Masterchef (US)

[Yeah No]

1 hour ago, Madding crowd said:

Christian studied cooking at Dillard University and has been a private chef and cooking instructor as well as owning a catering company. Dara has less experience and I stand by my opinion that we cannot predict how she would do. I like Dara and think she is doing great at age 20 but she also had lows during the competition and is definitely not more educated or experienced than Christian. 

For me predicting Dara's win had nothing to do with her background, education or experience.  Just from looking at her cook I felt that she was cooking on a higher level than the others.  Not a hard science for sure, but I did predict her win earlier in the thread before the finale.  So it wasn't impossible to predict based on an educated hunch and perhaps a strong premonition.

[Leeds]

17 hours ago, Daff said:

Someone who has completed culinary school would understand that differences in the sizes of the proteins, all going to the same table, would need different cooking times. She also would be able to handle 4 different order preferences, per doneness (what if they wanted one well, one rare, one medium, one medium rare?). Two pans, in this situation, would have solved Christian’s problem, but it never even occurred to him. He could have staggered the drop times on the filets, he could have removed the thinner ones to rest, while the other two finished (competent cooks, not called “chefs” handle this every day). There were several other things he could have done which would have occurred to Dara because she’s been trained. If I can think of them, surely she would have. 

I haven't been to culinary school and I'm vegetarian, but I know that steaks of different thicknesses/sizes would need different cooking times.  Christian has quite a few years' experience under his belt (including some school - see below), and should know how to cook them correctly.  It's like thinking you can cook angel hair and penne in the same amount of time.

10 hours ago, Madding crowd said:

Christian studied cooking at Dillard University and has been a private chef and cooking instructor as well as owning a catering company. Dara has less experience and I stand by my opinion that we cannot predict how she would do. I like Dara and think she is doing great at age 20 but she also had lows during the competition and is definitely not more educated or experienced than Christian. 

It seems to me like Dara has an innate talent that I hope will take her far.

Edited September 19, 2022 by Leeds

[oliviabenson]

On 9/17/2022 at 6:27 AM, Daff said:

You never had rice pudding? With a dollop of whipped cream on top? Seriously, though, tell us how “forbidden” rice differs in taste from others (wild, basmati, regular long grain). 

I once had sushi with forbidden rice. It tasted like regular rice to me.

[Leeds]

On 9/15/2022 at 12:12 PM, Taeolas said:

And the milk desert, the empty part of the plate was too much. They were going to notice the missing milk cube regardless, so he would have been better having three extra instead of being one short. I'm not all that familiar with the flavours, so I can't really say how appetizing it was, but it wasn't really appealing to me. 

I thought the whole negative space thing had died a death.  Regardless, those milk cubes looked remarkably unappetizing to me, like beer battered sugar cubes or something, and white was the worst plate colour to show off that sad looking collection of disparate items.

[christie]

Week two of the auditions and I didn't recognise Micah - the clothes threw me off lol. I would have liked for him to have got through just so that I could see what outfits the Masterchef stylists would put him in. 

[threebluestars]

Christine Ha, winner of S3, is 2023 James Beard Award semifinalist for Outstanding Chef. She was a finalist last year for Best Chef (Texas).

https://www.jamesbeard.org/blog/the-2023-james-beard-awards-semifinalists