From amateur cooks to celeb chefs, it turns out that anyone and everyone is susceptible
to a cooking segment gone wrong.
Yes, even the likes of Rachael Ray and Giada De Laurentiis are prone to disaster, just
like the rest of us.
Sam loses his cool
If you're doing a live segment on The Today Show with Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb,
you'd think you would make it a priority not to insult the hosts - unless apparently, you're
Sam Zien.
In this cringeworthy 2008 clip, Kathie Lee and Hoda interrupt while Zien, also known
as "Sam the Cooking Guy," tries to explain his dish.
Visibly frustrated, Zien finally snaps:
"Please, can I talk?
I watch the show everyday, everybody has issues with a lot of chatter back here.
Pay attention one minute."
While he attempts to charge forward with the segment, musing that this is likely his last
visit to the show, the hosts are noticeably frigid.
Awk-ward.
"I can hear the crew back there going, 'This guy, it's his last day here, for sure.'"
"They've been around a long time, because they don't talk to us like that."
Giada fails to impress
Giada De Laurentiis is an old pro when it comes to cooking on TV, but this 2017 segment
on Ellen probably didn't go quite the way she had hoped…
"Why do I even do a cooking segment?!
I don't even know why I bother!"
Joined by actress Nicole Kidman, De Laurentiis attempts to explain how to make her dishes,
but there are a lot of awkward interactions as the three talk over each other …
"Every time she starts to talk you turn to me and tell me something!"
But nothing is as awkward as the honest reactions Kidman and DeGeneres have to the finished
product.
"That sure is good."
"It's a little tough."
Seems like those Academy Award-winning acting skills could have come in handy here, no?
"Nicole, it's been sitting there for like five hours!
I hate doing these things!"
Rachael starts a fire
Back in the days of her edited Food Network shows, Rachael Ray's presentation was always
picture perfect.
But thanks to her live talk show, we get to see the kind of things that may have ended
up on the cutting room floor.
During this segment of The Rachael Ray Show from 2015, we watch Ray grab a tray out of
the oven, her back to the stove, and as she walks back towards it, she notices something
is wrong.
"Um, note to self, don't put your kitchen towel too close to the stove."
As the audience gasps, Ray casually extinguishes the towel in the sink, making us think this
probably isn't the first time this well-seasoned vet has had to put out a fire.
"And I set the kitchen on fire!"
Epic dip fail
Most of the time, a food fail on live TV is an unexpected event - but in this 2016 clip,
one Canadian morning show host brought her "home-kitchen nightmare" to the set, and forced
her colleagues to have a bite.
Leslie Horton of Global News knows her artichoke dip is all wrong, but doesn't seem to understand
why.
Her co-hosts are unflinching in their appraisal ...
"How does it smell, Scott?"
"It's like vinegar or something."
"So, I thought it smelled like a barn."
Horton ignores the "barn" comment, and swears there's no vinegar in the recipe.
So what went wrong?
"I didn't have a lemon, so I just cut up an orange and put that in there.
And then I didn't know what spices to put in, so I put celery salt and oregano in it."
Well, that explains it!
"Oh my gosh."
"I can't swallow it."
Giada fails to impress, part 2
"Last time you were here we had a few hiccups.
It was Nicole Kidman's fault."
For her follow-up Ellen episode in Spring 2018, De Laurentiis tells DeGeneres they're
beginning with cocktails in the hopes that - if she's drunk enough - Ellen won't care
what the food tastes like.
As the comedian indulges in her drink, Giada is totally distracted by her antics and ends
up putting way too much salt in her guacamole …
"Well it was stuck!
I was like, 'Is this real?'"
"Oh boy."
"Oh God."
"I think that's gonna be a little salty."
And that's before accidentally dousing Ellen in lemon juice.
But the real fun begins when the two decide to toss pizza dough to each other, and it
doesn't take long before Ellen's dough ends up on Giada's face.
Anyone else thinking that this might be the last time De Laurentiis does Ellen's show?