Professional Masterchef 2019: Chefs who can cook things properly are rare.

[GrouchyKiwi]

First thread.

Will anyone manage to cook anything all the way through?

Ive actually dispensed with a lunchbox, it's all down me top.
Knew they'd keep Kat, I reckon they scope them out in their natural habitat and know who they want.

@Wolfcub
😂

What tv star does the little weasily one resemble its bugging me

Fingers crossed tomorrow is better.

Mackenzie Crook Wolfcub?

Fingers crossed tomorrow is better.

Don’t say that! I’ve loved the cookery car crash!

Until tomorrow. I fancy some caramel toast now. Was all that sugar Kat chucked on her plate.

Where does Kat work? I know they said Brighton, but anyone have any idea?

Ooh just found Celebrity Countdown and it's Jay Rayner vs Jo Brand!

Unbelievable !
But not in a good way
Only the curry looked decent

Embarrassing that chefs on normal master chef are much
Much better

I will have to catch up before tomorrow's one. This sounds far too entertaining to miss.

Glorious skills tests! I've sad it before and I'll say it again - they should have a lot more of them to really test their mettle.

said not sad. Although the skillz on display were pretty sad.

Shows the lack of technical training for chefs on a national level. I know more than they did on basic skills from doing O level Home economics

How do professionals not know how to spatchcock or make a pesto?

I don't know!

I leave you alone for ONE EPISODE, and the whole thing turns into a shambles!

I'll have to get back to the telly tomorrow.

< I get all the work here . . . >

Just caught up. Isn't Malin lovely?

Sorry Miss Schadenfraud .

《bows head, hands behind back and scuffs toes on the ground 》

The fact that none of them knew how to rectify a split batter when making the beignets shows a lack of understanding about the fundamentals of cookery and that will always trip them up at some point

Cn I join? Just caught up. Was a disaster!!!! I would have done Monica's test better and I have never cooked a quail in my life. How did they not at least know what spatchcock is for pity's sake? And pesto? My 4 year old is learning to make pesto!!!!!

I think Greg, Monica and Marcus must be worried. If they don't get better chefs the whole thing will fall apart!!!

But when you look at where these chefs are working it’s usually mid range restaurants or gastro pubs where the pesto will be bought in and as along as they can cook a decent steak and whatever else is on the menu then they don’t get more training than is needed for the job. I doubt if they would even get to bake a cake on a regular basis or make a sauce other than gravy as well. I feel a bit sorry for them because this is the professionals’ competition and none of the six tonight see to know the fundamentals of cookery and the amateur competitors On the other show are on the whole more knowledgeable and have better skills than this lot.

Oh I agree, the amateurs would know what spatchcock meant, and how to make pesto. I do, and I’m not going to enter master Chef!
I hope it’s not edited to make them look incompetent as that’s peoples jobs and the reputation of where they work.

Both Marcus and Monica studied catering/ hospitality at FE colleges before working in top notch/Michelin starred restaurants where they would have had an intensive and thorough training. Compare their skills and knowledge to today’s contestants who hadn’t had that background.

I don't know how Marcus and Monica managed to carry on that episode after being faced with 3 raw quails, 2 raw donuts and the final contestant, having actually managed to cook something, added about 1lb of sugar.

Do none of the contestants have any training?

Just watched. It's putting me off eating out tbh.