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AIBU to think Masterchef is just crap now?

76 replies

PortofinoLovesPancakes · 18/02/2010 21:25

So this Masterchef malarkey! It used to be a relaxed hour of watching people cooking poncey food, but they were only there just so Lloyd Grossman could validate their opinion that they were really super. At least you got to watch what they were doing.

Now everyone wants to open a restaurant!
Go to fecking catering college then, don't waste 6 years on a PhD in Genetics! Years of hard study, when apparently your REAL ambition is to open a Gastropub in Slough.....

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MissWooWoo · 25/02/2010 18:48

Doh! what an idiot I am

I was having problems marrying the voice with the face ...

spenthen · 25/02/2010 20:37

What a special moment tonight when Gregg beamed at gorgeous blonde Kirsty and breathed, "Lovely tart!"

Incidentally, how annoying is it when the losing contestants all vow to "keep on cooking"??! What, not going to just starve to death on principle then???

gorionine · 26/02/2010 09:37

I think the one who did the apple on a bed of spinach with roast lamb and apricot/chilli puree can only have come to that programm for a bet with some mates...

babiesbabies · 26/02/2010 09:41

They have ruined it by sticking so many back to back episodes on. I can only handle one at a time.

TheFoosa · 26/02/2010 09:43

lol spenthen

although I did think she should have put some more clothes on, msut be a H&S risk if nothing else

MissWooWoo · 26/02/2010 09:44

not a great bunch last night ... don't they have to go through some kind of trial to get this far? I mean wtf! even I could do better than lamby apple man

gorionine · 26/02/2010 09:54

" I want cooking to be my life" no need to be on masterchef for that, cooking pretty much seems to be at the very heart of my SAHM life ATM!

humptynumpty · 26/02/2010 10:10

misswoowoo
They had quite good ingredients, not some of the more obscure ones they have had.
What was going on with that guy with the raw apple? Unless he was taking the piss by going on there in the first place, how did he think he was gonna make it in cooking? He didn't have a bloody clue!!

MissWooWoo · 26/02/2010 10:14

alarm bells started ringing when he they said he'd learnt all his cooking from his school "chef" mum

humptynumpty · 26/02/2010 10:20

School "chef" does he mean one of those gruff old ladies who patrols the dining hall with a smelly jay cloth threatening kids who eat their pudding before their main course?

MissWooWoo · 26/02/2010 10:25

loved it when Gregg asked him how peppery the rocket was and of course it was spinach - get back to your pot noodle love!

gorionine · 26/02/2010 10:25

""does he mean one of those gruff old ladies who patrols the dining hall with a smelly jay cloth threatening kids who eat their pudding before their main course?""

Maybe it got him so traumatised he actually now mixes his desert and main course?

humptynumpty · 26/02/2010 10:35

exactly, that's precisely what happened. Poor guy wouldn't have been able to identify a whole raw apple or spinach leaves if that's what he grew up on.
They really should have sorted him out with a special bag of ingredients including:
rice pudding
smash
tinned fruit
unidentified minced meat
and he would have made a cracking meal!!

humptynumpty · 26/02/2010 22:46

well, surprise surprise there were scallops again tonight, although no pea puree.

Glad bouffant fanny won, i like her!!

KurriKurri · 26/02/2010 22:58

Why was John Torode dressed like someone's nan?

SoMuchToBits · 26/02/2010 23:14

Masterchef Australia is waaayyyy more exciting!

moulesfrites · 27/02/2010 09:49

does it annoy anyone else when they ask mothers of young children how they will cope with the demands of the competition but you never find out whether a man s a father or not.

Am rooting for 60s Stacey - she is fab and from my neck of the woods.

spenthen · 27/02/2010 10:02

Oh you see I am so confused by the scheduling that I didn't even realise it was on last night!

Great news about Beehive Fanny though - go Fanny go!

spenthen · 19/03/2010 11:28

Time for another post about Masterchef I think!

Surely I wasn't the only one to giggle last night when Gregg and John told Connor the Heart Surgeon, "You've split us right down the middle!" ???

Stunned when the fella with the messy meringue got through, by the way. He'll be trudging down the alley after the next round, mark my words.

LtEveDallas · 19/03/2010 12:54

Another vote for Masterchef Australia - much better than the UK version (and apparently Masterchef NZ is even better!)...

LIZS · 20/03/2010 12:43

Agree about Masterchef Australia. btw Next episode of Masterchef is on Monday at 8.30pm due to yesterday's Sport Relief.

tallulahbelly · 20/03/2010 18:16

I've just found this thread - so apologies for going back the to the beginning - but I completely agree with the OP.

I keep ranting 'how much did it cost to train him as a heart surgeon?' 'what use is a policewoman who really wants to be a cook?'

DH just tells me everyone is entitled to follow their dream, which means 'shut the fuck up, I can't hear.'

tallulahbelly · 20/03/2010 18:18

Oh, and I want someone to tell John Torode to shave the back of his neck.

His hands could do with a trim too.

Greensleeves · 20/03/2010 18:28

we reckon john and gre are filthy

john likes to ride bareback on greg's saddle-shaped head and then play "hunt the scallop" under the duvet

I've yet to see an episode in which john doesn't say "the flavour of that delicious sweet scallop is just lost in there" or "I like the idea of that sauce, but you've lost the scallop"

Greensleeves · 22/03/2010 09:20

oh dear I killed it