I like cooking and tivo'd Rachael Ray's morning show yesterday. Most of the show is shot with a steadicam. The other half are those stationary/heavy 3-wheel rolling rigs. Their mixing of the show (camera 1, camera 2, etc.) was not so great. I caught several views where you would see the steadicam op in front of Rachael.
I am not sure why, but I actually enjoyed watching all the different shots from the steadicam. Very smooth operation and cool. I would love that job. (Plus, you get eat afterwords.)
We have some cooking shows here in Argentina which are made with 100 % steadyshots. And they are really good. To people like us the star is the cameraman. Doesn´t matter the chef