Product Description

This special double box set with 6 discs and 17 unmissable episodes will make sure you get your fix of world famous chef and multi-Michelin star holder Gordon Ramsay s high octane food show. This BAFTA award nominated series is more than a cookery show. It s more than a talk show. It s more than a reality show. It s The F Word:  an all in, no holds barred, cookery-celebrity-talk-reality roller coaster of a ride. And it s not for the faint hearted!   Including hilarious interviews with stars including Jonathan Ross, Sharon Osbourne, Joan Collins, Kathy Burke and Jeremy Clarkson to name but a few. Intersperse these with stunning mouth watering food including recipes from bestselling book Sunday Lunch and wannabe chefs battling it out in the kitchen and you have the recipe for success. Gordon Ramsay. Fantastic food. Top celebrities. Great entertainment. DONE!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #7835 in DVD
• Released on: 2007-10-22
• Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
• Formats: Box set, PAL
• Number of discs: 6
• Running time: 785 minutes

Synopsis
All the drama of a full working kitchen in a glamorous and bustling restaurant, combined with hilarious interviews from dining stars such as Jonathan Ross, Sharon Osbourne, Joan Collins, Kathy Burke and Jeremy Clarkson to name but a few. Gordon offers up great tips and recipes along the way, as up and coming cooks and chefs from around the UK fight to create a menu worthy of the man himself. Contains the complete first and second series of the BAFTA award winning show.

Customer Reviews

Not bad content but flawed encoding
I found these series to be fairly reasonable contentwise. The cooking related content was very good with the animal raising being particularly illuminating but the celebrity content seemed rather superfluous. That said, perhaps celebrity content would be more relevent to UK residents (I'm from downunder).

The absolute worst aspect (literally) of these DVDs is that they are incorrectly coded as being 16:9 when the main content is actually 4:3. This means that you need to manually switch aspect ratios on your display each time you watch them unless you like Gordon being 20 stone - if you cannot force the aspect ratio on your display, then you're stuck with fat Gordon. The packing misleading states that the content is 16:9 which it technically is due to the encoding flags but it is verging on false advertising.

I can understand the bleeping out of the swearing since this show would have aired at family TV hours and reencoding the audio may have been prohibitively expensive. More annoying for me are the commercial break trailers as these would have been easy to edit out.

Could have been great if...
As mentioned by others, the bleeping over Ramsay's foul mouth is absolutely ridiculous. OK for pre-watershed TV, but makes no sense for a DVD version. On top of that, it is missing Cliff Richard's episode (the one where he gives a low rating to his own brand of wine), and Amazon makes no mentioning of that...

Superb, but a couple of points to be aware of
I used to hate Ramsay - I though him foul mouthed, ill mannered. However, watching his kitchen nightmares turned me round - he knows his business, he's at the top of his game for a reason and he is who he is.
The F Word is a good mix of discsussion around food provenance, good cooking, humour and instruction; season two showcasing the assertion of Ramsay that his dishes can be cooked by anyone.
Two points to mention for prospective purchasers; 1; these disks, for some reason, cannot be played on a mac using the standard DVD player, I don't know why, but using VLC is a viable alternative (perhaps some dodgy anti-copy software?)
and 2: season 2, episode 2 is missing due to "clearance issues" - now it doesn't say what, but given that this was the episode where Cliff Richard admitted that his wine was rather unpleasant (at least compared to a nice vintage) you've got to guess that the Bachelor boy said "no"- That's pretty poor really - how do you spell "t-o-r-r-e-n-t"?

That said, a good buy, no frills - but that's a reasonable review of Ramsay himself.