Cooking videos are a staple on our social media feeds, and it’s likely you’ll want to replicate some of the recipes you come across.
A roast dinner is a beloved dish for many Brits, typically enjoyed on a Sunday, complete with all the extras – from cauliflower cheese to stuffing, and of course, plenty of gravy.
However, when viewers saw @cookingkatee’s video, they were appalled at how she prepared the meal for him following his 15 hour shift, with some even jesting he’d be “going back to work” after seeing her culinary creation.
Kate, famed for her eccentric cooking videos, grabbed an Iceland classic chicken and stuffing roast dinner ready meal from her freezer, and tossed the entire thing into a frying pan.
Carrots clung to the generous slab of meat as she threw it in, followed by the potatoes and then a shocking amount of oil. But the madness didn’t end there with the excessive ingredients, as she seasoned the meal with salt – and it just kept coming, and coming, and coming – until there was a mound of white salt towering over the meal, which had started to cook in the oil.
She then seasoned with pepper as she flipped the still frozen meat, and then, even more salt was sprinkled onto the meal.
As the frozen peas began to thaw amid the meat, she carefully separated them along with the carrots. Following a period where the meat simmered in the oil, it seemed the right time to plate up the dinner onto a blue plastic dish.
Ungraciously dumping the arctic chicken breast, stuffing, and spuds onto the plate, she then smothered it all with the greasy vegetables that had coalesced with the gravy into a soupy sludge.
To cap off her culinary creation, she liberally doused even more salt over the dish, igniting concerns among viewers about the sodium levels her spouse was set to ingest. One anxious commentator queried, “Is your husband alive?”
The NHS warned: “Eating too much salt can cause high blood pressure, which increases the risk of heart attacks and strokes. It’s easy to have too much salt (or sodium).
“Around three quarters of the salt we eat comes from packaged and everyday foods we buy, such as bread, breakfast cereals, meat products and ready meals. It can also be found in takeaways, restaurant or cafe meals and fast-food outlets.”
They cite the daily salt consumption should be “no more than 6g (around 1 teaspoon)”.
Social media users didn’t hold back, with one ribbing: “I bet he wish he stayed at work,” while another quipped: “Not enough salt, not enough oil, more oil more salt.” A TikTok user declared their intent to notify “Gordon Ramsay” about this gastronomic spectacle.
Additional feedback read: “Needs more seasoning”, “Not enough salt that”, “Did he not want salt in it?” with one likening the plate to something that “looks illegal”.