Masterchef

austinbob · 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. 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!!

Agrippa · 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.

austinbob · April 08, 2015, 09:18:13 PM

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??

Agrippa · 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...

austinbob · April 08, 2015, 09:28:52 PM

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...

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!!

Agrippa · April 08, 2015, 09:36:01 PM

Bon appetit....

austinbob · April 08, 2015, 09:38:49 PM

Quote from: Agrippa on April 08, 2015, 09:36:01 PM
Bon appetit....

I thank you!!!

DELETED · April 08, 2015, 10:03:54 PM

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

Back in the day when we used to have proper comedy on TV I remember this very fondly!!!

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

Vonk · April 08, 2015, 10:21:31 PM

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.

Newportnobby · 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.

Bealman · April 09, 2015, 08:04:36 AM

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

)

austinbob · April 09, 2015, 08:17:30 PM

It's on again tonight. I refuse to watch it. (but i'd like to know who wins - so sad!!!)

port perran · April 09, 2015, 08:32:44 PM

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.

dannyboy · April 10, 2015, 01:43:14 AM

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

ozzie Bill. · April 10, 2015, 07:56:37 AM

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.