Gordon Ramsay's F Word

Though Cliff got pwned, which is always funny.

It seems despite his freak outs to his staff, he can't really take criticism.

Also he fawns over the celebs. He is a real bollocks I agree, though it's very watchable. The marketing of it as "tough guy cooking" or whatever is truly awful, when he does the recipes and it's like "EGGS. BEATEN. SIMMER. SCALLIONS. CHOPPED."

All re: "tough guy cooking" thing, isn't Ramsay a pastry chef amongst other things (the province of the kitchen generally considered the least tough guy or even guy AT ALL)?

His sweary angry dude schtick is really wearing though.

His food is amazing, really. Top-line chefs are always rude to kitchen staff who don't cut it, and completely lovely to those who do.

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Gordon Ramsay is classic in almost every way.

*Okay, maybe newspaper newsrooms as well, but even there...

The swearing is totally forced: he puts all the fucks in the wrong places. "This guineau fucking fowl fucking is awful. Fucking make me another" etc.

He had possibly the worst selection of Desert Island Discs ever: Simply the Best, Careless Whisper, Everything I do (B Adams), Yellow by Coldplay, Sing by Travis etc. This makes me like him a bit more (slightly)

MDC: the bollockings are, for the most part, directed at people who either wasted food (money) or seemed not exactly au fait with health and safety issues. Choose from one: shouting, or salmonella. Also in my restaurant kitchen experience the best way to stop a shouting ranter is to ask "and?" or better, ask if they're finished because now we're really behind schedule.

I'm really very bored of the whole macho kitchen schtick. The advert for this just made me think 1) smashing a cake hardly takes a lot of effort 2) what a waste of a cake.

Gordon's anger was justified due to food being repeatedly burnt by the Essex jolly boys, and the whole "mate" business. Yeah, I'm with Grodon on that.

Surely the kitchen is the only place* where bosses workplace bullying is seen as acceptable, possibly even desirable?

The armed forces?

One dud point: Licence for every two bit rubbish chef to basically bully and swear at his staff and everyone else. Which is doubly bad at places where the kitchen was a visible portal.

One place, we got a 50% discount off our bill after complaining to the manager about cold salmon kebabs, and our waiter refusing to send it back to the kitchen to be cooked properly as the 'chef will go mad' (they cooked another set from fresh as if it was a different order, which sounds nice except I'd finished my meal and pudding by the time my wife's main course arrived)....

2) Ma Potters.

Firstly, 14 in Paisley and Ad-Lib in Glasgow to thread!

Actually reviving as I'm still watching this stuff, despite loathing Ramsey more and more each week. He has just made Dermot O'Leary touch his (GR's) cock, and has berated a woman for eating toffee in his restaurant after sending liver back for being a bit pink (you know, like it should be). OK, yes, the woman is obviously a moron, but also getting the chef coming out to your table to call you a fucking moron on national telly is a bit mean.

nah, i'd be all "that's rubbish, i could do better" too.