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Masterchef Ireland 2014

  • 04-03-2014 4:17pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,817 ✭✭✭


    Starting tonight on rte 1.
    It's being very heavily advertised.
    I'm looking forward to it.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,749 ✭✭✭✭grey_so_what


    Here we go again!...:)

    Season 3 Episode 1 of 20
    New series. The amateur culinary contest returns, with the first six cooks - Charlie, Niamh, Claudio, Gary, Emma and Rich - aiming to impress Nick Munier and Dylan McGrath. The hopefuls will have just one hour to create a signature dish from seafood, lamb, rabbit or steak; and only four of them will progress through to the next stage in the competition


    http://www.rte.ie/lifestyle/food/masterchef/2014/0304/600007-six-contestants-battle-it-out-in-the-first-heat/


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,749 ✭✭✭✭grey_so_what


    "Scenes some viewers may find disturbing"

    Em, it's only the first program lads!....

    Who's wielding the hatchet??....:eek:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,749 ✭✭✭✭grey_so_what


    I have a rabbit in the freezer, wonder if this dish will be nice?


    Bake it and then roast it??....shoe leather I'd have thought


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,972 ✭✭✭cofy


    I have a rabbit in the freezer, wonder if this dish will be nice?

    Would you really eat a little bunny:eek::eek::eek:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,749 ✭✭✭✭grey_so_what


    cofy wrote: »
    Would you really eat a little bunny:eek::eek::eek:

    I've eaten worse cofy!....

    A BIG bunny......:D:D:D


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,749 ✭✭✭✭grey_so_what


    Between the ads and the pointless shots this will be about ten minutes cooking....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,895 ✭✭✭lertsnim


    I'd rather one show per week that is an hour long instead of two half hour episodes


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,749 ✭✭✭✭grey_so_what


    Can't stand anyone wiping their forehead in a teatowel.....

    Even if it's the designated one for that.....:(


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,972 ✭✭✭cofy


    I know their time is very short but their work stations are a nightmare, with everything piled up.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,749 ✭✭✭✭grey_so_what


    An hour for steak and chips shouldn't be long...

    The sauce wouldn't take that long either..


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 587 ✭✭✭Cosmo2013


    The Italian guy is cocky but he has a great face �� ...i take it he's Italian, I just tuned in


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,749 ✭✭✭✭grey_so_what


    Cardinal sin not seasoning.......


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,653 ✭✭✭✭amdublin


    I loooves lamb.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,749 ✭✭✭✭grey_so_what


    That plate looks a mess...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,972 ✭✭✭cofy


    Cosmo2013 wrote: »
    The Italian guy is cocky but he has a great face �� ...i take it he's Italian, I just tuned in

    At the start of the show he said he did not want to become a commis-chef he just wanted to run his own kitchen, he wants to start at the top.

    .


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,749 ✭✭✭✭grey_so_what


    The sauce is a bit puddly....


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,972 ✭✭✭cofy


    Even though the sauce is runny, but it looks the best by far. I would not mind sampling the lobster.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,749 ✭✭✭✭grey_so_what


    It's a bit dry looking all right.....

    Why the mash?....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 355 ✭✭hootietootie


    Lumpy mash? They'd send it back in my house


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,749 ✭✭✭✭grey_so_what


    The ricer would have done a better job there....


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,653 ✭✭✭✭amdublin


    Lumpy mash potatoes bleurgh


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,749 ✭✭✭✭grey_so_what


    The comment "Irish people like to salt and pepper them-self" may have cost him dearly!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,818 ✭✭✭Bateman


    Forgot this was on, must watch on the +1 now

    lumpy mash doesn't sound good


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 587 ✭✭✭Cosmo2013


    Wow! That's the end of the candy... eye candy!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,749 ✭✭✭✭grey_so_what


    I won't be trying Emma's recipe soooo.....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 90,227 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    The mash potato will haunt her :p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,749 ✭✭✭✭grey_so_what


    I'm only settling in.....

    Half hour...:(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,817 ✭✭✭Addle


    Between the ads and the pointless shots this will be about ten minutes cooking....

    Straight into it and it feels like it's over before it began
    Would definitely benefit from being on for a hour.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,653 ✭✭✭✭amdublin


    Remind me again why Dermot Bannon gets an hour.

    And then these fellas and the Brennan brothers get half an hour.

    :confused:


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,972 ✭✭✭cofy


    Are all the shows only going to be half an hour?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,749 ✭✭✭✭grey_so_what


    cofy wrote: »
    Are all the shows only going to be half an hour?

    I presume so cofy, don't really know...

    It's like a whirlwind...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,012 ✭✭✭stop animal cruelty


    now that they got rid of the hot itilian fella l won't be watching again!! only tasty looking thing :P


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,876 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    Oh puhlease...... the editing is sooooooo predictable!

    Cocky Italian guy who wants to run the world - out first (despite his dish being one of the most attractive-looking of all).
    Guy cooking steak and chips gets totally dissed by them beforehand as being so simple as to practically be beneath them, turns out to be the best meal of the day.
    Gary (God help him) shown saying he practiced and practiced and could do this dish in his sleep - and it's a car-crash disaster.
    Everyone furrows their brows (including on here!) at baking the rabbit first, then roasting it (except I thought that cooking in an oven WAS roasting :confused:, but anyway) - and lo and behold the rabbit turns out nice and moist after all, and they have to admit that through gritted teeth.

    Not sure I'm going to last the pace if it's this predictable.

    And I'm willing to bet that there won't be an encouraging word spoken to a single contestant between here and the final by either judge.

    In fact, why am I even watching this at all :confused::confused::confused:

    But you can bet I'll be tuned in for the next one!

    Are there any boardsies in this series? It's nearly a requirement at this stage :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,749 ✭✭✭✭grey_so_what


    cofy wrote: »
    Are all the shows only going to be half an hour?

    Picked this off the RTE website cofy....

    "The format of this year's series has changed slighted. Over the next four weeks 24 amateur cooks will enter the MasterChef kitchen. The four heats will see six new cooks enter the kitchen on a Tuesday where they will have one hour to impress Nick and Dylan with their signature dish.

    Having tasted the six dishes the judges will eliminate two cooks. The remaining four will return the next night where they will experience the pressure of a busy lunch service in a professional kitchen in some of Dublin’s top restaurants.

    They will then return to the MasterChef kitchen to cook one more time
    for Nick and Dylan and to fight for their place in the final ten. Their task will be a Key Ingredient Task. Nick and Dylan will give them an hour and a half to create one dish that showcases the key ingredient.

    The competition heats up in week five as the final ten amateur cooks come together for the first time. Over the course of the following five weeks they face a series of intensive challenges in the MasterChef kitchen, master classes and some tough restaurant services."

    Nothing about the length of the future programs....:(

    Is all the above going to be on a half hour program???......:confused:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,749 ✭✭✭✭grey_so_what


    A bit of a difference between the two venues!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,876 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    Missed the beginning - where are we dining tonight???


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,749 ✭✭✭✭grey_so_what


    HeidiHeidi wrote: »
    Missed the beginning - where are we dining tonight???

    Shelbourne and The Dylan (a Boutique Hotel somewhere...:o)

    Ballsbridge!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,876 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    Putting them into pro kitchens on day 1 is just gratuitous car-crash telly.

    Cheap thrills.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,972 ✭✭✭cofy


    Evening all, speaking of polenta cake, I found polenta in Lidl during the week. I had been having trouble finding it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,876 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    Shelbourne and The Dillon (a Boutique Hotel somewhere...:o)

    Oooh, the Dylan! Ballsbridge, just behind Baggot St, supposed to be the dogs *******

    Needless to say, I've never been :D


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,749 ✭✭✭✭grey_so_what


    HeidiHeidi wrote: »
    Missed the beginning - where are we dining tonight???
    HeidiHeidi wrote: »
    Oooh, the Dylan! Ballsbridge, just behind Baggot St, supposed to be the dogs *******

    Needless to say, I've never been :D

    Had a quick look at it, looks very nice!....http://www.dylan.ie/

    Naturally, I've never heard of it!...:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,876 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    Lotta expensive waste fish happening here......


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,749 ✭✭✭✭grey_so_what


    Well, the Chef in the Shelbourne is taking no prisoners!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,257 ✭✭✭BettePorter


    Whatever about the burnt fish going to the bin I very much doubt without a camera they'd put the the first piece which went into cold pan in the bin!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,749 ✭✭✭✭grey_so_what


    This is at a mad pace.

    We'll be lucky to actually see a plate of food at all!....

    It's like someone on roller skates flying past you with a pan, a knife and a blender at this stage...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,972 ✭✭✭cofy


    Well, the Chef in the Shelbourne is taking no prisoners!

    He can't afford to. It's a real baptism of fire.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,749 ✭✭✭✭grey_so_what


    I'm not inspired so far...

    A curry and a roast chicken dinner...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 587 ✭✭✭Cosmo2013


    Agree with the long post from HeidiHeidi.....so they throw out the guy who simply didn't season fish last night but the fella who practiced his dish 15 times and still made a pigs ear of it is still there. Doesn't add up for me.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,876 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    OK going on it so far.....

    first guy is making a curry - gets dissed - bet it's amazing.

    Woman reckons she learned loads about butchery, but looks like she's butchering (and not in a good way) the chicken.

    Guy cooking something that should be a "nasty thing to put in your mouth". What bets it's divine and he wins the round?

    Am I getting a bit too cynical to be watching this at all?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,749 ✭✭✭✭grey_so_what


    Not a single word of encouragement so far....

    Gary is a disaster with the mess he makes..


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