2023-06-15 14:12:13
Wednesday, June 14, 2023
The kitchen is one of the ingredients that neither lacks nor fails in the menu of a television grill. Years go by but it is always a fixed content, at one time or another, on television channels, with spaces for recipes, demonstrations of culinary preparations or restaurant recommendations. But among all of them The star that shines the brightest on television is that of Karlos Arguiñano that after three decades before the cameras continues to reap audience successes.
This Tuesday, June 13, the chef from Gipuzkoa managed to break the audience record for his current program on Antena 3 TV, dubbed ‘Open Kitchen’ since 2019. Arguiñano’s program managed to be the leader of the morning slot with a share of 21 ,3%, its best historical mark by bringing together that percentage of viewers, which in gross numbers totaled 1,1410,000 viewers on average and 1,600,000 unique viewers. The comparison is overwhelming due to the difference of 7.9 points over its immediate competitor, as published by the chain itself. Another piece of information that measures this success is that on the same day Masterchef achieved a 14% share and 1,381,000 followers.
“These are data from another era,” say specialists in television audiences. But beyond this mark, the fidelity of the followers of Karlos Arguiñano’s recipes number in the hundreds of thousands every day who closely follow his recipes, his tricks and his traditional jokes, which always surprise.
Argiñano celebrates 34 years on television
At 74 years old, Karlos Arguiñano continues in top form and keeps his daily appointment with viewers always displaying his good humor and his ability to communicate the recipes. It has been like this almost uninterruptedly since its television beginnings in 1989 on Euskal Telebista. In these more than thirty years he has managed to be one of the most beloved television characters in Spain and Latin America, as evidenced by the fact that almost every day dozens of tourists arrive at his restaurant in Zarautz wanting to meet him to say hello.
“We are what we eat, life is like that, what we have we have to know how to choose… Juan Palomo already said it, I cook it, I eat it…”, with this sung phrase the chef began this program of record before explaining the two recipes of the day: zucchini stuffed with prawns and as a main course «a liver with onions, one of those that is a pleasure to have on the table to lick our fingers; two 10” recipes.
As usual with him, Karlos Arguiñano also took advantage of this installment of ‘Comida abierta’ the pauses between explanations to give tricks like the one he used to cut zucchini “very finely”. So he showed a mandolin “very useful to have at home as it allows for carrots, potatoes,…”. Also in this program he left some of his famous phrases such as “this is a show, how is healthy food, real healthy food”.
The anecdote of 13
Another ingredient that was not lacking in this very special program was that of the personal anecdotes that he tells his followers every day (The day before he remembered when Arguiñano was a waiter). In this case, he made reference to Tuesday and the 13th: «Notice that I have never been afraid of this day, they say that on Tuesday neither get married nor embark, but I would not care if I married the same person, it was not going to change. .. they will also give me some prize because I am going to be married for 52 years…, well, more to her (laughs) ».
Although the most curious anecdote was that the Karlos Arguiñano restaurant in Zarautz. «We opened it on Tuesday the 13th with 13 tables; The street was then called Alfonso XIII and the place was at number 13… also, the telephone number was 13 00 00, so don’t be afraid of 13, he scared me (more laughter)». Genius and figure.
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