Who is the most annoying tv cook/chef?

[LetThereBeRock]

I'm convinced it's Sophie Dahl.

I'm currently suffering sitting through an episode of her show and I already want to ram a kitchen implement somewhere that will be painful and unpleasant for her.

She talks the biggest load of waffle ever. And if she mentions her holiday in Martha's Vineyard once more I'm going to hurl myself or possibly just the tv out of the nearest window.

Your nominations please.

Do you mean Ching-he Huang, MoonFaceMama? I'd forgotten about her but she irritates me too - especially one phrase, where she talks about putting something into "hot boiling water" - ffs, is there any other sort of boiling water???

I have never yet set eyes on Gary Rhodes on-screen without wanting to hurt him.

He appals me.

However, I allow him a tiny easement for his red-wine-in-the-shepherds-pie suggestion.

Perhaps, I would only staple his earlobes twice, rather than the fifty my hot-blooded irritability demands.

From 50 down to 1 is a very big drop, snigger - does red wine in the shepherd's pie deserve such leniency??

I already put red wine in everything shepherds pie. He deserves no clemency. Load your staple gun snigger

Yes DTG That is her. There's a section on the website called "ching chat" gah! Why do i find that so anonying?!

She is just so tooth-achingly sweeeeeet!!

Gary Rhodes.

The thread endeth here.

"et VOILA!"

FUCK OFF GARY FUCK THE FUCK OFF

Valentine Warner is a bit meh

poshonosho

I liked Giorgio Locatelli on that Tony and Giorgio show a while back. Tony seemed a bit dim and to be surfing on Giorgio's success and charisma. I like that Giorgio seemed a bit unhinged.

Burton Race is a twat but I kind of like him anyway. However, I'd be seriously shitted off if he dragged me and the kids across the channel whether we wanted to go or not just to open up some poxy restaurant in a dilapidated barn in rural France.

Oh whathisname? Mark Peter White. What a tosser. He was on the radio sobbing when Keith Floyd died. OK, he was a mate, he was upset but really? Floyd was the most amazing person ever, no one knew the real him, he should be an inspiration to everyone, he was an icon, a god blah blah of ffs shut up!!

I have a pretty huge crush on Raymond Blanc. "I'm zorree, I arm clozzzing your restaaaaaaunt." Phwoar.

definatley Mark Peter White, the big hypocritical sellout

Heston, wouldn't want to eat anything he'd messed about with

Sophie Dahl isn't even a cook, is she

in fact they all wind me up, just cook a meal and then fuck right off

PMsl @ shirley

"Val" is way too public school boy taffeta I like unhingement in a man...see my above comments re bourdain...grrrr

I can see the love of raymond. Remember the couple from barnsley who called their resaurant Ray White's in "honor" of him. WTF? is it not an infringement of his intellectual popert5y? no wonder he looked unimpressed. sorry typing and feeding

ooh TC i loved that show too..sadly his solo shows aren't so entertaining
does anybody know why they haven't had a new series of 'the restaurant'btw?

Gary Rhodes deserves multiple stapling just based on his over-use of the phrase 'nutty butter'

Yes, Rachel allen's the one. Don't know why I find her soooooo annoying when there's so much competition out there.

You KNOW if you ate at Tamasin Day Lewis's house you would find an icky long black hair in your bouillabaisse or whatever.

Similarly Valentine Warner, but it would be a curly pubesque hair. URGH at curly haired posh men.

Jamie Oliver and his irritating wife. Jools, I ask you.

Ooh now I have a huge crush on Anthony Bourdain.

Just had to come back and shout a bit again about Gary bloody wankstain Rhodes.

You boiled an egg Gary, you didn't bloody LAY it.

But don't forget, Shirley - once he'd boiled the egg - to perfection, of course - he then built the plate - now that's the phrase that makes me want to disembowel him with a blunt butter knife!

er hasn't tom parker bowles been mentioned yet?

yeah SDTG - and what's with the new elocution-ey voice?

I remember when he talked like a normal person (Back in the HOT CHEFS! days) now he just sounds like a total wanker who is trying to be posh. "Et Voila!" ET BLOODY VOILA?

SHUTUPSHUTUPSHUTUPSHUTUP

pmsl @ Gary laying the egg

don't start me on Jools Oliver

Jamie's OK, although I hated all the "Bro" and "Bruvver" talk in his America series. And nothing wrong with Jools as a name imo

But Sophie - OMG. And the bad news is she obviously has some sort of contract for a few series, as now the 'cooking' show has been cancelled, the BBC2 person said they were going to find her some other show to do as she was such a talent... Suggestions, please?

Ramsey's behaviour in India was shameful.

Gary Rhodes really irritating.

Adore Nigella though, even though the shows are beyond parody.

And how does tasting other peoples food and wondering round their houses give you the right to cash in with create a range of shit pasta sauces?

I thought Sophie's show was ridiculous but I don't mind her. She's beautiful and pleasant to look at . The poems were icky. Maybe she'd be good as a BBC logo/filler thing to look at instead of the hippos swimming in a circle. Nice to look at but no sound again please.

I thought Gordon Ramsawy acted like he was off his nut on cocaine whilst in India. Borrish twat.

I wish Myleene Klass would do a cookery show and then the whole of Mumsnet could implode with riotous hatred.

ughh lloyd grossman
oh yes i imagine that myleene and jools could host some kind of cooking for your kiddies type show...as after all they invented motherhood didn't they?

I would like to see the be-hated ak do a cookery programme. One where she does all the prep live while toddlers run around tripping her up and stabbing each other with lego.

I am eternally gratefull to klass and oliver for inventing motherhood as i quite like it