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Can home cooks, with no professional experience prove that home cooking is better than sophisticated restaurant food? Eating with the Enemy sees domestic cooks compete to impress four of Britain’s toughest culinary judges and most feared food critics as they battle it out in a series of heats culminating in a national final. Top TV chef James Martin, mentors and monitors the amateur cooks before they take their dishes on a journey from their own kitchens to a professional kitchen. Can the home cooks curry favour with the critics that are ruthlessly blunt and show no mercy to those who do not impress their palettes?
I agree that these Judges are the crappest I have seen.Food critics are there to crit the food, in other words to give constructive criticism to chefs looking to better their food.After the great show of Masterchef Australia to be replaced by such a poor show is sad. James Martin is great,he is an established chef,and looks to assist people even when he is not sure where they going with their dishes.I do not know what the name of that stupid lady on the panel(absolutely nothing against woman,she is just rude and mean), but she needs to be removed from any food judging panel on this planet, that also goes for the greasy long haired guy who sits next to her. I haven't made the effort to learn there names because they are not worthy.I stopped watching this show after an episode,gave it another chance and regretted it. Please give James Martin a better show,he deserves to work with a professional crew, the critics on this show were found at some fast food restaurant and asked to judge,it is absolutely pathetic. They have no idea about the culinary world,and bring down the quality shows displayed on the Food channel.
I must say that I don't like any of the judges. They don't show respect to the fact that it's amateur chefs - they think to much with a "professional chef" brain. And apart from that, they always have these frowns on their faces.
This site is done awfully. Can't find the recipe I would have liked. The one Catherine (I think) makes dessert that is some balls with chokolate on top of them. Maybe they have erased it as I don't know how much delayed the series is in Finland. Also episode break down doesnt really tell you anything. 20 episodes and no description who were competitioning in each episode. Bad bad website. (Sorry my bad english ;)
I am really annoyed by the sloppy grammar used by the show. "Chris's" really should be Chris'. Just wanted to point that out
I am a great fan of this show. The critics are having a hard time keeping a straight face after coming out with some of their pungent comments. Watched the final today. The were quite complimentary!!!
Im currently watching the show on UKTV FOOD, i enjoy the show very much and am a huge fan of James Martin (swoon). As for the critics !!! What a motley crew !! Im amazed by some of the complete rubbish that falls from there overly large mouths. I really believe that some of these so called food experts have never eaten in the real world....and im sorry but that woman critic...well ..has she ever had a square meal in her life ???!!! Good show but annoying big headed critics.... slightly ruins it for me. Not quite sure what Todlad Tyke above meant by saying "morbidly obese shouldnt be on a cookery programmes" ?????? please can you explain that statement..im slightly confused.
I think the idea of the programme is great. It's just all too long and drawn out. I don't want to see their houses or what they cook for their friends! I have to fast forward those bits. Less faffing, more cooking and eating please.
It's very slow moving, I'm used to the high speed cookery on Masterchef, and on this show they take an hour to cook two dishes. I don't mind the critics, I think their comments are quite entertaining, but I find James martin very tiresome, all his eye rolling and making fun of the contestants gets on my nerves.
Sophisticated restaurant food? That's a burger is it? They made burgers on the edition I saw last night. One cook's burgers were raw in the middle, one of the two to go through to the semi drowned her rosti is sauce thus ruining the effect of the CRISP rosti. I really don't think anyone who is morbidly obese should be on cookery programmes either. James Martin: much of a cook, little of a chef I think.
Harry, I can't help but agree, although I don't mind James Martin too much. Less so if he'd lose the Del Boy gold bracelet- Not only are the critics egotists but they're so unfortunate LOOKING! Getting bad news from the mouth of rubber-lipped Jay Rayner must be doubly difficult!
Congratulations to the producers for managing to get the panel and James Martin in the same room. They must have had to widen the doors to help squeeze their massive swollen heads through. A better collection of egotistical overconfident, smug idiots I have yet to see. Food TV sinks to yet new lows.
I loved Camelia she had the guts to say what she thought.