Which TV chefs DON'T you like?

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We can't like them all. There's obviously always going to be a few of them we can't stand personally.. So which ones rub you up the wrong way? :D


Off the top of my head, the absolute worst for me is Heston Blumentool. I honestly can't stand him or his novelty gimmick food. "Oh I can eat the cutlery as well as the food?" Yay...? :/

Also don't like bumpkin lithper "Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall" either.

Can't stand Delia's pretentious crap either tbh. She takes simple delicious traditional (mostly easy) recipes and makes them unnecessarily complicated.

Not a big fan of Nigella too... She isn't sexy. She's middle-aged, a bit fugly, & overweight. Her food is in the same league as Delia (at best).
 
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Tbh I don't really like any of them. I can't think of a single one that watching more than 10 minutes of doesn't drive me up the wall :s

I still respect the knowledge of most of them though. Possible exception is Jamie "Jar Jar Binks" Oliver. The slightest hint of his voice or his stupid annoying smile instantly pushes me to the brink of violence :p
 
Rachel Allen- food looks nice etc but her voice is so hard to listen to. I normally love Irish accents but hers is just weird.

Ching He Huang- again, annoying voice, whiney.

Gary Rhodes- so smug and clearly loves himself.

Nigel Slater- nice recipes and fairly inspiring but Simple Suppers killed it, his bloodhound-esque face sucking on his own food and then heaping praise on his own work, no thanks.

Heston Blumenthal- clearly a genius, but the guy is just so far ahead of the game he has no sense of reality. Maybe that's the whole point.

And I know he's not a chef, but oh my god Greg Wallace. Argh.
 
Nigel Slater. I'm fairly certain that it will all come out eventually that he is a serial killer or sex offender or both. I think the biographical drama about his life a year or so just added to my hatred of him. He really makes my skin crawl
 
Marco Pierre White.

And I agree that Nigel Slater is creepy (though I like his books).

Also does Aki from this year's amateur masterchef count? :p
 
Worral-Thompson
Slater
Heston
Michel Roux Jnr
Michel Roux Jnr's bulldog (the woman that's sometimes on Masterchef, looks like a man)
Ken Hom (WTF is wrong with his ears?!)
Marco Pierre White
 
They're all ok in small quantities. However, I find most of them irritating. I do find Nigella fun in short doses, though after a while her overly sexualisation of food gets annoying.

Most of them have some interest, however for anything other than a quick recipe they become a bit of a yawnfest.
 
Top of the list is without doubt Jamie Oliver, he really irks me.

Gary Rhodes is dull.

I used to really not like Heston feeling it was all a bit of a gimmick, but the more i see him on other programmes the more i like him, he always seems to come across really well.
 
James Martin. Like a stuck record every Saturday morning

"Sounds good to me"
"Still clucking round the farmyard"
"£4.99... a bargain!"
"don't forget to put a stamp on your envelope please"
"two ounces of butter"
"don't think your gonna get any"
 
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