Even Kylie gets cooking tips from Adam Liaw

His TV fame and culinary skills are currently hotter than hot. As the nation’s newest Reality TV graduate Adam Liaw is  being interrogated in media interviews across the land. He’s been asked all sorts of curious questions.

“I got a question from Kylie Minogue asking me what was the perfect way to make Vegemite on toast,” Liaw tells TV Tonight. But despite being a Minogue fan, the MasterChef champ didn’t get to meet her in person.

“It was a radio interview, so I was on the phone,” he admits.

Since winning the reality show on Sunday night, Liaw has faced a gruelling workload, but while he is on such a high he doesn’t have trouble remaining upbeat.

“It is relentless but luckily the last couple of days have been the best couple of days of my life. So it’s not hard,” he says.

“99% of the interviews and questions have all been really positive. Some people try and get a scoop or try and create drama where there isn’t any. But thankfully Callum and I haven’t really been exposed to too much of that.”

And the most common questions?

“‘How are you feeling?’ ‘What did you mean by never having first place and always second place’… that kind of thing.

“There’s not too much personal stuff. Just a lot of plans-for-the-future type questions. But it’s hard to answer when you’re not 100% sure yourself.”

On the media merry-go-round, he isn’t sure when he will get some time to himself.

“Everytime I think it’s coming, another schedule gets put into my hand.

“I’m thinking September!

“But after this immediate round of publicity I get to concentrate on what it is I want to do for the next little while. I think that will be really important to me rather than just get pushed and pulled, and decide what I want to do and focus on that.”

After filming the cooking sequences for the finale two weeks earlier, it was a nervous wait to learn who had won.

“I had a good feeling with the lead and everything, but I think one of the only things I really did wrong that day was cracking the twills at the very end of that dessert. That was pretty much the last cooking that we did,” he says.

“So when you’ve done a lot of good things over the course of that episode and then the last thing that you do is not so great, that’s the last thing that was playing over in my mind again and again.”

Liaw also acknowledges that despite emerging as series winner, he was barely visible for much of the first half, with very little camera time.

“It’s as much my fault as anyone else’s. I don’t think I was cooking as well as I was at the end. When I started cooking good food, that’s the food that makes it to air. “