Masterchef - why am i so cynical?

[PortofinosDHwillDieIfHeForgets]

Is it only me that asks myself - if these people are so desperate to cook professionally, why have none of them actually ever gone to catering college?

Cannot stand it anymore... it is the truly boring repetition...

If the bold one says yes it is sweet you know the otehr one will say the same...

they are the less articulate and sophisticated food tv presenters ever...

Yeah- the humillation of having to sit in a sofa with those 2 and trying to convincing that you 'really want it' .

bah, so dull this year.....

I'd win me. Here my SAUSAGES served with a hand twirled potato puree with poivre noir and hand-milked cat's butter, jus de bisto BUT the boiled water was Brita filtered so there. Oh and petit pois.

Well my DH is happy and snoring on the sofa. He hasn't run off with Nigella yet.

It's the voiveovers in the foodrecognition thing I don't get

'Mirabelle is really struggling'

exceopt half teh time the person they are commentating on is doing better than the rest! It's as if it is just randomcomments in a bizarre game of roulette!

Hey, Portofino - that's what we had tonight (minus the cat's butter, it was the guinea pig's turn).

I preferred the Loyd Grosman one when ladies of a certain age simply competed to see who was the best cook. None of this pretending to want to run a restaurant with rooms.
I just really don't get the conceit of this programme. If you want to work in a restaurant you start as a sous chef, why would you need to win Masterchef to do that?

He he, I love Masterchef. What's the actual prize though? Do they get a job in a restaurant or is it just glory that looks good on the CV?

The loyd Grosman one was fabulous. One step up from the WI Vic Sponge at the village fete.

The truth is that even if they win the tv programme all it means is that they can win a tv programme and that they can cook.

Being a chef is HUGELY different than being able to cook, it is a completely different set of skills and as for running a restaurant, well a restaurant is a business first and formost, no point in being able to cook nice food if you can't do it within budget and make money out of it. I'm absolutely sure that theCrackFox's dh is talented at all the skills needed and is not just able to cook well.

Masterchef is a food pantomime and Greg and John know it. Their loud posturing about food not getting tougher than this (try butchering a lamb, filleting 50 plaice and making a zillion raviolis before prepping and cooking for 50 before 2 o clock)
is just the tv version of 'he's behind you' and 'oh no he isn't'.
It is fun to watch but has little to do with real catering