While chefs(and potential chefs) must be able to cook all kinds of food for customer's taste (including rosemary) I think that the constant demand and requests for undercooked beef, lamb, venison and tuna is not what the real world wants. In a group of people discussing various cooking shows not one of them really like  the raw food that Rosemary Shrager and other chefs seems to be pushing and make viewers believe they should be eating.

Also the constant demand for salt - salt -  salt is not what most of the world wants (only britain seems to ask for it) 

The cooking shows should be looking at the healthy(less salt) and more average tastes that most restaurant customers wants rather than the extremes.

At long last - some one else thinks the same as I do.

 Well done......if I cooked tuna and meat the way they suggest on the box it would be handed back to me with a "please can you cook this" comment.

 Its about time this issues was brought out in the open.

Rgds

Ray

 

 

 

You are not alone. In 1959 or 60 I went to a senior managers dinner given by my employers at what at that time was the most prestigious hotel in the North of England. The main course was Beef Tournedos and as I looked around the room I noticed that most of the 80 or so guests, themajority were carefully cutting off the cooked sides of the cubes of beef and discarding the uncooked centre.

When I commented on what I had seen, our Chief Chemist invited me to his laboratory where he prepared a microscope slide with a section of the discarded meat. It was absolutely crawling with the most terrifying creatures that I have ever seen. I have refused to eat "rare" meat ever since.

I have also noticed since then that whenever I have suffered with digestive disorders it almost invariably is traced back to eating uncooked food,

Regards

Bazrev

Well said Bazrev, when it is barbeque season the experts say cook the burger well, or you will eat all sortes of nasties.On the other hand all these chefs promote raw meat, its safer to eat English style well done to burnt.