Presenter Alex Jones took on a collection of cooking challenges to show that even probably the most accident-prone cooks has create scrumptious dishes.

Watch the second presenter Alex Jones turns kitchen chaos into cooking with confidence on this humorous video. The self-confessed ‘horrible cook dinner’ is the primary to snigger at her kitchen mishaps from soggy rice and burnt pans to the occasional pasta meltdown. However now, she’s proving that even probably the most accident-prone dwelling cooks can grasp mealtime with these ‘earlier than and after’ type recipes.

The presenter teamed up with Ben’s Authentic, who’s launching its new household packs, for a cooking problem. She stated: “Let’s face it, we’ve all had a kitchen catastrophe, and the extra individuals on the desk, the trickier it will get.”

“Even easy meals can go sideways, that’s why having fast, dependable staples are a complete lifesaver,” she added. “They take the stress out of cooking and provides households extra time to really get pleasure from being collectively across the desk.”

It comes after a ballot of two,000 adults who cook dinner discovered greater than half (55%) worry a cooking catastrophe corresponding to spilling elements, burning meals, or forgetting to show the oven on.

The research discovered undercooking meat or poultry, making rice too soggy and leaving a pan to overboil had been additionally excessive on the listing of cooking disasters that give them nightmares.

Among the many different kitchen blunders are charred onions, scorched sauces and the all-too-familiar wrestle of burning rice or making sufficient to feed a military.

Whereas others confessed to attempting to keep away from burning garlic in seconds, overcooking pasta or getting the rice to water ratio unsuitable.

It emerged 43% consider making ready weekday dinners and night meals is one in every of their greatest cooking stresses. What’s extra, 60% admit they discover catering for greater than 4 individuals daunting.

Nearly half really feel embarrassed about their cooking abilities, with 33% usually feeling overwhelmed when cooking multiple dish at a time.

Timing every thing appropriately, getting all parts prepared on the similar time and having to scrub up afterwards are among the many greatest stresses.

It was additionally discovered baking (26%), desserts (19%) and rice dishes (14%) had been among the many issues adults really feel least assured cooking from scratch.

4 in ten admit to avoiding sure meals utterly as a result of they had been fearful they’d mess them up. However 35% suppose extra observe, clearer recipes (29%) and step-by-step guides (25%) would assist them really feel extra assured within the kitchen.

TOP COOKING DISASTERS ADULTS FEAR:

1. Burning meals

2. Undercooking meat or poultry

3. Making rice too soggy

4. Leaving a pan to overboil

5. Overcooking pasta

6. Forgetting one thing is within the oven

7. Making approach too little meals

8. Undercooking rice

9. Forgetting a recipe step

10. Burning rice

11. Spilling elements

12. Misreading the recipe steps and doing them out of order

13. Getting the ‘rice to water’ ratio unsuitable

14. Making approach an excessive amount of rice to feed a military

15. Studying a measurement as tablespoons as a substitute of teaspoons (or vice versa)

16. Forgetting to preheat the oven

17. Overcrowding the pan

18. Forgetting to show the oven on

19. Egg shell left within the pan

20. Not maintaining a tally of chips within the oven

21. Not making sufficient rice for the meal

22. Not tasting as you go

23. Scorching a sauce

24. Utilizing expired elements

25. Burning garlic

26. Charring onions

27. Utilizing the unsuitable sort of oil or fats

28. Not drying elements correctly earlier than frying

29. Chopping an onion too chunkily

30. Utilizing sugar as a substitute of salt