Joy Behar Engages in Her Favorite Activity: Telling Famous Chefs How to Improve Their Dishes

It's been a few months since The View treated fans to a cooking segment, but viewers were in for a treat Friday morning as chef Michael Symon stopped by to offer Super Bowl recipes and entertaining tips. True to form, Joy Behar used the segment as an opportunity to play a judge on Chopped, telling Symon that his dishes need more salt and asking how they could be tweaked to suit her preferences. Leave the man alone, Joy!

While Behar's behavior towards Symon, who offered a different recipe at the beginning of every segment, was slightly toned down compared to her all-out assault on Anne Burrell before Thanksgiving, she still managed to engage in her favorite activity of telling famous chefs how to improve their cooking. As Symon detailed how to make a lighter version of mac and cheese, Behar informed him that he should "put a little more salt in this" in the future. "It's delicious, but a pinch more of salt," she said. "But I happen to be a salt freak."

"Where can we submit our comments, Michael, on the recipes, about what could make this better?" joked Sara Haines. "A Facebook that I won't answer," Symon replied with a laugh.

Interestingly, Behar didn't ding Symon's chicken meatballs, which came as somewhat of a surprise after she told Burrell that her Aunt Rose's "regular Italian sausage" meatballs were better than her chicken sausage offering. Still, Behar's zany side came out when she joked that she "can already feel [her] thighs expanding" just thinking about Symon's tailgate party dishes. "I don't even know what a tailgate party means," she added. "That's how dumb I am."

So, what are Behar's plans for the Big Game? "Watching a French movie" and ignoring all things football, of course. Plus, the longtime View co-host may actually have a viewing buddy in Symon, a Cleveland Browns fan who just can't bring himself to cheer for the Bengals. As long as he salts his dishes thoroughly, the two should get along just fine.

Claire Spellberg Lustig is the Senior Editor at Primetimer and a scholar of The View. Follow her on Twitter at @c_spellberg.