Jack Monroe #19 Is it a show? Miguel's not sure. I am Jack, hear me ROAR!

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Flumps said:
Two point from this post.

1. I NOW REALLY REALLY WANT TO GO ON A BLACKSMITH'S COURSE

2. Yep, agree with knife stuff completely. I learnt proper knife skills from a chef friend years ago and it makes so much difference to the speed of my food prep. I'm not super fast, but just knowing the techniques really helps. I have one massive sharp thing, one sharp Chinese cleaver type thing, one small sharp thing, one small flexible serrrated thing and a bread knife. I use the bread knife for, um, bread. Have other knives, but those are the only ones I regularly use. I am not a maverick though.
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Yep have looked up knife skills courses at Leiths .......
 
MancBee said:
Mum used to feed us boiled onions as a cure for a common cold, it's an old wives tale.... imagine no more, they were rank.
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I'm trying to think of a time I've ever thought basically boiling an onion was a good idea. The only time I can think it's acceptable is when making bread sauce (other milk based sauces are available) and you simmer an onion all poked in with cloves to infuse the milk with a sort of oniony/clovey background flavour. Crucially though, you remove and discard said onion before you feed it to unsuspecting humans.

Oh, and soaking onions in boiling water before pickling them, I've done that.
 
Cookiecookie said:
60 knives?! Even my semi-hoarder mother (who has now acquired vastly more kitchenalia than there ever was when we were a family of 5) does not own 60 knives.

I use one big, all purpose one, a pair of oxo good grips scissors,that come apart to clean, for cutting raw meat, and a serrated one for bread and some cooked meats.
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kitchenalia is a great word.
 
Flumps said:
before you feed it to unsuspecting humans
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Sounds like JMs type of food. Snork.

MancBee said:
Those knives look mighty worn for someone who only uses a bread knife.

As an aside, no wonder she is always "working". It would take me a couple of days a week to keep those open shelves clean, that kitchen is full of clutter.
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Seeing as she has a hard time emptying her bin, I imagine those shelves were really dusty.
 
SoulRebel said:
Does the woman actually use those filthy, rusty pointy things?
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No chef I know would keep their knives looking like that. Grim. Or the rest of the kitchen. Actually, screw chefs, I don't think vast majority of people would keep their kitchen like that. Mine is a bit cluttered with bottles, jars, spices, dried goods, because it's tiny (sad poverty face) and I have a lot of stuff, but despite being a bit of a lazy mare, I hate having a dirty kitchen. I'm proud of it and what sometimes comes out of it and I keep it clean. And keep my workspace as clear as possible.
 
OhhBacon said:
I think her Tuesday night Tv show is quite the insight into her working day. She was clearly underprepared, disorganised and hadn’t practiced. Put simply it was obvious that she hadn’t done the necessary work.

Now I can procrastinate with the best of them but if I had a show at 5pm and had done no prep for it then I would be up early and spend the whole day preparing so I am ready, even if I dicked around all morning at 1pm I would give myself some stern words and crack on.

Say I start at 1pm, that’s 4 hours to tidy the shed, get my ingredients into the right spaces, check the technical stuff and run through my lines. I think it’s doable but I like a bit of pressure to get on with stuff.

So back to Jack, she reckons she spent all day preparing for that show...we know she did stuff with her hair and messed around on twitter. She clearly wastes a lot of time on the wrong things (twitter) and calls that work. She and all her super fans thought that went well and she was well prepared. She doesn’t understand what work is.

In addition to that the ‘long hours’ just shows how inept you are, I worked in an art gallery for a year. It closed at 5.30pm, I sent the figures through at 5.40pm. My colleague (total brown nosing twit) used to send them through at between 7.00pm and 8.30pm!

The owner had a discussion with me once about how hard working my colleague was, until I enquired what he was doing till that time and gently pointed out how ineffective he was. He wasn’t selling more than me, the gallery looked the same as when I left at 5.40pm. So maybe he needed help with his working day!!!!

I don’t believe the 20hours bollocks.
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Couldn't agree with you more. If you work 20 hours a day but your output isn't greater than someone who works 7 hours a day, you are not hardworking. You are doing something wrong. Maybe you need more training? Maybe you are in a role you are not qualified for? I mean, could be a variety of things.
 
Waiting for the: I GOT MY BOOK TODAY! OH MY GOD I JUST LOVE LOVE LOVE. MY WEEKEND IS SORTED!!

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OhhBacon said:
I think her Tuesday night Tv show is quite the insight into her working day. She was clearly underprepared, disorganised and hadn’t practiced. Put simply it was obvious that she hadn’t done the necessary work.

Now I can procrastinate with the best of them but if I had a show at 5pm and had done no prep for it then I would be up early and spend the whole day preparing so I am ready, even if I dicked around all morning at 1pm I would give myself some stern words and crack on.

Say I start at 1pm, that’s 4 hours to tidy the shed, get my ingredients into the right spaces, check the technical stuff and run through my lines. I think it’s doable but I like a bit of pressure to get on with stuff.

So back to Jack, she reckons she spent all day preparing for that show...we know she did stuff with her hair and messed around on twitter. She clearly wastes a lot of time on the wrong things (twitter) and calls that work. She and all her super fans thought that went well and she was well prepared. She doesn’t understand what work is.

In addition to that the ‘long hours’ just shows how inept you are, I worked in an art gallery for a year. It closed at 5.30pm, I sent the figures through at 5.40pm. My colleague (total brown nosing twit) used to send them through at between 7.00pm and 8.30pm!

The owner had a discussion with me once about how hard working my colleague was, until I enquired what he was doing till that time and gently pointed out how ineffective he was. He wasn’t selling more than me, the gallery looked the same as when I left at 5.40pm. So maybe he needed help with his working day!!!!

I don’t believe the 20hours bollocks.
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Being disorganised is all just part of her schtick though, isn't it? 'Oh, look how awkward and disorganised and kooky I am, with my spider plants that just happen to be here despite this event not being in any way a surprise to me', she might as well just say 'I'm mad, me...'.

Same as the faffing about pretending to struggle with tech, it's literally one button to go Live on Instagram. It couldn't be easier, there's nothing to get confused by. It's all just an affectation.

A more generous person would say it's a result of being insecure so she puts up a front of uselessness rather than actually *try* and make something good and potentially fail.

I am not that person though. I think it's because she's a bleep.
 
I can't get over the bread knife tit. Things you definitely can't use a bread knife for with any ease:
Chopping garlic, ginger, chilli
Filleting fish
Carving a roast chicken
Thinly cutting carrots etc
Chopping herbs
Slicing steak
A cheese board
Deboning a chicken thigh

I could go on and on ...
 
Okab15 said:
Goop makes me rage! I love the biting articles about anything Goop on The Guardian.
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It's the worst. I had a brief, but intense obsession with the kitchen healer. Someone on a podcast I listen to mentioned hiring her. This was a few years before the goop appearance. A bit of internet detective work led me to her website, some old, old clips, and blog posts. If you fancy going down a rabbit hole (as our Jack would say), this woman is the gift that keeps on giving.
 
MancBee said:
Those knives look mighty worn for someone who only uses a bread knife.

As an aside, no wonder she is always "working". It would take me a couple of days a week to keep those open shelves clean, that kitchen is full of clutter.
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She claimed to deep clean the kitchen 12 times a day

I’m far from a minimalist (working towards it) but her never-ending filthy clutter is giving me anxiety. There’s so much and most of it looks old and dirty. I’m confused as to why she has some fancy appliances yet keeps rusty knives which would be relatively cheap to replace
 
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