Best (and Worst) of Food Network

[Deadly Sushi]

I usually find myself watching the Food Network anytime the TV is on. I love to grill and cook in general (AND eat ) I was wondering if any of you folks also watch and if so, what shows do you enjoy the most? How about the ones you dont like? (and the reasons) I put a list of shows underneath. I dont remember some of the names.

$40 a Day
30 Minute Meals
Ace of Cakes
Barefoot Contessa
Behind the Bash
Boy Meets Grill
All American Festivals
BBQ with Bobby Flay

Dave DoesDiners,
Drive-Ins and Dives
Dinner: Impossible
Easy Entertaining with Michael Chiarello
Emeril Live
The Essence of Emeril
Everyday Italian
Food 911
Feasting on Asphalt
Food Finds
FoodNation With BobbyFlay
Food Network Awards
Food Network Specials
Food Network Challenge

Giada's Weekend Getaways
Glutton for Punishment with Bob Blumer
Good Deal with Dave Lieberman
The Gourmet Next Door
Good Eats with Alton Brown
Good Food Fast with Family Circle
Guy's Big Bite
Ham on the Street
Have Fork, Will Travel
Healthy Appetite with Ellie Krieger
How To Boil Water
The Hungry Detective
Inside Dish with Rachael Ray
Into the Fire
Iron Chef
Iron Chef America
Kitchen Accomplished
Molto Mario
The Next Food Network Star: Season 3
The Next Iron Chef
Nigella Bites
Nigella Express
Nigella Feasts

party line with the hearty boys
Paula's Home Cooking
Paula's Party
Quick Fix Meals with Robin Miller
Rachael Ray's Tasty Travels
Recipe for Success
Restaurant Makeover
Road Tasted
Roker on the Road
Sara's Secrets
The Secret Life Of....
Semi-Homemade Cooking with Sandra Lee
Simply Delicioso
Sugar Rush
Sweet Dreams
Throwdown with Bobby Flay
Top 5
Tyler's Ultimate
Unwrapped
Wolfgang Puck's Cooking Class
http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/show_wm/0,1976,FOOD_10233,00.html

 

[pirate_girl]

I like the Barefoot Contessa.
The reason being is because it is so deliciously snobby AND because it never ceases to amaze me how Ina Garten and her hubby appear to act so.. well.. I don't know.. like strangers??
She also seems to cater to a gay crowd by and large. I find it pretty amusing.
Drive Ins and Dives is always fun to watch.
Unwrapped is also a favorite.
What I don't really care for are the Paula Deen shows, y'all
Rachel Ray drives me crazy as does Emeril.
Semi Homemade and that Sandra Lee??
"Yummmmmmmmmm... sooooooooooooo delicious, yummmmmmmmmmmmmmm, sooooooo delicious.. yummmmmmm".. etc..
bahh! lol
I miss Julia Child I suppose..

 

[Deadly Sushi]

Youre right about Ina. Shes a snob. The food she makes seems pretty good though.

 

[Melensdad]

I like the original Iron Chef in Japanese that was dubbed over in English. Rachael Ray doesn't bother me, but I have yet to see anything that she cooked that really looked like a good meal. Much of it seems to be high fat home cooked meals of fast food and quick serve restaurants. Road Tasted was pretty good. Anything with Alton Brown is interesting. But I don't really stop on the Food Network unless there is absolutely nothing else on TV and I'm really bored and just looking for background noise while I work on the computer.

 

[Bobcat]

Who does that $40 a day show? She's pretty cute and I see it's also at the top of your list!

 

[Deadly Sushi]

Who does that $40 a day show? She's pretty cute and I see it's also at the top of your list!

Ummmmmm!!!!!! I think I just stepped on something that reminds me of her.
Alton Brown has entertaining programs. Seems like the guy is hugly bi-polar. Either he is hardcore serious or whimsically aloof. Either way I enjoy the science behind the cooking.

 

[Bobcat]

Sorry, I just had to point that out. At least I didn't mention number 2 on your list.

 

[bczoom]

I usually find myself watching the Food Network anytime the TV is on.

We need to talk DS...

Is that list of programs what you watch or is that their weekly schedule. If the former, you really need to open a book or something (even if it is a cookbook).

 

[Deadly Sushi]

At least I didn't mention number 2 on your list.

Thanks man.

Is that list of programs what you watch or is that their weekly schedule. If the former, you really need to open a book or something (even if it is a cookbook).

Ehhh thats what my background is when Im on the computer usually. Trust me. I read more than most folks. And quality stuff too.

 

[pirate_girl]

I think I may just have found the worst.. sheeeeesh!!

She has always been the most generous of cooks, indulging in dollops of cream, lashings of butter and sploshes of wine.

But it seems Nigella Lawson's largesse may have left her just that little bit larger.
Fans of the 47-year-old Domestic Goddess have suggested she is expanding faster than her recipe repertoire in the TV series Nigella Express.

Nigella looking trim and glamorous and rather more portly in a still from her latest TV series.
Hundreds of comments have been posted on internet forums and the BBC's official Points of View website claiming Miss Lawson's fondness for calorie-laden recipes is showing on her figure.

Indeed, the show's first episode saw a relatively slimline Miss Lawson, in black trousers and a denim jacket.
In contrast, the latest episode, aired on Monday, featured a decidedly more voluptuous cook whipping up an indulgent chocolate pear pudding.

Opening the fridge door and reaching for a tub of ice cream, the mother of two revealed a rather more curvaceous derriere and a trace of pot belly.
TV critics claim her new series incorporates "scenes of gluttony not seen since the golden age of the Cookie Monster".
And viewers, writing on a series of website forums, seem to agree.
"There's no beating about the bush – she's a porker," one wrote rather ungallantly.
"And no wonder when she was shovelling those candies down her neck the other night – before she got to her destination for dinner.

"What sort of an example is she with her weight and her appetite for high-calorie sweets and cream?"
Some of the comments posted on internet forums and the BBC's official Points of View website about Nigella's expanding waistline

With suggestions that the series should be renamed "Nigella's Express Way to Put on Weight," another notes: "Nigella's speed food is very amusing but is it me or has Nigella gained weight?
"Not surprised! The amount of food she eats in her programme is quite an achievement – and if you add up all the sloshes of wine and splashes of champagne she should be permanently p*****!"

In the 13-part series, seen on BBC2, Miss Lawson cooks up rocky road marshmallow crunch bars, doughnut French bread, buttermilk chicken drumsticks, fried lamb chops and caramel covered croissants.
In one episode, after baking some "hokey-pokey" honeycomb as a dinner party gift, she is seen eating half of it on the way there.

"Well, I never was very good at self discipline," she shrugs.
While Miss Lawson appears to be ballooning, her husband, millionaire art collector Charles Saatchi, has shrunk by four stone thanks to a strict diet.


The BBC declined the chance to comment last night.

Holy Toledo...