@El Loro posted:

Starts next Tuesday on BBC One at 21.00 so the first 15 minutes clash with Bake Off. Episodes on Wednesday and Thursday at the same time. Same for the following week.
18 episodes in all.

Yayyyyy ...thanks El ....yes , I saw it on the TV schedules but do we have any contestant  names yet El ?

@Baz posted:

Yayyyyy ...thanks El ....yes , I saw it on the TV schedules but do we have any contestant  names yet El ?

I don't know any names yet, There are 32 chefs competing. With 18 episodes (3 fewer than recent series) looks like the first 4 weeks are the heats and quarter-finals each week and the knockout week, semi-finals & final for the last 2 weeks. Don't know if there will be any episodes other than in the Masterchef kitchens this series.

The Radio Times website has this about the filming of the series.

The upcoming series was filmed during the pandemic, and so the professionals and judges stayed socially distanced whilst filming.

“We had Sam (our floor manager) walking around with a two-metre stick to make sure we weren’t standing too close together,” Monica Galetti said. “We had a COVID officer everyday doing temperature checks when we arrived and reminding us throughout the day to sanitise and keep our distance, so it was very different.”

Greg Wallace added: “Filming wise it has been ok, but we now taste the food individually rather than standing around the plate together and the floor manager walks around with a measuring stick making sure we are always two metres apart!”

Thanks El Sounds like they took all the precautions ....but I doubt they will go outside the kitchen ....which quite frankly I won’t miss,  as they never seem to take their performances into account anyway

Hi

Hi Scatts. Are you going to be with us for Masterchef?

Bump number 2 for El

Thanks Baz

The format of this week's episodes is similar to previous years other than instead of 6 chefs tonight being reduced to 3 to go through to the quarter-final , it's 4 chefs reduced to 2 to go through. Similar tomorrow. With the quarter-final, it's 3 of the 4 who get through rather than 3 out of 6 in previous series. That's what the BBC site is showing though it has made mistakes in the past.

Tonight, two of the chefs are challenged by Monica to prepare mushroom tortellini. Here's a clip of Monica preparing this in case you miss it:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08xc0cs
The other two take on Marcus's devilled butterflied mackerel.

Then the four cook their own signautre dish.

@El Loro posted:

Thanks Baz

The format of this week's episodes is similar to previous years other than instead of 6 chefs tonight being reduced to 3 to go through to the quarter-final , it's 4 chefs reduced to 2 to go through. Similar tomorrow. With the quarter-final, it's 3 of the 4 who get through rather than 3 out of 6 in previous series. That's what the BBC site is showing though it has made mistakes in the past.

Tonight, two of the chefs are challenged by Monica to prepare mushroom tortellini. Here's a clip of Monica preparing this in case you miss it:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08xc0cs
The other two take on Marcus's devilled butterflied mackerel.

Then the four cook their own signautre dish.

Thanks El Looks like we were correct in thinking that they probably aren’t going outside of the studio .....

Quick reminder that there is a slight overlap with Bake Off , so some us won’t be here until about 9.10

@Baz posted:

Thanks El Looks like we were correct in thinking that they probably aren’t going outside of the studio .....

I agree I noticed that Gregg, Marcus and Monica were positioned further away from each other compared to previous series. At the quarter-final stage when the chefs cook for food critics, there's only two critics rather than three and they aren't sitting right next to each other. I doubt if all the chefs etc having been staying together, so not the same As Bake Off. So there's the need for the 2 metrre distancing which hasn't been needed for Bake Off.

It wouldn't surprise me it later episodes in the series are done in such a way that you don't have all the chefs who've got through all together at the same time. So after the first 4 weeks there's 12 chefs left. In the following week, they could be in 3 sets of 4, with 2 from each set going through to the last week. Then in the last week, 2 semi-finals with 3 chefs each. The best 3 go though to the final. I haven't read that anywhere, but that's a way it could be done to avoid more than 4 chefs in any one episode and also is how to do it entirely in the Masterchef kitchens.

@El Loro posted:

I agree I noticed that Gregg, Marcus and Monica were positioned further away from each other compared to previous series. At the quarter-final stage when the chefs cook for food critics, there's only two critics rather than three and they aren't sitting right next to each other. I doubt if all the chefs etc having been staying together, so not the same As Bake Off. So there's the need for the 2 metrre distancing which hasn't been needed for Bake Off.

It wouldn't surprise me it later episodes in the series are done in such a way that you don't have all the chefs who've got through all together at the same time. So after the first 4 weeks there's 12 chefs left. In the following week, they could be in 3 sets of 4, with 2 from each set going through to the last week. Then in the last week, 2 semi-finals with 3 chefs each. The best 3 go though to the final. I haven't read that anywhere, but that's a way it could be done to avoid more than 4 chefs in any one episode and also is how to do it entirely in the Masterchef kitchens.

I think you could be right El

evening

Av just hoyed a fried egg sarnie doon me gullett

@Sprout posted:

Av just hoyed a fried egg sarnie doon me gullett

fabulous manners

Evening

3 hard boiled eggs downed here!

Hey, how do they get over the visits to other kitchens?

@Dame_Ann_Average posted:

fabulous manners

did they just say 4 ?

@Dame_Ann_Average posted:

fabulous manners

I'm sure she wiped her fingers on a sheet of kitchen roll.

@Sprout posted:

Hey, how do they get over the visits to other kitchens?

Hopefully they won't

@Dame_Ann_Average posted:

did they just say 4 ?

Missed it

@Extremely Fluffy Fluffy Thing posted:

I'm sure she wiped her fingers on a sheet of kitchen roll.

I did!

Evening Be with you shortly

@Extremely Fluffy Fluffy Thing posted:

I'm sure she wiped her fingers on a sheet of kitchen roll.

it seems it touched neither fingers or sides

No the wonder they need 25 mins

Has Greg lost weight

@Sprout posted:

Hey, how do they get over the visits to other kitchens?

I don't think there are any visits this series.

@Baz posted:

Evening Be with you shortly

@Dame_Ann_Average posted:

it seems it touched neither fingers or sides

It didn't I was Hank Marvin

@Dame_Ann_Average posted:

did they just say 4 ?

Yes!

@Baz posted:

Has Greg lost weight

looks as if he has...he lost it a couple of years ago and put it back on

@Extremely Fluffy Fluffy Thing posted:

Yes!

is it normally 6 or 8

More Asian food.

Mushrooms seem too thick to what the other one's were

Monica's teeth have grown,

@Extremely Fluffy Fluffy Thing posted:

More Asian food.

Curries all round then

@Extremely Fluffy Fluffy Thing posted:

Monica's teeth have grown,

or her lips have shrunk