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homesickblues

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Does anyone else watch this drivel. Mrs thinks it's great. They are talking a different language, twill, flambe,
It's food for gods sake. Sorry rant over.
 
I liked it for a while but now it's dreary for me...too many cookery shows on these days.
Cheap to make I guess but there's no creativity outside of the food itself - just rehashed verbiage in a tired format.
 
The idea of Norton's very own Franc Roddam (went to St John's school Billingham). Also the creator of Auf Wiedersehen Pet, and director of Quadrophenia.

Name's still in the credits.
 
Borobuddah said:
I like it, but I agree that it’s starting to disappear up its own ass
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Agreed, irrelevant to normal life, but in a way fascinating. I sometimes watch it (not tonight as it happens) and wonder why, then I realise it's probably because it's absurd.
 
I quite like it

"They are talking a different language, twill, flambe,
It's food for gods sake"

Things have to have names to be fair. You could say the same about anything else people may be interested in.
 
wilkos_perm said:
I quite like it

"They are talking a different language, twill, flambe,
It's food for gods sake"

Things have to have names to be fair. You could say the same about anything else people may be interested in.
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nailed it. Look at football. Nutmegged? Flick on? Man on? behave.

What should they do, just film people smashing kraft slices into white bread?
 
I watch it but I don't really enjoy it any more. It's a bit tired and I hate any round when there is nothing at stake. Someone should be at risk of going out etc. at every round. I quite like the Aussie version which is a bit over the top but the format is better. You get to know the contestants a lot more.

I am sick of hearing the judges describe food and what needs to be done. It is the same every single time. They say whatever meat they are cooking needs to be cooked to perfection every single time. We already know that. That is the whole point. Cook it all perfectly is the minimum that is expected.
 
boromike85 said:
I watch it but I don't really enjoy it any more. It's a bit tired and I hate any round when there is nothing at stake. Someone should be at risk of going out etc. at every round. I quite like the Aussie version which is a bit over the top but the format is better. You get to know the contestants a lot more.

I am sick of hearing the judges describe food and what needs to be done. It is the same every single time. They say whatever meat they are cooking needs to be cooked to perfection every single time. We already know that. That is the whole point. Cook it all perfectly is the minimum that is expected.
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That's the thing that winds me up about the programme "he's making a fondant.It has to be runny inside"..... so what you're saying is it has to be a fondant. No $hIt Sherlock.

The other thing I don't like are the mass catering round. I don't see the point of having teams making vats of curry for firemen. It's not exactly what they've entered the contest for.

TBH I could go on a Gogglebox rant about the things that irritate me about it, but I still find myself watching it all the way to the final.
 
Agree also in the fondant point and the mass catering round. The competition is about progressing to fine dining quality cuisine, not burger van quantity
 
If no one gets booted out i lose interest and that bloke who makes deserts seems to have pinched ideas from all over and his quality control was rubbish Gordon wouldn't have let half of that stuff get past him.
 
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"The winner couldn’t cook his pastry properly on the desert"

The sugar coated camel's knackers weren't up to scratch then?
 
Borotommo said:
I’m going in for it next year.

to start, i’ll prepare a quim of monkfish with a celeriac seepage. Toasted sammfire, with pickled samfire and a samfire jizz.
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Genuinely just snorted speckled hen all over laughing at that :D
 
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