Are We Going Ahead With Robin's Can't Cook Kitchen!?

Are We Going Ahead With Robin's Can't Cook Kitchen!?

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Robin Terrill Kip on Brisbane's Kiss ninety seven to three. Now,
the plan was for us to have a long lunch
on Thursday at the Normanby Hotel, with Robin in the
kitchen doing all the chef work. By the end of the.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
Show on Friday, I'd changed the intro to this. You
could have your coocies home, you can wear your louie
a town, but I better put the oven nine.

Speaker 1 (00:28):
No, I know you won't cook. Won't cook, So it
seemed like maybe we'll be calling off for lunch. Well
I had a melt down, That's what happened. Actually, on Friday,
I was talking to the wonderful Matt Preston, who is
a friend and has been in my own kitchen where
I've melted down previously because I have avoid cooking my
whole adult life. And it's very intriguing to me that

(00:51):
it feels so vulnerable and so terrifying. And so today
you said, come back into the studio and tell us
what you want to do. But across the weekend, my
girlfriends and I got together down the coast for a
friend's fiftieth And when I have those big emotional explodes,
I want to understand what's actually going on for me.
And it was interesting because we had Karen call earlier

(01:13):
in the show and she said this, do.

Speaker 2 (01:16):
You think that's part of it? Karen, I don't want
to put words in Robin's mouth, but that cooking is
something that's been expected of you as a mum, and
you say you feel like a yeah, we're expected to
do everything and cooking is a big part of it.
It is, you know, on us to make sure the
kids grow up with everything, including good contrution.

Speaker 1 (01:33):
So it's interesting she said that because when I sat
down with Nicki and NeSSI and just tried to work
shop what the hell was going on in my head?
This is what they came up with. Have you been
workshopping my cooking? Yeah, driven down to the Gold Coast
and you're worried about it? What do you think?

Speaker 2 (01:50):
Yes, because I was thinking if you said we're doing kakoda,
I would have had a similar reaction, probably worse. And
whomen I love it. Yeah, you'd be jumping bouncing off
the walls, going, oh, it's so exciting. But and when
we've done our exercise little journeys, you said to me,
what was I afraid of? And I said death, and
I just want to say to you that you will

(02:10):
not die in cooking steak. But what if I kill people?
When I kill people, no one's going to die and
you can do it. What are you afraid of cooking?

Speaker 1 (02:19):
I'm afraid that I'm a bad mother because I can't cook. Ye.

Speaker 2 (02:23):
You can do a lot of other shit like ships.

Speaker 1 (02:26):
Okay, so okay, so standing in front of some cork
stadium and talking to one hundred thousand people does not
help my mother.

Speaker 2 (02:32):
But I can't do that. It's what do you want
to cook for anyway? It's really boring. I'd rather be
able to do what you do.

Speaker 1 (02:40):
No, you wouldn't. I think you slush out a meal
for four hundred people.

Speaker 2 (02:44):
Your kids have come to terms with that. You know.
An amazing cook doesn't mean you don't provide food. There's
food there. You facilitate someone else preparing it, meet it.

Speaker 1 (02:58):
It's good.

Speaker 2 (02:59):
I just think you're a great mum and you shouldn't
change yourself on whether you can cook or not.

Speaker 1 (03:03):
You can do a lot of other things. I can cook.
You know, there's a lot of people that can cook
that can't talk to their sons. Mash and you can
do those things, So hang your hat on that.

Speaker 2 (03:13):
We're not crying over stoke, and.

Speaker 1 (03:16):
We've cried over far worse. So the good news is
that I don't think i'll have another meltdown. I think
I've actually done it now. I think I've exposed my
underbelly and gone, this is terrifying and everyone's seen it.
So the way that I want to move forward is
that I don't really understand what's involved in an industrial kitchen,

(03:38):
so I actually want to go and have a look. Yeah,
it's a rockstar place, the stage with all the cooking
shows that come on now, which seems rockster. I find
it a thrilling environment, but also equally to you, a
frightening environment.

Speaker 2 (03:50):
Yeah, there's so much that needs to come be.

Speaker 1 (03:52):
Again, I'm guessing with the menu that you've presented, there's
going to have to be stations and there are going
to have to be people doing things, aren't they Like,
it's not just me in a kitchen trying to work
out how to work the pizza. No, No, And there's
because there's so much coming out at once, you're definitely
going to need help, and so whether you want that

(04:13):
and who you want those to be is down to you,
and we should go and have a look.

Speaker 2 (04:17):
Let's we should go to the normal have a look.

Speaker 1 (04:18):
So what I was going to say is yes, I'm
going to do it, and not because not because of
any other reason that for me personally, I won't ever
shy away from a challenge. And if something causes that
big an emotional reaction, it's something I've got a face. Man,
I don't want this for the rest of my life.
I didn't anticipate that this is where we would end up.
But I will give it, but I'll give it a crack.

(04:42):
But I also think too that you guys have to
be willing or not your test because you've got to
entertain people and be the matre d e. But you
you know, keep like it just if it goes pear
shapes like I do. Want to actually deliver food like
I do. Want to have an end result so people
feel like they've had a good experience. Food is going
to come out, and you know what, but it also
doesn't matter if it doesn't, you know what I mean,

(05:03):
It's gonna be a good experience. We're gonna have fun.
It's really okay to fail in this. So if people
see a whole pile of pizzas that aren't necessarily my gleader.

Speaker 2 (05:14):
One.

Speaker 1 (05:14):
Yes, they might look for the domino box. If we
have to have dominoes, we'll have dominoes. I want the
magic moment where someone has a first bite Roberts Cook
and says, oh, you shouldn't have pushed her, But we're
going ahead.

Speaker 2 (05:27):
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