Favorite food shows!

[breadnatty08]

Name your favorites!
We just discovered David Chang's show, The Mind of a Chef. It's on PBS (and streaming on Netflix ).
Love it.
http://www.pbs.org/food/shows/the-mind-of-a-chef/
We don't have cable, so we're pretty limited on what we watch.
If I can catch Top Chef, I absolutely do. No Reservations is good too.
I grew up watching a ton of Food Network, but I can barely stand it now. Just too saccharine for my taste.
So what are your favorites?

 

[El Presidente]

Would you class Ramsays Kitchen Nightmares as a food show?

We've a chef over here called Heston Blumenthal who's done a few interesting programmes and does some pretty insane things with food.

 

[breadnatty08]

Oh yeah, I love Kitchen Nightmares. Quite familiar with Blumenthal as well. Got one of his "cookbooks" a couple years ago.
S2E5 Heston Blumenthal In Search Of Perfection Baked Alaska - Video Dailymotion

 

[dontpanicbobby]

Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmares here too.

 

[Revenant Ghost]

I liked the Iron Chef when it first aired on the Food Network. And I'm talking about the original Japanese version, NOT the Americanized version.

 

[breadnatty08]

Yeah, the original was great. Haven't really watched the US version, it's pretty sad.

 

[Revenant Ghost]

You'll be doing yourself a favor by skipping the US version altogether.

 

[Gmash]

Restaurant: Impossible,
Mystery Diners,
Man vs Food,
Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives,
and not really a food show, but I like Bar Rescue as well.

 

[Revenant Ghost]

I forgot about Man vs Food. That's another great food show. I get hungry every time I watch it.

 

[olbriar]

I don't watch much TV beyond sporting events. However, I have seen a few of the BBQ Pitmasters shows and enjoyed

 

[SteveD]

I like Chopped, but also have you seen 2 Fat Ladies? Awesome food as long as you have no worries about your arteries!

 

[MoodyBlues]

Anything with Gordon Ramsay:

Kitchen Nightmares (US version)
Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares (UK version)
Hell's Kitchen
MasterChef
Gordon Ramsay's Great Escape
Gordon Ramsay's Ultimate Cookery Course

among them.

I really liked Heat Seekers and Chefs vs City, both with Aaron Sanchez... ...

I used to watch Chopped religiously, but got sick of seeing live animals dismembered and/or cooked...alive. :thumbdown:

My very favorite cooking shows were on Food Network back in its earlier days: Too Hot Tamales and Tamales World Tour, with Susan Feniger and Mary Sue Milliken.

I liked Restaurant Stakeout and its 30-minute twin, Mystery Diners, until I realized they were absolute bullshit. They're as fake as fake can be.

 

[saptech]

I haven't watched any but did recently. I watched Turn Up the Heat with G. Garvin, and man did he make me hungry. It was around 2:30am.

Chef G. Garvin

 

[SammanthaX345]

I love almost anything on the food network and the cooking Chanel. However I have a weakness for any show with Giada De Laurentiis. I would also like to add the Google voice knew how to spell her name I wonder if siri would, lol.