MasterChef: The Professionals

I love the focus on techniques and ingredients. But I find the breathless, melodramatic voiceover to be out of place and distracting.

I understand that these shows tend to manufacture tension and dramatics to keep people entertained, but sometimes it's a bit too much.

Would be better without the host Greg. He's annoying with the silly facial expression and when he opens his mouth! Can be arrogant at times when timekeeping. Judges are good and premise of the show. Some of the critics need to go and be replaced.

2 guest judges, five equal votes with a blind tasting/voting for the final cook off. Only fair way to do it. It is too painfully obvious who the teacher's pets are(I do love the show either way). They should go from 0% blind judging to 80% (at least) with guest judges to round out the favoritism. A great chef could be a judge's pet, but is that fair to the other great chefs that are competing? And this pandering to the cooks!! 15 mins over time on a one hour cook- that's a 25% increase in the amount of time that you get to create your dish. I bet the other chefs would love to have a 25% increase in their time as well to polish their dish. 1 min. over and you should be automatically disqualified, kicked off, period. The other chefs brought their dishes in on time, why give one or two chef's 25% more time when other chef's didn't get that favoritism????? Why give a one hour/3 hr time limit(or whatever limit) then not follow through with it. Oh, it's OK if you break the rules, you're my favorite...

I used to love MasterChef until Gaston was unfairly eliminated. The show will capture cookery in two parts but the final decision doesn't consider both cooking sessions. Gaston's cooking was exceptional for the michellin star professionals and George's fish was undercooked. This round wasn't even considered in the final decision which is terrible. This whole show is completely unfairly judged as they only consider the final cookery round despite there being other challenges including chefs table, pop up cooking etc. Gaston didn't have a single error until the final cooking round and all rounds should be considered when sending chefs home. I also feel that innovation, creativity and the ability to be unique isn't considered when deciding who to eliminate. Gaston is an incredibly unique chef and has the ability to quickly think on his feet and deliver something exceptionally unique. He doesn't stick to just simple foods and flavours like a lot of the other chefs. This was a really hard watch as it was completely unfair and I won't be watching MasterChef again.

The show is brilliant and would easily be a 10/10 for me but how the heck is Greg W a judge on this! The man isn't even a chef but thinks he can critique professionals.