Ready steady COOOK

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...This is one of the better cooking programmes. At one stage there were so many cooking programmes that it became annoying. Well I really like this cooking programme, its presented by the ever entertaining and somewhat flamboyant Ainsley Harriot. Basically, two contestants have to go out and buy some ingredients up to £5, the two chiefs then have to cook something up for their allocated contestant in twenty minutes. Ainsley says ‘Ready, steady cook’ and they start cooking. It’s a very useful programme because the recipes are cheap and you can buy the ingredients at your local supermarket and it only takes twenty minutes to prepare. I, normally check teletext for the recipe if the dish they served up was good. They always manage to cook up something that looks very appetising, they really do a very good...

WAD1-2-3 26.04.2001 · Read review
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Ready Steady Whisk

Advantages: Simple to use, different speed settings, easy to clean, cheap price
Disadvantages: whisks sometimes fall out if not secured properly

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Ready... Steady... Throw it in the bin !

Advantages: It's a nice red colour
Disadvantages: It doesn't really make slush

...Why is it that people always tell you how crap something is, WHEN YOU HAVE ALREADY BOUGHT IT ???!!.The Junior Ready Steady Cook Slush Maker is no exception. It was my daughter's 4th birthday in September and she had been begging for a 'slushy maker' for ages. I decided that as Ready Steady Cook was a well known brand in the cooking industry then anything from the toy range would be also very good. How dilusional I was ! I bought the offending toy from the Blackburn branch of Woolworth's for £14.99. The picture on the box shows a little boy wearing an apron clearly making a refreshing slush. The box claims to be 'simple and safe' to use so I thought that my daughter would be able to use it easily. I wrapped it up and hid it for her birthday. On the morning of her birthday as she opened all her presents, she was delighted to find...

Birky 17.10.2003 · Read review
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First Hand Experience of BBC2 Ready Steady Cook

Advantages: Saw what it was like firsthand
Disadvantages: I didn't win

...Ahem, allow me to introduce myself. I am that gorgeous creature who was seen a couple of weeks ago on BBC2's Ready Steady Cook! Yup, you heard right, me and my gorgeous daughter were the first contestants of the new season. Let me tell you first hand about the show. It was a blast! When we were chosen for the show, we had to write a list of foods that we like and don't like. What we would want to have in a gourmet bag, in a standard bag and a budget bag. From the list of items that we gave, 5 items are chosen. They are determined by a food economist on the basis of nutritional value and items that work well together. My bag contained steak, fresh corn on the cob, spinach, red onion and sweet potato. My daughter's was chicken breast, chinese noodles, frozen peas, onion and tomato. Our bags were basic bags, under £5. We...

Lgair 12.10.2001 · Read review
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READY, STEADY, GO BED

Advantages: Easy to inflate, machine washable, nice designs
Disadvantages: None

...I remember when I was younger and used to stay at a friends and had to sleep on the floor because of lack of bedspace within the house. Well my daughter is reaching the age now where she wants her friends to stay and I was determined to have enough beds to accomodate all. We had a look round in the shops at the various range of campbeds and blow-up beds before settling on "The Ready Bed". My daughter could hardly contain her excitement when she saw the range that was available and in the end we decided on the "Groovy Chick" design to match in with her bedroom wallpaper, and she was determined that she would be the first to test it out that very night. If you had seen how many there were available to chose from now, including Babie, Thomas the Tank Engine and disney designs you would realise why it took us so long to settle on this...

TWoodford 26.08.2003 (19.10.2004) · Read review
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Ready Steady Cook Milkshake Maker

Advantages: Children can make their own milkshakes
Disadvantages: Have to be a bit careful with the motor

...The Ready Steady Cook Milkshake Maker is priced around £7.00 and can be bought from most department stores and supermarkets (ours came from Woolworths). It comes with an instruction leaflet and recipe booklet. The recipe leaflet includes basic milkshake recipes plus more interesting ones like hot chocolate froth. The unit comes ready to use and takes two AA batteries. It comprises of a sealed base unit which houses the motor, the jug for the milk and a lid. The base unit has a whisk attached which fits through a hole in the jug and twists to secure the two together. You do have to ensure that they are fixed together properly by twisting the jug on to the base unit until it stops. It is not fiddly and is easy to assemble in a few seconds. Approximately half a jug of milk makes an average beaker-size milkshake. You put the milk...

AnitaCB 03.04.2003 · Read review
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got your ingredients ready

Advantages: Good teatime viewing
Disadvantages: can get a bit boring

...Ready steady cook is another of those cooking programmes. This one however is a bit different. The game is hosted by Celebrity cook Ainsey Harriot. The game is pretty easy, there are another 2 celebrity chefs who actually do the cooking and each of them has a guest from the audience who has bought in some food that they have bought from a supermarket. The chefs then have to create a meal using the ingredients that the contestant has bought in with them. The contestants however can only spend upto £5 in the shop, and the chef?s can use anything that is on the shelves, so they are not strictly limited to what they have been given. The chefs can also swap ingredients with each other. The audience then votes on which chef has used the ingredients best, the guest with the best meal then goes onto be the winner. They win £100 for being...

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Ready, Steady, Stop!

Advantages: Can't think of any
Disadvantages: It doesn't work at all, even one little bit

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Testarossa 01.03.2004 · Read review
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Review of Ready Steady Cook Marshmallow Maker

Ready Steady

Advantages: Funny, Good reciepes
Disadvantages: -

...I must say I am not a person who really enjoys cokkery programs, I enjoy the naked chef but not many others apart from ready steady cook, I think it has got much better since Ainsley Harriet has taken over, not that I disliked Fern Britton at all, but Ainsley is so full of life and I think it has given the show a bit of a boost. The object of this show is 2 contestents bring in a bag of food, brought for under a fiver, then the 2 celebrity chefs have to make a meal out of it in 20 minutes, they are in teams called Green Peppers and Red Tomatoes I think the chef are extremley clever to come up with some of the things they do, they really use their imaginations and come up with some wonderfull reciepes. The audience then have to decide whether they like The Green Peppers or Red Tomatoes Reciepe best. At the end of the program they...

sarah14 26.02.2001 · Read review
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Ready Steady Cook Popcorn Maker

Advantages: Looks good
Disadvantages: Doesn't work!

...as well. These are extremely hot and very dangerous for a young child. I burnt myself removing them from the bowl not realising just how hot they were. A small child could really hurt themselves if left unsupervised with the machine. It takes at least half an hour for all the kernels to pop and after this time you are lucky to have just half a small bowl of popcorn. It was extremely disappointing for my two children who gave up through boredom after half an hour of nothing happening and left me to it! The machine has a safety cut off which kicks in around this time as well - just to add to the frustration. I asked for this item as a present thinking that being part of the Ready Steady Cook range it could be a fun, safe unit specifically designed with children in mind. All the advertising blurb shows children sitting...

AnitaCB 28.03.2003 (25.04.2003) · Read review
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