MasterChef - The Professionals

No, not Bodie and Doyle, but real professional chefs.

Good series. I particularly enjoy the way it avoids all reality telly histrionics. If people win, they lower their eyes and smile, often with tears of relief in their eyes. If they lose, off they walk, more often than not with tears in their eyes. What they DON'T do, reality telly stylee, is jump up and down screaming like they do on The Apprentice.

The great thing about Masterchef: The Professionals is that it's heads down, no-nonsense cheffing. Totally not dumbed down - which in this era you would expect.

Star of the show isn't Gregg Wallace, or Michel Roux, Jr - or any of the contestants. It's Monica Galetti, Roux's sous-chef - a slightly over-serious woman who pulls hilarious faces when the contestants have made a mistake.

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Do the funky toaster

Most mornings it's difficult enough to get out of bed. Rain battering off the window, a stream of less than cheerful news on the radio, and that's after enduring three snooze cycles of the thin electronic brain-sapping bleep of the clock-radio.

Once you're up and about and washed and dressed, things improve a bit. But there's still the entire daily grind ahead - squeezed public transport, the day's work schedule, all that stuff, stretching far off into the horizon of the day. At breakfast time all this is too much to contemplate, so it's best to make breakfast the fun meal of the day. Best foot forward and all that.

The best way to ensure a fun breakfast is to make sure you've the tools for the job. Since bread is bread and tea is tea (or if you're me, coffee is coffee) then it's going to be the appliances that make the difference. You need a good durable tosater that works well, and a decent kettle. Furniture websites mightn't be the place you'd think to look first, but I think I've found a very good breakfast tea & toast combo: toaster above, kettle here. The toaster actually comes in a range of colours, to suit your default morning mood. My morning mood being fairly Zen most days, I've opted for the lime green.

Top Celeb Chefs

Top 5 Male Celebrity Chefs

As we all know there are plenty of celebrity chefs out there that do their work for the community or have their on T.V programme but what i was wondering and would like to know is who is the best or even who your favourite male chef amongst them?

Here's a list of 5 that I think are in the best and well known leave a comment on who you would choose or even if you think I've missed out on someone let me know.

1. Jamie Oliver

2. Gordon Ramsey

3. Ainsley Harriot

4. Antony Worrall Thompson

5. Gary Rhodes

Cook Like A Pro

Cooking With The Best

Ever wondered what it would be like to be one of the top chefs in the world? Well now you can actually find out with the help of Jamie Oliver.


Recently I was browsing round a kitchen appliances website when I came across a range of professional cooking appliances from the famous chef. I seen a great deal on a set of pots and pans, not only do they look great but you could also get them for £160 saving a tidy £75. You can't go wrong with stainless steel in my eyes it looks great and from my experience easy to wash.


Let me know if any of you out there have ever purchased some of the "pukka" mans appliances and wither you have found them to be as useful as I did.

Make Your Own Smoothy With The Help Of A Blender

5 Star Blender

A blender is a fantastic kitchen appliance to have because you can put pretty much anything in it (food related) and it will blend it down. I myself usually like to make some freshly made fruit smoothies or the likes of homemade soup can be blended down if you don’t like your vegetables as thick.

I recently bought a new Dualit Blender for just under £100 and I must admit the value for money is brilliant. I still haven’t found a fault with it yet and I don’t think I’m going to its probably the strongest/best one I’ve had yet I strongly recommend it.

Winning The Fight Against Wine Bottles

Cool Gadget For Opening Your Favourite Wine Bottle

Have you ever had that problem of trying to remove the corkscrew from your favourite wine bottle after a hard day’s work? Invariably, it ends up either in the bottle or ripped to shreds.

Anyway, i have tries to seek out a solution to this problem, and whilst searching around the internet, I came across this gadget - the rather unusually named Screw Pull Barware made by Le Creuset. Apparently it’s been recommended by wine experts around the world and looks pretty funky compared to your average bottle opener - all you need to do is push the foil cutter onto the bottle and twist, simple as that!

At just under £10 you can’t really go wrong with this if you don’t like it it’s not much money lost but if you do like it and it helps causing stress free nights over fighting with a bottle of wine then this is the gadget for you.