New Masterchef - starting 10 March

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New series tomorrow. Can't wait. Show us the stty cooking!

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Potato in a bun, sounds st.

This is supposed to be Masterchef, not "cook what people can make when they get in from work and have nothing in the fridge-chef".

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Not surprised by the result tonight, it seemed a fair decision.

Tomorrow night's episode looks like it will be glorious.

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7lucky7 said:

Are they supposed to be in awe when the person who set the brief walks in? Because who's in awe of her? She's just a critic very few people have heard of. Big whoop!

I think they are told to be pretend to be in awe, to add gravitas to the situation. Of course, when it comes to marking, just as with the round where they have to cook for the table of critics, John and Greg seem to put almost no stock in the critic's opinion and choose their own winners. The critics are really only there for a different opinion, albeit one that makes no difference to the eventual outcome of the competition.

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What a st bunch tonight.

I agree with the low standard, not one real standout chef yet.

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7lucky7 said:

Yeah, because Greg fancies her.

I noticed him creeping on her, it was pretty slimy.

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coppice said:

Not at all ..she seems to be that unusual thing on this sort of guilty secret TV , a woman with a brain ,one who doesn't dissolve into tears because of souffle issues and one who doesn't speak like an eight year old child . And also extremely sexy.

I didn't know Greg Wallace was on Pistonheads

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That Arrabella lass seems a bit mad, I'd still let her mash my spuds though.

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Laurel Green said:

Is it my imagination that there seems to be more women in this series?

It does seem that way, and there seems to be a lot more "I just lurve cooking for my famerloi" types that want a hack at being called "Masterchef".

I know we say the standard is poor every time this program rolls around, but I'm struggling to think of one real standout chef in this whole bunch.

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Every time I see that moustache guy, I wonder if he lost a bet to appear on tv like that.

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fking hell, they've cooked some st up tonight.

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Laurel Green said:

Blimey! 'Tis on this evening at 7.30.

Thanks for the heads up, I'd have missed that completely!

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Total waste of an episode, an absolutely daft idea for a task and I'd feel like the production team were making mugs out of us, if I were one of the contestants.

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This might be the most pretentious and stupid thing I've ever seen on Masterchef.

Supertasters? Insured tastebuds? fk off, how on earth would you claim on that policy, short of actually losing your tongue? What a load of bks.

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Baron Greenback said:

11minutes over, that is far tooooo long! Lets hope they take this into account when making decision! But the mess the previous person made maybe he got away with it!

They've never taken it into account before, I doubt they'll start now.

Glad to see the critics back tonight - they seem positively sane in comparison to that supertaster crap.

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This guy is a serious chef, his food looks amazing.

Early picks for winners? I reckon Simon or the black guy could do it. I'm not sure that woman or the kid with the slightly gormless look a really up to scratch for finals week.

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Mark-C said:

Seriously too hard to work out the names of the black guy, the woman or the gormless bloke?

At least there won't be any confusion about who I'm referring to.

I didn't realise that Michael Caines only had one arm. Now I know, it's one of those things where you wonder how you didn't notice earlier.

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Simon looking like a class act there. Properly organised.

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Caines is furious! This desert is a disaster, he couldn't have tasted any of that, and nothing is set, what a horror show!

One-handed quenelles, skill.

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Desert disaster for Pete, not a surprising result.