Does Guy Fieri actually cook anymore?

Emeril Lagasse

Why would you want him to?

People are always talking about what a great chef he is, but I never see the guy cook anything.

OP, I'm insulted that you would even imagine I know the answer to your question.

Emeril is rich as fuck and refused to do competitions and crud like Diners. He chose to end his career rather than be in such drek as the guy fairy.

For whatever reason lots of people like watching him, he is considered a charismatic host so he practically took over the Food Network. He is there to be a personality, not to cook.

[Quote]People are always talking about what a great chef he is

Who?!?

Anymore? I'm not sure you could have ever legitimately called that "cooking".

There's very little cooking on the cooking shows these days. I watched Tricia Yearwood make a peanut butter smoothy and I watched Pioneer Woman make fried eggs and sausage. I guess it's all about the personalities these days. Guy is perfect for that.

It's basically just an aspirational lifestyle channel for fraus. Though some of the "recipes" on their web site are truly comical, especially the reviews for them.

Like it or not, he's an Everyman for America. You may not like his food or other aspects of his personality, but he sure is cute and charming in his own way.

He's like a giggly teddy bear and it works.

I want to not like him, but it's really hard. He is good TV.

He's disgusting!

"For whatever reason lots of people like watching him"

U.S. Americans feel comfortable with stocky guys with big mouths.

Didn't he rise to fame on some competition show like "Who wants to be a TV chef" or something like that? If I remember correctly. I'm not sure he's even an accredited chef.

Emeril's place on Food Network was taken by Alton Brown, who made sure his PR people pushed several "Alton's the new king of FN" articles, just to rub it in. I doubt Emeril thinks much about Guy. Alton probably has a voodoo doll of him tucked into his producer's desk, though.

Guy does a lot of charity and seems to be a good dude, with a tacky entertainment persona.

Imagine walking in on Fieri and Rachael Ray boinking in a walk-in fridge.

Food Network is a bunch of bullshit now. Guy is a douche bag.

No r9, it's a Game Show network.

Most Food Network programming is now some sort of game show esque competition. Guess that is what the audience watches.

I guess I always underestimate the douchbag factor in someone's popularity.

R14 I remember Brown doing an interview bitching that one chef should no the face of FN. A dig at Emeril. Then he steps in and for a while was THE face of FN. I'm sure it irks him to no end that Guy is the reigning king now.

I wouldn't mind watching him cook while is son Hunter bounced around on my dick.

Word, R19.

Hunter is just my flavor of cute AWG.

Guy officiated at a gay wedding

Hunter is fairly fuckable. But like "fetch", they need to stop trying to make him happen. He has the personality of a flour canister.

I live in the same county as Guy, and he regularly sets up temporary kitchens whenever there's a major wildfire, and mans it with a big crew for an indefinite amount of time. He's also done some major prepared food for COVID medical staff. It's a good PR move to be sure, but he's sincere about it and most people around here seem to like him. He also had some big national fundraising effort for laid-off restaurant workers and raised a shit-ton of cash. My take on him is that he knows his way around a kitchen but is more of a personality at this point.

Agree r22. Hunter Fieri does not have charisma to be a TV star, but Guy refuses to accept that.

"Guy officiated at a gay wedding"

That's got to be a lie. He's infamous for being homophobic, telling producers he needs to be warned if the diner they're featuring requires him to interact with a gay person. A couple of gay people who were profiled on his show said he told homophobic jokes off camera and was overall rude and uncomfortable around them. It's why I stopped watching him.

Meanwhile, he was travelling with a gay personal hair stylist (for that hair?) and they had a very public screeching argument that sounded to on-lookers like a lovers' tiff.

I sincerely hope he isn't a closet case. Nobody needs another self-loathing freak.

He allegedly has a gay relative he's supportive of, but I call p.r. bullshit.

Guy's had a lesbian sister; he was very supportive.

The tale of Fieri's stolen Lamborghini is pretty funny.

He does still cook on occasion and appears to still have kitchen chops.

On Guy's Grocery Games he'll just cook for fun, usually as a challenge from the judges while the contestants are busy. He also has an occasional show called something like "Guy's Backyard Kitchen" where he cooks with chef friends in his outdoor kitchen.

I had a mild negative reaction to him at first but he seems like a genuine nice guy who's still got skills.

Gurl @R28, you be trippin'

I still love this savagely cunty review of his now-closed NYC restaurant.

In his own lame cooking show of years back, Guy Fieri did "guy cooking." That means throw everything including the kitchen sink into the pot.

R25 I've noticed that he gets very uncomfortable anytime another guy gets too close to him. One guy made the mistake of putting his arm around him and he quickly moved away and said, "That got really weird."

I was the same way when I was a homophobic closet case before coming out.

His ‘support” of gays is PR Bullshit.

Jesus, that NYTimes review at r30!

I think he's a restaurant trained cook - he refers to food as "product". He is not a fancy, fine dining chef, but I don't think he tries to be. Personally, he's reported to be a real prick. Homophobic, sexist and racist - I can't say I'm surprised. I do like his diner show, it would be much better if someone else did it. I think EL is a true chef, there's no comparison on skill level.

Strange to think that he actually trained in France.

R25 Guy is a closet case according to several I know at the network.

r23 this is fantastic. When celebrities do stuff like this, you can almost, almost, forgive the other stuff. I am truly impressed that he does all this community service type stuff. It warms the cockles of my heart.

[quote] Strange to think that he actually trained in France.

Where? The frozen food section of Picard?

[quote] "Guy officiated at a gay wedding" That's got to be a lie.

Actually it is a lie. A BIG, FAT LIE. He didn't officiate at a gay wedding. That never happened

he actually officiated at a wedding for 101 gay couples

Can someone please explain to me what the fuck Guy Fieri ever did to anyone? Cause people shit on that dude all the time, and as far as I can tell, all he ever did was follow his dreams.

You have to understand, people are terrible to a television personality and he didn't do anything wrong. Here's what he did do, he started a company that hires everybody, pays workers above minimum wage, gives health benefits before he has to, he has a non-profit where he donates "pretzel-making machines to inner-city schools so they can fundraise. I know that sounds like I made that up, but I swear to Christ, it's true. He works with special Olympics' athletes and if you need a little more sugar with this medicine, he also officiated at a big gay wedding.

But because he has flames on his shirt, everyone shits on him like if he's a member of Nickelback. And by the way, what the hell did Nickelback ever do? They made 40 million bros happy. you don't want those guys walking around pissed off, that's how we ended up with this trump mess. That should bother all of you. And I get it. I don't want to hang out with Guy Fieri either. I know he looks like a hot topic manager moonlighting at a Fridays, but he didn't do anything wrong. Well what else has Guy done? I'm so glad you asked

He goes around the country to small businesses and gives them free advertising on a national platform on a weekly basis. Advertising that those small businesses could never afford themselves, with his own television show. But because his hair looks like he was electrocuted while he was drinking mountain dew, people act like we need to saw his head off and put it on the internet

R41 my problem with him is he represents everything that's wrong with the world today. Where a cult of personality is more important that genuine talent or having to prove yourself.

Kids making millions of dollars opening toys on a YouTube channel.

Children of celebrities becoming celebrated models.

Kim fucking Kardashian.

If Guy was to do Iron Chef or some such thing where he had to prove his culinary skills I'd respect him much more than anything else he's done.

Fact is, he's a Goddamned lucky son of a bitch and people worship him as if he's the second coming of Escoffier.

Oh simmer down, R42.

Nobody "worships" Guy Fieri. They just like him. That's all. They like him.

They like his personality, his attitude, and they like that he has culinary knowledge while looking looking like the manager of Jiffy Lube. It's no big deal.

R41 you wrote a biography on him and you're telling me to simmer down?

Just watching the man eat makes me feel ill.

What're you talking about, R44.

I didn't write any "biography." My other comment was R28 and merely explained him cooking on a couple tv shows. Again, simmer down.

Who cares! Ramsay all the way. I really admire and fucking adore him.

Gordon Ramsay, R46?

A guy who got famous because he's a raging asshole who treats people despicably? You adore him? He needs to have his ass kicked.

Oh, I hear you saying, but he's nice to the contestants on Kid's Master Chef. Yeah, great low bar to set.

Can you imagine a woman behaving like that and getting accolades? No way. But Gordon is loved for some reason. Fuck him.

"Can someone please explain to me what the fuck Guy Fieri ever did to anyone?"

Is that you, Pauly Shore?

Guy Fieri did pretty well for an announcer-tv personality. He has no talent except for to shove pork and beans into his fat ass mouth. And the Food Network gave half of its network to him. Guy Fieri is not Italian, he's Irish posing as an Italian. He's a fat, ugly and obnoxious TV personality. For every redneck who thinks Fieri is a gourmet cook, there are thousand who have turned off Food Network because of him. And that goes for Robert Irvine too. Bobby Flay is more tolerable, but a jerk too.

THIS is what people have against Guy Fieri.

Gordon Ramsey stole his best friend's GF when he found out her father was the CEO of a restaurant chain. After marrying Gordon got his own Michelin star restaurant without actually working for it.

He has excellent culinary skills, but he's a sociopath who has used people his entire life to get ahead.

As for Fieiri, I can't respect a guy who changes his original last name because it sounded gay and reinvented himself as Italian when he is not.

What was his last name before?

^ Ferry

Fun fact: "fieri" is the Latin word for "to become." So in Latin his name means "to become a guy."

R52 so maybe that homophobic homesexual queen is trying to become a guy with his schtick.

His last name was originally spelled Fairy. He should have changed it to Faireé.

I don't watch TVs, I have no idea who is No1. on Food network now. But I see Emeril has many licensed merchandises in stores, from cooking ware to air fryers. Guy Fieri and Alton brown, I know their names but I don't think they have licensed deal like Emeril, which is the money maker for tv chefs these days.

He's friends with Vanilla Ice so that's reason enough to hate him.

[quote] How the hell did he manage to turn one win on a cooking competition show into a career?

His career is built on playing to the lowbrow poor white trash who like his crappy shows. The Food Network went straight to hell many years ago. I used to love it, but haven't watching anything on it in many years.

They might as well just rename The Food Network, "The Fieri Network."

Every time I tune to the channel, it's something with him in it.

I can't take it anymore.

Personally I think he reduces the culinary arts to bowling alley status. His restaurants sucks. On his show DDD he freaked out when he found out the owners of one of the restaurants were gay - he chewed out his stage manager saying that these gays really weird me out - I hate being around them, and I should have been warned. I think that's why people really don't like him. He's a talentless, low class, bigoted asshole.

Hasn't he been to every fucking diner in the country by now?

Ruminating about Fieri's career is a popular weekend activity.

No.

Did he ever? I mean he can assemble your typical slop but let's not call it cooking, at least not in the sense of building a career out of it. But, hey, microwaving bacon in between paper towel sheets is "cooking" as per Rachael Ray.

[QUOTE]For whatever reason lots of people like watching him, he is considered a charismatic host so he practically took over the Food Network.

AND JUST WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH THAT???