Chef wise, currently they certainly have nobody you would say deserves that term put in front of their name. Chef Joe? Anybody who produces seriously undercooked meat on a cookery demonstration (as others have said he did last night) does NOT deserve to be called Chef anything. Beef burgers can often have other meats combined in the mix - pork for example. Care needs to be taken in making sure the meat is visibly cooked throughout. Joe is presented to air as some sort of professional cook. For me, I see him more as a guy who works as a jack of all trades shopping television presenter, who likes to cook. There’s a difference.
Chef Mark? Anybody who regularly sees or hears him on-air will doubt his credibility as a competent chef. Telling us about his experience of Michelin ‘Four Star’ restaurants and pouring water into a powered on grill with the dangerous consequences of doing so.
John Campbell from the old Ideal World pointedly never called himself a chef. But he was one of the most competent and honest in approach cookery demonstrators they had. Chef Jack, albeit a joker and cocky, was at least a competent if not repetitive cook, what I saw of him. Chef Paul was a long-term guest on previous Ideal World versions. Probably the best they have had, and a proper chef with a background in owning restaurants and cooking in them.
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