It gets weirder and weirder!!

I watch only one cooking show, and it is more a mix between a cooking contest and a reality show. Personally I like to cook, and I cook every day, but I buy also frozen and canned food. Some dishes are too long to prepare : a cassoulet needs 3 to 4 hours, and only 10 mn when I buy it in a box, so I do a "true" one rarely.

I do not like to cook nor do I like to watch cooking shows. My little one, on the other hand, is obsessed with them, and she is barely four years old. She started watching them with my brother, because he likes them, and now if even a commercial comes on that has anything to do with cooking she will not let me change the channel until it is over. By the way, I do not like cooking, but I am actually very good at it, which does not really make that much sense I know. I used to like cooking, so that is probably why I am good at it. After a while, though, it just became a hassle and now I really can't stand it.

Mostly we cook at home. We are buying a prepared pizza from a gas station tonight, courtesy of another discussion. Maybe watching cooking shows makes people feel like they are having the experience vicariously. They imagine that they are good cooks. Or they like to talk about food as if they know all about it and they like to show off their knowledge.

Well, these restaurants and manufacturers of food ingredients will have to work harder to battle the other side of issue which is to be healthy by eating healthy. People are now seeing the benefits of eating less and this is not good for those in the food business. That is why they need to keep people interested in food. Manufacturers of food ingredients also sponsor shows like this in order to sell their products.

I don't watch cooking shows but do watch some cooking videos on youtube. It just looks so yummy that I find watching them once in a while . I have tried some but trust me you wouldn't wanna taste them . Anyway the cooking around here is pretty much handled by my mom. She's a really good cook and loves cooking too. Well home made food and take outs are like 50-50 for me

I suspect these types of shows are relatively cheap to make. No one has to do anything that doesn't come naturally to them! Lol! I love cooking my own food. At least I know what is in it! I also can't afford all those expensive pre-packaged meals, or eating out for that matter. I still think home-cooked is best and, fortunately, I have inherited my Mum's ability in that department!

Now I do find that strange. I imagined people were sitting home watching TV and taking notes. We have lots of those shows on TV too. Some are competitions, some have the well known chef as the star, some are segments within a lifestyle show. I cook at home for myself and I usually cook from scratch. Although last night I stepped sideways...I usually have stir-fries and I'm getting a bit tired of the same old things all the time...they are starting to taste the same. I purchased a jar of Lite honey, mustard chicken sauce the other day (it was on special) and cooked it up last night. It was too easy, cook the chicken, add the sauce which had lots of carrots, cook the rice and et voila! it's done. However it was really bland and I didn't enjoy it. I'll stick to making my meals from scratch thanks...all the time avoiding the cooking shows. I don't like watching them as they make me hungry.

I believe the cooking shows are out to sort of help with better healthier eating. Kind of a competition with fast food and take out. I don't watch them too often but we do eat in quite a bit as it gets too expensive to eat out too often. Being that it is only my boyfriend and I at home we don't require too much, kind of glad too because even the grocery bill is a bit too high these days.

Yes, i watch cooking shows in times when it seems that the recipe is a delicious one and easy to cook. But i prefer cooked foods at home rather than buy prepared foods. Those shows have prepared food, because they have to show the cooked outcome in the end. They cannot cook practically on the set because it will take a long process and they only have a fixed short time. All they wanted to show is the methodology of the cooking.

I have watched cooking show on television.For some I have an interest in,I should copy it at home.I seldom buy prepared food .I think those are mainly supplied for person that is on the job.I have been retired and have all the time in the world.

I just love cooking shows!! It's the type of shows that I most watch I think. Actually, I was even thinking in go to a cook school and try a career as a chef, but my parents didn't let me. I can say for myself that I do a lot of the recipes that I learn on the cook shows, especially Gordon Ramsay's shows. I try to cook almost every day, but sometimes that's impossible, so, most of the times I cook a lot of meals and put in the freezer for the week. I think that nowadays have so many cooking shows because everyone is tired of eating prepared meals that, most of the times, tastes bad and are unhealthy.

May be it will sound a little weird but I cannot cook at all even though I love cooking shows. The chefs there make the cooking look so easy and everything happens in minutes. They cook dishes in such an amazing way that you can even smell the food from the TV. Unfortunately when I try something at home it turns to a small disaster :(. May be I lack experience but it's not working with me.

I cook at home. I have some prepared foods but not a lot. I like to cook. I learn how to make some tasty meals by watching cooking shows. I think most people like cooking. I don't know anyone who only buys prepared foods.