to think cooks on tv use too many utensils?

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watching masterchef.
omg
I wouldn't have the space to store all those pans and whisks and no energy to clean up after.

aibu to think that a one pan challenge would be good?

These programmes are thinly veiled product placement ads for kitchen utensil manufacturers.
They may spin it as a reality show but they are all selling a dream, a lifestyle, a recipe book or a kitchen product.

didn't think of product placement.
of course!
some of those machines must cost a fortune.

I still think they should do a special producing a 3 course meal with a 1liter pan and a bendy spoon :o

May I suggest they do Christmas lunch with a roasting tin, a baking tray and one saucepan! I do it every year, love to see them tackle it. A chef friend of ours used our house for a dinner party, it was delicious but the kitchen looked like the Somme, 'I'll send a couple of lads round in the morning to sort it out'.

Me and dh are always cautious of using too many pans etc as imagine if it didn’t all fit in the dish washer 😱 the stuff of nightmares. We don’t hand wash in this house, not ever!

I hear you op when I watch chefs on tv cooking, I sit thinking well that isn’t all fitting in Mr dishy wash....

I always watch Jamie's 15 minute meals and think what absolute bullshit. It may take 15 minutes to make, but you use so many pots, pans, utensils and the food processor that whatever time is saved in making the meal is lost 100x over doing the washing up.

@tillytrotter1 did they come and sort it out ?
Want to know how the story ended

Exactly Liverpool52 !
All the cooking programmes make it look so easy peasy breezy whatnot.
Bollocks!
It’s the preparation and washing up that takes most of the time when cooking.
I tend to wash as I go along when I do marathon cooking sessions otherwise I’d run out of pans and utensils and spare space on the worktop.

One of the easiest dishes in the world, carbonara - the pan never comes up spotlessly clean after dishwashing even if I pre-soak.

Liverpool52 That is what my DH says Every time we watch Jamie Oliver

I always hate it when they don't scrape all of the food out of the bowl into the pan so there's always 3 carrots or bits of rice left over. Just use it all!!

I don't cook anything where the prep or the washing up is considerably longer than the actual eating

Don’t fucking start me! 15 minute meals.... 15 MINUTE MEALS? What about clearing up the carnage without a chopping/washing/tidying minion? And that’s without 2 trips to the Co-op and the iPad running out of charge mid You Tube recipe, let alone cleaning up spilt squash, letting animals out for a pee every 5 minutes, being unable to find the second beater, answering the door to canvassing politicians, the phone to aged mother and countless homework questions. BUGGER OFF!!

If it's something like Masterchef or Hell's Kitchen, then it's professional style, and professional cooks have someone else doing the washing up. They'll be using the tools and equipment for the job.

If it's supposed to be a recipe for people to cook at home then a bit more consideration maybe ought to be given to not making a week's worth of washing up cooking one meal.

I remember my mum going mad at me (I was maybe around 10 yrs old?) because I'd laid all my baking ingredients out like they did on Blue Peter. If five tablespoons of something was needed, then five actual separate tablespoons of whatever it was were lovingly displayed on the kitchen worktop . She just didn't understand...

I'm 46 now, and I still pretend I'm on TV when I cook .

oh yes, the 15 min meals my arse
his kitchen looks like a uni dorm kitchen after a midnight party. and that with it edited for tv!

and don't get me started on square or oval table ware.
and cloches filled with smoke.

@tillytrotter1 did they come and sort it out ?
Want to know how the story ended grin

Yes they did, they were military and he was their boss! Oddly he is the one who taught me how to use far fewer pans in my own cooking, no squaddies available, culminating in my Christmas dinner in so few pans.

That's why I love James Martin. His equipment is clearly expensive, but it's not fancy. He also demonstrates the skill you need to produce the recipe. Today, he was teaching viewers how to sharpen knives.

a 15 min meal including prep and clearing up would be a sandwich impressive.

Masterchef is about man cooking. Apart from the occasional gem of a properly domesticated male human, man cooking involves using all the pans (to deliver a meal 2 hours after dinner time), safe in the knowledge that someone else will grit their teeth and clean up your detritus.

we are training our dc to be pot savers. we have a dishwasher but someone has to load it...

cooking a goulash tonight for 10 people.
using 1 large pan
1 chopping board and knife
2 spoons