Masterchef the Professionals, #5: Onwards to the Grand Final. Tissues at the ready.

[GrouchyKiwi]

How many times will Santosh make us cry?

Tomorrow one and all

Merry Christmas @TheDogsMother!

Aw crap - I’ve got a sodding AGM zoom tomorrow. Can I watch this on the side...? 🤔

Ohwhat. Definitely !

This will springboard Philli into a fabulous career I think. Talented woman, just needs a bit more experience.

Night all

I've enjoyed your company TheDogs , thanks for the laughs. Have a good Christmas & see you back next time

Could you have a ‘wifi problem’?

Philli should be so proud of herself, the food she cooks is amazing. She has a real passion and is creative and innovative.

@JayAlfredPrufrock

Has a woman ever won Professional Masterchef?

One of the earlier series was one by Claire someone. I feel like there has been one more woman, more recently, but I can't remember.

Merry Christmas @TheDogsMother

*won

Chef Wong and santosh. Awesome.

Thanks for great chat

I like the guy from Nepal because he is wearing a chef's hat..

Agree re Philli. I don't think development chefs usually get this far, though maybe the Covid format worked in her favour there since she didn't have to do a dinner service.

Sad to see Phili to go, very happy with who is in the final. Santosh to win for me (which now I've said that, means he now won't, sorry!)

@ThatIsNotMyUsername. The key is to have a phone or iPad on a table to your right if you are right handed (where you would normally have papers) and keep yourself on mute unless you need to speak.

Not so helpful if you are leading the AGM, but if you just need to second a few things....

Ah, not that recent, and she had to share.

Previous winners

Not leading thankfully but I have been sent in to kick some backsides.

Well I suppose me peering off into the wrong direction and some involuntarily ‘nooooooo’ ‘Oooooooo’ ‘what is he thinking?????’ and ‘For fuck sake!’s will scare the beejezus out of them.

List of previous winners. I remember being annoyed the year two people won
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MasterChef:_The_Professionals

Bart looks like a very odd amalgamation of Frank Skinner and John Bishop.

I adore Santosh and really hope he wins. He's very tall for a Nepali. I used to regularly attend NDA UK events and at 5'5" I was one of the tallest people there. Seriously beautiful people, inside and out.

Thank you for the thread (even though I lost track of time and missed the programme)

I think Phili had the tough course at the table. In the warm weather doing a dessert must be difficult. They ought to have an air con room for doing the desserts so they don't get too troubled by the heat.

I suppose though in a busy kitchen they wouldn't have the luxury of air con, though Liar.

I think she did very well pulling herself back so well from that hideous moment that she accidentally called Gregggg "chef" - she probably wished that the floor would swallow her up!

I suppose though in a busy kitchen they wouldn't have the luxury of air con, though

There have been a number of programs on where they've shown places like hotels kitchens where they have a cold separate area for pastry work. I'd have thought in a studio set up for a cooking competition it wouldn't have been too much of an issue. Even an area out by the chillers, just somewhere away from the heat.

Oh - I hadn't seen anything like that. Then I agree with you - a cooler area would be kinder to the chefs.

It's like on Bake Off when they give them 7 minutes to make a sorbet in 90 degree temperatures.

Drives me crackers!