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30 minutes meals is a very good cooking show with one of the most popular hosts on the Food Network(Rachael Ray). She shows you that a good meal can be made very quickly and it's better than eating out at a fast food restaurant. She has very good tips that she adds in there and she crosses many kinds of food types. Most of the dishes look good to eat she uses food that you might not of heard of. I don't know if she really does it for only 30 minutes or if she cheats any time she looks kinda rushed sometimes so some dishes might take more than 30 minutes for the average cook. The only I don't like about the show is that Rachael gets corny every once in a while. Everything is perfect for her and she has the perfect family and the perfect childhood. I get very mad and sometimes I want to change the channel, but corniness aside shes a very good cook and it's a show worth watching.

Rachael Ray makes some decent meals for the amount of money spent. However, she is a very annoying. Her vocabulary is loaded with unusual abbreviations and her own slang. She uses words like "fryolator" , "EVOO" , "sjhuzzjh" , "yum-O" , "delish", and whatever else she can make up. And she uses these strange words much too often. Rachael's choice of clothing could be a lot better also.

A positive point for Rachael is that she can make some good meals quickly.

This show would be good for those who don't want to spend a lot of time or money cooking, and who can tolerate her quirky behavior.

I love this show. Racheal Ray is so creative with all the names she makes up for her recipes. She is funny and keeps me entertained when i watch it everyday. She also makes u believe that this show isn't scripted because she makes a lot of mistakes and she just keeps going and laughs about it, another thing is shes a lot like me, except I'm just a kid. Shes klutzy and she doesn't like to measure anything at all. And she has a lot of fun when shes cooking and enjoys it rather than people who just want to get it over with. Like, okay this, and this, can this get any slower,she gets it done in 30 minutes or less of course. Its an awesome show.

I watched this cooking show for a few times before I wanted to pull my hair out. Just one question.....Who CAN'T cook a slapped together plain meal in 30 minutes when everything you need is at hand, already bagged, sometimes pre-chopped and you have very little else to do except chop a few greens. Also, almost every cooking show on TV is 30 minutes and most of these chefs do all of their prep work (except for Sandra Lee), during their show. Oh and yep....they do full meals too.

Love the comment by the guy who hated the "EVOO" comment. Add "DE-LISH" to my list of stupid tag words.

Then you have the obvious....a Loud, gregarious woman who is truly her own best audience. She laughs at her own lame comments, mugs too many times for the camera because she wants to convince us that she's as good as the thinks.

NO she ain't "the cutest thing." She's a 40-something year old woman who isn't DE-LISH.

What happened to Rachel? First of all her constant yammering is annoying. I don't find her cute as SHE thinks she is. She seems angry and the constant complaint that her oven is too high and she is too short is ridiculous. We get it your short what do you want a metal? The throwing of ingredients and slamming of jars and canning is crazy. She has gotten to be an old angry woman. Cancel this show.

I have no doubt that Rachael Ray is a fine cook, but she's just too damned perky. I can't stand watching that ever cheery mug grinning like a maniac at the camera. If I flip the channel and unexpectedly see her face, I'm put off my feed for a week, which is exactly the opposite of what the food network is supposed to do, isn't it? I honestly don't see her appeal. Not to mention the fact that I don't have anyone to keep my fridge stocked with just the perfect ingredients and fresh herbs that she seems to chop and use constantly.

Again, I'm sure she's a wonderful cook, and might be just fine in private, but her public persona annoys the expletive deleted out of me.

You know, I say to my wife, Rachael Ray is like every guy's dream college girlfriend (although I'm sure she's passed that particular age by now). The misses says she doesn't get it. Terminally dead cute and always perky, Rachael would probably watch football and share a brew, then head off to the kitchen and make you and your 8 friends some cheap, killer grub. This is the only cooking show I've ever been able to watch. Rachael really is the cutest thing on TV, in looks and personality, with the food stuff as just a bonus. I've actually downloaded some of her recipes and made them, my personal favorites being her steak sandwiches and her spicy chili. Great show.

I love Rachael Ray, the host of "30 Minute Meals". If Emeril is the John Wayne of the Food Network, then Rachael Ray is June Allyson: pretty, vivacious, and funny. She once apologized to a head of cauliflower because it was a neglected vegetable. The concept of "30 Minute Meals" is simple. In this age of take out food and microwave dinners, it is still possible to prepare healthy and delicious meals in 30 minutes or less with ingredients that are commonly available. Rachael cooks her meals in real time. And that's where the fun comes in. First, you have to understand Rachael almost never measures her ingredients. In fact, one of her recipes calls for a couple of glugs of wine. Second, every trip to the pantry is an adventure. She tries to carry everything in one trip, so the short journey from pantry to workstation becomes a combination weight lifting contest and circus balancing act. But the best part is the food itself. The recipes are really good and the themes are imaginative - from making your own "take out" at home to taking culinary vacations to foreign countries. Rachael is obviously having fun on her show (she says it allows her to play with her food) and the viewer will enjoy it, too. Simply put, "30 Minute Meals" is educational and fun.

A long time ago when I got my satellite dish, Food Network Canada was one of the more popular channels I would watch and 30 Minute Meals was one of the shows I would watch. Host Rachael Ray cooks up some very good meals with all sorts of themes and she indeed has them ready by the end of the show. Many of her meals are quite good and she was at one point fun to watch...

However, as a Canadian, we have access to programs from all over the world. While Food Network U.S.A. has mostly American programming, the Canadian version has programs from Canada, the U.K., Australia, Japan (Iron Chef) and the U.S. I seem more comfortable watching the cooks who don't rely on over-the-top theatrics or glib personalities (and many of them aren't the Americans). My problem with Ray is that she seems to have some phony mask on; as if she is trying to sell us that her personality is the real deal. However, the fact that a 37 year-old woman thinks that acting 20 years younger on T.V. is cool to everybody isn't the case. The novelty has worn off and now it is painful to see her act like a Valley Girl. It kind of reminds me of Tiny Toons' Babs Bunny, who needed to be a poser to stand out among the otherwise cooler characters at the Looniversity.

Still, the show is pretty good and if you can stand dealing with her mannerisms, giggles, and saccharine personality you'll pick up some good recipes. Otherwise, Ina Garten, Giada DeLaurentis, Mario Batali, or even Emeril (who is genuine in my book) are better and if you live in Canada there are even more good choices. If you really need to see Rachael, just watch $40 A Day or her other new travel show. Here, she fits in better.

It was a hot summer Sunday, flipping through the channels, when I came across 30 Minute Meals with Rachael Ray. Never heard of it, nor have I ever watched the Food Network prior to this stumbling on. And I was in for a treat. I enjoyed the dishes she cooked up, and her inviting personality made it almost like she was right there in my kitchen chatting up a storm with me. It's like you are getting an educational cooking show, entertaining talk show, and the feeling of spending some time with your best friend all in one. I highly recommend this show for someone who likes to cook on a minutes notice, and likes light hearted, spunky personalities that has the potential to lift your spirits!