To be fed up to the back teeth of the plethora of perfect 'lifestyle' chefs making us scrambled egg merchants feel inadequate ?

[hymie]

Quite a long thread title

Why don't you just switch the tv off?

They don't make me feel inadequate ..

Sorry OP I think you'll have to explain a bit more.

what#'s a lifestyle chef?

Exactly LeQueen.

Jamie Oliver...meal in 30 minutes my arse...takes me at least one hour

Nigella having an orgasm as she serves her dinner guests...what a crock of shite...I break out in hives and end up overcooking everything

Fearnley Whitingstall insisting we can all afford organic free range Yak when most of us have a garden the size of a dinner table and about as much spare time as Colonel Gadafi

I hate 'em all

YABU... it's entertainment, not lifestyle coaching or a cookery course. You might as well say it's cruel to show people, who have nothing more exotic in their homes than a lava lamp, a Faberge Egg on Antiques Roadshow because it makes them feel inferior. :)

Not at all because they ain't preaching !

Excusing something as being OK because it is entertainment is the thin end of the wedge...you'll be making threads praising Emmerdale next.

I'll see your thin end of the wedge and raise you a slippery slope..... I rather like all the TV chefs and have used some of their ideas myself. Oliver's suggestion to make the Xmas gravy in advance, for example, was a blinder. But when it comes to a lot of the fancier ideas, to quote Shirley Conran, 'life is too short to stuff a mushroom'

YAB a bit U. They are entertainment shows.

I enjoy watching people cook perfect meals in their perfect kitchens in their perfect houses with their perfect families...

Then I enjoy a good plate of bangers and mash

Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.

HTH

BTW... scrambled eggs are very easy to get wrong. So I think you're being a little too self-effacing. Chin up love.

I like that Trilly, I'll be storing that away for later use. Thanks

about as much spare time as Colonel Gadafi

that was brilliant, hymie.

I agree about Jamie Oliver's gravy idea, Chil. I'll never do Xmas dinner gravy any other way now.

Some of these programmes are a bit de trop (especially Nigella). I do cook but I can't watch her anymore. Barefoot Contessa, on the other hand, is a delight.

Erm, I can do Jamie's 30 minute meals in 30 minutes. It does however, take an hour to wash up afterwards

I do however sometimes want to scream at the tv just cook a bloody chicken Heston. There's no need to put liquid nitrogen anywhere near it or stuff it with the kidneys of a virgin stoat and bury it in your garden for 6 weeks.

Ooooo, I feel SO much better now :o

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Easy solution: get rid of the telly.

Then no-one can include you of being a benefit scrounging plasma widescreen person either.

*accuse not 'include'.

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Now Heston really is pure entertainment.... from the 'mad as a box of frogs' Olympic champion nutter school of cooking. Nigella is watched solely by the dirty mac brigade of moist-eyed middle-aged men. And Fearnely-Whittingstall is not a real person, of course, but a creation by Richmal Crompton.

Bwah hah hah @ Chil1234. Love it. esp the Richmal Crompton comment. Shame William can't come and dig up his veg patch with Jumble.

I was thinking the other day that surely celebrity chefs have had their day by now? Am sick of them.

See, I'm not on my own on this one.

I miss Fanny.

Actually in interviews a lot of chefs admit they like beans on toast, curry take away etc. Remember cookery is their job, if they didnt appear on telly with recipes we might want to try out they'd be failing. What would be the point in a show of "and here is how you scramble an egg for the 10th time this week". They present for fans of cookery, not for people who don't enjoy it.

Some people, me included, like to cook, that is why there are cookery shows. For those who like reality tv there are reality shows, for those who like quizzes there are quiz shows...it isn't hard to find something that appeals more directly to your tastes in the TV schedules, and avoid the stuff that doesn't.

You're missing the point I think....I was specifically referring to 'Lifestyle' chefs...not chefs in general.

Who would you say was a lifestyle chef?

If you put milk in your scrambled egg instead of lots of butter and serve it in little rubbery balls instead of glossy then you should feel inadequate