The Scrambled Egg Champion attempts to defend his crown….
Off to a reliable start yesterday thanks to Country Life’s website recipe, next into battle was “Baby” James Martin. He stormed his way to victory in the last taste test thanks to not only a tasty recipe but great presentation - could he do it again?
No. James’ recipe had the longest list of ingredients for this week, and although I followed it exactly the finished meal was nowhere near as good as his scrambled egg masterpiece. Terribly disappointing.
Find the recipe online here : http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/database/welshrarebit_72299.shtml
Taste - 1.5
There were so many different flavours involved that they all seemed to merge and become unrecognisable. Is there really any need for mustard AND Worcester sauce AND Tabasco? The texture was rather doughy too, which was not the nicest. Plus the addition of the egg - unbeaten - I’ll put that down as “unconventional”? Afterwards I even felt slightly nauseous....
Presentation - 1.5
Ideally I think you should see a few small brown patches on the top of your cheese on toast - not with Mister Martin’s recipe though. After placing the cheese mixture on top of the toast, it was returned to a low/medium grill, and VERY quickly developed one large brown crispy area on each slice. The finished product looked a little like two miniature yellow and brown Millennium Domes - on toast. Not 100% appetising. A bonus half a point for trying to dress it up with tomato chutney.
Ease/Effort - 2
This was quite a labour intensive recipe. Heating milk, but not boiling, adding cheese to it until it dissolved, removing to cool then adding other ingredients at various other moments. I did manage to follow the recipe to the letter but even the slightest distraction would probably prove disastrous. I was really disappointed that the cheese mixture expanded into dome shapes and very nearly burned under the grill.
Scores On The Doors:
Country Life Dot Com - 9
James Martin - 5
Running Order:
Day Three - The Foody Dot Com.
Day Four - Sue Marchant.
Day Five - Delia Smith.
Day Six - Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall.
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