Ah, the Perpetually Perky Rachel Ray. With the smile that was pasted on and the squeeky voice and the EVOO. I can’t stand her.
I thought Julia was annoying. Boy was I ever wrong. 
You mean that husky doufus laugh? I have to mute the goddamned TV when I hear her voice on the Dunkin Donuts commercials.
I saw an ad for Quiznos’ new “Sammies” and I immediately said, “Based on the name, I refuse to buy one of those”.
It’s not “EVOO” it’s “EVOO Extra Virgin Olive Oil”
I can’t stand her either. The Dunkin Donuts commercials are bad enough but for some reason my BF seems to like her god awful show. Twice now I was home sick and he flipped that show on and I not only wanted to choke her but smash him in the head with the remote.
Heh. I think it is just that she laughs just like Doki, the little cartoon dog that hosts the Discovery Kids Latin America channel. Yes, totally goofy laugh.
btw, I don’t think I have seen any of her ads. I just don’t watch enough TV. My wife tells me that you can pretty much watch 24 hours of her if you want. That she has talk shows and travel shows and God knows how many more shows. Is that so?
In her defense, some of her recipes are really quite good.
That’s why I put one of her *books *on my Christmas list every year - recipes with no “personality”. If I have the recipes, I have no need for her show, thank Og.
Why yes her voice is annoying.
Perhaps that explains why all my fantasies about her involve a rubberball gag.
I like her. I’ve heard far more annoying voices. James Carville, for instance.
The worst thing about those Dunkin Donuts commercials is that just when you think she’s gone…….she pops back up on the screen to remind us that America Runs On Dunkin. Stop that you evil little orange elf. At least that’s better than the one where she was ruining the floor at all the Dunkin Donuts by skidding to a halt in the morning. I’d have just tripped her with my mop.
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Normally I’d be in total agreement. I utterly despise any type of ‘cute-sification’ of things.
But, partly because its not anything important, its just cooking, and even more because, as a hetero male I’m prone to letting a pretty face and sweet little bod slide on things, her silliness doesn’t bother me.
Also because I can’t help but feel its not an act with her. She’s genuinely an incredibly sweet girl without a single cynical bone in her (luscious) body.
“Eat filthy mop head biatch!” WHAP!
What is the deal with this, anyway?? She goes on about the great service at whatever restaurant then she stiffs the poor guy/gal. Do the producers pay the difference? If I was a restaurant owner I’d tell her she must tip 15% at least or you can’t film here. My DIL is a waitress and she has a white-hot burning hatred for RR because of the tipping thing.
I don’t mind RR so much on the 30 min meal show, but the commercials and her no-necked head on every aisle of the grocery store is a bit much.
She does have a great magazine, though!!! Everyday with Rachel Ray is actually not annoying at all.
i’ve disliked her from the first time i’d ever seen the show, when she said something to the extent of “they say your supposed to simmer this for a few hours
but 20 minutes is the same thing” GAH! never watched her since.
Most of the time I can see why guys find a particular celebrity physically attractive, even if it’s someone as heinous as Paris Hilton.
RayRay, however, I will never understand. Her boobs gross me out. She’s always wearing too-tight shirts which show her lumpy midsection. She needs to wear a better bra and find clothes that actually flatter her figure.
Yeah, but most of the time she’s right. I don’t think she’s ever claimed that of making stock from scratch, 'cause that’s not her thing. But she does find some truly excellent short-cuts to minimize meal prep time without really sacrificing taste.
For example, one of my favorite meals of hers is a sausage lentil “stoup”. Normally, you’d sautee the onions, brown the sausage, add the rest of the stuff, (that’s 20 minutes right there) add the lentils and stock, simmer for 25 minutes, add the potatoes, simmer another 10 minutes, add the kale, simmer another 10 minutes until wilted.
Turns out, if you simmer the lentils in the broth while you’re doing the rest of the cooking in a second pot, the lentils only need about 5 minutes to get to know the sausage right at the end, and they’ve got all that flavor from the stock already! Bang - 20 minutes cut out of the recipe. The kale can be wilted in the lentil pot, instead of waiting for the potatoes to soften. There’s another 10 minutes gone!
I’ve never made that one in precisely 30 minutes with all the chopping required, but I’ve gotten it down to 40, and it does taste like it’s been simmered for hours.
Aigh…people are always saying she does this, but it’s simply not true. She does it once or twice at the start, since you always have to assume there’s new viewers, and then it’s EVOO. Same as in her recipe books.
There’s a lot of reasons to be annoyed with her…why make one up?
Yeah, but I wouldn’t nail Carville…
Rachel Ray is the spawn of all the people I’ve ever disliked. Her endorsement on a product does the same thing (for me, at least) that a Hilary Duff endorsement does: make me do a 180, pull a disgusted face, and have visions of taking a metal baseball bat to the product in question.
That’s because some of us remember her first season on Food Network, when she did spell it then say it every time. She only cut back on doing that after she had already been richly ridiculed for it.
It’s the “Rachel Ray doesn’t tip” meme that is the made up one. I know this is going to shock people, but… the made-up bill for what she has spent that day is actually made-up. Since she’s usually comped the meals in return for the publicity of being on 40DD, there’s not an actual bill, anyway. But, she’s said – on her Chefography, IIRC, and elsewhere – that the servers are tipped.
But sometimes if they add the tip in, they’ll go over the $40, and then it won’t be 40DD. So they fudge the numbers.
Personally, it’s her popularizing the cutesy-poo “sammies” and “stoup” crap that makes me want to debone and fillet her with her damn Rachel Ray chef’s knifes and toss the scraps into a girl’s best friend, the garbage bowl.