Question for cooking show fans

[fordman84]

I don't follow.....

Why use inedible ingredients when we have a plethora of delicious and edible ones with limitless potential? Cooking is celebrating food, not survival.

I think his point is that given the top notch ingredients those people are using, most could make a palatable meal.

I'm kind of on board, but would need its own show. Don't mess up the current ones. but show me someone that can create a good meal using some off the wall ingredients, and I'd be more impressed. I've thought the same thing about BBQ Pitmasters. They should make those guys use supplied meat. Sure, I can smoke up a Wagyu brisket and make it look perfect. But let's see what these top cookers can do with a USDA Select brisket from Tom Thumb, like the vast majority of us do.

 

[ChiefWhiteHorse]

Chopped specifically. How is my suggestion NOT a more challenging variation on their predictable, pedestrian format?

 

[Forty_Sixand2]

Chopped specifically. How is my suggestion NOT a more challenging variation on their predictable, pedestrian format?

Asking chefs to cook with non-food to show how skilled they are is like asking hockey players to play with a pool cue to show how good they are.

 

[ChiefWhiteHorse]

Fish Broth and Capers are both widely used, edible ingredients. The Peach Pits were the wild card.

 

[ChiefWhiteHorse]

I think his point is that given the top notch ingredients those people are using, most could make a palatable meal.

I'm kind of on board, but would need its own show. Don't mess up the current ones. but show me someone that can create a good meal using some off the wall ingredients, and I'd be more impressed. I've thought the same thing about BBQ Pitmasters. They should make those guys use supplied meat. Sure, I can smoke up a Wagyu brisket and make it look perfect. But let's see what these top cookers can do with a USDA Select brisket from Tom Thumb, like the vast majority of us do.

^^ That's what I'm getting at...

 

[Forty_Sixand2]

Put it on FX or Spyke then. Food network has already become to sensationalized. I also doubt you would get actual top notch chefs to do it.

 

[ChiefWhiteHorse]

Why do you hate this concept so much, 46? You're begrudgingly entertaining the idea, but still not having it...

 

[fordman84]

Put it on FX or Spyke then. Food network has already become to sensationalized. I also doubt you would get actual top notch chefs to do it.

Meh, not like I am going to be cooking or eating food from/by the top chefs anyways.

The guy that can take ingredients that 99% of the households that are cable subscribers and watching at home have in their pantry or typically buy, and he/she can turn that into a meal is the guy I care to watch anyways. Not big fan of the top/iron chef for that reason. On the odd chance that I need to scale and serve a perfectly cooked tuna, I'll probably need to do more than watch an hour of TV anyways. Americas Test Kitchen, now THERE is a cooking show.

 

[Forty_Sixand2]

Meh, not like I am going to be cooking or eating food from/by the top chefs anyways.

The guy that can take ingredients that 99% of the households that are cable subscribers and watching at home have in their pantry or typically buy, and he/she can turn that into a meal is the guy I care to watch anyways. Not big fan of the top/iron chef for that reason. On the odd chance that I need to scale and serve a perfectly cooked tuna, I'll probably need to do more than watch an hour of TV anyways. Americas Test Kitchen, now THERE is a cooking show.

I agree with this. However inedible foods seems stupid to me.

 

[fordman84]

I agree with this. However inedible foods seems stupid to me.

Maybe if they called it "Top Fear Factor Chef" and then the person who cooked it had to eat it.

I'd watch that, once.

 

[whyoh]

Thought for sure this was going to be "which cooking show host would you most like to bang".

 

[1502tuley]

Why all of a sudden do I want a glass of warm milk served with a side mellons?

 

[whyoh]

Why all of a sudden do I want a glass of warm milk served with a side mellons?

the only problem is that she is into the wimins

 

[beardown07]

I think peach pits are poisonous, no?

 

[ChiefWhiteHorse]

I think peach pits are poisonous, no?

What? Peach pits don't have cyanide in them... you're crazy... :loco:

 

[ladyrockess]

I think peach pits are poisonous, no?

Yeah, don't they have cyanide in them or something? I could swear I read a murder mystery where someone was poisoned with peach pits.

 

[1502tuley]

the only problem is that she is into the wimins

I would love to have a crack at changing her preferences.

 

[Beggs]

they have that show already

 

[li0lsh]

Lol @ no rep for posting hot Giada pics.

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[Beggs]

Lol @ no rep for posting hot Giada pics.

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lol @ asking for rep.

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