How many of you watch cooking shows? How many of you take notice of what is being made? Do you even ever attempt to make something you have seen on one of these shows? Even if they are professed as quick and easy? From our experience very few of these dishes that are quite rightly delicious are ever made, let alone remembered. There are a couple of reasons why we at YesChef! believe that this happens. Firstly cooking shows are by and large on T.V. It makes it quite hard to follow instructions via any other medium without the visual aspect. Can you imagine trying to make a meringue following instructions on the radio? Cooking is as much visual as it is taste. After all the old adage is, "People eat with their eyes." Quite often the other one soon followed is, "Eyes bigger than their belly." However the medium of television, whilst being a great tool for educating, informing and entertaining, can also be a tool for idling away boredom. Cooking shows seldom have a great deal of excitement within that will keep you on the edge of your seat. This is not the shows fault or indeed the chefs. It's just how it is, food doesn't quite get the pulse racing like a tight and fiercely contested sporting event.
Often cookery shows tend to be on at the time of day when there is nothing else on, or no one to watch them. The student days of this particular YesChef! blogger we oft spent at 3pm sat in front of the telly with a riveting line up of Countdown and Ready, Steady, Cook to look forward to till it was considered a legitimate time to start drinking. They are non committal viewing. No thought is required as you are supposed to be learning. However as a non committal viewing experience you tend to switch off and as such just as quickly forget what has just been dished up for your visual pleasure, no matter how good it looks. There is no particular moral point in this blog about cookery shows, it just seems to YesChef! that the whole point of food is to enjoy it. Watching it being made can be a great experience provided that you are participating in some form at any stage in it, be it preparation or ingestion. Maybe the point that has been made is to actually watch more shows and actually make the food on them. Give it a try, it cant be any worse than letting those marvelous recipes just disappear.
YesChef!
Often cookery shows tend to be on at the time of day when there is nothing else on, or no one to watch them. The student days of this particular YesChef! blogger we oft spent at 3pm sat in front of the telly with a riveting line up of Countdown and Ready, Steady, Cook to look forward to till it was considered a legitimate time to start drinking. They are non committal viewing. No thought is required as you are supposed to be learning. However as a non committal viewing experience you tend to switch off and as such just as quickly forget what has just been dished up for your visual pleasure, no matter how good it looks. There is no particular moral point in this blog about cookery shows, it just seems to YesChef! that the whole point of food is to enjoy it. Watching it being made can be a great experience provided that you are participating in some form at any stage in it, be it preparation or ingestion. Maybe the point that has been made is to actually watch more shows and actually make the food on them. Give it a try, it cant be any worse than letting those marvelous recipes just disappear.
YesChef!
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