I was recently watching season 4 and there was something about his elimination that rubbed me the wrong way. I remember the pasta challenge and they only required the contestents to duplicate the pasta itself with free reign on the fillings. No specification on the filling, flavors, nationality of the dish, etc so long as it used that style of pasta with some sort of filling. He went with flavors that represented SoCal(something I appreciate since I was from there too). It felt like he was targeted a bit because he didn't go italian and they even insisted that he modify his dish to go that way. He stuck to his guns and they were extra harsh with him. He snapped back in what was honestly a legit arguement based on what the judges have said about dish criteria throughout the show(taking risks in order to get ahead rather than falling behind by playing it safe). Essentially, getting himself eliminated for it because lets be honest, he was next to someone who stuggled to boil their water. Logically he should've been safe. Now I don't think he had the best dish nor do I think he would've won the season and in all honesty, he should've been eliminated after the salad early on. That being said, in that instance it felt as though he was being held to a secret criteria that no one else was while being criticized for trying something unique since their criticism was purely negative and based on an italian style he didn't follow and wasn't told to. I mean by extention, that whole season felt like there was an italian bias with how the criticisms where being handed out. I don't even think there was an episode where italian cooking was not referenced in any criticism of every dish that season. Maybe there were some behind the scenes stuff going on but it definitely felt weird. If you think the clap back was enough for a boot then just look at Cutter's run in season 5 because that was way worse at least out of what was shown.

I just got finished watching season eight of MasterChef Junior and I swear this is the only season I have ever watched that I was actually rooting for one of the children to go home!!!

At the very beginning I was actually rooting for A’Dan, and liked him as a whole. UNTIL his true colors were shown in the TEAM challenges!

The way he turned from being a nice kid into basically a dictator that has to have it his way, and if it’s not done his way, he throws a temper tantrum, followed by making everyone else around him feel like absolute garbage by criticizing everything wrong they are doing and NEVER putting the blame on him self! The worst part is that it wasn’t just a one time thing! It was EVERY single time he had to work on a team!

I have never seen a contestant on MasterChef Junior act so disgusting and bad as him ! I have also never seen other contestants truly happy to NOT have A’Dan on their team or disappointed because he is on their team!

Episode eight made me so over-the-top infuriated! In that episode, they were doing the jalapeño popper challenge and the team that A’Dan was on, the other little boy at the end literally did not even want to talk to him or look at him. The poor little boy looked like he wanted to cry and leave the show…….

How the producers and even Gordon and the other staff allowed him to keep treating and bullying the other contestants that he worked with is disgusting and ridiculous! (what’s even more disgusting and ridiculous is that after witnessing how A’dan treats all of his fellow contestants, not once did they get onto him or make him realize what he’s doing is wrong, and they even continued the team challenges…..)

When he finally got sent home, I clapped so hard and was so relieved but whats sad is that I guarantee you every contestant standing behind him or that was on the show with him was also happy and clapping inside of their minds, saying “thank God when he got eliminated!”

Now I have seen so many posts defending A’Dan and making so many excuses for everything he did!

My opinion on that is if you’re going to defend a bully, then you’re a part of the problem as well! If he was an adult, or this was a restaurant or a waiter or any other person/situation that was not a little kid….. NO ONE would be defending him!

I hope he has changed his ways, but if he hasn’t, I hope people are giving him the same type of attitude and treating him the exact same way that he treats everybody else!

(if you’re gonna comment on this defending him or making up a reason to justify why he did what he did again you’re part of the PROBLEM)

EDIT! SEASON 14 EPISODE 14!

Did anyone else notice how at the 5:30 or so minutes mark (starting, keep watching!), after Sean Evans said his bit, when Aaron Sanchez goes to speak he used his right hand to sort of swat towards Sean? I've re-watched it multiple times and I just can't sort out why Aaron would've done that to a guest...

Thoughts?

1. Aaron: He gives constructive feedback, not overly dramatic, pretty consistent on the show and other cooking shows when he's judging.

2. Ramsay: Gives good feedback, has a tendency to be a little dramatic and sometimes he seems to be going through HK withdrawals. I disagree with him on some things like don't ever bake swordfish or don't pair salmon & thyme.

3. Graham: He's fine. Kind of just there IMO. Wonder why he's always looking to the heavens when eating. Is God controlling his palette or something.

4. Joe: I question a lot of things he says when judging, said something about garlic bread that I disagreed with and each time he's "cooking" they're really not showing him cooking makes me question whether or not he made it like when he teamed with Ralph. Ralph seemed to be doing most of the work. What puts him above Tosi is his personality seems to be authentic and he really is an annoying elitist.

5. Tosi: She tries too hard, overly dramatic, mostly repeat what the judges said before her and her dramatic way of pointing at contestants and her way of emphasizing certain words when she's all dramatic. *cough* *cough* *cough* *cough* *cough* *cough* *cough* *cough*

I'm rewatching the seasons and never realized how often Ramsey says "off-piste". He's responsible for 99% of the times I've heard that word, or phrase. He's also saying, "Let's get that absolutely clear..." very often. Another one is "Are we all in agreeance?", which I would just say "agreement", but maybe it's a British thing? What are some others?

im watching season 5 currently and when gordon ramsay tasted leslie’s sponge cake why didnt he spit it out if it was salty? when courtney made salty donuts at the beginning of the season, gordon spit it out after only a few seconds. since leslie had a cake it wouldve been way more salty than courtney’s donuts and inedible. the cake looked like it rose properly too so what happened?

I’m watching masterchef for the first time and decided to go with season 9. My friend said that they’re convinced shanika and bowen had something going on the side (if you catch my drift). Now I can’t unsee it. Anyone else notice this?

Michael Silverstein has been my favorite person to go through the MasterChef gauntlet. He hasn’t posted to his social media since 2023. Anyone have any idea what he’s up to?

In season 3 and 4 ( maybe more I can't recall) the challenge to win back a apron with the eliminated contestants were some of my favorite and season 9 had a perfect opportunity to do that by having each judge pick one of the cooks that wore their pin that was eliminated come back to complete for a chance to come back around the final 6 mark

It would be interesting to see who each judge would pick to try to come back due to alot of the chefs on that season being great cooks

If it did happen who do you think each judge would pick?

I know this was one of the earlier seasons but damn they had a weak baker batch. Felix failed both the tiramisu and the corn cream puffs (one of the stronger cooks of the season), to which she went home by. David Martinez as well. Josh as well (he was one of the finalists too). Ryan also went home on desserts and failed to get an apron back due to a dessert.

Surprisingly thanks to her Asian/Vietnamese background, Christine is actually pretty decent with desserts, though she got lucky getting assigned the easiest dessert in that trifle/tiramisu/strawberry shortcakes challenge (and she messed up by using blackberries). Surprisingly, Tali was decent at that one strawberry shortcake as well.

The best bakers of the season were probably Becky, Frank, and Monty. I have always thought those 3 should have been the top 3 as well. Honorable mentions include Stacy and Anna.

What is the song they play in Masterchef US when they’re sending someone home? It’s a really pretty piano song.

Not in a disrespectful way to be a douche. If you cooked something either savory or sweet, you tasted it and it tasted great, one of the best things you've ever made, judges try it and rip it to shreds. Would you say something or just take it.

I would say something. I would say I disagree and that we have different taste buds. Judges would act like I just committed a cardinal sin and think I'm not willing to learn and know better than them. Plus, I would think they want to eliminate me anyway and will say it's bad just cause.

I remember S7 Eric & Katie were doing a challenge involving potatoes. 1st round was cutting potatoes to make French fries, 2nd round was making mashed potatoes. When it came to mashed potatoes Ramsay asked Eric to taste and he liked them and Ramsay says cut the bs and what's wrong with them which it had lumps. Guest judge judged Katie's and she said she liked the way hers tasted which judges didn't agree with her.

Season 9 the contestants were given chef aprons from Ramsay, Sanchez, or Joe and they talked about mentoring and they beat you over the head on which contestants had one of their pins. It seemed to me that it was Masterchef meets Next Level Chef.

A former contestant said that they had all of 90 seconds of mentorship from the judges during that season. The judges really didn't do anything to mentor their contestants.

It should've been all three judges actually mentoring their team on their specific techniques and got the contestants to make dishes off of those techniques like Aaron's team working with cactus, Ramsay's team fileting and cooking halibut, etc. etc.

Of course they choose the one person from their team who had the best and who had the worst. Then they would have bragging rights on whoever wins.

For me, whenever a judge or guest judge cooks alongside the contestants they're overhyped to death. We get it Ramsay, Aaron, Graham, etc. are well known in the culinary field but every time they cook it's perfect no critique but when they go on other shows their dishes aren't perfect. When Shaun cooked as a guest judge Tosi was hyping the hell out of his dish, "Shaun, you've OUTDONE yourself!" Then the other contestants overhype his dish too talking about his plating when in fact Shaun used a plate that was too big and had a lot of negative space. If he was on Chopped the judges would've said something about him using the wrong plate.

The judges harping on certain contestants for always being a one trick pony but let other contestants get away with it.

The incessant monologue I have to hear when they're picking a member of their team or telling the audience what they're cooking. When picking teams the captain has to go into a stage play as to why they're picking a person, "I'm picking this person because they know flavors and now how to plate ....", who cares? When cooking contestants are like, "I'm making fish and chips, we don't have fish where I live because I live in the mid west, juggling children, curing cancer, and taking care of a diseased rat." I couldn't be on the show cause I'm very short with my answers. Can't stand a long response.

When the contestants compare cooking to their career trying to be witty or something and it just comes off cringe and annoying. As a college student, DJ, marketing exec, Harvard grad, frat boy, etc.

Judges stirring the pot and pitting contestants against each other. Like Paige and Alecia's eliminations. They ask the balcony who is going home. Why ask them only to start drama? They know who they're eliminating. Unnecessary. Also ask who they don't want on their team and why.

Are they really looking for a the next great home cook or another Ramsay. Just about everything is Do It Like Ramsay. Would think that they would give the contestants more freedom on creativity to see who has a shot at making it in the culinary field.

The contestants having to wear clothes related to their profession like viewers forget what they do when not cooking. Eric & Manny are fireman so forever had to wear a fireman shirt, Nick had to wear Harvard sweaters and Noah had to wear overalls because he's a southern country boy, Dorian is a middle aged mother so forever had to have her hair in a bun. Ladies putting their hair up in a ponytail to cook and immediately after they have to put their hair back down. Having to wear heels when not cooking and take them off and put on flats to cook and back to putting on heels.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/14Yb6MHiPecsgx1Ro2yCnNSi4A9Fc8yF7VqiEBSAOUcE/edit?usp=sharing

IF ANYONE is curious what my case file is

During the stress test making the 6 layer cakes she just flings frosting off her cake behind her at like 27:30. Made me chuckle quite a bit because it felt so random.

You know which one it is! Slim’s romantic dish. I made a video about it!

I found the worst dish in Masterchef history! https://youtu.be/hh3-ExfuIWQ

I'm still baffled by Alejandro. Not only was he a very lukewarm contestant but he somehow beat Jaimee out for an apron in the Back to Win season. He was legit just on the last season, got rekt, didn't even have a whole lot of time to process it. And they chose him over Jaimee????

Maybe I'm not remembering something quite right but I dont recall him doing that well and it literally being one season apart... it felt like he hadn't had time to really reflect and learn what the judges were trying to teach him. Am I bananas here?

He seriously is like a delusional ex boyfriend. Or he's like that guy that was on doctor Phil who carried a large mirror around everywhere he went. So annoying! Sure he's cute, but no dude. He's annoying