Summary
Jay Rayner and the Kitchen Cabinet panel return with a Postbag edition, answering questions sent in by you, the listeners.
Chefs, cooks and food writers, Jocky Petrie, Sophie Wright, Melek Erdal and Jeremy Pang, wrestle with a bumper serving of culinary dilemmas. Topics include, what you should do with two kilos of fresh lychees, whether flouring mean before browning is recommended or an unnecessary faff, and which kitchen gadgets are more trouble to clean than they’re worth.
Along the way they tackle fears of fish bones, scepticism about expensive caviar, complaints about the word “smell”, and the perennial question of whether chefs lean too heavily on onions and garlic.
Producer: Dan Cocker Assistant Producer: William Norton
A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:07.4 | I'm Dilley Carter and I love organising. |
| 0:11.6 | In my brand new podcast, sort your life out, unpacked, celebrity guests join me to unbox three revealing items from their home. |
| 0:18.7 | Oh, wow. I wasn't expecting this. |
| 0:21.6 | Along the way, I'll be giving you practical hacks to help you declutter your life as well. |
| 0:26.2 | This is the tough love I need. |
| 0:27.4 | Don't hold back. |
| 0:28.5 | I'm definitely tucking you with me back to my house. |
| 0:31.6 | Sort your life out, unpacked. |
| 0:33.5 | Watch on EyePlayer, listen on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:36.6 | Hello and welcome to the kitchen cabinet regulars. |
| 0:39.3 | We'll know we move this programme up and down the country to answer food-related questions |
| 0:43.3 | from audiences in all parts of these British Isles. |
| 0:46.3 | In the last few weeks, we've tackled noisy food in East London, |
| 0:49.8 | toasties in Abergavenny, white bread and Bolton, |
| 0:52.4 | a national something on a Stick Day in Bristol. |
| 0:55.0 | Yes, it's very much a thing. |
| 0:56.8 | Today, however, we've swapped our usual theatre hall or school venue for an intimate radio |
| 1:01.9 | studio where we're all sat far too close together. |
| 1:05.5 | Joining me on the end of a radio stick or a microphone, as we call it, and ready to answer |
| 1:09.4 | questions selected from the bulging |
| 1:11.1 | TKC email inbox our cooks and food writers Jockey Petrie, Sophie Wright, Malick Erdle and Jeremy |
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