To be concerned about Jamie Oliver's kitchen

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I love Jamie. Wont hear a word against him

But I grow more and more 'concerned' (I like this word more and more these days, everyone has 'concerns' about something and this is mine) about his kitchen and his handling

Poor Jamie does not seem to have many bowls and spoons

He mashes up things on a wooden board with his hands

He scrunches things with his hands, no spoon available

He chops and bashes things with the wrong implements, like the bottom of a glass or something

Tonight he mashed potato on a chopping board and now scrunching up mince potato and carrot with his hands.

Then with his mincey hands he moves the bowl, touches this, touches that. No tea towels either.

Here he goes again right now, layering all his chopped veg on the worktop. Directly on it

No plates available again I see Jamie.

‘Use a teaspoon of Manuka honey from the cupboard’. Saw that once of one of his poor-people programmes.

made with love….a little bowl of joy 🤣

This is actually a known technique and a lot of Italian chefs will do it. Whole plum tomatoes are usually better quality than pre chopped (the broken ones go in the chopped conveyor belt!) and hand crushing releases the juices and breaks them down better than using a fork or masher.

But I do laugh watching him use a cup to squash random things!

James Martin does too, and he makes sure his guest chefs do. Jamie Oliver is a manky git and always has been.

Yeah he's too tactile with his food. He's trying to play it to the lowest common denominator.

Basically saying 'you don't need loads of different kit and time and confidence and expertise to make a decent meal.' and he does a good job of kind of making that look true. I quite like his accessibility.

But yeah, I get the ick with his big fat fingers squeezing and rubbing everything, his big tongue rolling round and he seems like he spits when he talks!

He annoys me no end. Meals for a fiver?? If you didn’t already have harissa paste and whatever else it would cost about £40 to buy everything you needed for that one “£5” meal

This thread has made me actually cry with laughter - thank you everyone 😂

It’s disgusting that instead of using personal money to bail out his restaurants, he liquidated them, owing thousands of people money, window cleaner owed £6,000 not seen a penny since, whilst he makes millions on every different book each year.

I saw a video of Brooklyn Beckham squashing plum tomatoes with his hands. Makes me feel a bit ‘yuk’

We had a works Christmas meal at one about ten years ago. Awful and not worth the money. That does not defend leaving small businesses unpaid though.

James Martin gouges butter out of a pot with his fingers. He should wash his hands frequently!

On JO practices though- when did poor old soured cream get shunted to the shame cupboard? Not that I don't like a dollop of yoghurt, but now it seems the world and his wife is plonking yoghurt where a nice bit of soured cream seems more apt...

And he claimed credit for ‘banning Turkey twizzlers’ which Scotland and loads of English local authorities had already done.

@soupyspoon Ah yes, the toddler-at-messy-play approach! Very stylish.

Poor people cook and eat with their hands and Jamie is a poor person. He mashes potatoes on a wooden block like Jesus did.

From his tv programmes, DD and I have always considered Jamie O to be a dirty cook with poor hygiene standards - sampling and then re-dipping the spoon etc.etc. not somebody I would take as a good example of professional hygiene standards.

I use kitchen scissors to chop up tinned tomatoes in the can. He is a bit pretentious but I do enjoy watching him. Wouldn’t like to clean up after him.
For budget meals I’m enjoying a woman on instagram who is making meals with five ingredients. With can and frozen veggies. She is great.

I get your point, but in fairness to Jamie here I’m not sure this is aimed at people who have nothing in the store cupboard and would have to buy everything from scratch.

It doesn’t seem to be quite in the same league as the budget series where he spent ages being smug about it being really cheap to cook and then started using half a side of salmon. I was on that thread where we ripped him to shreds for it.

He does seem to think people can’t afford plates and spoons though so who knows.

I can't stand Jamie Oliver so haven't watched the show. This just sounds typical of his attempt to be a rough and ready 'geezer' when he clearly isn't.

where's the laugh emoji?

he does!!

Mockney twat

I remember him saying on one of his cooking shows that he doesn’t like wooden chopping boards. Yet I’d just been considering buying a lovely wooden Jamie Oliver brand chopping board in TK Maxx days before 🤔

So hopefully it was a plastic chopping board he was mashing his spuds on.

This most definitely is not how I cook at home. Even if I have clean hands. Because it's just not pleasant for the people eating it, if they know it's been fingered to fuck by me first.

Raw meat contamination is also basic hygiene, not restaurant standard. Basic 'I don't want to be seeing this dinner again backwards later tonight' stuff.

He’s clearly selling the utensils from his own kitchen; business must be really bad, poor thing

Apart from a potato masher not being wildly expensive, I'd wager it's also easier and more accessible than trying to bully the bloody thing into a pulp with your bare hands.