Ready steady cook is a cookery competition made up of two teams. Each team has a celebrity chef and a member of the public. Sometimes the contestants on the two teams are related or friends and other times they are complete strangers. The two contestants each have a budget (usually £5 or £10 each) and can buy ingredients up to this value. It is then the job of the celebrity chef to use these ingredients to make a selection of dishes. Sometimes there are special conditions, such as they need to work around a vegetarian or low fat diet. The other help they get is that the host Ansley Harriet, gives them a hand whilst finding out more about the contestants. They ...  Read the complete review

I've always wished I could cook a bit better than I actually can and although I'm not always a big fan of cookery programmes in general, I quite like Ready Steady Cook as it's not just cooking but a competition as well and you can still learn from it. Ready Steady Cook is a daytime programme on BBC TV so I don't always get much of a chance to watch it unless I'm in. It was first aired in 1994 and originally it was hosted by Fern Britton. In 2000 the show was taken over by celebrity chef Ainsley Harriott who started hosting it and I think he's very good and funny too. At the moment the show is about 45 minutes long which is more than enough time. The ...  Read the complete review

Ready steady cook is suprisingly a cooking show which has been running for a impressive 16 years. It first aired in October 1994. The show is became very successful. It became a bit of a phenomenon amongst the student population. I remember I was in university when this show first aired and I loved nothing better than coming home and settling down to see what the two celebrity chefs could rustle up. The main format of the show was that Fern Britton would host and invite two members of the audience to come and cook. They would bring with them a bag with a variety of ingredients. The budget would be £5. The celebrity chef would then have to rustle up a variety ...  Read the complete review

Ready Steady Cook is an iconic show, having been around since 1994 when it was present by Fern Britton for 6 years. Ainsley Harriot took over in 2000 and he is still with the show today. The show is on every weekday at 4:30 for 45 minutes on BBC 2 and makes a great after work/school TV show to relax to and maybe even get ideas for your dinner from. The show consists of two parts, the 20 minute cook-off competition, which is known as the "Main Course" and the "Quickie Bag" which is a bag presented by a member of th audience. The Main Course has two teams, The Red Kitchen (tomatoe) and the Green Kitchen (pepper). Each ...  Read the complete review

Ready Steady Cook is a television cooking programme which is shown on weekdays on BBC2 at 4:30pm (subject to change) and has been running since 1994 when it was originally hosted by Fern Britton and has been hosted by Ainsley Harriott ever since. The show runs for around 45 minutes and sometimes there will be members of the public cooking on the show although in recent times it seems to be more celebrities (quite often sporting ones) and this brings in slightly higher viewing figures as more people want to tune in to find out more about their favourite stars or celebrities. The aim of the show is to have two people who each cook in a small kitchen ...  Read the complete review