r/Masterchef

okay i'm back yall lol

one thing i LOVED about the older seasons is when someone won the mystery box challenge, they got the advantage of choosing what everyone else will cook with. but what was crazy is it seemed like everrrrybody always fumbles their advantage.

i think they need to bring that back! cause right now the only advantage is going upstairs & watching everyone cook. seems blahhhh to me

one thing i'm glad they stopped doing was elimination challenges up until the very end & 3 episodes of auditions . so annoying lol

what are some things you think they need to do away with & or bring back from older seasons ?

they seem to change up a little something every season though.

I know he gets a bad rap (and for good reason), but what are some of the really good Joe moments in your mind?

For me was when he praised Ben Starr’s dish in season 2: WHY DON’T YOU COOK LIKE THIS ALL THE TIME??!!

Let’s say we completely remove the partner/duo concept and treat everyone as an individual chef from the beginning. No teamwork, no partner advantages, no having to adapt to someone else’s mistakes. Basically, if all the contestants competed against each other individually, who do you think from 24 homecooks would come out on top?
if i have to choose i will definitely go to aivan as my pick.

Has anyone noticed the common patterns in recent seasons are directly correlated to the first team challenge of the season? Or is it just me?

1. The red team ALWAYS WINS the first team challenge, and the past four winners in a row were all from the red team in the first team challenge.

2. The teams with more women than men ALWAYS end up losing the first team challenge, and it’s almost always the blue team. It’s happened NUMEROUS TIMES throughout the series.

S6 e4: 7 women and 3 men
S9 e6: 6 women and 4 men
S13: 6 women and 2 men
S15: 8 women and 2 men

Blue seems to be a cursed color amongst first team challenges

3. The winning teams always have someone with the immunity pin.

4. If you wanna survive, stay on side dishes and STAY AWAY FROM THE MEAT. If you lose and you’re on meat, there’s a 99.4% chance you’re going home.

Other curses:

Being on the red team in the tag team challenge.

For the past 5 seasons in a row, the red team is ALWAYS THE WORST PERFORMING/ONE OF THE BOTTOM TEAMS in the tag team

S12: Dara and Fred
S13: Jennifer and Charles
S14: Jeet and Adam
S15: Aivan and Tina
And now JAMIE AND AISHU

I can’t be the only one who’s noticed these small things throughout the run of the show in recent years.

Curses? Or just bad luck? Tell me your thoughts 👇

So I am watching season 1, master chef Canada. And this is probably a hot take but I can’t help but feel like Eric is given a sort of favoritism. In my opinion there were plenty of times where he should’ve went home, but he just kept skating by. To ultimately win at the end. That title should’ve went to Marida. She was the most consistent in the entire competition.

Sorry its very late

Has anyone watched this? Came across it on Prime & 11 episodes into season 1, I realize that it’s episode 11 & only ONE contestant has been eliminated so far. WTAF!!!! There are over 70 episodes for just this season.

It took the first 6 episodes to get the top 20…the next 3 episodes covered a mystery box, a one-on-one with a professional chef & a team challenge before the first elimination. AND that elimination took an entire episode to accomplish!!!

Prime doesn’t have all the seasons but looking at the ones they have, they are all over 50 episodes (season 3 has over 80).