Berry defends dislike of a deep-fat fryer

Mary Berry has defended her opposition to deep-fat fryers after Gregg Wallace, a judge on MasterChef, called her comments “an attack on our British way of life”.

Berry, 81, a judge on The Great British Bake Off, had told a magazine that “I don’t think any household should have a deep-fat fryer”.

She stuck by her comments on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, saying that deep-fat fryers are a fire risk as well as detrimental to health.

Wallace wrote in The Sun: “Our nation was built on chips and spam fritters ... I love Mary dearly but this is an attack on our British way of life.”