Something that bugs me about cooking shows

I totally understand your vent. We should never have to say, "ew" when we're watching food shows.

Baking needs precise flour measured. Other things, not so much..

Hair is a major issue for me.

That is how I was taught too. I always get angry because they use all of these ingredients and separate bowls and little knives and stuff, but never have to clean anything up. It's like yeah I could use 8 or 9 cute little bowls too if I didn't have to wash everything after I was done with all this cooking. Plus cleaning up the stove and countertops...Ugh, that just gets me.

OMG don’t even get me started on the hair! I took an online class with a Facebook Live component where the instructor did a live to show how to do every step of the recipe. She had long hair that she was constantly touching, pushing out of her eyes, touching her glasses and her face while she was also mixing up dough, forming cookies, etc… Oy.   It was so completely distracting to watch that I could hardly pay attention to what she was supposedly teaching. I would never be able to eat anything that lady baked. I think in a situation like that where you know people are watching how you do things (and you have a job making food other people will eat), you would be ultra conscious of those things.

Weighing your ingredients is the most accurate way to bake. It's a science and has to be spot on.

i get what you're saying but i just keep in mind they are teaching me a process.  i have no doubt the final product is not even the one they started measuring stuff with.  

I was taught to scoop with the measuring up. At the time we did a few experiments and tried a number of different methods and weighed the results to see which was most accurate. Scooping with a half-cup measuring up and leveling off with a knife was the winner.

I never heard of that method.. I just scoop and level with a knife.. never had any problems. Ummmm.. but maybe my baking is yucky.. lol

Stuff like thing mentioned above don't bother me. I assume that most of that is tossed anyways..it's for TV...

Ok here's the thing about hair and cooking shows....

NONE of the food that they use for camera use is usually eaten by anybody. That one they take out of the oven? That's not the same one they mixed up and put in there. The behind the scenes staff do that. Sure - the star usually has a mouthful as they go, but they are the one making it so it's like the food safe rules don't apply.

I would never work without my hair tied back and super clean/scrubbed hands.

But when I did a photo shoot in my cake studio for some branding photos, I wanted to look good - so my hair was down and makeup on for all the photos. But I was using stuff already made for props. I'd never actually work like that

oh, I get that, for cooking shows where they are demonstrating something- they already have the process worked out, they already have one finished in the oven to magically - voila! pull out to show you, etc. etc.  And personally, watching Julia Child cook doesn't bother me- or a lot of those things, actually... *because* I know they're not actually serving it to anyone.  I get it, though- they need to show 'best practices' to the viewer at home, who may never have taken health class or home ec class, or learned about germs, cross-contamination, etc.

But my Dh and I, at least, watch a lot of competition shows where the judges will say, 'I can't taste that because you cut yourself and contaminated it.' But yet the person was also dripping sweat over the pot as they cooked, arranged the food on the plate with their bare hands, etc..  That is the kind of thing that irritates me.

This is called mise in place, a French term that means to gather. Having all the ingredients measured & prepared allows for quick assembly while cooking. DH does this, & I swear he uses every dish in the house when he cooks; he's a strict measurer, can't improvise in the kitchen, and everything he makes besides Chinese food is something with loads of onions & peppers. To his credit, he does clean up after himself. 

okay all of the above plus, it absolutely bugs me that no one seems capable of using a spatula to get out all of the ingredients out of a bowl! They will leave like a whole cupful behind and its so distracting to me! Grab the spatula and scrape it ALL out of the bowl!

That, and the other thing I can't stand to see is people using their silverware to cook/stir with. I mean I get using a fork to whip a couple of eggs, but why are you cooking with the fork or stirring the pot with a teaspoon? IDK I don't like to scratch my pans and silverware gets hot in your hand. I have a whole crock full of spatulas, wooden spoons etc for actual cooking. IDK why it bugs me so much but it does.

I don't watch cooking shows unless it's a cooking segement on Today show.

But what drives me crazy is the online pintrest recipes. They post 20 pictures of the recipe and many are just the same picture with a different angle. I love the ones that post a jump to recipe. I hate scrolling through so many pictures. They are great recipes and I make many of them. I just don't understand the need for 25 pictures of a piece of chicken.