I don’t think about Jamie Oliver
John Oliver is the better Oliver
Shit. I literally read John in the OP and was confused by all the comments I was reading. Until I read yours and went: hold on a sec. Scrolled back up, and sure enough OP was about Jamie 😅
That’s like saying Dwayne “the Rock” Johnson is the best Rock. Of course he he’s, that was never a competition
He’s certainly better than Kid Rock, that’s for sure.
Oliver is a better Oliver than Jamie is.
John Oliver better know as “Who?”
He’s smug and preachy.
Pushing for healthier school lunches was fine, but his campaign to shame parents into making healthy food for their kids, without first considering poverty, available time, or other complicating factors is proof that he doesn’t care about people actually eating healthy, as much as he is about maintaining his “champion of healthy eating” façade.
I hate when people bring up the poverty angle, unless it’s more about people having to work more hours/multiple jobs and not having time to cook. Healthy whole foods are generally way cheaper than fast food or even junk food from the grocery store, at least in my experience
Not on a “per calorie” basis they aren’t. And I’m not really sure by what other metric you can compare them. But look at how many calories of broccoli $3 gets you compared to potato chips. Then you have to add in the time of preparation.
Additionally, many impoverished people tend to live in “food deserts”, areas without grocery stores, but many fast Food locations.
The deck is definitely stacked against the impoverished.
They most certainly are not. If you’re buying unhealthy food only as snacks, you mistake your subset as all unhealthy food.
If you need calories and are on a shoestring budget, your options are potatos, bad bread, Coles cakes etc. You can eat for a week on a few dollars but you’ll become overweight and eventually die of malnutrition. Your options become even more limited if you don’t have a working stove due to being cut off your gas.
I guess I was thinking snacks first and foremost but cheap carbs aren’t necessarily unhealthy. Protein sources are probably the most expensive and mixing in veggies is pricey on a calories/$ basis.
But rice, beans/legumes, and a lot of other basic staple foods are pretty cheap. Eggs are back under a dollar by me at least.
Not having the time/means to shop and prepare food makes sense, or if you’re in a food desert and don’t have much available conveniently.
Eggs are pushing $10/doz where I am 💀
You can absolutely put together a relatively healthy meal for reasonably cheap, I’m talking about “getting your gas cut-off” budgeting though.
hes like chili jam on fried rice
He exists. Honestly, that’s as far as my opinion on him goes.
Have you proved this yet or are you just taking everyone’s word for it
He’s a celebrity first and a chef second, unlike the likes of Gordon Ramsay, who’s a chef first and a celebrity second.
He’s a bit worthy and his restaurants are a bit shit, but I’m sure his heart is in the right place.
You’re now wrong on Jamie Oliver, but I feel you think too highly of ramsay. He definitely is a celebrity first now as well, just one that happens to cook better than oliver
Gordan Ramsay already had a Michelin star when he started his TV career, and Ramsay’s first show in the UK was actually geared towards helping restaurants looking for help.
Ramsay used his fame to expand, but he was a chef before his fame.
The difference is that Oliver was a sous-chef when he was first picked up for a TV show, whereas Ramsay had been head chef at multiple Michelin-starred restaurants before he got his TV shows.
Oliver’s restaurants have never been awarded any Michelin stars. Ramsay’s have been awarded 17.
One of these two is a real restaurateur and chef, one of these is more of a food-related lifestyle brand.
He’s the apple shagger that gave Scotland both the Irn Bru ruining sugar tax and got rid of our two for one pizza deals. So no, don’t really like him.
I hate how much he hates chicken nuggets. His only argument against them seems to be that they use all the bad dirty bits of the chicken. I’m like “Yeah…if we’re going to eat chicken we may as well eat all of them.”
It’s a boring answer but I assume you’re looking for a consensus? I don’t know much about him, but I like cooking videos and I’ve enjoyed his content in the past.
It’s all very well telling people what to cook. The problem is many don’t know how to cook. By that I mean they don’t know the logistics and workflow, so a meal that should take 15 minutes to make instead takes an hour or more. When I enter the kitchen the first thing I do is switch on the stove. Then I prep in the order that I need ingredients. I’ve noticed a lot of people do all the chopping and dicing first and only when they have everything prepared they put pans on the stove. If you’re going to make potatoes get the water on the boil first, then get the potatos out and clean and chop them. There are lots of things that save time when cooking. I cook most things together in a single cast iron pan, and I add leftovers to the dishes I’m cooking so the ingredients go further. I think that should be taught more instead of just handing out recipes.
My house is going to be halfway burnt down by the time I finish chopping vegetables if I turn on the stove first.
We got a gas stove so the heat is there immediately, very practical.
I’ll remember that just as soon as I work out how my oven works. You can’t just turn it on, it asks what mode you want it in, I don’t know I wanted on. Hot, I want hot mode.
Haiaaaaaaa, please not Mr. Chili Jam
I love his chicken nuggets video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKwL5G5HbGA
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The kids at the end immediately ready to eat it once it looks like a nugget again
Also very relevant Dan Olson video on this https://youtu.be/V-a9VDIbZCU
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Hes a mediocre cook with a lot of luck. Don’t get mevwrong, hes not bad. But hes not great either.
Knew a chef that trained under him for a bit, apparently he’s quite a cunt
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