Masterchef: The Professionals

Degag

Back next Tuesday, 9pm, BBC1.

Marks beginning of Christmas for me!

HeidiHeidi

Yayy, just spotted this on my clever Sky planner! I had missed this post, and had no idea.

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Professional Masterchef just started this evening.(9pm)

stargazer 68

Just finished bake off and switched over! I prefer the regular one though. At least if they mess up they haven't got the disappointed look from Marcus and Monica!

Degag

The fact this was filmed during Covid is quite evident anyway! Not sure if i like or dislike the idea of either Monica or Marcus watching on the screens during the Skills Challenge. I guess good to hear insights from them away from the challange.

It was always 6 chefs starting each episode (at least in recent years). Looks to be down to 4 now, dunno will that dilute it a bit.

stargazer 68

Wonder how they are going to manage sending them into restaurants and outside challenges etc. Maybe scrapped completely

HeidiHeidi

I don't get the bit about Marcus watching on a screen..... the skills test was only ever one of them (whoever set the challenge) and Greg before, wasn't it?

HeidiHeidi

Great start to tonight's show (even if it was sweetbreads, yuck!) - can only all be downhill from here, surely?!

HeidiHeidi

So it wasn't all completely downhill after all! What a great round.


Now, for something completely O/T..... any music heads watching???


Can anyone tell me what the music was that they played while watching Michaela prepare her second round courses? I know it SO well, but cannot for the life of me think of the name of it! (It's a remix, so Shazam was no use to me)


Please, please let someone out there know what it was, it's driving me mad!

donspeekinglesh

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

I don't get the bit about Marcus watching on a screen..... the skills test was only ever one of them (whoever set the challenge) and Greg before, wasn't it?

No, they were always both there (at least since Marcus started, can't remember when it was Michel, though I think it was the same).

TheChrisD

Well that was an interesting surprise tonight. I was expecting them to pick Victor as he seemed to have done a touch more than Philli, but putting both through kind of makes sense when you think about it. There have indeed been three really good cooks out of the eight this week.

HeidiHeidi

TheChrisD wrote: »

Well that was an interesting surprise tonight. I was expecting them to pick Victor as he seemed to have done a touch more than Philli, but putting both through kind of makes sense when you think about it. There have indeed been three really good cooks out of the eight this week.

The standard was incredibly high this first week! That poor fella who got knocked out last night didn't do a whole lot wrong, really, just held back a bit and got outclassed by all the others.....

I thought Victor was going to shade it because he'd done so well in the first round but Philli panicked (but still managed to turn out a creditable dish, I do not know how!)

I really hope Philli calms down a bit for the next rounds - that level of nervous tension will give either her or me a heart attack if she keeps it up!

Degag

Just after finishing the second heat so am a bit behind but thought it was harsh to get rid of Harrison especially considering Victor failed to fully plate his desert. Think there was probably merit to putting both through but maybe they couldn't with Covid.

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Ants in a desert ??
Bollox..

HeidiHeidi

I was sorry to see Jono go through over Hera - he was just trying a bit too hard with his ants and hay, and they all agreed he didn't pull it off.

Hera on the other hand just didn't set his posset to their exact tastes - I often question how on earth they're meant to know in advance what the exact requirements are of the judges/ critics - they're not psychic!

Anyway, between that and Hermine going out of GBBO tonight, I'm quite grumpy now

twill

I'm really surprised he went out too. The issue with the posset was one of texture, while Jono's dessert didn't seem to taste that good.

Alex's food looked delicious.

The standard is so high this year due to the reduced numbers taking part. It's really bad luck for the good chefs going out in the first round.

tinpib

31 yr old self-taught chef coming up.

As Malcolm Hardee used to say "Could be good, could be sh!t"

tinpib

I feared that yer wan was going to be a disaster. BBC propaganda of having a chef from the armed services every year, they never do fantastic and are often well below the standard of others.

tinpib

tinpib wrote: »

31 yr old self-taught chef coming up.

As Malcolm Hardee used to say "Could be good, could be sh!t"

Turned out to be a bit sh!t, well had a bad day anyway. Yer wan Ash redeemed herself but probably just not up to the standard.


Surprised there aren't more tears on this show, it means so much to them. I'd say that Nepalese guy has an interesting story, going from Nepal to India to UK.

HeidiHeidi

When I get old, I want to live in whatever care home the Scottish guy is working in!!

storker

Is it just me or do Monica's skill tests seem to have an extra bit of evil thrown in?

ebbsy

twill wrote: »

I'm really surprised he went out too. The issue with the posset was one of texture, while Jono's dessert didn't seem to taste that good.

Alex's food looked delicious.

The standard is so high this year due to the reduced numbers taking part. It's really bad luck for the good chefs going out in the first round.

+1

How did the guy who did the ants/hay desert get through.

tinpib

Jono is fairly arrogant, but he backed it up there.

I'm rooting for this care home dude though.

HeidiHeidi

Only tuning in now, but Jono didn't exactly capture my heart in the first round, so interested to see just how bad he is this time!


Ross (he was the care home fella, I think?) and the really young guy from the first night are definitely my two favourites that I'll be rooting for.

HeidiHeidi

Completely O/T - but would someone EVER buy Grace a proper bra??!!

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All 4 are very good.
This should be good !

tinpib

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

Completely O/T - but would someone EVER buy Grace a proper bra??!!

I always enjoy her slo-motion walks.

HeidiHeidi

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

Only tuning in now, but Jono didn't exactly capture my heart in the first round, so interested to see just how bad he is this time!


Ross (he was the care home fella, I think?) and the really young guy from the first night are definitely my two favourites that I'll be rooting for.

Very bad.


God, I can't stand that smug attitude.



And that bore no more resemblance to fish'n'chips than my Spaghetti Bolognese dinner this evening.

tinpib

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

God, I can't stand that smug attitude.

He doesn't bother me right now, has has backed it up so far, but his attitude is setting himself up for a fall.


The Nepalese fella was genuinely surprised there, nice to see.


Ross' dishes were a bit too safe and when he didn't execute them perfectly he was in trouble.

tinpib

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

God, I can't stand that smug attitude.

A good few years ago, maybe 5/6 at least there was this guy on Masterchef Professionals who was extremely arrogant even in his introductory video where they show them in their work kitchen/restaurant. I took an instant dislike to him.

He totally nailed the skills test and his arrogance continued, but then his standards started to slip.

He made it to cook for the critics and it all went pear-shaped. I can't remember exactly but he was extremely late and/or he made a total haims of parts of his dishes and couldn't serve them.

So the judges sent him into the critics to explain he would be late etc and by the time he got into them he had completely broken down with his bottom lip quivering and as he spoke he was blubbering and bawling like a 6 year old.

It was tough to watch but it was perhaps a bit of karma for how arrogant he was earlier. I was actually thinking of him earlier today.

Dave_The_Sheep

Reminds me a bit of Sven from a few years ago.

twill

Hmm, wonder what the anonymous contestant did to be edited out?

tinpib

twill wrote: »

Hmm, wonder what the anonymous contestant did to be edited out?

Ooooh, I just switched over as they were tasting that French guy's skills test. That sounds intriguing.

Think this chap might be over estimating his skills. Talks about his Insta, but hasn't smoked anything and doesn't know how to make a mayo.

twill

Oh dear, poor pancake guy. Marcus looking daggers at him.

Ooooh, I just switched over as they were tasting that French guy's skills test. That sounds intriguing.

There was a screen at the beginning, all it said was that one of the contestants had been edited out of the programme.

tinpib

That's very interesting. Because in the preview for it last Thursday, I guess they showed all 4 walking outside as usual?? Might go back and check if I can.

If so, then something obviously happened since Thursday and they re-edited it.

Although just speculation on my part.

From that it we can gather that they didn't get through. Would be some spanner in the works if they did get through. Serious disruption to the show.

edit: also cringing at the pancake guy, chatting away about how he is a pastry chef as he is making a fupping balls of the crepes.

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Ya man is having a disaster.(Scott)

tinpib

Oh Crikey, this poor sod has had a nightmare. It's a car crash.

Timfy

So rumour has it the chef worked for Stenna and used a recipe that belonged to them and was covered by a non disclosure agreement

twill

Poor standard all round tonight.

tinpib

Just went back to last Thursday's episode, they only showed 3 of them walking alright, so nothing very sudden.

I'm intrigued as to what happened. It will probably be on Twitter, or at the very least some outrageous speculation.

The Master

Looking back at last week's episode at the end it just showed the three contestants walking not the usual 4.
The voice over also said "another group" rather than "4 more contestants"

I'm guessing that just like the celebrity version someone pulled out because of the rona and including them at this point would confuse things.
Although during the judging section it didn't seem like a fourth name was being edited out

tinpib

Timfy wrote: »

So rumour has it the chef worked for Stenna and used a recipe that belonged to them and was covered by a non disclosure agreement

Who or what is Stenna? I googled there and got nothing. Do you mean Stena ferries?

The Master

Correcting my earlier post

Even if it was covid related they could just have said at the end "chef x did not continue due to health reasons" etc

Twitter pushing the idea the guy had Nazi tatoos or told Marcus to "eff off" during filming

HeidiHeidi

Haven't got to the end yet, so haven't read all the comments here yet......

But it occurred to me - is someone getting edited out (someone MUST have been able to find out what happened!!) the reason three went through in the first week? Did they have to go back and hastily redo that??

Also, my God but the French fella is boiling the absolute bejaysus out of his veg :eek:

HeidiHeidi

Even the Daily Mail is reduced to begging for info about the missing chef

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8983729/amp/Mystery-MasterChef-Professionals-edits-one-four-contestants.html?__twitter_impression=true

Timfy

tinpib wrote: »

Who or what is Stenna? I googled there and got nothing. Do you mean Stena ferries?

Sorry, should have been clearer, yes Stenna Line ferries, apparently all staff have to sign non disclosure agreements and this covers recipes, food presentation etc.

No idea if this is true or not but it was posted by a Stenna Line employee.

HeidiHeidi

This should be submitted to the Guinness Book of Records as the longest-kept secret of recent times - it's over 12 hours since the show broadcast (and God knows how long since it was edited) and STILL it seems nobody knows why! There isn't a secret that's lasted 12 minutes since the advent of Twitter ffs!



From my amateurish trawling of Twitter, speculation seems to be falling into two camps - the Stena recipe story, which I find very hard to believe (Stena hardly being a bastion of gourmet cooking, for one thing) - and some contestant having told Marcus to go f*** himself, which may or may not have been justified but surely they could have just edited it out and then made sure they didn't go through?



I have to admit by being absolutely intrigued by this one, and I'd say more of my day than is wise will be devoted to trying to find out what went on

tinpib

I'm intrigued too.

This is where the Daily Mail comes into their own, they have the email address of the journalist to contact with any information. I'm sure we will hear about it at some point today.

HeidiHeidi

https://twitter.com/GedlingGroveFC/status/1331666038216417280?s=19

Well, if that's true, Marcus is some drama queen!!

Mr E

Yikes. Fair play to the editors. They did a great job cutting him out of existance.

Thanos Wareing.

HeidiHeidi

Mr E wrote: »

Yikes. Fair play to the editors. They did a great job cutting him out of existance.

Thanos Wareing.

Yeah, I'm not really convinced that's actually the real story though! It might be, but then again.....

Cannot believe it's been 24 hours, and some sort of believable account hasn't emerged!!!