Anyone watching James Martin and his Hospital Food thing?

[Sparklingbrook]

He's a bit smug, and getting cross already.

OMG Claimed it's only 3 1/2 hours til Doctors, you need to get it working.

I watched too, I felt myself getting a bit shouty. How can you run a kitchen like that? And if the hospital management team have never thought to put together a budget for food, what else have they overlooked?! And this is just one hospital...
I am hoping Mr Custard was just being awkward and obstructive because it makes good TV, not because he is actually like that. I would bet a Rich Tea that he is the hero of the series by the end, he will turn it around and turn out to be a thoroughly nice chap.

Pat from Scarborough will take the half blonde/half brown hair head chef in hand, I think the lady chef will be ok, it's the small custardgate bloke who will cause the trouble. I suspect he is partly the reason the team is in trouble, him and weak head chef.

Yes the blonde/brown head chef lady didn't seem very charismatic did she?

I flicked over to jk whilt I finish my cuppa, he is the father. hth

MrsJ, I seem to have Homes Under the Hammer on.

It does make you wonder if Mr Custardgate was told to be the villain of the piece, and SomeBear I bet you are right and he turns it around and becomes a champion at the end with him and James being best buddies.

Watched this. Got sucked in v quickly.
Our hospital is just getting rid of catering staff to replace with ready meals....

Ood

Bit weird to but the programme on at 9.15 in the morning. Thought it would have a wider appeal.

I was wondering if it was a repeat but not interested enough to look it up

Maybe it's on now so hospital patients have less chance of seeing it as they'll be seeing Doctors on ward rounds?

James Martin went to a hospital in Scarborough a while ago, it was horrifying how much waste food they had.

Of course, he sorted it all in the end - what a hero!

Just switched it on now.

He's got a point, and he is only trying to help them.

So much wasted food!

I can't bring myself to like him since he said in an interview he deliberately tries to run cyclists off the road and make them crash off their bikes.

I just can't believe anyone could be so arrogant as think or do that , and so STUPID as to say so publicly

Love his gang of chefs. Some of my favourites from great British menu on there.

Watching today...

I'm rapidly losing interest. We're 20 mins in and nothing has actually happened. Lots of talk but no action.

selba

TV chef James Martin has apologised for unkind comments he made regarding cyclists in a Mail on Sunday review of the Tesla Roadster.

Martin (pictured) ill-advisedly spouted: "God, I hate those cyclists. Every last herbal tea-drinking, Harriet Harman-voting one of them. That's one of the reasons I live in the countryside, where birds tweet, horses roam, pigs grunt and Lycra-clad buttocks are miles away."

What really did the trick, though, was this: "Twenty minutes into my test drive I pulled round a leafy bend, enjoying the birdsong - and spotted those damned Spider-Man cyclists. Knowing they wouldn't hear me coming, I stepped on the gas, waited until the split second before I overtook them, then gave them an almighty blast on the horn at the exact same time I passed them at speed."

"The look of sheer terror as they tottered into the hedge was the best thing I've ever seen in my rear-view mirror. I think this could be the car for me."

I knew the 8am shift handover would be the problem

the waste is shocking, isn't it? I can't believe things are so badly run pre JM

Although I can take him or leave him, I do think JM knows what he's on about.

at that cyclist comment. Being generous I would hope that it was an attempt at Jeremy Clarkson style controversial writing, but what a knobbish thing for him to say.

I watched it on iPlayer yesterday.

JM is right. his chefs would die for a kitchen like that and just getting the basics right of food costing, measuring accurately to a recipe, everyone following the same recipe and knowing how many servings you are catering for is nothing to do with Michelin star food it is just good catering practice.

The thing is that the 'cook chill' food catering frms that produce food in a factory and then transport it into schools and hospitals make their money by keeping a very tight rein on costs. You can see why the are successful and why thay make their money and why organisations eventually bring them in rather than do catering in house.

It is basic management really. It can be done in house but you need someone who is a skilled food service manager. The waste is such a shame because if food wasn't wasted then they could afford to use better quality ingredients and everyone woudl benefit.

Food is a really really important contribution to the health of a person and I know I have taken food into hospitals when DW was there and she felt a lot better.

I'm really enjoying it - I'm a bit gobsmacked at how far removed the hospital management are from it all.