Jamie Oliver vs Normal Person - Kamikaze Cookery - part 1

This week on Kamikaze Cookery, we investigate whether celebrity chef recipes are actually usable and useful to normal people. Paul tests Jamie Oliver's "Pici Con Ragu", from Jamie's Italy, which includes making pasta from scratch - will it work? Will it fail? Will they end up with a lot of dough stuck to a skewer?

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[henrikduende]

why don´t you let someone that actually likes cooking do it? People that eat microwave food every day couldnt boil a potato

[kamikazecookery]

This sort of attitude is why we started doing this. People who can't cook all that well (a group that includes neither Paul nor Steve, btw) decide to give cooking a go, try a Jamie Oliver recipe, it doesn't come out very well, and they assume it's because they can't cook, rather than because the recipe is not very good. And then they don't try again. And then they get insulted for not cooking .

All of which sucks. Bad sleb chef recipes screw up peoples' cooking.

[Centigonos]

"Bad sleb (sic) chef recipes screw up peoples' cooking."

No, they don't. If you don't know a tithe about cooking, don't start with a sophisticated recipe, start with a simple one. Why not try an omelette first before you try to cook you own pasta?

"People who can't cook all that well (...) decide to give cooking a go, try a Jamie Oliver recipe,..." Right, brilliant idea. That's where the mistake can be found, not in the recipe. Don't try to cook posh things if you don't have the basics down.

[kamikazecookery]

Seriously, your definition of "posh things" is a ragu sauce? *boggles*

Also, which bit of "the basics" would teach you how to make pasta, exactly? It's rather a unique job. Personally, to learn something like that, I'd turn to, ooh, I don't know, a book by a famous chef on Italian cooking...

[Centigonos]

Have you misunderstood me on purpose or are you really that thick? I bet you even don't see how self-contratictory your comment is.

The most cookbooks on a beginner's level will teach you how to make pasta. Read one.

Actually you didn't do that bad on this recipe, albeit being really slow.Your efforts on Gordon Ramsay's soufflé of course is a whole different story. Once again: learn your basics.

Maybe your videos are supposed to be ironic, but then you're taking yourself way too serious.

[kamikazecookery]

You'd expect a beginner's level cookbook to teach you how to make pasta? Okaaaaaaaaayy...

*backs away from the crazy person*

[chanrider]

so let me get this right:

you find someone who isn't at all interested in cooking, don't follow cooking instructions, and then wonder why it tastes like shit for so much effort?

gg on explaining gluten.if you applied that same precision to cooking recipes you might make something surprisingly good. i.e. no substitutions or ignoring direction.

[CherokeeApacheIrish]

@Centigonos No! These 3 need to read a much simpler cook book like

" Cooking For Pompous Dummies"

[Gelatoalcio]

I'm Italian, I'm sixteen and I'm perfectly able to cook this dish.

[Jeltjepeltje]

Fail title, but how else would you get someone to watch this fail video

[RedWolf69]

@kamikazecookery A good beginners cookbook will have all the basics including pasta, AND I MEAN BEGINNERS COOKBOOK NOT CHILDRENS COOKBOOK.

[MrTerryKay]

The reeson Jamie can't spell is because, like me, he's dyslexic. I can see how being perfect would make this weld a tidious plaice.

[MrTerryKay]

Absolutely love the idea of idiot testing celeb recipes. Didn't go for the hateful approach though. String that mockney up. Forget the good work he has done with schools, food awareness, etc etc etc. String him up for his accent, the bastard. How dare he. Shame, because it really was a good idea. I'd love to have watched more but, if it's hate without reason I want, I'll watch Chubby Brown or Hitler.

Look, I know it's tongue in cheek and you do mean malice, but what did he ever do to you.

[Centigonos]

@CherokeeApacheIrish It simply boils down to:

1) they can't cook for their life

2) they're not even funny

[CherokeeApacheIrish]

@CherokeeApacheIrish #5 Anyone with common sense knows one would need to know how to cook at least the basics before they would buy a cook book in the frist place. #6 People that can't cook the basics or cook at all statistically speaking do not buy cook books. Which makes your video even more pointless. #6 I hope you 3 still work your normal jobs because neither of you 3 are good comedians.

[CherokeeApacheIrish]

@kamikazecookery First things first. #1 Neither of you 3 can cook the basics. #2 Neither of you 3 have any passion for wanting to cooking and learning the basics. #3 You're not able to follow simple cooking instructions (Refer back to #1). #4 Until you 3 have a desire to learn the basics your videos are a joke and pretty much a pompous swipe at chefs who started at the bottom and learned the basics many years before they wrote their recipe books.

[mrbeanaswell]

@strangecompany I like to be quick and to the point.