Professional Masterchef 2024: Thread 5 is topped with pork scratchings.

[GrouchyKiwi]

Like all good desserts.

Jay, Jimi or Grace would be my pick too.

I would absolutely love Tom PB but probably not going to happen.

Or the Irish female chef who did a guest appearance a while ago. I thought she was fab. Forget her name.

Or the female chef from the Lancashire Michelin restaurant

Or does it have to be a non chef?

Gaston is fabulous. I hope he wins.

Chiara will one day look back at shots of herself in those spectacle frames, and think whyyyyyy

They are so unflattering but they seem to be fashionable atm.

There was a similar trend in the 80s. Absolutely enormous glasses, although the frames were not as heavy.

Awful!

There was a similar trend in the 80s

I remember it well!

https://images.app.goo.gl/EeMbEj2MtZ2Ew6jx5

:D

Have you all seen this?
Marrakesh is ...different. mix of exotic and lovely with grotty and cruel. So lovely rooftop restaurant (food mediocre) and little girls begging outside. Motorbikes everywhere and donkeys and horse drawn carts.

https://news.sky.com/story/gregg-wallace-says-accusations-against-him-come-from-middle-class-women-of-a-certain-age-13264355

i feel “fuck off gregg” doesn’t really suffice….

He really is the gift that keeps on giving rather like herpes.

I would wager that middle class, middle-aged women are MChef's core audience.

Attempting to alienate us all from spite?

He really is a horrible little man.

I will be very sad if John Torode has to leave in a guilt-by-association way. I find him hugely likeable

I'm all for Mon and Grace doing it and drop the Celeb version.
I can take or leave Johnty. My worst nightmare is Lisa taking over from Greggggggg.
Or if we can't have 2 wimmen, can we have MRJ? (I know he has sort of semi retired to France)

I don't think they need three or they could have a rotating third.

MRJ?

Michel Roux Jnr, I think.

Indeed @Halsall the one and only

M.R. James.

It's a leftfield choice but I'm all for it. Food will be described as eerily good or having a haunting essence, Egon Ronay will join the critics' round via a ouija board, and it will transpire that the eventual winner died in an incident involving a chestnut brazier in 1857 and everyone who ate his chocolate fondant is cursed to die at the hands of faulty kitchen equipment before the next asparagus season.

From the menu that brought you ‘Oh, Whistle and I’ll Come to You, My Lardo’

Oh yes please re Michel Roux Jr.perfect choice.
Esma - have you been at the absinthe again?

🤣🤣🤣 I am all for this version of masterchef

I've turned to drinking meths ever since I heard of Gregg's demise. I'll probably end up shambling along the aisles of Waitrose shouting, 'Fuck off, Gregg!' at any poor bald, bespectacled man in crumpled linen who has the misfortune to cross my path.

God yes what was it with the crumpled linen shirts? Like he had them previously tucked in to his jeans.

Apologies if there has been a Thread Discussion on this point. I have been away for ages.

Why are my creepy wee grinning faces all squished?

🤣🤣🤣
I could go for that to be fair.