Jamie Oliver you lying twat

[TheSpottedZebra]

One pan meals. A lamb thing.

It's cooked on a tray, in the oven. He's also used a pestle and mortar.
Then he twonked the lamb joint on the oven shelf so that all the fat dripped through, on to the tray below.

Then he splatted all that on to a wooden board, and used another pot for the juices.

Ladies and gentlemen more ladies, I present to you, The Man Who Doesn't Wash Up.

I think the posts about physical characteristics are unnecessary. MNHQ should delete those as they're 'not in the spirit'. It's presumably acceptable to discuss his public lobbying and TV shows though.

I like a lot of JO's recipes but I am a self-confessed mediocre cook who still feels a bit fancy doing salmon in foil in the oven.

His 30 minute meals are definitely at least an hour though, especially as I like to prep all my ingredients beforehand. I tried doing his "chuck this on while x boils and you also cream y" and ended up spoiling most of the dish and looked like I'd been dragged through a hedge backwards by the end.

and posta about his DCs...

Keith Floyd, still the original and best tv chef.

Anything is good if you are chugging a bottle of wine or two of wine with (or in) it!

I have never tried any of his recipes, any recommendations?

Who was the first celeb TV chef? Fanny Craddock?

Julia Childs I think in America,I don't know about here.

Philip Harbem according to google.

@SizzlerFizzler
oh no not chalky 😢that’s sad

Alexis Soyer (he of the stove) was one of the first people to give his name to a range of Cross & Blackwell sauces. There is a superb book about him named “Relish” which I would highly recommend to anyone with an interest in cookery being made accessible to the masses, or indeed the Crimean war. A massive character who history owes a great deal to.

@YesitsBess thank you for that recommendation - it sounds very interesting. Have added it to my Amazon basket!

@Waitwhat23 oh I hope you enjoy! It’s a superb book and I’ve sent about 8 copies to friends. Even as a stand-alone read it’s great, I bought it after an article decrying the discontinuation of the Soyer stove.

Floyd changed the game for tv chefs. Until him it was very much the Fanny Craddock mould, in a studio and all very controlled. He shook things up and took the camera and the kitchen outside. There's a lovely sequence of him on a trawler with a young Rick Stein, although the pair later fell out.

I do have a couple of his books, picked up only recently - Floyd on France, and Floyd on Fish. His recipes are fairly straightforward, although I admit that I tend to use a recipe as guidance rather than strictly observe them.

It's a bit like all those place in the sun type programmes, oh look at all these places we cant afford to visit, let alone buy. Here we have meals we cant afford to buy the ingredients for, and where the use of an oven is concerned we cant afford to switch it on. Just another nose rubbed in it job for me, families eating a bean on half a slice of toast must be drooling.

That Uncle Roger video is hilarious - "you hear sizzling, I hear my ancestors crying" 😂

I honestly wanted to drown him in his belfast sink.

Yes! I’ll never forget him swaying around on a boat in a thunderstorm getting soaked whilst still managing to hold on to his glass of red🍷🍷🍷 💦- best TV chef ever

My mother used to like watching some fella called 'the Galloping Gourmet'. Raymond Kerr? Or have I made that up?

Can’t find that one, but this great!

Oh gawd bless him, Keith Floyd - 'sorry about your ship'

Graham Kerr. That might be him.

Cannot stand Rick Stein. Every show just a version of: why can't our poor people be more like the poor people of France / India / Mexico. Patronising Boomer.

And Ina used to work on atomic policy at the White House.
Before she discovered her love of Orange Tulips.

I’ve missed a big chunk of the thread but just coming to show some Ina love! She’s the best. And I mean, person on the planet, not just TV cooking personality.

Saw that one and thought well he clearly doesn't clean his own oven!

I like Jamie Oliver and his recipes and the lamb looked delicious. I just think some people can't be arsed to cook or clean their oven.