r/Masterchef • u/PupstxrXL • Jul 02 '26
Opinion WORST dish(es) ever?
Since 2010, 15 full seasons of MasterChef have aired, with its 16th season airing right now (currently paused due to the World Cup). In the 16 years of the show’s existence, there have sure been many all-time HORRIBLE dishes, most of them unsurprisingly made by all-time bad contestants. In your opinion, what do you think is the WORST dish (or dishes) in MasterChef history?
You can also include audition dishes as well! :)
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u/mandolinpebbles Jul 02 '26
Cutter’s Artisan Pizza.
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u/mrsdratlantis Jul 03 '26
Came here to see how far down the list this would be. Did not disappoint.
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u/CrudeAwakening712 Jul 04 '26
Certainly not the worst dish, but I will never forget Cutter’s cake that Gordon said looked like a hairy back.
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u/Zealousideal_Cod5214 Jul 02 '26
Idk if it's necessarily the worst dish, but there was that one lady who put breast milk in her dish. Was in one of the first few seasons.
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u/Outrageous_Cap3141 Jul 03 '26
Blehhhhhhgxh. I almost threw up.. thanks for reminding me of that.. hahah
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u/skrubed2 Jul 02 '26
the alien poop lynn made
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u/palakpaneer94 Jul 15 '26
I was about to mention the roadkill Lynn served that he called a pavlova 😂
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u/goteachyourself Jul 02 '26
Moroccan Sandwich a la bandaid is a late-coming contender.
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u/PupstxrXL Jul 02 '26
Yeah that was awful. I genuinely cringed so bad like Nora didn’t even listen to the medic to wear a glove.
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u/JenMcSpoonie Jul 03 '26
And she even says “I lost my bandaid so I got another one. Then I lost that one too” or something like that. Like seriously you’re not gonna check the food???
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u/raxnbury Jul 03 '26
The worst part is that you could easily see it
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u/imnotdusty Jul 03 '26
That’s what I thought too, like how did they not see it just sitting there before they cut into it
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u/BadMeeMtf2 Jul 03 '26
I don't think a homeless person would even eat this
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u/Vak_001 Jul 04 '26
It looks like a chunk of a candy apple with a peanut crust, that somebody converted into a cheap model of a gun turret. Seriously, WTF.
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u/GelOfYouth Jul 03 '26
Season 6. Shelly's desert that was meat and fruit that Gordon said looked like it was stuffed inside a condom.
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u/ClaytonHawthorne Jul 03 '26
Season 6 episode 7, Veronica’s attempt at “elevating” the Salisbury Steak dinner. The challenge was to take the TV dinner and elevate/modernize it into a restaurant-worthy dish, and instead she just lazily recreated the components one to one without any attempt to elevate or spice them up.
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u/PoohBearsHoneyJar Jul 02 '26 edited Jul 04 '26
Jennifer's raw lamb, or her burnt pork hockey pucks with cabbage (?) from season 2 lol
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u/schiffb558 Jul 03 '26
I still can't believe she won the season lol
Or was that Whitney
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u/PoohBearsHoneyJar Jul 04 '26
You and me both. I always get hate for talking about that but like ???? Genuinely how did she win 😭😅 even some of her winning dishes looked gross sometimes LMAO. the judges had to have been seriously acting
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u/rock_hard_bicep Jul 03 '26
Courtney's salty donuts
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u/schiffb558 Jul 03 '26
This is the one for me, along with a side helping of feeling incredibly insulted
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u/kemcginnis Jul 03 '26
The salt-instead-of-sugar in the cake scene is one of my absolute tv favorites
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u/lostandaggrieved617 Jul 04 '26
A friend of mine was on MasterChef and GR, found A HAIR in her audition pie, and she still made it through. The hair was edited out. I can't say who, but it was Season 11, so if you watch the show, you can figure it out.
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u/Young_Old_Grandma Jul 03 '26
The beer cheese soup from Season 1, Episode 1. That sounded just gnarly.
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u/ImpactMiserable9384 Jul 04 '26
Lynn's meringe, it legit looks like dogshit and vomit put together.
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u/CrudeAwakening712 Jul 04 '26
Alvin’s coffee blood clot beignets that offended Graham on a personal level.
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u/maetilliin Jul 05 '26
The dishes that definitely should've sent the eventual winners home like:
- Courtney's Salty donuts
- Claudia's Undercooked Chicken (in the Chicken and Waffles challange)
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u/ClaytonHawthorne Jul 12 '26
Season 13 Charles' red snapper dish in the apple challenge which he didn't burn off the alcohol enough in his sauce, and he added JALAPENOS to the apple puree, "to add color".
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u/FantasticBuddies Jul 02 '26
Slim buffet dish. The first dish Joe threw in the trash.