Can Food Affect Men’s Fertility? | Full Episode | The F Word

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[00:00:00]Welcome to the F-word. Now, if you're someone that cooks every night or maybe someone that doesn't cook at all and wish they could, this is definitely the show for you. On the menu tonight for our main course, brilliant red wine served with mashed carrier.

[00:00:15]Nigella the turkey has a weight problem.

[00:00:18]We're all getting very concerned about Nigella. Is it normal for a bird to be so big?

[00:00:23]>> And one of my trainees looks to France for inspiration.

[00:00:26]>> Who?

[00:00:27]>> Raymond Blanc.

[00:00:28]>> I can't hear you. I'm sure you can go on.

[00:00:31]>> Who? What's his name?

[00:00:35][music] [music] >> [music] [music] >> Uh, Jean Baptist.

[00:01:04]Excellent. Thank you. On order five covers, table two, five pigeon salad, five brilliant.

[00:01:10]Today's starter is a very rustic pigeon salad with a hazelnut vinegarette. And it has to be the most perfect time of the year for pigeon salad. This is a fantastic mix of flavors with the gy taste of pigeon set off by the rich nuttiness of hazelnuts, the earthiness of the beetroot combined with the oakleaf lettuce.

[00:01:27]>> Wakey wakey. Now it's Yes, understand what you're doing. Don't panic. Don't rush. Yes, but get a grip. Now, you've probably never cooked with fishing before, but it really is easy, very straightforward. So go on, have a go.

[00:01:40]Now, we're not cooking town pigeons from Chapa Square. These are actually wood pigeons that have led a much happier life and obviously eaten from all over the woodlands, making them a lot tastier bird.

[00:01:52]Now, the secret behind cooking the pigeon perfectly is you've only got to cook it between four and 5 minutes.

[00:01:57]Start off on the skin, color it, and turn it over. Then put your butter in.

[00:02:02]How's this cook tonight? I have two comments. This week is Danny. He's a 21-year-old from Essics. He's passionate about cooking and he's been working in kitchens for six years. He's a chef at a pub Brazie in Essics.

[00:02:14]>> I just really want to better my career.

[00:02:15]I want to be successful in what I do. I don't I don't want to work in a pub for the rest of my life. I want to work in London's top restaurant.

[00:02:22]>> And Phil, he's 19 and he's from the Whirl and has just won Whittle chef of the year 2005. Is that a good thing?

[00:02:29]I'll find out tonight.

[00:02:30]>> I want to be right up there at the top with a well with the likes of Gordon Ramsey to work in clarities be massive.

[00:02:36]I want Phil in there doing that now. I want Phil in there doing that now.

[00:02:41]>> I want Phil in there doing that now.

[00:02:43]That's three times. I'm not saying it again.

[00:02:45]>> Yeah, there you go. Control it. I want the oil nice and brown, not black fill.

[00:02:49]And don't be scared to take it off the heat when it's getting too hot. Yes.

[00:02:52]>> Pigeon is a very lean meat. You know that very, very little fat in the center. So, be very careful because if it's too hot, you're going to overcook it. Yeah. It dries out instantly. Be very careful.

[00:03:03]>> Phil and Danny are competing headto-head. And at the end of the night, I'll decide who's staying and who's going home. Now, to finish the top of the salad, we've got cloves of garlic that have been sliced very, very thin.

[00:03:13]But that's too strong for this salad.

[00:03:14]So, we're going to fry it very, very quickly.

[00:03:16]Once they're cooked, drain them from the oil. And you've got these really nice fine garlic chips. Okay. Start the plate up. Yes, that's your bowl. Danny, that's your bowl. Start off with a nice little handful of nuts. Quick, gently, gently.

[00:03:31]Okay. Beetroot on top. Some picked coriander leaves in there.

[00:03:35]>> Coriander.

[00:03:36]>> Some beans in there.

[00:03:38]>> Now, don't get your hands in there yet.

[00:03:40]Don't you dare get your hands in there yet. This is salad that dresses itself.

[00:03:43]Rock salt. Just a touch in there. Yes.

[00:03:46]Okay. Now, watch. You get the bowl and you just roll it round. I don't want hands in there. Combine the salad, the beans, nuts, coriander on. Let's go. Make sure it's evenly distributed. Yes.

[00:04:00]>> Good. Watch. You get the breast like that and you just slice down almost like you're slicing smoked salmon. Then you get your vinegaret. You just glaze over whilst it's still nice and warm. Yeah.

[00:04:12]Okay. Now, garlic chips. You take a little handful and you just scatter them around nicely. You don't throw them on there. You just scatter them around. The smell coming from that plate is phenomenal. You happy with that?

[00:04:23]>> Yeah. Good. Send it. Five salad pigeon.

[00:04:27]Table six, please.

[00:04:29]>> Beetroot. Lots more hazelnut. Yeah.

[00:04:31]Don't skin.

[00:04:40]>> Okay. Um, how was the pigeon?

[00:04:42]>> Uh, lovely. Beautiful fat. Really happy bird. Nice wood pigeon. Not not a Nazi Trafaga square thing. Really happy with it. Salad.

[00:04:50]>> Little bit imbalanced, I thought. A little bit. Yeah, the beetroot I wouldn't walk a mile for, but >> it's great. And what about the uh what about the turkeys? What about the Christmas dinner? How that is that coming along? It started off as a really good idea, but >> it looked lovely on what I saw, >> but I didn't actually realize how much hard work was involved in sort of you coming to terms with growing your own Christmas dinner.

[00:05:08]>> The turkeys are at war and [music] poor old Gary is coming off worse.

[00:05:11]>> Well, do you know who pecks on him?

[00:05:13]>> Go on.

[00:05:14]>> Nigel.

[00:05:16]>> Nigella.

[00:05:17]>> Oh, she pecks [music] on everybody.

[00:05:18]>> She pecks on my bum.

[00:05:20]>> I want to be sure the turkeys are really fattening up. Peter the vet has suggested that we weigh them each week.

[00:05:26]>> Hello, what do you say, Peter? What I brought along with me today is a spring balance.

[00:05:30]>> Spring balance >> and a bag that we can put him in.

[00:05:32]>> Almost like a fish net.

[00:05:33]>> That's right.

[00:05:33]>> Yeah. Okay.

[00:05:35]>> And this is a good way to remind the kids that the turkeys are livestock for the Christmas table and not pets.

[00:05:40]>> Two handles on the side.

[00:05:42]>> There we go.

[00:05:42]>> Here we go.

[00:05:44]>> Anthony. No, he's on five.

[00:05:48]>> Let's get to 11 kilos.

[00:05:50]>> Angel is running at 6 kilos.

[00:05:56]OH DEAR.

[00:05:57]>> Nigella doesn't seem keen to reveal her weight.

[00:06:00]>> Such a [ __ ] Come on. What's that?

[00:06:04]>> 12 1/2 kilo.

[00:06:05]>> 12 kilo.

[00:06:06]>> The biggest.

[00:06:07]>> She is definitely the biggest bird, mate. So, Dia and Nigella are big birds.

[00:06:12][music] Jamie, Gary, and Angley need to put on some muscle.

[00:06:16][music] And little Anthony is the run of the bunch.

[00:06:21]>> Next morning, we're out [music] early to feed up those turkeys.

[00:06:25]Are they in? Are they in?

[00:06:26]>> No.

[00:06:27]>> Oh, come on. [music] >> Oh, no. Oh, come on, darling. Let's go.

[00:06:30]Say good morning to the turkeys. Yes.

[00:06:31]Yeah. Let's go up. Up quick.

[00:06:34]>> Oh, daddy. Look, she broke it.

[00:06:37]>> It seems that the perch couldn't take Nigella's weight.

[00:06:40]>> Oh no. Nigella. I can't believe she's broken the stand.

[00:06:44]>> Naughty Nigel. Naughty. Naughty.

[00:06:47]>> Naughty. Nigella.

[00:06:49]>> Nigella scrapes Antony's feet. Nigella is the troublemaker.

[00:06:54]>> Nigella is the big troublemaker.

[00:06:56]>> SHE'S VERY nosy trouble maker.

[00:07:00][music] [music] >> I'm worried about Nigella's aggressive behavior. So, I've brought in some expert help. We're all getting very concerned about Nigella. She's over 12 kilo. Is it normal for a bird to be so big?

[00:07:17]>> The the fleshy parts develop much more.

[00:07:19]The crunkles down here. These are all the bobbly bits. This is the wle. And he's just got a little beard here. See, that's just growing. It's like horse hair.

[00:07:29]>> I can't believe Nigella's got a beard.

[00:07:31]>> I think she's a man.

[00:07:32]>> Really?

[00:07:32]>> Yeah. She's not a Nigella. She's an Nigel.

[00:07:35]>> And Nigella's not the only she. That's a he. The other turkeys her uncles and Wattles are a dead giveaway apparently.

[00:07:43]>> So Nigella's a man. Angel and Anthony are girls. That means Dia, >> the big one next to I mean that clearly looks like a man.

[00:07:51]>> I think it should be Dennis. Actually, >> it looks like Gary is a man.

[00:07:55]>> Gary is a man.

[00:07:56]>> Yeah, which is good news.

[00:07:57]>> I think it's good news for Gary. Now, Jamie at the back is an interesting one.

[00:08:01]You sometimes get turkeys that look as though they could be either or. It sometimes does happen.

[00:08:07]>> God, I'm sure whatever their sex, they'll taste delicious.

[00:08:14]>> Now, good evening. Very well indeed.

[00:08:16]Thank you. How are you?

[00:08:17]>> Yeah, that was the pigeon was fantastic.

[00:08:19]>> Enjoyed it. Lovely.

[00:08:20]>> I'd never had pigeon before and it was really tender and really really nice and the whole the whole all the flavors mixed together, the beetroot and the garlic and everything. It was it was lovely.

[00:08:30]>> I imagined that it would taste like chicken, but in fact, it's a very meaty taste. It's it's very nice. A bit like beef. In fact, >> I didn't actually realize you're such a foodie.

[00:08:41]>> I love it. I really love love food.

[00:08:43]Absolutely. Now, um, you're a bit of a ladies man.

[00:08:46]>> Yeah. Yeah. As a as a romance. No, but I mean, would you prefer taking them out for dinner or would you prefer cooking a romantic meal?

[00:08:52]>> Oh, I think cooking a romantic meal is the the best thing. I cooked some wild salmon recently. Wild salmon. And I just very simple just um with some olive oil, lemon. Probably let it down by doing mashed potato, which is real real food, isn't it?

[00:09:07]>> Wild salmon. [laughter] >> Who was that for?

[00:09:10]>> Um, a friend.

[00:09:11]>> No l Come on. Whis.

[00:09:15]>> What's her name?

[00:09:17]>> Damn. Did you stay for breakfast?

[00:09:19][laughter] >> I'll see you later. Thank you. Good to see you. Thank you.

[00:09:24]>> Ready, Phil?

[00:09:25]>> Ready?

[00:09:26]>> Gone. Yes. Every table happy. Yeah.

[00:09:28]>> Four brill. Let's go. Yes.

[00:09:30]>> Welcome back to the F-word. Remember, everything I cook here, you can quite easily cook at home. Have a go. Wakey wakey, please.

[00:09:38]Now time for the main course which is brill poaching red wine served with crushed cerak finished with a touch of cream and roasted salsafi tables going now. M people don't actually think about cooking a white fish in a red wine but it actually tastes amazing and it looks fantastic when you cut into it.

[00:09:57]Real razor sharp knife fill it nice long slices. That's the first one. Off up.

[00:10:09]Brill bones and turbet bones are the most sought after in any kitchen. That will make the most perfect fish top skin. And just pull.

[00:10:20]This little bit here is called the skirt. That's lovely inside a fish pie.

[00:10:25]It really is delicious.

[00:10:30]>> Season both sides.

[00:10:34]Red wine, thyme, bay, garlic, salt, pepper and olive oil.

[00:10:44]Poach, the sauce, shallots. Um, it's a bit of a sort of cooked thing really because onions are far too strong. A shellot, it's quite mellow.

[00:11:01]butter and get some real nice color on there. Want this nice real nut brown flavor on the shellots.

[00:11:10][music] Sugar really starts to caramelize those shelots. Beautiful shine on there.

[00:11:20]Raspberry vinegar [music] in and it just sort of wakes everything up a little bit.

[00:11:27]Add poaching wine.

[00:11:33]reduce 50 g of butter. Shake it into the sauce.

[00:11:46]Fish slice onto the plate.

[00:11:53]Brew in red wine sauce.

[00:11:56]Done.

[00:11:58]Now, when you're filing a fish, use a very flexible, sharp knife because let the knife do the work. And a brew like this actually comes with its own instructions because all you have to do is follow the lines. So, we start from the head and come in, cut around the head, and then just one clean sweep down that line and just go all the way down to the tail. And look what happens.

[00:12:23]The knife actually cuts away the fillet.

[00:12:28]And then lay the fillet back on top of the grill and just follow the knife all the way through. That's the first fillet off. Literally two sweeps.

[00:12:38]Every drawer should have these four very simple, straightforward knives. The fillet knife that does the work for you.

[00:12:44]That's a flexible blade that bends round the bone on the fish and doesn't allow it.

[00:12:51]Oh me.

[00:12:54][laughter] Okay. I owe I [ __ ] I've just stabbed Danny. Um, have you got a plaster, Neil?

[00:13:01]I owe you a knife. Okay.

[00:13:05]To go with the brill serving two vegetables you may not have cooked with before. Crushed brought together with some cream and then some roasted salsafi.

[00:13:13]Salsified tastes like a cross between artichoke and turnip. Don't overcook it as it adds great texture to the dish. I add it to onions soaked in oil. A knob of butter browns them nicely and finishes off the flavor.

[00:13:32]Now cerak is a very versatile vegetable.

[00:13:34]Great as a puree, even great in soups, and you can actually eat it raw. Okay, place ready.

[00:13:40]>> Place ready. In the Russian tonight is Rachel Cook, a journalist who's passionate about good food.

[00:13:47]>> Hello, Rachel.

[00:13:48]>> Hello.

[00:13:48]>> Good to see you.

[00:13:50]>> How was your pigeon? Uh, >> it was delicious. Thank you.

[00:13:52]>> It was a wood pigeon. Yeah. Not a pigeon square.

[00:13:55]>> And so, you must um care about meat. I mean, where your meat comes from.

[00:13:58]>> I've always cared sort of and not just for my own personal, you know, benefit, but obviously for the customer benefit, the fact that we give them that level of security to make sure that transparency is there for them to understand.

[00:14:08]>> So, you've been looking into supermarket meats for us.

[00:14:10]>> I have. I've been looking at sausages.

[00:14:12]I've been trying to look beyond the packaging to see what actually goes into the sausage.

[00:14:18]In the UK, we spend over half a billion pounds on sausages every year. But do you really know how much meat goes into your average economy banger? And do you know what else goes in there besides Does it taste meaty?

[00:14:30]>> It does taste meaty.

[00:14:31]>> Yeah, it looks a bit bendy.

[00:14:32]>> I'd say it's about 70%.

[00:14:35]>> 70% meat. That is actually an economy sausage from a supermarket and it contains 32% meat. I'm appalled that a sausage can have as little as 32% meat.

[00:14:46]The rest of it is mainly water and breadcrumbs, by the way. But more shocking still is what that 32% can be made up of.

[00:14:53]>> When it says meat on a label for a product such as a sausage, it doesn't actually just mean lean meat. It means other things like fat, connective tissue. And connective tissue is things like skin, rind, gristle, tendon, senue.

[00:15:09]So over half the so-called meat content can be gristle and fat, and it's still allowed to be called meat on the label.

[00:15:16]It is safe and it is legal, but if I'm going to eat gristle and senue, I want to know about it. And I think the current labeling system is misleading.

[00:15:27]Earlier this year, Gordon and his team [music] of food technologists investigated the contents of economy sausages from the big four supermarkets to see how much so-called connective tissue they contained in total. [music] The results are enlightening if not surprising.

[00:15:43]>> Our research showed that the connective tissue levels varied amongst the supermarkets. Uh Morrison's had 7.5%, Asda 10%, Sainsbury's 22% and Tesco 24% connective tissue.

[00:15:56]>> So according to tests carried out by Gordon earlier this year, the economy sausage being sold by Britain's biggest supermarket contains the most connective tissue. That's skin, rind, gristle, tendon, and senue to you and me. So how can you spot better quality sausages in the supermarket? Well, there's one very simple trick to remember when buying. If a packet of sausages is labeled simply sausages like these, the legal requirement is that they contain just 32% meat. If on the other hand, the label says pork sausages like these, the legal requirement is that they contain 42% meat.

[00:16:36]To demonstrate what all this means in practical terms, I went to visit top butchers Moan [music] and Suns, winner of 12 awards at this year's national sausage competition. Show me what you put in one of your sausages.

[00:16:47]>> Okay, this is the meat here. This is for an 80% meat content sausage.

[00:16:51]>> And how many um sausages would you be able to make out of that meat?

[00:16:54]>> Approximately 120.

[00:16:56]>> So, Richard, you're going to help me make a sausage that's just on the limit of the regulations. Now, I'm going to make 120 sausages. This is the meat of my sausages, but it doesn't look like meat at all. How much is that? What percentage?

[00:17:09]>> This is a a 32% meat content sausage.

[00:17:12]>> It looks disgusting though. What What's all this stuff?

[00:17:14]>> Um well, this is connective tissue.

[00:17:17]You'll add a quarter in in your recipe, >> right?

[00:17:20]>> And um this is pork fat and you're allowed 30%.

[00:17:24]>> We've also got this. Is that going in the sausage, too?

[00:17:26]>> Yeah, that's the extra bits, you know, so long as you declare it on your label, then that's fine. So going into the barely legal banger is 32% meat which includes fat and gristle. Then extra fat and gristle, 3 kilos of rust and some coloring and herbs.

[00:17:50]So here it is the barely legal banger.

[00:17:53]Technically it's a sausage and under current labeling guidelines it can be sold as a sausage. Um, I I think the law should be looked into just to clarify what is actually called meat. Um, in my mind, meat is really lean meat and fat.

[00:18:11]Um, I wouldn't [music] really call gristles and and skin or connective tissues um meat.

[00:18:18]>> So, how did our testers react when they found out exactly what we put in our barely legal banger?

[00:18:23]>> It's repulsive. I mean, you can basically just get away with anything by just by putting meat down. You would assume that if it says meat, you would hope it's the finest cuts of the best raised beef or pork.

[00:18:33]>> Now, I think I will go for >> really. [laughter] Oh my god. Drastic.

[00:18:40]>> So, when you're shopping for meat, always read the label. Check the water content. Check the percentage of meat included. But remember that with sausages, 55% of the meat can be made up of fat and gristle. And that's in addition to the fat and gristle that you'll find on the label. Secondly, if you're buying sausages, always look out for the ones that are labeled pork sausages rather than the ones that are just vaguely labeled sausages. They're more likely to have more meat in them.

[00:19:05]So, if you're not keen on connective tissue, you might want to think about which supermarket you buy your sausages from.

[00:19:13]>> That looked extremely grim.

[00:19:15]>> Yeah, quite grim.

[00:19:15]>> What What are your sort of main conclusions then after that?

[00:19:18]>> I think there are two things. First thing is that the label may not tell you all there is to know. So read it carefully. And if you want less connective tissue in your economy sausage, then well, I wouldn't go to Tesco or Sainsburries.

[00:19:32]>> Now we'll put a little bit of sal on top of these last ones. Yes. So lift up the brill drain it. No. No. Nice and gently.

[00:19:38]Lift it up. Okay. And the curvy side sits up. Okay. So it doesn't look upside down.

[00:19:45]>> That's it. Good. Lift it up. Drain off the red wine and sauce. Generous on the sauce. Okay. Cuz all the sauce is is the cooking liquor from the brill. Okay.

[00:19:57]>> So that's why. Okay. Table mark, please.

[00:20:01]>> Good. Very nice. Table eight. Gently.

[00:20:04]Excuse me. Go. Table eight. Good.

[00:20:17]The main course was was lovely. I really liked all the different flavors that were going on.

[00:20:22]>> Well, I thought actually I thought the fish was really succulent and the sauce um it really complimented it well. It was quite spicy and quite tangy. It's really good. Um not so sure was underneath it. It was fine. Um I don't know what it was, but yeah, I think it really all went together quite well.

[00:20:43]>> Okay. How was that?

[00:20:44]>> It was It was fantastic. I love it's all all kind of dark purple and he cuts in and it's white. bright brilliant wine >> and you have that smell of of red wine and onion so you think you're eating steak and then it tastes like fish and it reminds you how meaty the brill is and and it's it's slimming. Yeah.

[00:20:56]>> Now, for some bizarre reason last week we actually started talking about your sperm count and my sperm count.

[00:21:01]>> It's amazing. We must have run out of other things to talk about. It was because it was because I discovered that sperm counts had dropped off over the last 50 years, you know, among males all over the world. Uh and and and partly because of diet and I thought I might find out what my sperm count was uh and see if I could do anything to improve it with uh with what I eat. I found out 8 years ago that I have a low sperm count.

[00:21:20]And last week, Jars went to have his checked out, too.

[00:21:24]>> Well, I I don't really know what I was worrying about there. It's uh [music] the old magic is still there.

[00:21:30]>> His count was fine, but the sperm was slightly misshapen.

[00:21:33]>> Yours is 14, which is borderline.

[00:21:36]>> In the last 50 years, toxins in the food chain have helped cause the average man's sperm count to [music] plummet more than 50%. misshapen or immobile sperm is increasingly [music] common.

[00:21:47]Diet can play a major part in increasing men's fertility and top sperm foods include nuts, red peppers, cabbage, fish and dairy.

[00:21:55]>> Zita, >> yeah.

[00:21:55]>> Is there a crisis with men's sperm?

[00:21:57]>> There is. Um, male fertility is definitely on um the decline and I think that men are really neglected in this whole area.

[00:22:04]>> And do you really believe that a diet can actually help increase the sort of the sperm, you know, development, production?

[00:22:09]>> Yeah, absolutely.

[00:22:10]>> What kind of things should they eat?

[00:22:11]Well, the food we've got here, nuts um and seeds are very, very important. Rich in selenium, rich in zinc. Um oily fish, very important, rich in um omega-3, DHA, very important for the head and the tails of the sperm. And then um fruit and vegetables, rich in antioxidants, vitamin C, vitamin E to protect the sperm against damage from free radicals.

[00:22:29]>> Uh is there something I can specifically eat to to improve the shape of of my sperm?

[00:22:34]>> Yeah, I think that you know the food here would be very very good. um alongside uh drinking plenty of water um and lifestyle factors and in your case Charles you know a lot of alcohol >> if I haven't drunk lots of alcohol how am I going to end up in a position to meet people and then >> you're not you're clearly not listening to what Zita said stop drinking >> Gordon >> first of all can I just say um I'm really pleased you're here what exactly is the problem >> yeah well I was told just coming up for 2 years ago that I had poor spare mortality I produce spare them but they don't go anywhere and in that situation there'd be no chance of Yeah, they just be actually.

[00:23:09]>> But is there any form of diet, Zita, that can actually turn Gordon's problem around and get them moving and working?

[00:23:14]>> Well, we I was talking to Gordon over dinner about his diet and, you know, we've discovered he wasn't eating breakfast. Um, but also drinking a lot of fizzy drinks which contain lots of preservatives and chemicals which, you know, aren't good. Eating loads of crisps. Yeah. And drinking plenty of water. I mean, you know, a lot of men don't drink enough water and sperm need to swim at the end of the day. You're not drinking the water, you absolutely.

[00:23:35]>> Yeah. Cheryl, I've got a theory about this particular sort of um low sperm count because I actually believe especially in the chef world. A lot has to do with the heat and being enclosed in those confined conditions under that amount of pressure. And when you look at the position of a stove in a kitchen, it really is online with your scotum. I've got my chefs to go and do a test and the sort of results have been quite fascinating.

[00:24:02]Um SGE 2 seconds.

[00:24:06]>> Um so the sperm count, how were they?

[00:24:08]>> Um good sperm count, but just you know not not particularly um you know well in motion and um um deformed heads, so like small narrow heads >> really.

[00:24:17]>> Yeah.

[00:24:17]>> And Cheryl, is that to do with the heat or is that um you know a common >> Well, these studies have shown that that it can affect sperm what we call sperm morphology, the shape of the sperm, >> right? It can affect the shape. It can affect the motility and it can affect the count as well. Um but um obviously we we'd have to do a study a proper controlled study on chefs and and actually measure scrotal temperatures and these sorts of things to see whether in fact >> sure >> you are going to see >> so there could be a possibility. I mean, on the back of the, you know, history with the firemen, the bakers, I mean, you know, chefs may suffer from that problem down the line. And first thing now, I'm going to do a ring around and maybe come back to this topic.

[00:25:01]>> Now, it's dessert time. And this week, we're going to turn up the heat on our commies with Danny and Phil cooking a dessert of their choice. Phil, >> are we Gordon?

[00:25:10]>> So, what are we doing?

[00:25:11]>> Uh, going to a chocolate fondant, mate.

[00:25:13]>> Yep. Um, between now and midnight, I want you to forget the word mate and just remember the word Gordon cuz I'm not your mate. Where did the idea come from?

[00:25:20]>> Uh, Raymond Blanc.

[00:25:22]>> Who? Raymond Blanc.

[00:25:23]>> I can't hear you. [laughter] >> I'm sure you can go.

[00:25:26]>> Has anyone heard of Raymond Blanc before?

[00:25:28]>> It's based on that. But are you >> It's based on Raymond Blanc.

[00:25:30]>> How dare you come to the F word with all those French fighting right now and you want to bring in a chocolate fondant.

[00:25:36]>> Huh? Dear. Oh dear. So you got the egg yolks lightly whisked and what's in the egg white you take to like a stiff peak or >> Yeah. Also a soft peak.

[00:25:44]>> Can you sit it on top of your head?

[00:25:45]>> A corn.

[00:25:46]>> Yeah, we're all right with that one.

[00:25:47]>> That's a brave move there. All right.

[00:25:49]Yeah. Well done. And if they don't come out and they stick to the mold, you can blame the French. Is that right?

[00:25:53]>> That's right, Gordon. Fantastic.

[00:25:54]>> That's a brave move there. You know that. [laughter] >> So, Phil's choice is the chocolate fondant, which is a very, very brave choice because they're so difficult to get right. And you never know when they're perfect and just until you're about to serve them. So when we cook them in the restaurant, we always cook two just in case one's about to collapse or somewhat dry in the middle. Can never happen in a restaurant. Now Danny's playing it really safe. He's just making a very straightforward plain jane pancake. But I have to say I admire his balls to keep it so simple. What's inside the pancake?

[00:26:24]>> Inside the pancake is going to be vanilla poached pear.

[00:26:26]>> Uhhuh.

[00:26:27]>> On top of the pancake is going to be just like a dark chocolate sauce.

[00:26:31]>> So what you put in there?

[00:26:32]>> What have I put in there?

[00:26:33]>> Yeah.

[00:26:34]>> Sugar. One cup, two vanilla pods, fresh.

[00:26:37]>> Can I um can I suggest you turn it down a little bit when the poached pear is poached, not rapidly boiling? Yeah.

[00:26:42]Still can't believe you come in here with a French man's recipe.

[00:26:46]>> Tiro de Let's hope that works.

[00:26:47]>> Especially for you, Gordon.

[00:26:48]>> Especially for me. You know, I love the French.

[00:26:58]>> Hello. Good to see you. Well, >> yes.

[00:27:00]>> You're looking absolutely fantastic.

[00:27:02]>> Thank you, darling. Thank you. You've been getting bigger. I know.

[00:27:05]>> While you go through [laughter] all the motions, has he been cooking for you?

[00:27:07]Surely Rod can cook. I mean, he's man of the world.

[00:27:10]>> He can. He um he does do a good egg.

[00:27:12]>> And do you have a sweet tooth? I mean, do you like sort of chocolate fond?

[00:27:15]>> That's my That is my biggest downfall is is chocolate.

[00:27:18]>> Does he ever take pudding to bed?

[00:27:21]>> Not pudding to bed. No. I think he doesn't like, you know, crumbs and things. It's gets messy. But um just the last few weeks I've been um having more milk. He said a couple of weeks ago to me personally, it's actually going to be in the birthing pool.

[00:27:34]>> It won't be bathing. Hopefully, it'll bathe before it gets in the birthing pool.

[00:27:36]>> Flipping. What's that going to be like?

[00:27:38]>> It's like a large jacuzzi and it's quite Yeah. Um and I believe that the water will be sort of up to about here.

[00:27:44]>> You're both going to be naked, right?

[00:27:45]He's going to be >> Well, now I think I think he's going to wear a pair of trunks.

[00:27:49]>> Speedos. [laughter] >> Yeah. Good. Now, it's been a bit of a manic week um this end because um been a debate about Spur. Um how's Rod Spur now? Well, as you can see, he's [laughter] still got plenty of bullets in his rifle, as he puts.

[00:28:03]>> All those years of tight trousers and bloody leather trousers with no pants.

[00:28:08]So, how does it become so?

[00:28:10]>> When we visited the doctor last September when we were planning to have children, he did say because of our birth of our ages that it could take some time. And we were like, okay, well, is there any particular things we can do to help?

[00:28:20]>> Lose loose pants.

[00:28:21]>> So, it was he was very good. He had showers only, no bath, no bubble bath.

[00:28:25]>> Um and and the loose pants. We had to go out and search for these, you know, the boxes and things, you know, really.

[00:28:31]>> No, we did. We did actually freeze this though in case there were going to be problems.

[00:28:35]>> Oh, okay. Later on. Yeah, of course.

[00:28:37]>> We were at home. We didn't do it in in ice at home. And then I rushed down in the Ferrari with my handbag with the little vial next to it. You know, I felt like I was [laughter] >> frozen sperm. I mean, any idea how expensive that ice cube could be?

[00:28:50]>> I know.

[00:28:51]>> Good to see you, mate. Lovely. Thank you. Glad to meet you. Take care.

[00:28:54]Byebye. Good to see you. Thank you.

[00:29:00]It's the moment of truth for the two commies and their puddings.

[00:29:05]>> They're both very different desserts and they're going to be judged by Yeah. the Women's Institute of Fulham. Jean Baptiste.

[00:29:13]>> Uh, go with the pancake, please. I'll take the chocolate fondant. Let's go.

[00:29:18]>> Okay, ladies.

[00:29:21]That is the chocolate fondant.

[00:29:24]Oh, that looks >> very soft and just sort of pours away, which is good that it's not dry and crumbly. So, I think that's that gives him a a thumbs up.

[00:29:32]>> I like the fact it's not that sweet.

[00:29:33]It's very, very nice. It's actually not very heavy. It's nice and light.

[00:29:37]>> I'm fascinated on the whole sort of women's institute becoming a younger, vibrant, sexier sort of group. What the going on? [laughter] >> Well, um I think there's a resurgence.

[00:29:49]Just like knitting's becoming cool, the WI's becoming cool because we're much more younger and I think we're coming back to what you know, being practical is is sexy again.

[00:29:58]>> But you don't look like a lady from WI for goodness [laughter] sake.

[00:30:02]>> Well, that's good that we're flying the flag. That's all changing.

[00:30:06]>> Second dessert, a very simple um poached pear um in a warm pancake.

[00:30:11]>> The presentation looks really good.

[00:30:15]>> The pears, they're not crunchy at all.

[00:30:18]And yet they're not sloppy.

[00:30:20]>> So they're just the right texture.

[00:30:22]>> And the chocolate's nice as well.

[00:30:23]>> Keep going. Oh, this is this is really nice. And the pancake is >> really lovely.

[00:30:28]>> So like a vote. Um chocolate fondant or crepe.

[00:30:31]>> I think the crepe, which surprises me because normally I'm a chocolate freak and I would absolutely love it. But actually the pears was superb and I really enjoyed the crepe.

[00:30:39]>> Crepe. It crepe.

[00:30:41]>> Definitely the crepe.

[00:30:41]>> Definitely the crepe. [laughter] >> Definitely the crepe.

[00:30:43]>> The crepe. And I don't even like pears.

[00:30:45]It's going to be five out of five.

[00:30:47]>> Crep.

[00:30:48]>> Zero. Dear.

[00:30:49]>> Definitely. It's the crepe.

[00:30:51]>> Nigella or Dia?

[00:30:52]>> Nigel. Nigella.

[00:30:55]>> Yes. Meat or fish?

[00:30:57]>> Meat.

[00:30:57]>> Meat.

[00:30:57]>> I'll give fish.

[00:30:58]>> Fish.

[00:30:59]>> And finally, just before I go, me or Jamie?

[00:31:01]>> Oh, yes. [laughter] >> Ladies, thank you.

[00:31:06]>> Cheers.

[00:31:07]>> Thank you very much.

[00:31:10]>> Well, that was a lovely bunch of uh WI members. um from Fulham. Amazing ladies.

[00:31:16]Um very constructive, very critical. Um the winning dessert Yeah. the dessert that the diners are going to be eating tonight is the pancake.

[00:31:25]>> Yeah.

[00:31:26]>> Well done. Now, >> thank you.

[00:31:27]>> You haven't won the overall thing.

[00:31:29]However, you're definitely going to be serving your dessert tonight and known you. Yeah. You're going to take it on the chin like a man and really help this man with the dessert.

[00:31:37]>> Absolutely.

[00:31:40]>> Right. Uh ladies, I need some help in the kitchen. Yeah. You're all experts, right?

[00:31:44]>> Yeah. Okay, let's go.

[00:31:46]>> No, not washing up. A little bit more exciting than that. You know that.

[00:31:49]>> Yeah. I want some real wi pancakes.

[00:31:57]>> Go table ladies. Go. You got two more to come. I need two more pancakes followed by four more ladies. Yes. Did you toss perfectly?

[00:32:04]>> Do it again for me. Show me.

[00:32:07]>> Yeah, you can. Fantastic. [laughter] Now I need five more portions, ladies. Table eight. So, how does that feel having the whole dining room eating your dessert?

[00:32:14]>> Yeah, it feels good.

[00:32:15]>> You weren't confident at all.

[00:32:16]>> No, it's quite amazing what's just happened. You've just served 60 customers with your dessert >> and it shows how the simple tactic pled up. [laughter] >> Excuse me. For God's sake, >> I hear that people are still talking about your get women back in the kitchen campaign.

[00:32:47]>> It seems to have hit a real nerve. And you know what? Some are really happy and some people are really unhappy. But the most important thing, they're actually talking about it.

[00:32:55]>> I'd rather have a career than cook. To be honest, >> I think it's nice for a woman to be able to cook a really nice meal for a man to come hunt at the end of the day.

[00:33:03]>> I think Gordon should sed off for saying that it's shared responsibility, busy lifestyles, everybody's responsibility to do the cooking in a household.

[00:33:11]>> Women or men, it doesn't matter who it is really. People should be cooking. I think cooking is very good. It's very therapeutic.

[00:33:16]>> How many women know how to gut a chicken? My grandma could do it and I'd sit and watch her. Well, why should you have to cook when you could buy it already cooked for you? How many women know how to make the money go further by making homemade cakes, riissles, whatever. That is a lost art.

[00:33:31]>> Oh, I think he's absolutely right. I mean, my wife, I mean, she wouldn't know what to do with a meal. I mean, everything's just frozen from the freezer into the into the microwave.

[00:33:42]>> I'm still receiving lots of requests from women all over the country. And um this time I went to Cheshure to help two Bridget Jones. I'm Georgina and this is my friend Naomi [music] who's also my flatmate. I feel the fact that I can't cook is really a social embarrassment [music] now. We've got a lovely clean cooker and oven. Lovely and clean cuz it doesn't get used. Well, there isn't much cooking done in [music] our kitchen, but we do we are very well stocked with cocktail glasses, cocktail shakers, a blender for dairies, cocktail cupboard.

[00:34:14]I want Gordon Ramsey to teach me how to make a meal to impress a man. We're gonna get two men round. We're gonna cook them some food and we're going to make sure that they are impressed with our food.

[00:34:26]>> Why can't you cook?

[00:34:27]>> The reason I'm so bad at cooking is because I had such a bad experience at school. I had a cookery teacher who was mean and she picked on me. Every time I made something, it was wrong. And she's put me off for life.

[00:34:38]>> You're both single?

[00:34:40]>> Yes.

[00:34:40]>> Yeah.

[00:34:41]>> What would you look for in a man? I like a nice tall blonde hunky Viking type.

[00:34:49]>> Right. Okay. [laughter] >> Rough and ready and wrinkled.

[00:34:53]>> This is a cocktail cupboard.

[00:34:55]>> Bloody hell. How many cocktail shakers have you got?

[00:34:58]>> Three.

[00:34:58]>> What is that? It's like something you stick on the end of your boobs. You stick that on the end of a glass. The place is more set out like a cocktail bar as opposed to a kitchen.

[00:35:06]>> Yes.

[00:35:07]>> So, um, all jokes apart, very serious.

[00:35:09]Yeah. Um, it's not good for me to do this because you're going to be cooking it. Okay. But if I was coming around here tonight for a date, I'd expect a good oldfashioned steak and chips. I want you to make the sauce for the steak.

[00:35:19]>> Okay.

[00:35:19]>> Butter, egg yolks, and taragan. You with the chips, >> pan of water on, bring up to the boil.

[00:35:26]>> Potatoes, part cooked, taken out the water, cut into quarters on a tray, rosemary, a little garlic, olive oil, and they go in the oven as the guys arrive. Okay, should we get cracking?

[00:35:37]>> I know how to do it. I know you're supposed to do that.

[00:35:39]>> The key to a perfect bone [music] sauce is to beat it well. And you just trickle the butter in there like that.

[00:35:44]>> And again, don't stop.

[00:35:47]Char in. Get your fingers in there.

[00:35:50]Good. There you go. Good. What's the most important thing about cooking a steak? Guessing what on it? Color.

[00:35:58]Right. Salt, pepper. Okay. And you always season the steak. 2 minutes before it goes in the pan. In. No, I told you not to throw it in there.

[00:36:07]>> Splashing it. Right now, we're getting color on it. Right. When we come to turn it over >> and in half of that butter in, please.

[00:36:18]>> Half.

[00:36:18]>> Half. That's it. Now the butter doesn't burn. Now if we put the butter in first, it will burn. So the steak gets black.

[00:36:24]Touch it. Good. Touch. Right.

[00:36:27]Concentrate. Really concentrate. That's rare. There's no bounce back. There's no bounce. Look. Back into the pan. I'm going to take it to medium. Just put your fingers on top there and touch that. And notice there's some spring.

[00:36:39]It's coming back at you now. It's bouncing back up. It's no longer rare in the center. All right. So, that is medium. That's a beautiful medium. Now, we're going to take it to medium well.

[00:36:47]Well done. And this is how my young cooks start learning how to cook steak perfectly. They close their eyes and they guess how the steak's cooked.

[00:36:54]>> Close your eyes >> by touching.

[00:36:57]>> Drain off the potatoes. Yeah. Have you got some olive oil?

[00:37:00]>> Yes.

[00:37:00]>> Yeah. Cut the potatoes in half. In half again. And then we'll do each quarter in half again. So, we've got the meal sorted out. Now we just need some men to eat it.

[00:37:10]>> Cooking uh with two ladies tonight.

[00:37:12]Actually teach them how to cook.

[00:37:13]>> Yep.

[00:37:13]>> Okay. Problem is >> they got no fellas. Fancy dinner tonight with two beautiful girls.

[00:37:19]>> I've got a girlfriend.

[00:37:20]>> Got a girlfriend?

[00:37:20]>> Damn. What about you?

[00:37:22]>> Same term. Girlfriend, I'm afraid.

[00:37:23]>> My girlfriend a couple balls off like so. Sorry, mate.

[00:37:26]>> Okay. It's Liverpool Chelsea. Are there any single men in Wimsler?

[00:37:30]>> Wow. Wow. Wow. Christ almighty. That's not bad.

[00:37:34]>> We screw up well.

[00:37:35]>> You screw up very well.

[00:37:35]>> 5 minutes.

[00:37:36]>> Right. You ready? Are they grass?

[00:37:38]>> More flowers >> indeed. They come through.

[00:37:44][music] >> Okay.

[00:37:46]>> Yeah. Right now I think about color.

[00:37:50]>> Good. Lovely color. [music] >> That looks nice. Let's stick the salad on the side. That looks nice. Steak and chips. Rocket parmesan salad. Fresh lemon juice in there. Nice burn sauce on the side. Go for it.

[00:38:05]>> Voila. Got an apple of tea.

[00:38:08]>> That is absolutely spot on, bro. That we'll see if it makes the the taste great. Hang on. 10 out of 10.

[00:38:14]>> Okay, so far so good.

[00:38:16]>> It's great. Well done. And just a personal message, less cocktails, more cooking. Good night, guys. Have a nice evening. And um I'll let myself out.

[00:38:23]>> Okay.

[00:38:24]>> Good night.

[00:38:25]>> Bye.

[00:38:25]>> Bye. Bye. Bye.

[00:38:26]>> Oh, I need a steak.

[00:38:30]>> Right. Naomi and Georgina, good to see you. Please tell me you've done some cooking since I've gone. We have.

[00:38:36]>> We've done a duplicate meal, actually.

[00:38:38]We >> had How are the chips done?

[00:38:40]>> Oh, they were better, weren't they?

[00:38:42]>> They were better. Fantastic.

[00:38:44]>> Afraid to say. Nicer than the ones we made with you.

[00:38:46]>> Better.

[00:38:47]>> Did a couple Did it work? Did they Did they stay?

[00:38:51]>> But but nice company. Had a good night.

[00:38:53]Good night. No romance, but night.

[00:38:56]>> Dating.

[00:38:57]>> No, but willing. Open to offers.

[00:39:00]>> Open to offers. [laughter] >> There is a singleton here this evening.

[00:39:04]He's a Russian critic. I don't know if you like sort of critics.

[00:39:07]>> Oh, we we met him.

[00:39:08]>> Yeah. What do you think? [laughter] >> What does that What does that mean?

[00:39:12]>> He lives in London.

[00:39:13]>> So, >> too far away.

[00:39:15]>> He's not He's not a Viking. [laughter] >> Okay, I got to go now. Right. Hey, get in that kitchen. Stay in there. Yes. And stay away from the decaries. [laughter] >> Right. Flipping heck. Um, it's been a it's been big news in my kitchen. And uh How's your sperm count? My sperm count's okay as far as I know. And I actually had um I had a bit of trouble down there.

[00:39:39]>> Oh, really?

[00:39:40]>> Yeah. I had um an operation. Um I had a a little kind of cyst that I And >> on your bulock >> on my bollock. I had a cyst >> and um as it happened, it was benign, but I'm quite happy to talk about it.

[00:39:53]I'm really sorry because we should talk about these things. It's really weird because over the last sort of five or six years, it's been brought to my attention >> Yeah. by my GP that I had a very low sperm count >> because of because of being in a kitchen in the kitchen.

[00:40:05]>> When you look at the sort of high level of a stove nowadays, >> maybe the same thing for me, but by doing game shows, by resting against that lectin perched on there, >> huh? Family sperm tunes.

[00:40:16]>> Family sperm tunes.

[00:40:17]>> It's all clear down there now.

[00:40:19]>> It's all good. Yeah, it's all absolutely good. I'm so glad the sister's gone.

[00:40:25][laughter] >> THE CYST.

[00:40:30]THE SISTER. I thought >> sister. Let's keep up the cooking.

[00:40:34]>> Cheers, mate.

[00:40:35]>> Welcome back to the F-word, the food show that's good enough to eat.

[00:40:38]>> So, rumor has it you've actually found a good possible source of cheap meat.

[00:40:41]>> It's It's better than cheap meat. I found free meat. It's all around us.

[00:40:44]I've been eating squirrels.

[00:40:45]>> Squirrel? For goodness sake, they're not edible.

[00:40:48]>> They're delicious.

[00:40:50]>> Yes. Yes. He looks all lovely and fluffy and sweet, but he's not. He's a monster.

[00:40:54]In my local park, he strips the bark from the trees. In the countryside, he eats the eggs of songbirds. In my garden, he digs holes to hide his stupid acorns for the winter. And worst of all, he has terrorized our native red squirrel, little squirrel nutkin, into near extinction. I hate gray squirrels.

[00:41:09]With grays outnumbering reds by 66 to1, conservationists last week announced plans to eradicate all gray squirrels in the vicinity of 16 newly designated red squirrel reserves. And later this month, the government plans to publish a policy paper on gray squirrels, which may well include a new form of squirrel contraception.

[00:41:26]That's one way of looking at the gray squirrel problem. But I've got a better solution. We could eat them. It may sound a bit disgusting if you've never had squirrel before, but I have and it's delicious. Or at the very least, it is reasonably edible. And as there's only 2 and a half million of them in Britain, it wouldn't take that many of us to roast one up for Sunday lunch this weekend to completely eradicate the gray squirrel by the middle of next week and create a lovely environment for our little friend, Squirrel Nutkin, to make a peaceful return to Britain.

[00:41:51]I [music] want to prove just how tasty squirrels are when expertly cooked. So, I'm off to the Butler's Wolf Chop House in London. One of the few restaurants that has actually featured squirrel on its menu.

[00:42:01]>> How do you cook a squirrel?

[00:42:02]>> Uh, squirrels are quite small, so we're going to have to make sure we use a whole animal. So, I'll I'll butcher one down now for you.

[00:42:08]>> I can see you're taking off the legs here. Yeah, here we have the thigh of the squirrel, which is from all that jumping around in the trees and, you know, springing around. It gets that's probably got the most meat on it.

[00:42:16]>> Yeah, we're going to have to braze the legs because, like you said, they've been jumping around in trees. So, these legs have done a lot of work. So here we've got the the saddle with the two lines and the fillets ready to be wrapped in bacon and roasted off.

[00:42:26]>> Lovely taty taty just like eating normal food. Marvelous.

[00:42:28]>> Got the two hind legs which are going to braze off. Serve as they are nice and meat.

[00:42:32]>> It's like having like a comfy duck leg in a in a in a rubbish high street >> cat. And we've got the the front legs, the bellies, the kidneys and the livers which are all going to be made into a nice little >> is the challenging part. That's all the little bits. That's the little front legs, all the little livers and kidneys.

[00:42:46]The heart and soul of the squirrel mashed up, high tasting, quite smelly in a little pie case. It's the kind of thing I like, not for the faint-hearted.

[00:42:54]Squirrel meat is very lean. It's low in fat and high in protein. So Craig's wrapping it in bacon to stop it drying out.

[00:43:09]Right. Well, just while I'm waiting for my squirrel, the sume recommended a coaton. Nice and fruity, quite spicy sir ganache blend. very drinkable and will go nicely, he reckons, with something as gy as a as an English squirrel. Charles, here's your squirrel. Hope you enjoy.

[00:43:23]Yaba daba. Look at that little thighs for jumping from branch to branch. M tasty.

[00:43:31]Oh, that was wonderful. That is the taste of squirrel. Really taste of English woodland oak trees and very easy to eat. Delicious.

[00:43:43]Well, I've got [music] some more cooked squirrel, and now all I need to do is convince everybody else to eat it. Fresh squirrel.

[00:43:50][music] >> Looks like chicken, of course.

[00:43:57]>> But it tastes a bit like cross between pork and chicken.

[00:43:59]>> It's not a heavy taste. It's very light.

[00:44:01]I wouldn't have thought a squirrel would have even looked like that once it was cooked, let alone taste like that.

[00:44:05]>> Do you think you'll be having it again?

[00:44:06]>> Um, it was all right. It wasn't wasn't too bad. bit bit, you know, nutty maybe.

[00:44:16]>> Damn, it's like chicken. It's a little bit gameier.

[00:44:21]>> Quite a little bit greasy, but in a good way. And um that's not pubic hair, is it?

[00:44:27]>> No, no, no, no. That's squirrel hair.

[00:44:28]Squirrels don't have pubic hair. It's squirrel.

[00:44:30]>> Oh, no.

[00:44:31]>> No. You wouldn't kill your cat, would you? But >> if it was tasty, I might. I don't know.

[00:44:35]You think it'll catch on?

[00:44:37]>> Could do. Probably not.

[00:44:42]It tastes really good. It tastes kind of similar to what >> does taste taste similar to chicken.

[00:44:47]Come on.

[00:44:47]>> No. No. It's kind of quail. I thought when I ate it.

[00:44:50]>> Yeah.

[00:44:51]>> Yeah.

[00:44:52]>> Is it Can you imagine Can you imagine buying squirrel and cooking it yourself at home?

[00:44:55]>> Yeah, I can. I think it's good.

[00:44:57]>> So, there you go. People are really pretty happy to eat squirrel and so they should be. It's a tasty and nutritious way to get rid of the evil gray and make an environment fit for squirrel nutin to return to try. So the next time you're in your local park and you see one of the little critters running around, don't think ooh little furry friend.

[00:45:12]Think lunch.

[00:45:15]>> So will you eat them again?

[00:45:16]>> Yeah, they tasted all right. And and if I can get rid of them from my garden, then I reckon two birds with one stone, two squirrels with one stone, definitely.

[00:45:22]>> So is it legal?

[00:45:23]>> It is legal. Uh if they're causing damage, if you have permission from the land owner or you are the land owner, it is perm permissible to to shoot them and kill them. Um you have to like all animals in Britain, they're protected from cruelty like any wildlife. So you have to do it cleanly. You can't go around maming squirrels for fun. But yeah, absolutely leave.

[00:45:38]>> You both can't stay. Morning got to go.

[00:45:40]>> Yeah.

[00:45:41]>> And the person I'd like to stay in the F word kitchen >> is Danny.

[00:45:49]>> Thank you.

[00:45:51]>> Well done.

[00:45:52]>> Well done. Deserved it, mate. Thank you.

[00:45:56]>> And you stay focused.

[00:45:57]>> No, definitely. Without a doubt.

[00:45:59]>> I'm not disappointed. I've had a great time. Massive experience. Keep me head up and just keep going. Yeah, just really happy. Just really high right up there on the ceiling. [music]