Keith Floyd cooking programmes

[Big Stevie]

Any fans on here?

Always loved watching this guy, and whilst sat aimlessly browsing the net today I came across some of his programmes on BBC cooking Youtube channel, and ended up ordering his 7 series 14 x DVD box set. Also just rewatched the Keith Allen documentary 'Keith meets Keith' which whilst lovely to watch revealed a frail Keith Floyd.

[Nemophilist]

Kieth is the reason I drink too much wine whilst cooking

I love cooking, and in his style, it’s like a kitchen party every time

[dom9]

The chef of my youth - defined cooking for me!

Also the reason I drink too much whilst cooking

[Scabutz]

I love Keith Floyd. A legend.

I think I'm a pretty decent cook and I learned everything from watching Keith Floyd and Gordon Ramsay videos.

I also picked up the penchant for wine that Keith had.

[anonymous-user]

Fantastic gent. Remember the epsiode where he was digging in snow, had to stop for "refreshements" then got cracking again!

[bloomen]

The Keith Allen doc should kill off any affection anyone ever had for him.

The way he addressed his daughter with utter contempt, and I don't care whether he was pissed or not, would've had me chucking him out a window.

[Grumps.]

“Never cook with wine you aren’t willing to drink”

Or something like that!

[nebpor]

I love his programs, plus he introduced Rick Stein to the telly, who is really the person that taught and inspired me to cook

[CRA1G]

I remember with great fun the live cooking series he did where you were told the ingredients you would need to purchase the week prior and then cooked live with him... I Meet him once, still have his signed book. There's many Chefs who looked up to him as being the first TV personality Chef one of his biggest fans is James Martin who actually ownes his old Strawberries&Cream Citroen 2CV...

[boxst]

I loved Keith Floyd, certainly a character. I developed a love of cooking from him.

I also really like The Hairy Bikers, especially when they first started and went to all these 'posh' places, challenged the chef and generally won when the public tasted the dishes.

[Wills2]

I love them, he is the TV chef they are all trying to be, a great atmosphere to his shows, Floyd on France series is great.

[williamp]

Remember his Italy programme where he used an Aston Virage volente- 1991 ish??

Also remember he would show the failings. Salted fish which was terrible, but he still showed it.

[Randy Winkman]

bloomen said:

The Keith Allen doc should kill off any affection anyone ever had for him.

The way he addressed his daughter with utter contempt, and I don't care whether he was pissed or not, would've had me chucking him out a window.

I've just watched that as it was easy to find on-line. He spoke to her in the same rude and bitter way he spoke to everyone in that. Sad and painful to watch. I thought his cooking programmes were a good laugh and would watch them again. But he did have problems.

[surveyor]

We spent the weekend in Bristol, the home of my wife’s youth. We visited a pub she used to work in. One of the regulars was Keith, who was full of talk about his trips (and full of alcohol!)

[oddball1313]

Caught a snippet of him a while back when they play segments of old cookery shows on the Saturday Morning Kitchen. He looked properly ill, his head looked too big for his body as he was i assume under nourished and as usual knocking back rioja at 10:00 in the morning. He looked a right state and not remotely inspiring. I’ve read quite few stories about him over the years and ahole seems to come up more than often.

Edited by oddball1313 on Monday 6th February 15:38

[Dynion Araf Uchaf]

He used to live in the village that I now live in.

General feedback was that he kept the pub in business, and insisted on having his own chair at the bar. Would talk to anyone though, but by about 9pm it was incoherent ramblings.

Lived opposite the church in the village and got somewhat irate about the bell ringing practice.

[thebraketester]

Desperately sad…

[soad]

Well worth watching, along with Michael Palin.

[mikeiow]

bloomen said:

The Keith Allen doc should kill off any affection anyone ever had for him.

The way he addressed his daughter with utter contempt, and I don't care whether he was pissed or not, would've had me chucking him out a window.

I don’t recall seeing that, but do recall seeing somewhere that he was an unpleasant character, and that a good chunk of the food he cooked wasn’t that great at all…..

[Big Stevie]

bloomen said:

The Keith Allen doc should kill off any affection anyone ever had for him.

The way he addressed his daughter with utter contempt, and I don't care whether he was pissed or not, would've had me chucking him out a window.

Not sure if it excuses his behaviour, but wasn't he suffering with bowel cancer at the time of the documentary, but he kept that from Keith Allen and didn't reveal it until later? He was probably on all kinds of meds, but maybe he was just like that anyway?