Master Chef

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greygoose

8,271 posts

196 months

Thursday 16th April 2020
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Europa1 said:
oddball1313 said:
I’m so lost on this pompous nonsense on every level. I hate it when they talk about precison and cooking a cake - fk off, how about a group visit to Rolls Royce Derby or Mercedes HP engines and we can re-evaluate the comparison of a 1000hp F1 engine and a gateaux because I’m pretty sure one is tougher to make and involves rather more skill than throwing together half a dozen eggs and some flour in the oven at gas mark 3
I think Masterchef may not be for you.
To be fair Mercedes F1 engines and Rolls Royce are just as removed from normal vehicles as Michelin desserts are to home cooking, not sure either are as easy to achieve as Oddball makes out.



oddball1313

1,196 posts

124 months

Friday 17th April 2020
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greygoose said:
Europa1 said:
oddball1313 said:
I’m so lost on this pompous nonsense on every level. I hate it when they talk about precison and cooking a cake - fk off, how about a group visit to Rolls Royce Derby or Mercedes HP engines and we can re-evaluate the comparison of a 1000hp F1 engine and a gateaux because I’m pretty sure one is tougher to make and involves rather more skill than throwing together half a dozen eggs and some flour in the oven at gas mark 3
I think Masterchef may not be for you.
To be fair Mercedes F1 engines and Rolls Royce are just as removed from normal vehicles as Michelin desserts are to home cooking, not sure either are as easy to achieve as Oddball makes out.
Well given the intro that ‘cooking doesn’t get harder then this’ and the celeb chefs are introduced as something akin to the second coming it would seem that most half decent amateur chefs can reproduce their magic in the space of a couple of hours. There’s a widely held view it takes at least 10000 hours to truly master a skill or art and i’’ve yet to see anything related to cooking that this even remotely applies to.
Want to see true skill, finesse and precision? Search clickspring in youtube.

Prawo Jazdy

4,950 posts

215 months

Friday 17th April 2020
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WTF is an executive pastry chef?

RC1807

12,555 posts

169 months

Friday 17th April 2020
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Prawo Jazdy said:
WTF is an executive pastry chef?
They only cook for executives, or powerfully built company directors, or something

(AKA Head Chef)

Prawo Jazdy

4,950 posts

215 months

Friday 17th April 2020
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‘Executive’ apparently means being responsible for putting plans into action. So a team leader at Dyno-Rod, who decides to tackle the fat berg first, and then move onto clearing the stickier turds, is presumably a Distressed Human Waste Reassignment Executive.

A bus driver is a Tactical Asset Realignment Executive.

RC1807

12,555 posts

169 months

Friday 17th April 2020
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Not a Tactical Asset Realignment Transporter then?

wink

Prawo Jazdy

4,950 posts

215 months

Friday 17th April 2020
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Probably. Anyway, sorry for the drift - it was a level of pretentiousness that I hadn’t seen before.

Mobile Chicane

20,846 posts

213 months

Friday 17th April 2020
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I'm gutted for Claire as well.

'Eton Tidy' should have gone home. It's impossible to make good meringues in two hours - they need two hours in the oven - and his were too dark/small.

Meringues should be snowy white and a key element of the dish. His raspberry ripple wasn't rippled either. How they could have let that through is a mystery to me.

Laurel Green

30,783 posts

233 months

Friday 17th April 2020
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Starting in one minute's time, folks.

K12beano

20,854 posts

276 months

Friday 17th April 2020
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I suppose we get a bit of biography to waste our time, first..... rolleyes

Laurel Green

30,783 posts

233 months

Friday 17th April 2020
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Thankfully, only for the remaining three.

Can see now why David creates such pretty dishes.

Prawo Jazdy

4,950 posts

215 months

Friday 17th April 2020
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I was thinking today about how the format has changed over the years. They used to have John demonstrate a technique or dish and then try to replicate it. I remember times where John would be in a restaurant kitchen running the show with them. And there was the “Market!” challenge, where they went into a big room full of produce, and there was a good three minutes of padding per episode where they described how the challenge worked (answer: select food and cook it).

What else?

Cupramax

10,482 posts

253 months

Friday 17th April 2020
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FFS get on with it... smash

Bonefish Blues

26,864 posts

224 months

Friday 17th April 2020
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You don't suppose they will actually cook something do you?

Bonefish Blues

26,864 posts

224 months

Friday 17th April 2020
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I don't think Sandy has the consistency for 3 courses.

smack

9,729 posts

192 months

Friday 17th April 2020
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They have splashed out for a big digital red display clock!

K12beano

20,854 posts

276 months

Friday 17th April 2020
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All of these ideas are pleasing the judges....


....who are getting hungry now.....


K12beano

20,854 posts

276 months

Friday 17th April 2020
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David.... smashed it?


Bonefish Blues

26,864 posts

224 months

Friday 17th April 2020
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Almost

Laurel Green

30,783 posts

233 months

Friday 17th April 2020
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What, no Scallops!