Gordon Ramsay's cocaine investigation

Gordon Ramsay's new TV show is a pretty wide departure from his previous work.

After being surrounded by rampant cocaine use throughout his working life, the tipping point was when Gordon lost one of his young chefs to the drug after an overdose.

Now, Gordon has travelled to Colombia to find out just how and why the illicit substance has such a stranglehold on the entertainment and hospitality worlds.

"I saw cocaine quite early on in my career. I've been served it. I've been given it," Gordon said in his new show Gordon Ramsay on Cocaine.

"I've had my hand shaken and left with little wraps of foil in it. I've been asked to dust cocaine on top of soufflés, to put it on as icing sugar… coke's everywhere. It's spiralling out of control."

After trekking deep into the jungle, Gordon watched on as a cocaine worker embarks on the long, protracted task of taking leaves from the coca bush and turning them into white powder.

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Cement, sulphuric acid, petrol and battery acid are all all used in the complicated process of extracting the pure cocaine.

"I've cooked some serious s**t in my life but nothing quite on this level," the chef said. "I'm appalled at what goes into it."

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