Having caught up on a fair bit of telly recently, as well as being Chief Household Cook (yes that's C-O-O-K you cheeky blighter at the back), it crossed my mind that TV cookery comps could get even more tough with a bit of realism. I would suggest:
1) Best Home Cook - you have 5 hours to make a meal but three hours of it must be spent arguing with your boss on a conference call and all you can use is pasta, bog roll, cannellini beans and some very basic store cupboard ingredients including some dry spices you bought three years ago from Aldi during your exotic phase.
2) MasterChef - the cooking doesn't get tougher than this round. An invention challenge with three basic ingredients but you have to cook them after downing half a bottle of cheap Shiraz and with a dog and a couple of badly behaved toddlers harassing you.
Over to you. But it's certainly not limited to cuisine base knock outs. I'm sure NSC can improve quiz shows, reality shows and anything with a desperate gang of Z list "slebs" in,
1) Best Home Cook - you have 5 hours to make a meal but three hours of it must be spent arguing with your boss on a conference call and all you can use is pasta, bog roll, cannellini beans and some very basic store cupboard ingredients including some dry spices you bought three years ago from Aldi during your exotic phase.
2) MasterChef - the cooking doesn't get tougher than this round. An invention challenge with three basic ingredients but you have to cook them after downing half a bottle of cheap Shiraz and with a dog and a couple of badly behaved toddlers harassing you.
Over to you. But it's certainly not limited to cuisine base knock outs. I'm sure NSC can improve quiz shows, reality shows and anything with a desperate gang of Z list "slebs" in,
