Masterchef - The Professionals.

I know some people like that modern cuisine stuff - and so be it.
To me it's all too much of a gimmick.
It's food Jim, but not as we know it - not as we know it. Sorry everyone. I just don't get it.
I mean, they did (so called) cooked lamb a few weks ago - and it still had blood dripping out of it.
Doesn't work for me.

The chef did not let the lamb rest long enough for the blood to ooze out and the juices to 're-integrate'. But, since he was behind time, he had to choose between serving the lamb or not; he was told, after he chose to serve it, 'if it's not good enough, do not plate it'.

Doesn't work for me. Beef, pork and lamb, for me, are best pink - except tough cuts destined for slow cooking. But I have my pork only just pink.

Just watched a snippet from another TV UK food thing (there are so many of 'em).
This one was called.... "Best Dish" - The Chefs.
And on the silly pudding menu tonight, it was 'Pears and Parsnip'.
I give up.

I give up.

Don't do that, bb - YC and WT will mourn ye! :)

Firefox crashed and then reposted - how stable is Windows7 (hereon)?

Edited by: tony0001

Vinny: I saw a TV cookery programme yesterday and the chef had a tablespoon in each hand. I immediately thought 'He's going to quenelle this', and then I thought of ye - and that I should come back here and point out that I was wrong to take ye to task.

No, I think you were right to point out that you would need eggs.

Urgh I hate Masterchef - it ws imported to Australia and everyone loves it here. I was lucky enough to be overseas when it first came out though I did feel out of the loop when I got back and everyone was going on about it. Then I realised what it was and was glad to have missed it.

Masterchef and cooking programmes...
I'm not sure if I've watched Masterchef, maybe I did, as all those programmes are imported either directly, or as a concept, to all other countries in this global village.
To me, most cooking programmes these days have become unwatchable. They turn the whole thing upside down. Instead of delivering pleasure at a relaxed pace, people in those programmes go into military style regime, fierce competitions with time deadlines, counting minutes and seconds, fearing punishments, cursing and other sorts of humilation, and ending up in tears.
Wouldn't they be better of changing the style to sort of 'free range', like chickens, with less stress?.

Urgh I hate Masterchef

There are two versions, kmingnath: one is Masterchef, the other Masterchef Professional. (I'm writing about the latter.)

The first involves home cooks; the second professional chefs.

The first is slightly interesting but largely boring (even when it was first broadcast - at least a decade ago, probably two). This said, BBC stats show that the original Masterchef is thrice as popular as Masterchef Professional - at least as voted for by subscribers to BBC Olive food magazine.