A tea time treat! (Come Dine With Me)

Member Name: excelsior81

Product:	Come Dine With Me
Date:	05/02/09 (38 review reads)
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Advantages: Hilarious wanna be chefs

Disadvantages: When they don't get drunk!

A few years back when everyone had loads of money, money that wasn't really their own but taken from over inflated house prices, we had a glut of programmes about house renovations.

Recently, cookery programmes have become the flavour of the day...I am amazed at how many people want to be chefs, run country pubs serving traditional food, or leave their jobs in the city (because there are none now) to become a high standard chef.

Come dine with me is a happy medium between bot the home and cooking programme.

In this programme 5 people who don't know each other, get the chance to cook for one another and show off their culinary skills. They are judges on the entire evening, not just the food they prepare, but also the wine they serve and the atmosphere they create.

At the end of the evening, each of the guests must give their host a score out of ten for the evening, the winner at the end of the week being given £1000 for the trouble.

What I like most about this programme are the elements of social experimentation that they clearly focus upon. Last week when I watched it there was one woman who was clearly bonkers and thought she was a medium...she also had crystals all over her person to protect her shakra...it was quite hilarious, not as much though as when she was at every dinner table during the week getting more and more drunk...and then having a harumph out of the room like a teenager!

Part of the magic of this programme is the way people get on with each other and genuinely get to know one another. You get the feeling that at the end of the week so of them will be firm friends.

The food varies from person to person and it is great watching people experiment with their culinary skills, all thinking that they are Raymond Blanc...with varying degrees of success (the mad woman made her own barbecue sauce with a bottle of wine in it...and tomato sauce!)!

I think this is a good bit of tea time entertainment and I regularly Virgin + it. If you do miss it though More 4 has the week's episodes on Sunday, so it is also a great hangover cure.

If you are the mad woman with her crystals...I do apologise...but you were mental.

Summary: Well worth a look when you are having your tea.