The BSL Zone’s cooking expert Punk Chef (aka Scott Garthwaite) has a mission: to get the Deaf community eating better, cooking better and feeling better!
In the fifth episode of the current series, which was shown on TV and online for the first time this morning, Punk Chef takes on his biggest challenge yet – converting the eating habits of Connor Downey, a fashion student who eats 26 packets of crisps a day!
When Connor, 20, realises that he’s eating twice his yearly allowance of salt by eating crisps alone, he throws himself into cooking Punk Chef’s recipes, including meatballs, squid and custard before facing a cookery challenge – making a meal for a group of fashionistas.
Can Connor rise to the challenge? Watch it and find out by clicking here.
Andy. Not him, me.
November 11, 2013
One of the things that tees me off about these TV chefs is they never cook anything ordinary.
It’s always stuff you’ve never thought about like langoustines and scallops and wild exotic spices like cumin. It’s not something I can bang up with stuff out of the cupboard, I have to make a list and go and get it. Easier to open a tin of spaghetti hoops. These chefs may be impressive with a razor sharp knife but I’m hell on wheels with a tin opener.
On the other hand I can cook, I cooked for my family for three years, 5 of us because my wife’s working hours were later than mine so I did the tea. I did things like steak and kidney pie, shepherd’s pie, cheese and potato pie. Roast beef, lamb, pork bacon with the necessary trimmings. The art of a good Yorkshire pudding is a hot baking tray and a hot oven. gedinthere.
oh… and chips are not the easiest thing in the world to get right either. The difference between golden brown and burnt is quite small.
How many people have even basic skills? I didn’t know there’s a right and a wrong way to hack up an onion. The professional way is by far the best. Little things like that would be much more of interest than pheasant pate or sugar angels.
Tim
November 11, 2013
Everybody says that you should use Maris Piper potatoes for chips but my tip would be to use King Edward potatoes instead.