to be irrationally angry with Nigel Slater?

[peedoffbird]

I am watching his show at the moment and I am stabby!! For petes sake get a move on. It's like watching a grandad sloth lumbering around the kitchen. The way he reverently handles his organic butter made from the pure unpasteurised milk of a yak in Tibet wrapped in hand made brown paper!! Aaaaaaah! The length of time it takes him to get the sodding fork to his mouth' it's a wonder he hasn't died of starvation.

As you were

Who annoys you on telly?

He totally ruined a bread and butter pudding by putting coconut milk in it. Heave...

Dont forget his en-suite 'erb garden

Pebble yes! And the cheesy apple crumble - disgusting! In fact it all looked foul. Deep fried sprouts - yum.

YABU for calling it irrational anger. NS drives me round the twist and it is entirely rational.

I adore his writing but I agree about watching, he just witters about like a peevishly camp grandpa. All those delicate artisan products on his freakishly neat fridge....

Twinkly I did think that when I wrote it. It is an entirely rational hatred. He caressed the bowl. It was almost sexual! Feel a bit sick now.

Peevishly camp grandpa! Arf!!

Thank you thank you! I thought I was the only one. Thanks to the baby having a hissy fit I was distracted from being forced to watch him I know the TV has an off switch but he is compulsive but his food often looks rubbish. The butternut squash pie a week or so ago? Butternut squash in pastry. Awful.

No baby for distraction here . Can I borrow yours?

It's his sibilant S that gets up my nose - sssssimple ssssssuppers love his recipes though

In complete agreement about knitted muesli artisanal brown paper wrapping with hemp string for a piece of cheese, no need!

Oh I love a Nigel Slater thread!

I know he's Mr Lovely of LovelyVille, and I know he was the loveliest webchatter ever, and I know he is very sincere and nice and his recipes are quite tasty.

but he sounds like the batteries are running down, like a talking dolly that needs a new Duracell, all the emphasis in his sentences is in the wrong place and yes, too bleeding slow.

And I presume he still pauses in front of his fridge and turns to camera, flicking his greasy hair in a parody of Severus Snape and then smiles whimsically as if he really hadn't remembered he'd got a smidgeon of some yak's milk cheese wrapped in paper that must have cost more than my fridge itself lurking in there.

And breathe.

(I bet all sleb chefs really live on dairylea and kraft cheese slices)

I loves him

Him & I, in a country pub, after walking my dog, sipping a cherry brandy, log fire, just relaxing, chatting, maybe a game of scrabble.........

Loving peevishly camp grandpa.

I used to read Nigel Slater's food columns in The Observer but eventually lost patience with the assumption that we've all got exotic yak buttery type leftovers just sitting in the fridge. The insouciantly casual little lunches that were whipped up from shavings of this and that read like Enid Blyton on acid.

I have been known to say to my DH "now, if he asked us round to his house for tea I would say yes. But I would say he couldn't speak. 'Ssshh Nigel! Just cook!'"

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Leave him alone. I luffs Nige.

Aw I do like him and forgive his peevey ways. Wish he'd do something with his hair though(ie wash).

Oh I LOVE his books, but can't stand watching him on TV. Makes me v angry!

What peeves me the most is the way some of his simple suppers are puddings. You can't just have pudding for supper - well, you can, but a pudding on its own is not a whole supper.

And I bet there is an army of food technicians behind the scenes, unwrapping blocks of Tesco value butter and Morrisons meat, and wrapping it lovingly in brown paper so he can pretend it is the poshest of the posh. [cynic]

He is properly annoying, easily the most irritating tv cook. But they all annoy me to some degree in that they bang on about their cooking like they've developed some new pioneering child brain surgery when they're actually just knocking up some dinner while we sit on the sofa.

It is his little brown packets of butter r and herbs and stuff that annoys me, and his eating noises and his drooling over the little brown packets it is butter nige calm down son

I always like the look of his recipes, then on closer inspection the ingredient I've never heard of turns out to be a type of dead animal (pig usually, and smoked or salted or something)

he assumes we ALL have left over organic handmade goats cheese and venison in the fridge we dont

he did a programme about childhood sweets for BBC4 i wanted to punch him with his sooking of sweeties