For years we have been resigned to the slowness of the recipes of the Kitchens of the after-dinner meal. The soundtrack of the country's siestas is the sound of the 3Cat knife chopping up the onion or any other vegetable that they can't have ready. On top of that, twice as much. First the more elaborate recipe, normally with plenty of butter to give the country's public health system work to do, and the second, in a flash, simpler and, from time to time, with dubious results.
Now, the trend of the Kitchens The first step to start Arnau Paris's easy recipes is to give us an initial comedy. For example, the programme starts and we find him pretending to balance on a chair in the set: "Oh... You're probably wondering what the hell I'm doing on this chair. Well, it's very easy. Today I'm making a haute cuisine recipe. But the people at home won't have to go up anywhere." Oh, yes. What a scare, boy. We were worried. Another day the programme starts with the music from the shower scene in the film Psychosis. A knife cuts a lettuce in half: "Today we will cut hearts, but don't worry, eh! There will be no heartbreak. We will cut hearts out of lettuce because we will make tuna-stuffed lettuce hearts." Oh, luck. We, the spectators, were very worried. Another day, Arnau París appears dressed in an orange life preserver and blowing a whistle: "The life preserver can be very useful at sea. And today I will make a life preserver that can be very useful in the kitchen and that can save us more than one dinner. It is the little casserole, which is pretty, cheap and that we can use to make some eggs." Another day, the Shakespearian version is played, with the chef playing Hamlet and, with a circumspect gesture, showing the anchovy he has in one hand and the sardine he has in the other: "Sardine... or anchovy! That is the question. I don't know why, when I make this recipe I become very transcendental." The last straw was the day he started the programme dressed as Son Goku, with the excuse that Carnival was approaching: "I'm going to use my superpowers to prepare some eggs with broad beans and egg sausage."
It is common for a relaxed attitude or a certain informality to end up falling into amateur comedy. It may have to do with the creative spirit of a scriptwriter, who thinks more about his need to have a different idea to start writing than about the result of the television execution of what he proposes. Sometimes it may be related to the difficulty of the protagonist to develop other communicative resources. It is easier to create a kind of alter ego that makes a representation than to assume a more authentic role, who believes in what he is doing. We have seen this many times in different formats. In any case, please, it would be appreciated if they did not infantilize the audience. Let them go for work, as normally as possible. Or they play the recipes on a pim-pam on the SX3 for the kids, or they look for an alternative way of relating to the viewer that is a bit more adult and mature. We already suffered the clowns on TV when we were kids.
