Gordon Ramsay defended his programs as 'high pressure, high energy and, more importantly, real.' (Stephane de Sakutin/AFP/Getty Images)

Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay has offered no apologies for his expletive-laden TV tirades. Instead he offered a simple solution for Australian critics of his programs: change the channel.

"Turn over [the TV channel]. Isn't it easier?" the Scottish chef said Friday in an interview with Australian TV network Nine, which broadcasts two of his programs.

"I don't mean to swear, it's just the muppets I have to work with sometimes," Ramsay said, during an interview also peppered with some profanity.

"It's high pressure, high energy and, more importantly, real — that's how we keep it every day."

The acclaimed chef and restaurateur is currently on a visit to Australia.

Australian senator Cory Bernardi launched an inquiry examining cursing on television, after discovering one particular episode of Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares in which the famed chef used the f-word 80 times over the course of the 40-minute program.

In a report released Thursday, the Senate panel resolved that existing advisory rules regarding coarse language are largely sufficient and rejected a call to ban swear words on Australian TV.

However, the senators did make other recommendations, including for broadcasters to consider keeping an on-screen icon permanently displaying a show's classification and for blocking technology to be made standard on all digital televisions sold in Australia.

Along with Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares, Nine also broadcasts the chef's show Hell's Kitchen. Both are hits for the network.

"I'd like to give Channel Nine a big telling-off for making my name bad in Australia," Ramsay joked in the interview.

"Has no one got an edit suite [to stop] broadcasting those naughty words before nine o'clock?…I'm getting the flak for it everywhere I go."

With files from the Associated Press.