Monday, 15 March 4.20am
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Ready Steady Cook


The popular UK cooking show kicks off its 14th season.


The BBC's Ready Steady Cook returns for another season — making it number 14 for the long-running show — with its familiar format unchanged. Two contestants join the celebrity chefs on stage, who have 20 minutes to create dishes based on the contestants' bags of ingredients.

For fans of the Australian Ready Steady Cook, it can be hard not to be distracted by the small, yet conspicuous, differences. Everyone seems very caught up on how much they spent on ingredients. Their maximum is 10 pounds, but there are smiles all round when they reveal they only spent five pounds. The recipes created are either discernibly English or French, and it's times like these that we should all be thankful for the many wonderful influences on modern Australian cuisine, and that we don't have to eat shallots wrapped in bacon.

While our own Peter Everett is endearingly hopeless in the kitchen, he serves as an ideal conduit between audience and chef, asking the kinds of question we at home might want to ask the professionals. But UK host Ainsley Harriott is himself a chef, and just can't seem to keep himself from taking over parts of the preparation, putting his paws all over the pots and interrupting with handy little kitchen hints. Stop interfering Ainsley!

Ready Steady Cook airs on the Lifestyle FOOD Channel on Monday, March 15, at 6:30pm.

Kashmir Brummel

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