Masterchef Goes Large

I'm amused by the way in which Greg essentially just agrees with Roux every time, but in slightly different words.

My housemates watch this and if I'm in the room I spend the time counting how many times Greg the fat presenter is shown taking mouthfuls and pausing during the judging.

Dude, this is a weird thing to do.

And it will be Steve, cuz of his smoke infused egg thing in the quarter final, although I feel like it would mean more to Marianne.

I think Steve might have spoilt it for himself with his sweetie bag dessert.

smoke infused egg stolen from great british menu

It's not weird, the fat dude does a lot of pausing and putting mouthfuls of food in his gob during the judging, but Michel Roux Jr is almost never shown doing the same. It's as if the people doing the editing want to make him look stupid or need to insert pauses for some dramatic reason.

Michel does a strange little eye-popping tick after he eats something.

nervous guy terry is hilarious. they should keep him on for the comedic relief he'll bring by knocking over everything in sight and losing all his fingers day by day.

omg <3 terry

terry's out. so sad. but he's continuing to chase his dream ;-)

gregg and john's classics from last week:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRcgGl0RuP8

god terry was annoying... at the end, when he stormed out of the studio and got all angsty in the street, i wanted to shout "you know what life isn't like a verve video, pull yrself together". he keeps talking abt how he has to win masterchef, to follow his dream of working in a kitchen - HE'S FUCKING 22 WHY NOT JUST GET A JOB IN A KITCHEN

in fact that goes for nearly every contestant this year. i hate all that 'tell us what it means to you' shite anyways, but they are the sorriest bunch of "we couldn't achieve anything without the gameshow to do it for us" shite thus far

[nargis strangely hott tho]

yeah it's funny when they're all THIS IS MY ONE DREAM IN LIFE even though I work in marketing AND I'LL BE GUTTED BEYOND BELIEF IF IT DON'T GET IT HANDED TO ME ON A PLATE BY WINNING MASTERCHEF

and then they get knocked out and have to go back to the marketing job they cussed the shit out of on TV

Nargis has a nice mouth

I don't watch this show

Nargis is annoying

I esp don't understand the young ones who come on the show, the ones who have just finished a uni degree or are working on one, and they say stuff about how food is their dream blah blah... so why tf are they in university and not wherever you go to learn culinary stuff!? durrr

disaster losing terry.

Nargis was never going to do anything interesting and her chance to do so consisted of putting caramelized hazelnuts on a red mullet, wtf. plus she took the place that was rightfully Terry's AND we were robbed of the chance of seeing Terry lug food across the tower of london which would have been TV GOLD.

also lol at Tim being continually referred to as "children's doctor, Tim" - aren't you allowed to say Paediatrician on TV any more?

^ we wondered about that as well

Dhruv's going to win this thing

but he is the fat dave cameron

♪♪♪dhruv is in the heart♪♪♪♪

my gf + i were also wondering abt the children's doctor thing

God that maharajah was a cock.

"We have a second team of chefs on standy in case I am so disgusted by the efforts of these amateurs"

"I will remember all my life being allowed to cook for the creme de la creme of Indian assholes"

I don't watch this show

― MPx4A, Wednesday, March 31, 2010 11:30 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark

otm

jackie dixon looking great.

neil stuke constantly saying 'im doing this for my dead dad' was getting on my nerves, as was christina hamilton's 'humble' act

haha, Neil Stuke *was* a bit X-Factor. We sort of quite liked Christine really, and I was actually a bit miffed to see Jacqui Dixon-Farnham going out, even though she was an idenikit Liz McClarnon. Thought she was safe when Gregg started winking at her (see also Jenny Powell, who I never realised before this week was such a proto-Claudia)

the programme itself is beyond annoying now tho

Tru dat. Still watch it though. It especially annoys me when they can chuck you out for e.g. not knowing how to cook liver and make sage butter without a recipe - I'm a pretty good cook, but I wouldn't have a clue because it's not something I've ever cooked before - doesn't make me a bad cook, just an inexperienced one in one particular area. Also that someone gets to sit out half the competition (the tricky bits!) on basically the judges' whim.

yeah i watch but it's repetitiveness is really wearing me down. i think i'll have to stop.

Oh, I meant I still watch. That read a bit disparagingly, didn't it? It's getting like The Apprentice now, we watch for comedy Gregg faces and to see how wrongheaded they are being rather than for any genuine insight into, well, anything other than presenter ego tripping and pointing and laughing at the stupid people.

yup, can't watch this or big brother now for some reason

Also the massive inconsistencies: "food doesn't have to be fancy, does it?" to one contestant, ten minutes later to other contestant "well, that's not really very fancy, is it?"

http://s1.b3ta.com/host/creative/71827/1267096324/Masterchef.jpg

so there's a version of this in the states now.

Is it in the show's charter or something that there must be a scouse woman in every episode?

My early favourite is Dick from last night. No idea who he is though.

so there's a version of this in the states now.

― Aerosol, Wednesday, July 28, 2010 9:04 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Yes there is. It just premiered two days ago, it's pretty ludicrous but I can tell I will continue watching.

I am a night behind here (just halfway through yesterday's show), but Dick's moustache is awesome, also lol at "oh bottoms!". I am sad for Marcus and his lovely eyelashes though. Also liked Jennie Bond saying it was all terrible and she hated it, was much better than the teary-eyed journey-going-on bollocks spouted by other gallant losers.

Don't want to spoil it for Ailsa, suffice to say I was disappointed at who went out in the final three. Interesting cooking and a sweetheart.

Aw, thanks (wasn't reading for fear of spoilers though). Agreed Mark was pretty good and seems a top bloke (my husband, who has spent some time in his company concurs that he is a thoroughly decent chap), but Lisa seems lovely and quite good (despite horrendous poached egg/hollandaise disaster) and Chris obviously thinks he can win the whole thing (he could, if he reins his overambition in a bit). Danielle's hollandaise looked the biz, thought that might have kept her in over Lisa actually.

o_0 at the result tonight, fuck's sake, guy was giving it a right good go and producing the kind of food Gregg and John usually go all jizzy over. They didn't even like Dick's game thing (which I would have ordered if I'd seen it on the menu at a restaurant).

Would totally go round Christine's house for dinner though (as long as I didn't have to make polite conversation with her husband).

..and as long as she didn't start crying if I said I enjoyed her cooking.

Dick Strawbridge is the dude from the newer Scrapheap Challenge

I think it's finally happened. I'm finally bored of Masterchef.

:-(

Actually, I only watched tonight's this week, figuring that it wasn't going to matter one flying fuck what they did the rest of the week, aye? Even though they keep harking back to Lisa's amazing palate (wow, she has tastebuds and has eaten stuff, well done her) to justify keeping her and her weird almondy fish soup in.

harking back to Lisa's amazing palate (wow, she has tastebuds and has eaten stuff, well done her)

Yeah really, she was the only one who could identify some pretty fucking common ingredients, didn't make me think she was brilliant as much as everyone else was a witless moron.

There was a funny spoof of this on tonight's Shooting Stars. Not up to the standard of Vic and Bob's last Masterchef riff fifteen-odd years ago, but still good.

Have just caught up with last week's show. God, Neil Stuke was annoyingly unaware of everything he was doing wrong. And, basically, annoying.

Suspect Lisa will win, would like to see Christine or Dick win though. But dear GOD does the incessant "I'm just adding some more salt"/ cut to judge saying "it's too salty" thing get predictable and annoying.

Also, why does Kelly Holmes get to be a food critic and judge and someone to impress just because she's DAME Kelly Holmes? The whole "these are top class athletes, they know good food" bollocks is so ridiculous - evidently she doesn't, she doesn't even know what's in a fecking haggis!

Grrr, I hate this show. But yet, I still watch it.