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

I've already listed:

Jamie Oliver
Nigella
Hugh Fernley Whotsisname

but you could add:

Nigel Slater
Rick Stein et al

There's a new one too, can't remember his name, he was 'one man in his campervan' and looked a bit like Hugh F-W

seemed to be on all last week and agree v irritating

I quite like them for a bit of entertainment and occasionally inspiration {Jamie Oliver, Hugh etc).

Sometimes I find Nigella a bit too much. I don't think I even managed a full 5 mins with Sophie Dahl. Lorraine Pascale (Baking made easy) gets turned off pretty quickly now, too.

Rick Stein has his own restaurant...hence a chef not a "lifestyle chef"
ditto Jamie Oliver...and doean't HFW run a restaurant out of River Cottage?

Nevertheless you can still opt not to watch their shows...

I like Hugh F-S. His "meat" book is great. Also approve of his efforts to stop us eating fish with depleted stocks and start gorging on sardines instead.

Can't be doing with Nigella. Watched it once and she was trying to convince the viewers that she often went between appts on a bus, scoffing pea and ham soup from a thermos. Like fuck she does

So I think that's a YABU, soz.

The worst one is that bint Sophie Dahl. She is so irritating I want to pluck my eyeballs out and throw throw them at the telly.

It isn't just chefs though, it is telly in general. Even Brian Cox is getting the Nigella treatment. Why couldn't they let us quietly fancy him without having to look at sexy camera shots of him on a mountain with wind in his hair or something. I'm able to imagine that on my own thanks, and I want to convince myself that I admire his brains and am not one of thousands of other silly women with a girly crush on a telly person.

That Heston thing on last night was stupid too. I love Heston's big feasts, but no NHS cook is going to serve worms in dry ice to the childrens' ward.

If it wasn't for that snake documentary last night I'd have chucked something at the telly.

Ooh, have I killed it?

I'm a bit confused - so who isn't a lifestyle chef?

I'm not a Lifestyle Chef!

And scrambled eggs are the bollocks anyway...

oh Sophie Dahl, pukerama

op YANBU