I used to enjoy watching Masterchef to see the contestants gradually improve their skills and produce nice food. I even tried some of their recipies with varying results. But, over the years the food dishes seemed to have turned to miniature works of art with very little link to eating real food that you would eat every day.
I really don't see the point in having a beautiful, tiny (and I mean tiny!!) plate of food consisting of three mouthfuls and a pansy on top!
I'm sure there are a load of rich B....s out there who can afford to buy and consume a tiny mouthful of food for a month's mortgage but - what is the world coming to.
Isn't it about time that we had a proper Masterchef program focusing on food that normal non-rich people eat and that us poor (mostly) ordinary pensioners like me would cook and eat.
If all this wasn't bad enough - we have to endure the megalomaniac rantings of the food critics who've never done a days work in their lives and get paid for eating food and moaning about it. God help us all.
Oh!! I feel so much better now - sorry to dump this on all you nice folk!!
I'm off for fish and chips and a beer now!!
:thankyousign:
Just buy a cookbook, tv cooking programmes are boresville and that great bakeoff thing
was the boringest of them all.
Quote from: Agrippa on April 08, 2015, 09:13:18 PM
Just buy a cookbook, tv cooking programmes are boresville and that great bakeoff thing
was the boringest of them all.
You know what --- I think you're right. I don't need to buy cook books I've got loads
But - why do you think people pay loads of cash for 3 mouthfuls and a pansy! - I just can't figure that out Agrippa. Am I missing something here??
:confused2:
Presumably because they're posers and mugs, I like good food
but I wouldn't pay through the nose for 3 leaves and a dash of
jus or whatever . A company I worked for arranged a dinner
at a client's restaurant with a trendy menu, everyone moaned
about the size of the portions and said they were still hungry,
but not me , I had a fish supper before arriving... ;D
Quote from: Agrippa on April 08, 2015, 09:25:23 PM
Presumably because they're posers and mugs, I like good food
but I wouldn't pay through the nose for 3 leaves and a dash of
jus or whatever . A company I worked for arranged a dinner
at a client's restaurant with a trendy menu, everyone moaned
about the size of the portions and said they were still hungry,
but not me , I had a fish supper before arriving... ;D
I like your style - I think I'll dump the masterchef thing - its just not real - and that Greg Wallace bloke - well what will he go down in history as!!! Answers on a post card please!!
:beers:
Bon appetit.... :food:
Not that I can stand either the Greengrocer or Torode (or the show) but do you not remember the original Masterchef? The "new one" is nowhere near as poncey IMO!
https://youtu.be/ZZyuwCgCs8E (https://youtu.be/ZZyuwCgCs8E)
Back in the day when we used to have proper comedy on TV I remember this very fondly!!!
https://youtu.be/towd9vZWDJg (https://youtu.be/towd9vZWDJg)
To be honest I think 90% of TV is utter guff these days. There's very little quality broadcasting now, too many channels and budgets spread thinly across them all rather than concentrating on putting good TV shows together :thumbsdown:
Quote from: austinbob on April 08, 2015, 09:07:20 PM
I used to enjoy watching Masterchef to see the contestants gradually improve their skills and produce nice food. I even tried some of their recipies with varying results.
I used to enjoy watching masterchef to see the flashy lights at 10mins left. It never used to be quite so serious back in t'day.
I never watch any cookery programme but have been following 'Back in time for dinner' with great interest as it portrays what folks used to eat in each decade starting with the 1950's and we are now up to the 1980's. Not only that but the 'victims' house gets decorated in the style of each decade and all the up to date gizmos are added each episode. They also wear appropriate clothing for the times and drive period cars.
As for nouvelle cuisine - that can be stuck where the sun don't shine. Give me good old traditional fayre any time.
Hey I'm not a great lover of fish - usually would like to stick that where Mick suggests, but stuck here as I am on the waterfront in Hobart, (sob, expecting no sympathy), there ain't much choice!
And guess wot... Bealman is suddenly getting an appetite for fish food ;)
By the way, we have that mind-numbing show here, too (Aussie version... kangaroo steaks, etc ;))
It's on again tonight. I refuse to watch it. (but i'd like to know who wins - so sad!!!)
:confused2:
Quote from: newportnobby on April 09, 2015, 05:55:17 AM
I never watch any cookery programme but have been following 'Back in time for dinner' with great interest as it portrays what folks used to eat in each decade starting with the 1950's and we are now up to the 1980's. Not only that but the 'victims' house gets decorated in the style of each decade and all the up to date gizmos are added each episode. They also wear appropriate clothing for the times and drive period cars.
As for nouvelle cuisine - that can be stuck where the sun don't shine. Give me good old traditional fayre any time.
We've enjoyed Back in Time for Dinner for the same reasons as Mick.
As for Masterchef, we used to watch and enjoy several years ago but as in so many things - it's been "done to death" and is no longer even remotely interesting.
The thing that gets me with all these cookery programmes, (apart from the tiny quantities), is the number of times 'chefs' manhandle the food!! They then wipe their hands on their apron and then fiddle about with the food a bit more!! Apart from the silly prices, that is the main reason I refuse to go to 'posh' restaurants. I have to say that the 'Back In Time For Dinner' series is excellent. I missed the first one,(1950s) which would have been very interesting for me, as I was born in in that decade, so it would have been nice to see what I would have had for tea when I got home from school :)
Don't know whether you have one in UK called "my kitchen rules"? It is truly awful. Pits teams against each other and the whole show is built around developing "nice" and 'bitchy' teams. Even the trailers are enough to make you suffer from terminal gastric ulcers! Watched one, very early on, but now it does not get near our screen.
Cheers, Bill.
I forgot about that! Now you ARE making me :sick: Bill
Quote from: dannyboy on April 10, 2015, 01:43:14 AM
I have to say that the 'Back In Time For Dinner' series is excellent. I missed the first one,(1950s) which would have been very interesting for me, as I was born in in that decade, so it would have been nice to see what I would have had for tea when I got home from school :)
Believe me, David, you wouldn't have liked what they had for tea :no: :sick2:
I seem to remember that there was a lot of jam and bread! I also remember going to the fish and chip shop on a Saturday with £1 and getting fish and chips for 6 of us - and change, (can not remember how old I was though - might be my age now dulling the memory :worried:). Actually, when I say fish and chips for 6, it was fish and chips for Mum and Dad and cake and chips for us 4 young ones. (For the uninitiated, a cake was 2 slices of potato with minced fish inside and covered in batter). Yorkshire fish and chips is a must every time I go back home :claphappy: . David.
Quote from: newportnobby on April 10, 2015, 10:24:36 AM
Quote from: dannyboy on April 10, 2015, 01:43:14 AM
I have to say that the 'Back In Time For Dinner' series is excellent. I missed the first one,(1950s) which would have been very interesting for me, as I was born in in that decade, so it would have been nice to see what I would have had for tea when I got home from school :)
Believe me, David, you wouldn't have liked what they had for tea :no: :sick2:
Bread 'n' dripping and liver - bring it on!! :food:
Paul
Back in time for dinner is quite interesting (I'm assuming it's second series because I've seen it before).
As someone born late 70's I really enjoy watching the BBC shows like Victorian Farm (Edwardian / Wartime) so you can see and get a little appreciation what foodstuffs were available and what folk had to work with. Have to say though I don't remember too much difference between meals in the 80's, 90's 2000's and nowadays because I was brought up to cook myself and not eat junk food.
I think the Beeb were obviously clever with the choice of family for Back in time for dinner though. Best will in the world the mother is obviously no cook and the family (kids in particular) are portrayed stereotypically addicted to modern junk / convenience food.
My Mum recalls bread and dripping sandwiches, I've never tried it. I think I could do comparatively quite well with the early ingredients on the show -apart from the liver day. I used to get force fed it when I was a kid. Last time I didn't feel well and had to eat it then projectile vomited "a-la exorcist style" over my cub pack that evening and thankfully was never made to eat it again, I involuntarily start wretching at even the smell of it ever since. :sick2:
...hey there are worse shows than masterchef out there these days. Gogglebox was on this evening and I watched it just because nothing else was on and something for a change. Think I'd rather have my eyes burned out with red hot pokers rather than watch that tripe every week!
I can remember loads of bread/toast and dripping (always salted mine) and I do like liver but would have hated it cold for evening meals like they had to suffer :sick2:
Quote from: RST on April 10, 2015, 10:49:07 PM
I was brought up to cook myself
That just reminds me of a piece of junk mail my Mum got once about gas barbecues. The leaflet stated proudly "Why not try gas barbecuing yourself!?" :worried:
I remember toast & dripping delicious! Also tripe & onions yumee. Perhaps I'm a bit strange as I quite like masterchef
Had dinner at a posh country club in Tasmania last night (if posh is the right word for a place where Leo Sayer was staying), and it was all white plate with a speck of food in the middle
Sad thing is that I'll be slugged for it when I check out this morning :uneasy: