tv chefs and critics do they actualy like everything ?
Discussion
As per the title , was talking to her indoors after watching great british menu on tv and we both thought it seems there is nothing on any cooking show that chefs and critics etc do not like or cant abide or have allergys etc to , how so. many things i cant stand, gherkins, liver, offal, salad food for instance, cannot face any sea food apart from a haddock from our chippy and am allergic to mushrooms and tomatoes. how do these people manage to eat absolutely anything and enjoy it and seemingly appreciate it too. makes me wonder if contestants in some of the shows like masterchef are warned in advanced, no one surely could like everything regardless if its cooked by a 3 michellin star chef in the milk of an angels tit.
evilmunkey said:
As per the title , was talking to her indoors after watching great british menu on tv and we both thought it seems there is nothing on any cooking show that chefs and critics etc do not like or cant abide or have allergys etc to , how so. many things i cant stand, gherkins, liver, offal, salad food for instance, cannot face any sea food apart from a haddock from our chippy and am allergic to mushrooms and tomatoes. how do these people manage to eat absolutely anything and enjoy it and seemingly appreciate it too. makes me wonder if contestants in some of the shows like masterchef are warned in advanced, no one surely could like everything regardless if its cooked by a 3 michellin star chef in the milk of an angels tit.
From what I've heard they've all got the odd things they don't like but will for the most part eat anything. I place myself in that camp, even the foods that I'd classify as not liking I'll still tolerate. Have even revisited some over the years and learned to enjoy them e.g. beetroot. I'll also try pretty much anything at least once so long as it's not going to harm me.The wife however, so many things, fish, seafood, mushrooms, offal, most pickled stuff, game, whilst we are a good personality match we are not a good food match
I remember Tom Kerridge on one of those GBMs cooking a scotch egg with crayfish meat problem was he was allergic the shellfish so had to get someone else to taste it yet it was a highly rated dish so he obviously knows his stuff. I've got a recollection that he did actually taste it in the finals knowing full well he'd probably be chucking up for the next 24 hours
.Interesting points of view, and the foods i dont like are ones ive tried at least once, im not afraid of foods and will never say oo i dont like that because it sounds iffy, for instance sweetbreads, i didnt like the idea but gave them a go and they were delicious. I realy want to like crab but everytime ive given it a go its made me gag which is a shame, same for prawns etc and they look so tasty. was watching a guy called Mark Weins in a portugese restraunt with the most delicious looking seafood. pisses me off it makes me so sick.
If you think about it logically virtually nothing a restaurant serves or TV will be food the majority would avoid. If it was restaurants would be out of business very quick and people would be repulsed by programmes so no viewers.
Most people eat most things and barring actual allergies chef eat pretty much anything simply because that is part of the job.
Not liking something is personal taste but people who run off lists of generic food that they can't or won't eat... they're special.
Most people eat most things and barring actual allergies chef eat pretty much anything simply because that is part of the job.
Not liking something is personal taste but people who run off lists of generic food that they can't or won't eat... they're special.
Agree. You are weird.
I'm not allergic to any food I'm aware of and the same applies to most of my family and most people I know. I cook for guests on a regular basis and don't recall anyone saying I can't eat X except for my FiL who can't eat crab and a couple of celiacs.
Not much I won't try that would be part of a normal diet most places. I might draw the line at insects/bugs. I'd not choose sprouts and there are a few other things not top of my list but nothing I'd not give a go on any of those type of programs.
I don't do fruit and meat.
I'm not allergic to any food I'm aware of and the same applies to most of my family and most people I know. I cook for guests on a regular basis and don't recall anyone saying I can't eat X except for my FiL who can't eat crab and a couple of celiacs.
Not much I won't try that would be part of a normal diet most places. I might draw the line at insects/bugs. I'd not choose sprouts and there are a few other things not top of my list but nothing I'd not give a go on any of those type of programs.
I don't do fruit and meat.
Shaoxter said:
You're just weird, my wife and I eat everything and are allergic to nothing.
I've never not finished a dish at a fancy restaurant.
A combination of a broad-ranging taste for food and a mother who made me feel guilty if I left food means that i have never not finished a dish at a restaurant, even the crappy ones.I've never not finished a dish at a fancy restaurant.
funny tonight a chef on GBM has a seafood allergy too. thing is ive tried mushrooms once and i went into anyphalactic shock , wasnt nice. tomatoes do the same if fresh but found if cooked down for over half an hour say in a pasta sauce im ok but still wary. some foods i just cant stand the taste of and horsradish is one just mentioned. used to hate sprouts but then realised it was how my mum cooked them, learnt to do them myself and adore them. not many veg i dont like realy. some things i wont touch just because of a texture thing, oranges for example. love the juice but cant eat a whole orange same for strawberries. although i could manage both at a push if in a restraunt and cooked in say a sauce. would never blanket ban foods. everything i dont like ive tried at least once or twice to give benefit of the doubt about cooking. i used to hate black pudding but realised the ones i had had at cafes were utter crap. now im addicted to the stuff from my butchers
odd thing though with me is i usualy cant stand offal but love a mr brains faggot....yeah i know dirty frozen stuff , and i like haggis, but the smell of a kidney just makes me gag as does liver. my other half loves liver, but has to be calfes liver and is a greek girl. when we are in greece her mum does it for her and tought me to cook it for her in her style and its not my thing but doesnt look or smell anything like what we get in the uk. ill try any grilled or bbq meat in greece , i dont ask what it is if it looks good on a spit ill have a munch, apart from the intestine stuff. that just tastes like bb qued pigs anus with a crispy skin, looks good ..tastes litterly liked spit roasted s
t sausage
t sausageI would imagine a lot of chefs are fairly open minded about food.
There's only two things I know I don't like but will still eat.
Marmite (tho I am open minded enough to eat twiglets) and liver (tho when I ate it raw it was ok).
Pepperoni and other processed pork things go straight through me but I'll still eat them (at home).
There's only two things I know I don't like but will still eat.
Marmite (tho I am open minded enough to eat twiglets) and liver (tho when I ate it raw it was ok).
Pepperoni and other processed pork things go straight through me but I'll still eat them (at home).
funnily enough i used to absolutley hate marmite, her indoors got a jar because the shop didnt have any bovril thinking it was the same thing , and now im a bugger for a bit of marmite on buttered toast. i realy do like it now. she tried it and had never had it before ... we now go through jars of the bloody stuff hahaha. i do like a mug of bovril though , its a nice alternative to tea for me.
I'd try anything at least once (as long as I didn't disagree with it). Most things ill keep trying to see if my tastes have changed, or try then cooked differently etc. I never used to like tomatoes but quite like them now.
Worst thing I ever ate and provably would not try again was embryonic duck egg. Absolutely foul (sorry)
Worst thing I ever ate and provably would not try again was embryonic duck egg. Absolutely foul (sorry)
Edited by skinny on Wednesday 15th August 08:01
Gassing Station | Food, Drink & Restaurants | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff