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Rachel Ray is stressing me out!
I'm not bashing her recipes, I've tried a few. Some were good, some were meh. Either way- this episode where she is making a "Chicken Cordon Bleu Plate Special" is stressing me out.
She has like 7 pots on the stove, multitasking like crazy and keeps doing complicated steps without explaining it. Yeah. 30 minute meal, great for beginners my arse!
I can't turn it off. This may be the episode that she doesn't finish the meal. *fingers crossed*
Re: Rachel Ray is stressing me out!
I had to turn the TV on (since I can...haha) to see what you were talking about since it's been years since I've watched her.
I don't know how she makes these meals in 30 minutes. The only time I've ever made a meal in that amount of time was when I prepped everything in the morning/night before and just cooked it. I think she gets WAY more done over the commercial breaks then the actual time of the break (does that make sense?)
I watched a behind the scenes thing where they said her assistants come in over break to get the stuff ready.
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I knew it was too good to be true. She had to either have help or have everything prepped in advance.
Well, she also can heat her oven to 500 degrees in like 3 minutes and bring a pot of water to boil in about 4.
I swear there was a blog or something where people made her recipes and then documented how long they actually took.
Where does Hot Dog Salad fall on the good-meh scale?
I remember reading something about someone taking at least 45 minutes to make her 30 minute meals. One of her recipes on the food network page actually says 38 instead of 30 or less.
I was at a taping of her talk show once and saw her make food. She placed the sandwich on the grill and then went to commercial break. During the break, the food was swapped out with ready made stuff from the back.
so who knows how long it actually takes to make it!
right between barf and gag me now. LOL.
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I just googled hot dog salad. That was a mistake. WTF is she thinking?
Holy crap. I guess nothing is sacred anymore. Not even the term 'hot dog salad.' [shudder]
I would love to see this!
I will admit that several years ago, when I got engaged and realized I really didn't know how to cook and was afraid for DH to find out (lol), Rachael's "30 minute meals" appealed to me. I tried a lot of her recipes (and liked them) but felt like an idiot for taking so long to make them. Well if you're a new cook, just slicing veggies and doing other prep work is going to take 15 minutes!
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I rarely watch anything with her on it anymore, but I remember seeing her get mad at people during Q&A sessions when they would mention that they never seemed to be able to make her recipes in 30 minutes. She was always very abrupt and mumbled stuff about 30 minutes just being a 'general term'.