Are you a bad cook?

I wasn't sure where to post this (so, mods, feel free to move it), but thought it was so awesome that I had to put it up!

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Radar TV are currently producing a new primetime food series for Channel 4, and we are looking for people who cannot cook to take part in the programme!

Do you live on takeaways? Do you LOVE FOOD but have no idea how to cook?
Is every meal a disaster?
Do you have the backbone to learn how to cook like a pro with a top London chef?

Or do you know someone who you think is a bad cook?

If so please pick up the phone now and call 020 7749 3965 or email cook@radartv.co.uk

Looking forward to hearing from you!!

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(This was posted on another forum I'm a member of, and there was no link provided. I tried to go to www.radartv.co.uk, but it seems they're doing work on their web site. Still, it seems on the up and up.)

Kind of off-topic, but I don't understand how someone can be a bad cook.  If you follow a recipe, things generally work out okay, right?   

Kind of off-topic, but I don't understand how someone can be a bad cook.  If you follow a recipe, things generally work out okay, right?   

Ooh No!!

Kind of off-topic, but I don't understand how someone can be a bad cook.  If you follow a recipe, things generally work out okay, right?   

I feel that way, too, but I do know so many people who really do consider themselves bad cooks so maybe ...?

My theory is that if you can read, you can cook. You may never be a fantastic cook who knows by instinct how to do things, but you can still make some yummy meals!

Kind of off-topic, but I don't understand how someone can be a bad cook.  If you follow a recipe, things generally work out okay, right?   

I am a perfect example of how that can be.  I have the worst kitchen karma in the world when it comes to cooking.  I can follow a recipe to the "t", and it still manages to get mangled somehow.  Either something gets cooked too long because I forget to set the timer, or I screw up the math doubling a recipe, or one of a zillion other small mistakes.  I know it's some sort of weird mental block because I can bake like nobody's business.  But the second I try to make chicken piccata I turn into the anti-Julia Child.

I am a perfect example of how that can be.  I have the worst kitchen karma in the world when it comes to cooking.  I can follow a recipe to the "t", and it still manages to get mangled somehow.  Either something gets cooked too long because I forget to set the timer, or I screw up the math doubling a recipe, or one of a zillion other small mistakes.  I know it's some sort of weird mental block because I can bake like nobody's business.  But the second I try to make chicken piccata I turn into the anti-Julia Child.

Amen! I too, can bake quite well but cooking? Ick!

Kind of off-topic, but I don't understand how someone can be a bad cook.  If you follow a recipe, things generally work out okay, right?   

wrong. Im the worst cook ever. Even if I follow a recipe it doesnt turn out right. Either undercooked, overcooked, too lumpy, too loose.
It's always been that case with me. Some people just dont belong in the kitchen and Im one of them!

I too am not what would be considered a good cook. I am always overcooking meat, screwing up recipes, my sauces never turn out right. I can even screw up something in the crock pot. 

wrong. Im the worst cook ever. Even if I follow a recipe it doesnt turn out right. Either undercooked, overcooked, too lumpy, too loose.
It's always been that case with me. Some people just dont belong in the kitchen and Im one of them!

don't talk to me about cooking recenly.  :x

signed, stumpy

Too funny, you guys, baking is usually considered so much more complicated than cooking, because of the precision involved.

Poor Stumpy!   

i can't bake to save my life......recipie or not, i don't have the patience for it

give me a boxed cake anyday!!! hello betty crocker

but i can cook regular food well.  odd.

Too funny, you guys, baking is usually considered so much more complicated than cooking, because of the precision involved.

It actually works out beautifully in my house - my husband is an incredible cook, but can't make something as simple as a boxed cake to save his life.

Well I called the show and they called me back a few min ago. They story is you have to train with a top London chef for 8 days. And they are looking for someone "ball-sy". I said "God, please dont say its Gordon!" She said she cant tell me who it is but if it was him and he said my cooking was crap what would I say to him? They are filming in late Oct.

rikki, you should totally do it!!!!!!!!!!