UnConundrum
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Ugh. Don't know what else to say. Thought I'd check out this new show tonight. I won't make it much longer.
Gordon Ramsey "Cookalong"
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haha!
Does he utter the F word on this show?
Can't stand him.. blahh..
Does he utter the F word on this show?
Can't stand him.. blahh..
UnConundrum
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It's on Fox, right now.... I just switched to NCIS. Couldn't take anymore 
He's making a flambe, so he had firemen show up on stage. What crap!
He's making a flambe, so he had firemen show up on stage. What crap!
Foul-mouthed chef Gordon Ramsay invites viewers to cook along with him---
For years, viewers have watched Chef Gordon Ramsay reduce aspiring and even seasoned chefs to sliced and diced vegetables on shows like "Hell's Kitchen" and "Kitchen Nightmares." So the prospect of cooking alongside him in a public forum is enough to make even the most hardened critic turn into a beaten egg white.
That was the challenge last summer as critics from across North America were invited to prepare a dish with the hot-headed TV chef. Now viewers will get the same opportunity when "Gordon Ramsay: Cookalong Live" premieres Tuesday, Dec. 15 at 9 p.m. ET. on Global and Fox (repeating the next night on the Food Network).
The Scottish-born chef and restaurateur stood before critics last summer at the annual press tour in Los Angeles and barked orders while dozens of scribes attempted to whisk egg whites into something resembling a peak.
"(Have you) never made a Baked Alaska before?" Ramsay shouted from the stage where he stood with whisk and bowl.
Most critics struggle with half-baked story ideas. We're usually the crabs being served on press tour, not the ones trying to prepare anything edible.
Ramsay could see many of us were in over our heads and decided to lighten things up a bit.
"Where the hell did you get that shirt from?" he asked one critic dressed for the beach. "If your cooking is as bad as your dress sensea" he continued, dropping one of his usually bleeped F-bombs.
Still, this wasn't the rude Ramsay one is used to seeing on television. He was here on this day to promote his show, not antagonize critics. He promised he'd be on his best behaviour on "Cookalong Live," too, as he helps homemakers try to prepare a pretty complicated meal in real time as they watch the hour-long special next Tuesday night.
He was looking forward to the challenge because, for one thing, he says he never really gets to cook properly on his other shows. "The biggest complaint I've had from, not just family, but from viewers, customers that are in the restaurant, is that 'We don't see you cook enough,"' he says. The French-trained chef, who has earned 16 Michelin stars, feels working in a far less pressurized TV environment should help him show off his culinary skills - as well as control his potty mouth.
The live special will present a full 60-minute challenge for chefs at home, with Angel Hair Pasta with shrimp, chili and tomatoes, Steak Diane with sauteed potatoes and peas and a Quick Tiramisu all on the menu. A well-stocked kitchen will be in order; a full list of ingredients can be found at globaltv.com. That's where you'll also find certain preparation tips online that will help home chefs stay with the program.
"If you can't chop brilliantly," he says, "grating an onion is just as effective."
But what if you don't have a TV in your kitchen, Ramsay was asked. That would seem to be the one indispensable ingredient in order to truly cook along live.
"You sound like my mom!" Ramsay complained. "That's what she said to me. 'How do you expect me to cook along with no TV in the kitchen?"'
It can be done, he says.
"Leave the living room door open, turn the volume up full, wheel the television partly into the kitchen." Failing that, stream it on a computer or a laptop, where it will also be available live, he suggests.
Ramsay figures most viewers with some cooking experience will be able to tackle the three-course meal and stay about two or three minutes behind his lead. But if you fall further behind, don't sweat it, says the chef. "I'm not expecting everyone to keep up with me. But I can guarantee the journey will be packed with emotion. Of course, it's slightly stressful, but pressure is healthy."
Just don't forget the most important ingredient, Ramsay advises: a glass of wine.
"It sort of slows the process down," he says, "but it creates the excitement."
http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5jjXD4hBIDMNw3fP6D3aAZiT2HcBw
For years, viewers have watched Chef Gordon Ramsay reduce aspiring and even seasoned chefs to sliced and diced vegetables on shows like "Hell's Kitchen" and "Kitchen Nightmares." So the prospect of cooking alongside him in a public forum is enough to make even the most hardened critic turn into a beaten egg white.
That was the challenge last summer as critics from across North America were invited to prepare a dish with the hot-headed TV chef. Now viewers will get the same opportunity when "Gordon Ramsay: Cookalong Live" premieres Tuesday, Dec. 15 at 9 p.m. ET. on Global and Fox (repeating the next night on the Food Network).
The Scottish-born chef and restaurateur stood before critics last summer at the annual press tour in Los Angeles and barked orders while dozens of scribes attempted to whisk egg whites into something resembling a peak.
"(Have you) never made a Baked Alaska before?" Ramsay shouted from the stage where he stood with whisk and bowl.
Most critics struggle with half-baked story ideas. We're usually the crabs being served on press tour, not the ones trying to prepare anything edible.
Ramsay could see many of us were in over our heads and decided to lighten things up a bit.
"Where the hell did you get that shirt from?" he asked one critic dressed for the beach. "If your cooking is as bad as your dress sensea" he continued, dropping one of his usually bleeped F-bombs.
Still, this wasn't the rude Ramsay one is used to seeing on television. He was here on this day to promote his show, not antagonize critics. He promised he'd be on his best behaviour on "Cookalong Live," too, as he helps homemakers try to prepare a pretty complicated meal in real time as they watch the hour-long special next Tuesday night.
He was looking forward to the challenge because, for one thing, he says he never really gets to cook properly on his other shows. "The biggest complaint I've had from, not just family, but from viewers, customers that are in the restaurant, is that 'We don't see you cook enough,"' he says. The French-trained chef, who has earned 16 Michelin stars, feels working in a far less pressurized TV environment should help him show off his culinary skills - as well as control his potty mouth.
The live special will present a full 60-minute challenge for chefs at home, with Angel Hair Pasta with shrimp, chili and tomatoes, Steak Diane with sauteed potatoes and peas and a Quick Tiramisu all on the menu. A well-stocked kitchen will be in order; a full list of ingredients can be found at globaltv.com. That's where you'll also find certain preparation tips online that will help home chefs stay with the program.
"If you can't chop brilliantly," he says, "grating an onion is just as effective."
But what if you don't have a TV in your kitchen, Ramsay was asked. That would seem to be the one indispensable ingredient in order to truly cook along live.
"You sound like my mom!" Ramsay complained. "That's what she said to me. 'How do you expect me to cook along with no TV in the kitchen?"'
It can be done, he says.
"Leave the living room door open, turn the volume up full, wheel the television partly into the kitchen." Failing that, stream it on a computer or a laptop, where it will also be available live, he suggests.
Ramsay figures most viewers with some cooking experience will be able to tackle the three-course meal and stay about two or three minutes behind his lead. But if you fall further behind, don't sweat it, says the chef. "I'm not expecting everyone to keep up with me. But I can guarantee the journey will be packed with emotion. Of course, it's slightly stressful, but pressure is healthy."
Just don't forget the most important ingredient, Ramsay advises: a glass of wine.
"It sort of slows the process down," he says, "but it creates the excitement."
http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5jjXD4hBIDMNw3fP6D3aAZiT2HcBw
Maverick2272
Stewed Monkey
I would like his show more if he didn't swear so damn much... LOL.
The article says it will run on FN the following night, so I will try and catch it then and check it out.
The article says it will run on FN the following night, so I will try and catch it then and check it out.
He was on a talk show the other night, can't recall which, Kimmel or one of those.
Anyway, I got the impression that he's not like that in real life (nasty..explosive-short tempered).. perhaps that's all for show and ratings?
Anyway, I got the impression that he's not like that in real life (nasty..explosive-short tempered).. perhaps that's all for show and ratings?
joec
New member
He really isn't and the one episode I saw of Hell's Kitchen from Fox is nothing like his shows from the UK. He had several shows on the BBC from the F word (which stands for Farm folks as that is what the show is about his farming). He had another show called Kitchen Nightmares where he spends a week to 10 days in a failing restaurant to help them out. He does comeback a few months later to see how they did. This show really is good and nothing like the American version at all. Now I'm not a fan of his but can watch him on the BBC and enjoy the shows just can't deal with the America version of them as they try to turn him into a complete ass in the kitchen which I doubt he is.