Posted on 08/06/2017 1:33:38 PM PDT by EveningStar
The Most Hated Celebrity Chefs
Jess Bolluyt
The Cheat Sheet
August 6, 2017
Celebrity chefs are everywhere. They host reality TV shows, judge cooking competitions, publish cookbooks, and open their own restaurants. Along the way, many of them ruffle a few feathers. Many celebrity chefs are genuinely talented. But some have polarizing personalities. Some have boring shows and lackluster recipes. And others are, plain and simple, badly overrated. Read on to check out the celebrity chefs everybody — sometimes including their fellow chefs — loves to hate.More
From bleached hair to bowling shirts, Guy Fieri is, without a doubt, one of the most hated celebrity chefs of all time. But what exactly is it that causes droves of people to disdain the seemingly happy-go-lucky guy in the first place? From his brash personality to his lackluster restaurant in NYC, reviews of Fieri fall flat. Here are 14 reasons why this chef is nothing but a culinary catastrophe.More
Guy’s show, ‘Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives’ focuses on and highlights Middle American, Blue Collar Entrepreneurship, Which the Left despises. And takes their aggression out in crappy previews, personal slander and occasional “Fake News”.
I always liked Alton Brown’s “Julia Child. Mr. Wizard. And Monty Python” approach to ‘Good Eats”. And thought he had way too much fun devising and hosting ‘Cut Throat Kitchen’.
Can’t stand Bobby Flay. And Michal Simon is just too over rated for me.
Always has a soft spot for Graham Kerr’s “Galloping Gourmet” as a kid.
His decades later, post Alcoholism shows were also good for meals in a healthier less salt and fat vein.
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I’m sure she did, in no NO WAY, resemble Lena Dunham...
I LOVE Suburbans.
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I like Guy Fieri he has his certain flair and shtick. I find his show and others like it both entertaining and educational on the culinary side. For a more toned down master at work in the kitchen my guy is Jacque Pepin. He’s like a conductor of an orchestra chef knowing and directing exactly what he wants and when he wants it. He’s a good family man too.
That’s a pretty healthy knife; I’d stay way away...
I was lurking in August 2013 when someone seeming to be Amy herself joined Freerepublic and the same day issued a zot-inducing rant of extraordinary magnitude:
"I discovered this website while looking to see what the bullies and haters are doing against me and my husband and I found this website and all the horrable things you all have been saying just because Gordon Ramsay lies about me. None of you have ever even been to my restarant before and never even tasted my food. YOU NEVER DID SO WHY DO YOU HAVE TO BULLY AND HATE? MY FOOD IS NOT FROZEN! GORDON NEVER EVEN TRIED MY CAKE! WHY AM I AN EVIL WITCH??? WHO ARE YOU TO THINK YOU CAN GO ON THE INTERNET AND SAY THINGS ABOUT MY RESTAURANT LIKE THAT? WE STAND STRONG AGAINST ONLINE HATERS AND BULLIES!!! GOD IS ON OUR SIDE WE WILL NOT BACK DOWN!! WE WILL STAND STRONG AND WE WILL OVERCOME!!!
Paula Deen is still going strong.
She knows how to market herself.
Red Drummond is only hated by SJW. Her recipes are spot on and represent the meat and potatoes middle portion of the country
Ever watch the show Man, Fire, Food with Roger Mooking? The theme is open flame cooking. Interesting and Roger is quite the likable and entertaining guy. Someone who would liven up any party.
I wet through a phase maybe 10 years ago where pretty much all I watched was Food Metwork. Then one day it hit me- I hate all these annoying chefs and I never even make any of the recipes. Just like that I stopped and never watched it again.
My vote is a tie with Rachael Ray (does she still have that annoying talk show?h or Ina Garten. She fawns over her husband Jeffrey, like some love struck, giddy teenager and they’re what- like 70 now? Get over it already!
For the most part,the Food Network is strictly for entertainment purposes only. There are gems at times with cooking and spots to eat but the “entertaining Chefs” are mostly narcissistic libtards. Any Conservative is long kicked out or has to stay in the closet. I know politics and food should not mix but many of these a-holes openly hate quite a few Americans who do not happen to haul the party line in show business let alone in their closed 1% societal view.
The guy just drips arrogant douche in everything he says and does.
Of course, that he a a firearm enthusiast made it all that much better.
I can’t believe I’ve gone through this whole thread without anyone mentioning ‘Martha Bakes’.
Love the original host of the Iron Chef - very handsome!
I’m glad Alton Brown isn’t on that list. He’s so funny to follow on FB and Instagram, and his live stage shows are hilarious.
Jamie Oliver is cute and I can’t imagine him being on the list.
I severely dislike Bourdain, not because he’s a douchebag heroin addict and drunk (which he is), but because he once said that people over the age of 35 have no business getting into culinary jobs. He said that if you’re over 35, you’re not able to move fast, your tastebuds are shot, and your creativity is gone.
I heard him say this as I was in culinary school at the age of 45. Suffice it to say, that was a downer.
I later asked Tom Douglas, the ‘father of Pacific Northwest cuisine” about older chefs, and his thoughts were that...no matter what Bourdain said...if you can do the job, there’s no reason for someone not to hire you.
That’s why I’m doing what I’m doing, 10 years later.
I recently read something about Alton Brown reviving Good Eats. Hope so, it's always been a favorite. I liked his "Feasting on Asphalt" travel-food series, too.
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