Chef Show Skill Order

[lleeder]

I watch far too many cooking competition type shows. I always wonder to myself if one contestant was on another show how they would do. What do you think the order of the abiility of the contestants is on shows you've seen?

For me its:

Top Chef
Next Iron Chef
Next Food Network Star
Hells Kitchen
Chef Academy

I might be forgetting some shows but thats my list. I cant include shows like Chopped or Iron Chef cause they are just one shots and not one group for an entire season.

[razorboy]

No poll?

[underdog]

I think Next Iron Chef would be tops. Those chefs are usually pretty big chefs.

Hell's Kitchen chefs are terrible.

[Annie Waits]

I think Next Iron Chef would be tops. Those chefs are usually pretty big chefs.

Hell's Kitchen chefs are terrible.


I agree, I think Next Iron Chef has the best for sure, followed by the finalists on Top Chef

[EddieMoscone]

Hell's Kitchen chefs are terrible.

Hell's kitchen chef's may be terrible, but I don't think there's any way you can say that the people on the Next Food Network star even touch the people on Hell's Kitchen. Beside the fact that Gordon Ramsey's shows are notorious for editing to make things look worse than they really are, most of the joker's on the Next Food Network Star are even cooks...They belong on the bottom.

[underdog]

Hell's kitchen chef's may be terrible, but I don't think there's any way you can say that the people on the Next Food Network star even touch the people on Hell's Kitchen. Beside the fact that Gordon Ramsey's shows are notorious for editing to make things look worse than they really are, most of the joker's on the Next Food Network Star are even cooks...They belong on the bottom.

Didn't Guy Fieri win that show?

[EddieMoscone]

Didn't Guy Fieri win that show?

Yes, and I don't think he's taken seriously as a chef. He's more a personality than anything else. I think there have been 3 other winners that have vanished from the face of the earth.

[lleeder]

Yes, and I don't think he's taken seriously as a chef. He's more a personality than anything else. I think there have been 3 other winners that have vanished from the face of the earth.

Dont talk shit about Big Daddy and Melissa D Arabian.

[IMSlacker]

You should add Chopped to the list. At the bottom.

[Chigworthy]

Yeah, the Next Food Network Star contestants are usually not even trained, just shitty people who can turn out garbage food from cans and styro containers in 30 minutes or less. Fucking garbage. Fuck'em all.

[biggestmexi]

i cant say i find any of those shows good.

And i like cooking.

I like:
Anthony Bourdain.....#1
Alton Brown
And this one asian guy on hulu.....he great, check him out. Yan can cook.

[opie's twisted balls]

No matter how awful the next best top greatest iron-iest star might be they won't be within light years of the evil douchieness that is Rachael Ray.

I'd like to see her hat removed and then get cancer of the nipples and clit!

[Chigworthy]

No matter how awful the next best top greatest iron-iest star might be they won't be within light years of the evil douchieness that is Rachael Ray.

I'd like to see her hat removed and then get cancer of the nipples and clit!

While she may have preceded the next star show, they are trying to clone her with that show. That's basically what food network is; a vehicle for accessible celebrity cooks that can market lines of shitty spices, shitty cooking utensils, and shitty books. All you have to do is look at the commercial sponsors of food network. Kikkoman soy sauce extoling the virtues of umame, easy cook shit food for busy parents. It basically makes people who can't cook and don't want to spend the time to cook well think that they are making something good.

[boosterp]

Next Iron Chef
Iron Chef
Ace of Cakes


Yan Can cook
Most anything with Alton Brown.

[opie's twisted balls]

While she may have preceded the next star show, they are trying to clone her with that show. That's basically what food network is; a vehicle for accessible celebrity cooks that can market lines of shitty spices, shitty cooking utensils, and shitty books. All you have to do is look at the commercial sponsors of food network. Kikkoman soy sauce extoling the virtues of umame, easy cook shit food for busy parents. It basically makes people who can't cook and don't want to spend the time to cook well think that they are making something good.

you nailed it! And thank you for properly referring to Ray as a cook and not as incorrectly described in her wikipedia entry as a chef.

From the great Anthony Bourdain one of his better rants:
RACHAEL: Complain all you want. It’s like railing against the pounding surf. She only grows stronger and more powerful. Her ear-shattering tones louder and louder. We KNOW she can’t cook. She shrewdly tells us so. So…what is she selling us? Really? She’s selling us satisfaction, the smug reassurance that mediocrity is quite enough. She’s a friendly, familiar face who appears regularly on our screens to tell us that “Even your dumb, lazy ass can cook this!” Wallowing in your own crapulence on your Cheeto-littered couch you watch her and think, “Hell…I could do that. I ain’t gonna…but I could–if I wanted! Now where’s my damn jug a Diet Pepsi?” Where the saintly Julia Child sought to raise expectations, to enlighten us, make us better–teach us–and in fact, did, Rachael uses her strange and terrible powers to narcotize her public with her hypnotic mantra of Yummo and Evoo and Sammys. “You’re doing just fine. You don’t even have to chop an onion–you can buy it already chopped. Aspire to nothing…Just sit there. Have another Triscuit…Sleep….sleep….”

The rest of his diatribe on the various Food Network talent (http://blog.ruhlman.com/2007/02/guest_blogging_.html)

[Chigworthy]

I laughed when they did a "Chefography" on Rachel Ray. Just bullshit.

[boosterp]

To add, I also like America's Test Kitchen

[opie's twisted balls]

To add, I also like America's Test Kitchen

Great show!

At first glance Christopher Kimball is a little geeky and annoying but that quickly passes when you see that even though he knows a lot about food he doesn't pretend that he's a professional chef and leaves that to the others on the show who are. The recipes they cook are something that the average civilian could pull off with a little effort and most likely have all the tools required. That's something that irks me about other shows.....they're pulling out tools, utensils and other stuff that no normal person would have on hand.

[EddieMoscone]

To add, I also like America's Test Kitchen

Cook's Illustrated is a great magazine as well...probably the best food/cooking magazine.

[boosterp]

Cook's Illustrated is a great magazine as well...probably the best food/cooking magazine.

Agreed.:thumbup: