UK only. Masterchef, what a load of cock!
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Fire?
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Fire?
God I'm so bored. This job had one interesting moment, that lasted 5 days, and now its over. And now I am startijng to resent the fact I have to give so much of my time up just to stare blankly at a screen wondering what kind of utter stupidity broke the damn product.
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God I'm so bored. This job had one interesting moment, that lasted 5 days, and now its over. And now I am startijng to resent the fact I have to give so much of my time up just to stare blankly at a screen wondering what kind of utter stupidity broke the damn product.
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Yeah, I'm as bored as hell as well.
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And given the choice would you still eat the kind of stuff they are forced to in Uganda? ;)
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Yeah, I'm as bored as hell as well.
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I'm just not in the mood for it.
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And you know a Micehlin starred restaurant that serves Cardon, marrow, truffle au gratin do you? :) Anyway, thats not the point. To judge British chefs on their ability to cook a dish so obsucure I never heard of it, with ingredients so lame I wouldnt want to eat it is stupid in the extreme.
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fat_boy wrote:
Anyway, thats not the point. To judge British chefs on their ability to cook a dish so obsucure I never heard of it, with ingredients so lame I wouldnt want to eat it is stupid in the extreme.
Bask in the ultimate truth of fat_boy. Only food that he could like is fit to be cooked on the tele. You really are the incarnation of Cartman, aren't you?
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I thought it was the germans with their methane-producing sausages. :doh:
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Reminds me of the much touted Anduilette. A tripe sausage. THey are truly revolting.
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fat_boy wrote:
Reminds me of the much touted Anduilette. A tripe sausage. THey are truly revolting.
This might the first thing we agree upon!
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fat_boy wrote:
Anyway, thats not the point. To judge British chefs on their ability to cook a dish so obsucure I never heard of it, with ingredients so lame I wouldnt want to eat it is stupid in the extreme.
Bask in the ultimate truth of fat_boy. Only food that he could like is fit to be cooked on the tele. You really are the incarnation of Cartman, aren't you?
Well of course its my opinion! Its my thread! I am not asking you to agree with me, but if you have not tried this dish then dont disagree. Merely suggest an alternative that you might like to see cooked. :)
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So I am watching 'Professional Masterchef' and some Michel Roux chappie sets the BRITISH contestants the challenge of making a dish well known in LYON! So called, Cardon (looks like very dead cellery), Truffle, Marrow, and Gryuere. And thats ALL the dish consisted of! Apart from the fact that this is utterly irrelevant to British chefs just what the fuck is this god awfull mess supposed to taste like because quite frankly truffles taste of rotten wood, gryuere is no where near as good as cheddar for cooking with. Mwrrow bone is almost tasteless and steamed 'very dead cellery' isnt going to add very much more to the mix. But what really PISSES me off is tha fact that BRITISH chefs should be tested on BRITISH FOOD! Get them to make fish anc chips. Nice but of cod, well seasoned, brown beer batter, chips, mint and pea puree. When its good its sublime, and better than a lot of Franch crap believe me, and a REAL test of a BRITISH chef! This isnt the first time this French prick has done this. Last series he set the challenge of making acake that was invented to celebrate some bycicle race betweem Reims and Paris or some such back in 1912! I mean what is the fucking point? Does the twat think ANY of us have heard of it? French turd! What the fuck is wrojng with apple pie? Pinch of cinamon, and nutmeg, nice pastry, and home made ice cream. Done right its sublime, and a propper test of a BRITISH chef! Oh, and the French have absoloutely no comprehension of just how good mint is and what to do with it. Bloody pagans!
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I fucking hate those shows. 15 mins of recap, 15 mins of "and how did the rising of the souffle make you feel?", 15 ........ mins ........ lost ..........to........... some .............. 3rd rate celebrity fuckwit.......... talking ...............really really slowly because the souffle coming out of the oven is the most dramatic thing to have happened in the last century. It's just big brother for your age group. Rather than appealing to 20 somethings with girls running around with their tits out they appeal to the 30 something "sophisticated foodie" aka "fucking wanker" by cooking shit that no one eats.
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digital man wrote:
french dish is a test of their skill
Did you see the program? It was basic. Steamed Cardoon, sliced truffle and marrow, layered with gryuere on top. A curry requires way way way more skill than that to cook. Like I said. Good fish and chips is more skillfull than the dish they used. (I investigated it, its aparently swiss (hence Savoyard). Savoyard food is basic in the extreme. Raquette, Fondue, Tartiflette are the well known dishes from the region. Any of which can be cooked in about 10 minutes by almost anyone. I doubt the Cardoon is much different. Its not that the chefs on the program didnt cook it well that I am complaining about, most did, though one made it a soup, its the fact they use French dishes all the time due to the assumption that French food is somehow better and therefore a better test. It isnt. Thats my point, which I dont think you get. There is plenty of British food which is more relevant to the audience and requires skill to cook.
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Thats my point, which I dont think you get.
I get your point, really, I do but it isn't about that the dish is French or whatever it's that there is little chnace that they will have prepared it before so it is a true test of their skill. Still, I quite enjoy the program: better than much else on at the moment.
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fat_boy wrote:
Thats my point, which I dont think you get.
I get your point, really, I do but it isn't about that the dish is French or whatever it's that there is little chnace that they will have prepared it before so it is a true test of their skill. Still, I quite enjoy the program: better than much else on at the moment.
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I also enjoy it, thats why this foolishness anoys me so much. Anyway, it was a good rant. Feel better for it. :)
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Glad to oblige though I note we haven't had a good argument in quite some time, damn you!
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Richard A. Abbott wrote:
Except that which we Brits call "curry" wouldn't be given the time of day by our Indian friends.
Why? In the UK we cook curries from recipies written by Indians? Indian restaurants are almost always owned by Indians (lets include Pakistan here for the sake of argument). Their curries might have been westernised, but dont forget, the famous Tika Masala, created in the UK, is now popular in India.
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You are right about the curries one finds in the average curry house. But, there are increasingly very high quality indian restaurants in the UK offering exactly the same kinds of dishes, of the same quality, as found in good restaurants in India. And if you want to make these dishes the recipes are readilly available (gotta find the good ones though). I have a good vook, and the results are truly superb. Way way better than what you get in an average curry house and far closer to what you get in India (I had the good fortune to spend two weeks in Hyderabad. The food was generally delicious)
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fat_boy wrote:
what you get in India
fat_boy wrote:
I had the good fortune to spend two weeks in Hyderabad.
That is almost similar to eating curries here in UK. If you want to try authentic curry try out North India. South Indian food is quite different from the North Indian one.
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fat_boy wrote:
what you get in India
fat_boy wrote:
I had the good fortune to spend two weeks in Hyderabad.
That is almost similar to eating curries here in UK. If you want to try authentic curry try out North India. South Indian food is quite different from the North Indian one.