Marco's Kitchen

Advantages: Marco, celebs getting flustered
Disadvantages: not long enough

.... Not that celebrity reality shows do anyway! But hey, that's not why I watch it! They have made little interviews in a diary style so you can hear what they have thought about so far. The most honest I have to say is Ade Edmondson. Never holding back on saying how he disliked Jody and Anthea Turner, (have to agree with that one.) The celebrities get given a little task during the day, ranging from making swans out of meringues to cuting the head off of live eels and cooking crayfish. Naomi (Ms Dynamite) seems to of had a problem with the killing of live animals and it was quite ammusing when it was revealed to her that cockles were alive before she was putting them in the frying pan. Marco has a somewhat calmer attitude to the work of the kitchen, aside from when he wants the food to be at the pass. "Crab, crab crab. Where's my crab...

crezzie 25.04.2009 · Read review
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Review of Hell's Kitchen

Dream Kitchen @ Trade Prices - NOT!

Advantages: I'm not sure there are any!
Disadvantages: Expensive, Persuasive

...and leave. He kept the price list well hidden, right up until the last minute when he started to make calculations. I spied part of the price list and noticed that one of the base cabinets cost a whopping £1900 - yup I said £1900 just for one unit!!!!! 3 and a half hours later, he placed a piece of paper in front of us. He wanted £14,000 for our kitchen. I couldn't hide the shock on my face, that price was way out of our price range. The salesman fiddled with his paper, got his calculator back out and confidently said "If you take it today, you can have it for £10,500". We said even that was out of our price range. He looked fairly annoyed, packed up all of his things and left. We quickly ordered in fish and chips for tea - the kids were starving by this point. Later on that evening, I went online to B & Q. I managed to design...

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Review of Kitchens Direct

Not in my kitchen!

Advantages: None that I could see
Disadvantages: expensive, time consuming, poor customer relations

....30 at night and John had to be up at 5am. We both were unwell with the usual autumn bug. While David was at the car collecting samples I suggested that John escaped to bed, which he duly did. I considered that if John were not there then I could not be pressurised into signing anything. We were not taken with the product especially. It was supposed to be excellent quality at a reasonable price. Quite honestly, I was hard pushed to tell the difference between that and the MFI kitchens we had previously looked at. The doors were not even solid wood and yet the kitchen was three times the price of a top of the range MFI Schreiber kitchen and with only half the quantity of units, bearing in mind he didn't want us to have top cupboards!! Fortunately this chap David seemed a decent sort. He realised that we were not entirely convinced and he said...

water-witch 24.09.2004 · Read review
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Review of Kitchens Direct

SPACE KITCHENS IN ADMINISTRATION?

Advantages: Mnnnn
Disadvantages: Mnnnn

...Space Kitchens in Administration! Hi, I have worked for Space Kithens for over 3 years, and I have been astounded at the lengths they go to, to close a deal. Unfortunately Space Kitchens in my opinion still live in the dark ages when it comes to sales... in my opinion they still think that pressure sales, cold calling, canvasing etc is still the be all and end all.... IN A WORLD OF TPS REGULATIONS (telephone prefference service) they still think its the marketing tool of the 21st century - this is in my opinion They tried to form a new company and they showed the staff about 6 weeks ago a new brochure for the new company saying it was the future and that because of all the enquiries off their website they needed to form this new company to deal with the demands. However on Friday we walked into work to find people emptying their...

WhistleBlowerNew 15.07.2008 · Read review
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Review of Space Kitchens

Hell's kitchen 3

Advantages: Good entertainment
Disadvantages: Not live - well it is when the presenter's talking but it show's last night's service

...Hell's Kitchen is a reality television programme broadcast by ITV. The programme consists of ten celebs such as singers , actors and televesion presentets to name a few.Their task is to work in a kitchen and provide meals for the diners in the restaurant - sometimes up to 80 people. These celebs cannot cook but they are helped by four proffessional chefs. *Presenter * Hell's kitchen is presnted by Angus Deayton.He's is very commical on the show.He makes me laugh with his quick tounge. * Head Chef * The programme is now running on it's third series and this year's head chef is English Chef Marco Pierre White.He was born in Leeds , England on 11th December 1961 which means he is forty five years old.He is known for being nasty. *Soux chefs * Each team has two proffessional chefs to help them.One of them on this year's hell...

xdonzx 08.09.2007 · Read review
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IKEA Kalsebo kitchen

Advantages: Good quality, easy assembly, great price!
Disadvantages: Having to visit the warehouse ...

...Having purchased and fitted an IKEA kitchen in 1993, and being very happy with it for the next 7 years (until we moved house!), I didn't really bother looking anywhere else for my most recent kitchen. I was delighted to find that, although the narrowest (30cm wide) units have now been discontinued, the range has otherwise been improved and offers excellent value and quality. IKEA offers a very good range of basic units, all of which are customisable by adding your choice of doors, drawer fronts and interior fittings. All the ranges are, in my opinion, very reasonably priced. You'll have to get a catalogue or visit the website or store to see just what's available! We planned our kitchen with 3 things in mind: cost - having just paid for an extension, our budget was limited; durability - our kitchen gets good use; staying power...

sgjenning 16.08.2006 (15.01.2007) · Read review
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Review of Ikea Kitchen Systems

Home on the Range(master)....

Advantages: See Review
Disadvantages: NOT self cleaning..?!!

...Background We were fortunate enough to extend our home recently, and along with a whole new kitchen, I had to decide on what cooker to buy. In an ideal world, where money was no object, I would have loved to have bought an Aga - but sadly budgetary constraints ruled out this extravagance. My sister-in-law already had a Rangemaster and I had liked the look, size and functionality of it and so this was what I ended up buying. The Cooker It is a dual fuel cooker, with two fan assisted electric ovens, an electric grill and a five burner gas hob. It can be installed to use either mains/natural gas or L.P. Gas. My cooker is black with chrome handles and trim?.pretty sleek looking for a cooker, if you like that sort of thing! It is also available in racing green, cream and ivory, all with either chrome...

carcraig 10.06.2008 (09.10.2008) · Read review
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Review of Rangemaster Kitchener 90DF

Space Kitchens...An Absolute Joke.

Advantages: Absolutely None
Disadvantages: All of the above

...Space Kitchens - Glasgow Where to start with this shamble of a company? I have been working with the company for nearly 6 months now. I applied for the job as it stated "Driver" on the jobcentreplus form, only to be told after the interview, you are actually going to be a salesman, guised as a "designer". What a joke!!!! The usual starts, they offer you the world, you can make £1000 a day from the commission you earn, joke!!!! Likeliness is, you will make the £50 pitch fee only. They are all friendly for the first few weeks also until they turn on you. Your training consists of sitting in a room with a fat mancunian while he talks about how he makes £100k a year, please? The "lead" comes from the fat skanks sat in the call centre who basically hound the customer into saying YES to a "Free Plan & Design" which afterwards, a price...

jblack1978 15.10.2009 · Read review
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Review of Space Kitchens

Hells Kitchen! Heavenly game

Advantages: Challenging, humorous, good graphics and playability. Actual recipes! Fun
Disadvantages: none that stand out.

...Want to be in charge of everything in the kitchen? Well here you play the role of everyone! From preparing the food, to cooking it, to serving it. You have to master it all! Step into the kitchen to preare the meal, where all ingredients will be displayed on the counter top. Your pans will be displayed on the stove with the appropriate ingredient marked next to them. when you click on an ingredient it will become a whirling blur of energy transforming into a bowl of finished ingredients ready to cook. Drag your finished ingredients and pop them into the relevant pans on the stove. As you're ingredients cook away a counter will begin also displaying stars which will increase to show the quality of the dish. Once the timer has finished its count down, you must drag the finished dish to the staging plates ready for service. The game...

bethanamax1 18.06.2009 · Read review
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Review of Hells Kitchen (Wii)

Space Kitchens

Advantages: Didn't buy product - can't comment
Disadvantages: Sales technique

...Our story is similar to others on here. We received a cold call from their call centre. We were told that Space Kitchens (SK) were operating in our area and had a large budget to spend. They could get us an unbeatable offer, with options for money back either through appearing in their magazine (up to 100% back) or by recomending them to a friend or neighbour. I wasn't particularly impressed with the sales pitch, but as we badly need a new kitchen I told them I would speak with their salesman. The guy duly arrived a few days later. I told him at the outset that I didn't mean to be impolite, but that I wasn't prepared to sit all evening while the kitchen was desinged. He was ok with this, if a little surprised. He finished within an hour. He then asked us how much we thought a kitchen would cost, and I said that I expected it...

Phaedrus69 30.08.2005 · Read review
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