Chances are most people who love food have watched celebrity cooks create masterpieces Food Network in some cases. They can be seasoned cooks, novice bakers, or simply casual cooks aiming to feed themselves on easy foods. Whatever their cooking goals, it is all the time great to get cooking inspiration from the pros Food Network.
If you are familiar with Food Network stars like Ina Garten, Ree Drummond, and Rachael Ray, you might also have an interest in their breakdown of recipes. Empire Today recently analyzed tons of recipes online – and a ton, we mean over 1,300 recipes – to see the most common ingredients, methods, and directions. To learn more about some of your celebrity cooks, keep reading.
Ina Garten, which is also known as The Barefoot Contessa, has the biggest list of recipes Food Network website. Of her 221 recipes, it is no surprise that the most common ingredients used are salt and pepper; and that is true of most other celebrity cooks too. But besides salt and pepper, the third most used ingredient is olive oil. If you’re a fan of Ina Garten, you possibly know that she often asks for “good olive oil”. Which is, it is hard to say, but it might be good to follow the recommendation.
Besides the numerous salt and pepper lovers, there are some celebrity cooks whose ingredients are used the most. Trisha Yearwood is very keen on butter, as virtually 6% of her 70 recipes use butter. The ingredient that Sandra Lee uses the most is the nice onion, which never fails to add flavor to any recipe.
In addition to the most usually used ingredients, the analysis also found the most common recipe categories for each celebrity chef. Giada De Laurentiis, who was initially born in Rome, Italy, half of her recipes are registered as Italian. Chefs like Alton Brown, Katie Lee, Jeff Mauro, and Melissa Darabian are all gluten-free making the majority of their recipes posted online. Other categories include vegetable dishes, easy dishes, desserts and more.
When it comes to quality and the actual excitement surrounding celebrity chef recipes, the analysis does not fail. Nancy Fuller has the highest average rating for her recipes with a perfect five stars. Other cooks who have a high average rating include Jamie Deen (4.99), Katie Lee (4.94), Alton Brown (4.91) and Ree Drummond (4.87). The chef with the lowest user rating on average is Robert Irvine, whose recipe reviews garnered only 3.74 stars out of 5.
While not the highest-rated celebrity chef in terms of average ratings, Ina Garten has the most reviews with over 40,200 reviews for her recipes. Giada De Laurentiis has the second highest number of reviews — however, its 23,351 reviews pale compared to Ina Garten’s.
If you have an interest in seeing further analysis, you can find it via the link mentioned above. Other insights they found about celebrity cooks include the most popular types of meat used, the most common terms, and random statistics like total cooking time, average temperature, and more.
