Gordon Ramsay strides round the room and barks the instruction: “Taste as you go!”. Which is all well and good in theory, but I’m frying bacon and I’ve been a vegetarian for a decade and a half.
Though, if anyone knows anything about the hot-tempered superstar chef, it’s that you ignore him at your peril.
So, once I’ve shakily mixed the bacon into the creamy pasta, I swallow a whole mouthful.