Food Network GO - Live TV Reviews

of the streaming apps. Not sure what changed, but it’s now more a pain than a pleasure. Still remembers that I’m casting to my TV, which is good. But, where it used to sometimes blank out and say the video wasn’t available, it always used to come back after a few moments. Now, not so much. It will stream live for a few minutes, then switch to a black screen saying the video is not available - and it stays not available until the livestream is relaunched. Or, it cuts to commercial and says it will be back in a moment, but it never comes back. The temp interruptions were a pain, but acceptable. Now, every time it interrupts, either the casting has to be restarted, or the livestream has to be relaunched, or both. I miss more that I see. This was my go-to channel when something was on that I wanted to watch, or when nothing was on elsewhere that I wanted to watch. Now it just frustrates me and makes me angry, so I’ve pretty much given up watching - even the shows that I really like. I’ve just restarted 4 times in order to watch a show I’ve already seen. A new episode that I wanted to watch is on next, but I’ve given up. Really hope they’ll fix the issues; they were never this bad before.

Listen, i love food network. But FoodNetworkGO and its ads... If you're like me and like binging shows, the ads make it almost unbearable. And theres almost no variety. Ive MEMORIZED commercials because i see them back to back every 15 minutes. In the future can there be a way to pay for no ads? Cause i would be spending my whole credit card on it. Every else about FoodNetworkGO is fine. The layout is cool whatever. There's this weird thing where when i first open FoodNetworkGO , i have to scroll down to the bottom of the home screen then go back up to see my continue watching?? Little weird but its been like that since forever. Just let me pay for no ads or get some variety PLEASE
pt. 2 uhm...there’s an ad that goes on for 1:30 but it’s just a blank screen?? like it’s just white??? don’t know who she is.

FoodNetworkGO is great because I can select and watch only real cooking shows. I really don’t like any of your competition shows. I miss the days when you had cooking shows on all day and night, and FoodNetworkGO is the closest I am going to get back to that these days, I guess. The only show that is halfway decent that is not a traditional cooking show is Diners, Drive-ins and Dives.

The only thing I don’t like about FoodNetworkGO is that I have to log in to my cable account to watch most episodes. Hopefully this will change in the future. Break away from cable, people! What about those who don’t have cable or don’t want to pay for cable TV? I only have cable now because someone else is paying for it. That won’t last forever.

No rewind button on Food Network for iPad Air.
It’s fine that there are ads but they repeat the same, in some commercial breaks, 3 times in a row.
TO THE DEVELOPER - don’t tell me “that doesn’t seem right” or “we monitor the commercials and spread them out” because NO YOU DON’T! YOU go sit through Challenge (past or reboot) and you’ll see for yourself. They’re national commercials so you can’t say you have no control over them. If you, by your own admission, spread the ads out, then the same ad running back to back EVERY commercial break is something YOU need to fix. You won’t, you’ll just tell me to open a ticket because “it seems like this isn’t working for me” and we need to explore it further. It’s one thing to run the same ad every break but

FoodNetworkGO runs the same ad, 3 times in a row, every commercial break!

FIX THIS because it’s the worst app I have! So to recap - DEVELOPER, GO WATCH YOUR APP YOURSELF! Go watch 2 shows in a row and see if by the time the 2nd show ends, if you’re not thoroughly irritated. You can fix it because you said you handle this, September 2, I believe it was.
Don’t waste your time on FoodNetworkGO. Besides the no-rewind button on the iPad (every app I have has a rewind), you’ll be plagued with the same NATIONAL ads 2-3 times, back to back, every commercial break.

I’ve been missing seeing current Food Network shows since I got rid of cable. Now with FoodNetworkGO, I’m able to catch up with what I’ve missed. I’ve only been able to see some current shows on Discovery Plus, now with Food Network Go, I can watch them all!!! Getting FoodNetworkGO is thanks to someone answering my question on Facebook. Even though I took 5 years of Home Ec in Jr High and High School, with the help of Food Network, I’ve become a better home cook even though it’s only for myself, I do bake and give to my neighbors.

I love the Food Network app all you need to do is just sign up with your TV provider and some of them come with a key on them and I think there’s too many with the key but other than that you still get free shows you can watch that don’t have the key and I think that it is awesome that you can watch all your favorite shows with your TV provider that is actually really really nice definitely recommend trying it out because if you are a lover or a food lover you will definitely love the championships and everything like that you’ll really enjoy it

I HATE this new app. I had to uninstall the FN app I have been happily using for several years. There was a glitch in the old app, so I uninstalled and reinstalled. I have done this with other apps, and everything came back that was saved and in perfect working order.
Not this one.
I don’t know what the hearts are for. Click on one and it turns blue but not the program under the star.
I had probably 8 different recipes for chocolate chip cookies now there are none except an array of chef’s to choose from. I sure can’t remember which recipe came from which chef. There is more but I am fed up with FN and will delete it and never use it again. It’s the worst ever. Obviously the designers/techies are not cooks otherwise they would not have put together this disgusting app.
More.... I don’t like watching a video while cooking. If I’m doing something with say, oily hands, i don’t want to touch my iPhone. I loved the written recipes. I could send a recipe to my computer and save it in my recipe folder.
So having only videos is a dreadful idea.
P.S. I don’t believe the star ratings averages posted by FN. I saw a LOT of low number of stars.
FoodNetworkGO is fine if all you want is to watch videos, but all wrong for a cook.

I am going to tell you three reasons why I love FoodNetworkGO. My first reason why I love FoodNetworkGO is because it’s educational. my second reason why I love FoodNetworkGO it because I love cooking and my third reason is because it’s so entertaining and I’m sure you’re going to be entertained too. I think you should watch this amazing app and when you watch one show you will never want to get out of FoodNetworkGO.
There are so many things that you can watch and they’re so entertaining. They make you want to cook they make you want to bake and it’s so much fun.

I do appreciate the opportunity to watch my FN shows on FoodNetworkGO and it works well. Yes, some shows have more than their fair share of ads, but I just take off the headphones and find something to do. I can move backward to catch anything I missed, they run the shows in order (if more than one is available), or offer something else after an episode is done. Signing in all the time is a little annoying but it goes fast. I really love that new episodes are available immediately after airing. Just the basic tv/cable apps don’t offer that—I always have to wait a few days for an epi to appear.

I love food network and I love being able to watch all the shows as well as steam live however food network has the most glitches I have ever experienced with any app or online experience. It signs me out of my tv provider every day and I have to disconnect and reconnect FoodNetworkGO streaming to my tv at least 3x a day. I have had to delete and re download FoodNetworkGO twice in a month because it stops working or says it doesn’t recognize my tv provider. I have been using FoodNetworkGO for two years, with different TVs and different cable providers and the glitches have never been fixed. Something has to be done to get these fixed! It’s so ridiculous for such a huge company to have such terrible technology.

This updated Food Network GO app is TERRIBLE. It’s so buggy. There is a different glitch or problem every two or three times I turn it on (and I basically only watch the food network and I only use FoodNetworkGO to stream so I open it/use it multiple times a day). The Just Added section seems to add everything that plays throughout the day instead of just adding new episodes like the previous version of FoodNetworkGO did, because there are regularly like 15-20 episodes of Restaurant Impossible in a row in there. That makes it really hard to keep up with new episodes of shows because there is too much to sift through. It’s just annoying. I wish I could have the old version back because I hate this one.

I loved using FoodNetworkGO to catch up on my shows but now it won’t let me log in to my tv provider. All I get now is the red spinner like it’s thinking. I have deleted FoodNetworkGO and reinstalled several times and at first that worked or I would use it in the browser but now it won’t let me do any of that. I’m very sad about it. Please fix this. I’ve seen other reviews up here stating the same thing from months ago yet nothing as been addressed. Might just delete FoodNetworkGO all together. 😢

FoodNetworkGO is terrible. There are SO many things I dislike about it. If you click on a show, it starts playing an episode rather you want it to or not, and you cannot stop it. It automatically plays all of the shows backwards, so you must exit out each time and click a new episode manually. Sometimes, the episode and the recording do not match, so you may be watching the wrong episode. You must restart the whole app to get it to fix itself, and sometimes, it still does not. Sometimes, it lumps all of the commercials together. So you have to watch a straight 15 minutes of commercials. WHO DOES THIS? There is no other tv app that does ANY of this. Please, fix it. I love the shows, but I am not willing to put up with this garbage.

I have no problem watching commercials while enjoying my favorite food network shows via FoodNetworkGO . But I’m watching Holiday Baking Championship with my 10 and 12 year old kids- WE DON’T NEED TO SEE BOOBS/HALF NAKED WOMEN IN A LINGERIE COMMERCIAL or commercials for Fabletics where some woman on a treadmill is feeling all over her own pants. My kids love watching cooking and baking shows with me but I’m rethinking watching them on Food Network, at least via FoodNetworkGO .
Also, EVERY SINGLE TIME we go to watch via FoodNetworkGO through our fire stick, I have to “activate” FoodNetworkGO by signing in through the website on my phone. Seems like an unnecessary extra step that could likely be easily remedied.

FoodNetworkGO has potential, but it’s completely buried in buggy performance, broken features, and a constant loop of the same commercials over and over and over and over and, well, you get the point. You watch for 5 minutes, or sometimes 30 seconds, then get the same 5-7 commercials repeated for you. They never change so you just keep seeing the same thing for 3-4 minutes of commercials, every 10 minutes. If you skip ahead, or back, guess what...the same 3-4 minutes of commercials. If FoodNetworkGO crashes, and it will crash regularly, guess what...the same 3-4 minutes of commercials. I’ve given this a month, because I’m a huge Food Network fan, but FoodNetworkGO doesn’t do the channel justice.

I love some of the shows that are available on FoodNetworkGO - but I am driven completely nuts by the constant dropping. No other app I use stops in the middle of programs and forces me to log back in and try all over.
I watch Masterchef and often end up missing episodes because the get locked in about three weeks and it takes me 12-20 log ins to complete an episode.

The show just stops - when I check to see if it's loading, it is not - it has just closed FoodNetworkGO . Very frustrating.

I love love food network. I also find FoodNetworkGO super easy to use, doesn’t normally glitch and I can watch all my favorite shows.

What I don’t love, is the ads. My goodness there are a ton of them. I totally understand this is how it makes money, but I would pay for a monthly subscription to stop watching all of these ads. I’m pretty sure I spend more time watching ads then the actual shows! It also tends to be the same ad over and over again? I completely understand why they are there, just wish I could pay monthly to not watch them!

Overall though, FoodNetworkGO is great!

FoodNetworkGO needs a lot of work. It connects to your tv service. However, it is constantly saying a show is not available, because it isn't part of your tv plan (even when it is) and FoodNetworkGO is already connected to your tv service. You have to delete FoodNetworkGO and redownload it about every 3 shows you watch, because of this error. Sometimes you have to sign in like 3 times, because the first 2 times it says you’re connected, but when you return to the main screen it isn’t. SO many other little glitchy issues that are too many to list. I deleted it and won’t use again unless they do some major fixing. So disappointed!

FoodNetworkGO crashes constantly. It never remembers what I was watching when it crashed so I have to go back in and find it again. Sometimes it at least remembers where I was in the episode, but often it doesn't. So then I have to watch ads, then go skip to where I left off and then watch the same ads again. A lot of times when I pause, it just starts playing ads instead of pausing, and if I try to pause the ads, it freezes up. If I pause and use another app and then come back, it rarely leaves what I was watching up, even if it was only a few seconds. Sometimes I can easily start back up with continue watching, but often it forgets and I have to dig back down to the right season/episode again.

I don’t know who designed FoodNetworkGO but he/she should be fired or banned from the design. I only stream and using FoodNetworkGO makes me want to throw my remote at the tv.
There isn’t any continuity between usage and viewing of shows. It’s clumsy to get thru and worst of all, they don’t have enough commercial content so they will play the same add up to four time in a row. Yep that’s right, the same commercial in a row, four times. Really makes you had those vendors which is probably the opposite they hoped for.
While you can use FoodNetworkGO, you can not see current content. To do that you need to have a cable provider or be locked out of new content. So you can only watch old stuff. Not a way to get viewer to want to use FoodNetworkGO.
Needs work.

Edit: The Bluetooth keyboard works with FoodNetworkGO now and I am super happy, but I still wish there were less ads. Especially when I’m not streaming live TV. I also wish I could download episodes to watch offline.

Original: Imagine, you sit down to watch a nice cooking show on demand, all the food starts making you hungry, the host boast an easy dish and tempts you towards the kitchen, when all the sudden the ads pop-up, you roll your eyes waiting for all SIX of them to be over, when an ad for Dr. Pimple Popper invades your screen completely and totally ruining any feelings for food and any desire to ever watch the Food Network app again!
If that wasn’t bad enough an ad for the Food Network app plays EVERY SINGLE TIME THE ADS PLAY!!!! Are you kidding me!? If I’m watching your app right now, I certainly DON’T need to download it! Please, Food Network app stop showing these ads it is ridiculous!
I also don’t understand why, if I’m not signed in it only plays two or three ads but when I am signed in it has to play six ads every time!
I love watching the Food Network and love the idea that I can watch the shows I want when I want but these two ads make me never want to use FoodNetworkGO again. If they stopped I would happily give FoodNetworkGO a higher rating.

I really enjoy FoodNetworkGO. You can watch all seasons of any show with a cable subscription. New episodes are available daily. I understand ad breaks are necessary and they are never more than 2 minutes but can be repetitive in nature.
This is a new comment. The ads have become so long and repetitive. Yesterday there were 9 ads during a single break of a 30 minute show, one ad repeated 3 times. It took more than 30 min to watch the 30 minute episode, so longer than if I watched on tv with all the ads. I still love FoodNetworkGO very much but hope it doesn’t continue with this lengthening of shows.

Update: Upped to 5 stars as the issue noted below has been resolved. Shows now play in a sensible order.

Previous issue:
I love being able to binge watch Food Network shows and watch live tv away from home. This would be 5 stars except for a very annoying issue. If you go to binge watch a show, play an episode and when the episode ends the previous episode starts not the next one. Hey app developers, NOBODY WATCHES THE SHOWS IN A BACKWARDS ORDER!

FoodNetworkGO is pretty great and I only have a few complaints. One is about the closed captioning. I personally do not like have closed captions while I’m watching a show, especially if they are early (which they have been). When I go to turn them off it never works which really bothers me a lot. Another is that if I watch a show that I stopped during a commercial break it will play up to 8-10 commercials before the show comes on. I don’t know if this is on purpose or a bug but if it could be fixed FoodNetworkGO would be fantastic

Great selection of shows. However, the lack of option for “continuous play” is very frustrating. After finally getting to an episode after signing in and whatnot, once it’s finished, you (almost) always have to go all the way back to the beginning (find show, season, ep, sign in) just to play the next episode! Speaking of, I find myself having to resign into my cable subscriber after almost EVERY episode has finished. Very time consuming just to watch a 20 min show. Sometimes I just close it out and go to another app, sad. Also, “favoriting shows” is pointless since they disappear every time you log out.