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Post by Rad on Apr 9, 2008 13:45:23 GMT
I still like it, but the previous series were more fun. And I agree with you on Jennie Bond.
Steven from Masterchef wasn't just Sat's sous chef, he appreas to be a permanent kitchen fixture. It's rather bizarre.
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Post by Rad on Apr 11, 2008 13:36:19 GMT
The milk/nettle/tomato thing looked awful.
In fact, across three series of this there have been only a handful of meals that I actually liked the sound of. Maybe I am just not MODERN! or BRITISH! enough in my tastes.
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Post by Muinimula on Apr 14, 2008 13:24:56 GMT
Poor Angela - I wanted her to go through this week, especially as her pistachio/cherry/amaretto dessert looked very tasty indeed.
It wound me up that the judges made such a fuss about her ravioli being non-British, but the panna cotta dessert wasn't quibbled at all.
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Post by LoveMusic on Apr 14, 2008 13:34:40 GMT
I know, there is a weird thing between being 'modern' and yet using traditional 'from the SOIL of Wales' ingredients.
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Post by Rad on Apr 15, 2008 17:43:45 GMT
If the fish is from Iceland and the cock comb from France, what is British about Anthony's menu? Bet they don't slag him off for that the way they did poor old Angela- who actually seems like a nice person, unlike Anthony, who seems like a wanker (although he did go to Grimsby to buy his fish, so kudos to him for that).
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Post by Robbing the Dead on Apr 15, 2008 17:45:28 GMT
Fuck off Jennie Bond!
Also, does she pronounce "Restaurant" with a French accent? I know it's a French word and everything, but still...
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Post by LoveMusic on Apr 15, 2008 18:22:59 GMT
What the fuck was with today's show. I could barely eat watching the offal, tripe, chicken skin, weird cheese condom thing.
Eew.
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Post by Robbing the Dead on Apr 15, 2008 22:04:56 GMT
That Anthony seems to take innovation too far. I imagine those cheese condoms didn't take of anything and the smell of smoke was hardl noticeable.
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Post by jode* on Apr 16, 2008 13:08:58 GMT
...and chicken skin flavoured popcorn.
Gross. It's one thing to be experimental, but it's another thing to make it up as you go along for shock tactics. How can fish and popcorn ever go together? Surely the popcorn would just become soggy. And are you supposed to actually eat the "chewing gum" texture mozzarella?
A cock's comb sounds disgusting too.
The rules for this series seem to be:
1. Use offal as much as you possible can. Unusual! 2. Make every sauce into a "foam". Mad! 3. Add pepper and herbs and cheese to the pudding. Wacky! 4. Add a pile of crumbs. Arty! 5. Add flowers. Natural! 6. Arrange everything either in a Jackson Pollack style, or with each individual element in it's separate place on the plate. Composition!
Yawn.
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Post by LoveMusic on Apr 16, 2008 13:11:09 GMT
It does, its a really disjointed theme.
Surely foam hasn't been used before for a reason. My brother wandered in and thought someone had spat on their competitors food as sabotage.
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Post by Andrew* on Apr 16, 2008 13:24:01 GMT
Oh this show just gets on my tether.
I feel like I am watching the same show every day each day of the week. If you've watched Monday's episode you've basically seen everything you're gonna see for the rest of the week albeit a slight variation on the food. I am pretty sure they could get the week in to one half hour slot.
And Jennie Bond. Ugh God. Broken effing record.
'Modern' every 4 minutes interspersed with 'British' and that god damn 'Gherkin.' I am sick of hearing about that Gherkin. It's a rubbish prize Jenny. Rubbish! It'd be so much better if they were serving up for S'rAlan.
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Post by Robbing the Dead on Apr 16, 2008 13:24:33 GMT
I don't like this nationalist cooking. And if they have to struggle that hard to make stuff British, doesn't that say a lot about our cuisine.
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Post by Rad on Apr 16, 2008 17:53:20 GMT
Jennie, how can you moan about them taking time and you being hungry WHEN YOU'RE NOT EVEN THERE ?!
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Post by partickswayze on Apr 16, 2008 21:59:20 GMT
Ahahahahaha! I noticed that today too.
So far all this show has proved is that chefs are dickheads.
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Post by Muinimula on Apr 17, 2008 17:44:35 GMT
Again with olives in a pudding! Just. Stop. It.
So, to confirm one menu this week: > cured duck breast, tobacco rhubarb, duck scratching, bee pollen and avocado frozen mousse > warm smoked cod cheeks, cockerels' crests and chicken popcorn > roast suckling pig with crisp pig's ear, baby squid, air-cured ham and vinegar sponge > cream cheese and green olive mousse with yoghurt and olive oil ice cream
Licking your lips with all the MODERN-ness?
You forgot the chewng-gum mozarrella thing of nothingness.
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Post by Andrew* on Apr 17, 2008 18:24:51 GMT
Again with olives in a pudding! Just. Stop. It. So, to confirm one menu this week: > cured duck breast, tobacco rhubarb, duck scratching, bee pollen and avocado frozen mousse > warm smoked cod cheeks, cockerels' crests and chicken popcorn > roast suckling pig with crisp pig's ear, baby squid, air-cured ham and vinegar sponge > cream cheese and green olive mousse with youghurt and olive oil ice cream Licking your lips with all the MODERN-ness? No. I'm craving a tin of mince.
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Post by LoveMusic on Apr 17, 2008 18:40:47 GMT
God, that guy was so rude.
And creepily intense.
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Post by Rad on Apr 18, 2008 0:38:58 GMT
I hate Anthony. HAAAATE. He reminds me of an Apprentice contestant (but with food). I hope the judges treat his food with contempt tomorrow but as they almost always like the people I hate and vice versa I think there is no hope.
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Post by LoveMusic on Apr 18, 2008 10:49:30 GMT
I know the stupid judges will probably like his 'modern' cooking which seems to consist of carcass remains and spit.
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Post by partickswayze on Apr 18, 2008 15:13:12 GMT
He has the eyes of a rapist. In fact, he's a food rapist.
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Post by partickswayze on Apr 18, 2008 18:14:40 GMT
also, it says on wikipedia...
"Heston Blumenthal was named after the Heston services on the M4 motorway."
what imaginative parents bore him.
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Post by Rad on Apr 18, 2008 18:25:50 GMT
Thank goodness Anthony is out. He bitchfaced his whole way through the results part. Wanker.
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Post by LoveMusic on Apr 18, 2008 18:58:47 GMT
I was so happy that he didn't win.
His face was a picture, all tight and mean.
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Post by Muinimula on Apr 19, 2008 8:46:58 GMT
It was just brilliant when Prue saw the stupid mozzarella smoke ball thing, realised what it was, and said, "Now if you pierce this, you should get some aroma," only to break into it and not smell anything.
At least the judges commented this week that no matter how interesting a dish looks, and no matter how complicated or innovative its techniques are, the flavour is the most important thing.
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Post by Muinimula on Apr 22, 2008 0:19:22 GMT
I quite liked the idea of the cheffy cooked breakfast starter today, but for the fact that it has pig's ear in it, as does every other recipe in this show.
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