Brooklyn Beckham responds to backlash over potato cooking method in latest video

Brooklyn Beckham has once again found himself at the centre of a very serious internet debate.

This time, it’s about potatoes, after all, we know how seriously people take their spuds.

The 27-year-old has divided fans after sharing a video featuring his, er, unconventional method of making cottage pie.

Viewers were equal parts fascinated and horrified by his approach to the mashed potato part.

You might think that mash is one of the easiest things to make, and wonder how that could possibly offend people.

Rather than peeling his potatoes before boiling them, Beckham instead cooked them with their skins on…. before peeling the softened spuds afterwards.

To some, this was perfectly reasonable.

To others, it was apparently a culinary crime of such magnitude that the internet briefly needed to lie down.

Comments questioned why he had not peeled the potatoes first, while others defended the method, arguing that peeling cooked potatoes can actually be easier.

The cottage pie itself also came under scrutiny after viewers noticed the mash sinking into the meat layer, with some suggesting the beef needed more time to cool first.

"Why don’t you peel the spuds first?” asked one viewer.

“Why would not peel the potatoes before?” quizzed someone else.

A third added: “It looks nice and he obviously loves cooking… weirdest way to do potatoes though…? Like if they’re going to to be mashed up anyway.”

Not every disagreed though, and admitted they do the same: "Because it’s easier and less time consuming the way he did it."

"Why is everyone so mean to him? He’s just cooking because he loves it, not to please the world. If you don't like it, just leave," insisted another.

Beckham, however, appeared remarkably unphased by the potato police.

Responding to the comments, he wrote: “I'm obviously not a professional chef haha x just love cooking and eating xx love all the lovely comments”.

He added another: "Also if anyone has noticed I LOVE making easy comfort food xx my favourite."

Beckham has never exactly claimed to be the next Gordon Ramsay.

His cooking videos are usually a celebration of something he enjoys, rather than evidence that he has secretly been running a Michelin-starred kitchen.

This isn’t the first time he’s upset foodie fans, when in 2023 viewers questioned whether his Sunday roast beef looked too rare.

Who doesn’t love rare beef? Many of Beckham’s commenters, it seems.

He also received a backlash for sharing a fried chicken recipe that reportedly involved a whole $25 bottle of avocado oil.

A spaghetti-style recipe sparked an argument over his choice of pasta, while another video involving seawater as ‘pasta water’ infuriated people.

At this point, Beckham could probably boil an egg and somebody would demand a parliamentary inquiry.

He clearly enjoys cooking, continues to experiment and seems happy to learn in public, even when the comments section behaves as though he has personally offended every Italian grandmother and British Sunday roast enthusiast simultaneously.

Most home cooks have made questionable decisions in the kitchen. We have all burnt something, misunderstood a recipe, or confidently done something only to discover that everyone else apparently does it completely differently.

Brooklyn just happens to have millions of people watching.

After all, there are far worse things to be controversial about than a potato.