Masterchef Australia 2026

Evan44

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I'll start this one off, as the new season begins on Sunday night on Ten.
All new contestants, and endless celebrity guests too(judging by the promos), including Robert Irwin and Jimmy Barnes, and Meghan Markel too - she got paid an appearance fee for appearing as a guest judge in one episode.
 
Cool :) Im on board. Its been super fun to have a forum for the reality tv run :D Forums are so much easier for me than other social media.
I hate cooking, but masterchef always draws me in. And then makes me hungry, so I end up cooking. My neighbours love it cos they get the leftovers and I gain about 10 kilos.
 
I was just looking to see if a thread had been started for tonight.
Thanks Evan.
I went to an Neil Perry restaurant last week. He was actively there. I was impressed.
Made me look forward to this tonight.
 
I'm over all this tic toc shit, but figure i have to get over that in this day and age. Most the young one do it now. I hate it!
 
Watching it on WA time.

I still think 4 judges is a bit much. But I can see why they have all 4. Whatshername in the white is certainly showing off her assets. I love Poh forever in all she does always, so I'm happy whenever shes on my tv. Andy looks like his suit is a bit baggy. He looks like the younger scruffy version of the french dude.

Everyone in their grandmas aprons? I always say every year, that everyone who wants to be a chef has probably never worked in a commercial kitchen lol. Food has never been my passion, I hate cooking and I hate cooking shows - but this show always sucks me in regardless.

Yes, thats another good point to this show - the ingredients matter! Clever man going for the marron, if he can cook it well. The better ingredients make the better meal.

This curly hair menopause lady can set an impressive table, but I dont think I could ever eat octopus after that Timothy scene from The Boys.

Nigerian? I wouldn't be able to name a single dish, so this will be interesting to me!

Finally someone doing sweets! I need to make an apple pie and I am useless at them. Its ok to be crazy on masterchef with cakes - worked for Poh!

Peruvian will be interesting too :D Nice to see them branching out of Asia with food and contestants.

Oh lord, who said "thats giving chef" Thats giving cringe.

Dont worry too much about the presentation Jackie, as long as the "flavours are there".

Burned octopi up first. Please don't name the dish Timothy :(

Raw fish next, doubt he will get the same sort of reception. Ink noodles are not up my alley either. Montage moved too fast for me to get a sense of the rest. Judges giving false hope to many. Imagine if they didn't give the white apron to Olalu after the chanting lol. Now on to the poor dishes. Cool to hear some real cooking tips from the judges here.

Onto the cake! Drama! Cut to advert. Love the reflection off the trophy just as the judges taste the cake - foreshadowing? Poh likes it! So, off to a good start :D Might have a fave in the kitchen already. No instant apron? Aw that's sweet that Poh presents the apron.

Dumpling man looks exactly like you'd expect a dumpling man to look. Another white apron.

Lets see how Luke the marron man goes, I cant cook gnocci to save myself, I get the frozen stuff now! Im happy he did well, the young ones are great because they can set up a career easily from here, even off screen. He's the right age to potter off and do an apprenticeship.

I think I like this format for getting the apron. Its not as slow as the one by one story on a trolly, and its exciting to all be in the kitchen getting a proper masterchef experience. Even second chance experience!
 
This curly hair menopause lady can set an impressive table, but I dont think I could ever eat octopus after that
That looked horrible! I think she's going to irritate me.
ETA: And they liked it 😦
So far, I like the young Asian guy, the other young one who did the marron, and Olaolu, especially. I think he's going to introduce some great flavours I'm going to enjoy playing with.
 
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I too think 4 judges is way too many, I'm not sure what Sophia is even doing there to be honest. I would reduce it to 3 - Andy, Poh and the French guy.
A little too early yet to pick a favourite, we're still in the audition stages.
 
Sandwich man got an apron! Yeah!
7 aprons left...
Hannah
Anika (?)
Aliona (?)
Min (?)
Jeeze, can they speak less audibly?
Sarah
Booyah!!!! 🤪
Dot.
Still another day for an apron.
 
AH! I love this first chicks dress! I almost brought it for myself from city chic online last week! but I wasn't sure how the pattern would look, I love it! I should go look at it again haha.

French dude is looking smashing. Even Andys clothes fit today. Poh and Sofia always look fabulous. Its ON. I ate dinner before I started but its not helped, this show is still making me hungry!

Aw someone from Esperance! Thats cool, its more remote than people give it credit for, its probably not easy to get certain ingredients out there. Oh no, more octopus :( Shes getting a heck of a lot of time on her. Yes ok, we know you have 4 kids now.

Fire in the house!

They need to put the names up more than once, I dont know any of them. I like the chinese food lady, because I appreciate my local Chinese restaurant so much, their family works so hard and probably cringe with their own menu of aussifications. Just dont order anything with prawns.

City chic is missing her wedding for this? There are going to be other seasons doll.

Simple done well is always a winner. First white apron of this lot? And another one for the chinese soup - I like that they highlighted the medicinal qualities, that will go down well with the influencers in their chinese eras.

Skin is a bit too crispy for this guy, he seems a bit bland anyway but maybe he will make a come back in the second chance round. A mistake montage now.

Sandwich paid off for him, and city chic got through too.



Eww, scarey watching the Vinnie clips going between cooking and surgical operations 😳😅
I am putting My 600lb Life on next so I remember not to try cook and eat all the things I see on tv.
 
4 aprons left ...
Fingers crossed for Luke.
Blimey, there are some names in this, no wonder we're not getting them.
The mining indian lady, Laq something .... if she's Indian ... or in mining.
 
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I'm not interested in the tictok/instagram freaks who show everything on line as they crave the notoriety.
If they were truly talented they wouldn't resort to social media where other like minded people that have nothing to offer go and become sheep and follow something to give themselves something to do.
😳 I hope that wasnt too rude. I hate social media.
It was fun at the start, and now its turned ugly.
 
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The Indian lady with a q in her name did a great job.
That honeycomb thing and the bees looked wonderful, and the judges loved it ... no immediate apron!
 
Yay, Luke first to get the aptin for his bomb alaska!
Lucy, that was an easy name, but the French Dude said it ir could have been something else.
Asian lady who made boob like cakes with cherry nipples on top 🤭
A long lady whose name was illegible who made a cake.
And the last, most difficult ... p ...
It isn't Peter, it's something like that, dark haired guy.
I hope from here on, they have names on their aprons.
 
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