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I Train My Chefs With A Blindfold. I'll Get My Sous Chef And Myself To Cook A Dish. The Young Chef Would Have To Sit Down And Eat It With A Blindfold. If They Can't Identify The Flavor, They Shouldn't Be Cooking The Dish.

First Of All, For Me The Secret Is In The Ingredients. You Don't Need To Start Spending Fortunes On Organic Foods And Start Becoming Way Over Budget. The Better The Ingredient, The Littler That Needs Doing To It.

That's The Problem. Anyone Can Go And Buy A Restaurant. I Want To Be At That F - Ing Dinner Party Where They Say, "hey, Bill, Your Food's Great. You Should Buy Yourself A Restaurant." That's Not Right. Taking It Less Personally.

The Kids Now, On "junior," We Educate The Parents And It's Quite A Fascinating Turnaround. You Can Just See The Parents Thinking, "s - , 10 Years Ago I Was Eating So Bad, And Now I'm Seeing It Through The Eyes Of My Kids At 9, 10 Years Of Age." There Is An Upside To That Side Of Reality Tv. It's Not All Negative.

Stop Taking Things Personally. Throughout The Time With "kitchen Nightmares" And "hotel Hell," When They Work, You Don't Get Any Praise. When They Fail, You Get Blamed. You're F - Ed Either Way, But It Doesn't Stop Me Doing Them, I Think.