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To be concerned about Jamie Oliver's kitchen

255 replies

soupyspoon · 02/02/2026 20:22

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.

OP posts:
Angelic999 · 02/02/2026 22:11

Why oh why did they remove the laugh reaction?! Just had a good giggle at these posts and imagining his hazelnuts ricocheting all over. Poor Jamie at least he didn't get one hit him in the head. Bish bash bosh indeed!

BassinBas · 02/02/2026 22:12

ProfessorLeveretGrey · 02/02/2026 21:54

I was about to say that about JM. he always uses his fingers to gouge out his butter. It makes me queasy.

Sounds a bit Last Tango

ThePrecisionsifthisislove · 02/02/2026 22:13

@Possiges stiffing the staff of wages plus a window cleaner and all the others is scummy AF.

Sunshineandrainbows23 · 02/02/2026 22:16

LorenzoCalzone · 02/02/2026 20:37

It's ironic given he has a range of cookware. I've got a jamie pestle and mortar. He probably uses a shoe and a shuttlecock

This made me laugh 😂 Thank you!

BaronessBomburst · 02/02/2026 22:17

BassinBas · 02/02/2026 22:12

Sounds a bit Last Tango

😂😂😂 🐷

HelenaWaiting · 02/02/2026 22:22

ArcticBells · 02/02/2026 20:39

Poor Jamie can’t even afford a spoon! 😱

That's very unkind. Spoon poverty is a curse on our society.

Volpini · 02/02/2026 22:22

I stopped watching him some years ago when every other word was “nice” or “little” - as in “get yourself a nice little bowl.”
He also did for himself as far as I was concerned when he was on some chat show talking about how obesity began to rise when “our girls went out to work…”

Possiges · 02/02/2026 22:25

ThePrecisionsifthisislove · 02/02/2026 22:13

@Possiges stiffing the staff of wages plus a window cleaner and all the others is scummy AF.

I agree! Which is why I don’t understand the people who “love” him? He’s also an annoying twat.

ThePrecisionsifthisislove · 02/02/2026 22:30

Possiges · 02/02/2026 22:25

I agree! Which is why I don’t understand the people who “love” him? He’s also an annoying twat.

He's called Jamie fucking Oliver in our house.
We detest him and don't watch his progs.

fruitbrewhaha · 02/02/2026 22:35

He does have tea towels, but they are ornamental and stay folded on his oven door. Which is much better than my poor tea towels which I think my DP uses to wipe the dogs feet with.

InTheWindow · 02/02/2026 22:38

Must be a TV chef thing. I made Prue Leith’s Chocolate Fudge cake for DD’s birthday last week. The recipe suggested sieving flour, bicarb and cocoa onto clingfilm to mix it thoroughly. I just used a bowl like a normal person who doesn’t want to spend a week getting cocoa and flour off my kitchen surfaces.

RainySundayAfternoon · 02/02/2026 22:40

I’ve got one of his mugs from about 14 years ago, was carrying it to the kitchen at work and encountered a colleague carrying a lesser, non tv chef mug coming the other way. Smashed the other bugger to pieces, no word of a lie. It was like mug conkers.
I bet he’d have that back in a heartbeat now. Think of all the hazelnuts he could smash with that bad boy.

Fulmine · 02/02/2026 22:41

soupyspoon · 02/02/2026 20:35

Hasnt paid the water bill.

I expect some minion had already done that.

fivetriangulartrees · 02/02/2026 22:44

Angelic999 · 02/02/2026 22:11

Why oh why did they remove the laugh reaction?! Just had a good giggle at these posts and imagining his hazelnuts ricocheting all over. Poor Jamie at least he didn't get one hit him in the head. Bish bash bosh indeed!

This thread has made me laugh so hard I think I've turned my lungs inside out.

(Would have preferred to say this before people started talking about employees not getting paid but it's taken me a while to recover.)

BillieWiper · 02/02/2026 22:44

Bloozie · 02/02/2026 21:35

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.

Yeah quite. I mean you could just use a fork?!

AccidentalPrawnYouFool · 02/02/2026 22:50

“A shoe and a shuttlecock” has done me in 🤣

Damnloginpopup · 02/02/2026 22:51

soupyspoon · 02/02/2026 20:22

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.

Jamie and his mincey hands 🤣🤣🤣

Love that

Damnloginpopup · 02/02/2026 22:52

upstairsdownstairscardboardbox · 02/02/2026 20:45

"bish bash bosh laaaavvvvveerrrley innit me old mucker. Me? I'm a geezer you know, common as muck me, look at me mashin' an' bashin' this spud on a board. Laaaavverrrrley even youse, yes youse you fackin peasant, even a pauper like you can do this shit"

😂😂

Vizz Jayme 🤣

OvernightBloats · 02/02/2026 22:59

Littleguggi · 02/02/2026 21:56

Nothing he cooked tonight looked appetising 🤢 the only decent thing was his guest cook who made spinach daal and rice!

Yes! The lady who made the dal and rice was a fantastic, engaging presenter. She had interesting stories and great tips. She should have her own show. I was disappointed when her segment ended and it went back to the slapdash Jamie.

nothanks2026 · 02/02/2026 23:00

LorenzoCalzone · 02/02/2026 20:37

It's ironic given he has a range of cookware. I've got a jamie pestle and mortar. He probably uses a shoe and a shuttlecock

😅

zanahoria · 02/02/2026 23:01

How can he be short of kitchen equipment ?

He sells a Jamie Oliver version of bloody everything

nothanks2026 · 02/02/2026 23:03

upstairsdownstairscardboardbox · 02/02/2026 20:45

"bish bash bosh laaaavvvvveerrrley innit me old mucker. Me? I'm a geezer you know, common as muck me, look at me mashin' an' bashin' this spud on a board. Laaaavverrrrley even youse, yes youse you fackin peasant, even a pauper like you can do this shit"

😂😂

Right. I haven't watched him in years because, though your comment is funny, his performance is annoying af.

Gothamcity · 02/02/2026 23:08

LorenzoCalzone · 02/02/2026 20:37

It's ironic given he has a range of cookware. I've got a jamie pestle and mortar. He probably uses a shoe and a shuttlecock

This has made me cry with laughter. Thank you 😂

Damnloginpopup · 02/02/2026 23:09

His tongue is too big for his gob. Fork-tongued cunt.

Told us all that two for a fiver chickens were rubbish and with a different chicken we could have three meals - a roast, risotto and soup iirc. Can do that with any fucking chicken. So, the poor went from two chickens for a fiver to two chickens for a tenner. Poorer. Cheers dickhead. The supermarkets lived you!

Tackle obesity? Right, poor people, pay more for coke or drink aspartame. Lovely, let's tax the fuck out of sugar. Who does he thinks he is? Portly little cunt with his cream and his butter. FUCK OFF.

Sorry. You lot were funny and i ruined it just because I want to mash the twat on top of the Tassimo with a slipper and an upturned sodastream.

Dustyfustyoldcarcass · 02/02/2026 23:15

At least he isn't fashioning a BBQ out of an abandoned toxic waste barrell and a garden gate like some of those other patronising middle class twats.