Nigel Slater makes me angry.

[CatMumsw]

Just had to sit through one of his shows with my mum, who really likes him. There's something about his tone of voice, vocabulary choices and even the styling of the cooking programme that makes me want to tear my hair out.

I'm sure he's a nice enough man, but he comes across as a smarmy, self-satisfied twat. Please tell me I'm not the only one who thinks this!

His books are fantastic...I read his recipe books like I read a novel. Love them

Cannot watch him on TV...he just doesn't translate well to telly imo. He pauses in all the wrong places and I just cringe. Plus I can't relate to the TV shows...the aspirational kitchen and beautiful garden...artisan food wrapped in brown paper. I'm a stressed out mum who shops in Lidl.

He seems an absolutely lovely man though.

Oh ha ha just went to recommend the NS book I like

It's not by him at all 🤣🤣🤣

I just looked at a video of him and I find him easier to watch than some of the others.

I like him. He reminds me of Alan Bennett a bit.

I used to live near him and though I like his recipes (and Toast), when I ran into him sort of huffing and sighing in the local cheese shop (and being rude to a shop assistant), I kind of lost patience with him as a tv persona. It’s probably unfair, but he always feels to me like a kind of sighing, perpetually-disappointed culinary superego who just wouldn’t get why you didn’t always have beautifully-wrapped leftovers and a supply of homemade chicken stock in your larder. Or have a larder.

@CatMumsw

Just had to sit through one of his shows with my mum, who really likes him. There's something about his tone of voice, vocabulary choices and even the styling of the cooking programme that makes me want to tear my hair out.

I'm sure he's a nice enough man, but he comes across as a smarmy, self-satisfied twat. Please tell me I'm not the only one who thinks this!

He used to be quite normal. His real fast food series was great.

I find his curreent tv shows immensely irritating. He is trying to do Nigeria food porn and just succeeding in being a bit seedy.

Can't stand him or his recipes. Fiddle faddling around all the time for no great results.

@burritofan

Isn’t he gay? I think gay people still have sex.

I love Nigel. With his bloody gorgeous house and fancy garden, and his tiny recipes that leave me starving and in need of a bowl of chips.

I love his home as well, I’m quite jealous of his kitchen.

@NiceGerbil

OMFG either he's at it all the time or we saw the same thing!

It was steak as well can't remember the details.
On and on

This is proper man food for men! Men love this stuff, men men men! This man dish is man food blokes yep yummy proper food for proper men.

I was so angry I couldn't finish my single lettuce leaf and zero calorie yoghurt

(Joke obv!)

I loathe Kerridge. I have only seen on TV a few times but noticed his misogyny straight away.

*I think he drives his car on the other side of the road as it we

Do people really still make remarks like this ? Homophobia is obviously alive and well on MN. - Unless you mean that he's a dangerous driver.

I like him - his recipes are great, he rose above a pretty awful childhood and made a success of his life - good for him.

I love his description of jacket potatoes in his Real Fast Food book. My ultimate food porn.

I like his recipes a lot, and he writes well. He was obviously very affected by the death of his mother at a young age and that makes me sympathetic towards him. His first shows on TV years ago were a bit cringey - he was awkward and very uncomfortable in front of the camera. I suspect he’s mellowed and got more comfortable in front of an audience since then.

He's my fantasy brother. I like to think I would drop by his and he would try out his latest delicious recipes on me, and we would have lovely chats together.

I love him. I love his house and his garden and all the little deli shops he frequents in Hampstead or wherever he shops. I find his style of cooking very soothing although it makes me smile with his leftovers all carefully wrapped and looking so delicious. I wish my leftovers were like his!

Couldn't stand him, used to make me almost as angry as the theme tune to Antiques Roadshow . Then I kind of grew into wanting to take care of him a little bit, and read Toast and felt quite sorry for him. He's a good writer.

What Comedycook said. I love to cook his recipes, and he writes beautifully, whether that's cookery books or his other books. I just can't watch him on TV, he makes my teeth itch...............

@MakkaPakkas

I like him. He reminds me of Alan Bennett a bit.

Yes me too, he's the culinary version of Alan Bennett. Who I also have a bit of a....like his writing but listening to him talk makes me feel slightly violent thing going on.

There's something about Kerridge that I don't like too.

@AmyDudley

*I think he drives his car on the other side of the road as it we

Do people really still make remarks like this ? Homophobia is obviously alive and well on MN. - Unless you mean that he's a dangerous driver.

I like him - his recipes are great, he rose above a pretty awful childhood and made a success of his life - good for him.

Agreed. Plus he famously can’t drive.

@Wizzbangfizz

Every time I see him I think of him writing in his autobiography that he had pulled over to have a wank in a lay-by once

Or the time he caught his Dad having one in the greenhouse.

@hellcatspangle

Some low key homophobia here...

I don't see how saying "I think he's gay" is homophobic?

It’s more the commentary on his “mannerisms” or the way he “caresses” the food, or the softly spoken nature of his voice..

And the bit about driving car on the other side of the road? Nasty dated sneering euphemisms

@TheGenealogist

There must be a lot of food waste in the Slater house because he has quite clearly never heard of meal planning.

Why so? When you have good shops nearby that you can get to daily, you can plan round what you have left in the fridge from the day before, it doesn't have to be a weekly or monthly activity.

@CatMumsw

In that case, here’s a thread to whet your appetite:

a cosy thread

TW for the above - it takes you to that topic...