Great British menu season 17

[jay55]

BBC 2 8pm tonight (feb 1st) Tom Kerridge is one of the new judges.

Can't wait to see some soil and steam and shoehorned themes.

rts.org.uk/article/bbc-two-s-great-british-menu-return-new-judges

Get a toddler to throw it against wall.

@Stellaris22

Wasn't Liz a Masterchef finalist? You'd think she was used to time pressure.

Maybe she’d have done better with the speaking cock giving her a time check every 5 minutes

I'd like Michael O'Hare to get his own cookery show. He's my favourite judge on this. He manages to be critical without being a knob.

Really enjoying Michael. Not so much the chefs.

That strictly main was smaller than a lot of starters.

I'm relying on you lot to watch this week's shows for me. We watched Tuesday's episode and decided to avoid the rest. Too painful. Sadly that also means I miss out on Michael O'hare. He deserves so much better than this bunch of mediocre chefs.

DH said you can tell Liz works with an experienced brigade under her rather than her working alone. She's all over the place.

@knittingaddict am also frustrated with this lot. Especially as we don't get Michael O'Hare on a million cooking shows like most the other judges. It's a shame to watch him try not to spit out the food.

I really like Michael. He's so kind & constructive. Not up his own arse like Richard Corrigan has become.

I always think Richard Corrigan is like a pantomime Dame

Liz didn’t cry on masterchef 2016 the winner did.

Evening all!

www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/lifestyle/food-and-drink/liz-cottam-why-i-am-over-my-masterchef-tears-868136?amp

She cried.

Evening. One horse race tonight?

Reckon so, unless the timing issues are all fixed and the judges completely disagree with Michelle O’Hare.

Love Kingy

I meant Michael, not sure why that autocorrected!

Who persuaded Andi to wear that dress? She has too much chest for that neckline and its short😳

Salsify, just the sort of thing they'd eat on Heartbeat.

Not used to seeing Andi’s legs, you’re right @hamptonedge

Simon is really pissed off.

I don’t know who’s pissed on Tom’s chips tonight…

Why is Tom being such a knob?

Its a shame that Simon's words about being kind and encouraging fell on deaf ears!

I can understand Tom being annoyed, he made his reputation on the show and so he has a vested interest in it having a continued high standard.

There was a really weird atmosphere on the show tonight, like they were all really pissed off with each other but had to be all clipped and polite when the cameras were rolling.

I've surprised myself by finding Ed to be my favourite judge, in that he's the least arse-like. My ideal judging panel would be Michael O'Hare, Paul Ainsworth and Lisa Goodwin-Allen.

Just watching now and I'd say Tom and Ed have definitely had words. Ed seems to be pointedly disagreeing with everything Tom says.

Such a shame that the amazing chefs of a couple of weeks back haven't made it through when their food was of much higher quality.

Was it Wales where we had the good week? All four of those should have gone through ahead of most other weeks.