Iron Chef

Is anyone else here addicted to some of the shows on Food Network??

It makes me want to go to culinary school...lol.

I love Iron Chef. I don't care much for the overly peppy and too happy ladies that have shows...like the one that boasts how to feed a family for less than $10.00...or something like that.

Some of the shows though, really make me want to experiment with food.

TheGirlNextDoor said:

Is anyone else here addicted to some of the shows on Food Network??

It makes me want to go to culinary school...lol.

I love Iron Chef. I don't care much for the overly peppy and too happy ladies that have shows...like the one that boasts how to feed a family for less than $10.00...or something like that.

Some of the shows though, really make me want to experiment with food.

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I don't watch Iron Chef, but I do love the food networking cooking shows. I agree that some of them are overly peppy, but some of the food they make? OMG! :shock:

Every time I watch those shows, I'm sooo hungry! :mrgreen:

My favourite cooking shows are the ones where the chef will travel round a region and cook different ethnic foods. I hate competition cooking shows (except the Japanese Iron Chef).

TheGirlNextDoor said:

Is anyone else here addicted to some of the shows on Food Network??

It makes me want to go to culinary school...lol.

I love Iron Chef. I don't care much for the overly peppy and too happy ladies that have shows...like the one that boasts how to feed a family for less than $10.00...or something like that.

Some of the shows though, really make me want to experiment with food.

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I'm a fan of Iron Chef and lots of other foodie shows -- some on Food Network, some on other ones. I like Kitchen Nightmares, Master Chef, Mystery Diners, Bar Rescue, Restaurant Impossible, and one with Ann Whatshername who interviews for head chefs in 5-star restaurants. Oh and Chopped.

Like you, I don't like the cooking shows featuring one person standing in a kitchen.

MaggieD said:

I'm a fan of Iron Chef and lots of other foodie shows -- some on Food Network, some on other ones. I like Kitchen Nightmares, Master Chef, Mystery Diners, Bar Rescue, Restaurant Impossible, and one with Ann Whatshername who interviews for head chefs in 5-star restaurants. Oh and Chopped.

Like you, I don't like the cooking shows featuring one person standing in a kitchen.

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I like the diners dives and drive ins show with Guy. I travel quite a bit and often go to some of the places he mentions more than a few of them are quite good.

PirateMk1 said:

I like the diners dives and drive ins show with Guy. I travel quite a bit and often go to some of the places he mentions more than a few of them are quite good.

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A restaurant in my town was on one of his shows. Morin's Diner.

MaggieD said:

I'm a fan of Iron Chef and lots of other foodie shows -- some on Food Network, some on other ones. I like Kitchen Nightmares, Master Chef, Mystery Diners, Bar Rescue, Restaurant Impossible, and one with Ann Whatshername who interviews for head chefs in 5-star restaurants. Oh and Chopped.

Like you, I don't like the cooking shows featuring one person standing in a kitchen.

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Ann Burrell. She's awesome. I love the competition shows, and I really like Chopped. I like the "Next FN Star" and "Next Iron Chef" and stuff like that. I love Hell's Kitchen and never miss it. I've gotten a lot of great recipes from FN. I do hate a few, though. I hate Rachel Ray because she's so perky, and I swear she can't cook. She's just cute and perky and they built an empire around her. I also hate Barefoot Contessa. I used to like her until she had bad publicity last year because she refused to visit a child with cancer that asked to see her. She said she was unable to work it into her schedule. Guess she was too busy cooking for her gay friends and buying large blue shirts to visit sick kids who were dying. :roll: Oh, and Paula Deen. Don't even get me started on that fake bitch. She isn't really that "country" and her accent is fake. She speaks like a normal person when she isn't in front of the camera. And knowing she had diabetes for 3 years, while still hocking her "bad for you" foods and her "bad for you" cookbook? Then when she got a contract to endorse Novalog, then she finally comes out and tells everyone?? WTF? She waited for the right moment to tell everyone - the right moment being when she could capitalize on her diabetes through endorsements for insulin. The people in Savannah absolutely loathe her. Her brother, though, makes the best oysters I've ever had in my life.

TheGirlNextDoor said:

Is anyone else here addicted to some of the shows on Food Network??

It makes me want to go to culinary school...lol.

I love Iron Chef. I don't care much for the overly peppy and too happy ladies that have shows...like the one that boasts how to feed a family for less than $10.00...or something like that.

Some of the shows though, really make me want to experiment with food.

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Just earlier this evening, my wife and I watched an episode of Iron Chef for the first time. Neither of is were terribly impressed. I found it to be chaotic, difficult to follow, and ultimately, not very interesting.

One thing that was interesting was that one of the guest judges was a woman, about my age, named Cady Huffman. On hearing that name, I immediately remembered that I knew a girl by that name when I was in high school. I didn't really know her very well, but she was in a few of the same classes I was in. I couldn't remember very much else about her, just the name and that she was in a few of my classes in high school.

It appears that this woman, who, aside from her appearances on Iron Chef, has had a significant career as a movie and TV actress, is indeed very likely the same Cady Huffman that I knew in high school. According to the entry about her on the WikiPedia, she did go to the same high school I did, graduating the year after I graduated. If someone mentioned my name to her, she'd probably remember me better than I remember her. I was very well-known among my classmates, and eccentric enough that I would expect not to be so easily forgotten.

One other celebrity who might remember me is the supermodel Kathy Ireland. I have no memory of ever meeting her. I was long aware of her as a model, and that she was from Santa Barbara, but it was only very recently that something prompted me to look her up on the Wikipedia, and there to learn that she also attended the same high school I did, at the same time I did, so she very likely heard of me.

An addendum to my previous posting. What made my wife and I think that Iron Chef[/u] might be worth watching was to note that Alton Brown was associated with it. We first took notice of Mr. Brown when he made a guest appearance on Mythbusters, helping them to determine whether a car engine could be used to cook a Thanksgiving meal. We found him very entertaining, and soon discovered his show Good Eats, which we find very well worth watching. On Good Eats, we both greatly enjoy Mr. Brown's style of explaining the science and history connected with the meals he is showing us how to cook. I'm really not that much into cooking, and it is a testament to Mr. Brown's talent that he can make that subject so interesting and entertaining to me.

His role on Iron Chef just seems to me like a terrible waste of his talents. At least on the episode that we saw, he really contributed little more than an ongoing narration, well below the level of the talents that he demonstrated on Good Eats.

I like Good Eats and Dinner: Impossible. A far as non-food network cooking shows I love Mexico One Plate at a Time and Primal Grill/BBQ University and America's Test Kitchen/Cooks Country.

TheGirlNextDoor said:

Is anyone else here addicted to some of the shows on Food Network??

It makes me want to go to culinary school...lol.

I love Iron Chef. I don't care much for the overly peppy and too happy ladies that have shows...like the one that boasts how to feed a family for less than $10.00...or something like that.

Some of the shows though, really make me want to experiment with food.

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I don't watch Iron Chef but for the last 2 months I have been increasingly viewing shows that are focused on culinary premises. I don't watch the food channel all that much because I hate watching TV, but I do watch some shows online

TheGirlNextDoor said:

Is anyone else here addicted to some of the shows on Food Network??

It makes me want to go to culinary school...lol.

I love Iron Chef. I don't care much for the overly peppy and too happy ladies that have shows...like the one that boasts how to feed a family for less than $10.00...or something like that.

Some of the shows though, really make me want to experiment with food.

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We are addicted to FOOD NETWORK in our house. We plan vacations around food and restaurants and have dined at many of the IRON CHEF eateries.

I have to confess that I loved the original Japanese IRON CHEF a lot more than its American imitation. The level of talent was really off the charts. Sakai may have been one of the best chefs in the world with his combination of the best of French and Japanese techniques.

I too like the DINERS show with Guy and have eaten at many of those also but the food is in a far different category that the cusine produced on any IRON CHEF show.

haymarket said:

We are addicted to FOOD NETWORK in our house. We plan vacations around food and restaurants and have dined at many of the IRON CHEF eateries.

I have to confess that I loved the original Japanese IRON CHEF a lot more than its American imitation. The level of talent was really off the charts. Sakai may have been one of the best chefs in the world with his combination of the best of French and Japanese techniques.

I too like the DINERS show with Guy and have eaten at many of those also but the food is in a far different category that the cusine produced on any IRON CHEF show.

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I like the food channel..I don't watch it all the time..and never do the recipes at home..

It's like eating by proxy!!

Travel Channel. Man Vs. Food.

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Bob Blaylock said:

An addendum to my previous posting. What made my wife and I think that Iron Chef[/u] might be worth watching was to note that Alton Brown was associated with it. We first took notice of Mr. Brown when he made a guest appearance on Mythbusters, helping them to determine whether a car engine could be used to cook a Thanksgiving meal. We found him very entertaining, and soon discovered his show Good Eats, which we find very well worth watching. On Good Eats, we both greatly enjoy Mr. Brown's style of explaining the science and history connected with the meals he is showing us how to cook. I'm really not that much into cooking, and it is a testament to Mr. Brown's talent that he can make that subject so interesting and entertaining to me.

His role on Iron Chef just seems to me like a terrible waste of his talents. At least on the episode that we saw, he really contributed little more than an ongoing narration, well below the level of the talents that he demonstrated on Good Eats.

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I think Good Eats is probably the best cooking show bar none, IMHO. Its very good for showing you the how's and whys of what you are cooking. Its chemistry class with food. :lol:. Children should watch it to learn about what it is they are actually doing.

TheGirlNextDoor said:

Is anyone else here addicted to some of the shows on Food Network??

It makes me want to go to culinary school...lol.

I love Iron Chef. I don't care much for the overly peppy and too happy ladies that have shows...like the one that boasts how to feed a family for less than $10.00...or something like that.

Some of the shows though, really make me want to experiment with food.

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I'm into Chopped, I like the ridiculous ingredients these people are timed to create with.

"For this dessert round, we have a stuffed animal, desert sand and fern seeds...."

I like the actual cooking shows because I actually make some of those recipes. I don't really care about their personalities as much as I do about their cooking skills. I also learn new tips and tricks, so that's helpful too.

Chopped. Love it.

Superfly said:

Ann Burrell. She's awesome. I love the competition shows, and I really like Chopped. I like the "Next FN Star" and "Next Iron Chef" and stuff like that. I love Hell's Kitchen and never miss it. I've gotten a lot of great recipes from FN. I do hate a few, though. I hate Rachel Ray because she's so perky, and I swear she can't cook. She's just cute and perky and they built an empire around her. I also hate Barefoot Contessa. I used to like her until she had bad publicity last year because she refused to visit a child with cancer that asked to see her. She said she was unable to work it into her schedule. Guess she was too busy cooking for her gay friends and buying large blue shirts to visit sick kids who were dying. :roll: Oh, and Paula Deen. Don't even get me started on that fake bitch. She isn't really that "country" and her accent is fake. She speaks like a normal person when she isn't in front of the camera. And knowing she had diabetes for 3 years, while still hocking her "bad for you" foods and her "bad for you" cookbook? Then when she got a contract to endorse Novalog, then she finally comes out and tells everyone?? WTF? She waited for the right moment to tell everyone - the right moment being when she could capitalize on her diabetes through endorsements for insulin. The people in Savannah absolutely loathe her. Her brother, though, makes the best oysters I've ever had in my life.

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Haha.

I also don't like Barefoot Contessa or Paula Deen.

I used to watch Rachael Ray's 30 Minute Meals all the time, but I got tired of her. I love Ann's show because she's hilarious. She talks to her food all the time (which I do too).

My favorites, though, are Trisha Yearwood and Ree Drummond.

Superfly said:

Ann Burrell. She's awesome. I love the competition shows, and I really like Chopped. I like the "Next FN Star" and "Next Iron Chef" and stuff like that. I love Hell's Kitchen and never miss it. I've gotten a lot of great recipes from FN. I do hate a few, though. I hate Rachel Ray because she's so perky, and I swear she can't cook. She's just cute and perky and they built an empire around her. I also hate Barefoot Contessa. I used to like her until she had bad publicity last year because she refused to visit a child with cancer that asked to see her. She said she was unable to work it into her schedule. Guess she was too busy cooking for her gay friends and buying large blue shirts to visit sick kids who were dying. :roll: Oh, and Paula Deen. Don't even get me started on that fake bitch. She isn't really that "country" and her accent is fake. She speaks like a normal person when she isn't in front of the camera. And knowing she had diabetes for 3 years, while still hocking her "bad for you" foods and her "bad for you" cookbook? Then when she got a contract to endorse Novalog, then she finally comes out and tells everyone?? WTF? She waited for the right moment to tell everyone - the right moment being when she could capitalize on her diabetes through endorsements for insulin. The people in Savannah absolutely loathe her. Her brother, though, makes the best oysters I've ever had in my life.

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Love Ann's cooking show! She is awesome!

I'm not crazy about Sandra Lee. I think she has to be slightly insane. :lol:

I also really like the woman who cooks healthy, Ellie something or other? She has LOTS of good ideas for healthy eating.

Ann is hilarious. I love it how she says stuff like "You don't want to put the ends of the asparagus in there, because they are woody and it will make your food taste like crap." How often does someone tell you something will taste like crap on TV? :lol: I told my daughters, "She's just like me. I think we could be great friends once the restraining order expires."

ChrisL said:

I'm not crazy about Sandra Lee. I think she has to be slightly insane. :lol:

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She is, but I've used several of her recipes (I'm choosy - never bothered with the Kwanzaa cake LOL) and the ones I've made turned out well. One of my girls favorite junk food meals came from her - BBQ chicken sliders? Yum.

Superfly said:

She is, but I've used several of her recipes (I'm choosy - never bothered with the Kwanzaa cake LOL) and the ones I've made turned out well. One of my girls favorite junk food meals came from her - BBQ chicken sliders? Yum.

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Oh yes, she's definitely talented and a good cook. I'm just saying that her demeanor with her "table scapes," her dressing in multiple different costumes for Halloween, and things like that just seems a little obsessive-compulsive, and her whole demeanor in general just gives me the impression that she MUST be a little nutty. :lol: