Recently, my heart swelled with pride, when Captain Science was blocked by her first health blogger. Fuck off, you patronising twat. Although to be fair I was quite pleased. She was really fucking annoying. One day, maybe Captain Science will have her very own curse filled blog, exposing lies and stupidity in the world of food science. I doubt it. Hopefully I’ll be too busy doing some real fucking work. Although if I did write a blog, mine would have better references. Yes, it certainly ..read more

Dietary Wack-a-Mole   This pseudoscience debunking can sometimes seem like an endless game of wack-a-mole. You bash one stupid trend like clean eating and it disappears back into its hole, but almost immediately another one pops up just out the corner of your eye. Just this week, the final nail in clean eating’s coffin was hammered in place when KFC appeared to be stealing jokes from old Angry Chef blog posts in order to set up an (admittedly very funny) parody account of a wellness blogger ..read more

Do you ever find yourself longing for times past? The good old days. Before children swore or thought about sex. When pop music used to make sense and wasn’t just a stream of offensive misogyny. When everyone ate dinner round the table together, and kids played happily in the street without predators lurking around every corner. A time before violence, terrorists, and harmful videos poisoning the minds of the young. When are we talking about here? The 80s? No, I am talking about a few months ..read more

I wrote this piece a while ago and have been sitting on it, unsure whether or not to post. But I have decided that the point of this blog is to start debates, so I thought I would put it up anyway. I think it is worthy of including and raises some interesting points, although I am worried about how I come across, so be kind. The Pyjama Club I live in a small hamlet in the Nottinghamshire countryside and the closest shop is in a slightly rough part of the nearby town. It is not quite as ..read more

A quick note before we start – to help decode the increasingly complex multi-voiced nature of Angry Chef posts, comments from Captain Science will be annotated with the initials CS, comments from Evidence Warrior with an EW, and comments from my strange inner voice will be left as they were, in bold with no annotation. Hopefully this will avoid any confusions. I really doubt that. Well, any confusion about the different voices anyway. We’ll see. So, at long last, it’s time for… The Magical ..read more

The Magical Adventures of Mr Faecalbulk - Part 1 In 2015, the Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition (SACN) produced a report for the UK government on carbohydrates. You might remember it. It told us all off for eating way too much sugar. Naughty us. Do we have any fizzy cola bottles left? This produced a raft of media headlines, mostly because it made some new recommendations concerning the amount of free sugars we should be consuming, and the wide disparity between that and the amount ..read more

Happy New Year Hello all. It has been a year since I started writing the Angry Chef blog and much has happened in that short time. What started as little more than a middle aged man swearing and talking to himself has become a widely read blog where a middle aged man swears and talks to himself. This change has resulted in my life being transformed, as it has come to light that I have the ability to write stuff that some people enjoy reading. This is a strange twist of fate, as I am an ..read more

PART 2 Last time we looked at the links made between dairy and cancer and why the outlying theories of a geologist are often given more credence than those of serious scientific organisations like the World Cancer Research Fund, WHO, NHS, Cancer Research or The Irish Cancer Society. For anyone with an interest in science and evidence, the existence of these sort of links and their prevalence in the media is deeply upsetting. I hate to see foods unnecessarily demonised and can’t help but ..read more

PART 1     I am slightly worried that I might be a bit weird. Slightly? You spend most of your time swearing and talking to yourself. Recently, during a debate on obesity at a large food and health conference, an eminent speaker revealed the apparently shocking statistic that 87% of the financial health burden in developed countries now comes from non-communicable diseases (NCDs). This revelation drew shocked gasps from the audience. Something must be done. We must bring an end to this ..read more

For one reason or another, over the past couple of months we seemed to have picked up quite a few new Angry Chef readers, so I thought that it might be time for a bit of housekeeping. I appreciate that, apart from a dedicated few who have been here since the early days, to most people the world of the Angry Chef might just seem a little bit impenetrable and weird. I started this blog earlier this year, born out of years of frustration at the nonsense and bullshit pseudoscience that pervades ..read more