Gordon Ramsay vs Jamie Oliver

Ramsay you donkey.  I don't know about the food but he curses like a mutherfunker.

Edited by Slartibartfast - February 10 2011 at 06:19

Nigella 


There are more flattering pics out there but she's shown in her kitchen.

Just noticed a sous chef in the background, wait a second, that's not Gordon is it?


Edited by Slartibartfast - February 10 2011 at 06:52

Slartibartfast wrote: Nigella

Both irritate the crap out of me when they're on TV (Nigella the posh dumpling does too). I haven't eaten in a Ramsey restaurant, but I have tried cooking his recipes - they are dreadfully difficult to follow and get right. Jamie recipes on the other hand work perfectly and are dead easy to follow. I've eaten in two of his restaurants and they were a foodie heaven without being stuffy and pretentious. So Jamie gets my vote.

Jamie Oliver.
My Mrs. loves cooking and cooking shows. We went to London to be on a tv programme called Market Kitchen. She went on it again the following year with her sister. The celebrity chef was Giorgio Locatelli it was good fun but a LONG day!

Whichever one shuts the hell up and makes my damn food. Shove your ego, man. No one cares.

Dean wrote: Both irritate the crap out of me when they're on TV (Nigella the posh dumpling does too). I haven't eaten in a Ramsey restaurant, but I have tried cooking his recipes - they are dreadfully difficult to follow and get right.

I haven't actually seen or have any cookbooks by any of those three. 

One cookbook I have with what I consider to be really difficult recipes is a Rick Bayless Mexican one, so I nicknamed him Rick Painintheass.  Actually I was just flipping through the book and there are some easy ones.  Rustic Ranch Style Soup with tomato, jalapeno, and avacado is wonderful when you have a cold.   The most difficult one I tried is his Essential Simmered Guajillo Sauce.  It came out really good though.  You actually fry the sauce. to finish it.

We have this chef in Atlanta, Paul Luna, who has a reputation for getting very upset if you ask for salt and pepper at the table.


Edited by Slartibartfast - February 10 2011 at 19:20

June wrote: I only knew Jamie by name and just checked him because I certainly was not going to vote for Gordon. He gets my vote. I like how simple Jamie's recipes are. And I saw a chicken parmesan recipe on youtube on which he poured a bit of balsamic vinegar... three seconds before I was about to eat my own dinner (pork tenderloin). So I added some too on my meat, and it's the greatest idea since sliced bread. My meals just got a whole lot better thanks to Jamie.

Jamie does tend to go heavy on the balsamic - but boy does it work. His Bubble and Squeak with Sausages and Onion Gravy calls for half a bottle of the cheapest balsamic - which sounds outrageous but it is absolutely amazing. Basically you take link sausages and unlink them to make one long sausage that you then roll up like a catherine wheel and pin it together with wooden skewers - you slather that in olive oil and sprinkle it with crushed black pepper and dried mixed herbs and lay it on a bed of sliced red onion in a shallow baking tray, splash on more olive oil and slam it in the oven for 30-40 minutes until cooked. The Bubble and Squeak is diced potato, swede and carrots boiled until tender, then drained and lightly crushed with a wooden spoon. In a frying pan cook shredded savoy cabbage (the green stuff) in a little oil and butter for a few minutes, then add the mashed potato, swede and carrot, mix them up a bit then fry them off until they form a crispy crust. To make the gravy, remove the sausage from the tray and stir in a tablespoonful of flour into the caramelised onion and meat juices, next add the balsamic vinegar and 300ml of chicken stock, then boil it on hotplate until you get a rich unctuous gravy. It works best with two types of sausage wound together, he used pork and beef, but I've found pork and venison works well too.

Edited by aginor - February 13 2011 at 02:14

As many times as I've seen it and heard the man brag about it, I would want to try Ramsay's Beef Wellington.