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Masterchef: The Professionals

Genres: Food, Reality Competition
Broadcast on: BBC Lifestyle

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8.5

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Broadcaster information
International channels
BBC Two : 25 Aug 2008 - 12 Dec 2013

South African channels

BBC Lifestyle : 17 Aug 2009 - 24 Jul 2014

About the Show

Masterchef: The Professionals is a British cooking reality series created by Loyd Grossman and Gary Rhodes as a spin-off of their series Masterchef Goes Large, in which Michelin-starred chef Michel Roux, Jr. and ingredients expert Gregg Wallace hunt for a young chef who has the ambition, drive and talent to make it to the top table of the culinary world.

The Professionals is only open to qualified chefs who are barred from standard contest.

Legendary, double-Michelin-starred chef Michel Roux, Jr. and ingredients expert and MasterChef veteran Gregg Wallace are on the hunt for a young chef who has the ambition, drive and talent to make it to the top table of the culinary world.

Based on the same premise of the MasterChef series, The Professionals is only open to qualified chefs who are barred from standard contest. Over the course of three weeks, 36 chefs are filtered down to just one winner.

First up – the heats. Three ambitious young chefs face two gruelling cooking challenges. In the first, they have just 50 minutes to create two dishes based around the same central ingredient. For the second round, they must recreate two classic dishes, but to the highest standard.

For two of the three, their dream will end right there, as only one contestant from each heat goes forward into the quarter finals.

In the quarter finals, the winners of each week’s heats will be put to the test, as they cook for three restaurant critics. Only perfection will do, as the critics hold no punches in their examination of the food.

Only two from each quarter final will go through to Finals week.

Having cleared the previous hurdles the final six remaining contestants face huge amounts of pressure, stress and strain as they must use their ingenuity, their experience and their professionalism to get through a variety of challenging cooking environments in order to show they are worthy of the title of champion.

Winners

Season 1: Derek Johnstone
Season 2: Steve Groves
Season 3: Claire Lara
Season 4: Ash Mair
Season 5: Keri Moss and Anton Piotrowski


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