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The Best Episodes of The F Word

Every episode of The F Word ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of The F Word!

Best episode
S1E9 Ozzy Knows Best
7.525 votes
Worst episode
S4E3 Runaway Meal
6.116 votes
Top season
Season 2
7.1avg
Binge time
1d 17h
51 episodes
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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    The F Word Season 1 Episode 9 - Ozzy Knows Best
    7.5/10(25 votes)

    S1:E9

    The chef cooks a festive meal comprising truffle and herb buttered turkey with fried breadcrumbs for guests including Sharon Osbourne. The whole restaurant shares the Christmas feast rustled up from Gordon's hand-reared turkeys, aptly named Jamie, Nigella, Delia, Ainsley, Antony and Gary, while Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall takes on the recipe challenge.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. The F Word Season 2 Episode 3 - Scrambled Portions
    7.5/10(24 votes)

    S2:E3

    An all-female amateur brigade prepares scrambled egg with wild mushrooms, black bream with peas bonne femme and pink champagne sabayon with citrus fruit. Darren Gough goes head to head with Gordon in the recipe challenge, and Janet Street-Porter finds a new low-fat superfood with four legs, while Jeremy Clarkson gets down to the task of cooking Sunday lunch for his wife and children.

    Director:Unknown
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  3. The F Word Season 2 Episode 1 - Don't Like It? Don't Pay
    7.3/10(24 votes)

    S2:E1

    Gordon buys some pigs to rear in his garden, and is joined in the kitchen by Kathy Burke. Plus, a new regular feature sees amateur cooks getting the chance to cook in his restaurant for paying customers. Gordon also organises a book amnesty, giving viewers the chance to send in celebrity recipe books they've never used - so they can be safely destroyed.

    Director:Unknown
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  4. The F Word Season 1 Episode 1 - Vegan Week
    7.2/10(39 votes)

    S1:E1

    It's National Vegan Week, so Gordon marks the occasion with a very special and very Ramsay dish. Gordon's children learn that a turkey is just for Christmas dinner and not a family pet, when they buy live turkeys to rear and slaughter for Christmas dinner. Star of stage and screen Martine McCutcheon learns how to sharpen a knife and Gordon learns to "keep it simple, stupid" when he challenges comedian Al Murray to make the best bread and butter pudding.

    Director:Steve Smith
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. The F Word Season 1 Episode 2 - Kitchen Dynasty
    7.2/10(32 votes)

    S1:E2

    Superstar mega-diva Joan Collins visits The F Word restaurant. It's the first time the two have met since Joan was famously thrown out of Gordon's first restaurant, Aubergine, seven years ago. Gordon's mum Helen challenges her son with her favorite recipe for apple pudding. And there's trouble among the turkeys in Gordon's garden. Gary's as sick as a parrot, so Gordon calls in expert advice.

    Director:Unknown
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  6. The F Word Season 2 Episode 8 - Bye Piggies
    7.2/10(19 votes)

    S2:E8

    Four farmers' daughters vie to be cream of the crop when they take over the kitchen to cook three simple recipes. On the menu are a starter of crab mayonnaise rolls with mango salsa, a beef fillet with mushroom gratin and a hot chocolate fondant. John Thomson tackles the recipe challenge, while Janet Street-Porter takes on the might of the supermarkets, and Gordon bids farewell to pigs Trinny and Susannah.

    Director:Unknown
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  7. The F Word Season 3 Episode 7 - Kitchen Interrogation
    7.2/10(17 votes)

    S3:E7

    The latest amateur brigade of cooks are a team of police officers from Lancaster. Jonathan Ross visits the restaurant. Gordon offers tripe to teenagers, teaches some athletes how to cook great fast food and then joins DJ Sara Cox in the recipe challenge. Gordon searches for scallops. On the menu: pan-roasted pigeon salad with toasted walnuts; roast skate with beet root and parmesan; and pain perdu with carmelized peaches.

    Director:Unknown
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  8. The F Word Season 1 Episode 3 - Into the Wild Game
    7.1/10(27 votes)

    S1:E3

    Gordon faces his biggest challenge yet with his ongoing campaign to get women back into the kitchen. Gordon cooks venison with chocolate: "Bambi never tasted so good." He also journeys to the far north of Scotland to try the rare and unusual delicacy that is Gannet - an unforgettable experience.

    Director:Unknown
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  9. The F Word Season 5 Episode 5 - Thai Restaurants
    7.3/10(9 votes)

    S5:E5

    Gordon's got the eye of the Thai-girls, as the ladies of Yum Yum restaurant in North London take on the feisty females from Simply Thai restaurant in Middlesex in a battle to be crowned the F Word's best Thai restaurant. Proving he knows how to use his noodle, Gordon offers his version of every traveller's favourite dish, pad Thai, to some Buddhist monks. Rory Bremner steps up to the hot plate in the celebrity challenge with a decent impression of a trifle.

    Director:Unknown
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  10. The F Word Season 5 Episode 6 - Spanish Restaurants
    7.3/10(9 votes)

    S5:E6

    According to the F Word nominations, British diners go loco for tapas and Gordon and his band of merry tasters toured the country in search of scrumptious Spanish grub. First to make it to the final two was Yorkshire eatery, El Gato Negro, controversially run by an all British team. "You wouldn't expect a Northerner to be cooking Spanish food but it works and I love it," says head chef, Simon. Taking on the Yorkshire chefs in the tapas cook off is authentic Spanish eatery Lola Rojo run by feisty couple, Antonio and Christina from Barcelona, whose food Gordon described as 'f**king amazing'. While the competing chefs battle for the coveted Spanish crown, Gordon grabs his rod in Galicia for some extreme fishing and Kelly Brooks stuffs a pepper in the F Word celebrity cook off.

    Director:Unknown
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  11. The F Word Season 1 Episode 8 - Gobble Gobble Croak
    7.1/10(24 votes)

    S1:E8

    Writer and broadcaster Janet Street-Porter and former athlete Colin Jackson guest on the show devoted to all things culinary. Dishes on the menu include ravioli of duck, chestnuts with a Jerusalem artichoke sauce and a main course of sea bass. Gordon also reveals the secret of perfect roast beef and Yorkshire pudding.

    Director:Unknown
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  12. The F Word Season 2 Episode 9 - Time To Pig Out
    7.1/10(18 votes)

    S2:E9

    The A&E doctors return to the show as the best brigade of the series. Slaughtered pigs Trinny and Susannah also make a reappearance - served up in a recipe of roast loin and belly of pork. Gordon travels to Scotland in search of his grandfather's butcher shop, while Little Britain's David Walliams takes on Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and Janet Street-Porter in the recipe challenge.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. The F Word Season 5 Episode 1 - Italian Restaurants
    7.1/10(13 votes)

    S5:E1

    In this episode, two Italian restaurants go head to head, cooking a menu of ravioli, venison, pork escalope and fig and frangipane tarts. Janet will be expanding on last year's experience raising veal calves to starting her own small holding and Katie Price gets her hands dirty, cooking chicken kievs in the celebrity challenge.

    Director:Unknown
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  14. The F Word Season 2 Episode 2 - I'm Not Your Mate
    7.0/10(22 votes)

    S2:E2

    The fiery chef prepares sesame crusted tuna, pan-fried sea bass with sorrel sauce and apple doughnuts, and teaches Jeremy Clarkson how to cook lobster. Janet Street-Porter throws down the gauntlet in the recipe challenge and Cliff Richard is invited to deliver his verdict on several wines - including, unbeknownst to him, one of his own.

    Director:Unknown
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  15. The F Word Season 2 Episode 5 - Competitive Edge
    7.0/10(19 votes)

    S2:E5

    Four A&E doctors swap their white coats for aprons to rustle up salt and pepper squid with sweet chilli sauce, bacon-wrapped chicken legs with a pea and broad bean risotto and retro classic crepes suzette. Shameless star Dean Lennox Kelly is in for dinner, and Gordon enters Trinny and Susannah into the pigs' equivalent of Crufts. Meanwhile, an expat family in France get a helping hand cooking Sunday lunch.

    Director:Unknown
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  16. The F Word Season 3 Episode 8 - The Next Fanny
    7.0/10(18 votes)

    S3:E8

    A team of ex-Army captains from Norfolk cook this week's meal. Gordon fills the restaurant with the fifty finalists from his search for the next Fanny Cradock. Stylist Gok Wan ("How to Look Good Naked"), takes on Gordon in the recipe challenge, as well as offering him some fashion tips. Gordon tastes champagne with Cat Deeley. On the menu: pea, asparagus, pancetta, and goat cheese frittata; honey roast duck with green beans; and baked Alaska.

    Director:Unknown
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  17. The F Word Season 3 Episode 1 - The Eton Boys
    7.0/10(16 votes)

    S3:E1

    Gordon takes on four Eton boys as his team this week. Dawn French guest stars in the restaurant and helps him launch Find Me a Fanny, his search for a new female television cook. Gordon selects some sheep to keep in the garden of his London apartment. On the menu: crab spring rolls with chilli dipping sauce, loin of venison with sweet and sour peppers, and profiteroles with hot chocolate sauce.

    Director:Unknown
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  18. The F Word Season 4 Episode 5 - So Healthy, It's Funny
    7.0/10(14 votes)

    S4:E5

    Comedian Paddy McGuinness and his lively bunch of mates join Gordon in the kitchen to try and impress the F Word diners. They're not your average kitchen team – more Motley Crew than Michelin chefs and it's clear from the start that they like a laugh. But if anyone can reign them in Gordon can.

    Director:Unknown
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  19. The F Word Season 5 Episode 3 - French Restaurants
    7.0/10(10 votes)

    S5:E3

    Gordon's quest for Britain's Best Local Restaurant continues and this time it is a heavyweight battle of French restaurants. The competing kitchens will both serve succulent foie gras to start, then pan-fried grey mullet and puy lentils go up against a rack of lamb with aubergine tempura. Both will finish with a classic French pudding, crepes suzette. To add to the French flavour, Gordon heads back to second home, Paris, in search of the perfect croissant and farmer-in-waiting, Janet Street-Porter, expands her farm by helping birth some chicks.

    Director:Unknown
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  20. The F Word Season 5 Episode 10 - The Dish of Their Lives
    7.0/10(8 votes)

    S5:E10

    The remaining three restaurants compete for a spot in the finals.

    Director:Unknown
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  21. The F Word Season 5 Episode 12 - The Best Local Restaurant
    7.0/10(8 votes)

    S5:E12

    The two finalists have a cook-off in the F-Word kitchen.

    Director:Unknown
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  22. The F Word Season 1 Episode 7 - Let's Talk About Sex and Soup
    6.9/10(23 votes)

    S1:E7

    Big Brother host Davina McCall, comedian Jimmy Carr and Property Ladder's Sarah Beeny join celebrated chef Gordon Ramsay and restaurant critic Giles Coren for the cookery show covering all aspects of food.

    Director:Unknown
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  23. The F Word Season 1 Episode 5 - A Proper Job
    6.9/10(22 votes)

    S1:E5

    Chat show maestro Jonathon Ross, is put to the test by Gordon this week when he's challenged to kill and cook lobster. 'If Paul McCartney is watching this, I apologize'. 'If you've got the bollocks to eat it, you should have the bollocks to kill it', responds Gordon. The show also features Gary Rhodes, an amazing report about the potential benefits of horse milk and an exclusive report on which is Britain's healthiest supermarket.

    Director:Unknown
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  24. The F Word Season 2 Episode 4 - Bolton Lip
    6.9/10(20 votes)

    S2:E4

    Four Bolton brothers help the chef prepare summer garden soup with walnut pesto, rabbit fricassee, and rhubarb souffle with white chocolate sauce. Janet Street-Porter continues her search for low-fat diet superfoods and Dermot O'Leary takes Gordon on in the recipe challenge with his Irish stew - and a little help from his mother.

    Director:Unknown
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  25. The F Word Season 2 Episode 7 - Birmingham's Finest
    6.9/10(18 votes)

    S2:E7

    Four amateur cooks from the West Midlands join Gordon in the kitchen to rustle up artichoke, asparagus and onion tart with fried quails' eggs, breast of duck with spring greens and gooseberry sauce, and a four-minute chocolate mousse. Janet Street-Porter gets a job in a fish-and-chip shop on the Shetland Islands, while Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall helps prevent Trinny and Susannah getting sunburnt.

    Director:Unknown
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Best Episodes Summary

"Ozzy Knows Best" is the best rated episode of The F Word. It scored 7.5/10 from 25 votes. Written and directed by Unknown, it aired on December 21, 2005.

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