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Dear FNH,
While watching Melissa D’Arabian this morning, I noticed her choice of cookware was a very interesting one – Demeyere. Regarded as some of the best of the best, Demeyere is Belgian-made and doesn’t come cheap. Demeyere pieces are easily distinguishable because the bolts typically securing the handles to a saucepan or skillet on the inside of the pieces are absent. Rather, they are welded to create a truly uninterrupted cooking experience. $10 Dinners my ass. It’s such a fallacy that a budget-centric FN show allow Ms. D’Arabian to indulge her primadonna cookware whimsies. Would someone please throw her some Anolon and get her to show us what a $10 Dinner might really feel like?
Sincerely,
David
(Former cookware store employee and proud owner of two Demeyere pieces he busted his 9-to-5 ass to earn)
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Well said, David. We completely agree. The hypocrisy is outrageous. Any host of a show called TEN DOLLAR DINNERS should be forced to use cheap-ass cookware, otherwise the whole thing feels like a put-on. If the producers really wanted Melissa reach an audience of people who are eating $10 dinners, her show would look a little more like this:
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43 Responses
I’m thinking: Scratched up Teflon pans with dollar store utensils. Oh, and if you can only afford $10 dinners, what’s with all that hair, makeup, and clothing. Beauty school students, Walgreens clearance shelf, and Ross discounts for you, sweetheart.
“dollar store utensils” LOL! I have so many of those! Hell, I would do so well on that show it would be called “I’mma give yo ass $10, cuz dis shit is sooooo cheap.”
At least the false eyelashes they have her wearing weigh down her eyelids so they don’t bug out so much. Now if only they would weigh down her wrists so she doesn’t point and wave them in your face every three seconds.
LOL, eyelashes = ridiculous. “Here Melissa, you can have your own show as soon as we color and style your hair, do your smoky makeup so you look sexy and available, put you in cleavage-producing, low-cut tops, slap some dangling earrings on you, and teach you laugh less like a horse”. Better to let her stay dowdy and STOP her saying ‘aaaaannnnnd’ and ‘puuuurrfect’ every other word.
Can I just have the Slim Jim?
David, WTF?
OMG is that a washing machine hooked up next to the stove??? LOL! I lived in a house like that, about 800 years ago.
Don’t you dare make fun of my grannies kitchen! That’s where she froze her bacon!
Boo – In the washer????? LOL!
Is it a washing machine or a dishwasher? Back in the 60′s, my mom had a rolling dishwasher that hooked up to the kitchen faucet. BWAAAH-HAHAHAHAHA!!!!
Kat, we did too! I’m cracking up at this shit! Good one Jillian!
BOO, our dishwasher-on-wheels was a Sears Kenmore in custom-order avocado green. We christened it “The Green Hornet” after the old TV show. Funny post. Thanks, Jillian!!
Holy shit Kat, our’s was fugly green too! We washed ‘em before we put ‘em in. Just like I do today!
What the hell is on those kitchen walls?
She could afford hand-painted tiles, so she took the cheap-ass road and stenciled them herself.
Sorry – should be “couldn’t.” My bad.
Kat, that’s what is we called decals way back then!
What is wrong with y’all?
Eat beans 7/24 (reduced/on sale – of course) and you can afford top-of-the line cookware.
Because it will make YOU look good.
(And it will make MY family rich, heh)
uhh…..is that the Neely’s kitchen countertop???
Ewww…I hope not. God only knows what would be on it!!
Slightly off subject, but while at a friends house today I flipped through the latest FN Magazine and there was a photo spread on Melissa, including a stack of (surprise) French cookbook, and one Bobby Flay book that seemed very out of place.
Don’t you know she blew Bobby so she could win TNFNS?
OK, that’s ONE vision i could have lived the rest of my life without imagining, ewwwwww!!!!!!!!
Does Bobby have anything TO blow?
With those teeth?
I am sorry, that picture is funny as shit!! I have that same pot!!
LOL
Damn you! Damn you Jillian!
Ruining the good name of Slim Jims like that!
I’m so angry I need some mechanically separated chicken.
I’d believe her 10 dollar dinner BS if she actually grew her own vegetables in her backyard. haha right!
What the hell kitchen IS this? How many kitchens does this bimbo have? The palatial one on FN, the one shown in FN’s magazine this month (I’m not buying that’s her real kitchen either), the one she’s making Easter food in on the FN website and now this one? I don’t get it.
Forget the $10 thing. She isn’t even trying anymore, except for an occasional, obligatory “I got this on sale” or “I bought this in the bulk aisle” or “I had this in my freezer”. She’s as full of sh*t as FN.
I thought I was the only one who’d noticed they ignore the concept/title within 30 seconds of the start of the episode. There’s so many exceptions/loopholes/excuses/ambivalence to the money part of the show there’s no credibility. Even if Melissa had any in the first place.
I watched her show Sunday. What bugs me about her is that her teeth are always showing. She acts like France is the best thing ever and she came up with special recipes from her stay there.
Then I watch her pat salt into raw chicken with a paper towel, then she uses the same paper towel to wipe her hands, and then sticks them in a bowl of potatoes soaking in water. I’m guessing she was serving an extra helping of diarrhea to her guests.
Hey! Cuisine AND weight control in one, easy meal!! ;)
I have just recently found this outrageously funny website and it’s equally funny fans. Everything and everybody on this website is hiliarious!! I have only been watching the Food Network for a little while, but I am HOOKED! I watch it for hours on end and, I think at times they must have subliminal messages flashed on the screen to make sure you stay tuned to the channel because I cannot seem to quit watching once start!! It’s hypnotizing!! I agree that even though you can get a lot of great recipes and cooking ideas, some of the hosts can drive you crazy, but, I find myself powerless to turn the TV off! It’s like I love to hate some of the cooks (Sandra Lee is the WORST so far) so I insist on watching them just so I can make fun of them!! I don’t know what that says about me, but I have a sinking feeling the Food Network and I are going to be life long friends!! Everybody, pray for me!!!
LOVE that picture!!
Amazing that she has this high end cooking stuff and yet her dishes STILL come out looking like something Fido crapped out.
I totally agree here…she mentioned a very smart and money saving tip today on her show, that you should buy chicken or meat when its on sale because you save money that way. wow! I wish I would have known about this years ago and to think about all the money I could have saved.
OMG, that’s what I’ve been doing wrong!
I know, duh!
I’ll sell Melissa some quality Pampered Chef cookware that are less than the Belgian made pots and pans. They still won’t help her make anything I want to eat though.
Melissa is a refreshing change from Mrs. AWESOME and the screaming/hollering/loud Neelys.
I about took a poop because I actually thought she was in my kitchen!
Gaaahh! Okay, I haven’t caught one of her shows yet, but I did YouTube the Thanksgiving episode. First of all, she mentioned ‘layers of flavor’ three times while making stuffing. Secondly, she claims that the entire bigass spread – including the turkey – cost $20. My ass. The stuffing alone (onion, bacon, garlic, celery, pre-packaged stuffing) would have been almost ten bucks. How is she figuring all this, like, using only 1/4 of a $.80 onion only counts for $.20? Is she saying it only cost her $20 because she already had the bacon in the freezer, the turkey in the fridge, and a crisper drawer full of veggies? Where the hell does she come up with these ridiculous figures? But I gotta tell ya, the thing that killed it for me, the thing that made me want to kick every last one of those horse teeth right out of her mouth, was when she said, “I wanted to create recipes that come from MY kitchen, that MY family has enjoyed,” then turns around and tells us, “ALL of these recipes you can find on Walmart.com/holidaymeals. I’ve done all the work for you; you just have to go look at the recipes.” WHAT??? The sheer audacity is just staggering. What’s worse? People are buyin’ it! I swear, I’m about to completely lose my faith in humanity.
Great stuff. I like that she uses cookwear we could never afford if we were stuck on spending only ten dollars for dinner. And is she working in a kitchen or a WAREHOUSE?!?! Honestly, The Price is Right set is smaller than her kitchen!!
Sorry, I gotta vent just a little more. Finally caught an episode this morning. Tuna and bread salad, carrot orange soup, and sauteed bananas. Kid friendly recipes, my ass! And the closest she got to breaking down the alleged $10 price tag was “this dish cost $2.50, this cost less than $5…”
Seriously, I just want to kick her in the dick. I know, she’s a woman. But they way everyone’s blowing her on facebook, I can only assume she has one.