Gordon Ramsay Has Jumped The Shark....

[global1]

His mug is all over the TV. One of his shows finishes and he's got another one or two starting.

Too much exposure. Same Ole same ole!!!

I've stopped watching his shows. Give it a rest Ramsay!!!!

Guy Fieri is getting close to achieving Ramsay shark jumping. One show format after another with pretty much the same results.

What happened to straight 'how to cook shows.' Lay off all the fake competition.

Most food shows seem to be just competition featuring foods that most people don't make or eat.

YAWN!!!!

[JoeOtterbein]

1. With all the starving children in the world, lets have a contest to...

...end world hunger!

[Floyd R. Turbo]

2. If someone offered me bags of cash to do what they do I, like most, would do what they do!

[pandr32]

3. I enjoyed the Masterchef and Masterchef Junior competitions.

Watching taught so much.
Also, The British Baking Show! Love, love, love!

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6. I've enjoyed "kitchen disasters"

Where he goes into a failing local restaurant and tries to turn it around.

What's cool is that he doesn't try to turn an ordinary pizza joint into a five star restaurant. He shows that it's possible to provide consistent good food in a clean restaurant with courteous service at any price point.

Also good as it provides hints as to what to what out for when you're exploring restaurants in your own area.

[global1]

8. Robert Irvine Did A Better Job Of This Type Of Program With His.....

Restaurant Impossible.

He offered very believable and doable advice. Great recipes - and demonstrated how they're made.

I learned a great deal from his show. It was a forerunner to Ramsay's show you mention - which is a poor copycat of Irvine's show.

It ran for a number of years. You can probably catch it on the internet.

Watch it once or twice and evaluate it for yourself!!!

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11. Never even heard of that one. I'll have to check it out, thanks!

[pandr32]

9. Thank you.

It sounds like I should give it a go!

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4. Of all the "reality shows", I can tolerate his the best

I have no use for big bother or survivor or any of the distinctions romance shows.

Hell's Kitchen at least is focused on actual, useful and productive skills.

I agree about showing actual cooking. People don't seem to care that much for purely informative shows, but it would be better if they included an actual recipe in each episode. It might only be 15 seconds at the end if they can't fold it in during the actual show. How to make perfect fluffy scrambled eggs every time, that sort of thing.

Some of the episodes do (or did) include Ramsey showing everyone how to prepare one of the dishes, clearly he has to do this at some point in the contest to train everyone on his menu, but they don't often show it, or they don't show enough of it so the viewers can learn from it.

[Polly Hennessey]

5. PBS has real cooking shows. They are a delight and informative.

Best of all the shows actually show and teach us about good food we actually eat.

[mwmisses4289]

7. PBS seems to be the only channel with real cooking shows.

Can't stand the cooking competition shows. No, I don't want to see someone make the most ingredient exotic mini cupcakes and frost them to look like mini wedding cakes. I want to watch someone make mini cupcakes step by step with ingredients i might already have in my kitchen.

[ProfessorGAC]

10. The Food Network Has Them

Yes, most are reruns, but Molly Yeh, Valerie Bertinelli, Ina Garten, Rhee Drummond, Kardea Brown, The Kitchen, & others have straight how-to shows that running regularly.
Food Network & The Cooking Channel still provides several shows On Demand, like Giada At Home,Extra Virgin, Good Eats...
Yeah, I watch those channels a lot. But, I'm a fan of the competition shows and I can't be the only one, otherwise they'd quit making them.
There is also RecipeTV, but I don't know how many cable, satellite, or steaming packages have that channel. We do, but I can't know the rest.
So, it's not just PBS.

[debm55]

12. I like his Masterchef and Masterchef Junior. I really dislike Hell's Kitchen and the rest of them