/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.17582970]

How often was he in the wrong here?

[Anonymous No.17583074]

Probably often

[Anonymous No.17583099]

i'm sure a lot of the shit he tasted and hated was exaggerated, but if those kitchens/walk-ins were actually as nasty as they showed, then yeah, that's legit. i assume the people drama was all blown out of proportion, too.

[Anonymous No.17583256]

It was pretty clear he hammed it up for the American version of the show. The UK version he acts much calmer, much more like a teacher.

[Anonymous No.17583276]

>>17583256
You just figured that out now?

[Anonymous No.17583756]

>>17582970
never.
he always knew it was the food that made the place shit.
nobody goes to a restaurant for the wait staff.

[Anonymous No.17583843]

>>17583756
What about titty restaurants?

[Anonymous No.17583855]

>>17582970
the 'za incident obviously but nonetheless most of his guidelines are pretty true for every restaurant
>clean
>decent interior
>short menu
>good (local) ingredients
>find a niche
>reasonable pricing

[Anonymous No.17583903]

Any time he over complicated a simple dish or ingredient. I don’t care how “fancy” you are it shouldn’t take the same amount of energy to fry an egg as it does to clean a toilet bowl.

[Anonymous No.17584455]

>>17583843
only simps go to those and npcs don't matter.

[Anonymous No.17585818]

>tells them off for having photos in the menu
but I want to know what the food looks like before getting it
restaurant owners aren't experts in prose, just list the ingredients and show me a photo

[Anonymous No.17585823]

>>17583256
why would he “ham it up” for the american version?

[Anonymous No.17585876]

So what's the reason the US version focused on the bottom of the barrel of restaurants when the UK version focused on places that had something wrong with them other than the food? Is it because Americans only care about seeing dirty kitchens and arrogant hammed up owners?

[Anonymous No.17585899]

>>17585876
Yes

[Anonymous No.17585911]

>>17585876
I am European and I prefer the American version.

[Anonymous No.17585939]

>>17585823
Things typically have to be dumbed down for American audiences. Europe knows this, Japan knows this, everyone who exports to the US knows this. You have to remove even the smallest traces of sophistication or nuance and make it as stupid and loud as possible if you want it to succeed. Americans revel in stupidity. The image of a pig rolling in shit is especially apt. Entertaining Americans is the moral equivalent of putting a retarded child in front of a blinking light.

[Anonymous No.17585963]

>>17585939
Yeah Japan is so sophisticated bro, those game shows were people fall into the mud are very nuanced forms of entertainment.
Europe doesnt export any kind of media.

[Anonymous No.17586003]

>>17583855
>>short menu
>>good (local) ingredients
I can't remember the exact quote, but how he says something like "high quality ingredients done simply," always stuck with me - especially since I got one of his cookbooks and it's all incredibly finicky and highfalutin.

[Anonymous No.17586028]

>>17586003
Restaurant cooking =/= recreational private cooking

[Anonymous No.17586053]

>>17583903
how tf are you cleaning toilet bowls that's more complicated than frying eggs?

[Anonymous No.17586074]

>>17585876
Maximize entertainment value, baby

[Anonymous No.17586100]

>>17585963
>those game shows were people fall into the mud are very nuanced forms of entertainment.
this but unironically, wipeout is pure kino

[Anonymous No.17586109]

>>17585939
My brother put in Family Guy the other day which I haven't watched in over a decade. Lets just say I'm glad I stopped watching it, it was so painfully stupid and on the nose with its jokes I almost felt my spine slip out of my anus from the cringe. Fuck this country's """""media""""" theres a reason anime is stupidly popular here.

[Anonymous No.17586119]

>>17586100
>wipeout
>he never watched MXC

[Anonymous No.17586127]

>>17586109
Yeah, manchildren influx mirroring Japan's pandemic of it that was a decade or so ahead

[Anonymous No.17586134]

>>17586127
What? Was this English?

[Anonymous No.17586347]

>>17583903
but cleaning a toilet bowl is really fucking easy
t. paid janny irl

[Anonymous No.17586405]

>>17585876
Its called Kitchen NIGHTMARES Anon its meant to be a horror show of the worst kitchens imaginable.

[Anonymous No.17586441]

>>17586347
You'd never get mine clean.

[Anonymous No.17586443]

His menu revamps were almost never going to work. The restaurants just don't have the quality chefs needed to prep and execute the menus (the cooks usually are either illegals or look like they just got out of jail a month ago).

Gordon revamps the menu in the way HE would be able to put out quality food in the restaurants and market, discounting the fact the owners don't usually know anything about cooking and the cooks don't even get the hours to come in and do food prep because the restaurants can't afford the labor costs, so these places aren't attracting quality cooks.

He also doesn't really know American cuisine well, he knows French and English. He complained how bizarre it was to put powdered sugar on a Monte Cristo sandwich, when that's how the sandwich is made.

[Anonymous No.17586446]

>>17586441
Show us a pic of your crusty never cleaned bog so we can point an laugh.

[Anonymous No.17586462]

>>17586446
I'm not at home, sorry.

[Anonymous No.17586465]

>>17583843
Strippers aren't waitstaff, they're performers.

[Anonymous No.17586471]

>>17586119
Do you mean Takeshi's Castle?

[Anonymous No.17586475]

>>17586471
I forgot the name desu, just remembered the burger version I grew up watching

[Anonymous No.17586487]

>>17585963
It never ceases to amaze me that all the Japanese "show" programming is reaction videos but unironically.

>Europe doesn't export any kind of media
How about the fucking show you are writing in a thread of?

[Anonymous No.17586496]

>>17582970
When he made my wife *(says she is married but does not wear a ring) Lisa upset when he came to her and her fat sister's restaurant in Boston.

[Anonymous No.17586525]

>>17582970
The whole show is blown out of proportions and made as loud as possible but as others said the basics he always applies are true and tried and the restaurants almost always continue to fail once they throw his suggestion out of the window once his ass is gone.
I'm just not convinced about the ugly ikea shit he always unloads on the places.

[Anonymous No.17586549]

Gourdon should do a show called Cocaine Nightmares.

[Anonymous No.17586790]

>>17586549
He did a 2 part series called "Gordon on Cocaine"

[Anonymous No.17586819]

>>17586487
be kind, they have attention deficit disorder

[Anonymous No.17586842]

>>17582970
When he redesigned every restaurant to have the exact same modern minimalist design, quite soulless

[Anonymous No.17586882]

>>17583855
>the 'za incident obviously
He ordered a thin crust pizza and was handed something that was almost a 'go 'za. The thing had raw dough inside.

[Anonymous No.17587087]

>>17586882
Jesus that thing looks repulsive.

[Anonymous No.17587096]

>>17586347
>paid

[Anonymous No.17587725]

>>17586487
Britain isnt Europe

[Anonymous No.17587736]

>>17586882
the fact a ton of people here defend that pile of shit makes me believe /ck/ is the most obese and disgusting board on this site.

[Anonymous No.17587742]

>>17582970
in that one episode with the wife that was 1000% cheating on the owner, the food didnt look bad.

[Anonymous No.17587783]

>>17582970
How many of the restaurants are still around?

[Anonymous No.17587817]

>>17582970
He was persistently a cunt and frequently pedantic- but all his criticism was substantive.
It would be like a professional triathlete going to a junior sports meet and yelling at the kids