Name Changes in Honour of Masterchef Final

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Finally it's the final tomorrow.

I think we need to change our names in honoour of this.

My money is on Dhruv ...

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V pleased Dhruv won. Easiest on the eye too

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Has anyone answered my question though - what do the Masterchef winners actually WIN?

I thought childrens doctors pudding looked like intestines and hemmorhoids served on a squre panty liner

They win a trophy

That's it

And maybe John rustles up a vanilla foam or some wilted spinach for them.

Ooh loved it when Dhruv's pregnant wife came over all hormonal and as a plus she was Scottish like me - way hay! .

Oh and the doc works at my local hospital (didn't know that until tonight!).

Oliviamumsnet are you allowed to stay up late and get drunk and be like a normal MNer? is that part of your job description? If so, can you get me a job .

I also think that Drs pudding looked like a little pile of catsick very similar to what I cleaned up a few days ago. But I did not not clean up wafer with it.

are pears the in thing at the moment? its the irritating commentator who gets my goat.

they win that plastic red and black trophy thingy,I would have arranged the winning puddings in a better way tho' and that chocolate thing looked a bit suspect.

I want Tim to be my personal pudding chef. That mont blanc looked DIVINE.

Some of the music was by the Penguin Cafe Orchestra.

But anyway, hurrah for Dhruv!

Seriously?
A fricking trophy?!
At countdown you get a trophy and a copy of the OED
Still I suppose the BBC have got to fund Prof Brian Cox's itinerary somehow

Pavlovthecat absolutely! That's part of the job!
Of course, if you get a job, then that's fewer opportunities for me to drink enjoy a glass of wine, MN, stay up late and get paid for it!

No no no not at all Olivia, we would need to network drink til the wee hours together on MN, it would be social researching at its best, you know, down with the crowd and all.

I am just trying to work an angle for this in my field...and not in London...

Dhruv was the well deserved winner, but do we have to have so many tears. It's only dinner after all.

I submit: "The sweetness of the [insert any root vegetable] against the saltiness of [insert any meat whatsoever]"

ALL meat in the final was "well-cooked"

I think they sat Gregg down and told him he had to mention every ingredient on the plate (as he's the ingredients man) and give each one an adjective

well-cooked bird... sweet carrot... iron-rich spinach... spicy pear, etc etc

Yay Dhruv, surely the most intense and serious finalist Masterchef has ever had

DP and I have been laughing throughout at Tim's earnest protestations of how he doesn't want to go back to the day job. What is it you do again, Tim? Oh that's right, help sick kids. It's not like you'll have to go back down the mines!

I'm so glad you said that, WantsToTaste. I've been moaning to DH throughout the series that Tim's 'day job' is far more important than winning MC.

And YAY Dhruv! Thought Alex might wim because his food was so inventive, but the duck hearts were maybe a bridge too far, even for J & G to stomach

Do you think Tim feels a little embarrassed today, having to go and face all those parents who know that he doesn't really want to be there treating their children? You'd be inclined to ask for a doctor who was actually interested in doing medicine, wouldn't you?

Dhruv was up there with the sweatiest of Masterchef finalists, surely? Made me feel a little icky the way he kept wiping the drips off his face with his hand, then sticking his fingers in the dinner!

Alex - well he does look like he needs to actually eat a few of those dinners of his, tbh. But then maybe he doesn't like offal either?

On Twitter Tim has said he gave up medicine in February.

36 is young to be a Consultant. I wonder if he has done his because he is a high achiever and reached his peak in medicine early and needs something else. Certainly he was very intense, and also, not worn well for 36. (Disclaimer: am 38, and believe anyone younger than me must look like a Glee character)

Really pleased for DadOfOneDhruv, well deserved.

MajesticScallop - you could say that about any of the competitors who say food is their life (and implicitly that their day job is crap) - I don't think being a doctor makes it different for Tim. Plus I bet there are tonnes of doctors wishing they were living in the Caribbean / playing for Man Utd / being a sculptor and at least Tim is doing something about his passion! I doubt he is really dreaming of cardamom and lemon delice while he is treating a small child... I however, amd still salivating about that dessert he did in India!

Alex drove me and DH insane - had this sort of bambi look about him and so bloody earnest about how amazing everything was and so obsequious in the presence of Michelin-starred chefs and unnaturally obsessed with offal. Bleugh.

DH now wants to name our unborn child Dhruv... I just hope said child learns to cook food like he can!

Dhruv is the name of the bespoke IT system used at the last place I worked......anyway, I think he deserved to win - he was consistently better during the last weeks than the other two.

megonthemoon me and DH though the EXACT same thing about Alex, but didn't quite manage to put it into words as well as you - we just moaned about his head wobble when he walked!

I recorded this last night...avoided BBC Breakfast this am in case they interviewed the winner...didn't dream about not logging onto mnet until I'd watched it!

I had a go at the self-service till (that never works) in Tesco this morning and reckon that the voice that tells you what to do was that of the Masterchef voice-over.