The Worst Recipes by Celebrity Chefs
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Celebrity chefs. You see them on your tv. Their recipes flood your various social channels. And their smiling faces grace the covers of glossy magazines in your local grocery store checkout line. Their recipes typically are anywhere from creatively simple to technical and gourmet. However, sometimes they just plain miss the ball. Here are some of the worst recipes from the highest paid chefs.
1. Pioneer Woman’s Egg-in-a-Hole
Every food blogger wants to be the Pioneer Woman, Ree Drummond. Her humble beginnings led to a food empire and her successful blog snagged her a popular television show. However, she is scooping up ad revenue from this recipe that even her humble beginnings would laugh at: egg in toast. It’s literally an egg, in a slice of toast. Thank goodness she mentions you can use salt and pepper, otherwise this blah recipe would be truly bland.
2. Paula Deen’s English Peas
Can you guess that one of the two ingredients in this no duh recipe is butter? It is Paula Deen, after all. But you’d think that she’d at least instruct you on how to cook fresh peas—nope. Canned peas (not even frozen??) plus butter equals this mundane recipe.
3. Rachel Ray’s Microwaved Bacon
How does one microwave bacon It’s certainly a useful skill, but then you realize that Rachel Ray was probably paid more than you make in a week to post a recipe that tells you to lay some bacon on some paper towels and push some buttons.