First to bid for the culinary crown in Nottingham is busy Karen Cullen. Things go from bad to worse in the kitchen when the pastry for her asparagus and cheese tart falls flat and she has to fish an insect out of her homemade ice cream. Can she rescue things with her main course of stuffed lamb? Judging her efforts are 49-year-old retired hairdresser-turned-food critic Gordon Todd, cocky Aussie sales rep Jarrod Pepper, trolley dolly Sam Hughes and psychic medium Jenny Cross