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
Ciao members have rated this review on average helpful
Review of BBC1 - Ready Steady Cook

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
Ciao members have rated this review on average helpful
Review of Ready Steady Cook Milkshake Maker

Ready steady COOOK

Advantages: -
Disadvantages: -

...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
Ciao members have rated this review on average helpful
Review of BBC1 - Ready Steady Cook

Ready Steady Whisk

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

......

katherineh123 27.09.2009 · Read review
Ciao members have rated this review on average helpful
Review of Ready Steady Cook 2201

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
Ciao members have rated this review on average helpful
Review of Ready Steady Cook Slush Maker

Ready Steady Cook

Advantages: good ideas for cooking
Disadvantages: Ainsley Harriot

...This show was much more proffesional when Fern Britton was presenting it. Ainsley Harriot was much better as a cook. I find him very irritating now, he uses the same few old jokes time after time. Fern used to ask sensible questions to the cooks, but Ainsley seems to talk down to them now. It is almost as if he is thinking "I wouldn't have done that". I like to watch it as it gives me different ideas for new twists on basic foods. I like the new bit they have on the show where both the celebrity cooks have a set of ingredients and they have to say what they would cook. The audience vote for it and that chef (and Ainsley) cook it. The show is great, but please change the presenter....

anjib 26.12.2000 · Read review
Ciao members have rated this review on average helpful
Review of BBC1 - Ready Steady Cook

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
Ciao members have rated this review on average helpful
Review of Ready Steady Cook Popcorn Maker

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...

GR-Design 12.12.2000 · Read review
Ciao members have rated this review on average helpful
Review of Ready Steady Cook

Ready Steady what shall I cook

Advantages: Gives me ideas on something to cook
Disadvantages: Makes me feels very hungry while watching

...welcomed to the programme with a handshake and possible a kiss from a chef or Ainsley. They open they bags and begin to discuss the food and why they brought it costing £5 or less. While one chef describes the dish he would cook the other thinks of something possibly more exciting. I think possibly this all takes a little too long, I watch each time for quick and simple ideas of anything to cook that evening when I haven’t got a clue what to do with what is in my half empty cupboard or fridge. Then, finally the countdown starts for 20 minutes. I have tried to do this a couple of times before, but I always take longer at least 30 minutes to one hour sometimes. There is more talking about the food, interesting things the chefs and Ainsley tells us about food and various ways of cooking it for the best flavours. The chefs give...

jackiefers 05.09.2002 (01.08.2004) · Read review
Ciao members have rated this review on average helpful
Review of BBC1 - Ready Steady Cook

Got your ingredients at the ready...

Advantages: Good teatime viewing
Disadvantages: Gets a bit repetative

...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...

GR-Design 07.04.2001 · Read review
Ciao members have rated this review on average helpful
Review of BBC1 - Ready Steady Cook