To be angry at this arrogant pudding prat!

[BigHouseLittleHouse]

Article on Guardian today by a snide journalist wondering if we should abandon traditional puddings.

AIBU to find this article very aggravating? A bad cook blaming his incompetency on the recipes. He lost me at jam roly-poly which if made well (using a high-fruit content home made jam) is a clever dessert - the sweetness compensated well by a creamy vanilla custard (similar to the perfect ratio of fat and sugar represented by eating a jam donut).

By the time I got to rice pudding I felt positively violent. Rice pudding can be absolutely luxurious (as cooked by my neighbour) or it can be comforting and delicate (as cooked by my nutmeg-loving mother). How dare this pudding prat award only 3.5 to the taste of rice pudding? All he has done is evidence his pathetic inability to use his cook’s instinct to make a good version of a timeless classic.

If I asked my 7 year old to make these puddings they’d taste awful. That doesn’t mean the pudding itself is bad - just that the cook lacks skill.

Link:
www.theguardian.com/food/2025/sep/23/steam-stodge-suet-endangered-british-puddings-are-any-worth-saving

I sometimes put eggs in but not always and rarely put the butter in, thats because I use odds and sods of 'bread', so I freeze things like left over stale cake, croissants, bagel, scotch pancakes, wraps, small pastries, you name it, it goes in the freezer

Each of my bread puddings is never the same because of that and its already got the base ingredients in it rather than having to add eggs and/or fats to it

Its a work of wonder.

I decided he hadn't even bothered trying properly when he said he steamed his rolypoly in the oven on a shelf above a tin of water. I mean 🤷🏼‍♀️🤷🏼‍♀️🤷🏼‍♀️ what was he trying to do - turn the whole kitchen into a sauna?

I can't think that you could effectively cook a rolypoly in the oven unless it was on a rack over the water & the whole thing was CLOSED IN with some kind of foil tent so it actually, y'know, um STEAMED the steamed pudding???

Weaponised incompetence for column inches! Pudding prat indeed.

(but Queen of Puddings took me back to home ec at 12/13 - a true delight, but so much faff I don't think I've ever bothered since ;)