Unrested steak with garlic, mushroom and rosemary slop.
This annoys me too. He cut the meat too early, so it will be cool in the middle and the flavour escapes onto his cutting board, he burned the garlic (so it was bitter), his mushrooms were added at the worst possible time (so they would be rubbery and bland). He seemed quite alert and active too, which is alarming.
I think nick has a new cognitive impairment, from huffing nitrousoxide, or starving himself or some stress induced disorder. I can't give a timestamp or quote, but something about him is "off", like during that cooking video I had alarm-bells going off in my head, I had to pause and think why am I skeeved out, then it hit me: when I did home help for people with dementia and early onset alzheimers, something about the way Nick Rekieta held a utensil reminded me of someone who was 95/100, but the next week they would be 80/100, a year later they would be in a wheelchair and need assistance using the toilet.
I think the Nick Rekieta of the time of Trump's election would be mortified, meeting the modern Nick Rekieta. I don't think today's Nick Rekieta can read a book or remember a phone number or plan beyond 14 days. I think Nick Rekieta's family are quietly making plans for him, finding a good divorce lawyer, investing extra time with his younger children. Finding a little apartment to house him, when the media circus dies down, for him to drink himself to death in.