Gordon Ramsay fans... Cookalong tonight on Fox.

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Should be pretty cool. Meal isn’t especially hard and I am surprised they are doing a meal that would cause inexperienced cooks to set their kitchen on fire or burn their eyebrows off…

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Looks like a recipe for disaster. That seems like a lot of stuff for 1 hr with a totally inexpericed cook. All of those ingredients would have to be cleaned, prepped and lined up ready to go… and if someone didn’t have that ready, there’s no way they could do those 3 dishes in 1 hr. I really wonder how many people will actually “cook along.”

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That’s what TIVO is for…

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I dunno. I see that the shrimp are to be peeled and cleaned (the only really time-consuming part), the ladyfingers are purchased and the water is supposed to be boiling before you start. I think I could do the first two courses in 20 minutes - less if everything is mise en place, which is how a restaurant would do it. Subject to the potatoes getting done, of course.

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Bob, I’m sure you could. I’m certain I could too, but from what I see they don’t tell you to have everything really prepped. If you are “inexperiecend” and you have to slice 4 oz of mushrooms and dice 3 shallots, it’s going to take 5x as long as it will for Ramsay to do it “live.”

I don’t know - I would assume they’ve thought of this kind of stuff and presumably it should be do-able if that’s their intent. I will be curious to see though.

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I’ll be curious to see how many people are cooking along at 9:00 in the eastern time zone.

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Not me…watched the first 5 minutes…cant take the celebrity, lets break and see whats happening in Raleigh, etc…

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Did anyone see Tota?

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I don’t think many people cook along while the show is playing. More likely they watch, look at the recipes, and try to reproduce the meal later.

-Al

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I got to cook along at a friend’s house via the skype feed. It was hard to see us…first half of the show we were in the bottom left corner listed as Colorado. After that we were in the middle listed as Pennsylvania.

Anyway, as a group of beginner cooks, it was fun but quite a lot to handle. In fact, it would have been impossible for one of us to do alone without having the items cut and prepped in advance. Even then it would be a challenge. That said, I expect an experienced home cook could handle it…but the time is still tight, something that would probably not be an issue the second or third time making the meal. The pasta dish was pretty good. The steak and potatoes were excellent. And for a dessert that took only ten minutes, the tiramisu was delicious. Kept the recipe for that one.

Cheers!

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Well, so far he’s cooked the shrimp twice as long as necessary and seared steaks in a non-stick pan. I can’t wait for whatever comes next.

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I guess it depends on how high the heat is, how big the shrimp are and how much liquid is in with it. The stovetop we used wasn’t the kind I like, but our shrimp turned out perfectly…might have been overdone at my house with a gas range.

We didn’t use a non-stick pan for searing, but that was dumb luck…our biggest pan wasn’t nonstick. The dish turned out quite well, though…I was surprised, as none of us really cook much.

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Nice, Frank! I was going by what I saw on TV and the shrimp were bubbling away for quite a long time. Even really big ones (16-20) should be done in less than two minutes at the temperature he was using.

In the recap for the steak Diane, the sauce was broken. I can’t believe they’d show it.

EDIT: Another hour I won’t get back.

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I admit that I enjoy Hell’s Kitchen for what it is. I like The F Word and Kitchen Nightmares.

Cookalong, however was simply horrible. Having Cedric The Entertainer as one of the “celebrity guests” should have been my first clue.

The Allyson Hannigan/Band Camp joke was fine the first time. The second time Ramsey used it? Not so much.

Good thing there is a Carrie Underwood special on next week in the same time slot. [suicide.gif]

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I’d say having “celebrity guests” at all was probably it for me. And my second was the cheesy bit when they showed off the (alleged) interior of his fridge and the cabbage with a cupcake in the middle. [berserker.gif]

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It’s funny…we couldn’t really watch the show while participating, first because we were busy cooking and second because they hadn’t edited in the pre-taped stuff (like that horrible fridge segment) for our live feed. Watching the episode later in the evening, I was glad abou tthat. [dance-clap.gif]

Here we are magically transported to “Pennsylvania.”

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Frank - sweet! What part of PA were you in for that shot>?

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I only watched a few minutes last night but have it on DVR. Will fast forward to the good parts tonight. To think I was only looking for you in the California squares! Frank, cooking a quick meal with good ingredients (proper seasonings) can be fun!

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I thought it an he was crap and turned it off.

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I am pretty tolerant, but Ramsay has JUMPED THE SHARK!
Face lift, botox, Amazings, sell-out.