Off Topic Masterchef meets a Pattie

Well done to the lass from Hull. Poncy chef changes his opinion after tasting it.

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Hull woman Alex Holgate served up a pattie buttie on BBC One's Masterchef last night. Imthiaz Rehman tuned in.

IT IS a TV show renowned for its pretentious cuisine, so when Hull woman Alex Holgate served up a good old pattie buttie on Masterchef, its notoriously demanding judges were left more than a little stunned.

Ms Holgate, a 36-year-old city council officer, brought Hull's favourite delicacy to the BBC One cookery show last night.

But she soon found herself under attack from a dismissive Gregg Wallace and John Torode.
A pattie buttie? Why would you do that on MasterChef?" asked Wallace.

"I want to do stuff that people can (make when they) walk in from work," she said. "They've had a dead hard day ... and they go, 'oh my God, all I've got is a potato in the cupboard'."

Wallace replied: "The last person that walked in from work and only found a potato in the fridge was in the Dickensian era."

"You've never been to my house," she shot back. Touché.

Described on the show as a "herby potato cake", Ms Holgate's posh pattie buttie was topped with citrus beer batter scraps and served with crushed minted peas on crispy bread, with a garlic, caper and lemon aioli (or sauce to the rest of us). It sounds delicious, but Ms Holgate worried the dish was too simple.

"Oh, God, it's just like ... mash potato," she said.

Torode, meanwhile, scoffed that Hull's favourite dish was little more than "a potato roll" and "carb on carb". When it came to the taste test, however, he was quick to revise his opinion.

"I think the flavours are brilliant," he said. "I think the ferociousness of the sage inside the potato cake, the little bits of thyme around the outside are lovely.

"I don't think it's perfect. I think it need more sauce. I think the potato cake could probably be crisper but there's little things about this dish I really, really like."

Wallace, however, stuck to his guns: "Although I enjoyed the flavour of your dish, I'd like to see some more technique from you."

Ms Holgate missed out on a spot in the Masterchef quarter-finals, but if that suggests Britain is not quite ready for Hull's favourite delicacy, we say she did our city proud.

She said: "I was really worried because I was making a dish from Hull, and I don't want to embarrass myself, or embarrass my city, because it's a fantastic place to be honest.

"So I apologise to anybody if I've let you down.

"It's so much more difficult than I ever thought it'd be."



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I have always wondered, 100% truthfully, why they've never taken off outside of Hull? Everyone I know who comes to the city and tries them, without a single exception, adores them. I remember my mate getting a batch from his local chippy, pre-fried, and taking them back to uni with him and they went down a storm. Is someone missing a trick not taking these to the masses outside of the city? Saying that though, I've never in my life had a pattie butty, I just eat them with chips or on their own.

Does anyone on here not like a pattie?

 

Spam fritter buttie and chips with chips spice would have served better

 

I've always wondered the same for Chip Spice.

How is that only an East Yorkshire thing?

 

I'm not a fan to be honest.

 

Weirdo.

 

I love Pattie Buttie and chips. One of my favourite meals.

Although I hate chip spice. It taste like gravel(Not I've tried gravel) But I imagine it taste like that.

 

Wallace's head is that far up his own arse he has to carry a torch with him all the time. What a prick he is.

 

No liquid? I'm a pattie, chips and either curry sauce or gravy kinda guy. Sometime beans and gravy if I'm feeling particularly flash.

 

Used to love patties, my mam made them when I was a young whipper snapper. Not had one in years, over a decade in fact.

Roll on Sunday, I'm having a pattie.

 

Chip Spice should be nowhere near Chippy chips. Its for French Fries.

Pattie buttie every Saturday night staggering home from pub after City.

 

You've all made me hungry now.
Anyway, I can't talk about masterchef without posting this...

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This is my view as well. Never on chips - always on fries

 

I used to love pattie, chips and mint sauce; weird but brilliant ...

 

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You've just reminded me of this.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbi...D-Acampo-claims-performed-SEX-ACT-COUSIN.html

My lass, her mam and her sister all loved Gino...

 

ive never understood this Chip spice thing - they just dont work on Chips - i only tried them the once at the chippy on the corner of De La Pole/Carew Street in the mid 1980s (not Chesneys on the corner of Curzon btw) , they are for fries and the first place i tried them on fries was Yankee Burger ? or Yankee Land (a few doors from Sandringham Arms - they were blathered in it too .

Now for patties , i like a pattie but for me its lots of crispy Batter and not too much sage , the thing shouldnt be Green like what you get at Rosedale , Frydays do a good job (cant really speak much about east Hull chippies)

 

It's just Paprika isn't it? I'm sure they had it in Budapest when i was over there last summer.

 

It was a long way from the patties sold in the chippy.