Join Gareth and Gary for another episode of Dishing It Out as they welcome consumer champion and former Celebrity MasterChef contestant, Conor Pope.

Conor shares how a four-week sausage review slot in the Irish Times turned into a full-blown career helping readers with everything from phone bills to life-changing insurance battles.

Food-wise, the lads dig into Conor’s MasterChef experience, including the terror and triumph of recreating a 60+ step trifle and how it changed the way he looks at restaurant plates. He also shares the nostalgia of when pasta finally arrived in the Pope household after years of being in awe of footballers' spaghetti bolognese dinners.

From a consumer perspective they analyse how rising food prices are really hitting households – plus why waste, cheap chicken and better buying habits matter more than ever.

In this week’s Nespresso Dish of the Week, Gareth bakes a classic coffee cake with coffee cream, sharing a brilliantly simple weighing-scale trick to get perfectly even sponge layers.

Then it’s over to your Culinary Conundrums, where the lads answer a listener’s question on how they design new restaurant menus and Gary fills us in the new Barton Grill at The K Club.

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