Rachael Ray has got to be the most insipid, talentless, and uninteresting "personality" on television. Her culinary "adventures" are pedestrian and completely boring.
And in this "cookoff", here is the queen of food mediocrity competing against three chefs with formal training and actual restaurant experience.
How in the heck did she ever get her books published or find a slot on TV? Only in America.
Giada and Bobby Flay are the two stars of this foursome. With both of them paired up on the same team they should have no problem taking the title in this Kitchen Stadium battle.
She is cute, she is your girl-next-door and she cooks things the normal person can prepare.
Awww, but her laugh is so cute!
Real cooks who love cooking shows get sick of watching chefs with an army of sous-chefs and the neat little rows of mise-en-place...what relevance does that have to someone who needs to feed a hungry, busy family? For years, TV chefs only cooked frou-frou restaurant meals, bristling with chive whiskers. Remember Nouvelle Cuisine, artsy fartsy?
Have you ever noticed just how many different meals she's cooked over the past couple of years? I watch frequently, and have seldom seen a repeat. She's taught me techniques of planning more than actual dishes--how to shop, gather ingredients and get the meals done quickly before the kids raid the cookie drawer after school.
She's not a pro, and people love that. Recently Emeril poached a salmon to use in simple patties, and scolding the audience--how hard is that, he said. Well, that's not hard if you've gone to the grocery store and bought the fresh salmon, something that takes a good part of a REAL cook's day. But the canned salmon out of a well-stocked pantry still makes a pretty good pattie, and you then have the juice in the can to whip up a caper sauce. That's why I'm tired of the chefs, and want to watch real cooks feed a picky family every day.
I don't know about talentless, but Rachael Ray, with her Sally Field personality and her food orgasms, sure is annoying.
Other annoying hosts:
Ina Garten (Barefoot Contessa), with her saccharine smile.
Paula Deen - need I say why?
I've never seen panties in a Gordian knot before - pretty amusing
thank you, you intellegent soul!!!
she makes SOUP. I can make SOUP.
And what is so hard about saying "salt and pepper?"
I watch rachel ray, i feel like its a cooking class
for preschoolers.
and people compare her to martha stewart!?
stew in a pan... an empire with merchandise... wow
I think its insulting they put her on the show. For weeks I looked forward to her looking ridiculous. Are we sure she'll know how to use big words with the other real chefs??