Why MasterChef Australia made me cringe!
Follow greenhumour.com for some sensible stuff I decided to watch Masterchef Australia and discover what the world has been raving about for the past 11 years. To keep up with the times, I started with the latest season. And halfway through, had to stop – I had no more hair left to pull out! Millions of people go hungry across the world, because 30% food gets wasted and Masterchef showed me how the number is higher in fancy kitchens. Agri-food sector is the highest carbon emitter and if we start cooking the way Masterchefs do, the damage would be higher. And then there is plastic and much much more. Here are cringe-inducing things, that I saw: 1. Sous Vide - you put stuff into plastic and dunk into a boiler. So along with the slowly poached food, you can get your fill of microplastic. Have you ever heated food inside a plastic container? 2. Blast chiller – you boil stuff and immediately shove them into blast chiller...