Great British Menu 2013

[Gruffy]

Starting on BBC2 at 19:30. Kicking off with London & SE starters.

[APanda]

Series linked. It's probably the only cooking program I watch anymore.

Interested to see the Comic Relief elements, will they be injecting humour into their dishes?

[Gruffy]

I'd have thought it's a prerequisite.

[GALLARDOGUY]

Didn't see Jonny Mountain in that opening montage...

[TIGA84]

Is that Oliver Peyton still on it?

ETA - Unfortunately he is. Along with that other super Marcus Wareing.

Edited by TIGA84 on Tuesday 29th January 13:03

[MK1 GIT]

Where was the fun in the 2nd guys starter?? Adam Simmonds, was just a restaurant dish to me.

[5potTurbo]

MK1 GIT said:

Where was the fun in the 2nd guys starter?? Adam Simmonds, was just a restaurant dish to me.

I thought that too. I was surprised at the scores.

[Baron Greenback]

Don't like the new concept of this year! How you make dishes entertaining with out relying on props. New guy matt is up against 2 top chefs.

[Gruffy]

Heston has a few dishes where the wit isn't at the expense of the food itself. Egg & bacon ice cream (cracked and 'scrambled' at the table); Meat Fruit; Mock Turtle Soup. For every dish like that there's probably hundreds more that fall into the detractive gimmick trap.

Aiken's idea of presenting the chicken as an egg and the egg as a chicken was a decent concept.

Personally I'd rather throw away the themes and just watch the UK's best chefs cook their best food, but sadly that wouldn't cut it for most TV audiences.

[Hoover.]

Gruffy said:

Personally I'd rather throw away the themes and just watch the UK's best chefs cook their best food, but sadly that wouldn't cut it for most TV audiences.

Long time no see,,,, .....

with you on what I want see cooked, at least I can try replicate similar at home if good honest, non scify stuff

[dapprman]

Now set on record.

I'm glad they are countering the gimmicks - they were getting just too much in the last series.

I agree over 'restaurant food' as well - again over the last few seasons it's become more common. Some of the chef judges score down as a result, but then Pru, Matthew and Oliver would score the same dish highly.

I still enjoy the show and again it's one of the few cooking shows I still enjoy, but to me it's been going down hill over the 2-3 series before this one.

[obob]

TIGA84 said:

Is that Oliver Peyton still on it?

ETA - Unfortunately he is. Along with that other super Marcus Wareing.

Edited by TIGA84 on Tuesday 29th January 13:03

Along with super duper Richard Corrigan

[Mr Gearchange]

Great British s.

Marcus is easily the greatest.

[Baron Greenback]

Thought matts dish was deserved more than 8 and the guy who came 2nd didn't meet the brief of entertaining food ok it may of tasted better than matt but that wasn't the brief. I'm sure it would of been tweaked and most would be happy to eat it.

[miniman]

Is Michael Caines on it? Arrogant bd, hardly ever bothers to shake hands with people.

[Bullett]

miniman said:

Is Michael Caines on it? Arrogant bd, hardly ever bothers to shake hands with people.

First time I saw him on Sat Kitchen I said to MrsBullett "look at that lazy....."

[Baron Greenback]

Wearing is prejudging since the beginning the one chef. The brief is hard to work out what is funny for the red nose! Think he has missed it but other chef has done similar missed brief in previous weeks.

[mattdaniels]

Baron Greenback said:

Wearing is prejudging since the beginning the one chef. The brief is hard to work out what is funny for the red nose! Think he has missed it but other chef has done similar missed brief in previous weeks.

[Mr Gearchange]

mattdaniels said:

Baron Greenback said:

Wearing is prejudging since the beginning the one chef. The brief is hard to work out what is funny for the red nose! Think he has missed it but other chef has done similar missed brief in previous weeks.

It's like one of those weird Japanese t shirts where random English words are thrown together.

Any chance of rearranging those words into a sentence Baron?

[Baron Greenback]

ok half alseep and typing on the tablet never good idea! what I was trying to say that Marcus Wearing is over the top in per-judging of chef Will Holland even before he is even cooked! The Brief for this year competition is a hard one to do with out going over the top style while keeping the tasting great in previous weeks some chefs weren't even funny dishes and weren't marked down. That said putting small tomatoes just to link it to red noses is rather weak to relate to Comic relief.