Favorite cooking shows?

[spinbaby]

I’m vegging at home with a cold today and in the mood to watch cooking on TV. The newest iteration of Good Eats isn’t available on demand yet or I’d be watching that. Already seen British baking. Amazon Prime had something called A Taste of History, which looked promising, but turned out to be disjointed and boring, and completely lost me after a loving description of pecans that were clearly actually walnuts.

Someone tell me what’s good in culinary TV.

[CGoo]

1. I enjoy "A Moveable Feast"

It’s on PBS/CreateTV. I hope you feel better soon!

[spinbaby]

2. It does look good

Alas, not available free on any of my platforms.

[spinbaby]

3. Now watching Million Pound Menu

Has possibilities.

[CGoo]

4. The Salt. Fat, Acid, Heat series

is also very good. Netflix or Amazon I think.

[spinbaby]

5. Found it

Looks like my plan for the rest of today. Thanks.

[Saviolo]

6. Andrew Zimmern is fun.

You can find a lot of episodes of Bizarre Foods on YouTube (some of my favourites are Mongolia, Vietnam, and Taiwan). Zimmern is amazing, and always shows respect to the food he's eating and the culture he's in. He is also willing to try (almost) anything put in front of him. Guess it's not so much a cooking show as just a food show. Also, Zimmern likes to call out Trump and right wingers on Twitter.

Bon Appétit's YouTube channel is also excellent, and Claire Saffitz's "Gourmet Makes" series is fantastic (she recreates junk food with high-end ingredients and non-industrialized techniques). They've got some great personalities on the channel, and they're all fun to watch. Chris Morocco's incipient series where he has to recreate famous chef's signature dishes that he tastes while blindfolded is always entertaining.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbpMy0Fg74eXXkvxJrtEn3w

Also on YouTube, I do enjoy the Epicurious "Price Points" videos, where they have an expert try to guess which of two products is the pricier example. They've done episodes on bacon, salt, beer, wine, cheese, and chocolate. Their 4 Levels series, which has three different levels of chef (amateur, accomplished home cook, expert chef) cook the same thing and then goes through and explains the tricks the pros use to get such amazing results.
https://www.youtube.com/user/epicuriousdotcom/featured

[applegrove]

7. I adored Iron Chef the original in Japanese. It was mesmerizing and

it all looked delicious. The translation upped the excitement.

[The Polack MSgt]

8. I really enjoyed youtube clips of "Cooking with Dog"

A Japanese cooking show narrated in English with a horrid French accent - The conceit being that the cooks mini Poodle was doing the narration.

So weird, but the actual recipes and techniques are solid southern Japanese cuisine

[Delmette2.0]

9. Interesting.

I like how the video is straight forward, no distracting chatter. I'll have to watch more of their videos.

Thanks!

[sir pball]

10. Two Fat Ladies

An utterly lovely show and a true compendium of British cookery.

I'm not sure if it's streaming anywhere, I have the entire series offline.

[Hotler]

11. As a kid I was a big fan of Graham Kerr The Galloping Gourmet and

Justin Wilson
Jeff Smith The Frugal Gourmet. (I think he got busted for liking young boys)
Martin Yan Yan Can Cook
I still have the Graham Kerr cook book my mom got me for Christmas back in 1966, I was 11.
I miss you mom.

[dem in texas]

12. Don't Watch Food Network Much Anymore

In the early Food Network days, I always watched Two Hot Tamales. Back then, you had to send a self addressed envelope to Food Network and they'd send you a copy of the recipes from a particular show. I still use some of the recipes from that show.

I quit watching the contest shows, all the entrants are unemployed actors posing as amateur chefs hoping to win and get a show to launch their acting careers. One show was so bad, the contestant was posing as southwestern style cowboy chef and he could not even name the common chili peppers. Give me a break!

I agree the early shows were good, but it has been downhill from there.

[trof]

13. Lots of cooking videos on youtube.

I watch them with ROKU.