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.

So glad I wasn’t the only one who read the op in Uncle Roger’s voice. Ai Ai indeed!

Yes, he mixes all kinds of things with his hands, often when a spoon would be a lot more efficient, not to mention hygienic. And describes each recipe as fantastic and amazing even when it's pretty ordinary.

I think he'd benefit from a few basic cooking lessons.

Ooo, who's that?

😂😂 when I come to think of it, all of this is very true OP

Lol honestly I feel that too. Back a few years ago when he was lecturing poor people I had a gutful of him and haven't watched a second of his lecturing, tone deaf, performative bollocks since.

My uncle went to school with him.

When channel flicking recently I accidentally landed on one of his programmes, and watched for a bit because he was making some interesting looking Indian things. At one point he said that a great way to add a smoky spice flavour is to light a cinnamon stick and stand it up in the daal, then put the lid on for the smoke to infuse into it.

That, I thought to myself, will not work.

But I had a bundle of past their best cinnamon sticks in the spice drawer so next time I made daal I gave it a try.

I was right.

You can't stand a cinnamon stick upright in simmering daal. It sinks, or falls over, or both. If you do manage to fashion an elaborate propping system from spoons, as soon as you put the lid on the pan the diminishing oxygen and rapidly increasing steam levels mean it goes out in about 3 seconds. Just long enough to create a small lump of cinnamon charcoal so that - although the dish as a whole lacks 'smoky spiciness' - one lucky diner will get a bite containing a just-noticeable quantity of burnt grit.

Can the poster who said he sacked their mum tell us more?

Heh.😂

I only watch him when he's on the telly in my GP's waiting room. Like a lot of male foodies his main "skill" seems to be cramming loads of superfluous ingredients into things, like his "coleslaw" which includes every species of veg he can lay his mincey hands on. And then he mixes it all by hand instead of using tossing tools, perhaps to demonstrate what a prize tosser he is.

I do as much as possible by hand! I get a hand in the bowl and squish those ingredients by hand 100x times more often than I would use any implement. I do, though, use disposable gloves.

But when mixing and squishing and blending by hand, the results are far better; the fingertips are there to be sensitive and delicate. As such, I rely on touch to know if something has the precise consistency I am after.

As for using 'the wrong things,' it is a weird, bizarre human trait to say 'this is for that!' I butter bread with the back of a dessert spoon! It's much easier and more even. I am always repurposing things in the kitchen. We have these peculiar human 'rules' about what is right or wrong, and I just don't follow those.

My friend came to see me a few weeks ago, a well-educated millionaire. We sat and drank Champagne from wide-mouthed cocktail glasses quite simply because we both enjoy it far more that way.

I'm assuming "mashing his spuds with his hands" isn't a euphemism.

It's not how I cook at home, or anyone I've ever seen cooking

If you closed your eyes, it would just like he was there.

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All these non-millionaires eh? So badly educated and ridiculously “human” 🙄

Just off to drink my morning coffee in a flute now darling - mwah! ciao! 🥂

He wants to appeal to everyone! If you live in a bedsit without many utensils, you can still cook my way.he comes across very genuine guy.loves his family.

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A shoe and a suttlecock 🤣 That has made me laugh a lot!

It’s Jamie’s brand and it always has been.

Camera can see food better out of a bowl.

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morning commute LOL on the bus - thank you!

He has a ‘rough and ready’ brand. Slapdash, get in there, bish bash bosh etc. He always has done. He does things with his hands because it’s matches his brand. He does things out of bowls so the camera can see it better. If you’ve ever cooked in a home Italian family kitchen, yes, this very much is cooking at home.

I guess two people can think two different things.

I'm not sure i get the "doing it outside the bowl is better for TV cameras" ....when other cookery shows have chefs that use bowls, spoons, pestle and mortar etc.....and its not difficult to see what theyre doing?

I do not agree with this. Actually, watching TV chefs cook has put me out of the idea of eating out quite a few times. They stick their fingers in and touch everything! I mean everything!