According to Daily Express - Showbiz, Tom Kerridge described James Martin as being very good at live cooking, holding a conversation, listening and cooking, adding that he is a really good cook as well. Kerridge made the comments during an appearance on a podcast hosted by comedian Red Richardson.
In 2014, James Martin criticized Tom Kerridge's method for making Yorkshire puddings. According to Daily Express - Showbiz, James Martin described how he heard Kerridge discussing Yorkshire puddings on the radio and became annoyed, leading him to call in and share his grandmother's recipe. Martin's grandmother's Yorkshire pudding recipe uses eight eggs, 8oz of flour and a pint of milk, and he recommends making the batter by hand rather than with a machine.
Everyone who does cooking on television has got their own different skill set for different reasons. Like James Martin is so good live and he's brilliant at that, holding a conversation, listening and cooking. He's a really good cook as well.
Chris Evans was on the radio going on and on about a Yorkshire pudding and how to make it. Funnily enough, he actually got two chefs who were from as far south of Yorkshire as you possibly can get, the great Tom Kerridge, who I know and love, but I was listening to it on the radio, and I was listening to Tom Kerridge going on and on about consommé and stuff with a Yorkshire pudding. I'm listening to this in the shower, getting more and more annoyed. Next minute you had Mark Sargeant on, who couldn't get any further south or his restaurant would be in the ocean, who runs a restaurant way down south going on about Yorkshire pudding. I went, 'Why haven't you got a guy on about Yorkshire pudding?' So I picked up the phone and ranted and raved that my grandmother makes the best Yorkshire pudding.