article_snippet.sent: Wannabe chefs with Simon Wood, 38, from Oldham eye on a career as the next Gordon Ramsay or Jamie Oliver should take note - it doesn't have to cost a fortune.
article_snippet.sent: I also found out a lot from watching chefs when I go to a restaurant - you go into a lot of restaurants these days and you can see straight into the kitchen. '
article_snippet.sent: The hours that chefs do are notoriously antisocial
article_snippet.sent: Simon hasn't always been this good, even Masterchef winner's have the occasional cooking disaster.
article_snippet.sent: As a young man, Simon learnt the hazards of absent-minded cooking after Simon tipped and entire stock Simon had worked on for hours down the sink.
article_snippet.sent: Simon said: 'the occasional cooking disaster was when I was younger and first started out cooking, I did Christmas dinner for the first time. '
article_snippet.sent: it’s every cook or chef’s dream. '