MasterChef: The Professionals

The show is brilliant and would easily be a 10/10 for me but how the heck is Greg W a judge on this! The man isn't even a chef but thinks he can critique professionals.

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."

Would be better without the host Greg. He's annoying with the silly facial expression and when he opens his mouth! Can be arrogant at times when timekeeping. Judges are good and premise of the show. Some of the critics need to go and be replaced.