Thanks Falafel, I thought maybe I was just being a grumpy old man!
I am somewhat taken aback that for once someone actually agrees with me.
Perhaps it is being a little naive to think thank Jenny and GFL will ever return but surely there must be something better out there than MK.
Will someone at UKFOOD please take note of viewers feedback!!!!!

Get this excuse for a programme OFF the air - and please get rid of Mrs Ramsey off all other programmes !
She is wooden with zero personality !

I agree totally gluck. And Tana is the number one probelm with this show. Her piped in questions that often make no sense and the arms always flailing about. And what IS it about her and Matt T, they REALLY don't like one another, do they?

Sauvignon, it is only a matter of time before something is done to fix this programming debacle.

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 don't know why I bothered to turn over to watch this programme, but I did. Maybe I thought it had improved, it hadn't. Someone was cooking, don't remember who, but the look on Tana's face said it all, she just didn't want to be there, it was boring her. I switched over as it was boring me too.

So many people want this show to be good, Essex. After all it is the ONLY daily food programme with new episodes EVERY day. It should be wonderful.

But it's not. And Tana is one of the main culprits IMHO. She's bored, so the whole thing is boring to the guest chef - and the audience.

I think burger is right, it has to be cancelled soon.

While I can't argue the point about Tana and the other comments made, it's Matthew Fort that has my goat at the moment

He keeps cooking things on this show when he clearly has no cookery skill at all. He needs to stick to critique.

Taco-Pete said it earlier when Fort tried to poach an egg in a £100,000 pot of boiling water. He couldn't even do that. Now he tries to compete with chefs. Common'. STOP IT!

This show is SO BAD.

I think most of the dishes conjured up by Matthew Fort and Tom Parker Bowles are not only amateurishly done, they are hardly inspiring.

Welsh rarebit? Good grief.

It's like the first season with poached eggs, fish pie and all sorts of other nonsense.

What is it about this programme? Everything they do seems to be deliberately done to bring extreme boredom to the viewer?

I agree that the presenters should stay away from cooking, at least Tana, Fort and TPB. They don't seem very good at it, at least on TV.

We just enjoyed a GFL marathon on our food channel here and it was such a pleasure.

One episode had Brian Turner and Simon Rimmer as side-kick cook a scrumptous looking "Quail Pie". Turner's spicy mince and quail all tucked into a puff pastry shell just looked sublime to me. I'm going to give it a try.

And all along Jeni keeping things light and fun. Great TV!!

I think that most people on this board are better cooks than Tana. Her "handlers" have simply pumped up her cookery skills as a PR initiative.

Why are the presenters cooking anyway? It's plain silly. Only Tebbutt has any qualifications for this and should just be an occassional guest, anyway.

The whole format is screwed up IMHO.

VERY good point Falafel. And that's one of the reasons Market Kitchen is so dreadful, it talks down to everyone. They don't even look into the camera!

These presenters have no specific cooking skills or knowledge that the general foodie public doesn't already have. And using weird ingredients does NOT make it more interesting or make them look smarter, it just frustrates the TV audience even further.

When will they cancel this irritating show???????? Good night!

I switched to UKTV food this morning, purely on the off chance that the programme has either been markedly improved or withdrawn. As I watched Tana trying to put a cup of cocoa together I was reminded of my navy days (1951 - 1964) on small ships, mostly destroyers, and nights spent on the middle watch (midnight to four a.m.) when we had an opportunity to enjoy a brilliant cup of 'Kai' - the RN's traditional cocoa. Here's the recipe: Find a sheltered spot away from wind & spray, usually in the lee of the funnel, and assign a junior member to sit and shave a large block of dark chocolate into a large metal pot. This would normally take about half an hour. Add a 2 lb bag of white sugar, 6 thins of Carnation milk then top up with water. The pot would then be taken down a series of steep ladders to the engine room where the chief stoker obliged us by kindly shoving a steam pipe into the mixture; a few minutes of super-heated steam and a good stir resulted in the most intensely chocolate flavoured drink - makes twenty mug fulls or so. Best enjoyed sipped scalding hot, mug cupped in both hands whilst braced against the usually foul weather encountered in the north Atlantic. I don't know if it's still served in the Royal Navy but if you can get hold of genuine 'Pusser's Kai' you now have the recipe - by the way when we were patrolling off Iceland during the cod wars (mid '50s) it was a special treat to lace the cocoa with a few tots of rum!

I cam almost taste the chocolate and sea salt billy and hear the wind howlng

you set a great picture in my mind

Tell us more Billy2blues. What else was so good (or bad) that you can make other people taste it, just by your description.

What terrific composition! You can visualise the taste, if that makes any sense!

They should put you on Market Kitchen to get some life into the show. You'd certainly add some breath to the "dead" recipes they are trying to present to us.

Beautiful!

I have just recently come on to this forum .What a load of whingers you are.Market Kitchen is a good food programme have to agree last weeks ..Master Chef ..recipes were way out for the -basic cook.Diana Henry is excellent..Tana is fine I like her homely recipes stop knocking her.TPB fine and enthusiastic .....Mathew Fort annoying.

Jess41 - I guess you are yet another employee of MK - put on this thread to skew the genuine poster and truth.
The programme is dire and must be taken off the air.

In the past, new people were welcomed to this site, not accused of some sort of subdifuge!

Welcome to the boards Jesse41, I hope you enjoy your time here and are not subjected to comments like the above again.

What an interesting life you have led Billy2blues, puts mine in the cobwebs Yes welcome to the board Jess41, I like Matthew but not Tana

Welcome from me too Jesse41.

I'm afraid most of the whingers are secretly in the employ of the now defunct GFL production team to try to undermine the whole of UKTV Food.

Rosti, Grisinni, Barshdale - Blast, my cover is blown !!!
You now all know I am employed by the GFL Team.

I will never be able to hold my head high again - he, he, he

Barshedale - I never ever get bored with myself
One should always focus on one topic and not spread yourself too thinly.
Remember the phrase " Jack of all trades and master of none" !

Thanks for the welcome-I can assure gluck I am not an employee of MK I have only recently started watching UK food.As previously stated I like MK but I do feel it needs more of the Delia type recipes.

And I honestly thought that maybe an apology might be forthcoming from gluck.
How wrong can one be?

It is so sad to see this sort of behaviour then the guilty party make a joke of it instead of just gently saying sorry and maybe learning from their "mistake"

The production company responsible for this don't give a hoot about what viewers think. They've made that clear by comments they made on here after GFL was taken off air. They responded to the multitude of posts by answering questions which sounded more like a primary school teacher telling kids to be good.
I watched the first programme of MK. I havn't watched UK food since