FORGET My Kitchen Rules and Masterchef. How about a television show called My Kitchen's Real?

For the first time ever, I found myself engrossed in the hit MKR television series. But I kept waiting for at least one of the contestants to dish up something I might be brave enough to try for myself at home.

And I kept wondering who on earth would buy the food coming out of their "restaurants" when the portions were so small.

Delicious it might taste, but unless you are sampling from all of the contestant's menus, no item alone is enough.

Also, why is all the meat so raw when it's served?

The delicious Colin (Fassnidge) will say the steak/ salmon/ duck - inset item here - is "cooked perfectly" after slicing it open and revealing the blood of the creature still pumping inside. Is it common or un-masterclass to expect your steak to be cooked through?

Or maybe it's meant to be My Kitchen's Rare.

How about getting the contestants to try to achieve a three-course meal on a realistic budget?

This would ensure quail and bugs and prawns and other expensive delicacies are replaced by some of the stuff most of could afford, like chicken, mince and bangers.

I guess though I don't exactly qualify for masterclass or MKR. Just ask my daughter. When asked in Prep by her teacher what "special meal mummy makes for the family" her answer was "two-minute noodles".

There has to be some kind of skill in getting those noodles perfect every time, surely?