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Gordon Ramsay has claimed that most television chefs are completely overrated and could never have proper restaurant cuisine.
The famous 53-year-old chef, whose iconic Chelsea restaurant has three Michelin stars, said many of those ongoing food shows “got away with it” and “wouldn’t last an hour in a professional kitchen.”
The Hell’s Kitchen star was speaking on Frank Warren’s Heavyweight Podcast when he suggested that famous celebrity chefs tended to hide behind the television edit and the fact that no one had tried their food.
And he even jokingly searched for his friend and Road Trip co-star chef Gino D’Acampo, who was ‘overrated’ when asked for an example.
Gordon Ramsay on Frank Warren’s Heavyweight Podcast when he suggested that popular TV chefs “get away with it” and “wouldn’t last an hour in a professional kitchen”
He added that he hated pets for chefs who take “crappy shortcuts to get the job done faster.”
Ramsay described himself as a “true chef” and was compared to former soldier Ant Middleton, who plays the lead instructor on Channel 4’s SAS: Who Dares Wins.
Ramsay, who also runs other restaurants around the world in countries like the United States, France and Dubai, confessed that he expects to have “substantial” losses as a result of the coronavirus.
And he believes that, after closing, the entire restaurant experience will change, marking the end of the waiters’ food descriptions at the tables, while it will be a case of ‘forget salt and pepper, it will be hand sanitizer’. .
On the podcast, Ramsay criticized other famous chefs, saying: ‘If I didn’t have a television and I didn’t produce those shows, behind all that I am a real chef, so that’s the difference.
‘You look at Ant Middleton; Behind that facade is a guy who was SBS, special forces, a royal marine, and before that, a para.
The famous 53-year-old chef, whose exclusive Chelsea restaurant (pictured) has three Michelin stars, described himself as a “true chef” and compared himself to former soldier Ant Middleton who stars in SAS: Who Dares Wins
‘I’m 53 years old, I got my first Michelin star at 33, so I’m a real chef, not a TV chef.
‘And there are television chefs who wouldn’t last an hour in a professional kitchen because you have the power of editing, you have the power of the producer and, to be honest, you are not going to try any food we cook on television, because you don’t you can smell it.
‘Then you can escape with a lot of shit there.
‘And I used to tease all the guys from Ready Steady and joke around with them and say to myself,’ I’m not a TV chef, ‘because it may seem a little hypocritical because I’m a real chef.
Then, jokingly, he named his friend, Italian chef Gino D’Acampo, who rose to fame on ITV’s This Morning, as an example of an ‘overrated chef’ to Warren’s laughs.
Then, jokingly, he named his friend, Italian chef Gino D’Acampo (right), who rose to fame on ITV’s This Morning, as an example of an ‘overrated chef’ laughing at Warren
The couple are still good friends, and along with First Dates’ chief waiter Fred Sirieix, they currently star Gordon, Gino, and Fred’s Road Trip in North America.
Ramsay said maintaining standards at his Chelsea restaurant while balancing a television career is “the hardest thing I do.”
He added: ‘I need to trust. In 22 years I have literally had only two chefs there. So you never hand over that cane until you are completely sure what they are doing. ‘
However, Ramsay revealed that the coronavirus has been a severe blow to his business, but insisted that he is optimistic that it will recover once the blockade ends.
He said: ‘There will be substantial losses next year, there are not two ways to do it.
“Running a business is very difficult, and the margins now are not just on the product and the labor and operating costs are very small, so there is no margin for error.”
He praised the government’s response and said that with business rates ‘on the shelf’, interest rates go down and if the owners are flexible, there were reasons for optimism and he believes that people will go out to eat with friends once they are gone. lift the restrictions.
The couple are still good friends, and along with First Dates’ chief waiter Fred Sirieix, they currently star Gordon, Gino, and Fred’s Road Trip in North America.
‘There will be a surge, we just have to walk very carefully, listen to the government, get the kind of support from the owners. The HMRC has been tremendous, the government with the licensing plan has been instrumental.
‘I’m optimistic.
“We are going to open, we are going to backtrack and treat this as a new opening and something better than what we were doing before closing.”
“We have to be incredibly careful when re-establishing these restaurants.” We have to imagine them as new openings. Forget about the salt and the paper, it is a hand sanitizer. Forget the long descriptions, forget the sides of the table.
They will be temperature controls, personnel controls, periodic tests. All of these things have to come into play.
“We have to increase the safety of our customers and make sure they feel safe and incredibly well cared for.” All of those snow measures are being resolved and it is a logistical nightmare.
The father of five also said he is concerned about the effects the coronavirus pandemic could have on young people.
He said: “ Having three daughters and two sons, the mental health aspect of being confined to the barracks and having this cabin fever, being locked up during this time period, we have to be very careful about the long-term effects on terms of taking away the confidence of today’s youth. “
