MasterChef: The Professionals

This is a fun show to watch, the chefs are excellent, its fun to see them struggle through the skills tests, and i just love the hosts, they are for the most part positive, supportive, encouraging and helpful as opposed the somewhat angrier meaner hosts in the versions from other countries.

They are currently in the 14th season, I'm not sure why the IMDB has not updated this show since season 11.

I love the show but it lacks Umph.

If you watch it in other countries its so much fun.

I understand the idea of checking their skills. However maybe this could be addressed by removing it. Maybe set the skills test without any of the faffing., pomp and ceremony, sitting on chairs and moving over slowly, like a big entrance. Very annoying. More excitement and speed in the first section would stop me fast forwarding. To the contestants cooking. Unnecessary judgements could be made at this time.

The effect of this on the contestants could be very negative especially the way they are criticised. A teacher would not treat them like that.. Perhaps give them a chance to show off their technical skills from a choice of food stuffs.. I have no more ideas, suffice to say that I feel its a poor beginning to the show.

I used to love MasterChef until Gaston was unfairly eliminated. The show will capture cookery in two parts but the final decision doesn't consider both cooking sessions. Gaston's cooking was exceptional for the michellin star professionals and George's fish was undercooked. This round wasn't even considered in the final decision which is terrible. This whole show is completely unfairly judged as they only consider the final cookery round despite there being other challenges including chefs table, pop up cooking etc. Gaston didn't have a single error until the final cooking round and all rounds should be considered when sending chefs home. I also feel that innovation, creativity and the ability to be unique isn't considered when deciding who to eliminate. Gaston is an incredibly unique chef and has the ability to quickly think on his feet and deliver something exceptionally unique. He doesn't stick to just simple foods and flavours like a lot of the other chefs. This was a really hard watch as it was completely unfair and I won't be watching MasterChef again.

I love the focus on techniques and ingredients. But I find the breathless, melodramatic voiceover to be out of place and distracting.

I understand that these shows tend to manufacture tension and dramatics to keep people entertained, but sometimes it's a bit too much.

Why do you call Gregg Wallace a Masterchef? He is a greengrocer, not even an apprentice chef. Michel Roux might well be a Masterchef, although already for 16 years he fails to get his third star. Gregg may have watched a lot of cooking being done, but no cook learns anything without practice. A Masterchef has many thousands of hours of practice and is able to take on every part of the kitchen: meat, fish, pastry, desserts. Final comment: the level of knowledge of your contestant chefs is very low. Masterchef is an entertaining program but with too much screaming in the style of "We expect the best.Only the very best chefs will go through. And: Masterchef Gregg will judge you."