Simon Rimmer's vlogs (From Bournemouth Echo)

Simon Rimmer's vlogs

10:00am Tuesday 2nd March 2010 in

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FIRST there were websites, then blogs and now there are vlogs – or video logs to the unitiated. Amateur chefs with a passion for food and showmanship are getting busy in the kitchen in front of wobbly tripods, in order to demonstrate their culinary skills to the world.

Simon Rimmer, chef on BBC Two’s Something For The Weekend and owner of two restaurants, believes everyone’s going to be at it soon.

The innovative young chef has become involved with a new website called eatthechef.com. It’s a community site where anyone can upload their vlogs, and Simon hopes to create a database of free videos created by the users themselves.

“The content is going to be all user-generated,” he explains enthusiastically.

“We could add more videos from professional chefs to make it grow more quickly, but that’s not the point.”

Launched last November eatthechef.com is steadily growing. And while its progress isn’t quite as fast as Simon had hoped, he knows that word-of-web is very powerful.

“I’m looking forward to the point when someone uploads a raspberry cupcake recipe and people say what a fantastic recipe and then the next thing they upload, that gets used as well.”

One of Simon’s favourite videos so far is a guy making a simple chilli dish.

“I really like him. The recipe is straight forward, but you watch him and you think, ‘Wow, he really believes in this!’”

When he’s not filming vlogs for the website, coming up with recipes for Something For The Weekend or running his restaurants, Simon somehow finds time to see his family.

“I have two restaurants, two kids and one wife,” he says frankly. “And I try and give a little bit of everything to all of them, but I’d hate to be married to me.”

Try out some of Simon’s recipes from his book, The Accidental Vegetarian, see link below...