anyone else watching 'great british menu'?

[MousyMouse]

made me very hungry.

I've gone off Aiden a bit now. I think he is too sneery . It won't stop me going to his place though.
Simon went the distance for his rosehips though, climbing mountains. Bloody hell.
Agree that Johnny shouldn't have bothered going back. What a nob he looked.
Who will win tonight? I saw a bit of the judging, Oliver (I think) sneered and said he didn't know what he was eating.

And when he said that he was eating Aiden's fish course that got 10 from Marcus. I know this because we rewound and freeze framed to look. [sad geek emoticon]

Ah. Looking forward to tonight. I'll have to watch it when I get home though. It's race night at DDs school and we've got our tickets

I do think that the brief this year is pushing towards style rather than content - there's a lot of criticism and when someone is doing a dish that is intended to make delicious food from lovely ingredients without marinating it in liquid helium or cooking it on the dark side of the sun.

And I was very about the antique veg too - those storage techniques were born of neccessity, and weren't a way to make the food taste better - it was just gimmickery as far as I could see.

You are of course right evil. Wouldn't you check that your turnips were firm before packing them in sawdust.
I also thought the man last week was really gimmicky with his shotgun cartrdige platform, horse platform for plate and foil cornet holder. The latter was very pretty though.

If I hear the words "how is this groundbreaking/pushing the boundaries?" one more time...

Or some of the elements didn't work/did work/need tweeking................

hmmm. I wish they would stop messing with the time!!

Bloomin' heck, is it on already Raahh? Hope my series link is working...

Oh, poor Aiden.

It's the 3rd time he has lost now

It was certainly very close, the closest I've seen

Aiden would have walked some of the other regions (North East, anyone?).

Maybe he should have moved!

I would have happily eaten any of their food. gutted for aiden...

Poor Aiden. Is there a cap on the number of times they can compete? This is Aiden's third year. Can he go back next year or is that it?
Agree that he would have been a shoo in in other regions. NE especially.
I was puzzled, I had been drinking when I watched it, but I didn't see the 'can't recognise this' comment.

I know it's probably good publicity, but I wouldn't want to do it again if I was Aiden. It was very close- and for the first time, most of the food in the final was stuff you would want to eat, not ridiculously fancy for the sake of it(cuckoo powder aside)

I doubt Johnny will be invited back

Wow- I'm not keen on Phil, he's very full of himself.

And soreen malt loaf

No, I hoped Phil would go crashing out in humiliation. Still - there are 3 more courses...!

Philip Howard is an amazing chef and his restaurant (the Square) is one of the longest holders of 2*s in London. He is entitled to be a bit full of himself.

They have got some real heavyweights this year - I really hope my ex goes in for it next year

In fact he could replace Johnny Mountain :)

I only really watch if I'm at work, the little ones go to bed at 7pm so its the perfect time for me, I was watching last week and someone walked out, what happened there?

I really like drummer man - I am so shallow I judge on looks and attitude rather than food.
Juney - Johnnie Mountain walked out last week because he was scored really low in his starter then was only given a two for his fish dish. It didn't have any fish in it.

oh dear throwing a tantrum then!

Yep, threw all his toys out because he didn't understand the concept of a fish course containing actual proper fish.
Last nights epidode was a bit although I did get to see Wormwood scrubs.

Phil is very full of himself, I agree. But I somehow like him, despite this.

I can't remember which one it was, but one of them had a starter that was tiny, on a smear of something - but in a huuuuge blue bowl. I would be very and a bit pissed off if a huge bowl like that arrived in front of me, and had so little in it. It looked ridiculous - and made the small starter look even smaller!