Presenter Alex Jones took on a series of cooking challenges to prove that even the most accident-prone cooks has create delicious dishes.
Watch the moment presenter Alex Jones turns kitchen chaos into cooking with confidence in this funny video. The self-confessed ‘terrible cook’ is the first to laugh at her kitchen mishaps from soggy rice and burnt pans to the occasional pasta meltdown. But now, she’s proving that even the most accident-prone home cooks can master mealtime with these ‘before and after’ style recipes.
The presenter teamed up with Ben’s Original, who is launching its new family packs, for a cooking challenge. She said: “Let’s face it, we’ve all had a kitchen disaster, and the more people at the table, the trickier it gets.”
“Even simple meals can go sideways, that’s why having quick, reliable staples are a total lifesaver,” she added. “They take the stress out of cooking and give families more time to actually enjoy being together around the table.”
It comes after a poll of 2,000 adults who cook found more than half (55%) fear a cooking disaster such as spilling ingredients, burning food, or forgetting to turn the oven on.
The study found undercooking meat or poultry, making rice too soggy and leaving a pan to overboil were also high on the list of cooking disasters that give them nightmares.
Among the other kitchen blunders are charred onions, scorched sauces and the all-too-familiar struggle of burning rice or making enough to feed an army.
While others confessed to trying to avoid burning garlic in seconds, overcooking pasta or getting the rice to water ratio wrong.
It emerged 43% believe preparing weekday dinners and evening meals is one of their biggest cooking stresses. What’s more, 60% admit they find catering for more than four people daunting.
Almost half feel embarrassed about their cooking skills, with 33% often feeling overwhelmed when cooking more than one dish at a time.
Timing everything correctly, getting all elements ready at the same time and having to clean up afterwards are among the biggest stresses.
It was also found baking (26%), desserts (19%) and rice dishes (14%) were among the things adults feel least confident cooking from scratch.
Four in ten admit to avoiding certain meals completely because they were worried they’d mess them up. But 35% think more practice, clearer recipes (29%) and step-by-step guides (25%) would help them feel more confident in the kitchen.
TOP COOKING DISASTERS ADULTS FEAR:
1. Burning food
2. Undercooking meat or poultry
3. Making rice too soggy
4. Leaving a pan to overboil
5. Overcooking pasta
6. Forgetting something is in the oven
7. Making way too little food
8. Undercooking rice
9. Forgetting a recipe step
10. Burning rice
11. Spilling ingredients
12. Misreading the recipe steps and doing them out of order
13. Getting the ‘rice to water’ ratio wrong
14. Making way too much rice to feed an army
15. Reading a measurement as tablespoons instead of teaspoons (or vice versa)
16. Forgetting to preheat the oven
17. Overcrowding the pan
18. Forgetting to turn the oven on
19. Egg shell left in the pan
20. Not keeping an eye on chips in the oven
21. Not making enough rice for the meal
22. Not tasting as you go
23. Scorching a sauce
24. Using expired ingredients
25. Burning garlic
26. Charring onions
27. Using the wrong type of oil or fat
28. Not drying ingredients properly before frying
29. Chopping an onion too chunkily
30. Using sugar instead of salt
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