Perfectly pan-fried starters, mouth-watering mains, and gloriously sumptuous deserts, our TV screens are dominated by a vast menu of cookery shows and segments and we can’t enough of them. However, when things don’t go according to plan, they can leave a bad taste in your mouth.

This 3-hour special narrated by Ainsley Harriott features the less-than-perfect moments from some of the nation’s best-loved cookery TV shows including Masterchef, Saturday Kitchen, Sunday Brunch and Come Dine With Me. There are disastrous moments from TV cookery’s biggest stars past and present including Jamie Oliver, Gordon Ramsay, James Martin and veteran TV chef Julia Child.