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City chef is still cooking
A former bouncer is slicing and dicing his way to the MasterChef finals.
Jay Tinker, a father-of-three from Banks, near Tarleton, is still in the running for the title, despite being on the losing side on last night’s show.
The 40-year-old was part of a five-strong team charged with coming up with taste-bud tempting ideas for a meal for 100 Jane Austen fans in Bath.
Each of them had just 20 minutes to survey a table groaning with ingredients and come up with a dish appropriate for the Austen era.
Jay, who runs a security company, served up a stunning recipe of chicken breast stuffed with chicken liver pate, buttered green beans and a pumpkin puree sauce.
But despite his best efforts, the other team won.
His culinary skills, however, have already secured him a place in the final 10, and he is keeping his fingers crossed that the next challenge won’t be his last on the popular programme.
He said: “I love everything about food and cooking. My dad was a very good cook and he used to give my mum a day off on Sunday.
“He would have me at his side helping him and taught me an awful lot. Then when I was 12 he died, but I just carried on cooking.”
Jay’s entry into the MasterChef challenge was down to his business partner Michael Oliver who sent in an application without telling him.
Jay said: “When someone rang me up from MasterChef I though it was a joke and then, before I knew it, I got through the screen test.”
Despite last night’s disappointing result Jay is looking forward to the next stage when his team cooks for more than 300 staff at a tractor factory.
As for who will win? He said: “It could be anyone.”
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Ayla
Thursday, January 26, 2012 at 10:20 PMKeep on slogging Jay, I'm sure yer dad is looking down on yer.
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