Topic: take on the takeaway

[brum_57]

anyone see take on the takeaway yesterday? the challenge was to produce a chicken sag balti cheaper, quicker and better tasting than the local balti emporium. the celeb chef was john burton race.

if u missed the show u can still watch it on the bbc website for another 6 days (uk only)

Kev.

[Domi]

But JBR didn't make a chicken sag balti, he didn't deserve the win

[brum_57]

true and he served up plain rice lol - ok even if you're blindfolded surelly you would notice if the spinach was left out? Ive actualy had a meal from that balti house in Newport and they are very good indeed - being a brummie I know a good balti when I taste one. One wonders if the result was erm - fixed lol. not saying JBR dont know what he's doing but the dish he cooked up seemed like a very basic curry imo no suprises there.

Kev.

[George]

One wonders if the result was erm - fixed lol. not saying JBR dont know what he's doing but the dish he cooked up seemed like a very basic curry imo no suprises there.

I saw that programme and I'm 100% certain it was a 'fix' and the poor take-away were stitched up and cheated. The staff looked gutted, and rightly so.

1. Doctors who eat loads of take-away currys would know the rough taste of a take-away, like we do. It seems very unlikely that one would think JBRs was the take-away.

2. You can tell when spinach is present. Surely they would have noticed in the blind taste test.

3. JBR 'forgot' to add any spinach. He should have been disqualified.

I also saw an episode from the previous series. I forget the dish (Chinese I think) but I tried cooking the recipe, following the ingredients and method to the letter. It was rubbish. There's no way that recipe would have won against a Chinese take-away dish.

Regards
George

[Bobby Bhuna]

Fixed rubbish on T.V. really gets my goat! They will go to any lengths to entertain viewers. I would have loved for the BIR to win hands down and tell the celeb chef to go and get it pumped! ;D

[brum_57]

glad u agree with me - to be honest I was disgusted by this program, how low will the BBC stoop in order to get good ratings, as I said further up I have actualy used the BIR in question and they are highly recomended, if ever you are in Newport please pay them a visit - and stick 2 fingers up to JBR and the beeb.

Kev.