FoodNetwork

When will people on TV and Hollywood get over themselves and realize that when they act like idiots that they will lose about half of their audience? In other words, your audience does not care what you may think about anything going on in the world except for things that directly affect food or cooking. We do not watch to get your opinion on anything else least of which is politics.

Each person's politics are their own business and they should never be talked down to or assume that we want or need your opinion. To assume that any host is smarter or more informed than the average person is totally ludicrous.

Specifically, now, I am absolutely outraged over the tweet that John(?) Henson sent regarding Barron Trump. So disgusting a tweet, and reprehensible. This is a prime example of the cultural problem that we are currently dealing with. Total lack of respect by most people on tv for people who think differently and have different beliefs and morals. I. E.-if you don't like or agree with someone, then they are evil corrupt slime, and deplorable. They think that we have to be told what to think.

Bottom line, I will have to rethink if I will be watching Food Network in the future, as I have to respect the people on any program that I am watching.

Hopefully, you understand the impact of your decisions.

Nancy McCay

I have watched and loved the food network for many years and at the beginning it was so very entertaining and packed with good recipes and chefs. Now it is packed with (sorry), but dumb cooking challenges. I enjoyed watching the chefs, not all of these challenge shows. I will admit I have completely loved these unscripted imperfect home cooking episodes. I was actually laughing at Pioneer Woman today as she burned a spoon. It was so much more realistic to actual home cooking where everything does not go perfect and it gets a bit messy. There is not a lot of yelling over one another to be heard or garner attention. I hope that you never go back to staged cooking shows again and that you will put either new up and coming chefs, or bring back some of the older ones that use to be on. I also use to love watching Guy now I am really tired of seeing him on all these really bad shows trying to be the main focus. Ps. Yes Giada we know that you have a chest. Bring back the class and drop the sass.

Who wants to watch a ganged-up program of ANYTHING with multiple hours on end episodes of a single program? I absolutely understand diversity in taste, but four hours straight of Trish, Pioneer Woman, Chopped, Cake bakeoffs and other competitions..... and on and on.... is NOT entertainment. And, for those of us who are actually foodie cooks, where is Ina and other true chefs and who instruct on recipes, technique and lifestyle? SO BORED !!!

THE FOOD NETWORK GOT HUGE LARGELY BECAUSE OF SO MANY REGULARLY WATCHING... REGULARLY WORKING PEOPLE WATCHING THE CHANNEL AND BEING SUPPORTIVE WITH GREAT RATINGS... MY WIFE AND I DON'T HAVE TONS OF MONEY, BUT WE'VE WATCHED THE FOOD NETWORK FOR YEARS... WE'VE TAKEN WATCHING THEM OVER WATCHING MOST MOVIES. I'M NOT SURE IF ANYONE ELSE WOULD AGREE WITH MY WIFE AND I, BUT WHEN DISNEY BOUGHT THE NETWORK IT FELT LIKE A HUGE SLAP IN THE FACE.IT SEEMS LIKE A BUNCH OF CORPORATE B. S. IN TODAY'S TROUBLED TIMES... WITH EVERYTHING ELSE GOING WRONG IN THE WORLD, WATCHING THE FOOD NETWORK WAS A SANCTUARY FOR A LOT OF PEOPLE. NOW... TO NOT BE ABLE TO WATCH IT REGULARLY REALLY SHOWS ME HOW of LITTLE IMPORTANCE THE REGULAR VIEWERS WERE. MAYBE I'M BEING OVERSENSITIVE... BUT EVEN WHEN I WAS IN ASIA, ACROSS THE BIG PUDDLE ON A VACAY... WE WATCHED THE FOOD NETWORK EVERY NIGHT. IT'S LEFT US WITH A BITTER TASTE. I'D PLANNED ON TAKING MY WIFE TO DISNEY WORLD... THAT'S NOT HAPPENING NOW. IT'S A BUNCH OF B. S..

I love to watch the shows but BBQ Brawl's host is so Gay he makes me turn off the program. I am not anti Gay, but this guy is totally distracting and makes me sick. Too bad for your sponsors.

I love your show... BUT WILL QUIT watching because of fatty pig overcompensated pig sunny anderson. She's loud so people look at her yuck. Eats like a pig only out for herself if I hear one more time ya know what I mean,,, saying? Eats like a pig and acts like ya pig who no one taught her manners! I record the show so I can get rid of the queen pig... and who ever does her wigs is hilarious she looks even worse ya know what IM SAYING? GET RID OF SUNNY ANDERSON
Let me be on your show I'll get rid of the dumb $#*!

I have a love/hate relationship with the the Kitchen. There are so many great take aways with every episode, so I watch it, but every time Jeff Mauro acts like a 12 year old boy and talks over the person doing a demo, I want to grab him by the ear and whisper "Stop it! Stop it NOW!" You can tell the rest of the cast tolerates him like the weird Uncle on Thanksgiving. I do like Sunny a lot, but she falls into repetitive descriptors like "Curb Appeal" which she literally used 6 times in one show to describe plating. I got annoyed. I do wish I could change my hair that often, though! Katie probably has the least professional culinary experience but is good on camera and isnt annoying. Geoffrey is the most acclaimed and experienced of all of them, but he mostly does cocktails and has an invisible bubble over his head that reads "I can't stand this and I am focusing on not exploding over canned cream soup and refrigersted biscuits, but it's great money and only takes a few hours a week so if I don't stab someone this will pay for my kids private school tuition"

Food Network has really gone down the tubes. Don't get me wrong, I do watch some DDD but playing it for hours every day gets boring.
What's with all the competition shows? The only competition I loved was Iron Chef America. Halloween Wars is fun because it can only be done during October.
I miss "Good Eats", "30 Minute Meals" "Paula Deen", " The Pioneer Woman".
The Kitchen is good except for all the screaming. I like Sunny but she is so loud that when she starts, I mute it. Katie sometimes gets on my nerves but not much. Jeff can be loud and act like a kid too much. And, stop talking over people.
It also looks like Geoffrey Z is gritting his teeth and trying to tolerate it all.
GGG, Chopped, anything thing with kids or TV stars needs to go. You need to remove about 85% of your shows and replace them with cooks or chefs that have a passion for their craft that you can see that spark in their eyes when they cook.
Why do you still do "The Next Food Network Star"? The winners hardly ever have staying power.
I want cooking and good stories behind it. I don't need special effects and fancy lights. Just good, honest cooking.
Why get rid of Paula Deen? No one's perfect. But, Nancy Fuller is no Paula Deen and I feel that you're trying to convince us that she is the next Paula. She's not.
I used to have FN on my favorite channel list and had many shows on my DVR. No longer.
You're losing your fans. You better listen to them. Without all of us, you're going to go under.
FN, overhaul your channel.
We are hungry for something real.

Unfortunately the Food Network has been overrun by endless competitions.
Others feature businesses that serve over 100 people at a time. So the "recipes" are useless to most of us since they prepare food in huge vats.
Others, like "Chopped" feature ingredients that nobody in their right mind would use - or even be able to find - such as alligator, dried ants, or even rats. Who needs this?
In addition - many of the "hosts" of these shows are literally paid millions of dollars per annum to present us with hapless souls running around a supermarket looking for ingredients that begin with a certain letter of the alphabet. Ridiculous. And if they win, they have to run around the aisles looking for obscure products in order to secure their prize money. Dreadful.
One of the competitions features children - and the losers don't even get a lollipop as a prize. Just told they lost - and goodbye. One child burst out in tears. Who needs that?
And in the "Chopped" show - the winner gets $10,000, the other three contestants get a hearty handshake if anything. Are they that cheap that they can't give each of the contestants, say, $1000? The judges mostly have net worth of millions of dollars.
We need more shows which feature individual chefs or cooks making delicious recipes using ingredients that are accessible. The other stuff is unwatchable.