Great British Menu 2025 Thread 2 - From beige sludge to poncey nonsense, but is any of it banquetworthy?

[Sunbird24]

The drama continues…

It's another small dish. And "empty".

I’m finding all the links to the brief really tenuous, like they all need a card to explain what they are

Awful. She never cooked the fish. It was in a water bath

lazy cooking

Another lazy careless chef

Spencer is giving lots of help.... Not sure it'll help, though.

Yes, if the dishes really connect to the brief the diners would instantly recognise the inspiration without an explanation.

What was that halibut in? Waterbath without the vac pak

Bit what has any of it got to do with boxing?? Or Wales??

Fish n flowers yawn

This is shit. Why Joe Calzaghe's dad and how is he connected to this dish? It looks like a boil in the bag bit of fish in some Heinz Spaghetti Hoop juice.

He should have practiced it, then he’d have known how to improve it before presenting it to a judge chef on national tv. But who’s got time for that?

Really awful. That lazy Seb

It's bad when the only positive you can come up with is "the scallop was sliced nicely"

Cottonwool fish

Well called out on letting someone else cook your main element

Spencer is a really good judge. He must be frustrated with this lot.

I get the feeling he didn't want to be there and deliberately sabotaged himself. I notice they didn't ask him back....

Yes Spencer must be appalled at this bunch

Can’t see the public queuing up to eat at his restaurant

Yes. Even his intro was 'Being a chef is really underpaid and I'm thinking about becoming a plasterer.'

Presumably without even doing a plastering course.

Oh I missed that. Well being a plasterer is not easy

It's so goddamned disrespectful, it made me angry. How dare he turn up and piss about with crap he hasn't even tried? Entitled, lazy bloke wasting everyone's time. Good riddance, Seb.

It really is a lacklustre lot today. I hope the remaining three get their butts in gear for tomorrow.

Just caught up on yesterday. Who in their right mind turns up without practicing

Well that was erm interesting 😳 not practicing, tenuous links to the brief, poor Spencer - he is wasted on them!

I've just caught up too. At this rate there will be food at the banquet.