He followed the likes of previous winners Derek Johnstone, Steve Groves, Claire Lara, Ash Mair, joint winners Keri Moss and Anton Piotrowski, Steven Edwards, Jamie Scott and Mark Stinchcombe, as well as Gary Maclean. Now this year he became the senior chef de partie at Marcus, Belgravia, a very well regarded restaurant in one of London’s most fashionable districts. He came through all those challenges to take home the prize. Last year the contest was won by the sous chef at the Royal Oak Paley Street, Craig Johnston. At the end of that gruelling week of cooking, one winner is crowned from all those who have been whittled down over the previous seven weeks. This is where chefs are tested to their limits in ways that they might not even have been able to prepare for.įinals week is at the end of the series, and it sees contestants asked to produce a “show-stopping” dish, a “prestigious banquet” for a high-class London dinner party, a series of lunch meals for a Michelin-starred restaurant and then a final cook off. There is then a knockout stage on the series, in which cooks have done different kinds of tasks over the years – from a knowledge test to working in teams to prepare the best possible dish. Along the way, the judges have unearthed some exceptional talent and in this one-off special they get out of the kitchen and catch up with five finalists for whom. Even for a professional, it must be intimidating to be judged by a discerning panel of food critics. Over the past decade, MasterChef: The Professionals has become one of most important culinary competitions in the country, with hundreds of the most ambitious chefs putting their careers on the line to battle for the coveted title. We've had these amazing cooks that have come through the ranks, from Julie Goodwin to Poh Ling Yeow, and that speaks volumes for what this franchise has done not only for cooking in this country, but the talent it's developed.At the quarter final stage, the remaining chefs are asked to invent a dish from a set list of ingredients – and they then go on to cook three-course meals for a panel of food critics.
"We've also developed, across the 11 seasons, a lot of home-grown talent. "We have an amazing array of judges that have appeared on the show over the years, from Australian talent like Maggie Beer and Curtis Stone, to like Gordon Ramsay and Nigella Lawson. build it for the future.Īnderson said the choice of new judges will be "the million dollar question". We're being pragmatic and fiscally responsible but by the same token, we have one of the most successful shows of all time in this country and we need to. The days of just throwing money at problems are gone.
"There's no doubt that everyone needs to look after their pennies more in this industry and this will inevitably lead to networks making harder decisions.
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