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Host
Broadcast
BBC 1, 2 July 1990 to 27 August 2000
BBC 2, 3 April to 3 July 2001
Junior Masterchef: BBC1, 14 August 1994 to 1 August 1999
Synopsis
Three amateur chefs aim to try to put together as pretentious a meal as possible in two-and-a-half hours. This includes a starter, a main course and a dessert. They are allowed to spend £10 on any food they desire to make their meal. And that's it. The winner of each regional heat goes through to a semi-final, and those three winners go through to the final where the winner is crowned 'Masterchef 19XX'. (Luckily, Masterchef was Millennium Compliant.)
There are usually two special guests on the show, a popular chef and any old television celeb. They talk to the chefs whilst they are cooking, asking them questions, commentating, whatever. Together with Loyd they each taste all the food, commenting on the good points, only to secretly bitch about it behind the contestants' back whilst judging.
Amidst some controversy and backbiting - mainly from the sacked presenter - the show was shunted over to BBC 2 with new host, professional chef Gary Rhodes installed. The format was now rather different. Only two courses are prepared and each contestant must use the same key ingredient in each. Although this restricts the variety of dishes, it does make it a fairer contest and there is less need for the constant recapping of menus needed in the original version.
Also, there was now only one studio guest rather than a celeb-chef combo but again the show doesn't seem that worse off without it. Likewise, there is no plastic dummy version of Loyd dressed up as a butler. See, not all progress is a bad thing.
Key moments
Loyd going "Mmmmmmm..." for ages over all the dishes during the tasting, rubbing your noses in it, because he knew full well Masterchef went out at 5pm and it would be at least another hour before Mum had made your tea.
Inventor
Franc Roddam, whose other main claim to fame is creating the drama Auf Wiedersehen, Pet.
Catchphrases
"We've deliberated, cogitated and digested."
Also, not exactly a catchphrase, but a "big green 10" used to appear on the studio's video screen to indicate ten minutes cooking time remaining. At first, Loyd referred to this as "the big green 10" but later on he would avoid using the word "green" and compare it to a different green vegetable each week - "aparagus-coloured", "petit pois-coloured", etc.
Trivia
There was a junior version of the show, imaginatively monickered Junior Masterchef. Here, the contestants only have to make two courses (wot, no starter?) They are given two hours and, yes, the menus were still pretentious.
Champions
| Masterchef | |
| 1990 | Joan Bunting |
| 1991 | Sue Lawrence |
| 1992 | Vanessa Binns |
| 1993 | Derek Johns |
| 1994 | Gerry Goldwyre |
| 1995 | Marian McFarlane |
| 1996 | Neil Haidar |
| 1997 | Julie Friend |
| 1999 | Lloyd Burgess |
| 2000 | Marjorie Lang |
| 2001 | Rosa Baden-Powell |
| Junior Masterchef | |
| 1994 | Kate Targett-Adams |
| 1995 | Jenna Tinson |
| 1996 | Lucy Wright |
| 1997 | Serena Martin |
| 1999 | Dominique Fraser |
Neither series ran in 1998.
Merchandise
Masterchef: the Best of British Cooking by Loyd Grossman
Web links
See also
Futurecooks - a forerunner of the Junior version.
