Cor blimey. Did anyone get a load of 4 Ingredients on the Lifestyle Channel, which premiered on 11 September 2008. What a stinker!
Everything about this program was awful. From the sub-amateur production values to some of the most appalling food offered up as dinner party fare that WEE have ever seen. My god! It was simply and utterly dreadful. WEE were left quite speechless.
The program is based on the number 4 – if you hadn’t worked that out. And it is as though the producers have gone out of their way to make the program as tacky as possible.
From the cheesy, ugly tips on table decoration or dinner party organisation to the literally cheesy recipes, this program sets a new low in lifestyle programming.
Put simply, the ‘cooks’ on this program prove that you simply cannot make a decent dish out of 4 ingredients. Not unless you are interested in the worst of processed food and what must be an astronomically high salt and fat content.
WEE hope to god that we are never invited to a dinner party based on the 4 ingredients philosophy, let alone with the dull, drab and lifeless personalities that make up the presenters and their guests. It’s all so ordinary and aspires to nothing – perhaps only an early grave?
We were treated to tips on how to present stuffed mushrooms (with cheese), some puff pastry things (with cheese), some perfectly dreadful lamb cutlets with pesto (and cheese) all topped off with one of the most disgusting caramel tarts ever offered as dinner party cuisine. Yuk! I suspect the dinner guests at that party probably had to spend some serious time in the gym after eating that rubbish (if they weren’t hospitalised).
Words can’t really describe how truly appalling this production is. WEE don’t know what is happening at the Lifestyle channel but somehow, somewhere along the line, someone lost some quality control. 4 Ingredients is WEE suspect, the outcome of some poor marketing decision to try and leverage an audience for the cookbook published with the same name, which, bafflingly is Australia’s number one selling cookbook!
We can only hope that all those Australians cooking this rubbish will die early deaths from clogged arteries or obesity and this sorry episode in national cuisine will be forgotten forever! The hosts of this program should certainly not be allowed anywhere near a kitchen – they have turned the kitchen into a weapon of mass destruction.
Shame on Lifestyle Channel for letting such rubbish get through their production department.
