"I don't use salt in my cooking" explains A LOT. Also there's a nonsense recipe in Tin Can't Cook where she bangs on about being a "salt fiend" and then has a recipe that's clearly stolen Inspired by another chef that's got loads of salt, yet no salt in virtually all her other recipes including the breads. She's a shit cook, has been shit for years, very little knowledge or technical skill and really REALLY needs calling out for it. It's appalling that her books are being given to people with little food or money to waste on nonsense slop confections that don't work or require significant cooking know-how to make palatable. I'm genuinely angry about this, she is a disgrace to the field.
It's very telling that people who attempt a JM recipe and end up with something inedible almost always conclude "I must have done something wrong, I can't have followed the recipe correctly, perhaps I am just a bad cook" because it's so unthinkable to most people that a recipe book, especially one by an author of multiple recipe books, might have recipes in it that simply don't work. "Surely," we think, "someone would have noticed before publication?"
I don't think anyone tests Jack's recipes. I don't think even
Jack tests Jack's recipes. I think Jack "researches" on Google, writes down something that
looks like it might work, then she makes them and takes a photo of the results, but I don't think she actually
eats them at any point. Then to save money she tells her publisher that she's had them tested and they nod and thank her for how much good she does and then publish a book full of nonsense. Next step is the media, who assume like the rest of us that these recipes must actually work, but they're not going to try and actually
make a plate of Sardine And Peach Curry With Jam because it sounds horrific, but they'll add their stamp of approval anyway because The Poor will probably eat that muck and it's bound to be better for them than the fishfingers and chips that they all waste their money on.
It's "Let them eat cake!" but instead of cake it's Lentil And Breadcrumb Lasagne that doesn't even work.
in the grand scheme of it all.
Right! That’s it!
myself I won't go into details but tomorrow I have an event that has been making me feel so anxious. This forum has kept me entertained and taken my mind off it. You are a lovely bunch of people. Wish I knew you all irl but thank you ninnies. Now fuck off! 
. It was just us, spotting all the lies and bad behaviour and everyone else just labelled us trolls/bullies/mavens etc (I'd forgotten about mavens 
) and stuck their fingers in their ears. Now it's different, and yes it's still depressing at times, but when you look back, there's been huge progress. Plus when it gets frustrating that she's being given more undeserved opportunities and she's giving it Billy big balls toot toot - take heart, she'll run away with herself again and fuck it all up! She does every time. And each time, more people see her for what she is, and that's where we are now.
