Saturday Kitchen star has dished out a sizzler of a story about a barbecue bash that went sky-high. The telly chef, now stirring up a storm on ITV's Saturday Morning, also spilled the beans on a fiery fiasco that saw his own pad catch alight during another barbecue blunder. Chatting on the Grilling podcast in 2021 with celeb chef mate Simon Rimmer, James served up the juicy details of his grill gaffes when asked about any barbecue blunders.
The former BBC maestro confessed to a flaming nightmare at his digs, thanks to a pizza oven roof that should've been metal but was mistakenly made of timber. He cheekily blamed it on some Irish builders. But he reckons his old man's barbecue blooper tops the lot.
James dished the dirt: "I set my side of my house on fire. That was a good one because..
. I mean, I love builders and particularly..
. a certain group of Irish builders, who are fantastic, that decided to build an Italian pizza oven roof." "Instead of having metal, (they) built it out of wood, which is quite handy.
And I think the best one of all was my dad...
we're DIY people. My dad was hopeless at DIY." He continued with the tale: "He built himself a barbecue back home at the house, on the farmhouse, and it was basically four like concrete blocks on one side, four concrete blocks on the other one.
.. and we had some York stone.
" James dished out the details on how a "massive" stone took a squad of eight to shift. But despite their muscle, chaos erupted when his old man decided to.
