Masterchef

[Samuraisan]

How can these judges eat all this food ?

[DTCwordfan]

do you really want to know....?

[Samuraisan]

Well it aways intrigues me. Or am I being naive and they wear the same clothes and eat over a few days.

[Samuraisan]

I don't mean Greg and John , I mean the 3 sitting down to two courses.

[MallyJ]

and stay slim.....I put on 2 stone just watching the programme! Love the Scot....he likes food

[Cloverjo]

I guess they don't eat the whole plateful of food each time. They're only tasting it, aren't they?

[silliemillie]

Yes, I agree with Clover, I thought they only eat a mouthful ot two.

[FoxLee2]

Does anyone know how it actually works when the contestants cook for past winners/runners up. They are all given one hour 15 minutes to cook two courses and allegedly start at the same time and yet it is all staggered at the end which implies as it goes on the later contestants have more time. Or do they begin cooking at different times? Just curious!

[Smowball]

I've often thought that Fox, I mean are the three judges really sitting there for four hours or so?

[pastafreak]

According to this,it's cool/cold when Wallace and Torode sample it...

http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2015-10-01/john-torode-the-masterchef-food-we-taste-is-as-

[pastafreak]

Looks like I need to to copy it...


RadioTimes

John Torode: the MasterChef food we taste is as cold as the "last five mouthfuls of a roast dinner"
So now you know...
John Torode: the MasterChef food we taste is as cold as the "last five mouthfuls of a roast dinner"

By Emma Daly
Thursday 1 October 2015 at 1:00PM

When MasterChef judges John Torode and Gregg Wallace tuck into the contestants’ food, it’s not as cold as you might think.
I’ve always assumed they put on a brave face as filming, and the number of contestants, surely means it takes a while to get to everyone’s dishes. A mouthful of cold soup: yum, yum.
However, while Torode confirms the contestants have to wait ages for their dishes to be tested, he says the food isn’t an unpleasant temperature.
“It’s not freezing cold. It’s room temperature, 21/22 degrees. So it’s probably the same as the last five mouthfuls of your roast dinner,” the chef explained to RadioTimes.com.
“Think about it: Christmas dinner, by the time you actually get it to the table, that temperature, that’s the food we’re going to have to taste.”
Torode, who returns to film the eleventh series of the BBC show in a couple of weeks, also says that he tucks into the meals with pleasure, and thinks about his waistline later.
“I don’t want to be conscious of it while I do it. I don’t think I should be because someone’s spent the time and I want to eat it with gusto. If I was doing it gingerly people would see.

[FoxLee2]

Thanks for your response pastafreak but it didn't address my query.

I'd assumed re the judges tasting several contestants' food that by the last ones, their food would be cold.

[pastafreak]

I also have wondered how the judges are filmed and how long it takes for each sequence. We do see the food taken in to them immediately as it's finished...but then what?

[FoxLee2]

It's a different scenario when they're cooking for John and Greg as to when they are cooking for the 'guests'. For John and Greg you can see that all 8 contestants cook at the same time and then wait to present their food but with the others, as I've said, it's staggered and yet they all appear to begin at the same time.

Something else that niggles me is when they take the 3 plates of food to the guests and can only carry two at a time. No-one holds open the doors for them or brings the third serving over to the door to hand to them. Why do they have to nudge open doors with their body while carrying, sometimes, delicate food.

[Smowball]

lol I've often wondered that too! You never see th m bring the third plate either so do they have to go all the way back with it or does someone follow him with it? Or why don't they use a tray and put all three on??

[FoxLee2]

Yes, a tray would be a good idea!

Surely there is someone in the AB world who has appeared on Masterchef and can answer our queries.

[ummmm]

It's edited.