Rachel Ray

[Amy]

Rachael Ray doesn't annoy me too much (except for the EVOO thing--just call it olive oil, damnit!), but I hardly ever watch her. I have one of her cookbooks and have made probably 10 or so of the recipes from it. Mostly with good results.

But 30 minutes? My ASS! Some of the recipes include instructions that go something like this: "Brown the chicken for 3 or 4 minutes. While the chicken is cooking, chop the vegetables." The vegetables being potatoes, celery, red bell peppers, onion and garlic. Uh-huh. Or the ingredient list will include things like, "one large yellow onion, chopped," with no actual time to do the chopping worked into the "30 minutes." I don't know about the rest of you who cook on occasion, but for me all the prep stuff is the most time-consuming part of cooking just about anything.

[Just Some Guy]

But 30 minutes? My ASS!

Everyone knows that the hour that your slaves... er... interns spend preparing for the cooking doesn't count as cooking.