Junior Masterchef
weedledeedle
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....started tonight with John Torode and Nadia Sawallha as the judges.
What a delightful programme
4 young children, well spoken and sensible, enjoying doing something that potentially could be a good career move and seemingly loving cooking.
When JT and NS had to choose, you could tell that it was a horrible thing to have to do - but the children were so graceful in defeat - no tears or histrionics of the "my life is now overrrrrrrrrr, I sooooooo wanted to do this, life is soooooo unfaaaaaaaaaaaaiirrr" :rolleyes: seen on other cookery competition programmes. There was no attitude or bad feelings to those three that didn't get through to the quarter finals.
(I would have put them all through, each meal looked delicious and had been prepared with great thought and care)
Well done those four who appeared tonight, I am sure they will do very well in the future.
*feels embarrassed about self's inability to cook and gets out cookery books....*
What a delightful programme
4 young children, well spoken and sensible, enjoying doing something that potentially could be a good career move and seemingly loving cooking.When JT and NS had to choose, you could tell that it was a horrible thing to have to do - but the children were so graceful in defeat - no tears or histrionics of the "my life is now overrrrrrrrrr, I sooooooo wanted to do this, life is soooooo unfaaaaaaaaaaaaiirrr" :rolleyes: seen on other cookery competition programmes. There was no attitude or bad feelings to those three that didn't get through to the quarter finals.
(I would have put them all through, each meal looked delicious and had been prepared with great thought and care)
Well done those four who appeared tonight, I am sure they will do very well in the future.
*feels embarrassed about self's inability to cook and gets out cookery books....*
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It was a tough choice to choose one winner out of that 4, and I admit I wasn't thinking of Amber immediately. I think her spectacular roulade was the clincher for her. :cool:
Though I must add those meatballs are not necessarily 'Greek'. Nice that her best friend's Mum gave her the recipe and she cooked it well, but Kofte is widely cooked and eaten all over that part of the world. I grew up eating it, my Mum cooked it every week, it's served at Wedding parties, etc. though not with rosemary, but flat leaf Cyprus parsley or coriander leaves. (We're Turkish Cypriots). Good idea to serve it with potato latkas, a real international main course!
John and Nadia were good although it was interesting she was chosen over Gregg but she came across well.
After normal Masterchef, Celebrity Masterchef, Proffesional Masterchef and now Junior Masterchef, wonder what they could do next as a spin-off, Teen Masterchef?
They chose Nadia as "the mumsy" factor as Gregg "Shrek" Wallace would be seen as too intimidating imo
They'd be scared witless having Wallace looming over them wielding his spade sized spoon.
Yes Shrek does love his puds:D
My only gripe was Nadia's "mmmmmmmm's" after each mouthful, rather than a constructive comment!
Hopefully she'll pre-prepare some comments for next time :rolleyes:
Did enjoy it though.
She looked to be almost in tears when they had to announce the winner.....
it also oni player the kids were very talented Y day:)
I would like to see them do a pressure test but I imagine they are saving that for the semi finals, it's only 13 episodes but I imagine that they'll expand it if there is another series.
The bit at the beginning is probably the junior version of the pressure test
I thought it was more of a replacement for the invention test as it would be slightly unfair to get the kids to create their own dishes, the adults struggle with it on normal Masterchef and I imagine due to the age of the children, they cannot work in a proffesional kitchen unsupervised.
Could be down simply to the fact Gregg does the other versions and each version has different judges.
YAY! Georgie boy won!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Didn't he look like he should be auditioning to play Oliver?!
I loved how he kept eating big spoonfulls of his chantilly cream.
Also a mention for the other boy's pud - Choc fondant and strawberries and cream - frankly, if the Adult Masterchef contestants served it up it would've been praised to the skies too. Looked simply gorgeous! :cool:
That fondant was seriously impressive, but I was so happy George got through
Nice kids, the lot of them
Couldnt agree more about the chocolate fondant and the amount of adults that mess it up in the adult version fair play to him
I am so glad that other viewers are appreciating this programme as much I am doing
I was a bit reluctant to post praise about "well brought up children" in view of the "posh kids with loadsamunney" parents will alway do well, scenario
Anyway, I just welcome programmes that show children doing worthwhile things in a positive light. Children who are polite and well mannered and can say their "t's and d's" when pronouncing words and who are not thought of as snobby little twerps. If it encourages other young people to do something purposeful, it can only be a good thing.
I loved the look of all the meals the children created......but i drooled at the chocolate fondant and the cream filled strawberries.......and the raspberry chantilly cream? *sighs and dreams of 'see and taste telly'*
I did think Olivia was going to nail it though, with her feta and pesto stuffed, bacon wrapped chicken breast.
This stuff was better than much of the fare served up on the adult show, and better carried off too.
I reckon there should be "Heartychef".
Fabulous grub, but served up in decent sized portions, with scant regard for 'presentation'.
Sadly, she undercooked the Scallops (not something you want to do with shellfish) otherwise I think she would have won.
I'm sure that's the first time I've seen them undercooked on Masterchef.
Usually they're moaning about them being overcooked?
Toto Masterchef.