BBQ Champ on ITV

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Mate these people suck ! one person served raw chicken and another tried to serve a huge medium rare steak and was literally freshly butchered.

Surely these people went through heats to make it to the finals. Awful cooks. I want to see some of the OcUK peeps on here. Would nail it easy.
 
Liquid_Entity said:
Mate these people suck ! one person served raw chicken and another tried to serve a huge medium rare steak and was literally freshly butchered.

Surely these people went through heats to make it to the finals. Awful cooks. I want to see some of the OcUK peeps on here. Would nail it easy.
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I am well disappointed too. I can do this better than this lot.
 
I think the first series should have been professional (read caterers) that would then set the bar for the BBQers.. next series hit with the inspired and practiced homers.
 
I watched 15mins of this and didn't get it at all.

Before you rubbish the contestants, i don't know most of their backgrounds but Emma is 1/2 of Bunch of Swines who have won a lot of BBQ competitions - she seemed to make a fair few mistakes but that makes me wonder whether it's the show itself rather than the people. The format seemed puzzling to me, if you want people to produce something great then why restrict them to such a short amount of time? I'm not convinced the judges are really the right people either.
 
Unbelievably cringey, not every ITV needs an X factor format. Given its summer and the nation loves a BBQ this was so disappointing. You want to see some unique stuff, other than the seabass it was all a bit pedestrian.

Of course it needs a grill off, stop it!
 
They should have done a straight cook off.. no "The biggest loser" style waiting crap.

Seriously.. I doubt that any professional will want to be a guest on the show as it stands.
 
NickK said:
They should have done a straight cook off.. no "The biggest loser" style waiting crap.

Seriously.. I doubt that any professional will want to be a guest on the show as it stands.
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I don't think it's for professionals.. if you mean people who run BBQ restaurants for a living?
 
It wasn't great imo but hopefully as they learn, they'll improve and so will the show.
 
Useless format, useless contestants and useless presenters (even Adam Richman can't save this train wreck). Fair enough if it's not for "professional" BBQers, but there are a number of people on this forum alone that I would much rather see cook on there. Plus, with the stupid time limits, it essentially became A.N. Other cooking show just with barbeques instead of ovens.

Emma was ****ing irritating too, pretty sure she was crying before the first ad break.
 
Why would have Myleene Klass presenting? I did not bother watching as I find her too annoying and I cannot for the life of me think what she could bring to a BBQ show.
 
hood1971 said:
Why would have Myleene Klass presenting? I did not bother watching as I find her too annoying and I cannot for the life of me think what she could bring to a BBQ show.
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Who knows. Her hair looked like she had a bird nesting in the side of it. She looks very thin. Why she's presenting a show about cooking and eating food is beyond me.

Also, I'm sorry, but Emma might be a proper championship cook, but she didn't come across as anything like that in the show. She turned on the waterworks too soon which is an automatic ignore from me. She might have 13 BBQs at home, but she should probably stick to one and master that first before buying more. I have a Weber MasterTouch and a ProQ Smoker. I can use both with a decent degree of ability. I'm happy with that.

The whole "personality on a plate" thing didn't really come out properly either. I don't really see how any of them actually put their personality on the plate. It was a stupid challenge with a nonsensical objective.

The dude that undercooked the chicken also runs a BBQ business. I think the biggest issue is that there were barely any meat thermometers in sight and many of them were out of their comfort zone. When you get used to BBQing with Mavericks and Thermapen, you spend less time paying attention to exactly what you're cooking when you cook it, because you know it isn't all down to instinct. They should all have had Thermapens and Mavericks. I'm sorry but great BBQ skill doesn't involve being able to guess exactly when food is cooked, so they should take that out of the equation right away. They should also stop making the contestants butcher their own meat. It's a BBQ competition, not MasterChef. ITV have ignored all the things that make proper BBQ great, and have instead gone for MasterChef over coals. That just isn't going to work and it came through in the first episode. And the music? It was like Great British Bake Off in terms of atmosphere. All in all it was a very poor show from ITV.
 
I think the kind of BBQ she does normally is low and slow - completely different to the grilling side of things...on top of that, ridiculous time pressure and the stress of being on TV would get on top of anyone.

That said, I've not watched any eps of this - just read discussions about it, including a few people that almost ended up on the show but withdrew...
 
The reasons I saw were change of format to the show and aside from that more about the timings of filming not being suitable for them.

I agree that you'd think people would be given more of an idea of how things were going to go - unless the idea is to surprise the contestants with weird challenges.
 
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