[Food] Favourite TV Chef

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Who is your favourite TV chef?

  • Anthony Worrall Thompson

  • Ainsley Harriott

  • Rusty Lee

  • Brian Turner

  • Jamie Oliver

  • Gregg Wallace

  • Delia Smith

  • Lesley Waters

  • Gino Di Campo

  • Phil Vickery

  • Kevin Woodford

  • Nick Nairn

  • Paul Rankin

  • Nigella Lawson

  • Rick Stein

  • Marcus Wareing

  • Gordon Ramsey


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MJsGhost

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Like Nigel Slater, whose recipes create food that is better than most chefs.
I really like his recipes, but cannot stand the way he comes across and therefore can't watch him on the TV without wanting to put my foot through the screen.
The same applies to Nigella Lawson - I just can't see why she sends so many blokes giddy. She's the cooking equivalent of Julian Clary with her OTT innuendo and knowing looks - GET OFF MY SCREEN YOU F***ING MORON.

Maybe it's just a Nigel thing? ???
 


MJsGhost

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Going against the grain of a Crodo thread with a proper answer, I'd probably go for Tom Kerridge.

His recipes are quite the faff to make, even though they seem unpretentious at first glance but The Hand & Flowers is excellent. He was actually there 2 out of the 3 times I've been, which may have been luck but is more than can be said for a lot of the chefs with their name above the restaurant door... He was very chatty and cheerful and seemed to genuinely get on with his staff.
 


The Antikythera Mechanism

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I really like his recipes, but cannot stand the way he comes across and therefore can't watch him on the TV without wanting to put my foot through the screen.
The same applies to Nigella Lawson - I just can't see why she sends so many blokes giddy. She's the cooking equivalent of Julian Clary with her OTT innuendo and knowing looks - GET OFF MY SCREEN YOU F***ING MORON.

Maybe it's just a Nigel thing? ???
Same. I have most of his books but can’t bring myself to watch him on TV.
 




MJsGhost

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Same. I have most of his books but can’t bring myself to watch him on TV.
With his books I have to skip the intro to his recipes as I can't help but read it in his smug voice... Just shows how good they are that I even bother
 




Westdene Seagull

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Going against the grain of a Crodo thread with a proper answer, I'd probably go for Tom Kerridge.

His recipes are quite the faff to make, even though they seem unpretentious at first glance but The Hand & Flowers is excellent. He was actually there 2 out of the 3 times I've been, which may have been luck but is more than can be said for a lot of the chefs with their name above the restaurant door... He was very chatty and cheerful and seemed to genuinely get on with his staff.
His homemade Chicken Kiev's are fantastic - as you say a little fiddly but worth the effort.

Went to a food and music festival in Preston Park last year. Pissing down but he was still doing a BBQ cooking demonstration - Mrs WS was quite star struck when she managed to corner him for a chat and get a few photos - nice guy. Buggered if I can remember what he cooked as the only real memory I have of the evening is the Sugarbabes live on stage !!!! 😍
 




PILTDOWN MAN

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Gregg Wallace is a salesman not a cook
 


Westdene Seagull

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Gregg Wallace is a salesman not a cook
I think you mean a multi-married (sometimes to women FAR younger than him), bankrupt ex-greengrocer ( not that there's anything wrong with any of that ! ).
 








Westdene Seagull

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A good chef always needs to know a good fisherman, and this is a classic haul. :bowdown:
Fishing it might be but it's a darn sight more entertaining than watching the Albion at the moment.
 


POSKETT AT THE VALLEY

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Going against the grain of a Crodo thread with a proper answer, I'd probably go for Tom Kerridge.

His recipes are quite the faff to make, even though they seem unpretentious at first glance but The Hand & Flowers is excellent. He was actually there 2 out of the 3 times I've been, which may have been luck but is more than can be said for a lot of the chefs with their name above the restaurant door... He was very chatty and cheerful and seemed to genuinely get on with his staff.
By the size of him now, he obviously didn’t rate his own how to lose weight book!
 








MJsGhost

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By the size of him now, he obviously didn’t rate his own how to lose weight book!
Has he put a bit of timber back on then?

He was enormous, but lost over 10 stone IIRC. I doubt he's out that much back on, but happy to be corrected.
 


MJsGhost

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By the size of him now, he obviously didn’t rate his own how to lose weight book!
I was interested, so I looked it up.


No mention of him putting weight back on there (from Feb), so what made you think he has?
 








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