40% of what I've done was a mistake. I now call it R&D.

Every kid in every school no matter their background, deserves to learn the basics about food - where it comes from, how to cook it and how it affects their bodies. These life skills are as important as reading and writing, but they've been lost over the past few generations. We need to bring them back and bring up our kids to be streetwise about food.

I left school with basically nothing, I was a special needs kid. I did feel as though my school had let me down.

It's just us trying to start a movement where everybody passes on a bit of cooking knowledge. We estimate that one person can potentially affect 180 others very quickly so we're just trying to spread the word.

God, why do I give interviews to 'the Guardian'? They always try to dissect you, and I don't really think about stuff in the way that you're asking me these questions.

The kitchen oven is reliable, but it's made us lazy.

Industry, economy, honesty and kindness form a quartet of virtue that will never be improved upon.