Jamie Oliver Flavour Shaker, Red Hot

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If using a round or oblong tin, sprinkle a tablespoon of pearl sugar over the batter just before baking the cake. Sorry to hear that. One of the sad realities of meeting renowned or famous people is that they rarely live up to expectation and, in some cases, turn out to be complete arseholes. Most people off the TV fit into this category in my experience. In a separate bowl, mix the flour, baking powder and ground cardamom and then fold into the mixture.

But then off he went with increasingly commercial and less valid Sainsbury’s ads, pulling in more and more of his family, pushing food that as a chef he shouldn’t be pushing. He had sold out. For big sums, but still sold out. It may be shit i do not know i haven’t got one. i probably won’t get one after reading the comments but you’ve got to ask yourself if you hate him that much why the hell do you care about him so much by writing 20 paragraghs about him. if it was truly hate you would even be bothered by him!!! You had to admire him. It was filmed of course. But he was putting his money where his mouth was and it wasn’t easy. He certainly put in alot of effort and for that he is to be admired. But at the same time he started doing more and more commercials that I would argue were dubious in his position of a chef. And he involved his family and his personal life more and more, and it started to feel a bit wrong. A couple of months ago Catherine, Food TV Canada’s resident blogger , found herself with quite the dilemma: her workstation was overrun with Jamie Oliver Flavour Shakers in need of homes. Whomever received one had to try it out and blog about it. Always one for toys – especially kitchen toys – I dropped her a note and the gadget appeared last month. It’s taken a while for me to complete toy testing as my sore wrist kept me from unscrewing the tool.

What a load of shit. This has been created by a team of 15 creatives working incessantly for eight months at horribly inflated wages who spent more time “designing” the marketing approach as they did creating the actual product. I imagine getting Jamie “on board” was somewhat of a coup. I just don’t get Jamie Oliver, TV chef extraordinaire. He seems to be leaping between ever greater peaks of admiration and disgrace, but I really can’t see how he can rebound from the frankly disgraceful “flavour shaker” that he is relentlessly advertising on the TV. Cardamom cake would feature in most Swedes’ top 10 classic fika treats. It can be baked in a round or an oblong tin or, as in this version adapted from Mat Magasinet (The Food Magazine), in a Bundt pan.

Bake for about an hour until it is golden brown, just beginning to pull away from the side of the Bundt and a skewer poked into the cake comes out clean.Here's another product review from Matt Powell, junior at Columbia University in the City of New York and GHRI intern: Then there was an Italian “holiday” which was of course filmed and which was nothing but another TV vehicle. It was something that Jamie of old would have turned down. I really don’t understand why is everybody against it. Nice idea bad implementation I agree. So since it is not good enough let’s fix it. I got inspired but the flavour shaker and made my own, simple as this ! And yes it doesn’t cost me 20 GBP and it does close much better. I do believe that sometimes the people miss the bigger picture. Just because Jamie or any other muppet wanted to charge this amount, it doesn’t mean that you have to go and get it ! How will the “flavour shaker” fail? Who knows, the grip will come off, the plastic connection will fail – most obviously – people will simply lose the “magic ball”. In the grand universe of kitchen gadgets, I categorise Jamie Oliver’s Flavour Shaker as a toy: cute, friendly and plastic. Now that I’ve had a chance to use it, I’m glad I didn’t actually buy it. There are too many annoying things about it: the guide arrows don’t align; it takes too long to get a mediocre grind, and cleaning it is more than a pain.