What do you think of Jamie Oliver ?

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I don't think about Jamie Oliver

He exists. Honestly, that's as far as my opinion on him goes.
- Have you proved this yet or are you just taking everyone's word for it

Haiyaa..
- YAYUH

hes like chili jam on fried rice

He's smug and preachy.
Pushing for healthier school lunches was fine, but his campaign to shame parents into making healthy food for their kids, without first considering poverty, available time, or other complicating factors is proof that he doesn't care about people actually eating healthy, as much as he is about maintaining his "champion of healthy eating" façade.
- I hate when people bring up the poverty angle, unless it's more about people having to work more hours/multiple jobs and not having time to cook. Healthy whole foods are generally way cheaper than fast food or even junk food from the grocery store, at least in my experience
  
  Not on a "per calorie" basis they aren't. And I'm not really sure by what other metric you can compare them. But look at how many calories of broccoli $3 gets you compared to potato chips. Then you have to add in the time of preparation.
  Additionally, many impoverished people tend to live in "food deserts", areas without grocery stores, but many fast Food locations.
  The deck is definitely stacked against the impoverished.
  
  They most certainly are not. If you're buying unhealthy food only as snacks, you mistake your subset as all unhealthy food.
  If you need calories and are on a shoestring budget, your options are potatos, bad bread, Coles cakes etc. You can eat for a week on a few dollars but you'll become overweight and eventually die of malnutrition. Your options become even more limited if you don't have a working stove due to being cut off your gas.

John Oliver is the better Oliver
- Shit. I literally read John in the OP and was confused by all the comments I was reading. Until I read yours and went: hold on a sec. Scrolled back up, and sure enough OP was about Jamie 😅
- Oliver is a better Oliver than Jamie is.
- John Oliver better know as "Who?"

I love his chicken nuggets video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKwL5G5HbGA
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- The kids at the end immediately ready to eat it once it looks like a nugget again
- Also very relevant Dan Olson video on this https://youtu.be/V-a9VDIbZCU
  
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He's a celebrity first and a chef second, unlike the likes of Gordon Ramsay, who's a chef first and a celebrity second.
He's a bit worthy and his restaurants are a bit shit, but I'm sure his heart is in the right place.

He's the apple shagger that gave Scotland both the Irn Bru ruining sugar tax and got rid of our two for one pizza deals. So no, don't really like him.

I hate how much he hates chicken nuggets. His only argument against them seems to be that they use all the bad dirty bits of the chicken. I'm like "Yeah..if we're going to eat chicken we may as well eat all of them."

It’s a boring answer but I assume you’re looking for a consensus? I don’t know much about him, but I like cooking videos and I’ve enjoyed his content in the past.

It's all very well telling people what to cook. The problem is many don't know how to cook. By that I mean they don't know the logistics and workflow, so a meal that should take 15 minutes to make instead takes an hour or more. When I enter the kitchen the first thing I do is switch on the stove. Then I prep in the order that I need ingredients. I've noticed a lot of people do all the chopping and dicing first and only when they have everything prepared they put pans on the stove. If you're going to make potatoes get the water on the boil first, then get the potatos out and clean and chop them. There are lots of things that save time when cooking. I cook most things together in a single cast iron pan, and I add leftovers to the dishes I'm cooking so the ingredients go further. I think that should be taught more instead of just handing out recipes.
- My house is going to be halfway burnt down by the time I finish chopping vegetables if I turn on the stove first.
- We got a gas stove so the heat is there immediately, very practical.
- I'll remember that just as soon as I work out how my oven works. You can't just turn it on, it asks what mode you want it in, I don't know I wanted on. Hot, I want hot mode.

Haiaaaaaaa, please not Mr. Chili Jam

He stole me turkey twizzlers, so he can fuck right off

Hes a mediocre cook with a lot of luck. Don't get mevwrong, hes not bad. But hes not great either.

Who's Jamie Oliver?

Knew a chef that trained under him for a bit, apparently he's quite a cunt

Fuuyoooh

Hes a poncy, hypocritical cunt that looks down on 98% of society because he thinks hes better than everyone when hes nothing more than some bloviating blowhard that doesnt even live up to what he says others should do.

Not sure who that is, but I love the name Oliver. He must be named after my cat

For me he's a great TV cook in terms of how much positive influence he had with my bubble and me. I don't know if i would be so passionate about home cooking if it wasn't for his work. That being said i wouldn't be on a months-long waiting list to visit his restaurants (dunno if any still exist).