On 2/16/2016 10:59 AM, nancy young wrote:
> On 2/15/2016 10:09 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
>> It's bad enough that Food Network has run out of good instructional
>> cooking shows and resorted to crappy cooking contests, first with
>> professionals and then amateurs, but today I caught a bit of a new low
>> .... Worst Cooks in America. From the few minutes of it that I could
>> bear to watch, they have group of semi celebrities who are absolutely
>> horrible cooks and there is a competition to teach them to be better.
>> You may sort of recognize the actors but not quite be able to place them.
>
> These days I find more interesting cooking shows on ... Cooking Channel!
>
> They seem to have split off their competition shows and actual
> cooking shows, pretty much. Food Network is rather useless
> now. Unless you like cupcake competitions and the like, which
> I don't.
>
> nancy
>
I find more interesting and useful cooking shows on PBS.

Jill

On 2/16/2016 10:19 AM, jmcquown wrote:
> On 2/16/2016 10:59 AM, nancy young wrote:
>> On 2/15/2016 10:09 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
>>> It's bad enough that Food Network has run out of good instructional
>>> cooking shows and resorted to crappy cooking contests, first with
>>> professionals and then amateurs, but today I caught a bit of a new low
>>> .... Worst Cooks in America. From the few minutes of it that I could
>>> bear to watch, they have group of semi celebrities who are absolutely
>>> horrible cooks and there is a competition to teach them to be better.
>>> You may sort of recognize the actors but not quite be able to place
>>> them.
>>
>> These days I find more interesting cooking shows on ... Cooking Channel!
>>
>> They seem to have split off their competition shows and actual
>> cooking shows, pretty much. Food Network is rather useless
>> now. Unless you like cupcake competitions and the like, which
>> I don't.
>>
>> nancy
>>
> I find more interesting and useful cooking shows on PBS.
>
> Jill

Same here. If I watch a cooking show, I would like to pick up hints
(and even recipes) that I can use. I'm not interested in watching
competition among "chefs" who have baskets of strange ingredients that I
would never use.

MaryL

On 2/16/2016 12:15 PM, MaryL wrote:
> On 2/16/2016 10:19 AM, jmcquown wrote:
>> On 2/16/2016 10:59 AM, nancy young wrote:
>>> On 2/15/2016 10:09 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
>>>> It's bad enough that Food Network has run out of good instructional
>>>> cooking shows and resorted to crappy cooking contests, first with
>>>> professionals and then amateurs, but today I caught a bit of a new low
>>>> .... Worst Cooks in America. From the few minutes of it that I could
>>>> bear to watch, they have group of semi celebrities who are absolutely
>>>> horrible cooks and there is a competition to teach them to be better.
>>>> You may sort of recognize the actors but not quite be able to place
>>>> them.
>>>
>>> These days I find more interesting cooking shows on ... Cooking Channel!
>>>
>>> They seem to have split off their competition shows and actual
>>> cooking shows, pretty much. Food Network is rather useless
>>> now. Unless you like cupcake competitions and the like, which
>>> I don't.
>>>
>>> nancy
>>>
>> I find more interesting and useful cooking shows on PBS.
>>
>> Jill
>
> Same here. If I watch a cooking show, I would like to pick up hints
> (and even recipes) that I can use. I'm not interested in watching
> competition among "chefs" who have baskets of strange ingredients that I
> would never use.
>
> MaryL
>
Yep, Mary. Generally I find them on weekends either in the morning or
late afternoon. I don't watch those competition shows.

Jill

On 2016-02-16, jmcquown > wrote:

> Yep, Mary. Generally I find them on weekends either in the morning or
> late afternoon. I don't watch those competition shows.

Lotta cooking competition shows cuz they're cheap to write/produce.

nb

On 2016-02-16 1:43 PM, jmcquown wrote:
> On 2/16/2016 12:15 PM, MaryL wrote:
>> On 2/16/2016 10:19 AM, jmcquown wrote:
>>> On 2/16/2016 10:59 AM, nancy young wrote:
>>>> On 2/15/2016 10:09 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
>>>>> It's bad enough that Food Network has run out of good instructional
>>>>> cooking shows and resorted to crappy cooking contests, first with
>>>>> professionals and then amateurs, but today I caught a bit of a new low
>>>>> .... Worst Cooks in America. From the few minutes of it that I could
>>>>> bear to watch, they have group of semi celebrities who are absolutely
>>>>> horrible cooks and there is a competition to teach them to be better.
>>>>> You may sort of recognize the actors but not quite be able to place
>>>>> them.
>>>>
>>>> These days I find more interesting cooking shows on ... Cooking
>>>> Channel!
>>>>
>>>> They seem to have split off their competition shows and actual
>>>> cooking shows, pretty much. Food Network is rather useless
>>>> now. Unless you like cupcake competitions and the like, which
>>>> I don't.
>>>>
>>>> nancy
>>>>
>>> I find more interesting and useful cooking shows on PBS.
>>>
>>> Jill
>>
>> Same here. If I watch a cooking show, I would like to pick up hints
>> (and even recipes) that I can use. I'm not interested in watching
>> competition among "chefs" who have baskets of strange ingredients that I
>> would never use.
>>
>> MaryL
>>
> Yep, Mary. Generally I find them on weekends either in the morning or
> late afternoon. I don't watch those competition shows.
>

They try to pass them off as competitions but they are basically
"reality" shows.