In a recent Reddit AMA, celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay explained why Bobby Flay hasn’t agreed to a cook-off yet.
I would love it to happen. I’m pissed that it hasn’t, and I’ve offered him a head start, I’ve offered to pay for his flight, I’ve offered to send a plane for him…here’s the thing. Chefs need competition, and I think that’s healthy. We both work for Caesar’s; Caesar’s put it on this table for this year to celebrate their 50th birthday for him and I to have a live cook-off, and Bobby lost his balls. It literally castrated him.
I will be the first one to make sure that we go head to head in a live cook-off. How exciting would that be?! Come on!
There’s a lot of chefs in America that I respect. I get a hard time from all those chefs, but I respect them immensely. So, it’s no different than two basketball teams playing against each other. It’s no different between America and Great Britain playing against each other in soccer. Have a bit of fun with it! It was going to charity, and don’t get so stressed out! Come on!
In true Gordon Ramsay fashion, he both praises and ridicules. But come on! Cook him off already, Bobby!
Some other gems of the AMA include a bit where a Redditor asks Ramsay if his non-adventurous girlfriend is crazy for not wanting to eat maggot cheese.
So, casu marzu is a very strong cheese. If she’s not a very adventurous eater, I don’t think she’s going to be too keen having maggots in her mouth. But, I don’t want to just talk about your willy.
Ramsay also throws some shade on the dumb foam trend.
I think foam should be used for shaving, not go on top of food. Because when a foam hits a plate, unless you’ve eaten it within 3 or 4 seconds, at the end it looks like sort of toxic scum on a stagnant pool. So I started with foams in the 90s, and I’m still amazed that they’re around now. So we need to get rid of the foam, and keep foam for shaving.
He even provided a follow up to an anecdote in which he wound up offering a prisoner a job for beating him in an onion-chopping contest.
So going into the prisons and working with offenders that regret what they’ve done, I’m a firm believer that everyone deserves a second chance. So, I did offer him a job. Secondly, he reoffended within days of coming out. And that’s the issue for me and prisons, and that’s why I went in and set up a documentary called Bad Boy Bakery, where we created a bakery on the inside to sell on the outside. Because, these offenders need to come back out into society better equipped, more suitable, more confident, and perhaps even higher skilled than when they went in there in the first place.
Read the whole AMA here, and learn about what Ramsay would want for his last meal, the perfect scrambled eggs and classy meals for broke young people.
