Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver has said he makes his children eat chillies when they are naughty because "it is not very popular beating kids any more".
The chef is reported to have told the BBC's Good Food Show over the weekend that he uses the unusual punishment involving Scotch Bonnet peppers, because old fashioned discipline couldn't be used any more.
He said: "I give them chillies for punishment.
"It is not very popular beating kids any more, it's not very fashionable and you are not allowed to do it if you are a celebrity chef like me, it does not look very good in the paper. So you need a few options."
The father-of four-went on to explain a situation with his daughter Poppy, 12, whom he fed an apple rubbed with the super-hot chilli often used in Caribbean cooking after she'd been rude to him.
He said: "Poppy was quite disrespectful and rude to me and she pushed her luck. In my day I would have got a bit of a telling-off but you are not allowed to do that.
"She ran up to mum and said, 'This is peppery'. I was in the corner laughing. [Jools] said to me, 'Don't you ever do that again.'"
Watch Jamie Oliver here with JacksGap twins Finn and Jack who took a chilli challenege on live TV.
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