r/MasterchefAU

Tonight's pork challenge made me think about what would happen if there was a vegetarian, Muslim or Hindu contestant; how does the show handle this? Do they just find an excuse to eliminate them early? I swear there was a hijabi woman in one of the earlier seasons and there's absolutely no way they would have handled pork.

I've noticed that it isn't always the Dish of the Day, but the first contestant called nearly always gets positive feedback. Do the judges already know which dishes are likely to be the best and intentionally start with a strong dish? Or is it just editing making it seem that way?
Has this ever been discussed by contestants or producers?

Ice cream $8.50 and pie $22.

Ice cream was in the freezer and very soft. I had to ask for the pie as they didn’t even out in shelf. I died when he said $22. There was no price tag and I think a lot of people may think twice.

Better be worth it.

Tried the ice cream and might be better when frozen but at the moment, I wouldn’t rave on about it.

As a slavic person, as much as i love masterchef AU it hurts my ears just how much they they manage to butcher slavic names every time I've watched the show, from Snežana being called "sneCH" , "SHnez" and such to Alyona being called "Ally-ona" and them never correcting it💀 (idk if theres more ive only watched season 16 and onwards)

I’m currently watching episode 4 and am feeling like I’m almost getting sore eyes or anxious and have noticed how quick the shots are, every couple seconds it’s a new view. I don’t know much about cinematography so excuse my lack of vocabulary but it seems like the camera changes are way faster than normal and giving lots of random perspective changes that aren’t needed. Maybe I’m the only one thinking this but it’s hurting my brain a little bit. Feels abit manic/chaotic

Visited our local Coles (at 10.30am) and nothing was out yet. They had 4 staff frantically moving frozen food out of one aisle end display but nothing out yet.

Public Holiday so may be supply issue.

These are just random analyses, so like idk. Just based on hunches

Saw an article and I kinda feel like it def wont be >!Lydia!<. There was kind of a mention on the list of dishes they were planning, and I don't think a returnee would mention that.

I also don't think its >!Miin!<. Though I could be wrong, but it's just their goodbye message felt too much of a goodbye and following new path type of thing. >!Lucy!< also had a very big goodbye that really did feel like one, but also not sure cuz they also have a lot of BTS photos, but a bit more on the maybe not for me.

I have a hunch its >!Bella!<. The way this person is wording their posts as well. They've mentioned things like "Bye for Now", which feels like they came back >!and made it far. She's also promoting the show a lot more recently, and mentioned she's excited for sweet week, but that could mean anything. Also, one of the recent dish previews feel like it's more Bella coded than anyone, though again could be wrong, but it also didnt feel like a pressure test type.!<

It could also be >!Alita!<. For someone who posted a lot, they haven't posted a goodbye message, which probs doesn't mean anything. >!Olaolu's!< message was okay, but it's too early to analyze. And the rest, I just feel like they don't as much. >!Kanika !<is promoting new things now, and I feel like>!she was way too bitter about her elimination/not getting tasted!<for someone who would come back.

But the returnee could also be one of those that just got eliminated. And many of the ones in the past seasons, have returnees of those who just got eliminated. So like this is a possibility.

They did spoil who wasn't there in the Irwin Elimination. And unless I'm just blind, it was >!Jack!< who was initally eliminated, unless they won some sort of special immunity. Makes me wonder what the immunity format is. So maybe all this analysis is useless lol.