Professional MasterChef

[randomlegend]

Anyone else watch it? Some cracking chefs on there this year IMO. The 23-year old lad who looked exactly the same on that photo of him when he was 14 is who I've got my money on.

Moar freds.

[Giggles]

Yep.

[-james-]

I always watch less of it than I intend. Probably because the presenters are always berks.

How many episodes in is it?

[Ian]

I liked William and then Luke and both are gone. My favourite remaining is probably Matthew so he'll go at the next opportunity.

Sean can sod off.

[Ian]

I always watch less of it than I intend. Probably because the presenters are always berks.

How many episodes in is it?

4 left I think.

The presenters on pro Masterchef are better than normal. Gregg Wallace is still a fanny but I quite like Waring and Galletti.

[randomlegend]

I always watch less of it than I intend. Probably because the presenters are always berks.

How many episodes in is it?

Greg's a bellend, but Monica and Marcus Wareing are ace.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I still prefer Michel Roux though.

When Marcus goes I hope they can bring in Paul Ainsworth, he'd be superb in the role.

[randomlegend]

Marco Pierre-White would be fun for a season, after which he'd be in prison for setting Greg Wallace on fire. He's legitimately a psychopath.

[Giggles]

Marco Pierre-White would be fun for a season, after which he'd be in prison for setting Greg Wallace on fire. He's legitimately a psychopath.

He's been a judge on a show here for a few years now and he's not really

[randomlegend]

Someone who'd ACTUALLY be great is Nathan Outlaw.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

All his technicals would be fish related and he'd just wank himself silly every time someone cooked a piece of fish perfectly.

[Ian]

Ainsley Harriott and Anthony Worrall-Thompson. Let Ready, Steady, Cook ride again.

[randomlegend]

All his technicals would be fish related and he'd just wank himself silly every time someone cooked a piece of fish perfectly.

And?

[Jimmy Floyd]

I can't be doing with Marcus Wasteman and his Plantagenet beard. Great show nonetheless.

On a vague tangent I found out last night that Michel Roux Jr and Shane MacGowan were born in the same small town, 2.5 years apart. Blew my mind.

[randomlegend]

I can't be doing with Marcus Wasteman and his Plantagenet beard. Great show nonetheless.

He's a good lad. His book (New Classics) is belting too.

[Pleb]

Anyone watch the US/Aussie amateurs versions on W?

[Giggles]

Wareing is a cock.

[niko_cee]

Is the John Stones clone still going strong?

Seemed a bit of a posh boy bias in it this year. Childhood holidays in the Seychelles, when I said I wanted to be a chef my mum took me to the local Michelin star restaurant . . .

[Manc]

Top show. Smart money is on Dean.

[randomlegend]

Wareing is a cock.

*cook

[Giggles]

*cook

We're both right.

[Ian]

Is the John Stones clone still going strong?

Seemed a bit of a posh boy bias in it this year. Childhood holidays in the Seychelles, when I said I wanted to be a chef my mum took me to the local Michelin star restaurant . . .

He's the kitchen equivalent of this, I reckon:
https://www.thedailymash.co.uk/sport/sport-headlines/stephen-hendry-to-go-outside-2014043086144

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Lawrence deserved that.

[Ian]

Ollie really grew on me, mad swivel-eyed nutter that he is, but the right man won.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Lawrence really picked it up from the start of the semi-final.

Seemed to always be right at the top.

I'm more glad that the Scot didn't win, I didn't like him at all. He's got a banging fiance though so fair play to him.

[randomlegend]

I thought Matthew was unlucky to go out. Dean fucked his dish for the chef's table but nobody went home directly after that so he got off scott-free since it didn't seem to be taken into account at all later on. That was Matthew's first weak dish that he got sent home off.

Lawrence deserved to win anyway though.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I swear nothing in the chef's kitchens or critic tables etc ever gets taken into account, they are just there to mix the backdrops up a bit.

Not sure if they even film it in the right order.

[Manc]

Lawrence annoyingly brilliant. Top competition this year.

[Ian]

+1 for stuff seeming to be ignore or at least weirdly weighted. They never talk about it much when they're having they're judge chats.

[wullie]

Did the Scottish guy have a wig on or something? Something about him didn't look human.

[Jimmy Floyd]

The judge chats themselves are weird as hell, do we know for sure that all three judges are in the same room?

[Ian]

They usually have one shot of them together but you're right, they do looking a conversation that's been spliced together.

[Giggles]

I hate these bullshit MasterChef episodes. Just let them cook in the studio.

[Ian]

I quite like them for something different although some of the tasks you feel get totally ignored in terms of judging anyway.

[randomlegend]

Errr, this is the PROFESSIONAL Masterchef thread.

[Pleb]

I binged watched season 9 of the USA version recently.

LOLs were made.

[Ian]

Errr, this is the PROFESSIONAL Masterchef thread.

Nobody cares.

[Baz]

Some bloke called Eddie Dean from St. Helens, who was about to move to Marbella, applied for Masterchef but didn’t get on. So he decided to open a restaurant (“Wine bar.” In St. Helens? loluwot) so he could go on professional masterchef instead. :cab:

I’d rather live in Marbella.

[randomlegend]

Nobody cares.

This will be taken to the highest authority.

[Ian]

Well I was voted second best therefore I am the second most important so unless Jimmy takes your side you're shit out of luck, mate.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Just threaten the prick with a ladle.

[Pleb]

When's the next season of Professional MasterChef then? :sherlock:

[randomlegend]

Well I was voted second best therefore I am the second most important so unless Jimmy takes your side you're shit out of luck, mate.

Authority? You're not even a mod you jumped-up little beer-swilling bore machine.

[Ian]

The adulation of my peers is all the power I need.

[Pepe]

Man of the people. :cool:

[Ian]

Should rename this "The People's MasterChef Thread."

[Pleb]

:D

Do it.

[Giggles]

For a show I used to regularly watch and enjoy, the Great British Menu is gone into some load of fucking bollocks.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I'm not liking the new kitchen, the theme or the change in time slots.

I loved the daily menu progression.

[niko_cee]

That woman just saying "that's not my jam" did it for me.

No thanks.

[Giggles]

I'm not liking the new kitchen, the theme or the change in time slots.

I loved the daily menu progression.

Not sure when it became more about THE BRIEF than the food, but the biggest shitter is how they're so overboard now on the awkward looks and silences. There's about 50 an episode.

[Adamski]

It’s been balls for a couple of years. Possibly the first Tommy Banks one was the last good one.

[Giggles]

"Look, I've made fuck all but it's in a tin box with a letter written in dried seaweed attached."

[niko_cee]

The judge guy was the best bit of the last few. Stop blowing smoke up your arses and saying you'd give yourself 10s, you're all shit.

:D

Then telling that fat one his pie was sub shop-bought standard tonight was quite funny.

Glad the mad guy did well, but they majorly botched the drama of the ending in not putting him and his most obvious mega 10 of all time through first. What sort of name is Kray though?

[Shindig]

Figurative jam or literal jam? Is it best left a mystery?

[randomlegend]

Just finished the most recent series of this and it was really brilliant. Such a great bunch of contestants. Gaston and George should have their own cooking show together.

Dan :cool:

One of the most enjoyable things I've watched for ages.

[Clunge]

Best series for years. Gaston falling at the final hurdle was a travesty. Loved the Marcus-Dan love-in, he really helped him believe in himself.

[niko_cee]

Yeah, little Dan was great, although I thought the other guy was going to win in the final.

[randomlegend]

Yeah, little Dan was great, although I thought the other guy was going to win in the final.

Bet he did as well after the comments he got.

I think Dan deserved it for donning pretty much every round through the whole competition, whilst George had a few wobbles. Admittedly it never seems like they usually take anything but the final into account when deciding the winner (see the biggest travesty in MasterChef history when Adam Handling didn't win for your evidence).

Speaking of which, the other day I rewatched the segment in the Adam Handling series when they went to Osteria Francescana and he clearly thinks Massimo Bottura is chatting absolute bollocks. It was one of my favourites bits of telly ever at the time and remains - as I believe the kids say - absolute cinema.