MasterChef: The Professionals, but are they?

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MasterChef: The Professionals, but are they?

November 10, 2016 - 20:08
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It's back again. The show that caters for the Famished Armchair  Foodie is back on our screens only this time, it's gone professional.

And after Wednesday nights episode, I use the term "professional', very loosely. What a bunch of nuggets they were.

Professionals: Gregg Wallace, Monica Galetti and Marcus Wareing

By Andy Simon @AndySimon55

It's back again. The show that caters for the Famished Armchair Foodie is back on our screens only this time, it's gone professional.

And after Wednesday nights episode, I use the term "professional', very loosely. What a bunch of nuggets they were.

Couldn't cook for toffee! None of them!

Now I am no cook by any stretch of the imagination.

And I admit; my knowledge in the kitchen is somewhat basic. However; even I with my limited knowledge and skill could have knocked up something considerably better than this bunch of alleged Professional Chefs.

It was awful to watch! I'm just glad I didn't watch in high definition.

As usual the judges; two Michelin Star Chef Marcus Wareing, the now very blonde, Monica Galetti, & 2014 Strictly disaster Gregg Wallace, who's talents are considerably better in the MasterChef kitchen than in a ballroom, witnessed the culinary skills, efforts and varying degrees of incompetence displayed by the questionable at best, professional chefs in the first round Skills Test.

Watching Wednesday night's episode, the first three so called Pro Chefs had to make for Monica a dish of T-bone plaice with a sauce vierge. I have never seen or heard of this dish, but it sounded simple even to an uneducated old git like me.

And I have to admit, watching Monica do one looked easy. Mind you, it always does. Her three victims failed; miserably.

For his skills test; Marcus did a wild garlic veloute and gave his three victims 15 minutes to do the same.

They also failed; miserably. Even Gregg looked cheesed-off! Come to think of it, so was I. And I was beginning to wonder if I was actually watching the "Professionals" version of this show.

The next round should have provided the Pro Chefs with their opportunity to shine out like beacons of culinary excellence. But the results this bunch of alleged Pro's produced only convinced me to not go visiting their eatery anytime soon.

It is early days in this new series of MasterChef The Professionals, and I'm hoping that during the course of this series, we are going to see some Professional Chefs? I mean really. Are these chefs deliberately being useless or are they really, REALLY useless?

And when it came to the judging, I thought Marcus and Monica's criticism and comments were way too lenient. I'd love to see Marco Pierre White or Gordon Ramsey giving them what for. That would liven things up a bit.

This is after all, the professional chef version of this series and so far, I'm not impressed with this year's crop.

And as Wednesday night's episode ended, I wondered if there were any Pro Chefs left out there?

I cannot think what deadly food critics Jay Raynor, Charles Campion, William Sitwell and Tracey MacLeod would make of them. They'd probably eat them alive.

One thing is for certain. They won't be eating any of their food. Come to think of it; neither will I.

Masterchef (The Professionals) continues on BBC TWO on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday nights.

I usually end up absolutely starving after watching an episode but so far, I've barely felt a pang, or a twinge of hunger!

Let's hope the professionalism, as well as the food, improves.

Thanks for reading.

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GeordieArmani's picture

I log in to post and yet again Andy has beat me to it and we are on the same page!! I love Masterchef have been a huge fan for many years. Kev and I did joke though that the judges needed to be changed. I was also disappointed with the first episode of this new series. The skills tests didn't bode well in episode 1. Episode two threw a bit more talent into the situation, Elly is one to watch in my opinion. Give it time, it will be good I promise :)

GA x