Chef Gordon Ramsay of Hell's Kitchen , MasterChef and several other television cooking shows, is best known for his blustering, profanity laced tirades at novice chefs who have made errors. It's hard to see how that really helps people improve, but I did actually learn something useful from Gordon Ramsay. On the show MasterChef , Ramsay takes a group of home chefs and, through a series of challenges, teaches those who survive the gauntlet to become restaurant quality chefs. As you might expect when the average home cook is asked to prepare restaurant dishes with which they may or may not be familiar, mistakes are made. While the contestants are trying to cook, Gordon Ramsay and the other two MasterChef judges Graham Elliot and Joe Bastianich, walk around the cooking stations pointing out obvious errors and asking the cooks such confidence-building questions as "Are you sure that's what you want to do?" At any rate, getting to the point of this post, on one p...
I enjoy watching a great many cooking shows on television. Although most of them gloss over the actual cooking in favor of reality show drama, occasionally there is something to be learned there. This blog will detail some of those lessons and provide general commentary of TV chefs and cooking shows, as well as offering some of my own favorite recipes and cooking techniques.