Do you try the recipes you see presented on TV yourself or do you just enjoy watching the show?

If it's something that looks really good I'll try it. Most times it's for inspiration as a starting point.

I'll admit through I find the TV recipes way more often searching online and then finding it there then I do watching them on TV, I don't have anywhere near the time for all the cooking shows I'd want to watch.

Same here. I watch cooking shows for ideas/concepts, but not for recipes.

I have tried quite a few, but generally prefer to go to the websites of my favorite chef(s) and troll there.

If something looks/sounds good, I'll try it...and some of them have been major hits with my family.

Do I go out of my way to try something? No.

I often have cooking shows (especially the PBS ones) on in the background, but I don't typically have the attention span to follow most cooking shows.

I prefer online recipe searches so I can read the whole thing in one shot. I typically import them into a database I built for our kitchen computer so I can make notes on them, tweak them etc. It especially helps because I get beyond anal and constantly tweak things.

I've done several dishes shown on America's Test Kitchen, and with good result. By the same token, I've had very little success with their big cookbook, "The New Best Recipe". In that book, I read the discussion of why this method fails and that one succeeds (a la Alton Brown) and it makes perfect sense, until I try the recipe and it utterly fails.

Not really.. would have to buy all of the ingredients.. grunt in labor.. when all the while I can go and get some food for the family.. and not have to clean up.^

Yeah, I always to watching the cooking shows but, I didn't watch it yet. Because I was extremely busy to reading the forums and watching the baseball. It is importance to see how is D-Backs doing.

I watch sometimes to pick up the random hint, but as a household of one, I don't really do much elaborate cooking.

I have made plenty of stuff that I saw on Good Eats. I think the thing is with his show is that there is a lot of regular food that he just shows you how to cook very well. It is the only cooking show that I watch really. The other shows are always featuring weird or overly complicated recipies when I just want good simple food.

Recipes from the various Julia Child programs, Two Fat Ladies, Jamie Oliver, River Caf�: the Italian Kitchen (a UK show that has only appeared in the US as a PBS pledge-week special, once, ages ago AFAIK) Lidia's Italy, and America's Test Kitchen all make frequent appearances on my table. Some of them may have become unrecognizable over the years, as I often change the details.

I've made a lot of things from Good Eats, as he has very good recipes, and grounded in cooking principles. I've made a few things off Two Fat Ladies, but most of their stuff is fatty and probably did kill them. I've just started making some of the recipes off Everyday Italian with Giada, although I've mainly been watching Giada just to watch her.

It depends on the show. Stuff like Masterchef a lot of the time the recipes are a little too full-on for me (in either skills/complexity or time requirement, I'm a 30 minute cook, if I can't do it in 30 mins chances are I won't make it).


But other shows often have stuff which I will try. Some of the food shows on SBS here have pretty authentic international fare and I've found one of my all-time favourite recipes from one of their shows (ga xao sa o't). Similarly, there was a show on another channel called "Boys Weekend" with 4 male chefs and found some pretty good recipes from that as well. As it was male chefs cooking for other male chefs, a lot of the dishes were more for 'male tastes', if that makes sense, and as I usually cook for myself or a couple of mates, it was a good source.

No. I prefer to try the recipes on the stove.