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12:00pm Sunday, April 11
Episode 1:
MasterChef
Can you stand the heat?
This March the highly anticipated new series of MasterChef premieres exclusively on LifeStyle FOOD. This series is not just a test of cooking skills – it’s a test of character.
The contestants in MasterChef want their own restaurants. They dream of becoming the next Jamie Oliver, or even the next Gordon Ramsay. But can they stand the intensity of the professional kitchen? It all starts with the heats. Over six weeks of heats and a gruelling week of semi-finals, the contestants are whittled down to just four in a series of gruelling challenges that test their originality, ingenuity and ability to cook under pressure. The judges – Australian-born London restaurateur John Torode and fruit and veg expert Gregg Wallace – are on hand to offer hints and tips, but, ultimately, to decide who stays and who goes. In the final stages the pressure is cranked up further. Will flair and natural talent be enough to win or will it be one contestant's precision, attention to detail and discipline that allows them to claim the ultimate prize and be crowned MasterChef champion? This series is the ultimate culinary competition – full of great recipes, larger-than-life characters and nail-biting tension.
What Do You Think ?
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Android 2 years agoOne of the best cooking shows on TV. Anyone with culinary flare, a sense of taste and knowledge of food , can go far! Love what you do and do what you love ... John & Gregg are encouraging and informative... the perfect hosts. I have been watching since 9.00am ( its now 4.30pm )... with HOURS to go ! Keep them coming.-
Rellzy Prime 11 months agoI love this show so much !! you know it actually makes you feel you can be there yourself!!! because im like " no no ooooooo, do it this way, i would do it this waaaaaaaay"
Gets me on the edge of my seat. I love it.
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Janice 1 year agoI live in Australia and watch this show all the time. The passion the hosts show when experiencing the food these amateurs cook and the journey is awesome!! I am totally addicted to the show. I thought 2008 final absolutely incredible and really hope. I believe James was an exceptional cook and it was his overall passion that got him the win but as for Emily, she totally blew me away. I so hope that girl does not stop and does ultimately become a chef. Her food was totally amazing and inspirational The show is coming to Australia soon but without John and Greg who I believe make the show work I am not sure how it will go. Fingers crossed they find the right presenters -
JA25 1 year agoI like many avid watchers love the show, and I would love to know what the fab 4 finalists in each series do after this amazing experience, is that it, is all that potential lost or do they get their dream?-
AnnM 1 year agoHave a look on the BBC website to see what happened with each of the finalists later on. Google masterchef goes large.
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Mary E Elphick 1 year agoWonderful show. I never miss it. I loveJohn and Greg. My alltime favourite. show. I want more and more.
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HW6 1 year agoLove this show!!! Totally addicted!!! Does anyone know why John isn't hosting Masterchef The Profesionals??-
PF40 11 months agoI love John but possibly they required someone with a little more stars to their name, plus John is doing another food series with one of the celebrity chef winners.
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CR83 1 year agoLove this show. One day I hope I could be on this show, but it's alright I know I can cook, Masterchef -all shows are my all time favourites. -
CR83 1 year agoLove this show. One day I hope I could be on this show, but it's alright I know I can cook, Masterchef -all shows are my all time favourites. John & Greg you're the best.
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GP38 1 year agoGreat show really looking forward to the aussie version on channel ten should be very competitive, and very entertaining. good luck to all the contestants. bring on the Assie talent ! -
HL16 1 year agoI love this show I am looking forward to the new show I loved Celebrity Mastershef too so I hope this is also coming back in 2009. -
Tracie Asill 1 year agoAwesome. I am an Australian addict. Watch it all the ime Love you 2 guys. Watched Masterchef Professional and I thought, where's John.. no, no, no. Sorry but Michel Roux Jnr is horrible. Flat as a tack! bring back "Goes Large" xx to Greg and John. -
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Louise 1 year agoThe show has a terrible fascination for me. I cannot imagine why anyone would want to put themselves through the ordeal of having their food sneered at by those two picky judges. And I hate the quarter finals, I think it is horrible to make someone go home without cooking. But I keep watching. It is horribly compulsive. -
carlynsonny4ever 1 year agoI have watched each season and look forward to this one. But there are times that I do disagree with Greg and John. I still think that Peter should never had won in season two, how he was in the final 3 still confuses me to this day.-
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PF40 11 months agoDean should have definately have taken out the title. I know Peter was older and yeah, maybe it was his last chance, but Dean was a better all rounder on this one.
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ME7 1 year agoBe a show worth watching if it wasn't for the pompous, arrogant hosts.
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PF40 11 months agoI love those guys, they are FANTASTIC. You look at anyone in any industry that knows their stuff. There is always a little arrogance going around.
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bendie sarmiento 1 year agoi 'm an avid fan of the show because i'm interested with the recipes
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Allegra Devereaux 1 year agoLove the show(s), totally addictive television. Lots to be learnt (from others mistakes through to watching how the professionals do it in Masterchef: the professionals). Greg & John have a great job!
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dnastrand 1 year agoI'm an addict. Great show, terrific tension and inspirational food ideas. I agree with carlynsonny4ever - Peter should never have won. He missed a crucial challenge in the final because he was "sick". That placed pressure on the other contestants who came through with flying colours. His reliance on black pudding to win was a crying shame.
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Filewoods 1 year agoWe love the show & watch it every night however we always wonder why they complete the pressure cooker section as this is never taken into consideration when judging the winner for the night. Also why does it appear that John always gets his way. -
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KC144 11 months agoI think this show rocks...it's never boring and makes me hungry lol. It's really cute how almost every creation includes "mash" So wonderfully British. -
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JM372 11 months agoWe really enjoy watching this show! After seeing the first episode we thought that the competitors would at least have some idea of cooking. It would be great if the show incorporated a segment where they chose someone from the public that has an idea about cooking.... i really hope this show gets a good rating this year as my bf has the talent to be on MasterChef :)
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Judy 11 months agoI Have been a deicated australian viewer, and I was very excited to be down to the last 4 episodes to watch, although I have to express my disspointed to see the final winner matt on market kitchen as the winner before the final episode.
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David 11 months agoLove this show, pity Market Kitchen had this years winner on last night before the show has annouced a winner :(-
Nurse29 11 months agoMy absolute fabourite show of all time.......I completely agree, I unknowingly watched an episode of Market Kitchen when prior to an episdoe of Market kichen starting, they announced 2008's celebrity masterchef winner. Totally spoilt the rest of the show for me. Oh well, can't be helpled. It's just that I love masterchef so much, I want the excitement leading up to the final result. Conclusion, I've had to stop watching Market Kitchen until this 2009 series is over. I'm afraid the Aussie format looks far too bloody dramtic already. Trust 10 to screw something good up.
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Passionate Cook 11 months agoI totally agree. For some reason, us Aussie's seem to have a knack of screwing up something that the poms have perfected. I think you and should go to England and try for Master Chef over there. I know I don't want to try for the Aussie one. This is also my favourite show and I to love the drama of who will get in and who won't. I find I have become a real food critic when I eat out now. I don't look at food in the same way as I used to. These shows have certainly opened my eyes and made me a better cook for it. -
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JD1962 11 months agoAt times painful to watch people go through such torture, but so very adictive. Hope the Aussie version isn't stuffed up, but don't like our chances. The poms do it so well. -
Rellzy Prime 11 months agoWell...... I live in Australia, and I love this show. I love love love it. Its my dads birthday tonight, and im actually going to make a few of the dishes from this show.
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PF40 11 months agoAbsolutely LOVE this show. Have only seen ads for the Aussie version and I already don't like it. I like the variety of contestants that they have on and the various levels of talent. The sneak peek into some of the UK's restaurants is fantastic.
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JC267 11 months agoWhat happened to the semi final knockout. Watched last Thursday 4 contestants. Friday no show. Monday only 3 contestants. What heppened. We want to know. The best chef if no longer there. How come. Please let us have the full series. -
bond girl 007 11 months agoMasterchef is my favourite show....apart from the title of Masterchef....what do they win?? A restuarant? I have looked on the website and there is no answer
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jackicam 11 months agoYeah, I wondered the same thing.Do they just get an empty trophy to take home or is it filled with cash?...or truffles maybe... Got addicted to this show during the Easter marathon.... Thought Andy would win but was really glad Matt did. -
Tiny Dancer 11 months agoI watched the Aussie version last night and it was bad! The UK one is so much better. So glad I didn't enter it now :-)
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Sara 11 months agoTotally agree with Tiny Dancer - the Aussie version SUCKS! Channel 10 completely butchered it. It's totally different - more like Big Brother than MC.
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jackicam 11 months agoWho comes up with our tv show concepts? Why aren't they sacked? If something ain't broke - don't fix it! I got really excited by the Aussie MC ads ... I should have known better.
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sean 10 months agoFirst time I've seen the show, never seen anything worst. Get it off and put on some real TV.
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John Donnan 10 months agoMy wife, myself and several of my sons are devoted fans of Masterchef UK and watch each episode (do I add re-runs)religiously.
However we are extremely upset that the name Masterchef has been allowed to operate as Masterchef Australia but we guess that's what happens when commercial interests are allowed to "buy" the idea. Similar with Ready Steady Cook - Australian version; same Australian free-to-air channel, same poor representation of the British original. Thenew Masterchef Australia show is a disaster morphing into something like "Big Brother" with contestants ending up in some house for an extended period. the judges are nothing like John Torode and Gregg Wallace - if you live in Sydney they are non-entities. We are upset tjhat the original concept has been bastardised into Big Brother meets a Stove. Not for us tahnks and we are appalled that the original concept has been allowed to be stuffed up the way it has been. We are hoping more and more Australians tune out.
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Thinker 10 months agoThe REAL MasterChef is inspiring and amazing viewing and so I totally agree with John Donnan. I have been watching it on the Lifestyle food channel, on subscription TV for years. It is and has been a first-class series with down to earth likable professional presenters and an excellent formula. It was so predictable and unsurprising to see how channel 10 in Australia molested the series to dumb it down, sensationalise it and have it presented in such an arrogant pretentious way. It by no means correlates or does the British born series any justice or favours. I wonder when the franchise owners will realise the mistake which has been made by delivering it to channel 10 Australia. Simply channel 10 should have called it |So you think you can cook| or "Top Australian Chef" or some other unrelated cliché buzz word. The show is a poor effort and embarrassment, its food for the masses and I suppose it will find its target audience and make its money here. Im Australian in case you may wonder and suggest you’ll compare for yourself. The influence which channel 10 & 7 in Australia have in shaping our current culture with such garbage is so frustrating. -
Annie-M 10 months agoThe concept of this show is so wrong! I was dumbfounded when they pitted one of the contestants against a professional chef with both cooking this chef's signature dish so early on in the competition. What did they expect would be the result??? Other than humiliation for the contestant! And on the remote chance that the contestant won, his prize was to be fast tracked through the comp and be sent home til the finals - how on earth was he supposed to hone is skills? On UK Masterchef, this would never have happened - what a totally brainless thing to do. The last 3 chefs all bettered themselves by the comraderie and competition and situations they were thrust into. How could sending someone home if they won a challenge possibly benefit their skills. The other contestants would have completely surpassed him.
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Melissa 10 months agoCould not agree more! MC Australia is an insult to to the superior UK version. About the only thing the two shows have in common might be food and even that is stretching it.
MC UK has integrity and is hugely entertaining. MC AUstralia is a dumbed down seen it before load of rot. -
I agree with you Sean! I really dislike this show - its boring - you don't even have enough time to get to know the contestants to get attached. Don't know who the judges are or what they do or what they can do - they just sit around in suits and yak on. Boring. -
bev 9 months agoWhat a shame, Master Chef Australia is such a farce. Who gives a chef/cook 35 minutes to cook a paella and exepect a decent dish. Even to a Spaniard this would be incomphrehensible, never mind a would be chef. My only comment to George would be...your full of it. I cook steak all the time, beautifully i might add. However after following your tips, for a rib eye fillet, with a red wine sauce and spinach, the only thing worthy was the spinach. As any one knows, a real sauce requires a lot more than 1 hour on the stove. The expectations placed on the contestants is unrealistic, and you expect miracles from really good,potential chefs, without really giving them a chance. Shame on you, do you really think by going on this show you are sharing REAL KNOWLEDGE, or is it all about the Dollars??? -
Paulene 9 months agoAs an avid fan of the UK MasterChef, I agree, the Australian version is completely botched. It is a combination of MasterChef, Top Chef and Biggest Loser. That female presenter, I don't even know her name, is completely superfluous, and trying so hard to be Padma from Top Chef. I want to see the contestants cooking and see their skills/meals develop as the series progresses. I tape it to Foxtel IQ and fast forward most of it. And, I agree with Thinker, how are UK MasterChef team feeling about the criminal treatment of their show. We need 2 series of UK MasterChef per year!
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kara 9 months agoI can't bring myself to watch the Australian version. Looks TERRIBLE. Particularly the 'host' and the judges. One of the judges puts me off my food just thinking about him. Urgh. I sincerely hope there will be NO second season. I thought Michel Roux Jr was fantastic on Professionals. He definitely grows on you - so to those who perhaps disliked him after one episode, do watch further episodes... he's great.
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Niran 9 months agoThe Australian Master Chef show very well impressive I very enjoy idea, and presentation this is the best cooking I never seen before thank you all of team work, and I do believe the best chef in the word multi culture will be created in this country keep going we love you. -
samantha 8 months agosamantha 14 years old i watch masterchef i think it's good it give me good things to cook -
Nicola38 8 months agoThis has to be one of my fav shows. John and greg are on the ball with their assessments and my one of the contestants on last years show is my local pub manager....so cool
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Brett 8 months agoThe two best cooks Justine and Chris are now gone and I would NEVER buy Poes book no one wants to eat rotten eggs YUK, I like to experiment too but not with such fowl looking food. All of the professional chefs that have been on agreed Justine was the best, and as a chef myself I thought Justine was the best -
Anthony 8 months agoFar out everyone on here is so frustrating.....The Australian version has much broader appeal. Go hate on its success somewhere else. The fact a cooking show can attract such large viewers and air in prime time 6 nights a week is a testament to its format and casting. Im not saying the original version is no good, but if it were to air on commercial television here in the same timeslot, it would have been axed many weeks ago. No doubt some idiot here will claim that anyone who watches the Australian version is somehwat unintelligent and that the Uk version is so much more sophisticated because its the British. Get off your high horses, MC Australia is guaranteed to be around for many more years to come. Far out it even has the support of many top Australian, world renowned chefs, i guess they are all stupid too.
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MC 8 months agoFor those that can't watch the Australian version, it must be hard being in the minority. The UK version of the show is virtually unwatchable. It has been on Australian TV since before the Australian version but has no following, and no wonder. The insipid voiceover makes it sound as exciting as a documentary on book binding. And why reinforce the UK cuisine's reputation for bland predictability? When the judge says that curry and cream is weird (huh?) and that mussels and pork as a combination is extremely unusual (anyone heard of Portugal?) you know he thinks fondly of battered fish and mushy peas.
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Mary 8 months agoThe finale of MC Australia had a viewing audience of over 4 million people! It's great that it has a vast amount of Australia watching the program, talking food and not only getting back to cooking food but also trying different foods, its fantasic!
It needs tweaking...it doesn't need a host, it shouldn't have contestants voting each other out or have contestants fast tracked to the finals, much less pregnant pauses and recaps ad infinitim.
As a huge fan of MC UK I loathed it initially and had to decide to think of it as a totally different program. It seems to have been produced for ratings and marketability rather than the people and the cooking, but hey look at the effect it's had on people.
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MM178 8 months agoDoes anyone know how to access the recipes from Masterchef UK? I really like the lime & coconut cheesecake made recently by one of the winners.
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Audrey14 7 months agoNever miss it,, love the show, the best, just love the judges they are fair, and know what food is all about
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POL69 7 months agoI totally LOVE this show! Keep it coming!I rush home from work jus to watch it. I gives me some great ideas and inspiration. Thanks for the entertainment, not much good old entertainment around these days!
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Johanna 6 months agoWe've only just clapped eyes on the Australian version in New Zealand. What a shocker , it's like an American waanna be reality tv show..no class and pompous who the hell are they when they are at home chefs .....what stuck up judges. Nope no following here ..
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claire 5 months agoI love masterchef and cooking but i'm only 15 so i'm too old for Junior Masterchef and too young for the Real Masterchef. Why can't there be Intermediate Masterchef or Junoir Masterchef for ages 9-16 so i can have a go.
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dicky 5 months agopity its always a pompous prigg that cooks "classical (read french) cuisine" that wins.
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Patrik 3 months agoI live in sweden and I can see the show here now. It really makes me want to start to learn how to cook for real. To step up an focus on what is important in life. I would like to see more what happend with the contestant afterward.
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Twilight 2 months agoI really enjoyed watching the Australian Masterchef and I especially like Matt Preston. I think that he is funny the faces that he pulls when he tastes the contestant's food. You think that he is about to say that it tastes like S**t, but he says that it tastes very nice. -
Derrick Watterson 16 days agoHey guys, check out the new MasterChef UK Official page: http://www.facebook.com/MasterChefUK and join to view official photos, take part in competitions and talk about the show!
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G Owens 5 days agoG Owens(Australia)
A great show but:-
Such a shame that the English have to present meals to satisfy French standards, where is the good, wholesome English cooking?? -
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