Beloved television chef, James Martin , who is well known for his time on Saturday Kitchen on BBC, has woven a lively tale about a barbecue that went horribly awry. The mishap ended up leaving astray chops flying "about 20-30 feet in the air." The culinary sensation from ITV 's Saturday Morning, also confessed to a blazing disaster at his own home, triggered by a barbecue blunder that resulted in an unintended fire at his house.
While chatting on the Grilling podcast with celebrity chef and food aficionado Simon Rimmer in 2021, James served up his sensational narrative when queried if he had ever encountered any barbecue mishaps. Recounting the fiery episode at his dwelling, the former BBC presenter elucidated that it was all due to a pizza oven roof which ought to have been metal but was mistakenly made of wood. However, amusingly, he remarked that the barbecue catastrophe created by his father takes the cake.
James disclosed: "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.", reports OK! .
"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.
" To continue with the story, he said laughingly: "He built himself a barbecue back home at the house, on the farmhouse, and it was basically four like concret.