Chef adds gas safety to recipes

The Register teamed up with chef Miguel Barclay to create a set of recipes designed to save money and energy – and keep families gas safe.

The imaginative and topical approach to gas safety reached millions of consumers when it caught the interest of Steph’s Packed Lunch on Channel 4, featured over two pages in the Daily Star newspaper, and aired on BBC Radio 4’s You and Yours programme.

The Gas Safe Eats menu has the potential to feed a family of four for less than £1 per dish, and is designed to be cooked on a gas hob in a fuel-efficient way.

Each stage of each recipe co-created with Miguel, the original £1 chef, includes expert tips from Gas Safe Register on how people can check that their kitchen is gas safe, along with energy-saving tips and advice from price comparison site Uswitch on reducing energy consumption when cooking.

The meals showcase delicious and flavoursome charred courgette ribbons with chilli and feta, spicy chorizo and fennel seed pasta, and chocolate pots.

You can read and download the menus at: www.GasSafeRegister.co.uk/ winter/gas-safe-eats/ new short film that invites people to refresh their knowledge – a tongue-in-cheek take on the Daz Doorstep Challenge TV ads from the 90s and 00s – highlighting the signs and symptoms that homeowners should be clued up on, and on the lookout for, in their homes.

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Bob Kerr says: “There’s a misguided confidence among the UK public: what they think they know and how that plays out in their homes is very different. We’re all feeling pressure on our finances at the moment but taking our Gas Safety Challenge is a fast, fun and free way to brush up on what you know and to check there are no dangers hiding in plain sight.”