Reality Shows
October 15th 2010 13:30
Is This Reality?
Like everyone else I enjoy watching television, and one of my favorite things to watch are cooking shows. Nowadays especially on Food Network, there is a glut of “reality” type shows involving cooking. Now I have never been on television, but if those shows are defining reality then I don’t know a spoon from a can of soup!!
On Tuesday, I was watching one of my favorite shows on the Food Network called Chopped. I love that show, but in a million years I would never combine some of the items they put in their baskets. Take for example the dessert round; the contestants had to combine shisa leaves, pita bread, feta cheese and adzuki beans. Well I know when I am looking to whip up something special for my family and I don’t have adzuki beans and pita bread I go crazy. Now don’t get me wrong as I have said in my first blog, I think recipes should be a Starting Really Long Link but when I have to break out a dictionary just to figure out what some of these items are I don’t think that is based in reality.
Another qualm I have with these types of shows is the time limit. Yes I do know they are on television and they can’t go on and on and on, but to make an appetizer in 20 minutes with items you may not even be familiar with well I think it is a little unreasonable. I believe a better idea is giving them a fully stocked kitchen with items they are used to and look for some originality with how they use those items. If you want to keep it at 20 minutes fine, but I think they need a fighting chance when it comes to the ingredients. I don’t think any of our families put a stopwatch on Mom or Dad as they are cooking and say “stop times up, utensils down”. In my house growing up that would be the perfect thing to say if you didn’t want to eat anytime soon or wanted to volunteer to be the cook then and there.
A show I think that does get it right a lot of the time is Top Chef on Bravo. In that show there are skilled and acclaimed chefs like Chopped, but they are given plenty of prep time as well as time the day of the event to set up and cook. Now the judges on the other hand I think are very pompous and are almost too critical of the chefs.
Overall I would say I have learned a lot from both of those shows. I would love the opportunity to cook on either one of them, but can we please stop calling them “reality shows”. I am sorry my time is about up now, and I still have to plate my feta and pita French toast.
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Like everyone else I enjoy watching television, and one of my favorite things to watch are cooking shows. Nowadays especially on Food Network, there is a glut of “reality” type shows involving cooking. Now I have never been on television, but if those shows are defining reality then I don’t know a spoon from a can of soup!!
On Tuesday, I was watching one of my favorite shows on the Food Network called Chopped. I love that show, but in a million years I would never combine some of the items they put in their baskets. Take for example the dessert round; the contestants had to combine shisa leaves, pita bread, feta cheese and adzuki beans. Well I know when I am looking to whip up something special for my family and I don’t have adzuki beans and pita bread I go crazy. Now don’t get me wrong as I have said in my first blog, I think recipes should be a Starting Really Long Link but when I have to break out a dictionary just to figure out what some of these items are I don’t think that is based in reality.
Another qualm I have with these types of shows is the time limit. Yes I do know they are on television and they can’t go on and on and on, but to make an appetizer in 20 minutes with items you may not even be familiar with well I think it is a little unreasonable. I believe a better idea is giving them a fully stocked kitchen with items they are used to and look for some originality with how they use those items. If you want to keep it at 20 minutes fine, but I think they need a fighting chance when it comes to the ingredients. I don’t think any of our families put a stopwatch on Mom or Dad as they are cooking and say “stop times up, utensils down”. In my house growing up that would be the perfect thing to say if you didn’t want to eat anytime soon or wanted to volunteer to be the cook then and there.
A show I think that does get it right a lot of the time is Top Chef on Bravo. In that show there are skilled and acclaimed chefs like Chopped, but they are given plenty of prep time as well as time the day of the event to set up and cook. Now the judges on the other hand I think are very pompous and are almost too critical of the chefs.
Overall I would say I have learned a lot from both of those shows. I would love the opportunity to cook on either one of them, but can we please stop calling them “reality shows”. I am sorry my time is about up now, and I still have to plate my feta and pita French toast.
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