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Well Done Market Kitchen for having the courage to take that awful programme "showdown" off. Matt to the rescue with Gourmet Guide. Much better thank you I can put the razor blade away! Before the new season of Market Kitchen starts, is it 6th September, have a whip round to buy that poor Tom Parker Bowles some decent clothes- he looks like a model for Oxfam! Or better still lose him. Where will we find the recipes for Gourmet Guide?

cOULD SOMEONE ADVISE ME WHERE i CAN FIND LAST NIGHT RECEPES. hAVING CHANGED YOUR FORMAT i CAN NOLONGER TRANSFER A RECEPE TO MY COOKBOOK.

Where are the recipes for Friday 14th August? Despite the criticisms of the show, I for one am enjoying the series. I do however, agree that judgment of recipes cannot really be anything other than arbitrary. One judge marked a recipe very low because it contained offal, and she personally never eats offal. Surely that does not make it a bad recipe because she doesn't like one of the ingredients. If she doesn't eat offal I feel sorry for her, she is missing out on such a lot.

Judging without tasting is pointless! Arons avocado semifredo could have been very nice, but due to the fact that the judges could not have tried, they gave him a poor score. Secondly I think that Anjum Anand's opinions are contradictory. We all know that pasta is one of the most simple dishes to make, however, she claimed that Aaron's dish was very complicated. Many of her dishes are far more complex than that using a variety of spices. I do not blame her for that but to call a much simpler dish 'complex' is a bit strange! Also, knocking points off an original hotpot-for not having any salad with it!? I think the show would be better off without her as a fake and opinionated judge

The Raised Game Pie recipe has some ingredients missing (the partridges ) and fails to mention original oven setting for the pie.

I love Charlie the Butcher's straightforward comments. I'm going to make that 10/10 raised game pie!

Regarding Anjum Anand as a judge on Market kitchen showdown: Anjum has marketed herself as a contemporary Indian cook and therefore uses a wide array of spices which is the essence of indian cooking. For this reason I find it strange when she comments that certain dishes have too many ingredients or that "there is a lot going on!" She recently commemted on a classic far eastern dish prepared by Ching He Huang, the Singapore style noodles as "Confusing,Having too many ingredients". May I remind Miss Anand that these are the ingredients that make that particular dish so nothing can be changed without changing the original flavours! as she should fully understand claiming to be an Indian cook. May I add that the street food of India and Pakistan involves some of the most intricate ingredients and complex flavours and they are mighty fantastic! I find Anjum contradictory and a bit pretentious,not a suitable judge for this competition .Take her off he panel please!!!!

Hi. I saw a bit of one of the shows while flipping channels. One of the chefs made Singapore Chili prawns. I can not find the recipe. Any ideas?

I can only agree with the comments made by PeterW2457, this programme is appalling and why does it have to go on for so many weeks, surely they have all had their holidays now. Most of us only have two weeks.

Please oh please spare us any more of this appalling programme! Re-hashed old recipes just to fill time. Even the judges look bored and sound uncomfortable judging something they can't even taste. And as for Amy Dismay (or what ever her name is)is totally out of place. Send her back to the States! If anyone ever got a programme wrong this is it. Thank God Rick Stein is on the BBC to give us foodies a proper fix!

Hi, Market Kitchen is coming back for a brand new series in September. If you fancy seeing what goes on behind the scenes, then apply to be part of the studio audience.

As a Lancastrian I was pleased that the hot pot won. I also rate Mark Hicks, but when it comes to Lancashire Hot Pot Nigel Howerth beats him hands down. Re Anjum, my only complaint is she knocked points off because the dish did not come with a salad!! As we say up north we don´t do salad!

As much as I admire Anjum.....she was the wrong choice as a judge of British food..Pork sausages and Beef ?...well say no more

I think people are forgetting this is just a "filler" for the Summer. Im sure last Summer it was something similar like a "best bits" compilation. Market Kitchen will be back after the Summer. I Hope! But do please update the Ultimate Collection.

What a daft programme, how can you judge a dish without trying it. It seems even you people at Good Food have lost interest as you don't mark the winner of each day as you once did, nor update the 'Ultimate Recipe Collection' with each winner. Perhaps you should rename the collection as Ultimate untasted recipe collection!!! Please bring back 'Market Kitchen' as it should be as soon as possible.

Why was my comment deleted?

Why was my comment deleted?

Hi all, Sorry about the mistake. Curries coming up!

Are we likely to receive any response from someone "in the know" about the missing curries?????

Yeah, what happened to the curries?

What happened to the Rigatoni with sausage and tomatoes tonight on the 4th August - I thought it looked very good but the recipe shown is for Rigatoni and Aubergene

Am I going mad? I thought last nights recipes were curries???

For all you out there trying to find Paul Merrits recipe for Tarte Tatin. google it under tarte tatin Paul Merrit. It comes up on dicky & debbie .com It took 1 minute to find on Google instead of the two days looking on the new Good Food web. Sandy

How to find the recipes of the dishes that didnt make it top the "Ultimate Recipe Collection"? We need some sort of listing.

It would be very very usefull if we could view past programes preferrably in date order. I have been unable to find some recipes because I could not remember the exact title. Your old website was great. It listed all programes in date order.

Do you reply to the viewers' comments?

How can I view the recipes from all the Showdown programmes? Can there be a dated list of shows recipes as on the old version of the website?

How can I view the recipes from all the Showdown programmes? Can there be a dated list of shows recipes as on the old version of the website?

trying to find Paul Meritts recipe for Tarte Tatin have been on the site for 30 min, and there is no link. I have only just finished watching the programme. Sandy.

Hi, sorry about that. I have repaired the broken link now, so you should be able to see Michael Cainnes' Red Ruby Sandwich in all its glory. Mike - Good Food

Devon Red Ruby Sandwich, Michael Cainnes- love to try it however, "NO PAGE CAN BE FOUND" please can we have the recipe!

great show i tune in as often as i can greet recipes and tips that i have brought to my own restaurant thanks

Can we not access previous week's recipes now? I can't say I like this revamped site very much :( Sandy

1 - Dear Amanda - please to not be taking the mickey out of the Greek name for a dish. Really, it's not that hard to say. 2 - More Tonia Buxton please! Watching someone passionate about food is such a pleasure. I would love to see someone go to the market, choose ingredients and then come back and cook with those ingredients. It really isn't difficult but it IS rewarding.

Please can you tell me why when you have great presenters like Matt tebbutt and Jun Tanaka why you put really useless and rubbish people like Amanda Lamb who i cannot stand she is horrific and knows didly squat about cooking she is just really annoying and if she is on i turn over and also Aron craze is also annoying and shouldnt be on the show please get some better presenters.

Market kitchen showdown is just he worst contrived nonsense ever...I'm sorry but you guys have just lost a viewer....This is just the worst...How can anyone rate food without tasting it...and then introduce judges that have no idea... Goodbye Good Food...A real pile of trash Garth

Market Kitchen Showdown is a joke ... how can you judge food you have not seen or tasted but then it is the summer holidays...and poor old Amanda Lamb who can't even boil an egg is lumbered with the job Lets see what the new series brings?

Market Kitchen showdown is a let down. I have to agree with others that you cannot comment on food ,which you have not tasted. Most of the reviewers,apart from Matt Tebutt & Theo Randle, have their own foibles. Last night we had a fish monger, who did not like Stephen Terry´s dish, because he only likes mussels done one way!

I think a stick of butter is half a pound, heavy cream is double and semi sweet chocolate is plain chocolate, and for 6 tablespoons you have to measure out 6 tablespoons of butter and level out the spoons as you measure them

Please could anyone help me? I need a conversion chart as I like Bare Foot Contessa.I need to know cups ,how much is a STICK of butter is?how much is 6 tablespoons of butter What is heavy cream and semi sweet chocolate .Please can anyone help me

Showndown is a rubbish format designed to cover a holiday period cheaply. It is excruciatingly BAD! Asking a fishmonger to judge Asian food he can't even taste it gets worse!Do a road show and set the programme at the celebrity Chef's Restaurant for a week do something I am loosing the will to live.

I think this should be dropped, I dont see anyone tasting the meals and then judging all I see is ppl looking at what has been cooked and saying they dont think they would like it....how can this be a professional assessment??? drop it and go back to how it was a person cooking a meal and having it tasted by those who know what they are talking about.

I find it incredibly hipocritical that on tonight's program (Thursday) Jason Atherton mentioned the use of ethically produced Free Range chicken in his popcorn, when only shortly before Claude Bosi used foie gras in his sausage rolls. Now I am aware that foie gras can be produced ethically, however it does not meet with french standards and I can hardly see a french chef not using "quality" french foie gras. It just really disappoints and quite frankly disgusts me that while other chefs such as Jamie Oliver and Hugh Fernley Whittingstall are campaigning hard for animal welfare, some chefs are perfectly happy to use a product which is produced through intense suffering :(

Basically you had a good show before you went all game show gimmicky why did you ruin it

I don't like this kitchen showdown..I don't like amanda lamb I especially despise her comments on Aussie she aint an aussie problably never spent more than a week or two in australia and knows nothing about australian food or our culture. The show was better when she wasn't on it

Commenting on Matthew's comment on Aaron's pasta, which he thinks the Italians would take some issue. Does he know that pasta is not Italian, but Chinese in origin? Maybe he should have said the Chinese would take issue. He might have been correct with that one. But, I would have eaten Aaron's pasta dish, and I don't like cooked peas.

Why change the website? It's far more complicated than the old one. It is simply not user friendly. Please review

Market kitchen is a fantastic programme, hosts are knowledgable and good,chefs also brilliant,I rarely miss it, but the showdown programmes are shear stupidity.How can anyone judge any dish without tasting it,I have never known a more stupid idea in my life!

I agree that the new website is far harder to manouver than the old one - but I will persevere. While I liked the Aaron Craze Ravioli, the Theo Randall Ragu was far superior and looked extremely tasty Michael Brown

I am pleased to see that you have NOW added a "printer friendly version" BUT perhaps you could on that page PUT the Ingredients above the "Method" section and not to the right of the picture box, so as not to have the ingredients printed out on a second page, As it does when I print. Thank you

I am perservering with new site but find it gimickey and unhelpful, both finding recipes and printing them is a challenge and what happened to the printer friendly option? in fact I have stopped watching showdown it is pointless.

I tried to get a recipe from last weeks shows but couldn,t what a useless website

Once the new design has been worked out, the new 'improved' site is ok. Mind you there are still a few broken links and log-in problems, so not much has really changed! Re DavidW98229's comments on printing recipes, suggest get Word running, then copy and paste what you want, put in the order you require and finally highlight and delete anything not required.

Having used Market Kitchen for sometime I found it very easy to use and store and download recipes. This new system is very confusing , when you try and print a recipe it is full of adverts which I think we can all do without. Unless this site inproves in the near future I think I will have to go back to the BBC sites.

Apologies - for some reason not all of my binder recipes have a printer version but directly from the site there doesnt seem to be a problem. Cheers

I really liked the old system where you could pick a date and get all the recipes for that days programmes - will this be coming back with the new series or has that been dumped altogether? Also, am I missing something or can we no longer print out recipes? I'm copying to Word at the moment and then printing.

I really liked the old system where you could pick a date and get all the recipes for that days programmes - will this be coming back with the new series or has that been dumped altogether? Also, am I missing something or can we no longer print out recipes? I'm copying to Word at the moment and then printing.

i must agree that the very few "showdown" programmes that i have watched have been disappointing. Why not just have the summer break and come back to our screens refreshed and in the style to which we have become accustomed.Will let you know more once i have got my head around the new setup Robertal56928

Being a past user of the extinct market Kitchen web site, I must say that this new version is complicsted and very un user friendly. The idea of seing on the web page what was cooked over the last days, weeks and months was great. Here there is only the one day, and if i missed out on yesterdays meals there is no way of knowing what was on. Also there is no easy way of printing the recipes without dumping the whole page. Come on start correcting your faults.

This website is muddled and irritating to use.

Also agree it needs developing. What do viewers think of the fill-in programme "Showdown"? The Diaries was poor and, sorry, I think this is worse lacks imagination just a rehash of old recipes to fill the programme schedule.

Totally agree, where is last weeks recipes?

NOT HAPPY WITH NEW LAY-OUT. DIFFICULT FINDING RECEIPES

Hi When you travel to ASIA you never go to Srilanka! You're missing all the exotic food, you would really love it. I just came back after a lovely holiday and oh boy! you should make a visit. Food is out of this world, mostly fish dishes. There is a hotel called Cinnamon Grand: LAGOON'S speciality is variety of fish dishes awesome delicious food. The war is over now, so book your tickets!

will the market kitchen jane asher big blooming teaparty be reshown as i missed it cheers Julie Fowler ... fowlerjulie@hotmail.com

Like Market Kitchen Showdown but I seem to have missed something because I didn't see the 'judges' actually taste the food - only one I've seen is the chicken episode so perhaps I just missed this bit. But the proof of the pudding..... Total credibility loss for me.