Speaking at the BBC Good Food Show, Jamie Oliver 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 and if you are a celebrity chef like me it does not look very good in the paper. So you need a few options."

PREGNANT WOMAN ASKS FACEBOOK FOR HELP: 'COULD THIS BE MY HORSE'S BABY?'

He said he once tricked his 12-year-old daughter into eating Scotch Bonnet, a fiery chilli with a heat rating of 100,000-350,000 on the Scoville scale – much to the annoyance of his wife, Jools.

Jamie added: "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."

CONFUSED MAN SHARES 'VIRGIN' BRIDE-TO-BE'S POSITIVE PREGNANCY TEST ONLINE

"Five minutes later she thought I had forgotten and I hadn’t. She asked for an apple. I cut it up into several pieces and rubbed it with Scotch Bonnet and it worked a treat.

|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.’"

To give you some idea as to why Jools was so annoyed, here's a clip of a fully grown adult braving a Scotch Bonnet Chilli.

COULD THIS BE THE MOST INAPPROPRIATELY HILARIOUS DRAWING A CHILD HAS EVER DONE?

Yikes.

Do you approve of Jamie's discipline techniques? Let us know via the comments box below now.