Can You Take the Heat? The WWF Is Cooking!

Though lots of the entries exist to be silly--you can live without Mick Foley's Knuckle Sandwich recipe--the book isn't just a gag. You really can make J.R.'s Slobberknocker Pork Chops and Stone Cold Steve Austin's "Stomp a Mud Hole in Your Steaks and Ribs" Simmering Sauce. Do try this at home, folks!

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Only the World Wrestling Federation could cook up something this good!Start the day right with Stone Cold's Texas Toast...
Kick back for lunch with J.R.'s Baked French Onion Soup...
Get ready to eat till you burst, because Tasty Trish-Kebabs are for dinner...
And don't forget to make room for The Rock's Favorite Chocolate Chip Cookies!

Want to know what's in The Rock's Famous Rock Bottom Pancakes? What Chyna eats to make her the Ninth Wonder of the World? What dishes can make even Stone Cold Steve Austin smile? If you think you can handle it, you too can eat like a World Wrestling Federation Superstar.

In this hardcore cookbook, the Superstars of the World Wrestling Federation serve up their favorite meals ... with a whole lot of "Attitude." And to make it even better, each mouthwatering recipe is introduced by good ol' J.R., who offers the behind-the-scenes "dish" on each meal and the wrestlers who love it, peppering the book with plenty of down-home Federation flavor. The beloved cookbook of wrestling fans, Can You Take the Heat? dishes up delicious, stick-to-your-ribs meals that will satisfy even the biggest appetites.

If you told me (before I bought this book) that I would get a kick out of reading a cook book, i would look at you like you were crazy!
Gimme a break how could cooking be fun?

You try to keep a smile from spreading over your face, as you read JRs intros to every recepie.

Who knows if these recepies come from the stars themselves?
but hey who cares, it's a fun way to get people cookin'

The recepies themselves seem pretty good! Alot of things I never dreamed I would cook (HHH sword fish for example) it turned out great!
and if I can do it anyone can!

So get off that chair, get in the kitchen, and lets see what The Rock and the others are cookin......

Go on!!!!..... before I stun ya!


Can You Smell What's Cookin'?   January 21, 2002
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This cookbook [...] commentary is worth its weight in gold for any WWF fan. I'm not sure the recipes rank up there in my top 50 favorites (in fact, I haven't tried most of them)...but the commentary is so hilarious, so absolutely right, that I can't stop smiling whenever I read it.

Thus, Chyna's (fairly ordinary) recipe for guacamole "explains why she is the ninth wonder of the world." Even WWF head Vince McMahon is represented. He's got a really interesting recipe for "Grilled Grapefruit" that I haven't tried, but want to do so. It requires very large grapefruits--and the off-color commentary that accompanies the recipe--well--you have to read it.

Of course all of the WWF superstars are represented, from Stone Cold Steve Austin to Triple H et al. In addition to the raucous, ribald addenda to the recipes are pictures of the stars that you have to see to believe (check out Chyna's just-this-side-of-decent portrait on her guacamole page, for instance).

Open this book, and you can just hear Jim "J.R." Ross touting the recipes in his overloud, overexcited way: "Did you see THAT? I can't BELIEVE IT!" Buy it for the sheer exuberance. You may like the recipes, you may not, but this book is a bowlful of fun.
Hey, Rock! Wait for me! I can smelllll whatssss cookin'!!![....]


My husband is now doing the cooking   August 21, 2001
 0 out of 1 found this review helpful

Hey Ladies, This is one interesting book. The recipes that my HUSBAND has tried are extremely good. We especially like the Undertaker's Spinach and Turkey Tettrazini. After all, if all it takes is a cookbook to get out of the kitchen, try this one!


Some neat recipes   July 24, 2001
As a wrestling fan, and a food fan, this was a must own for me, and it should be for you too! There isn't much to say about this book, except for the fact that it has some great recipes, some fairly good recipes, some not so good recipes, and some awful recipes. Some of my personal favorite recipes are for Tazz's Red Hook Garlic Bread, Grilled Steak Benoit, and Stone Cold Steve Austin's Texas (French) Toast. Some of the worst recipes are some of the cookie recipes (I think by Saturn or Big Bossman) which consist of "Buy your favorite premade cookie dough. Heat oven to temperature on packaging. Put cookie dough on cookie tray. Put tray in oven for time indicated on packaging. Eat" Yeah, thanks guys. Amazing recipe there. Anyway, its a good little cookbook, nothing amazing though. If you're a WWF fan and you have a kitchen, you should own this book.


Cook with help from JR, Stone Cold and Wrestling Superstars   June 1, 2001
You'll enjoy this cookbook, especially if you are a wrestling fan. I made Edge's Spareribs (very easy recipe for spaz's like me in the kitchen). And there is a little of everything from appetizers, main meals, to deserts and beverages. It's my main cookbook besides my Pillsbury Cookbook (check that one out too). Your next barbeque will be a hit thanks to JR. (Hey is he a Ewing?)