Nick Frost takes his own cutlery on vacation

During an appearance on the Dish by Waitrose podcast - hosted by Nick Grimshaw and Angela Hartnett - he said: "I mean, I try not to. But sometimes it's better to have one [a knife] and not use it than to need one and not have it.

"If when we're going to an Airbnb, I'll definitely bring my kit over 'cause it's always the worst thing about turning up at an Airbnb and discovering that the [plastic bread knife]."

As well as plastic cutlery, Nick also loathes glass chopping boards.

He said: "Or the other thing that makes me really cross are glass chopping boards. Like round glass chopping boards. It's just nuts. It feels nuts.

"Also, I think with a nice wood chopping board, it evolves over time too. It gets a little divot in it. It feels nice to touch."

Keen amateur chef Nick dec lared cooking can turn people into "slight" show-offs, and he thinks that may benefit him.

The How to Train Your Dragon star explained: "I think people expect actors to be big show-offs.

"I've never been that at all, I'm just the opposite ... but I feel like cooking sometimes is a way of showing off slightly.

"Maybe that's a release I need in terms of, that took eight hours to prep. And now I hope you really love it, you know?

"But it's a lot of effort to show you care, you know."

Nick worked in kitchens when he left school, but he did not become a professional chef because the job proved too tricky for him.

The Shaun of the Dead actor said: "I worked in kitchens when I left school. When I was like 19, 20, I started to work in kitchens and stuff.

"But it was really hard. I was still working in the kitchen until I was 28, 29, not knowing what I was going to do."

Nick did not find cooking for a living "fun", but he fell in love with it again when he could serve up dishes to his friends and family.

The star - who has a son called Mac with his wife Christina Frost - said: "When you do it for a living it becomes less fun.

"And then I started to be an actor, and then I didn't have to get in for 6am and leave at 1am anymore. I got to do it for my friends and family, and I just fell in love with it again.

"I can now give something back, and it's not like, having to cook food for horrible people, you know?"