MASTERCHEF PROFESSIONALS 2019

[sevendaughters]

bring back fat Geordie in his Welsh smokehouse, this guy today is full TVGoHome fodder

[sevendaughters]

BALANCE AND RESTRAINT

[sevendaughters]

god I hate how it makes the contestants turn into unctuous wankers

restaurant for oligarchs, fuck this shit, I HATE FINE DINING ANYWAY

[touchingcloth]

Does anyone find this year's final eight unusual compared to previous years? Fewer wanky Michelin types than usual.

[wooders1978]

Does anyone find this year's final eight unusual compared to previous years? Fewer wanky Michelin types than usual.

Think it's going a bit out of fashion now the over fancy fine dining - it's all street food and pop ups now, maybe a brewery with dining

[sevendaughters]

I can't remember contestants year on year anymore such is the saturation of reality cooking gameshows but all I can say is that I like pretty much all of this lot and I mean that I can see through the overwrought presentation of Masterchef into their beating hearts and say they're all a decent bunch.

Generally I think the height of cuisine is something like you'd get in a bouchon or a good Japanese restaurant. There is presentation and skill, but there's something about the creation of a convivial atmosphere with high quality ingredient cookery that gets me ready to pick up the phone and make a booking.

Presenting an obscure meat 3 ways with various gels and split oils and reinterpreted veg is impressive on a superficial level, but it's also incredibly masturbatory. Obviously that's the remit of the show...maybe it needs to change.

[Jittlebags]

I only remember the bloke with the nice mustachios from a few year back.

[wooders1978]

So exose gets the worst feedback but isn't the one who had go home eh bbc

[touchingcloth]

So exose gets the worst feedback but isn't the one who had go home eh bbc

Ah he basically hasn't had bad feedback before, and Andy has had his fair share.

[sevendaughters]

I thought Exose's and Andrew's was equally 'bad' (fuck I mean I wish I could cook that badly)

[Gurke and Hare]

Exose's criticism was mainly about presentation, he got good feedback on the flavours. Andrew overcooked the meat, which is pretty much always fatal at this point.

[touchingcloth]

Exose always gives himself way more to do than some of the candidates, which in that round was his undoing. I got the sense they took that ambition into account when they judged him; with not many minutes more he would have had a faultless meal, whereas Andrew produced the meal he intended to within the time and it still had errors.

It's a shame that this show is so ruthless in not doing the thing of sending an extra person or two through at the end of a round, because I could quite happily watch a finals week with all the final 8 this year. The final 10-12, even.

I say it every year, but this show running in parallel to The Apprentice is always so stark in how the candidates are genuinely talented almost to a person, and yet there are very few outright show off dick heads.

[Twit 2]

There slumbers a saffron-coloured liqueur of exquisite delicacy! It gives off a subtle aroma of angelica and hyssop mixed with seaweed whose iodine and bromine content is masked with sugar! It stimulates the palate with a spiritous fire hidden under an altogether virginal sweetness! It flatters the nostrils with a hint of corruption wrapped up in a caress that is once childlike and devout! That is fackin' larverley!

[touchingcloth]

Living in Portugal, it was a lot of fun seeing them in Lisbon tonight. I was interested to see José pronounce Exose's name as E-ho-say, as x/j sounding like an aitch isn't a thing in Portuguese, either European or Brazilian, so for some reason he gave it what I only recognise as a European Spanish pronunciation.

One thing his restaurant seemed to be missing - even for an upper end Portuguese place - was a telly screen showing the footie. You can't escape them in restaurants here, no matter how much you pay.

[sevendaughters]

watching tonight's episode, keep imagining Stu as Kevin Rowland in Dexys and it's cracking me up.

Yesterday's Chef's Table episode was a bit of an hour long dry hump in the end but was worth it for that little Brummie love-in.

[touchingcloth]

^ why a dry hump? I thought they all did really well! Olivia or Stu for the win now, I don't think Exose will get it, amazing though he's been.

[sevendaughters]

just inasmuch as it didn't really lead to an elimination, was still fine telly.

think Olivia is going to do this and yes I think Exose's youth and inexperience showed in Portugal. but he's very good too.

[touchingcloth]

Yeah I don't think Exose will win. Either Olivia or Stu will take it, and I hope it's Olivia.

[jake thunder]

They've said "delightful" 400 times an ep on this show. I'm going mad

[jake thunder]

Someone buy these people a thesaurus plz!!!!

[BlodwynPig]

Gregg pretending industrially manufactured quiche lorraine is tasty on bbc2 a couple of days ago. Fraud cunt

[touchingcloth]

They've said "delightful" 400 times an ep on this show. I'm going mad

"That food is a delight!" is what Greg says every episode.

Has anyone noticed that Marcus can't really pronounce "delicious" properly, yet says it a lot all the same?

[gilbertharding]

The "He's doing his weekly shop!" joke made me want all of them to win.

Exose seems to be running out of steam - it looked as if he would win at a walk for so long.

[sevendaughters]

actually I thought Exose's fish ouroborous looked actively shit, now I think about it

[wooders1978]

I think Stu will win - exose and Olivia in particular are amazing but haven't been very inventive so far

[touchingcloth]

The "He's doing his weekly shop!" joke made me want all of them to win.

Yes! I found myself thinking "I hope they're all having a nice time together in Lisbon".

[wooders1978]

Bloody hell im all emotional watching the final like a geet lassie

[sevendaughters]

good final there, good winner, good series, thank you goodnight!

[wooders1978]

good final there, good winner, good series, thank you goodnight!

100%!
My fave series yet

[touchingcloth]

100%!
My fave series yet

Agreed!

I didn't quite catch it, but when the winner range their partner on speakerphone and after a bit of a flat response said "well, aren't you going to congratulate me on winning?", was the response "yes, but I'm in the middle of doing my business"?