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?

I loves him too! I am a bit of a kitchen ditherer too though!

We used to shout at the TV every time he wandered into his garden for ingredients: 'Nigel! We don't have a garden! We have a Spa across the road!' FFS

And yes my sister's boyfriend is a head chef at a top restaurant in London. Lives on Haribo. Favourite restaurant is Nandos.

It's his 'step into your garden and pick 10 perfect strawberries, a handful of fresh mint and choose a chook to slaughter...' attitude that gets on my tits!

He lives in a parallel world.

Cross post with many!

So good to see the word "peeve" and derivatives thereof! I shall use it more often. Can you imagine him cleaning the loo! He would have to concoct his own lavatory freshener from the juice of a yak's stomach that had been fed only on the finest hand reared 'erbs! In a hemp lined clay pouring jug of course.

Think I may have gone a bit too far.

No - I suspect you are not far off the truth!

He drives me insane, both to read and to watch. He lives on tomatoes. I hate tomatoes.

He places emphasis on too many words in every sentence. It took me a while to realise that this was why I found him frustrating to listen to. Zooming in all the time is too tiring to watch.

I have a confession to make. After previous threads about him I watched him to see what the fuss was about. God god you r right op he makes u stabby!!! He is sooooo slow and everything is ridiculously precise and I'm surprises he can cook at all with his head so far up his own arse. Good god he's like a train wreck you can't help but watch

I was also very peeved when I looked at one of his cookbooks, because I had liked the look of some of the recipes he'd done on a series, and they were all to serve two people. I know I could have gone through multiplying everything by 2.5 so it would feed our family, but I couldn't be arsed - and I thought it was daft not to cater for families - as if his recipes were only meant for couples and me and my family were just too big for his lovely food. Irrational, I know.

Yes yes yes. Food for 2 city dwelling rich foodies. Cannot bear the bloody brown paper and string and the stresses on the wrong bits of sentences.

He's ridiculously pretentious, and I thought Toast was very self indulgent. I reckon he did a hatchet job on his step mum.

yes self indulgent is what I would call him ,

dunno what that face was about sorry

YARSNBU Agree about Nige but I can't stand ANY effing T.V. chefs eating in my face its soo bleedin' impolite. Nigella Lawson going to the fridge in the middle of the night (keep yer problems to yerself dear!!) and orgasming over her avocado!!

I don't like the tv shows. But I have always loved his books since I read the entry in the first kitchen diaries about going to the corner shop and buying two beers and bags of frozen oven chips and frozen peas for dinner in front of morse or something.

The "leftovers" bug the shit out of me. I swear once he claimed a whole roast chicken was left over. The leftovers in my fridge are 2 babybel, some sad looking celery and half a jar of teriyaki sauce. Make a simple supper with that and some lurpak, motherfucker.

Sorry a bit OTT but you did ask !

that and some lurpak, motherfucker

Heaven.

When I read his books, there was loads of 'oil the chicken like you'd caress a lover,' 'squeeze the mango to test for firmness like you would a breast' and gorgeous recipes for chip butties and suggestions of chilled Smarties as an acceptable dinner party pudding. I thought I'd love to be mates with him. Clearly thought deludedly that I'd turn him

So I just can't reconcile this cardi-wearing shuffler holding every hand-made utensil or waxed paper parcel as though it's made of glass with the Nigel in my head.

I love Nigel Slater! I think I have read everything he has written and want him to cook for me every day.

Love the way he writes, and thinks about food and cooks.
He is terrible on TV though. (Sorry Nige)

I think one or two of his recipes are okay, and have tried them. But, I don't have the left overs he seems to have (like everyone else....).

And I can't stand the way his mouth moves when he speaks. I'd rather read his recipes than see him on TV.

Love this thread, it's hilarious and I like the man. But yeah, some of his ways do get on my pip. I mean the other day he proudly announced ' I don't own a steamer, I just balance a sieve on the pan...blah.. blah...' as if he was extremely proud of himself and I wanted to shout 'Why don't you own a steamer you dope? Cooking is your profession (ON TELLY) and you've got a kitchen the size of a tennis court, not exactly stuck for cupboard space either!'

As you can tell, this annoyed me a teensy weensy bit

It is the way

that he pauses

mid sentence

at inappropriate times

to emphasize

words or phrases

the irritates

the fucking bejezuz

out of

me.

I love him to read but can't stand him on tv.

It makes me stabby though when he's always claiming his kitchen it very small in his book. WE'VE ALL SEEN IT. IT'S FUCKING HUGE!!!