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

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Silver Linings said:
I think it was when she used to disappear from her awful, poverty stricken life and then put photos up from a random european city and say she’d been there for work. She bought new knives and couldn’t get them on the plane or something.
Let the knives go, brain!!
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Yes, I remember this too! I'm sure it was Venice. Accompanied by the usual guff about how she'd broken her back to afford it and hadn't had a proper holiday in eleventy hundred years BEFORE ANYONE STARTS.
 
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.
 
Veronicaaa said:
Here we go again, with Jack's signature 'put everything into a cold pan then turn the heat on and boil' method of cooking https://life.spectator.co.uk/articles/quick-and-spicy-salmon-noodles-recipe/
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Of all her wierd cooking techniques - the not cooking onions properly is the one that I simply cannot understand. How the hell do they cook at all using the method she describes? I read somewhere that to do them justice you need to gently fry them for about 10 minutes. It shows such a fundamental lack of knowledge or interest in basic cooking to do what she advocates.
 
Yel said:
I doubt she even does 20 hours of what any normal person would see as work a month. It's always the laziest most inefficient people that boast about how long they work. I won't go into the UK productivity issues, but in a scandi country apparently it's seen as you doing something wrong if you keep needing to work long hours.

If it takes her a week to work out international shipping for a book, so that's 140 Jack Monroe hours for what would take any normal person about an hour.
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Definitely applies to Jack. If the quality and quantity of her output was amazing I’d believe she was working long hours but what does she spend 20 hours doing? Not keeping her finger on the pulse & reacting in a timely manner; not testing her recipes, tech, or anything else; not studying to refine her skills; not working on her public image for the sake of her brand

Most of her ‘work’ is pissing about on Twitter and she’s not even good at that

Someone who claims to put so many hours in for this result is definitely doing something wrong
 
Jelly Bean said:
Of all her wierd cooking techniques - the not cooking onions properly is the one that I simply cannot understand. How the hell do they cook at all using the method she describes? I read somewhere that to do them justice you need to gently fry them for about 10 minutes. It shows such a fundamental lack of knowledge or interest in basic cooking to do what she advocates.
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I agree, I can’t understand why you don’t fry offf onions, am almost tempted to try her method to understand what they taste like. Im imagining hard bitter lumps in the dish!?
 
Saint_clemmie said:
why is it always full name? Literally on everything!
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That last sentence is a mess. It sounds like her eyes are in her shirt.

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Yel said:
I doubt she even does 20 hours of what any normal person would see as work a month. It's always the laziest most inefficient people that boast about how long they work. I won't go into the UK productivity issues, but in a scandi country apparently it's seen as you doing something wrong if you keep needing to work long hours.

If it takes her a week to work out international shipping for a book, so that's 140 Jack Monroe hours for what would take any normal person about an hour.
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Yeh in countries like Germany they are way more productive and generally do fewer hours than us... if it takes her a week to look into posting to another eu country I only imagine that 20 hours is her writing 2 sentences and a thousand then deleted tweets
 
PennyLoafer said:
I wish I believed in something as much as Nims believes in Jack. There's more inspiration in that string of emojis than in the whole Monroe oeuvre.

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Oh... bless her 🙁
She really has high hopes for this book if she’s expected sushi (?) See she’s used a carving knife emoji and NOT a bread knife.
 
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Jelly Bean said:
A cookery book with no colour photos? I'm aware this might be a blessing but what a strange choice to make.
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The Tin Can Cook book was the same, just cheap paper and black and white scribbled illustrations. If I remember correctly at the time she claimed it was to keep the cost of the book as low as possible, so more people could afford it and more could be donated to food banks. Not sure what the reasoning is this time, since 'poor person' cooking isn't the theme of the book.
 
I couldn't bare to read any of her writing in the book preview, but spent 20 seconds reading the food bit and found a few mistakes and I'm not even that knowledgeable on food.

Tofu isn't fermented, that's tempeh and is a very different food. Or maybe she means miso or tamari? I'm no foodie but pretty sure she's wrong.
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Oats are low GI, instant oats I believe are medium GI. But who would buy those fancy instant oats and not the cheap bog standard ones? Not Jack 😆
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