Masterchef 2024
Discussion
I must admit I’m not enjoying this series as much as previous ones. Not sure why. Nobody so far seems stand-out exceptional, in previous years you could often point to a few people you’d think would have a good chance of making it right to the end. This year, so far, seems to lack something. Maybe it’s becoming stale.
Lefty said:
I must admit I’m not enjoying this series as much as previous ones. Not sure why. Nobody so far seems stand-out exceptional, in previous years you could often point to a few people you’d think would have a good chance of making it right to the end. This year, so far, seems to lack something. Maybe it’s becoming stale.
Yes, it's missing a spark... It just a bit predictable.. Each episode seems to have a Scottish guy making steak or venison, a Welshman reinventing fish and chips, an African lady making a stew with thousands of ingredients, an Asian lady making a curry with millions of ingredients served on ten plates, an English lady making something weird with chicken.... The standard may be higher, but this series the lack of foul ups just makes it oddly less entertaining. Used to record to watch later if missed, but not bothering if I miss it now.abzmike said:
Lefty said:
I must admit I’m not enjoying this series as much as previous ones. Not sure why. Nobody so far seems stand-out exceptional, in previous years you could often point to a few people you’d think would have a good chance of making it right to the end. This year, so far, seems to lack something. Maybe it’s becoming stale.
Yes, it's missing a spark... It just a bit predictable.. Each episode seems to have a Scottish guy making steak or venison, a Welshman reinventing fish and chips, an African lady making a stew with thousands of ingredients, an Asian lady making a curry with millions of ingredients served on ten plates, an English lady making something weird with chicken.... The standard may be higher, but this series the lack of foul ups just makes it oddly less entertaining. Used to record to watch later if missed, but not bothering if I miss it now.As you say it's got predictable as well - the "mavericks" used to really annoy us but they were usually entertaining and gave us something to talk about!
Some good cooks have gone through though so hopefully it will pick up with the knockouts
pocketspring said:
Sebring440 said:
pocketspring said:
As much as I enjoy watching it, getting a bit bored of every Asian doing a curry on there.
But you happy with British entrants doing non-Asian food?
JerseyRoyal said:
pocketspring said:
Sebring440 said:
pocketspring said:
As much as I enjoy watching it, getting a bit bored of every Asian doing a curry on there.
But you happy with British entrants doing non-Asian food?I love to see people cooking Asian food on Masterchef. I loved it when Saliha won Mastechef in 2017, I said she would do it about two programmes in. A couple of people at work didn't like her at all, because they didn't like spicy food.
I grew up with bland English food, some of it was nice - roast dinner, fish and chips etc. My first curry was a revelation, it inspired me to cook. Then I married someone from Iran who is a really good cook, so now we have a mixture of trad English food, Persian and Indian inspired food.
andyA700 said:
JerseyRoyal said:
pocketspring said:
Sebring440 said:
pocketspring said:
As much as I enjoy watching it, getting a bit bored of every Asian doing a curry on there.
But you happy with British entrants doing non-Asian food?I love to see people cooking Asian food on Masterchef. I loved it when Saliha won Mastechef in 2017, I said she would do it about two programmes in. A couple of people at work didn't like her at all, because they didn't like spicy food.
I grew up with bland English food, some of it was nice - roast dinner, fish and chips etc. My first curry was a revelation, it inspired me to cook. Then I married someone from Iran who is a really good cook, so now we have a mixture of trad English food, Persian and Indian inspired food.
A lot of cooking is essentially painting by numbers but balancing spicing like that is a real art.
JerseyRoyal said:
andyA700 said:
JerseyRoyal said:
pocketspring said:
Sebring440 said:
pocketspring said:
As much as I enjoy watching it, getting a bit bored of every Asian doing a curry on there.
But you happy with British entrants doing non-Asian food?I love to see people cooking Asian food on Masterchef. I loved it when Saliha won Mastechef in 2017, I said she would do it about two programmes in. A couple of people at work didn't like her at all, because they didn't like spicy food.
I grew up with bland English food, some of it was nice - roast dinner, fish and chips etc. My first curry was a revelation, it inspired me to cook. Then I married someone from Iran who is a really good cook, so now we have a mixture of trad English food, Persian and Indian inspired food.
A lot of cooking is essentially painting by numbers but balancing spicing like that is a real art.
abzmike said:
Strange idea bringing back people that tried previously. Are there not enough decent entrants? I’d have thought thousands of people apply.
They said it was for the 10th anniversary, which a) doesn’t seem enough years and 2, seems pointless as, as you say, there must be 100’s who’d love a go!
tonightWhen it got to the final four I thought it was going to be one of the two guys, the two women are just making too many mistakes, especially Abi who’s way behind the other three. Favourite bits so far: the cooking outdoors over fire in the woods, Singapore (so much so I’m now seriously looking at planning a trip there!) and La Gavroche last night.
Looking forward to tonight and still can’t decide between the two guys.
Looking forward to tonight and still can’t decide between the two guys.
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