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The camera person needs to spend less time on the host and more time actually filming the food and the cooking/preparing process.

I actually enjoy the show and watch it faithfully each day. I've even tried a few of her recipes. Ree's bright smile and bubbly personality are adorable and a breath of fresh air. She uses a lot more sugar than I do, but it's a fun show to watch. My only comment would be this.....please start making the family wash their hands before diving into the food! E-coli (and other deadly bacteria) is alive and well. They are out fiddling around with cattle, horses and "cow patties" , playing in the field, even cleaning out an old dark shed for a 'man cave' for the kids and Ree shows up with food (some of it, sandwiches held in the hands) and not a sani-wipe in site! They come in off the 'prairie' and go straight for the food without stopping at the sink to wash. And the filthy cowboy hats at the diningroom tables are nauseating! If I spent the afternoon cooking a nice meal the hats would be left in the mudroom and my dinner table would be treated with respect. Just my 2 cents :-) Otherwise, love ya Ree!!!

I like the show and a lot of the recipes are good. Most of them I've always used before her show came along. There's a lot of tried and true recipes that I've gotten from church ladies and cookbooks. So I'm not sure how original her recipes are but still I like to see her take on some changes.

I think the show at home with the kids filming is by far the best one on food network! She could totally throw food network to the curb. She's got a great show.

That being said, sometimes the voice is a little grating. But I enjoy the show and the family.

It seems to me that there is nothing but hatefulness and spite in many of these reviews. Ree never said she, her show or her cooking style was anything other than what it is so why all the bashing? Everyone is entitled to an opinion but if you truly want to be taken seriously then give a serious opinion and why you feel that way without the hatefulness. If she isn't for you and your taste and cooking style then that is fine. What isn't right is that you bash her and her cooking style because it doesn't match yours. Is her cooking many times on the simplistic side? Yes, it is. If you prefer something different then just don't watch. There are plenty of other shows out there that might better meet what you are looking for in a cooking show. As for the ingredients she uses such as processed, sugar, fat, etc., then, again, there are plenty of other shows out there that will offer a more "healthy" style of cooking if that is what you are looking for. I come from a farming family where bacon and eggs were eaten almost every morning and everyone lived to a ripe old age. Processed foods were not incorporated much but the use of sugar and natural fats were. Everyone worked hard and did not have a problem with these things because of it. From all appearances, Ree's family is also one that works and plays hard and I doubt that anyone on here can say with any real knowledge that they are unhealthy. There is enough hatefulness in this world, why add to it?

Love Food Network and she seems like a nice person but this show is awful! Every episode is the same. She makes something like quesadillas, or some other bland novice recipe, and then shows ten minutes of her kids playing football or her boring husband driving cattle. On really exciting shows you get to see her mute father in law grunt and bring nothing to the show. We all have kids that play sports...WHO CARES. Cook something amazing. Show me something special. Do something different.

I genuinely don't understand the negative reviews. Yes granted a lot of recipes have a lot of sugar, meat and / or butter in the early seasons, but there are many later shows (enough to make a full season easily) that are dedicated to light meals and healthy eating including low fat and low sugar/ carbs.

This has been touched on in other reviews, but she is cooking not just for her family of 6, but also many of the ranch hands hence the large quantities. Working on a ranch is hard physical work similar to farming years ago and uses way more calories than sitting at a computer desk all day, so the high calorie food is actually necessary. Also who in her family or on the ranch is overweight let alone obese? No one is the answer! It is worth noting she always watches portion sizes which is just as important as the food itself. I remember thinking on more than one occasion how stingy the portion sizes were for her kids but that's obviously deliberate!

I would even bet there are some people that criticise this show can barely cook for themselves and live off processed food which is virtually guaranteed to shorten their lives. Ree is a creative, genuine cook that wants nothing more than to spread love through her cooking, to friends, family and ranch workers and often times to the wider community. If you want to misinterpret that then go ahead. She ain't changing and moreover she doesn't and shouldn't need to.

For anyone living off processed rubbish and criticising Ree for the "unhealthy" food she feeds her family, then, well, you are a hypocrite.

One of my biggest pet peeves with many Food Network chefs is when they are more concerned about their looks than they are about creating appealing and delicious dishes. Ree is the biggest culprit in not tying her hair back when she cooks. It's vomit-inducing and reeks of vanity. Great she has a following, but I find her to be one of the biggest snoozes on TV. Hardly any personality, and she doesn't make me laugh.

This show and host is so warm and inviting. You get to see first hand her kitchen, ranch and family. Being from Texas and now living in LA, this makes me miss the South and the good cooking. It is great to see such a close knit family that instills work ethics and spending quality time with your family. My mouth waters at just about everything she cooks. It makes me feel like I am right there with Ree Drummond (the host) and have a personal invitation to visit her loving home.

Horrible, syrupy, voice. Unable to get through an entire show. Worse show on Food Network! Why is it still on - and now this host has been given another program. Who thought she could deliver amusing or interesting chat?

I started watching the Pioneer Woman by accident and haven't stopped watching ever since. I found the whole series being as cooking for a Southern American Ranching family for all situations perfect as my antidote to life's stresses especially after a hard day at work and returning to an empty home. Ree comes across as a very warm person, available and motherly always smiling even when cooking multiple meals. Similarly her family, her house any invited persons all come across as affable. I know that this is fairy tale like to the actual circumstances, but hey I buy this, preferring it to some police/violent or scandal driven drama as presented daily on tv. Personally I wouldn't try half the recipes as presented by Ree as these are laden with fats or sugar. I do remember the episode when she was trying to lure back her husband from taking his breakfast, by frying a fatty breakfast and cooking cinnamon buns in loads of butter and sugar. It was so wrong from a healthy point of view but so sweet of her in her intentions. The way she repeatedly voices her concerns and they way she would solve them through her baking makes me feel so soothed. There is something magical about her programmes Ree is actually selling a make believe lifestyle that some of us dream of. I like this gal :)

Please start filming again Food Network!! Can't tolerate watching her show with the kids filming! She acts so silly!! Wastes so much time snd makes so many mistakes. Does not concentrate on the recipe. So annoying!!!!

I discovered this programme while I was channel flicking one day and I have watched ever since. I find the show really relaxing and entertaining. I live in a small house in a medium-sized city in England so her lifestyle couldn't be much more different to mine, it's almost like something out of a movie. I have tried a few of her recipes but I rarely have that much butter... I know it's predominantly a cooking show but I like the ranch and the kitchen and the family more. I also read her book about how she met Ladd which was really sweet!

I have dipped in and out to read some of the Pioneer Woman's blog and found a couple of her recipes enticing and enjoyed the whimsical writing style dotted between her photo breakdowns. As a result, I was keen to see this low-key humour and some insights into southern-ish cooking reflected in her "cooking show". What a let down. Whatever sparkle exists in her writing is devoid, and her presenting style (I don't know if this is scripted: if it isn't, it's time to pay someone) is inane, patronisingly repetitive and utterly uninspiring to anyone interested in learning to cook or broadening their repertoire through the show.

But presenting style isn't everything, and we all know cooking show formats are contrived. What saddens/irks me the most that the food network has given a show to someone who doesn't appear to appreciate food or show skill in preparing it. I like the occasional shortcut recipe (I'd never make my own puff pastry and prefer shop bought hummus to homemade) but this show seems to provide a cavalcade of the sort concoctions the toddler puts together when he is left home alone or students when they first leave home and have no idea what they are doing and ultimately end up eating baked beans out of a tin. Take for example the recently demonstrated dump cake (or excrement cake, if we are translating British idiom_. This cake mixed cherry pie filling (the one ingredient which Nigella, who is open to a shortcut or two, begs viewers not to stoop to) and tinned pineapple, covered in a cake mix and sliced butter. If she wants to follow this route and be "one of the people" Drummond's time might have been better spent demystifying cake mixes into flour and baking powder and showing viewers how easily they can make their own mixes. That might have been slightly resembling of a cooking related topic.

Other recipes included opening "pork n bean" tins and baking them with bacon on top. This 2am drunkenly thrown together student food is about as revolting as I could imagine, even without thinking about the quality of the sausages. The throw into a bunch of butter, stir and occasionally bake method is pretty the much as taxing as it gets from cakes to casseroles. "Great!" I hear folks cry, "We don't have time for anything more difficult". Here's the thing. Eat the way this woman cooks, and you won't need time. You'll be being happily squashed into your own coffin, wondering why it didn't taste better on the way.

Hey, even Ina has the occasional episode where she makes one dish and and shows us how to shop for three others, but they are an anomaly, and a useful tip in combining flavours. She experiments, she highlights freshness and flavour and buying the best your budget allows. Her recipes are both homely and sophisticated. She even likes butter. She does not however, drown every item on the plate in butter, because she knows it would detract from flavour by overkill. Here we have cheese, bacon, beans and butter on an turntable of anagrammatic recipes. Undoubtedly these are tasty ingredients in the hands of an experienced home cook or chef, but no cook worth their salt never ventures outside their comfort zone pyramid of four main recipes. Especially not those with shows on Food Network.

I love cooking shows, and will pretty much sit through any cooking show, or have it on in the background as a source of inspiration and comfort, but for the first time on food network, I have to switch off when I see this starting.

So there you go, toddlers and clueless teens, this one's for you. Foodies, walk on by.

I have watched this show for some time, and unlike the other 7 reviewers here, I LOVE Ree Drummond!

To the other reviewers who have bashed Ree, I offer the following info:

"As of September 2009, Drummond's blog reportedly received 13 million page views per month. On May 9, 2011, the blog's popularity had risen to approximately 23.3 million page views per month and 4.4 million unique visitors. According to an article in The New Yorker, "This is roughly the same number of people who read The Daily Beast". An article in the Toronto Globe and Mail described it as "slick photographed with legions of fans . . . arguably the mother of all farm girl blogs." The blog has been referenced in the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times and Business Week. In 2009 TIME Magazine named Drummond's Confessions of a Pioneer Woman one of the "25 Best Blogs" in the world. Estimates for her site's income suggest she is making a million dollars or more per year from display (advertisement) income alone."

I ask the other reviewers:

1) Do you have a hit show which generates LOTS of money per episode?? The answer would be "No."

2) Is your blog (assuming you have one??) reaching 23.3 MILLION page views per month?? The answer again would be "No."

So I ask again, you 7 other reviewers, how can you be so hateful to a woman who is CLEARLY more prosperous than YOU??

I say, GO REE!!

I am concerned about The blouses Ree wears while cooking over gas flame. Those sleeves would go up in secs. I love her recipes and her personality as she cooks but please be aware of those sleeves. I am an ER nurse and have this happen more than once.

It is really unpleasant to watch. It comes across as superficial and unlikable. I cannot think of anything that makes me desirous of the storyline in this host's show. Just seems pretentious and fake.

Absolutely love The Pioneer Woman, and it makes me sad to see so many horrible reviews. If you don't like the show, don't watch it. If the recipes don't fit into your diet, don't eat them. No reason to slate her/the show at all.

No she's not a chef, she's not Ina Garten, she's a home cook feeding her family. Yeah some of the recipes are indulgent (she has also made healthy things too you know!) but her family are so active and obviously fit and healthy it's all in moderation.

Ree is such a good host, she's more normal and human than most Food tv presenters. Yeah of course some bits are scripted and orchestrated just for the cameras.... it's a frelling tv show, of course there's some fiction!

I love this show, I love the pioneer woman. This is one of the most heart-warming, accessible tv shows out there. Absolutely anyone could make her recipes, and that's good! TV cooking shows are meant to encourage anyone to cook - snobby foodies already have plethora of knowledge and access to recipes/tips etc, this show isn't for you so don't rate it down.

Aside from the ever-so infamous 'Mystery Diners', this show is probably one of the most scripted on the whole Food Network. Sitting through and listening to Ree's voice in this show is a punishment in itself. Her little jokes that she throws in? Nope, I didn't even crack a smile. It just left me staring at the screen, saying to myself, "...Why?!" . When she's on camera with her family, she acts in this way that is almost unsettling, and you can tell by the looks on her family's faces. It's not only Ree's personality and delivering of lines that makes this show so awful, but her recipes aren't the best thing in the whole world. They're decent at best, bland in the middle, and full of sugar and things terrible for you at worst. Hopefully, you'll be smart and wait until an actual quality show comes on. At best, this show is background noise for whatever you're doing.

To reviewers here who brag about Ree's profits: so what?

Phillip Morris is worth billions. That doesn't make the product a good thing.

Her recipes are Junior League cookbook knockoffs, and that has a certain appeal to a swath of America unconcerned with obesity and its effects.

It really is that straightforward.

First of all, let me reiterate that you can't judge "PIONEER Day" cooking by todays nutritional guidelines. It won't stand up to that kind of scrutiny.

Back in those days they ate BUTTER, drank WHOLE Milk (with the CREAMY, too) ate Bacon with extra FAT and a whole lot of Beef, when they could.

If you ate that way today, You wouldn't live past 50, if you were lucky.

Guess what the age expectancy of a human being back in those times were? About 35 for men, 50 or for women. I am not pulling your leg - Look it up.. or GOOGLE it, Now that you can. (There weren't any kind of GOOGLE back in Horse and Buggy days!)

Everyone here who is griping about the abysmal recipes is centering on the very fact that these recipes aren't healthy - Well, THAT is how it was back then. Food TASTE mattered back then as much as HEALTHY Nutrition matters now.

Try some foods reminiscent of those times, like SOUTHERN food. Now, you ask anyone down south and they likely still eat unhealthy foods that taste REALLY good but will kill you eventually. This is food that has items like String beans cooked in Pork Fat, for Flavor of course. So adding Bacon to a can of beans is a treat to the tongue.

My favorite food used to be Chinese Take-Out. But back a few decades ago there was this push to shame Chinese restaurants into making their foods more healthy - cutting down on Sodium, Nitrates and many other items deamed Unhealthy. Guess what, Now it's rather BLAND and Pale. Sorry, if I wanted something that tasted like brown rice in my food I'd have thrown some dirt in with my White rice.

My point is, You can't have food both HEALTHY and true to historical facts.

I am not going to repeat what majority says here (ranch, kids, fake life etc). Since this is a resemblance of a cooking show I want to comment about the food:

• the show takes place in a countryside, yet there is no fresh produce in that kitchen. How about some rustic touch? How about some fresh eggs, veggies from the garden, of freshly baked bread from a neighborhood baker?, etc
• it might be shocking to some, but there are other ingredients than potatoes, ham and cheese.
• Please stop contributing to already huge demographics of diabetes and obesity in the country. I am not suggesting to cook vegan eclectic food, but at least don't be so heavy on sugar and bacon. True, cooking with bacon and sugar makes you successful in the south, however it is time to change something.

Your comments on Ree Drummond are horrible/Didnt you mom teach you if you have nothing nice to say then don't say Anything at all Her show is amazing-yes she uses a lot of butter in the beginning but has cut way back all southern cooks use a lot of butter but they all work there buts off on the farm /its a lot of work and do you see any of them not lean -NO you don't.

During Covid she still did her show with her Beloved Children and yes they all had fun. My goodness didn't we ALL need that in our lives then I did There are people who just can't resist posting rubbish on these forum's I receive her magazines & books and would love to go visit her store & lodging

I've watched every episode/maybe try that and be nice

Have a very BLESSED Day.

It's almost like she is showing off for her daughter and daughters boyfriend. Too animated and that fake smile ughhhh.... also it would be beneficial to choose some healthy type meals?! Just sayin Like Paula Deen it's time to let others take over, your kinda boring.

Everything about this show is phony. The "ranch" is a multi-million-dollar operation replete with rambling mansion. They also own most of the nearby town.

The recipes, and yes I've tried a few, are hideous. She can't make anything without dousing it with sugar.

The entire concept of the show, with it's fake field workers and all, is really insulting.

Love watching your show so much I bought your Pots & Pans. BUT sorry to say they are totally useless. Though I will always love to watch you cook and talk. My wife and I are remodeling our home, and she said she wants our kitchen as close to your kitchen as possible. I tried telling her our kitchen is a bit smaller than yours, but she said she will settle for a mini look alike. So with many different angle pictures and luck, I'm studying on not messing up. Praying you don't mind us copying your kitchen. May I send you pictures when project is finally done, which should be about October. Bless you ma'am and your family.