A few Questions about the Food Channel?- Why do you watch it or not?
- What is your favorite show?
- Has it helped your cooking?
Here are my answers:
- I watch it occasionally (not as much as I used to) because it is educational in a practical way. I also like to hear Emeril say Bam! He is pretty entertaining.
- I guess Emeril is my favorite because he is fun to watch. I also like the BBQ shows.
- Yes. I can now flip omeletes, hash browns and fried eggs with the best of them. I think what it has done for me is to give me courage to try new things.
How about you?
1. No (don't watch much TV at all)
ReplyDeleteI guess that answers 2 & 3 as well!
1.) Once and a while when I'm at someone's house who has cable.
ReplyDelete2.) I, too, also like Emeril. But I think Alton Brown is my favorite.
3.) It's reminded me it's okay to be creative and experiment with cooking - with spices, method, etc.
I like to watch some of the shows. They give me ideas not that I do a huge amount of gourmet cooking.
ReplyDeleteLove Alton Brown and have made the garlic chicken he made on his show.
I like Iron Chef both versions.
Why do you watch it or not?
ReplyDeleteI do not. And not only because I don't have cable. I was a chef for 20 years and the last thing I want to do is watch someone ELSE cook!
What is your favorite show?
N/A
Has it helped your cooking?
N/A
Regarding your egg-flipping:
When I was just starting out, I worked at IHOP and we used to have egg flipping contests. We would see who could flip the egg out of the pan and get as close to the ceiling as possible without touching it, and then catch the egg without breaking the yolk. (Yeah, we did other fun stuff too.)
"as close to the ceiling as possible without touching it"
ReplyDeleteDK, you are my new hero!
I've got it on right now. Emeril's one, but I'm pretty much burned out on him, though, since early on the Food Network, it was all Emeril all the time.
ReplyDeleteLOVE Alton Brown, and I hear he's a Christian, too! I have learned most from him, Rachel Ray and from the show called "Semi-Homemade" which starts from a base of a purchased product (like cole slaw mix) and then adds cooked parts to make something that is often greater than the sum of its parts. It has a cheerful hostess whose name I don't know.
I try always to narrow my TV-watching to keep away from the overly gossipy, overly sexual stuff, which is an occasion of sin for me. Food Network fits well in what's left.
DK, you are my new hero!
ReplyDelete(LOL) Who did I depose?
I watch it because my wife and youngest son like to have it on. I don't think I'd tune in if it was only up to me.
ReplyDeleteAlton Brown and the Iron Chef shows are amusing. Also the shows that demonstrate how common food items are manufactured. I don't have any use for the "how to cook" shows because I simply don't enjoy preparing food and my wife is much better at it than I am anyway.