What’s every amateur chef’s worst nightmare? We’re not sure—we’re motoring journalists, not food writers. We reckon, though, that receiving a critical beatdown from Gordon Ramsay on television has to be in the running, right?
Why bring this up? Well, because we’ve got a little throwback treat for you courtesy of Top Gear’s Jeremy Clarkson era: Gordon Ramsay critiquing dishes cooked using an automobile engine from way back in 2011.
So, what’s on the menu? Dish number one is a turkey breast and porcini mushrooms garnished with winter sprouts cooked with a Subaru Forester. Clarkson’s followed this up with a baby rack of lamb with vegetables, and a wild salmon dish with lemon on a bed of thyme—all slowly done at 3,000rpm for two hours.
So, is Clarkson’s menu up to Ramsay’s standards? The answer is no.
The turkey? “Slightly dry, a little bit overcooked.” The rack of lamb? “I think Gordon is about to be sick,” Clarkson says, as Ramsay chows down on them. The dude didn’t even get to try the turkey, and he mentions a hint of petrol in the dishes, too, which makes perfect sense considering all of these meals were cooked, well, on top of a running engine.
Oh well. We guess you can’t please everyone. But hey, at least Clarkson wasn’t treated to a five-course meal of F-bombs—that counts as a win, right? Think his menu would’ve fared better had they gone with a diesel instead?
