Watching Cooking Shows Can Make Your Fat

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  • stealthq
    stealthq Posts: 4,298 Member
    Lourdesong wrote: »
    What I learn from most cooking shows (on Food Network, anyway) is that to make a tasty dish you should be very liberal with the butter, the oil, the cheese, and the cream.

    Alton Brown is probably the only television "cook" who taught me anything more specific than that. I'm a big fan, but every recipe of his I've ever attempted ended in disaster. Though educational, he has a tendency to over-complicate very simple things, and I was kind of sad when I discovered he had like no experience as a chef prior to the creation of his show.

    I don't see DDD as a cooking show. It seems more akin to Bizarre Foods and Man vs. Food on The Travel Channel. Makes me want to travel and eat where he ate.

    Honestly though, food shows of any type are only interesting to me when I'm hungry already. If I've just eaten, I'm not that interested in watching food porn. I could watch Bizarre Foods, though. That show doesn't really make me want to eat what he's eating.





    Maybe try America's Test Kitchen. I've had good results with their recipes. Sometimes they need tweaking to suit my tastes - too sweet, that sort of thing - but it's always an easy fix.
  • Troutrouter1968
    Troutrouter1968 Posts: 122 Member
    America's Test Kitchen and Cooks Country are pretty informative. PBS has several cooking shows that are good.
  • tulips_and_tea
    tulips_and_tea Posts: 5,743 Member
    MartinArnold1 wrote: »
    America's Test Kitchen and Cooks Country are pretty informative. PBS has several cooking shows that are good.

    These are the shows I prefer as well. Lots of good information and I like that they explain what they tried in recipes that worked and what didn't work.
  • Kalikel
    Kalikel Posts: 9,603 Member
    If you pay Cooks for one of their sites, they will flood your email to subscribe to the rest of them. Just a heads up!
  • lemurcat12
    lemurcat12 Posts: 30,886 Member
    America's Test Kitchen is a really good show. I get Cook's Illustrated, but am usually too impatient to try their recommendations/tips/recipes lately.
  • clh72569
    clh72569 Posts: 280 Member
    I watch cooking shows (while doing cardio), follow cooking blogs, meal prep, make full fat dishes and cookies and give them to my co-workers. I have lost 50 lbs.
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