Does anyone love Jamie Oliver's recipes but find him a bit odd?

[MrsKingfisher]

I'm sure he speaks very highly of me! I really enjoy his recipes but the more I see of him and Jools on tv I don't know he creeps me out a bit..can't put my finger on it. Anyone else?

I like his recipes, I think he’s nice and honest and easy to watch or listen too. I listened to his pod interview with Joe Wicks and he talks about people like you lot 👆🏻 happy to be disparaging about him and how that affects his mental health if he listens.

Also sure someone on a thread on MN says he’s a philanderer so he must be.

@geekone

I like his recipes, I think he’s nice and honest and easy to watch or listen too. I listened to his pod interview with Joe Wicks and he talks about people like you lot 👆🏻 happy to be disparaging about him and how that affects his mental health if he listens.

Also sure someone on a thread on MN says he’s a philanderer so he must be.

Is that you Jools?

I like his recipes.

I wouldn't take a comment on MN to mean he's a serial shagger. Anyone can say anything on here.

His books are the most usable and reliable recipe books I’ve had, often browse through the naked chef and the naked chef returns even now.

I have a hatred of listening to people eat loudly and want to kill my own husband when I can hear him chomping, so unfortunately can’t watch JO.

I think his books and recipes are pretty good. I am indifferent towards him.

On the ex publicist ask me anything thread.

That's the "evidence"?

Because of course everyone who's on the internet is exactly who they say they are.

I think he has tried to effect some good social change in terms of his fifteen restaurants and trying to improve the quality of school meals and I applaud him for that.

I was on one of his TV shows once, filming for over twelve hours. He didn't even say hello to the small amount of people in the restaurant and left at the end without saying goodbye or thanks. The producer just told us it was time to go home as we'd finished filming. Not been that keen since...

I have one of his books, some of the recipes are fine but others I've tried have been rubbish, I don't like watching him on TV either because his voice irritates me.

He seems OK to me. Chefs are a bit different to the rest of us though.

He’s possibly the famous person that irritates me the most—glad to see I’m not unique in that! I don’t know what specifically it is, i think I just find him patronising, dull and irritating?

Also his restaurants suck. Only food I’ve ever sent back in my life—literally inedible. And he didn’t step up for his staff when they got in difficulty IMO.

I don't rate his recipes. He seems to be trying to reinvent the wheel with a lot of them. As for his person, he comes across as a bit of a prick.

I'm sure something came out in the media about him having an affair not so sure on a serial shagger front but then not all you read is true. He makes me feel a bit sick he comes over as a patronising prick tbh.

Give me the Hairy Bikers anyday and their recipes are good, but then I'm a northerner so biased. Actually I'm not that biased as I'm also a big fan of HFW as well, the River cottage everyday cookbook is my most referred to after many years.

"I like that he takes up a challenge. People moaning that healthy cooking takes too long, here's a 30 minute cookbook. Still too long? Here's a 15 minute one. Too many ingredients? Here's a 5 ingredient cookbook. Too expensive? Here's a cheap eating one."

All ideas that other food writers had before him anyway.

... Its possible Jools could read this. I really hope not.

Can't stand the man I made one of his recipes once and it curdled , I'd say I'm a very confident cook and can turn my hand to almost anything

@Snog

I think he has tried to effect some good social change in terms of his fifteen restaurants and trying to improve the quality of school meals and I applaud him for that.

His restaurants were mediocre, overpriced and had crap service. That's why they went out of business.

Well he's worth over £250 million yet put 20 staff on furlough. That irritated me.

Well going against the grain,

I love Jamie, never had a recipe go wrong, I do have all the books and it's got the kids eating a bit more variety, the coupe times I went to his restaurants the food was lovely and fitted with the atmosphere.
The couple of people I know who have met him have said he's been great to work with.
His family look great on screen ( obviously I don't know them in person) Jools looks like she's a laugh and if they have problems in their relationship then that's their business not anyone else's, they could have an arrangement for all we know or it could all be bollocks.

Horses for courses and all that I guess.

Pah have a look at my other posts unless Jools and Jamie are secretly Scottish then no I am not them.

@MrsKingfisher

I'm sure he speaks very highly of me! I really enjoy his recipes but the more I see of him and Jools on tv I don't know he creeps me out a bit..can't put my finger on it. Anyone else?

The easy solution is not to watch his tv programmes.

I think it's pretty nasty to say someone "creeps you out" when you've never met them.

So what if he's famous, it doesn't warrant a bashing simply for this reason.

Similarly there are thousands of recipe books/sites out there, you can simply avoid him at all costs.

I like him. He works hard and his heart is in the right place about food, not just recipes but the wider sense of nutrition, food education etc.
He has said a few foot-in-mouth things, sure, and he isn't perfect, but neither are any of us.

I always remember, on that show when he taught people to cook from absolute scratch, how kind he was to one young woman who was sure she couldn't do it.

Also he has some great risotto recipes and I use his 'base' risotto one as a basis for all mine and it's failsafe.

I like his recipes and have three books that I use quite a bit. I used to love him on the telly but don't watch these days but I don't watch any cooking TV apart from travel cooking like Rick Stein and the Hairy Bikers. I didn't know he was a shagger, he seems devoted to Jools

On the ex publicist ask me anything thread.

That's not evidence, that's rumours and gossip