourdain and Floyd
Express-Training5428@reddit
Most of them to be honest. They've all caught a great wave of fame and popularity (and money) for basically cooking food. Making the commonplace seems complicated. Who needs fennel on their fish fingers 😄
Pepega_Paradise@reddit
I hate James Martin, everything he cooks just looks so bland and easy that I'm sure I could do all of it
Witty_Detail_2573@reddit
The Oliver boy. Cannot watch him. He just irritates the life out of me and I can’t explain why.
Smiley_Dub@reddit
Fella with hair like a cocateu. Sweary fella. Right bell end.
Has a "pal" (TV friennnd) cockney southern European cheeky chappy chef type. Loves himself
Both editions of bell end love themselves too much.
Deserve each other.
barkley87@reddit
Gordon Ramsey and Gino Di Campo?
Smiley_Dub@reddit
I couldn't possibly comment 🤣
Martysghost@reddit
Tom Kerridge, he has a show about BBQ and there was an episode he just braised everything which imo is cheating on those recipes, while doing this he used phrases like "traditional American BBQ" which it 100% was not to the point it was almost offensive.
Cultural_Tank_6947@reddit
Tom Kerridge's accent.
billsmithers2@reddit
Oi! I went to school with him. It was a pretty crappy comprehensive. We can't help it.
Cultural_Tank_6947@reddit
Don't get me wrong, love his recipes. But if he says lush one more time... .
Craig1974@reddit
Ramsey and Bourdain
ElectricTomatoMan@reddit
Bourdain was cool af
oPlayer2o@reddit
Jamie Oliver.
RabidBadgerFarts@reddit
Insufferable bellend.
oPlayer2o@reddit
Yeah I mean he’s a good ambassador for getting healthy food into schools and such I’m fine with that but I’m a professional chef and when I see his shows or recipes I’m like “what the fuck is that!”
sennalvera@reddit
I can't remember his name, that one chef on Great British Menu who humiliated a contestent on camera over something that was just his preference, not dish quality.
Hot_Awareness4568@reddit
Nadia somethingorother... she's shite
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