Writing essay about TV show Masterchef US

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MY FAVOURITE TV SHOW – MASTERCHEF U.S
I have been watching a lot of TV shows on TV until now but the TV
programme which I like best is MasterChef US .
MasterChef is a U.S. competitive cooking reality show based on the
original U.K. version of the show MasterChef , open to amateur and home chefs..
Chef, TV personality and restaurateur Gordon Ramsay together with
restaurateur and vineyard owner Joe Bastianich (later replaced by pastry
chef Christina Tosi) and chef Graham Elliot were the original judges in the US
version of MasterChef . It debuted on July 27, 2010 at 9 pm ET/PT on the FoxTV
Network, following the professional cooking competition series, Hell's Kitchen.
It has just been on the seventh season so far so that there has been a few
changes . First , it’s about the judges as I have said . Second it’s its format. In the
first four seasons, amateur chefs were initially selected through nationwide
auditions, selecting a total of 100 competitors to the start of the televised
competition. In the preliminary rounds, each of these had an opportunity to
prepare a signature dish for the trio of judges. They were given a limited amount
of time to prep their dish, and then 5 minutes before the judges to complete the
cooking and assembly of the dish, during which the judges ask about their
background. The 3 judges taste the dish, and vote "yes" or "no" to keeping the
chef in the competition; 2 "yes" votes are required for the chef to move on and
receive a MasterChef apron, while those who fail to do so leave the competition.
At least one round was then used to trim the number of remaining chefs to about
sixteen to eighteen. Judges can advance a chef to the next round or eliminate
them at any time during the challenge by taking their apron.. In Season 5,
auditions were dropped, and thirty competitors were challenged directly in the
MasterChef kitchen to get an apron. In Season 6, twenty semi-finalists were
surprised when they were told they had to go into head-to-head competition
with another competitor cooking a dish with the same main ingredient; the
winner received an apron. After that , there is at least 1 homecook have to go

home per episode. There was then a final last-chance cook-off where each judge
selected 2 non-winners to compete for the final 2 aprons., with one chef
eliminated after the second and fourth event. The events typically are:
- Mystery Box
- Elimination Test
- Pressure Test
- Team Challenge


The final 2 face off in preparing a complete three course menu in a fixed
amount of time (2 hours overall in the first 3 seasons, one hour per dish since
Season 4) in which the judges evaluate both the individual dishes and the
overall meal's composition. The judges then select the winner of MasterChef,
who wins $250,000, their own cookbook and a MasterChef trophy.
The show is produced by Shine America and One Potato Two Potato and
it’s aired on every Wednesday at 8p.m on Fox channel.
All in all , I really love this show as I love cooking very much .I really
admire their talent of cooking . I am not only happy whenever I watch this
show but I can also learn a lot of cooking experience and some cooking tips
from the home-cooks as well as the judges’ advice . Last but not least ,
MasterChef provides me a large amount of knowledge about all kinds of
cuisines all over the world .