Paid Members tiger_rick Posted November 9, 2017 Paid Members Posted November 9, 2017 I have a love/hate feeling towards Jamie Oliver. I can't stand him but I really like his cookery shows. It doesn't even make sense to me. It goes back to when the wife and I lived in our first flat around 99/00 and we'd watch The Naked Chef. I'd take the piss out of him relentlessly for many of the reasons in the thread but I still really liked the show. I've always liked his stuff since like 30 minute meals and Jamie does Dallas and tha sort of thing but I still can't stand the guy.
Paid Members FLips Posted November 9, 2017 Paid Members Posted November 9, 2017 I like his recipes. Tried a few at home and they're decent and easy to follow.
Keith Houchen Posted November 9, 2017 Posted November 9, 2017 Delighted the Oliver hate is alive and well. Good arrows.
Paid Members BomberPat Posted November 9, 2017 Paid Members Posted November 9, 2017 Yeah, decent recipes, rubbish human.
Paid Members Gus Mears Posted November 9, 2017 Author Paid Members Posted November 9, 2017 (edited) I'm a member of the hating Jamie Oliver ultras. I think he's wank, his restaurants are wank and that his recipes are less wank, but misleading. I once spent TWO HOURS. TWO HOURS. (how long) TWO HOURS, making this fucking potatoes dauphinoise with some other stuff I can't even remember. This was from his 30 MINUTE MENU. It was an experience painful to the extent that me and my other half at the time had almost drank two bottles of wine by the time this shit show made it to the table. It was ludicrously complicated for what, I have found in hindsight, is not a complicated dish. Loads of pointless ingredients, some of which actively detracted from the rest of it. Why on earth you would add anchovies to it? The entire recipe seemed to be an excuse for him to slap his culinary wacker on the table and laud it over the rest of us who don't regularly have pantries full of esoteric bullshit. He also flat out lied about cooking timings to hit his stupid 30 minute target, you can't crisp up a potato dauphinoise in 15 minutes properly. What was he cooking this in? Hinkley Point? I bet Oliver was there in one of his many mansions, wallowing in a bath tub full of money and laughing, while I sat at home, hungry, drunk and ill from the offensive levels of salt I had ingested from potatoes with cream, cheese and fucking anchovies in. Nob. Edited November 9, 2017 by Gus Mears
Keith Houchen Posted November 9, 2017 Posted November 9, 2017 First Carluccio dies, now Jamie hate resurfaces. Onyx is currently texting a mate telling him the Vide Sous is in the enclosed pool area.
Awards Moderator Onyx2 Posted November 9, 2017 Awards Moderator Posted November 9, 2017 32 minutes ago, Keith Houchen said: Onyx is currently texting a mate telling him the Vide Sous is in the enclosed pool area. I can't not upvote that. But... Actually it's sous vide *adjusts glasses*
Keith Houchen Posted November 9, 2017 Posted November 9, 2017 21 minutes ago, Onyx2 said: I can't not upvote that. But... Actually it's sous vide *adjusts glasses* Haha!! Brilliant!
Merzbow Posted November 13, 2017 Posted November 13, 2017 I'm all over this page right now, it cracks me up.
Keith Houchen Posted November 13, 2017 Posted November 13, 2017 Isn't it Mr Biffo of Digitiser fame? He retweeted the first tweet I think. But yes, it's marvellous.
Guest Posted November 14, 2017 Posted November 14, 2017 (edited) It's him, yes. Currently of Digitiser2000 and Mr Biffo's Found Footage. Edited November 14, 2017 by Uncle Zeb
Paid Members Gus Mears Posted December 6, 2017 Author Paid Members Posted December 6, 2017 More a link to articles than the account in of itself, but Oobah Butler (who writes for Vice) has come up with some of the best conceived idiocy I have ever read in recent months. https://twitter.com/Oobahs Recent projects include the following: and
Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted December 20, 2017 Paid Members Posted December 20, 2017 Been laughing at this, on and off, all evening.
Paid Members JNLister Posted December 22, 2017 Paid Members Posted December 22, 2017 @pandamoanimum's annual Christmas fail GIF advent calendar is always a treat: https://twitter.com/Pandamoanimum/status/944137936274120706
Merzbow Posted December 23, 2017 Posted December 23, 2017 I feel like this is the start of the end of the world.
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