Tony Pendrey

This "cookery" programme is just beyond the pale.

Are they serious ? Am I supposed to take two weeks off work and spend all the holiday dosh just to cook the perfect chille con carne !

What's wrong with a packet of mix (25p from Aldi).

They fly the guy (and a camera crew) all the way to Texas just to taste a few portions. Wouldn't it have been cheaper to send the bloody stuff here !

Ah Yes, the Soviet Union. All them wheatfields and ballet in the evenings

cletus awreetus

Plenty wrong!

A "mix" that require you to just add water is always going to be inferior to making your own from fresh ingredients.
A perfectly acceptable one can be made for a couple of quid.

batman

I make a very good chilli.

Bats.

"Boom boom a baby .... Banham Zoo .... Banana pants! Hahahaha"

Steve Crook

There was a thread about this when he did his first series.
The series is about HIM exploring the outer limits of cookery. Nowhere does he suggest that you should do it

Steve

Dame Starry

I've never seen Heston Bluminghell really cook - he just does food experiments really, doesn't he?
In my very humble opinion as the resident culinary genius on these forums (take 1 generous pinch of salt!), I have to decree that there are only 3 cooks in the world worth listening to:

3. Delia Smith
2. James Martin
1. Me

Nellie Lovett (Mrs)
of Fleet Street, above the Barber's shop

Seriously, if you want the perfect turkey on Christmas day, follow Delia Smith's recipe; it's excellent.

The Christmas countdown has begun - don't leave it all until the last minute!

Steve Crook

If you want the perfect turkey on Christmas day...
Don't get a turkey, get a goose.

They're much tastier

Steve

Marky B

There are far too many cooks/cookery programmes on television.
Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall - yes.
Ray Mears,finding a dead rabbit for his supper - yes.
The rest - no.
Ta Ta
Marky B

I am special. The heavens always open for me.

Dame Starry

Too many cooks? Agreed - especially when they are called Ainsley Harriot.
HFW? - Nah. I couldn't grow my own meat.
Ray Mears? Absolutely not - although I believe I read somewhere that his programme is not 100% true.

The rest? Do you mean to tell me, Mark, that you would turn your nose up at Jane Asher? (I'm just reading her latest cookery book - we agree on everything, so she MUST be good!)

YDSL x.

The Christmas countdown has begun - don't leave it all until the last minute!

Steve Crook

A TV show that isn't 100% true? Shock, horror. Hold the front page. Here's tomorrow's headline for the tabloids

Most people comment that for a survival specialist, living on what he can find, Ray Mears does look remarkably well fed. But he is an internationally acknowledged expert on survival and bushcraft. He trains a lot of military people all around the world.

And the thing I like most about his programs is that he does it with an unassuming manner. The programmes are about the subject and not about him, unlike some other programmes that try to follow in his footsteps. But as a master of bushcraft, Ray is careful about the trail he leaves

Ray Mears and Les Hiddins ("The Bushtucker man") - tick, VG. They're just about sharing knowledge
Steve Irwin and Bear Grylls - too much "Look at me, aren't I wonderful"

Steve

ddock54

Cheap awfull tv again ,treating us all like cretins.When will the tv stations realise that some of us have brains...its a sad tv world at the moment

I SAY THERE BOY!

hankoler

Is it any wonder this country is getting obese with all the cookery programmes on now.Lets have more of Fanny Craddock she used to put me off food for life , poor Johnny.

Dame Starry

The, alleged, obesity problem in this country probably has less to do with eating habits and more to do with the lack of exercise. Exercise that used to be part of our everyday lives before we all became slaves to the combustion engine!
What happened to the Sunday afternoon walk to burn off the wonderful roast dinner? Walking into town to do the shopping? Walking to work and to school?

More people have cars now, we don't like our kids walking the streets because they have been known to disappear even in broad daylight and public transport is not only expensive, it's completely unreliable. We are all expected to travel further and further to work which means using the cheapest and most reliable form of transport available to us - invariably, the car.

I watch cookery programmes purely to pick up tips on the preparation and the actual cooking - I'd have to be starving to eat most of the food!

YDSL x.

The Christmas countdown has begun - don't leave it all until the last minute!

Marky B

I agree with everything you say there,Steve.
Ta Ta
Marky B

I am special. The heavens always open for me.

Marky B

I didn't know she had a programme.
Ta Ta
Marky B

I am special. The heavens always open for me.

Tony Pendrey

Yeah - So why don't they make a programme showing us how to make a good meal for two quid .

This whole thing is utter utter tosh. It is an insult to the intelligence.

Ah Yes, the Soviet Union. All them wheatfields and ballet in the evenings