Masterchef 2024

Can’t call it but Pezza needs to make up three points on round one and I’m not sure he can do it with the missing element?
 
I reckon they picked Nat as their winner in Week one, Pezza totally needed to knock it out of the park tonight to catch her, and alas he didn't.
My thoughts on the season overall - I think 4 judges are way too many, Jean-Christoph to me didn't contribute much to the overall program, and Sophia - not sure why she was there.
My suggestion for 2025 is they add Shannon Bennett to judge with Andy and Poh.
The casting was good, Pezza was a revelation, hope we see more of him in future, ditto for Harry.
Hopefully too less of the impossible pressure test challenges in future.
 
Evan44 said:
I reckon they picked Nat as their winner in Week one, Pezza totally needed to knock it out of the park tonight to catch her, and alas he didn't.
My thoughts on the season overall - I think 4 judges are way too many, Jean-Christoph to me didn't contribute much to the overall program, and Sophia - not sure why she was there.
My suggestion for 2025 is they add Shannon Bennett to judge with Andy and Poh.
The casting was good, Pezza was a revelation, hope we see more of him in future, ditto for Harry.
Hopefully too less of the impossible pressure test challenges in future.
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They already announced all the judges will be back next season
 
I’m glad to see Nat won, she definitely deserved it and was a stand out Cook. But I do agree it feels very much like she was set to be the winner from week 1. It’s a very meh ending to a season I did enjoy despite only watching some of it.

Sexy backwards cap Harry deserves a second chance! 😭😭
 
4 judges is too many. I was hoping they'd quietly ditch Sofia, who I found enormously grating. I love JC and his focus and sincerity, and am so glad he will be back. Am hoping they don't spend the whole season shouting so much next time. Also that they cast considerably less "Whoo!" girls.

It was not a season of refined cooks or dessert cooks of any great finesse, so the stakes seemed low throughout the season. There's only so much of being told something is very tasty, while looking much like the previous very tasty dish, that I can take as a viewer. Scotch eggs with flowers and steak with peppercorn sauce in the finale! It was painful to watch extensive closeups of Nat floundering as she botched her final challenge, like a nervous breakdown in slow motion, and I think they massaged their critiques to justify giving her the win - expecially given Pezza's was tragically only missing the fluffy element - as their faces while eating did not say her flavours were on point, at all.

I thought the editing was awful, in that it was made so obvious who their favourites were from episode one onwards, and then one was in the final and the other was in the semifinal. Still cross we saw so little of Sue! I hope Pezza and Harry get their own channel 10 afternoon cooking shows, and Sumeet gets a sauce deal going. But in some ways I wish I'd given up that first night when the shouting and whoo!-ing was so amped up that I wasn't sure if I could make it through the episode.
 
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