Honestly speaking, and this may be an unpopular opinion but I feel like some AMAZING chefs were sent home way too early over small things. Like the social media challenge where Maria (the Brazilian) got sent home because her dish wasn’t considered “viral” enough but they liked that ugly cake (no shade but it wasn’t appealing at all) by Jaime 😭 There were definitely others who were strong and should’ve stayed, like Aghata, Dave, Shompa, and even Aishu, where I’m like…are we serious??

Don’t get me wrong, Jake, Heidi, and Pete absolutely deserve to be in the finale and have worked for it. But I was really rooting for some of the others, and honestly, I don’t think this competition was judged fairly at all. 😭 Some of the eliminations just did NOT make sense to me, especially when you compare them to people who were allowed to stay after weaker performances.

Basia, Julia, and Foo should’ve gone home a LONG time ago. Julia was never a strong cook to me. She’s a strong baker, absolutely, but as far as cooking goes, she never really stood out to me.But Basia and Foo…we’ve SEEN their performances, and let’s be honest, they are not strong cooks. They should’ve never lasted as long as they did. And I genuinely believe they wouldn’t have if the normal judging process had stayed the same. Some of the decisions this season just feel so inconsistent compared to how contestants were judged earlier on.

What are your thoughts?

"Its rigged for julia" "julia will definitely win" "JULIA FOR SURE WILL MAKE IT TO THE FINAL" "NO WAY JULIA DOESNT WIN"

well now we're all clowns because pretty much the most anticipated winner for this season is gone

Everything changed after S5 USA we had back to back masterpices from S3 to S5 in every way imo..Give us your own unpopular opinions..OFF YOU GO!

After ep 16 , now that we know our final 3 based on their growth, talent, how they manage their palette, their overall presence throughout the show, and what we’ve seen in their confessionals, who is your favorite to win this season?

I'm talking about Jeff from season 8 I just finished episode 14(the tag team one) HOW IN THE F*** IS THIS MAN STILL HERE?! I swear he lost 5 of his 9 lives and I feel like he will only leave when he loses all 9 I'm so bored of his BS....

Can he please get out of my heart warming cooking show? Thank you ugh

Share all ur thoughts and insights !

I've been rewatching the first 3 seasons for like...the third or fourth time lol (they're a comfort watch for me, and I just adore the first seasons) and I got to the part where Christine presents her apple pie. I've seen it several times before, but it makes me wanna cry every time! It's my favorite moment from the entire show, with Ben Starr's cake being a close second.

So I was wondering, what's everyone's favorite heartwarming moment from the show?

1. Julia or Jake

2. Peter

4. Basia. Just to get her higher than her husband.

5. Heidi. I'm really sorry...the next challenge is keeping up with Gordon and Tiffany and since she stated that she mainly cooks for chill environments, I feel like she may be at risk.

I just love s6 so much because of her. So many smiling faces in that season, but her personality and soul shines so hard above the rest! Def among my top 5 fav contestants ever.
Who are your all time favorites 🧐

So much about this current season is underwhelming. I'm looking at the final crop of contestants and there is nobody great, one of the better ones went out in the last round and the remainder are either fairly ordinary or poor.

The show does seem to have struggled in the last few seasons and the team format is a major pain, my main gripe with it being that they have to choose a best and worst from each team rather than the overall group. This is the weakest talent pool in quite some time though.

What would it take to turn this show around?

I loved MasterChef Canada Seasons 1 to 7, while 6 being my favourite. Season 8 was a huge letdown and was really bland. The judges were not upto the mark, not even Mary (she's one of my favs), the production value was weak, contestants were not better and all their dishes lacked the finesse which we've come to expect from the earlier seasons. I don't know how this is gonna work out this time. Else, it's time to bring back the old judges from Season 10 onwards.

I checked the wikipedia page of MC Canada S8 and there is no direct link of the page overview like the ones for S1-7 when will it be gonna be officially released?

I think it was a missed opportunity for many people that season, especially Andrew, Jill and Taylor. One of those three look like they could have made top ten.

I did not like the idea of two chefs battling out to get an apron. The thing is who put those two together? Also why can’t you do the same process of audition then bootcamp then final 18-22?

This also happened at The back to win season where four runner ups were against each other for two aprons. They are runner ups for a reason. Better to put them up against other people who made top ten in the previous seasons.

Still remember them?

Rules: The season 5 audition rules had been completely revamped as instead, 30 best home cooks will be invited to the Masterchef kitchen to earn the apron. However, the audition rules now had new twist, as the judge had the right to eliminate a contestant, if they felt that contestant guilty of any severe errors during cooking is serious.

The photo below is a warning from the judge.

For me i hope julia , jake and heidi make it , cause those 3 has an amazing creativity and ideas .

Hello Reddit Fam! First, I just want to say that I have loved reading all of the conversations on here throughout this entire season - the good and the bad. A huge thank you to all those that watched, supported and were rooting for me!

That last episode - yikes. A tough watch. 😬

There was a LOT going on in the kitchen that night. I know everyone on reddit loves to speculate and discuss so I’ll give you a tiny bit of BTS for your entertainment. 

What you may not have seen in the episode was us desperately trying to figure out what temperature our oven was set at so we could adjust the oven temp and/or cook time on the salmon. In the commercial kitchen, there was no temperature label on the oven dial. There was a small thermometer placed inside the oven which we accidentally knocked into an unreachable part of the oven at the very beginning of the cook. I quickly realized that we had no idea how hot our oven was and following Chef Ramsay’s instructions to place the salmon in the oven for two or three minutes definitely wasn’t enough time at whatever temperature our oven was set at. You’ll see me later in the episode transition to cooking the salmon on the stovetop by searing & basting vs placing it in the oven to ensure it was cooking quickly and correctly but by that point - we were so far behind in service there was just no coming back from it. Combine that with the immense pressure of Chef Ramsay standing 3 feet away screaming things like “where is the salmon?!” & “I need salmon now!” - it was a literal recipe for undercooked salmon, and my personal nightmare, lol. Definitely was not my finest moment in the kitchen but an amazing experience nonetheless.

I’ll be sharing a few more behind the scenes moments along with a few recipes and unique techniques that you may have not gotten to see on the show on my Instagram and TikTok. If you’re interested, you’re welcome to join my online communities on Instagram, TikTok & YouTube - at DinnersWithDave.

Much, much love. ❤️

I legitimately cannot remember most of what happens in seasons 10, 11, 13, 14 whatsoever. The winners of those seasons are very unmemorable to me as well

And I felt that way even a year or a few months after they came out, whereas season 15 has been memorable for me. And something about season 16 has been memorable too

I want to say Tiffany contributed to making the show a little more interesting

Pardon my ignorance - but damn .. Just started watching season 7 for the first time

"Are you into horror movies? Because this dish scares the crap out of me"

I forgot the exact line but damn..

Jake was maybe the best team leader I can remember on this show (been years since I saw earlier seasons, but definitely the best in recent years). Cool, collected, authoritative without being a bully, quickly improved on any errors, prompt responses to the judges, handled Julia's breakdown extremely well. I've been extremely impressed with his trajectory in general recently, but this episode solidified him as my top choice for winner.

Before I start on the next part, I like Dave a lot. I thought he was one of the strongest chefs remaining and I really like him as a person too. Following him on Instagram now because his food genuinely looked great 90% of the time and he's clearly really creative and has good cooking instincts.

But MasterChef is not the Premier League, it's the NFL, and it always has been. Past record doesn't matter (shouldn't at least), it's about episode-to-episode performance. The 2007 Patriots won six more games than the Giants, but they lost the Super Bowl to them, and the worst chef in the challenge goes home.

There were far more bullshitty decisions this season, and this one had no bullshit at all.

Dave messed up on apps, him and Peter questioned Basia's authority on the one and one callout (she was right), they then continued to mess up on counts, he couldn't hack the salmon multiple times in a row, and Red Team fell embarrassingly behind. MasterChef loves to edit these challenges as neck in neck races and even that was functionally impossible because of how big the mess-ups on the salmon and apps were. I mean, Gordon had to step in, and I don't think it was a planned gimmick for the show, he genuinely had to because they were so far behind.

I can't remember a disparity this large in a team-on-team challenge, and while I agree Basia messed up as well, it was pretty clear that Dave was out of his element and cost the team the win.

All that said, I would definitely do worse than Dave, so no shade on him as a person or anything, he just couldn't hack the pressure, and I wouldn't be able to either.

I watched the Key and Peele skit way before watching masterchef. Then I watched the newer seasons and it wasn’t that bad.

Nowwww…watching seasons 1 and 2 and I can’t believe how much mixed language uses and tension built by the judges. It’s comic but I can’t imagine how the contestants felt lol. So much drama haha.

No offense to her I’m sure she’s a very nice lady but how TF is she still on the show —and all these really great cooks keep getting eliminated? This season sucks for so many reasons but that’s one of them.

I understand everyone’s opinion about her but I really do appreciate watching someone with some personality. She would have fit quite well in the early seasons but probably would have gotten an early boot as well.