MasterChef's Greg and John dish out advice for budding chefs ahead of new series
It puts home cooks through their paces in the ultimate TV test of culinary prowess.
And MasterChef returns for its 19th series tonight to put a new batch of budding chefs through their paces.
Over eight weeks, judges John Torode and Gregg Wallace will taste dishes made by the 45 hopefuls, who include a circus performer, a tree surgeon, an NHS Worker, a coffee shop owner, an engineer, a supermarket manager and a delivery driver.
Here the pals give a taste of what it’s like to work on the show.
What advice would you give someone walking into the MasterChef studio for the first time?
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John Torode and Gregg Wallace have revealed what advice they would give to MasterChef hopefuls (BBC/Shine TV)Gregg: Don’t pretend. Cook what you know and stay with what you know.
John: Don’t drink too much coffee before you come through and eat something before you get there.
The dish you dread when someone tells you what they are cooking?
Gregg: Anything in a water bath.
John: Kidneys. You [Gregg] love them, I hate them.
Your favourite MasterChef dish ever?
Gregg: Steven Wallace’s Pear Belles Helene.
John: I can’t say. So many of them I have loved.
The ingredient you couldn’t live without?
Gregg: Potato
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John: Butter
The pair shared the best and worst aspects of working in a studio (BBC/Shine TV)Favourite part of working with each other?
John: He [Gregg] is very funny. His jokes are awful, but he’s very funny.
Gregg: I trust him. I’m never nervous when he’s (John) there. I just trust him, it’s comforting.
Best thing about being in the studio?
John: It’s like home. It’s comforting. You never know what you’re going to get. It could be good, it could be unusual but it’s always going to be pretty good.
Gregg: The camaraderie after 20 years of working with the same people.
Worst thing about being in the studio?
John: It can be really cold, it can also be really hot. First-world problems I know, but I’m not very good with temperature. I’m getting old!
Gregg: You can’t have air conditioning on because the sound team complain.
Do you get nervous at the start of each series?
Gregg: No.
John: Yes, I think most days I go in a bit nervous. But nervousness is a good thing.
The pair also revealed the challenge they would love to see on the cooking show (Shine Ltd)What’s your favourite place you have ever been with MasterChef?
Gregg: Without a doubt, India.
John: India was amazing, I loved India or Mexico City. Or wait I really liked the Arctic circle. We went through customs in Norway with 20 hot dogs which we bought for the crew and they made us put them through the X-Ray machine.
Name your favourite challenge...
Gregg: I really like the ones we do at the start of amateurs, but it has to be the street food challenges where it’s all about quality grub.
John: I love the critics’ briefs – they are brilliant. They really change the way people think about it, they’re just great.
If you could add a new challenge to MasterChef what would it be?
Gregg: A low-calorie one.
John: Interesting, oh what would it be? I know, Cook for your Mum.
Pick your dreamdesert island dish
John: I’m in Thailand somewhere. Someone is cooking a nice bit of BBQ fish with a nice hot salad like a som tam, some grilled chicken as well. A nice cold glass of rosé with huge amounts of ice in it.
Gregg: I’ll have a plate of oysters, roast lamb and mint sauce and I’ll have one of my wife’s coffee panna cottas.
Describe this new series in three words
Gregg: Thrilling, emotional, incredible.
John: Very bloody exciting.
The series starts tonight at 8pm and continues tomorrow at 9pm.
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