For example, they’ll say “this is the correct way” to cook this and that.
To me, food should be prepared the way “you” like it.
They’ll say things like Tuna should be pan fried, but left red in the middle. Cobblers, I cook it until the red in the centre “just” disappears.
I’ve cooked duck in the past according to how they “say” it should be cooked and it was tough as old boots and chewy.
Sprouts “should” be cooked al dente - not for me, it’s like eating a bloody golf ball.
I s’pose you could call any professional patronising, I mean they know their job and they have to instruct the masses on the correct way one must do something
But yes I’m with you all the way fender, it’s down to personal taste.
Now about sprouts … take the ‘s’ off and that’s about all I can manage - one sprout, like you it needs to be well done not as per your description of a golf ball.
PS Slightly, but only slightly off topic, I love Gordon Ramsey… :-p
I never listen or watch celebrity chefs as l find there are
so many of them riding the TV bandwagon that they have
become very boring! You can only make a salad or chop
vegatables so many ways? On a weekend cooking programnes
must take up at least 30 % of veiwing time!
The TVseems to have become the main means of making
a living for legions of chefs and cooks etc some of whom
may even own a restaurant?
Patronising, l dont know!
Exactly,your preference,not theirs,even Gordon Ramsys,mother and sister said his sprouts tasted like bullets.…(break a tooth!.
I wish I could cook like him,…,I always use his recipe for chocolate fondant pudding,he is a very talented chef,…he has great charisma,even though he is on the loud side.
My pet hate is how they cook lamb so it’s still pink in the middle so much so that a good vet could probably get it back on its feet. Meat should be cooked properly not left borderline raw.
The only chef I have any time for is Raymond Blanc even if he’s a Frenchman. He seems to be a nice bloke, is an excellent chef and is very enthusiastic about what he cooks.
I usually go the annual Malton Food Lovers Festival - which is brilliant - and have met one or two ‘celebrity’ chefs there. Oddly enough even the ones who seem patronising on TV are quite nice to talk to in person.
As for the ones on TV shows - well -
Jamie Oliver - has good ideas but is so irritating I lose patience with him.
Raymond Blanc - comes across really well.
Miguel Barclay - is good and his recipes work.
The Hairy Bikers - are a laugh a minute.
The two Fat Ladies - were good entertainment value.
Don’t like Heston Blumental - some of his stuff is just weird, and the loathsome Gordon Ramsay has all the charm of a dead slug.
Many chefs are just showmen and have lots of people to help them and prepare food
Who wants to see chefs chopping up vegetables and screaming at staff as well as throwing perfectly good food in the bin.
As for the equipment they sell most of it is poor quality and overpriced, as well as their very expensive Restaurants.
I saw a famous Restauranteur in the Green Grocers buying all the Cauliflowers with black spots on as they were cheap and buying frozen Black Forest Gateau when it was on the menu as homemade!
Many women and men at home can cook just as well.
How ironic that there is more convenience food sold now than ever than before when there is a multitude of food programmes on TV.
I agree with Fender. You cook your food as you like it, nobody else has the right to tell you how to cook just because they are on TV. Sure, they have probably worked their way up a la Masterchef type nonsense (and Greg Wallace is a typical patronising chef btw) but just because you don’t have the qualification on a certificate doesn’t mean your cooking is rubbish or it tastes horrible.
I used to class Gordon Ramsay as the ultimate in a rude chef but he knows his stuff and even though it’s all for television he is passionate about cooking food properly and I quite enjoy his USA shows particularly.
Can’t stand Jamie Oliver or Mary Berry. Delia Smith is okay if you want to make a rhubarb crumble and most of the others are just stereotypes of each other in white coats.
A la Carte food to me which shows a plate with a dollop of veggie pate adourned with a sprig of parsley with a trail of sauce around it doesn’t do it for me. That’s not a meal! £50 for a jumped up fish cake! Buggerthat!
Rick Stein is okay though if you like prawns.
My favourites are the Hairy Bikers. Just down to earth good lads who tell it as it is.
Celebrity chefs patronising? What can I say. All of them are sometimes…Some of them are all the time…you know the rest. As far as the ones on television go, I don’t actively watch them but if they’re on and they have something useful to share, I’ll listen. No matter how they say it. Of course there are a few who are beyond the pale. Like that oxygen thief Gordon Ramsay. But hey…if people are silly enough to give him air time…Or worse still , work for him, they deserve him. I’m only interested in the food. I live in a city where food is original and a “fair dinkum” art form. The “celebrity” chefs are stars in their own establishments and people go to see ( and taste them) perform on their own live stage. Their restaurants. They are welcoming and fun and seldom patronising. It is not a culture of snobbery and you don’t have to be filthy rich or a VIP to enjoy some of the best and most culturally diverse food on the planet. As far as cooking goes, have the attitude that you can learn something from everybody. Regardless of their attitude. After all you don’t have to have them around for dinner innit!
Yeah, what’s all that about: taking a kitchen “on the road”?! Who wants to watch somebody running around a kitchen in a local city hall stage show?
That’s just daft and a fad tbh.
…(break a tooth!.
He seems to be a nice bloke, is an excellent chef and is very enthusiastic about what he cooks.
