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Final tonight :)

Who does everyone think will win?

Think it's between Shelina/Andrew. 60/40.

Don't think Tom has any chance, even if he does produce a knock out dish in the last round.

Shelina fo sho

Defo Shelina

Odds on Andrew crying?

Shelina has grown as the competition has gone on and John & Gregg will love this.

Andrew started out  with all the raw talent and potential but is still no further on from his stuff in the earlier rounds.

Tom was pretty lucky to get this far but was (along with Jay and Aki?) the best of a pretty poor bunch this year.

Gregg grinds my gears so bad

Don't care who wins. Probably Shelina

I want them to bring back some more of the original tests such as the skills test, palette test, etc. But mix it up a bit so each ep isn't the same as each other. I miss some of the truly terrible dishes that used to be presented that were laugh out loud funny.

I don't mind the 20 contestants and lower them to the winner format. But maybe a month worth of heats to get the 20.

Yeh the invention test was the nuts

Skills test is for the pro's series only I think. It's very formulaic but still absolute quality.

Wish they'd give it a rest with the 'sweet, sweet' nonsense. Earthy truffle, acidic lime, etc. Need more Roo Joo also. And Monica. She don't take no shiz off of no-one.

1/5 on

This year's Masterchef has been crap. As it was said earlier, best of a bad bunch.

Bear in mind I haven't seen Wednesday's episode yet - my money is on Shelina. Andrew is the most annoying person I have seen on these shows and Tom is good enough to work in a kitchen, but no Masterchef.

Anyone who watches Masterchef should really download Masterchef Australia - SO much better it's unreal.

Shelina is by far the best. In the bag

Tom shouldn't be in the final.

Andrew makes too many mistakes and looks like a clown

I find this one of the weirdest programmes on telly. Not the cooking competition part - that is what it is. It's the two weird presenters. There is a Harry Hill lookalike and a guy off a DIY programme who looks like he hasn't had a bath or washed his hair for a week and who sweats his way through the show, hardly surprising when he is wearing street clothes in a kitchen. I used to find it tolerable when Loyd Grossman did it, but now I just can't take it seriously.

15 minutes in and they finally start cooking, ridiculous.

This is not the X-Factor, fuck off with the biographies sob stories.

Masterchef is great, that looked a lot closer than I thought it would be.

Watched it for the first time in ages. I wouldn't have eaten any of that.

It was a given Shelina was going to win. I was however really impressed by Tom's first two dishes, his dessert was ok. What is it with people trying to put strawberries with meat, this is about the fourth time I have seen it tried and it has failed on every occassion. Anybody with any taste buds would know that strawberries and meat do not go together.

Yh it was 100% Shelina's to lose as long as she delivered 3 good plates she had it sewn up imo

and yh wtf strawberries dont go with pork ffs whats with people

love masterchef, gutted it's over

That Harry Hill lookalike is the star of the show imo. Was far too snobby when Grossman presented it, great t.v programme.

Its hard to get work these days, market is flooded with cheap imposters.

DOWNLOAD MASTERCHEF AUSTRALIA.

This will be the best thing you have done.

I watched Big Brother in Australia and that was pretty gruesome; much worse than the UK version.

Reverse Kangas were a major feature of that series. It is on YouTube but, if you don't know what they are, you are better off that way.

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWnfyRr4Hso
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Just found this. Since the boys started school in September I have found myself addicted to Australian Masterchef. It's on Sky 109 at 1pm and also at 7pm but I am always busy with the kids in the evening

Professional Masterchef is back on BBC2 now. Easily the best UK version :)

Booooom!

Just seen it's on tonight. Unmissable. One-way Uni Chal Facebook type-off with Nirvana followed by Frog and Roo IR. Doesn't get any better.

I fking luv Masterchef.


nothing better than nipping downstairs on a 5 min break, returning with a bowl of microwave foods (just blasted, not stirred half way through, served by upending ala no presentation, eaten with likely just a fork), sit down and whack on some Masterchef. Watch them try and better my meal.


I'm always dissapointed by how good the celebrity versions are, deffo not enough disasters for my liking.

 Ahrt

I have academically tested, occasionally remembering to stir halfway through makes me feel like a proper chef but sure does taste any different from the standard 'very hot'.

Go to 24.00 mins in and see what Thomas serves up to Monica, pretty wtf on a show like that   :D

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01nzb0v/MasterChef_The_Professionals_Series_5_Episode_5/

Carrot Cake in a Plant pot?

GTFO son.

Lolz, some sliced peaches on a bed of doggy chunder accomp'd by walnuts on turd. Monica was fumming!

Frog absolutely loves Anton.

yeah he seems like a plant to just be shit. Weird series so far.


Interesting storyville program been on iplayer at the moment following an English guy who was trying to make it in New York being a chef. Really interesting program. Food looks incred! So funny watching him say I want two Michelin stars, then be asked by the owner to change the menu to burger and chips!

Got a link mate?

lol, that has to be the worse looking dish I've ever seen on there

yeah sorry for poor forumming.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01nvw05/Storyville_20112012_The_Chef_Who_Conquered_New_York_Serving_Up_Paul_Liebrandt/

Interesting programme on BBC4 tonight, Michel Roux on Escoffier.

Wow pretty sure Rayner is going to take home the guy who did the Duck!



mmmmm Duck


edit is it just me who gets narked off when they don't serve the woman first ffs?

Yeah

Yesterday's bunch actually seemed decent compared to what we've had in previous weeks.

No doubt the Skills Test tonight will bring them crashing down again.

And yes, serve the woman first ffs. You are professionals. You should know this!

Chefs know fk all about serving people in a restaurant, it wouldn't even occur to them.

any decent chef knows this.



On a food related tangent, there are some awesome little clips called Munchies, by Vice guide, where they take a rated restaurant and go out for dinner/drinks with the owners and some friends to their own personal favourite places in the city where there restaurant is. Really interesting. Must be so sick to go out drinking, then come home and make amazing home made pizza  ;kev;

http://www.vice.com/munchies

Mate I come from a family that has a bunch of restaurants, when I was younger I worked in some of Londons top hotels, trust me if they have only ever worked in the kitchen and never front of house it wouldn't even occur to most of them. All they focus on is getting good food on the plate nothing else.

The souffle will fk them up tonight good 'n proper.

i agree, my mate was sous chef at a 2 * Michelin restaurant and trained in some of the best restaurants in the world and and would not know how to lay the cutlery out.

But he won his heat on junior Masterchef cooking pigeon

A good chef cares about the food from the source to the guest, so should most definitely know how it is served!

That being said, the 'ladies first' rule only applies to humans and NOT restaurant critics :)

Fairly easy to make, TBH. Depends on time constraints

I stand corrected  rotflmfao

;)   Not easy making anything when they're standing over you

ffs some of these people claim to be head chefs with years of experience. Quite clearly they can't use anything other than a microwave.

I know having Monica standing over you is quite daunting but 0/4 managed to make the souffle!

I especially laughed at the woman trying to make a souffle pancake.

Its easy you lot taking the piss, but I doubt any of them would have made a souffle like that before.

i'd love to see you bitches doing an invention test with Monica standing over you.


I absolutely rofled at Gregs noises as she was coating her example dish in chocolate, could be added to the masterchef 'ooooh matron' clips posted previously. Looked sooooo nice.

Apologies, my earlier post wasn't in blue. I have since corrected it.

From the preview tonight's skills test looks tricky. God knows what it was. I can understand being able to make a souffle should be considered standard but there is the odd thing they throw up where you can't help but think they're being difficult for the sake of it.

oh yeah totally, but I want to see failure and them struggling, not just top quality food. I want to feel better about the exquisite techniques I use not to burn myself as I upend the microwave safe plastic tub.

Sorry if I've quoted a non blue post.

take a look at Jamie Oliver's 15 minute meals mate. Not really ideal for mid grind but gotta be a decent idea for before or after a session.

She actually made a very easy mistake when under pressure.

Basically she got confused between a crepe souffle and a souffle omelette!

I could see myself doing that tbh, but I would have stopped well before she did to start again!

Sea fucking Urchins!!!!!

Here comes the car crash!

Absolutely hilarious. Tremendously difficult.

Didn't it just make your mouth water?

It's just getting stupid now with those sea urchins, pretty unfair if u ask me.

I agree, and Monica seemed to get quite angry when they got it wrong!!

I have worked in Catering for 26 years I I don't think I have met anyone with experience of preparing Urchin. Including quite a few chefs with over 40 years experience.

I actually thought the urchins were a good test. They would have obviously known they've not worked with them before but I can see how it works as a basic palette test (e.g. did they taste it to see what would go) and a test of instincts.

Monica did give credit to the ones who gave it a good effort.

tbh, she told them what it tasted like, and they should know that you throw away anything that resembles a mouth or bum, or is black within a shellfish.

With these tests I ask myself what I would have done, but with the Urchin I still have no idea. I'm pretty sure I wouldn't of tried to pass it and make a sauce out of it.

I want some oeuf!

Well, that was a weird one. 4 excellent dishes in the invention test yet being able to plan and make own food resulted in total collapse for 2 of them.

I loved the guy tonight that created a dish that looked like a small child's drawing and then said 'my work was misunderstood'

i like james ftw the wild guy from northumberland

Yeah, that was pretty funny. At that point I pictured him as a sulky 17 year old with straight black hair who cuts themselves.

It does feel like his to throw away at the moment. Though I imagine he might have to be careful not to push the foraging thing too far. Also Michel really seems to like Oli so that could work against him.

not read through thread, but monica seems like a real bitch to me with a huge chip on her shoulder. Just me?

yeh she's a hero. it's her job to pressure them and see who can take it. she put in the volume as it were early on to get in the position to be the biatch!

and she knows her stuff !  +it's edited for tv so can't all be taken as all that she's about

I read all these comments before I watched it today, and am currently 'at the presentation' of this plate. and then you see the techniques he's used to cook it and you're just like wat the actual fucking fuck. absolutely incredible. food looks potentially so nice, just don't serve it like that ffs come on really. rofl


edit also absolutely hate the half hour episodes :(

yes deffo better over an hour, at least I can pause it and get a bag full of grub halfway as watching it makes me hungry every time.

Tonight's munchies consisted of a cold mince pie on a bed of greek yoghurt with some blueberries carefully dishevelled in the bowl. Eat that Monica ;o)

lol

Glad I'm not working for the chef on tonight's show.  What a nightmare!

<3 Marcus Wareing


if there had been a different result in this episode (first semi) it would have been an absolute travesty.

massively looking forward to the next semi final as i've been to Midsummer house and the food is fecking awesome!!

also obv looking forward to where they are going to go in the final, didn't last year include the spanish Roca brothers who are just incredible?!

This should be a Monica skills test in the final.
From the out takes on the last Johnny English film.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aI2SCOIE-Co

omg! I called that! I had in my head that the speech was going to be "We've never done this before, and we're never going to do it again... you are both champions". Can't believe they actually did it though lol

who won i missed last 2 eps?

SPOILERS.... obviously....































Anton and Keri.

I could see the logic in this, as they've both been brilliant (as has Oli for one so young).

Sophie thought it was a cop out and whinged about it, a lot!

I thought it was a great decision, maybe a bit of a cop out but both were brilliant.  Felt for Oli when he used the fridge instead of the freezer but I'd still eat his food.   The winners were amazing.

yeh no idea how they could make a decision. still pretty bullshit tho.

This is by far, my favourite tv show atm. Felt for Oli when his parfait didn't set but one mistake was enough to set him apart from Anton and Keri. I thought Anton had nicked it but I think that both of them winning was the right outcome. Might pop down to Devon and eat in Anton's restaurant before his prices go up!!!

Hated Keri with a passion. Smug as a smug thing

Hated the joint winner cop out

Hated the hour long commerical for the Fat Duck on the BBC. After about ten minutes I got that it was fun, quirky, magnificent food.


Great programme though!

I'd always wondered until now why it or Heston had never been featured on any Masterchefs that I'd seen.  Thought it might be some sort of snobbery thing from the classically trained establishment, but that episode was fantastic viewing.

Heston's tv shows are more about him doing the publicity stunt side of things, but this was the first time I'd seen much about the actual restaurant itself.

I've added it to the bucket list, that's for sure!

The restaurant segments do start to feel a bit like they're an advertisement. That said I enjoyed the one set in the Fat Duck. I liked Tom Kerridge's pub too.

The result didn't feel like a cop out to me because I actually predicted it. I've never predicted a joint winner before as there's always been differences. But this time I just didn't see how they separated them. From the semis onwards they were both superb. In the chef's dinner round it was Oli who didn't quite deliver. Keri/Anton's food didn't attract a single criticism, and it was the same in the final. Short of tossing a coin I'm not sure what else they could do.

Loved this series so far. Weird thing is it's mostly not the kind of food I want to eat to be honest, I'm more of a simple food guy rather than some of the poncey shite they cook.

Anyway, a good watch nonetheless...

Two skills test per episode is quite a treat.

Joey looks a potential winner.

Talented for sure

Felt to me that as the critics between them didn't find a single fault in either dish that Monica and Marcus intentionally tried to play her down a little bit so as to make it not too obvious she was gonna win it. They obviously don't know at that point but will be surprised if they don't think she can.

have been watching this a fair amount, my dad loves it. Joey has been good, simple but very effective. wonder if she will have to open the imagination a bit at the next stage?

how do u think the critics part works? if its one after another, luck of going first must be huge. first guy could produce a rich desert that is great first up, but 4th down the line might be too much and they might not like it etc? maybe the do it at 2 hr intevals?
good show nonetheless

You say that, but you there are a few people that are working at Michelin star places. Marcus and Monica (via Michel Roux) will know a lot of their bosses, it's a small world the high end restaurant business. So I bet they have had the heads up on a fair few people that have been put forward by their bosses.

Demoted to BBC2? Paying the price for being so formulaic?

The Professionals has always been on BBC2

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/reviews/masterchef-the-professionals-tv-review-this-show-isn-t-all-about-food-porn-unfortunately-9854866.html

Or maybe not!

Bad day at the office for her.A real pity , would have liked to see more of her skills.

I want to eat that tart.



Reading that back......  ;whistle; rotflmfao

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