To wonder what the buggery bollocks Jamie Oliver means half the time

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I'm currently flicking through his 5 ingredients cookbook, and several times it says to cook something until it's "gnarly". He even has whole recipes called "gnarly" this that and the other.

Gnarly means dangerous... I cannot find a single definition that could be descriptive of exactly how this "gnarly" food is supposed to look.

He uses the wrong word all the time for things, like a "good gulag of oil" and it just irritates me.

AIBU to think "gnarly" is a shit description when you're trying to explain to a cook how something needs to look?

I voted YABU but based on the fact you have bought his cookbook. He is a terrible chef and most of his recipes look vile.

I totally understand everything he says. You seriously don't? I bet you do. Or you should.

If you don't like him, don't watch. That's a totally different issue.

No, I really don't understand him. Why should I? He speaks mainly in his own peculiar form of jargon.

That's why I don't watch him. If I ever want to get the message across to DH that I am not happy, I threaten to put creases in the fronts of his jeans, or to whack on Jamie Oliver.

I'm sure he's quite benign. He's just not our cup of tea.

@SonjaMorgan

I voted YABU but based on the fact you have bought his cookbook. He is a terrible chef and most of his recipes look vile.

Would you change your vote if I told you I picked it up in the library?

@Oblomov20

I totally understand everything he says. You seriously don't? I bet you do. Or you should.

If you don't like him, don't watch. That's a totally different issue.

I challenge you then! What does he mean when he says, "Pick over the mint leaves before dishing up."?

@KetoPenguin thanks for the video. I shall be subscribing. "Does he hate rice?" Yes, yes he does.

Crying at 'good gulag of oil'.... autocorrect?!

@MrsTerryPratchett yes he is hilarious, watch his videos with Hersha Patel too.

I’m quite impressed with the new book so far - I can recommend the broccoli risotto. But yes he loves his little catchphrases and repeats himself over and over, but then again my dh is exactly the same so I’m immune to it!

(Possibly a bish bash bot. I'll get my coat.

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I can't tolerate him at all. I'm sure he's a perfectly nice chap but I cannot stand all his ridiculous catchphrases. They just sound so forced and fake and make me cringe, like when Simon Cowbell gives the thumbs up. Its really obvious when something doesn't come naturally to someone and I don't think all JO's bantzy bollocks does a really comd naturally to him. I mean, in what part of the world do people actually speak like that?!

Someone gave me one of JO's cookbooks about 15 years ago. I could never use it as the recipes in the index were listed alphabetically by the name he gave them rather than any common sense way. So if you wanted to bake a chocolate cake, for example, you'd have to know that he called it 'My Nan's Best Ever Chocolate Cake' or somthing similar and was therefore in the index under M for 'My Nan' rather than C, rendering the index utterly useless. Surely editors should have corrected something like that?! I don't mind a conversational style on TV, but when you're writing a recipe for people to follow it needs to have clear, simple, instructions.

'Gnarly is surfer slang for extreme or exciting, so on a rough sea day or if there was a particularly large tidal swell, the waves would be more than awesome, they'd be gnarly (dude)! Not sure how that translates to cooking, but assume he means 'well cooked and trying to sound 'cool' 😉

Tom Kerridge just used gnarly too.

Forget glug or even gulag, he says lug which is another one of his fecking annoyances

This is why I prefer delia. You know where you are with her!

I could happily punch both Rick Stein and Gordon Ramsey for saying olive ol instead of olive oil. Other than that, I like them.

It's not just Jamie. We bought the MOB Kitchen cookbook recently and in it, one of the dishes (I want to say soup, so nothing overly exciting) is described as 'an absolute worldy'

WTF IS A WORLDY? Is it like a world-beater? I have no clue but it annoys the shit out of me, how people choose to sound thick.

@scaryfrogfish in that case YANBU.

I challenge you then! What does he mean when he says, "Pick over the mint leaves before dishing up."?

Check your mint leaves then put them on your food

I think it means tear the mint leaves into little bits over the finished dish.

Still wanky bollocks though.

[quote KetoPenguin]You might like this Asian comedian reviewing Jamie's egg fried rice recipe m.youtube.com/watch?v=t_KdbASIkB8[/quote]
Hilarious!

My egg fried rice has garlic in and isn't 'wet'

@Fink

Someone gave me one of JO's cookbooks about 15 years ago. I could never use it as the recipes in the index were listed alphabetically by the name he gave them rather than any common sense way. So if you wanted to bake a chocolate cake, for example, you'd have to know that he called it 'My Nan's Best Ever Chocolate Cake' or somthing similar and was therefore in the index under M for 'My Nan' rather than C, rendering the index utterly useless. Surely editors should have corrected something like that?! I don't mind a conversational style on TV, but when you're writing a recipe for people to follow it needs to have clear, simple, instructions.

No way?! What a clown. I seem to be the only person in the world whose never knowingly cooked something from a Jamie Oliver recipe.

Pick the mint leaves off their stalks, scatter over your food, then plate up.

Gnarly is an acceptable form of gnarled, used as an adjective, so what’s wrong with it in this context? I’d know exactly what he means.

People buy his books because of him, and his personality - what’s the point of sanitising that through over-zealous editing?

I can see why JO winds people up, but he seems like a genuinely decent guy, who actually gives a shit about proper nutrition and giving kids a better chance of long term health. He could take his millions and fuck off, but he doesn’t, he spends a great deal of time and energy campaigning for change. I find that admirable, however daft his lexicon.

If you want to read some truly irritating cook books, try the Thug Kitchen vegan ones. Delicious recipes, but my god, the pages are punchable.