They say if you can't stand the heat, you should get out of the kitchen.
Of course, that's a lot easier to do when your career doesn't require you to actually
cook.
A lot of chefs have found that being in the kitchen can not only get hot, but that it
can also lead to some pretty heated situations with their colleagues.
So you can imagine that a network devoted to food and cooking has probably been host
to some pretty big spats.
Here are some of the biggest rivalries the Food Network has ever seen.
Before his world was rocked by scandal, Mario
Batali was a beloved chef - but Guy Fieri has never been a fan, and those feelings go
both ways.
The two regularly exchange barbs, and there's no doubt that their feuding ways go over well
with fans.
In 2010, before the Asphalt Chef competition where Batali was set to square off against
Fieri and Tim Love, Batali's snark delighted people following the competition.
He said: "There's me, Mario Batali, delicious food,
Jimmie Johnson, car #48, four-time world champion NASCAR driver.
And there's, uh, Guy Fieri and one of those Busch guys.
Who do you think's gonna win?"
British chef Nigella Lawson is a beloved icon
- so beloved, in fact, that it's hard to imagine anyone having beef with her.
Fellow British celeb chef Jamie Oliver, however, seems to have it in for Lawson.
Oliver opened his first restaurant, Fifteen, in London in 2002 and couldn't resist gloating
at the opening about his success across the pond.
He bragged: "The reality is I'm a lot more established
than Nigella in America."
A rep claimed that there was no bad blood between the two and that they were friends,
but rubbing your success in someone else's face is far from friendly.
Since the days when Marco Pierre White was
his mentor, Gordon Ramsay has hated him.
While working for the older chef, Ramsay was pushed so hard by White that he burst into
tears on at least one occasion.
"No, I didn't make Gordon Ramsay cry.
He made himself cry.
That was his choice to cry."
Years later, the two found themselves at the same restaurant.
White asked the owner to remove Ramsay from the premises, saying he couldn't be in the
same building as his enemy.
White wrote in his autobiography: "Gordon came into the garden and said, 'Thank
you very much Marco for ruining a nice day.'
I said, 'Why don't you sue me for loss of enjoyment?'
He came back with, 'You fat bastard.
I've always wanted to call you that.'"
Ramsay also allegedly showed up to White's wedding with a film crew and aired the footage
without permission, which solidified the rift between the two chefs.
White told The Telegraph: "I will never speak to him again.
I gave him his first break in the business and I believe strongly in being loyal to people
who have helped you."
Once upon a time, Man vs. Food host Adam Richman
had a lot of respect for Food Network star Alton Brown.
That is, until Brown decided to lambaste the star in an interview with Zap2It.
Brown said: "That show is about gluttony, and gluttony
is wrong.
It's wasteful.
Think about people that are starving to death and think about that show.
I think it's an embarrassment."
Richman responded to Brown's attack of his show, tweeting:
"Alton Brown: MvF is about indulgence-NOT gluttony-& has brought loads of biz to Mom-n-Pop
places.
You were my hero, sir.
No more."
Japanese chef Masaharu Morimoto expressed
his contempt for Bobby Flay after competing against him on Iron Chef.
It looked like an ordinary Iron Chef showdown until, toward the end of the episode, Flay
announced himself the clear winner and jumped onto his cutting board celebrating his victory.
This would have been bad enough had Flay actually been announced the winner, but the victory
ended up going to Morimoto.
Morimoto was incensed at how his rival treated the tools of his trade.
"By the way, he is not a chef.
You know, after finishing, he stood up on the cutting board.
That's not right.
Cutting boards and knives are sacred to us."
After Tyler Florence appeared on an episode
of Ryan Seacrest's reality show Momma's Boys, Andrew Zimmern was quick to share his contempt
for Florence in a now-deleted 2009 blog post, writing:
"Monday's episode featured the world's least talented TV chef, Tyler Florence, once again
churning out the questionable cooking advice [...] Watching Florence wolf down the food,
stare and ogle every a-- that strolled by his cutting board and play the role of local
TV stud was high comedy of the highest order."
Florence shot back on social media: "Normally I have pretty thick skin.
But this guy Andrew Zimmern [...] I guess it's hard to have a sense of humor when you're
on your 10th take of eating Yak testicles, smiling to the camera, wondering where your
life went wrong."
Forget Wagyu - this here's the best beef in town.
"I can't rope worth a damn, but I can cook a mean set of balls."