JFF, Anyone Else a Food Network FANATIC?

I do! And I don't even cook! I dvr them for my husband to watch and make them. I love the next food network star! Paula deen, giada, anything about cupcakes or baking, he likes bobby flay and guy fieri.

I love the competition shows (Chopped, Top Chef, Iron Chef, Worst Cooks, Master Chef, Rachael vs. Guy), and I really enjoy Kitchen Nightmares and Restaurant Impossible. I also like Ina Garten, and Alton Brown.

I really enjoyed the recent show about Waste Cooking (4 chefs cooked with only ingredients that were being thrown away or had been thrown out, after a food inspector approved their safety). They made a wonderful meal. I loved that show. I don't appreciate the shows about monster-sized servings or 5 pound breakfast dishes or chefs in search of the biggest ice cream sundaes, shows that celebrate gluttony or waste, while overweight people cram their mouths with "outrageous" food. "Our burger has a whole pound of bacon on it!!" No thank you.

When we drove 14 hours to take my ds to college, we googled every Diners Drive-Ins and Dives restaurant along the way, since we don't eat at McDonalds or any chain like that. We had some great meals in Santa Fe, Tucson, Phoenix and several other places that Guy Fieri had been to. It was well worth it!

I love the cooking shows, L.. (Especially Bravo's Top Chef!) But I get a real kick out of watching Food Network's Worst Cooks. That's me! I love it when the woman looks in her burning pot and says "There's nothing in here!" At least I'm not THAT bad!

I turned the TV to Food Network when I saw your question. Bobby Flay is grilling - my husband would enjoy this - he is great at grilling!

Dawn

it's the contests for me. i love top chef and chopped!
and i confess to a sneaking fondness for man v. food. he's just so cute and witty and self-deprecating! i blame my kids. they made me watch him.
:) khairete
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it's the contests for me. i love top chef and chopped!
and i confess to a sneaking fondness for man v. food. he's just so cute and witty and self-deprecating! i blame my kids. they made me watch him.
:) khairete
S.

yes, I tivo all the cooking shows. I've wondered why noone on here ever referances it. With all the food related questions on here, no one ever gives an answer they learned from Food Network

Even if I dont make the exact recipe they do, I always learn something new. There's always something I can take away from the show. Whether it's a menu idea or a new technique or some wierd fact I didn't know. My favorites are....

Good Eats - the man is a freakin food genius. I love knowing everything there is to know and he gives me that fix!
10 dollar dinners
Semi-Homemade and Money Saving Meals with Sandra Lee
Down Home WIth The Neelys
All of Paula Deens shows
All of Bobby Flays shows
All Guy Fierris shows
I like all cooking shows actually.
Hungry Girl
No Reservations with ANthony Bourdain.
There's an excellent show on FitTV called Just Cook This

I do, I do!!
You would think that for me watching so many of these shows I would be by now an amazing chef, haha!
I also love and use often their website, and have made some purchase on there too.
Dinner impossible, 5 ingredient fix, Paula Deen (not to healthy but yommy)
Restaurant impossible, Giada, etc.

Yes and yes!

My favorite is Chopped. I also like Top Chef on Bravo.

My teenage daughter is a HUGE fan as well. For one of her Christmas gifts, I ordered her a year subscription to the Food Network magazine...then forgot about it until about a week ago when the free gift bag (small reuseable grocery type bag) showed up in the mail, then the magazine itself a few days later!

She loves it!