I love all kinds of food: Chinese, Italian, Mexican. I'll eat pretty much anything as long as it has flavor. But when it comes to Rachael Ray, she makes me lose my appetite. I used to love watching her, but that was like ten years ago. Now that I'm older I realize the importance of lowering my intake of salt - and sugar for that matter - which has caused me to look at her cooking from more of a health conscious perspective. She's been making the same junky mess ever since her show premiered in 2006! That's insane. You would think with diabetes and high blood pressure being so prevalent in US society, she would start cooking better. Based on how much the audience claps after she says something (that got old real fast, by the way), there's a lot of people who look to her as a guide for what they should eat/cook. She could help them improve their physical well-being by showing them how to make healthy meals. If she doesn't change her recipes then her show might as well be canceled, because her food looks disgusting and juvenile. I watched her make these nasty chicken burgers. She actually used both American and blue cheese. Why do you need two types of cheese on the same burger? She just sloppily put all of it together. I don't know why this comes on at 10am. I'm not that hungry when I get up on some mornings, so if I see gross looking food on television, I'll start feeling kind of sick. Once she stops cooking, the rest of the episode contains segments with people who are experts in different areas. They take the audience member's questions based on various problems they're having - for example, they'll ask how to budget their money, what to buy and what not to buy at big box stores, etc. Like most other talk programs, it's best to use as background noise. After I finished my breakfast, I got dressed, troubleshooted an issue I was having with downloading music to my phone, and did a few other things, all with this show on my TV. Her unhealthy recipes have started to wear out their welcome. I gave three stars because she's nice... At least I guess she is. I've never seen her talk over the guests or boss her husband around, as other reviewers stated. Then again, I don't watch this enough to observe how she interacts with people. Although, it is obvious she has the upper hand in her marriage. She's boisterous and her husband is soft spoken. He seems like a cool guy. As an introvert who's been excluded in social environments because I'm not loud or flamboyant, it amazes me how people like that can stand to be married to someone who has to be the center of attention everywhere they go. I hope this is the year her show ends. She needs to be replaced with a cook who makes fresh and presentable dishes.
