It’s a huge pet peeve of mine to hear certain contestants constantly complain that they can’t bake.

I’m not sure if some contestants go into the show, completely oblivious thinking that they’ll cook only savory dishes the whole way through. Did they forget you have to make a dessert IN THE FINALE?

Remember what Gordon told Farhan back in season nine? “You’ll never become America’s next Masterchef, if you can’t bake.”

This is a quote that I think needs to be told to future contestants. A Masterchef is well rounded in all types of cooking techniques, even desserts, it can’t just be purely savory.

I’m gonna go with Fatima

Initially I was contemplating putting Arthur as the pick for worst cook this season, due to his abysmal team captain performance at the final 13 quarry field challenge.

Some also may argue I should put Murt here. But the thing is, both of them had a top dish, and Murt at least improved drastically in the latter half of the season. The same cannot be said however for Fatima.

She was the weakest link on Gen Z, didn’t have one top dish, and was narrowly spared from elimination, due to Becca winning the cake challenge for her team

Another thing that I don’t see anyone talk about, is she kept gaslighting herself into thinking she did a good job on her subpar dishes.

Lastly, people are saying she got eliminated unfairly since she couldn’t taste the beer in the challenge doesn’t really count as a valid excuse in my eyes. She must have known she’d have to cook with things outside of her religion or beliefs.

Becca did just fine in the beer challenge, but Fatima didn’t.

He could’ve won his season, had he kept his ego & temper in check.

Everyone is so likable and the challenges are fun.

Subscribed to him back in the day during his season of masterchef, then unsubbed when he started getting a little too annoying but still at least he made actual content. But I just checked his channel and it's ALL AI clickbait slop. What happened to him? His stuff looks mediocre af now, it's very disappointing.

I guess he decided he'd rather "create" "content" than follow what was supposed to be his passion. Gross. I also saw a few videos of him collaborating with or including known problematic men. Does he have no morals either? Jfc.

So a few years back I watched the first 10 seasons of Masterchef over a number of months. Honestly I took a break after Season 6 as well because Claudia’s win felt so rigged, but overall I still liked the format and pushed on. Took a couple years off again and finally came back for Season 11, which I understand is the COVID season, but holy shit was this season boring.

The legends concept is cool but I felt like the rest of the show completely lost the things that made it so engaging early on. Other than one black apron pressure test and the semi-final follow-along challenge I didn’t feel much pressure or tension from any of the challenges. Just basic cook for this chef and one of you will leave. I used to dislike team challenges but I found myself really missing them- and the single one they did was kind of boring. Just 5 apps and entrees? Was crazier when old team challenges had them serving dining rooms or whole companies.

Plus there was really no reality TV narratives to follow. I didn’t really find there to be a hero or a villain, everyone was just- there. Everyone had some story that they harped on like Lexi (my least favorite contestant this season) only having $40 a week for her family, or Abe having lived in half of Europe. I just didn’t care much for any of the contestants and nobody really was my favorite. Like, it was more surface level than reality TV normally is. And man it was so obvious who was getting aprons based on whose family photos they pulled up, no tension there either.

The show this season turned into a weird like motivational feel-good show rather than a high stakes cooking competition. All the criticisms by the chefs were pretty surface level and occasionally they tried to have Joe throw in a stinger that paled in comparison to how bitchy he used to be (and it was fun when he was). Everyone was mostly just good. And the judges just felt so irrelevant this time around.

I also still hate the 3 person final, and Kelsey was just such a nothing winner. I had no feelings towards them personally. Everything about this season was just so boring compared to seasons past.

I was reading old threads here with some people saying that Season 12 and 13 are both worse. Is the show worth watching after this season or has the show just lost its way? If I like the classic format will I hate anything from now on?

TLDR: Season 11 was a terrible format shift with less content, less stakes and felt more like a motivational feel good show than a cooking competition. Does it get better or just get worse?

https://youtube.com/shorts/t7m4EHGx2aI?is=r2lywkxyJLcuaWNe

Saw this reel the other day and thought it sounded absolutely fantastic so I decided to try and copycat it. My plate here is missing the pickled strawberry sauce because I served it on the side. I also made a green canarian mojo sauce and served canarian potatos and roasted asparagus alongside.

Overall its not as pretty as it was on the show but damn was it tasty and I am full as hell.

What do you think from Masterchef and Masterchef Junior are the worst Joe moments? We all know he had good moments where he can be friendly or a bad ass but what moments are truly cringe worthy?

The way he ripped at Quani for the metal on the dessert (we know Quani didn't mean to do it) way too harshly is noteworthy. Probably the reason he was asked not to return for further Junior seasons.

I'm on episode 17, as in there are only 4 contestants left. Tell me why Cutter is in the final four!!! I don't hate the guy, but there were so many contestants much better than him that were eliminated. I'd rather have Christian or Willie or Scottish Francis or regular Francis in the final four. And don't get me started on Courtney. She should've been eliminated when she made those salty donuts so many episodes ago.

I am watching S6 E4 and Joe literally says "And you have Central America, Mexico."

WTAF??

ps. After a couple for first responses, I want to make sure people know that Mexico is part of North America, not Central America, along with the USA and Canada.

When I was in high school, I watched season 1 shortly after it aired and loved it.

I recently watched season 1 again and loved it as much as I did when it aired. I then watched season 2, and although I was very satisfied with the winner, I found the season much more negative than season 1. It seemed like the producers were determined to create conflict and only show content of the contestants’ hate towards each other.

I’m about to start season 3, but I’m wondering if season 2 is indicative of the next direction in the show, or if it was more of a blip in the radar.

so i'm indulging in the earlier seasons of master chef & im on season 3 ... done fell in loveeee w josh , knowing christine went home with the DUB so i just wanted to see what he was up to & WTF !?!?!?! su!c!de !?!?!?!? omgggggggg i'm so saddddddddd ... & so long ago. omg so freaking sad. nobody could've prepared me for that. i just knew i would see him doing numbers on social media. ugh... so talented. mental health is real, man.

okay i'm back yall lol

one thing i LOVED about the older seasons is when someone won the mystery box challenge, they got the advantage of choosing what everyone else will cook with. but what was crazy is it seemed like everrrrybody always fumbles their advantage.

i think they need to bring that back! cause right now the only advantage is going upstairs & watching everyone cook. seems blahhhh to me

one thing i'm glad they stopped doing was elimination challenges up until the very end & 3 episodes of auditions . so annoying lol

what are some things you think they need to do away with & or bring back from older seasons ?

they seem to change up a little something every season though.

I know he gets a bad rap (and for good reason), but what are some of the really good Joe moments in your mind?

For me was when he praised Ben Starr’s dish in season 2: WHY DON’T YOU COOK LIKE THIS ALL THE TIME??!!

From This Hour Has 22 Minutes.

Kitchen Nightmares : Tim Hortons

Has anyone noticed the common patterns in recent seasons are directly correlated to the first team challenge of the season? Or is it just me?

1. The red team ALWAYS WINS the first team challenge, and the past four winners in a row were all from the red team in the first team challenge.

2. The teams with more women than men ALWAYS end up losing the first team challenge, and it’s almost always the blue team. It’s happened NUMEROUS TIMES throughout the series.

S6 e4: 7 women and 3 men
S9 e6: 6 women and 4 men
S13: 6 women and 2 men
S15: 8 women and 2 men

Blue seems to be a cursed color amongst first team challenges

1. The winning teams always have someone with the immunity pin.

2. If you wanna survive, stay on side dishes and STAY AWAY FROM THE MEAT. If you lose and you’re on meat, there’s a 99.4% chance you’re going home.

Other curses:

Being on the red team in the tag team challenge.

For the past 5 seasons in a row, the red team is ALWAYS THE WORST PERFORMING/ONE OF THE BOTTOM TEAMS in the tag team

S12: Dara and Fred
S13: Jennifer and Charles
S14: Jeet and Adam
S15: Aivan and Tina
And now JAMIE AND AISHU

I can’t be the only one who’s noticed these small things throughout the run of the show in recent years.

Curses? Or just bad luck? Tell me your thoughts 👇

Imagine...these two together...

We know that recently, the Bandaid controversy is the worst mistake in MC history, but I’m sure there are other mistakes that should also be addressed, so that future competitors don’t make the same mistakes.

Let’s say we completely remove the partner/duo concept and treat everyone as an individual chef from the beginning. No teamwork, no partner advantages, no having to adapt to someone else’s mistakes. Basically, if all the contestants competed against each other individually, who do you think from 24 homecooks would come out on top?
if i have to choose i will definitely go to aivan as my pick.

So I am watching season 1, master chef Canada. And this is probably a hot take but I can’t help but feel like Eric is given a sort of favoritism. In my opinion there were plenty of times where he should’ve went home, but he just kept skating by. To ultimately win at the end. That title should’ve went to Marida. She was the most consistent in the entire competition.

Sorry its very late

Has anyone watched this? Came across it on Prime & 11 episodes into season 1, I realize that it’s episode 11 & only ONE contestant has been eliminated so far. WTAF!!!! There are over 70 episodes for just this season.

It took the first 6 episodes to get the top 20…the next 3 episodes covered a mystery box, a one-on-one with a professional chef & a team challenge before the first elimination. AND that elimination took an entire episode to accomplish!!!

Prime doesn’t have all the seasons but looking at the ones they have, they are all over 50 episodes (season 3 has over 80).