Masterchef Australia Season 9

Sorry couldn't find another source for it , it takes a horrible amount of time to load :mad:

http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/masterchef-australia-season-nine-gets-underway-and-matt-preston-says-the-show-already-has-24-winners-20170310-guviju.html

Mr E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOSnbK-5zVE

Mr E

Facebook promo from Gary Mehigan's page.

https://www.facebook.com/garymehiganaustralia/videos/1455016544530238/

stargazer 68

OOOHHHH When does it start - cant open the link etc?

Dovies

Dovies wrote: »

OOOHHHH When does it start - cant open the link etc?

Usually it's last week of April or first week of May but haven't seen anything to say exactly when it's starting. Odd given we are likely only 4 or 5 weeks away at this stage.

stargazer 68

My kitchen rules is still on so maybe when that ends

One week to go !!!!! Returning on May 1st.

Is Monday not an odd day for it to kick off ? Doesn't it usually air sunday to thursday ?

onlyonpaper

Most of us don't get it till Sept/ Oct when it is run by W or TLC. It runs Mon to Fri incl for all 60 plus episodes

And we're off!!!!! :pac:

Only had time to watch the 1st persons audition , if the standard of the rest if this high we're in for a cracker this year.

Few Irish accents there too. Was only a matter of time

EDIT: Serious standard this year, I know these are pre-prepared and practised dishes but wow. The negative is imo we are looking at another very dessert heavy season good as what we saw was.

Mr E

The standard is unreal this year. I love desserts but I hope there are less domes!

I really missed this show. I think it's one of the best produced reality TV shows anywhere in the world today.

Mr E

Mr E wrote: »

The standard is unreal this year. I love desserts but I hope there are less domes!

I really missed this show. I think it's one of the best produced reality TV shows anywhere in the world today.

Ha ha and no parfaits etc that really annoyed me last year with a few of them churning out variations of the same thing, based on what was produced yesterday I have hopes we'll see some great stuff. Couple of them are very young 18 and 19. I thought that young lad was going to be all show with his micro gastronomy ate my hat there. Was one of the guys that got called back for today irish? was hard to place his accent. English guy's wife/partner sounded Irish too.

Was reading something last week about their sponsors or signing new ones. Companies like Coles etc throw money at it.


EDIT: the guy I was thinking of yesterday is most definitely Irish his name is Lee Behan

He made top 24 today

Today was a 2 hour double , back to Sunday to Thursday airing from this week. Just getting around to it now and it's great to hear Katie Perry at last

Go Lee!!!!!!

But calling a winner here and now Eliza

stargazer 68

Watched the one with the desert last night. Just wondered why the other contestants told one of them that they weren't tempering the chocolate to the right temperature and someone else that they needed to make their mousse again but never told the girl that her acetate wasn't right??

Dovies

Dovies wrote: »

Watched the one with the desert last night. Just wondered why the other contestants told one of them that they weren't tempering the chocolate to the right temperature and someone else that they needed to make their mousse again but never told the girl that her acetate wasn't right??

Pressure test? Editing maybe, I don't know but you'd want to some piece of work not to call that out her if you spotted it.

Here's our horse in the race https://tenplay.com.au/channel-ten/masterchef/contestants/lee-behan disappointed but not surprised our media haven't run with it yet and I know it won't air here for a few months and secrecy etc. but still he should get a mention here, it's the biggest and toughest masterchefs of them all. They cook more in the time Lee's been in than they do in most of the others in 3 or 4 episodes.

stargazer 68

Caught up now. There really is some talent this year. The 2 youngsters Bryan and Callum are amazing. Hope they haven't peaked too early

Ep. 5 is finally up for those refreshing whereever they watch it, looking like I'll be skimming this one at this stage.

Home cooking week so

no blast chillers and ice cream makers

best week on masterchef ever!!!!!!

Desert people

to go this week unless they really have it.

Well yesterdays elimination was a deserved one, I'm not much of a cook but

even I would have turned it over in the pan to finish it on the bottom vs crisping the skin. Unfortunate for Lee to go so early over something so simple, he'd have been safe but for that.

stargazer 68

Definitely a deserved elimination - they were never going to last the pace

I'm not feeling it yet this year. Maybe they should have mixed up the formula? Not Season 5 mix it up but changed something? Baring a massive cock up I'm
seeing already Eliza still and now Sarah finale.

stargazer 68

Those pizzas looked amazing! Always wonder what I would eat if I was in the restaurant when these guys were cooking - I don't eat lamb or fish and that's all they seem to do. They never throw them an 'allergy' curve ball either - gluten or shellfish etc.

Oh yeah those pizzas did look yum and I'm not even a fan of them usually.

Ffs now after today I'm questioning how real folks cook chips? Roosters, knife, airfryer + a southern fried chicken fillet from our local butcher with me favouring a burger bun and some cheese , tomato etc etc and her likeing it on its own covered in mayo.

But seriously how some cooked chips was rank, think one cooked them 4 times . Chips are chips. Chip spud, par boil or not depending on spud and time of year and put in oil once = yum not what these clowns did to them.

First Immunity pin of the year

well deserved and a very close Pressure Test yesterday.

Most of the ones I thought were all show with a prepared dish and too young from the auditions are proving to be just that so far and sitting mid pack at best and not featuring on camera.

stargazer 68

Caught up now I think. Re the elimination rounds - I wish they would go back to when all the contestants watched the elimination and then went back to the house. They didn't know who was eliminated until the ones that were staying got back to the house.

Disappointing lack of drama to the relay this year

VinLieger

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Disappointing lack of drama to the relay this year

Ahh now in fairness michelle was shocking. Definition of a one trick desert pony even more so than reynold was. She gives off the impression of having learned some very specific tricky deserts but having nothing else. More complex mystery boxes are gonna be a real problem for her.

Wow that pressure test. The two girls here were foaming at the mouth when they saw it.

The state of

Bryan's

apron at the end was unreal compared to the other two

I'm liking how the eliminations are going , wheat from chaff so far and people they were setting up in auditions to be another reynold get schooled by the man himself.

Can't see a situation so far were someone like Elise from last year can coast on cooking the same deserts every given chance and making it to 4th. Once we get to top 10 even 15 assuming the right people arel in and not caught out by team challenges we are in for a fight.

Aside from Eliza and Sara , I've warmed to the 2 Sams, and Pete. With pete we could have another trent from season 6 ??? He's already been in blacks a few times and is a very likeable guy.

Awwww end of the road for Pete

Really not feeling it this year so far. I've even skimmed some episodes. I did like Pete though. Ray on the other hand is that annoying person we all know is rubbish but still manages to slip though.

Mr E

I'm about a week behind but I'm still enjoying it. I watched the streetfood episode this morning (which was last Wednesday's one I think) and the food looked very tasty.

There are still times where I look at people in the gantry during eliminations and wonder "Who the hell are YOU?".
There are people who are floating right in the middle of the pack who are never at the top or bottom, so they never seem to feature.

Ray should have been gone weeks ago.

stargazer 68

9 lives Ray!! Tonights episode should be good. Hope its an 'early exiter' that comes back

Dovies

Dovies wrote: »

9 lives Ray!! Tonights episode should be good. Hope its an 'early exiter' that comes back

Just started watching it, want to see Pete or Samuel back , please not yesterdays person , could be a genuinely lovely person but waaaayyyy too enthusiastic doing the cutaways. Really annoying, Not as annoying or talented as Theresa from last year though.

EDIT: Who was it we wanted rid of for ages last year , the older pilot guy wasn't it ? Oh wait no Trent lol

Also I'm not seeing many dome moulds this year

EDIT EDIT: FFS

That stunk of a fix to me .

What I never got was why wake them at the crack of dawn for Thursday elimination

Like by the time they get 70-90 minutes to cook after however long make up etc takes it's likely well after lunch.

Don't get me started about them getting a car each for elimination I know they have sponsors but still.

Interesting one though for elimination , want Tamara out but want Ray out more .

As the series goes on I'm liking Ben more .

EDIT: Yay


I think it's down to a battle of the blondes now and Sarah and Heston week. I think I called it Eliza to win ? I'll paddy power those odds I think, she has masterchef winner written all over her. Looked good early and has been anonymous since for the most part.

stargazer 68

Yep Eliza is pretty good but Ben is sneaking up the rear so to say!
Lurve Heston Week!

Mr E

I'm up to the start of Heston week now.

I didn't mind Tamara getting back in. I think in previous years when they did this, the most recent (or most recent -1) contestant always came back anyway.

That fright could give her the impetus to go on to win the thing.

I think this is a pretty open contest. There are at least 5 or 6 who could make it to the finale - nobody is running away with it.

George is really annoying me this season, I know he's been fed lines but I'd be just as happy watch this without him there at this point.

jester77

Anyone else think Callan should have been eliminated instead of Sam?

jester77

jester77 wrote: »

Anyone else think Callan should have been eliminated instead of Sam?

He'll be gone before the finale hopefully. The last of those who served up a well practised dish in the auditions who had little else to offer. Was it him or Brian they made a point of mentioning the micro gastronomy with? Either way we saw none of that in his cooks.


I said Eliza from the start but Ben is showing form now and Diana is too. Those three at the end but I have a soft spot for Eloise. Think she could feature if she loses the rough edges.

stargazer 68

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I said Eliza from the start but Ben is showing form now and Diana is too. Those three at the end but I have a soft spot for Eloise. Think she could feature if she loses the rough edges.

I think Eloise is starting to crack a little bit. Just can't take to Diana. Still loving Ben - the fact that he is easy on the eye helps

Awww Eloise gone

Finals week next week already? Seems this year they didn't have even as close to previous years in terms of guests, no Marco etc.

They steered them away from the repetition we saw last year with the deserts and dome moulds but we saw a hell of a lot of icecream. This has been the poorest season since season 5

They need to change the format for next year, i loved that this year few wen't out that didn;t deserve it on a team challenge and there were fewer serve 100's in pop up's or restaurants challenges but george and the mystery box , pressure test , immunity has to go .Immunity means nothing if it has to be won vs pros and then has to be given away at the end in Japan. They didn;t even have the power apron this year.

Arum winning immunity was questionable at best. Fine cook but stunk of stacking the odds in the contestants favour to balance the team challenge to 4v4

stargazer 68

Finals week! Surprise elimination last night

jester77

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Arum winning immunity was questionable at best. Fine cook but stunk of stacking the odds in the contestants favour to balance the team challenge to 4v4

Defo, he is one of the weaker cooks there, very surprised he has gotten this far. The immunity is more than questionable. They needed an even number for the following day, what would they have done if he hadn't won... very obvious it was set up for him.

stargazer 68

jester77 wrote: »

Defo, he is one of the weaker cooks there, very surprised he has gotten this far.

Thought he would have been gone early.

jester77

Dovies wrote: »

Thought he would have been gone early.

Well now he is

Tough to pick the winner, they can all produce super dishes on their day. Karlie is the most consistent but her "oh me" when picked is grating.

btw, I still like George and I'm glad they dropped the Masterclasses to web episodes

I'm still butt hurt over this season , really don't care who wins but those who are left deserve it. They didn't have the ones to route for this year at all really and it seems to have been scaled back in terms of guests and locations like the blew the budget with heston week and Japan. This despite the massive increate in sponsorship this year.

No Marco even ? Too busy over here in The Restaurant on TV3 maybe ? and those setting pressure tests were largely not the old favorites. We've also seen a lot less of the contestants at the house this year too.

Maybe it's MCA fatigue at this point and not being able to look passed the formula etc any more or it being more obvious.

EDIT: Thought this was finals weeks but listings suggest this is getting dragged to next week ????

stargazer 68

yeah no real favourites for me this year - apart from Ben
Don't think my hubbie can stand another week lol
Friend of mine was a judge last week on Masterchef Thailand - think it was a restaurant round and she was on the guest list!

Mr E

Deleted User wrote: »

EDIT: Thought this was finals weeks but listings suggest this is getting dragged to next week ????

Sunday is the Semi-Final and Monday is the Final.

cookiecakes

I bailed out about 3 weeks ago as it was just missing something this year and I was really over Sara's faux humble schtick.. AFAIK Marco has fallen out with Matt Preston over comments Matt made about his son after he got into some trouble and so has refused to be a part of this season. I'm not really a Marco fan but I always thought the chefs seemed so inspired by him, I really liked his week. I've still been checking who's in or out and I'd like Ben to win.

Mr E

I'm a few weeks behind and I've resorted to flicking through the episodes. I'm in the middle of Japan week. I watch the first 5 minutes and the last 5 minutes. I don't feel like I'm missing much. I might power through to the finale tonight.