To think the food on Masterchef is flippin' ridiculous

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I wouldn't know how to eat half the food they're serving up - knife and fork? Spoon? Toothpick?
(nibbles her toast and peanut butter)

how about
Open gob and shovel it in

I only watched it once, it's a crap program. Those two blokes really got on my nerves. They spoke utter twaddle about ridiculous food that wouldn't fill the hole in my tooth it was such a miniscule serving.

ynbu about how to eat it but yabu to sit through a whole episode.

I haven't sat through a whole episode - I just switched over cos hubby had finished watching the footy.
What a pile of pants :)

people go mad for it tho don't they? I don't get it.

Did you see Greg Wallace on the other foody program tonight? He was banging on about potatoes and did pork chop & mash, shepherds pie and dauphinoise potatoes. Yummy and easy. There's no way he eats the fancy stuff Masterchef serves up.

As a trainee chef myself, I find most of the food served on Masterchef and in fancy 'starred' restaurants to be really pretencious and annoying, not my sort of thing at all!

I want to make food that tastes wonderful and people enjoy eating, not binning an entire, very expensive plate of food just because the garnish is wrong, or there is too much sauce or some other completely stupid excuse for being very wasteful.

I think that is what annoys me most to be honest, if a chef wants to create a visually stunning, amazing tasting dish with great ingrediants that is fine but don't waste half a potato because you want it carved into a particular barrel shape, or throw away half a steak because the edges aren't straight - there are people starving in the world, how arrogant is it to throw away perfectly good food!

DW was watching Masterchef last night - she doesn't cook at all (I do it all) and I asked her why she was so keen on it. No sensible answer received.
YANBU I cook fairly ordinary stuff although we do try new stuff every now and agian.

She is watching for John Torode ManfromCUK.

HTH :)

I thought the veggie food looked quite easy to make last night and not at all pretentious, but that's because I find cooking the meat or fish correctly to be the hardest part of the dish.

Yes, some restaurant food is pretentious but I love going out to those kind of places once in a while just to see what they come up with. Some of the flavours and textures are amazing. Some of the chefs they have to work for on the programme are total twats though. throwing food in the bin because the presentation is slightly out gets my goat.

I've also enjoyed the new "X-Factor" format even though I don't like or watch X-Factor. I think the standard is higher right from the start and I like how you get more involved with the contestants.

Dh watches Masterchef. I don't really get it but do enjoy old Puddingface (his name in our house) tucking in to a dessert. he fucking loves a bit of cake. Man after my own heart

Did anyone else hear one of the contestants refer to Greg as "Puddingface" in the audition rounds? He went outside the cookery room to his waiting friends and they asked how he got on and he went "Torode likes it, Puddingface didn't"

Nearly fell off the chair laughing at that

I'm in two minds really.

On the one hand I like good honest food and hate waste and hate the pretence of some Michelin star restaurants but on the other hand I wish I had the skill to do some of techniques they use because it would make my cooking nicer to look at and nicer to eat.

I was more than idly looking at HND courses on advanced cooking techniques the other day.

'he fucking loves a bit of cake'
thats just made me snort my tea down my nose

The Toad and the Walrus (or Pasty) in our house, and we love Masterchef. Mostly cos we like to rip them to shreds and place bets on who will cry or slice a finger off and stuff.

DH always says to me "You could go on Masterchef, Cunting" and I try and explain to him that whilst I am a competent home cook (can bake cakes/cook pretty good curries etc etc) I have ZERO technical skills. I can just imagine Torode and Puddingface doing sidelong glances at one another as I tried to serve up a thai green curry as haute cuisine. I would be to Masterchef what Wagner was to the X-Factor.

DSs always say "Dad you could be on Masterchef" but I know I dont have the skill.

I always get the feeling that the better contestants have had quite a lot of training and experience in commercial kitchens. They are not ordinary household cooks by any stretch. I know someone that tried to get on the programme but failed as she is untrained but she is a superb cook.

thats what they did to my brother when he was on it. Snidey looks like this===>

If I ever got on and I got the snodey look off either of those two, I would kick off medieval style. Potato peelers in eyes/garlic crushers on bollocks that type of thing. Puddingface is a grocer with as much training in haute cuisine as my cat and Torode's restaurant cannot cook a steak very well.