10 Things I Learnt about Life from Masterchef
OK, I confess, I watch Masterchef, the television reality show and cookery programme. We record them on the Sky box and if I need to mindlessly zone out, I will watch an episode, very slowly making my way through a series. So slowly, in fact, that I am now several seasons behind. I try to have something to eat first, otherwise my desire for whatever is being prepared intrudes. "Cooking doesn't get tougher than this", apparently.
Anyway, I think that watching the professionals at work in the Masterchef kitchen or the various "fine dining restaurants" is instructive as well as therapeutic. Possibly this is the sign of incipient madness akin to seeing patterns in the entrails of roosters (delicious with ginger and spring onions), but stay with me. Here is the @profserious 10 Things I Learnt about Life from Masterchef!
1. You need the skills. Or 'skillz', possibly.
2. Consistency is everything.
3. Do not try to cook something in a knockout competition that you have not tried several times before.
4. There is probably a reason why mango and smoked haddock are not often served in combination in restaurants.
5. Though, in theory, chocolate fondants with melting centres are easy to cook, this might not be the case under extreme time pressure with an unfamiliar oven.
6. If everybody else chooses to cook a main course, it could be sensible to try to prepare a dessert.
7. You almost certainly have 'one ingredient too many'.
8. If you burnt it, don't serve it.
9. Leave enough time to make the food look good on the plate.
10. If you do not have enough time, use a black plate and cover the whole thing in micro-herbs.
There, now you tell me these are not lessons for life.