What's your opinion on Gordon Ramsay?
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This is the part I always wondered about. Why would you stage a cooking competition show with a bunch of shitty chefs? Seems like if you had highly skilled chefs just out of culinary school, at the top of their games and striving to become better, it would be more--I don't know--worthwhile?Black Arrow Officer said:
It just seems silly to me to throw a bunch of losers at a really, really skilled guy just so he can be constantly infuriated, but I guess that's kind of the premise that the Jerry Springer show operated on, so what do I know?
EDIT: I just thought of an idea for a show! It's called "Constantly Infuriated Guy", and he just goes around his everyday life being constantly infuriated.
Oh wait; I was beaten to that idea by Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'riley, Maddox,and 90% of all Internet critics. Bummer.
Well I actually went back and watched the very first season of Hell's Kitchen, and it was fairly different when compared to the seasons that came after it. It actually had parts where Gordon Ramsay would explain that despite yelling all he wanted to do was motivate the chefs and push them to their limit. My theory is this made him seem much too reasonable so they cut out parts like that from the following seasons.
Overall I think he's an entertaining man to watch.
Overall I think he's an entertaining man to watch.
I wish there were more bosses like him in the world.
Lazyness shouldn't be tolerated in the workplace.
However, the reality of it is that he is doing his job and they know what they signed up for. Nobody on any reality TV show deserves sympathy or has a right to be upset about how they are treated.
Lazyness shouldn't be tolerated in the workplace.
However, the reality of it is that he is doing his job and they know what they signed up for. Nobody on any reality TV show deserves sympathy or has a right to be upset about how they are treated.
I think he's pretty funny. Granted, the only shows of his I really watch are Kitchen Nightmare's (the UK version that aired between...what, 2004 and 2006?) and Gordan Ramsay's F Word.
He is a bit of a **** but that is what it is like when you work in environments like that and unfortunately it actually prepares them to work in high end busy restaurants as they will get abuse like that.
Gordon Ramsay is a clown, he swears and gets all red and angry because he thinks that's what sells the show...and he's right. Noone cares about his cooking skills or his taste, they watch him to see him erupt into a volcano of rage and generally be an asshole to people. he gets paid good money to be all angry in front of camera and the audience laugh it up so yep he's just a big silly angry (but stinking rich) clown.
There'a an art to being a foul-mouthed obnoxious brit, they aren't all born with it, even if some think they are.
WHAT?! No, House is acerbic, Ramsay is abrasive, there's a difference.xochiquetzal said:Hes like Dr. House if he was a cook
OT: Considering that in most restaurant kitchens, chefs are basically drill sergeants without the haircuts, Gordon Ramsay is probably no worse than any other. As a TV personality, he's OK, as a chef, he's OK, as a person, good god, is he butt ugly...
You have to watch some of his other shows not the trash fox puts on. Fox seems to think people watch it for the shouting and drama but I much prefer the cooking aspects when they bother to talk about them. Gordon Ramsey is not just a good cook but also an entertainer and he entertains by assuming this persona of a bully more or less.
I thin that Gordon Ramsay's shows would be better if they were hosted by Gordon Freeman.
His wordless stare would make more comment on their cooking than a million fucks, shits and cocks from Ramsay.
His wordless stare would make more comment on their cooking than a million fucks, shits and cocks from Ramsay.
He's good most of it is a tv person though, he's alot more relaxed on the other show the F word, but kitchens are a stressful place, alot of the other tv chefs that come from restaurant backgrounds are pretty tough too. Kitchen Nightmares is awesome tv though.
His Kitchen Nightmares show is better. It's like Holmes on Homes for restaurants with more swearing.
I think he's an ass. But sometimes a wholly justified one.
I was eating at a friend's house, and "Kitchen Nightmares" came on. It was some restaurant in the new Orleans area (I think so anyway...I forget the name. I was the "cajun something-or-other"), and was run by two brothers. The older one had no idea how to run the place and was a total ass (he also refused to write down his recipes for fear of theft), and the chef? My gosh the chef...When the MAJORITY of the customers hated his food, he would go "PFFT! It's not bad food, it's bad OPINIONS!".
...Ramsey hated the food, sent all of it back, and when he saw how bad the kitchen was (there was GOOP in the fridge containers where the food was kept), he actually barfed. Oh, and the chef was lying about the food he was using, and about him keeping some of it frozen for months at a time. Ramsey actually told them that they had to shut the place down the first night he was there, that's how bad it was.
Understandably, there was much yelling. Honestly, that place deserved all the crap it got.
I can't speak for the other places he's covered, but man...That place was just sickening.
I was eating at a friend's house, and "Kitchen Nightmares" came on. It was some restaurant in the new Orleans area (I think so anyway...I forget the name. I was the "cajun something-or-other"), and was run by two brothers. The older one had no idea how to run the place and was a total ass (he also refused to write down his recipes for fear of theft), and the chef? My gosh the chef...When the MAJORITY of the customers hated his food, he would go "PFFT! It's not bad food, it's bad OPINIONS!".
...Ramsey hated the food, sent all of it back, and when he saw how bad the kitchen was (there was GOOP in the fridge containers where the food was kept), he actually barfed. Oh, and the chef was lying about the food he was using, and about him keeping some of it frozen for months at a time. Ramsey actually told them that they had to shut the place down the first night he was there, that's how bad it was.
Understandably, there was much yelling. Honestly, that place deserved all the crap it got.
I can't speak for the other places he's covered, but man...That place was just sickening.