Posts by: schmaltz1

Sylive, I had to laugh when I read your comment about not being able to take an entire "dose" of Market Kitchen!!

Can they just please shoot this programme in the head and be done with it?

Market Kitchen? Ethical? Come now, everything on this show is a veneer designed to cover over terrible programming. It's not ethical just like it has nothing to do with a market. Even the presenters were picked solely for their names, not to mention the artificial cafe set and its over the top, pretentious name.

Foie gras is just another example of a show without direction, that doesn't know what it really is, that has no specific intended audience, and that just flails about from week to week desparate for some viewership.

liz0, you're right, I've never seen a programme that has showcased an ingredient so often, much less something like foie gras.

Pretentious drivel.

Skillet. The one thing about chopping boards that has come as a surpise is that the old fashioned wood boards turn out to be more hygienic than the plastic ones [assuming they are clened of course].

Apparently the wood has an antibacterial effect not present with plastic boards.

Maybe we should all keep kisher kitchens. I'm grossed out about the chicken

Thx ticked! I can't wait to see/hear Jeni on the telly once again. I really miss the sparkle of Great Food Live.

GFL and Jeni were my favourite TV show.

I can't wait for this horrible Market Kitchen to be cancelled and buried once and for all

Can we have Great Food Live back please? Repeats if that's all you can muster up. The recipes on GFL were so much better than what they do on Market Kitchen with those stupid "shopping lists". The Market Kitchen recipes are so bad, or uninspiring perhaps, there isn't any discussion of them like there used to be when Great Food Live was on the air. Everything seems so bland on MK.

Here's some nostalgia, hedina [link]

The problem is Tana, isn't it? I just watched a few minutes of an episode with her and it was dreadful. She doesn't know what to do with her body parts.

She is obviously SO uncomfortable doing this show. You can see by her behaviour she hates it.

I do posset and it makes complete sense. It enhances Waitrose's "image" sponsoring this type of show as if they really aren't part of the supermarket genre.

It's sublminal and works. You hear "market" "market" "market" on the show then move to a Waitrose commercial and the link is made in the mind of the viewer. This is done by all advertisers. eg Beer=Sport, etc.

And even though I know better, it stills works! Waitrose's profile in the mind of the viewer will be "elevated" by this sponsorship.

Sadly for Waitrose, though, no one is watching!

You are so right, gastro. I am sicked and tired of the media "creating news" and issues. This has nothing to do with labelling and everything to do with building Fort's "brand". Tiresome.

There are great sausages to be found everywhere and people know what they like, what they're willing to pay and what they can afford.

A manufactured, unworthy "issue".

Well Hairy Bikers have helped seal this show's reputation as a closet comedy programme. In the past you could say this show is DEFINITELY a poor attempt at comedy. There's no other explanation. But with Hairy Bikers they're upping the ante!

While I generally cringe watching this atrocious show, there ARE bright moments from time to time, especially the inane comments from Tom Parker-Bowles, although it does seem a lot of them are piped into his ear the way he reacts. Those always bring a chuckle.

And I love when the unpredictably wild camera zooms onto a presenter who wasn't expecting it. They have a stunned look like a deer caught in the headlights of an oncoming car.

The real problem is that the laughs are too far apart to qualify for a general comedy rating. So it fails too as a comedy production.