Tom Kerridge has hiked the cost of his cook-at-home festive dinner…and you have to do it in the garden on a £2,000 BBQ.
The TV cook is charging £280 for his Christmas Box which is £65 more than last Yuletide.
But the recipe is designed to be done on a luxury barbecue in chilly wintery back gardens.
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What’s more, the posh Big Green Egg BBQs he has teamed up with cost up to £1,950 to buy.
Extras like charcoal for it cost up to £58 a bag and a thermometer to check if the meat is cooked is £39.
On the plus side the Christmas box – which can be delivered to customers on December 21 – DOES contain turkey unlike last year.
It also includes a rib of beef too.
The box is aimed to cater for 15 people as opposed to just four in 2023.
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However, there are no potatoes, vegetables or dessert in the box.
Kerridge, 51 – who has appeared on TV shows like Masterchef and Saturday Kitchen – was slammed by some hard-up Brits.
Nathan Kenny sarcastically said: “So pleased they’ve dropped the interest rates.
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“Else I’d never be able to afford this.”
Another said: “Ark at thee.”
Yet Jemma Webster said: “Such a great idea.”
Kerridge has two Michelin stars and runs eight restaurants including the Hand of Flowers and The Coach both in upmarket Marlow, Buckinghamshire.
He has teamed up with butcher HG Walter to supply the beef.
The description for the box reads: “It’s a dream Christmas combination.
“Tom Kerridge, the superstar chef of Britain’s only pub with two Michelin stars, provides the exclusive recipes. HG Walter, the country’s best butcher, provides the meat. The Big Green Egg provides the heat and smoke.
“The Tom Kerridge Christmas Box contains all the ingredients and online instructions you need to recreate two simple but spectacular Christmas centrepieces on your Egg:
“Tom’s marmalade-glazed free-range Bronze turkey with spiced rye bread sauce, and his pastrami-rubbed, dry-aged rib of beef with mustard and horseradish mayo.
“The meat, sourced by HG Walter from small-scale British and Irish farmers, is of the quality demanded by a multi-star chef, and the glaze, rubs and sauces all meet the same uncompromising standards.
“Cooking the whole box at once? Serves 15, with leftovers. £18 per head.
“Want to spread the experience out? Both Turkey and Beef will be good to cook after Boxing Day.
“Includes free Delivery and online guides. The box will be delivered on the 21st of December.”
The cheapest of the recommended barbecues is the Minimax Big Green Egg priced at £820.
The Large Big Green Egg is £1,415 and the XL Big Green Egg is £1,950.
The price per head is £18.66 for the box but hard-up Brits would be forced to pay hundreds of pounds to buy the kit.
Last year, they slammed Kerridge’s cost-of-living-crisis busting festive box.
One joked it was the same price as a “medium sized car.”
His Christmas cook-at-home meal was also slammed in 2002.
In May, Kerridge hiked the price of his posh fish finger sandwich at his Harrods restaurant, from £18 to £27, as reported by What’s The Jam.
In October last year, Kerridge sparked fury by charging £37 for fish and chips at the same posh eatery.
