Who is the best?

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Who is the best? I think the Iron chefs are the best.

[fixxmyweapon]

Of course they are! I love Iron Chef. Who's your favourite chef?

[Army Fencer]

Frugal Gourmet?

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Of course they are! I love Iron Chef. Who's your favourite chef?

Chen and Sakai.

[UTEpee]

the Frugal Gourmet was awesome, used to watch it when i was a kid on PBS.... anybody know if it is still shown?

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The Iron Chefs - The best of the best. They are gods of cookery. Most chefs will spend they're entire lives cooking and never get near Iron Chef level. The Iron Chefs are born geniuses.

Bobby Flay - A guy who sells himself as America's top grill meister. If you have ever seen his show you will notice that he uses a pansy-a$$ed gas grill. Bobby often likes to steal cooking methods and recipes from the Iron Chefs. He has a new show called Boy Meets Grill where he has his new blonde girlfriend cooking with him. They are always kissing and carressing over the smoky grill and she is so boney that it proves even she doesn't eat his cooking.

Emril - A guy who used to be one of the most popular chefs in New Orleans for his use of ungenteel spices has now stooped to the level bottom feeder. He has a show that caters to the tastes and style of the poor and uncultured American. Emril has very poor cooking skills and he promotes massive quantity over quality. His food tastes like crap and looks like it too. I'm waiting for him to stoop down another notch.

Mario batali - A decent cook at one time whose northern and southern Italian dishes were authentic has become a victim of his own gluttony. Mario has gained 200lb. All from his gross over use of olive oil. Watch his show and you will notice that he cooks everything with way too much olive oil and will add more oil while cooking and will finish of the dish by drizzling endless amounts of olive oil on top. I watch this fat guy's show and see him get fatter and fatter. He has a big fat head with buck teeth, no neck and hair pulled back and tied in a pony-tail. He resembles a fat, greedy ground hog sticking it's head out of the dirt.

Wolfgang Puck - Now this guys is fun. Really fun. And he has great cooking skills and good taste. One thing he can improve on is the IQ level of the people he hires at his restaurants.

Alton Brown - An anal retentive white man who has succesfully managed through perfect measurements and technical flawlessness to cook out all of the flavor in his food so that is just as bland and boring as the place where he comes from, mid-west America.


Martin Yan Can Cook - A good showman. Fantastic gimmiky Chinese cleaver and wok stunts. Too bad his food is terrible and as unauthentic as his phony Chinese accent.

The Naked Chef - a.k.a. Jamie Oliver. This guy is pretty exciting and he uses a lot of herbs and spices from the far and middle east. He is very fast and entertaining. A pretty good cook. Only thing is how dirty he is. Poorly groomed hair with dark yellow rotting teeth and a constant runny nose that is as red as Rudolph's. His kitchen is a cesspool of bacteria and germs since he seldom washes anything, including his hands.

[Masterurethane]

Jamie Oliver

I'm fairly sure that since he runs a restaurant, and there have been several tv programs about the operations of his kitchen, that he does wash things.

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Jamie Oliver

I'm fairly sure that since he runs a restaurant, and there have been several tv programs about the operations of his kitchen, that he does wash things.

That's true. I have seen one show about his restaurant and it was clean. But if you have ever watched The Naked chef or Oliver's Twist then you will understand what I'm talking about.

[jeff]

I think the Iron Chef stuff is a joke. Food porn with bizarre ingredients and silly ceremonies - something like World Food Wrestling. Emeril is a smart businessman, but the recipes don't work and I've heard it just tastes bad. Batagli is getting heavy for sure, but his cooking is great. I've been to a few of his places in NYC and the food is outstanding. It's *supposed* to have much olive oil! Alton's kinda fun - he's sort of the 'food geek' of TV.

[Masterurethane]

Yeah, that is true actually. I like the way he actually eats the stuff he cooks, and represents what people might actually do realistically for their friends. In my opinion, there's no harm in a bit of work surface mingling amongst friends. Though I'm a pharmacologist, so I'm not supposed to think that.

Make sure you flame the rim of that jam jar!

[mrbiggs]

I thought "The Naked Chef" was a joke, and I voted for it. Still, there are possibilities in that title, just with a slightly different environment.

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I think the Iron Chef stuff is a joke. Food porn with bizarre ingredients and silly ceremonies - something like World Food Wrestling. Emeril is a smart businessman, but the recipes don't work and I've heard it just tastes bad. Batagli is getting heavy for sure, but his cooking is great. I've been to a few of his places in NYC and the food is outstanding. It's *supposed* to have much olive oil! Alton's kinda fun - he's sort of the 'food geek' of TV.

Well he had a show called Mario Eats Italy. In that show he would go all over Italy and film the local chefs cooking the local dishes. I was actually surprised at how sparringly the Italians were using olive oil.

Jeff, do you remember a show called A Cook's Tour? The host of the show was an NYC chef who went all over the world to sample the regional cuisines.

[Maeve_Mari]

I thoroughly enjoy watching any and all the cooking shows. I've even started liking it more than actually doing the cooking!!! One of my favorite PBS cooks is a French woman named, Madeleine Kamman. She always had a down home, no measure, make a mess style that appealed to my viewing pleasures. I remember her once reaching into a skillet to flip a couple of veal chops using only her fingers, not a utentsil, and stating that she has abestos fingers from cooking for some many years.

I like them all. On television, the more fun the better to watch. So I voted here for Yan Can Cook, though any of the choices would make a good best vote. You did leave off the list two other favorites - the Frugal Gourmet and the Galloping Gourmet. Who could ever "best" Graham Kerr when it comes to style and showmanship in the kitchen?

[Maeve_Mari]

Oh, do you remember Cooking with Justin Wilson? "Wooheee that's good." I always looked forward to Saturdays at 4:00 when Justin Wilson would be outside with his bar bee que hot and at the ready!

[Maeve_Mari]

I'm a pharmacologist.....

What's the difference between being a pharmacologist and a pharmacist?

[Louweasel]

Being English, I'd have to vote for Jamie Oliver. Not because he's English too, but because I've never heard of any of the others!
Not sure where this thing about him having dirty habits comes from. Just because they don't film him washing his hands (which would make fairly pointless and tedious TV) doesn't mean he doesn't do it. He's a professionally trained experienced chef with more than one restaurant, and you don't get that far if you are making people ill withslovenly habits. I don't know if yougot if over there, but I saw his programme when he took on several unemployed young people and trained them up in his kitchen to work in a new restaurant called Fifteen. He is very fastidious and exacting, and is no pushover.

Not as much fun to watch as Gordon Ramsey, who bawls people out if they mess up. Not unreasonable abusive but good fireworks!

Another English chef, Nigella Lawson, has some gorgeous recipes. I am going to cook lemon risotto from one of her books for some friends that are coming round tonight. Mmmm....

[Schiavona]

Oh, do you remember Cooking with Justin Wilson? "Wooheee that's good." I always looked forward to Saturdays at 4:00 when Justin Wilson would be outside with his bar bee que hot and at the ready!

I was wondering if anyone was gonna mention, "Boy, dat's good! Wooheee!, Justin Wilson. I was so sad when he died.......

[Schiavona]

Another English chef, Nigella Lawson, has some gorgeous recipes. I am going to cook lemon risotto from one of her books for some friends that are coming round tonight. Mmmm....

I never saw many episodes, but I thought "Nigella Bites" was very good. I think it was the first cooking show I ever saw filmed in some one's home! She also used a funnel-shaped collander, I've been looking for one ever since!
Buggerit, millennium hand and shrimp!

[Maeve_Mari]

She also used a funnel-shaped collander, I've been looking for one ever since!
Buggerit, millennium hand and shrimp!

Here you go: $100 at Williams Sonoma

http://ww2.williams-sonoma.com/cat/p...nder&cmsrc=sch

or a hand-held for $10

http://www.cooking.com/products/shprodde.asp?SKU=138004

[Schiavona]

Ah, you see I've found those before, but what Nigella used was not a wire mesh strainer-it was a colander sheet metal with holes cut in it. I sound really picky, don't I? Cooking is just about my only creative outlet and I do most of the cooking in our house. Still looking for a funnel shaped colander !

Thanks anyway Maeve!