Watching Cooking Shows Can Make Your Fat
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_Terrapin_ wrote: »
I understand this thread is from March and people doing multi sports probably train and do other things but making a warm bacon cheddar dip WHILE on a bike trainer?!? Pics or it didn't happen!3dogsrunning wrote: »The last time I watched the Food Network while on my bike trainer I ended up making a warm bacon cheddar dip.
Before that it was a Guinness beef stew (very disappointing).
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LOL. Ok, I didn't make it on the bike trainer, only got the idea while on the trainer. Poor punctuation. BUT if you do Sufferfest videos there is one that has a cyclist making an omlette (with creme fraiche, fancy) while on rollers (for those who aren't familiar you have to balance the bike on the rollers that let your wheels turn, much more difficult than a trainer that holds you in place). So I'm going to go with it can be done.0 -
carrieliz81 wrote: »I am very susceptible to wanting foods that I see on TV. Every time I watch "Friends" I want NY style pizza. And I live in the Midwest! And you cannot get NY style pizza here! I don't even really know what NY style pizza tastes like, but I know it has giant triangles of pizza, which is pretty much non-existent in Chicagoland. So then I just end up ordering Chicago pizza, which is DELICIOUS, don't get me wrong.........Chicago pizza is the best pizza........ but it never ends up hitting the spot. :-(
Ooooh....I miss The Original Gino's East and Giordano's. And from Seattle - Pagliacci's. But I haven't had a nice Giordano's deep dish since 1992. I could totally go for one.
^^^ginos & giordanos. OMG!!! Lived in Chicago 12 years. Nothing like their pizza. Anywhere.0 -
One of the biggest triggers for me is that show Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives. It's like everything featured on the show is 5,000 calories and I generally want all of it.
One of the worst was when I was at the doctor's office and my dad's friend's place came on. It was awful because I knew the taste of the food and it was just before dinner.
But I'm pretty good at not snacking while watching food shows.0 -
I've loved cooking shows since The Frugal Gourmet. Alton Brown is still the best of the bunch, but I'll watch Kelsey Nixon, Bobby Flay, Sunny Anderson or the Simply Baking show if they're making something I want to see.
Cupcake Wars and Cutthroat Kitchen are fun once in a while.
The Great British Bakeoff is the only reality show I've ever liked and I LOVE it. I can't wait for next week when we see who wins this season.
I love to bake. Well, love and hate. I'm so picky about everything being perfect that it's a chore sometimes, but I still do it because I'm very pleased when I've made pretty food that tastes good. I've worked my way through most of the big American baking books (substituting and improving things as I remake them) and am working my way through a British one now. Sadly, I can't eat the stuff, so I can't improve it, but it's still fun.
They don't make me fat, but if you made the stuff those people make often, you'd get fat for sure.
Love this. Love British Bakeoff, although I'm normally more of a Top Chef person (prefer cooking to baking, everytime, much as bread and pie crust was a skill I cultivated).0 -
carrieliz81 wrote: »I am very susceptible to wanting foods that I see on TV. Every time I watch "Friends" I want NY style pizza. And I live in the Midwest! And you cannot get NY style pizza here! I don't even really know what NY style pizza tastes like, but I know it has giant triangles of pizza, which is pretty much non-existent in Chicagoland. So then I just end up ordering Chicago pizza, which is DELICIOUS, don't get me wrong.........Chicago pizza is the best pizza........ but it never ends up hitting the spot. :-(
Ooooh....I miss The Original Gino's East and Giordano's. And from Seattle - Pagliacci's. But I haven't had a nice Giordano's deep dish since 1992. I could totally go for one.
^^^ginos & giordanos. OMG!!! Lived in Chicago 12 years. Nothing like their pizza. Anywhere.
Lou Malnatis and Pequods.
My current favorite pizza is thin crust, though.0 -
Love watching the BBQ shows (BBQ Pitmasters, etc.). Always makes me want to go out back, fire up the kamado and smoke a few slabs of ribs or a pork shoulder. Low and slow over hickory chunks! I don't indulge as often as I used to, but I love some good 'Q.0
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lemurcat12 wrote: »I've loved cooking shows since The Frugal Gourmet. Alton Brown is still the best of the bunch, but I'll watch Kelsey Nixon, Bobby Flay, Sunny Anderson or the Simply Baking show if they're making something I want to see.
Cupcake Wars and Cutthroat Kitchen are fun once in a while.
The Great British Bakeoff is the only reality show I've ever liked and I LOVE it. I can't wait for next week when we see who wins this season.
I love to bake. Well, love and hate. I'm so picky about everything being perfect that it's a chore sometimes, but I still do it because I'm very pleased when I've made pretty food that tastes good. I've worked my way through most of the big American baking books (substituting and improving things as I remake them) and am working my way through a British one now. Sadly, I can't eat the stuff, so I can't improve it, but it's still fun.
They don't make me fat, but if you made the stuff those people make often, you'd get fat for sure.
Love this. Love British Bakeoff, although I'm normally more of a Top Chef person (prefer cooking to baking, everytime, much as bread and pie crust was a skill I cultivated).
It's so good! I cannot pick a favorite. I think I'm pulling for the black girl, as I liked her from way back. The super-gorgeous white one who always does well, but is always worried she's failed reminds me of myself, when I was young (sans the gorgeous part), so I'll be happy for her if she wins. The other one has been so creative and "I'll do my own thing!" all along - I'm kind of proud of her, too. Whoever wins, I'm going to be happy for them.
I'm so bad with names, lol.
I also love the stuff they make. So much of it is stuff I'd never heard of or made! So, new ideas for me! That 14-layer (or however many it was ) that a Paul had them make a couple seasons ago - I keep meaning to make that! It had a German name. I'd literally never heard of it.0 -
carrieliz81 wrote: »I am very susceptible to wanting foods that I see on TV. Every time I watch "Friends" I want NY style pizza. And I live in the Midwest! And you cannot get NY style pizza here! I don't even really know what NY style pizza tastes like, but I know it has giant triangles of pizza, which is pretty much non-existent in Chicagoland. So then I just end up ordering Chicago pizza, which is DELICIOUS, don't get me wrong.........Chicago pizza is the best pizza........ but it never ends up hitting the spot. :-(
Ooooh....I miss The Original Gino's East and Giordano's. And from Seattle - Pagliacci's. But I haven't had a nice Giordano's deep dish since 1992. I could totally go for one.
Pizza Production deep dish spinach and garlic (with extra garlic) was my go to when in Chicago!! One slice was more then enough...probably more then enough calories to feed a family of five...but more then enough to fill me up. Nowadays I doubt I could even stomach it...but oh the memories!0 -
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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.0 -
America's Test Kitchen and Cooks Country are pretty informative. PBS has several cooking shows that are good.0
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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.0 -
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!0
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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.0
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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.0
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