effing Masterchef!

[trustysteed]

Someone cooked cottage pie the other day in a strange shape.

in the shape of a terraced house?

 

[rich p]

in the shape of a terraced house?

(2 in a day, TS)!

 

[Arch]

Colin, that's brilliant!

I can be very picky, but I'll also watch some right crap. Bonekickers anyone?

But I gave up on Waking the Dead when they unearthed a perfectly preserved miniature skeleton, and claimed it was a baby. A baby wouldn't have proper bone in half its skeleton, you'd be lucky to get a few very friable scraps. Alas, you can become too knowledgable sometimes...

 

[potsy]

Talking of rubbish telly-I'm currently watching 'the fattest man in britain' that was on a few weeks back,just getting round to watching it now(and no.it's not me before anyome else says it) at least I am til Lost comes on in 15 mins. Time to go and put the kettle on.

 

[snorri]

Oh, a Glenmorangie would slip down nicely!

Snorri, I'd like to offer you a drink in return, ...

Large Glenmorangie flying through the ether towards you now Arch.
Slainte Mhor agad!

No need for a drink in return, but maybe some other night if you think I sound a bit low........

 

[Arch]

Large Glenmorangie flying through the ether towards you now Arch.
Slainte Mhor agad!

No need for a drink in return, but maybe some other night if you think I sound a bit low........

I'll keep an eye on you. And I'll try to have something better than quince liquer to offer!

 

[Debian]

I must admit to have been singularly unimpressed by the standard of cooking so far this year on Masterchef, I've yet to see anyone who has a hope of winning it.

 

[Arch]

Paying about an eighth of attention to it, I gather one contestant boiled their mackeral, and someone else produced a sour pudding.

 

[Debian]

Paying about an eighth of attention to it, I gather one contestant boiled their mackeral, and someone else produced a sour pudding.

Something like that

 

[rh100]

I'm with you on this Arch, the shouty Aussie especially (is he still in it?) stuffing his face. I have a problem with food shows in general (except Nigella of course). There was some guy on a show the other night, he looked at the camera and said in a patronizing tone something like: "you can put as much herbs and spices as you like, it's your food" , well thank you very bloomin much, but maybe we want recipes not permission. Hugh fearnly Whitlessing Smythe used to be good till he bought his farm and started messing with offal and worrying about chickens. I used to like Keith Floyd, I could never cook anything he showed you but his shows were entertaining in other ways.

 

[Piemaster]

Sort of on the same wavelength as ColinJ, I've just finished watching a dvd episode of 'Lie to Me'. 40 minutes. It takes Sky1 an hour to screen it.

 

[Speicher]

I noticed that with Wallander - 90 mins on BBC3 and two hours on a channel with adverts.

I also tried, yes I really did try to watch Michael Portillo, traveling through England by train. But each programme could have been shortened to 15 minutes. Like Colin J says, they do not credit us with any memory.

 

[ColinJ]

Sort of on the same wavelength as ColinJ, I've just finished watching a dvd episode of 'Lie to Me'. 40 minutes. It takes Sky1 an hour to screen it.

That's my answer too! I rarely watch any of the big series when they are broadcast. I've started watching them on DVD instead. No ad breaks, no tasteless voiceovers and picture shrinking, no logos obscuring great chunks of the screen, no "what you saw, what you'll see" nonsense, great picture quality, widescreen and surround sound and I can watch them when I want.

I'm currently just finishing the final series of The Sopranos.

The reason that they do this what-you-saw-what-you'll-see thing is because they know that there are about 200 other channels that people with the attention spans of gnats are flitting between. The what-you-saws are to capture those who flittered-in and the what-you'll-sees are to hold on to those who were about to flitter out when the ads come on (or on the BBC - those who are bored and starting to get itchy remote control fingers).

 

[mangaman]

I must admit to have been singularly unimpressed by the standard of cooking so far this year on Masterchef, I've yet to see anyone who has a hope of winning it.

I disagree - come on Debian, you're my only hope on this thread

I actually think the standard has been the highest yet.

The initial surprise ingredient round would, I suggest, be tough for even the most talented amateur cooks.

I think this year most have come up with something edible at least (unlike previous series)

 

[mangaman]

I think to be fair to Arch, rather than hijack her thread is to start a pro-Masterchef thread. I'll see what I can do.