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Love this programme but I really wish the guy with the beard would wear a chef's jacket...nothing more off putting to see a soaking wet, sweaty t shirt in the kitchen 🤮

"de-shell" a lobster?
Surely you just shell it?

Ooh I love this programme! Off to bed to watch on iPlayer

He also keep wiping his head with this hand and it’s so gross

I love Angela Hartnett - so capable, so respected.

I love Angela Hartnett, seems like a good laugh.

What is your favourite dish so far? It didn't look great but I liked the rice pudding one. Shame the sweaty git has gone 😁

I hate it when they use poncey things to serve up in. Whichever of the Dans it was who served his pud in a tray full of flowers deserved to be disqualified just for that.

I thought the judges sending back the cold beef was a bit daft - what was the chef supposed to do?

I thought it was really harsh to send it back, it's the first time I've seen that happen and yet they've complained before about cold food. Bit mean! Not been blown away by any of the dishes so far though.

Bring back Angela, Tom Aitken is sooooooo dull

None of those starters appealed to me but the scoring was a bit harsh I thought

Just watching. H are about the NHS heroes "working 24 hours"! I bloody hope not. Sorry folks, can't stand Angela Hartnett. We went to her restaurant at the Connaught, it was not good. The food was average, the service awful and, when we complained about the runny chocolate mousse, we were looked down on and told "it's meant to be like that". Some other friends went there and, when one of them had a severe allergic reaction to a dish and the meal was abandoned, they tried to charge them for the whole meal.

I assume all the judges are told to follow the same routine and style, but I think it's daft. They always ask the contestant whether they think some aspect of their dish is OK - why? The contestant might admit something isn't quite up to scratch, but they're hardly likely to say "No, actually, I think it's failed spectacularly". Then when they're summing up at the end, they always go "Positive comments blah blah blah. (small pause) But. Negative comments blah blah blah". Just occasionally they swap "but" for "however". Can't they change the record?

Douglas Fir oil.

The most pretentious of all the oils.

Now that was really unfair. How come they all got a 6 when I make a better fish pie than that every week in the winter? Rarebit topped bechamel? It must have been unbearably rich and gloopy.

Love GBM but I find Tom Aikens such hard work. I don't necessarily agree about the name of the goat dish. All the threads you see about NHS workers and tv shows about them seem to have a theme that dark humour helps and is everywhere, so surely it fits that.

I'm not sure if it's the editing but Tom Aitkens always seems to come across as having the personality of a bread bin.

Considering they are all successful chefs in their own right, Tom Aitkens comes over as very patronising in the way he speaks to the contestants.

I liked the name of the goat dish! and I would have liked to try it, sounded very tasty.

I think that the ‘story’ behind many of the dishes isn’t at all clear from the dishes themselves - and to be honest, I don’t think the story is really necessary - surely what matters is creating delicious food?

Couldn't agree more, SDTG. The idiotic names of dishes are mostly pretty unnecessary also.

I'm quite heartened to see that 'no gravy' is a heinous crime.

Why does Bart's have a great hall?

Probably because it's absolutely ancient (as a facility) and early surgery / teaching would likely have been done in the Great Hall with everyone watching (it's where we get operating 'theatre' from I think).

I normally love this show but all the gushing about NHS ‘heroes’ etc is really grating , and I say that as a retired nurse. I’ve resorted to watching it off the planner so I can wind through great chunks .

Totally agree Floralnomad, I fear weeks of factor style dead Dad stories.

Just bought it to an annoying head yesterday when he was going on about the drivers who deliver emergency blood , anyone would think they were volunteers the way he was going on , it’s their job fgs it’s what they are paid to do .