Most celebrity chefs can't stand at least one food that they have to use in their recipes.
Despite hating ingredients like bananas, eggs, and coconut, sometimes these culinary experts
have to put on a smile and show off these foods to their fans.
Here are some celeb chefs who refuse to eat what they cook.
There are a few foods Martha Stewart has been vocal about disliking, including the ever
popular grilled chicken breast.
She told Today that it's not her style, saying,
"I would never have a salad with grilled chicken at my house."
You can't exactly be a lifestyle guru without showing your fans how to make grilled chicken
salads, though, and she has more than a few versions on her site.
Chicken isn't the only ingredient that Stewart dislikes.
According to Today, she called truffle oil "a hideous thing."
Despite her hatred, Stewart features a roasted mushrooms recipe with truffle oil on her weddings
website, and she once made herb and truffle oil popcorn on her show — but she didn't
even try any at the end.
It's rumored that Food Network star Giada De Laurentiis doesn't actually eat anything
she cooks.
According to Page Six, the celebrity chef allegedly keeps her thin appearance by spitting
food out into a dump bucket after filming.
Her rep denies the rumor, but there are a few ingredients she can't stand.
She told People,
"No green peppers will ever be found in any of my recipes."
That might be true, but it's not the case for her second most hated ingredient: coconut.
"For the record, I was never a big coconut fan.
Ever.
My whole life."
But she has made a few coconut recipes over the years, including a chocolate coconut cake,
a Thai-style curry made with coconut milk, and a weird one for Halloween called coconut
bones.
Many airlines have partnered with first-class chefs to step up their in-flight offerings,
but one of their culinary consultants refuses to eat the food he designed.
In an interview with Refinery29, celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay admitted,
"There's no f---ing way I eat on planes.
I worked for airlines for 10 years, so I know where this food's been and where it goes,
and how long it took before it got on board."
His claim that airplane food is questionable actually carries weight.
In an interview with Fortune, one former LSG Sky Chefs planning manager admitted that most
food is brought in frozen.
Once you account for the storage and thawing time, the food might be two or three days
old before it hits your fold-down seat table.
Ramsay might have consulted with Singapore Airlines for a decade to improve the food,
but that doesn't mean he's going to eat it.
It's been well-documented that celebrity chef Guy Fieri hates eggs.
It's almost hard to watch the episode of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives where Andrew Zimmern tries
to make him eat a pizza with sunny-side-up eggs.
"If that isn't heaven, I don't know what is… we definitely celebrate different gods."
He's not quite so disgusted when he shares his recipe for Loco Moco on Guy's Big Bite.
Still, it's doubtful this is the recipe he actually makes at home.
He plates the Loco Moco, complete with two sunny-side-up eggs, but when he digs into
the dish, you never see him break the yolks, and he never touches a bite with egg.
You'll also find quite a few egg items on his restaurant menus.
One of the smokehouse specialties at Guy Fieri's Smokehouse Louisville includes a sunny-side-topped
grilled bone-in ribeye, and there are a whole lotta eggy breakfasts at Guy's Sammitch Joint.
The Pioneer Woman is her known for her open, honest, down-to-earth demeanor.
She doesn't hold back, including when it comes to her least favorite food — bananas.
In an interview with Today, she confessed that she won't go near, quote, "anything involving
bananas," but that doesn't mean she won't cook them for her fans.
As of July 2019, there are two banana recipes written by Drummond on The Pioneer Woman website:
her mother's banana bread and a hilarious recipe for bananas Foster.
In true Pioneer Woman style, Drummond peppers her hatred for the fruit into every possible
moment of the recipe.
At one point, she advises readers to cut the banana inside the peel so you don't have to
touch it with your hands, saying,
"The evil might melt your fingertips!"
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