Guy Ferry (his real name. he Italianized it despite not being Italian) battling Rachael “EVOO” Ray with celebrity teams.
Episode 1: Who are you again?
Overall - Not as bad as I thought it would be simply because Guy and Rachael did not have as much airtime as I thought they would.
A couple of (relatively) big names along with Aaron Carter who it took a few minutes to remember who that was. Taylor Dayne?! I didn’t recognize her looking like Jennifer Coolidge in Legally Blonde. And when Miss USA needs to wear a sash and an Olymic champion needs to win their gold medal, something is seriously wrong in the shows definition of celebrity.
The DishTV promo said there would be a signature sandwich cookoff before teams were picked. Why was it edited out?
Took less than 5 minute to figure out who was going to win. LDP
Even though Guy and Rachael wanted to appear like they were giving out suggestions, were they running the show or what? They were told what the theme was and in some cases, the contestants were told what to cook.
Props to Coolio sticking to his recipe and telling Guy the Douche that he stood by his recipe and was going to do it his way. If you’ve ever eaten at El Pollo Loco, you know what sort of beans he was talking about on his taco and yes America it can (and did) work with tilapia.
All of the contestants have some cooking ability except Aaron Carter. Even beyond no cooking ability, he was an idiot. Pasta on the floor and did you see he spilled some shrimp plating in the cookoff? Lou Diamond was nice about it but it was clear he tought it was addition by subtraction when AC got booted.
Top 3: Lou Diamond Phillips and Cheech Marin are top 2 as it sets up a Guy vs. Rachael finale
Coolio for telling Guy to piss off and let him cook his food plus his food doesn’t seem that bad.
Yeah I did I kind of wonder why Guy was so taken aback by that. Beans after all are a staple of Mexican cooking (and beans on fish tacos actually does sound pretty good).
I did get a kick seeing that big solid rectangular block of macaroni when he took it out of the pan.
That’s why I tuned in to see how bad it would be. Oh and the review that you link to? If you didn’t see the show you may think it’s over-the-top to be funny. It’s not. It’s actually quite accurate.
[QUOTE=Aaron Carter]
Maybe I should have put oil in it.
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Somebody needs to FEED Miss USA. Her sash has more meat on it than her entire body. I bet she only ate one piece of macaroni, gnawed on a cleaned off rib bone, and picked a bean from Coolio’s taco.
~VOW
Actually, Fieri is his grandfathers name. It was Americanized when he immigrated. Guy wanted to honor him by reverting to the original name. And he is Italian.
Sure, but it doesn’t absolve him from being a douche with his on camera persona of which Fieri instead of Ferry is a part. He can have his chinpubes any color he wants too, but he looks like an idiot with that blond landing strip.
IIRC, Cheech isn’t known for turning gigs down, and LDP doesn’t have that luxury. That being said, it looked like the two of them are serious home cooks and signed up because they wanted to. I could totally see Lou having his own show on the network, actually.
I seem to recall some people in another recent thread about him mentioning that he butchers the name in his pronunciation by trying too hard to approximate the rolled Italian “r” with a “d.”
I remember Rachel Ray as always being annoyingly perky, but cute nonetheless. Suffice it to say that the last few years have not been kind to her. If I were her, I’d insist on no full body shots, only waist up.
Harsh, but true. I have no idea how to make ranch dressing, but I’m pretty sure that mixing sour cream with bottled Thousand Island dressing and Tabasco sauce is not the way to go about it.
This has to be one of, if not the most, “produced” show in reality TV history. They had an engineered “tie”, and then instead of picking the two worst dishes to battle for elimination, they picked the two captains. One served raw salmon, but if she lost the teams would be four against two, and that wouldn’t work, so they just said the other dish was worse without explanation and even up the teams.
Miss U.S.A. was nice to look at, but boring, so she had to go. If they could have figured out a way for her to cook in a bikini instead of an apron, she’d still be there.
How is it that I managed to live my youth in the 80’s but never even hear of Taylor Dayne? 18 top ten songs? I looked her up on wikipedia expecting to see a picture and go “Oh, that chick…” but no. Complete blank when looking at her photos and even listening to song snippets.
I’m still trying to figure out how with 13 people picking the winning team, there was a tie. The “there were four questions” didn’t make sense to me at all and I call shenanigans. Also, apparently raw salmon wins over a bland dressing. But I knew that Rachael’s team was going to win and that a no-name celebrity would be the one going home so they manufactured the results. The problem was that it was so obvious.
Ten minutes to cook a dish?! Hell on next Iron Chef they get half-an-hour. Considering these are not professional chefs and have very few recipes in there head for a given challenge, it is ridiculous to the point of not even being entertaining. Like the last challenge, salad. I have a blue cheese recipe that is great. Mrs. Cad asks if I could make it in 10 minutes. I thought about it and said yes but I would have to use store bought mayo rather than making my own and after getting the ingredients and making the dressing, I’d have maybe 5 minutes to do the salad.
Yet again Guy and Rachael are telling the cooks what to do in the planning meeting and IMO, not a very good job. If you tell me that you are making a dark chocolate, chile and bacon concoction I guaranty that the anchovy is ending up in that dish rather than an anchovy cannoli. Guy tells his team to use wasabi rather than horseradish because of the difference in flavor except that
a) wasabi is stronger so maybe not something to entrust to an amateur
b) almost all wasabi outside Japan is colored horseradish anyways
LDP has serious issues telling time. According to him with more than 90 minutes, the puff pastry takes 40 min to thaw then 15 min to bake. OMFG how will he do it without running out of time??