“The perfect dinner”
Hungry guests: “I didn’t see that as food”
Antje from the Ruhr area, the portions of “The Perfect Dinner” were sometimes too small.
“The perfect dinner” irritated Antje’s guests. Some people even went home hungry.
“The perfect dinner” host Antje, 54, is not only a tax officer, but also “a book with seven seals”, as comrade-in-arms Alexandra, 37, describes her. The dinner surprises the guests in many places – but above all it leaves them partly stunned, partly hungry.
“The perfect dinner”: Antje distributes a mushroom to everyone present
“Homemade” is the title of Antje’s menu – and it should be taken literally, because she even grows the mushrooms herself in the cellar. The size of the portions on the plate also changes accordingly. Even before the meal, Denise, 30, expresses the fear that the dinner will not fill her up and is said to be right. Antje doesn’t necessarily succeed with the starter – creamy soup with bread – as she wanted. The carrot-based gluten-free buns do not rise when baked and remain manageable in size. So manageable that they hardly seem like food to Alexandra: “I didn’t see that as food.”
The main course, which consists of potatoes, mushrooms and beetroot feta leaves the guests quite stunned. “I’m hungry,” complains Christian, 53, and Agnes, 41, can only describe the amount of mushrooms on the plate as “homeopathic”. The home harvest was so small that the guests had to share a mushroom among other things. For the dessert – porridge and apple variation – Christian can’t muster any great enthusiasm before the evening when reading the menu: “I’ve already got out mentally. Porridge? I don’t know.” The result is then also quite “sloppy”, as Denise describes the dessert. “And not sexy at all,” adds Alexandra to the criticism.
Guests go home hungry
Antje made an effort with her dinner: For example, she warmed the potato dumplings, which she cultivated herself with her own mushrooms, to exactly 47 degrees with a meat thermometer. But for the guests, the heart of a dinner is missing: enough food on the plate to really fill you up. “I know that I really have to make something to eat at home,” says Christian at the end of the evening. For Antje, it’s just enough for 24 out of a possible 40 points – and thus for the current third place in the “The Perfect Dinner” week from the Ruhr area. After all: Rarely has so much laughed in one episode.
Sources used: tvnow.de