She once admitted that she can’t even make toast, but since filming Hell’s Kitchen Australia Sam Frost can do one better.
“I cooked [boyfriend Dave Bashford] a chicken parmigiana for breakfast the other day and I think he was pretty pumped with that,” she says proudly of her odd brekky concoction.
“There’s some skills [involved], a bit of ham and cheese.”
Thankfully, Dave usually takes on most of the kitchen duties, with Sam telling TV WEEK that her man is “actually a pretty good cook, so he does the cooking and I do the cleaning which works well.”
The 28-year-old has been open about her culinary failures, so it seems strange that Sam would put herself through Hell’s Kitchen Australia, where celebrities’ cooking skills are put to the test under the sharp eye of notoriously prickly celebrity chef Marco Pierre White.
“I thought it would be a lot of fun,” the former Bachelorette says of her decision to sign up. “And I’ve heard that most of the other guys signing on for it don’t have the best cooking skills, so I wasn’t going to be alone!”
It turns out Sam was right, and did find someone to share kitchen horror stories with – The Chase’s Issa Schultz, 33.
“Issa and I are possibly the worst cooks – I think he’ll agree with me on that,” she laughs.
But Sam has no regrets about taking part on the show, even though she admits it gets “pretty intense…and I definitely cry, I’m not going to lie.”
The star, who recently signed on to join the cast of iconic Aussie soap Home and Away, confesses that she “[gets] a kick out of challenging myself and I never want to stop challenging myself.”
And she reckons her time in Chef Marco’s kitchen actually helped her culinary skills. “My friends would disagree with me, but I think I’ve improved.”
“I’m just more confident in the kitchen now. Like, I used to find them so terrifying…I didn’t even know how to cut up ingredients for a salad. So now I have basic skills – at least I can cut things and feel a bit more comfortable doing that.”
“Or I might marinate something, like put some salt and pepper and soy sauce on something and I’m like, ‘Mate, I’ve nailed this’ and everybody else is going, ‘Mate, I was doing that in primary school!’”
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