Masterchef 2024

[illmonkey]

Laurel Green said:

I think that must be an old one as the next instalment is on tomorrow at nine o'clock.

IPlayer has all 3 from this week on it. Has happened all 4 weeks, seems strange…

I’m on S20E10, so it’s current

[Laurel Green]

Yep, just had a look on I Player, and as said, all this week's episodes are on there. Strange as I never knew this was possible.

[Lefty]

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.

[abzmike]

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.

[Mark-C]

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.

We're struggling to get into this series as well. The "Basics to Brilliant" or whatever it is round just seems completely random with no agreement on what the brief might mean. And then the round for the second set of aprons that follows it with a recipe seems a bit forced as well - make whatever you want but include a caesar salad dressing etc ...

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

[Prolex-UK]

Watched episode 3...Vietnamese guy.

was praised for his dish. his thank you sounded like f*ck you

much hilarity here

[JerseyRoyal]

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?

Yes because every British entrant isn't doing fish and chips.

“A curry” isn’t comparable to fish and chips. There are literally thousands of curries

[abzmike]

Raw lamb alert… first for a couple of week.

[andyA700]

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?

Yes because every British entrant isn't doing fish and chips.

“A curry” isn’t comparable to fish and chips. There are literally thousands of curries

I agree, also Asian food isn't just curries. The vast expanse of Asian cuisine - Persian, Bengali, Indian, SriLankan, Malaysian, Vietnamese, Thai, Chinese, Japanese.
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.

[Mark-C]

abzmike said:

Raw lamb alert… first for a couple of week.

Yep - another poor group of six. Vera seemed OK but the rest were so-so.

Mildly interesting that James had been in one of the old Masterchefs ...

[JerseyRoyal]

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?

Yes because every British entrant isn't doing fish and chips.

“A curry” isn’t comparable to fish and chips. There are literally thousands of curries

I agree, also Asian food isn't just curries. The vast expanse of Asian cuisine - Persian, Bengali, Indian, SriLankan, Malaysian, Vietnamese, Thai, Chinese, Japanese.
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.

Aye, I could watch an experienced Asian chef play with spice blends all day.

A lot of cooking is essentially painting by numbers but balancing spicing like that is a real art.

[Composer62]

I think Vera has the potential to do very well !!

[andyA700]

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?

Yes because every British entrant isn't doing fish and chips.

“A curry” isn’t comparable to fish and chips. There are literally thousands of curries

I agree, also Asian food isn't just curries. The vast expanse of Asian cuisine - Persian, Bengali, Indian, SriLankan, Malaysian, Vietnamese, Thai, Chinese, Japanese.
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.

Aye, I could watch an experienced Asian chef play with spice blends all day.

A lot of cooking is essentially painting by numbers but balancing spicing like that is a real art.

That is an excellent analogy.

[illmonkey]

Sorry, she’s serving them a pink taco?

[abzmike]

Strange idea bringing back people that tried previously. Are there not enough decent entrants? I’d have thought thousands of people apply.

[illmonkey]

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!

[Mark-C]

Whatever the reason for doing it I felt that made for a very dull watch with not a lot of jeopardy.