The television show that I picked to do my second blog topic is “Master Chef”. The particular episode aired Tuesday August 2nd 2011, and was called “Top 7 Compete”. Full episodes can be found at http://www.fox.com/masterchef/full-episodes/ This show is about the best of amateur chefs competing to win the title of “Master Chef”, and a quarter of a million dollars. This television show is a reality show that is ran by three major chefs. First there is Chef Gordon Ramsey who is the leader of the trio followed by two other chefs, Greg and Joe who also participate in the show as the judges. Then there are the contestants that competing for the quarter of a million dollars, they are; Ben, Lindsey, Jennifer, Kristen, Christen, Adrian, Derek, and Suzie.
The television show starts off with a “box” contest with a surf and turf theme, where they have secret ingredients under a box and the contestants have 45 minutes to create the best dish they can using the secret ingredients, which are; jumbo shrimp, crawfish, short ribs, king crab, buffalo rib eye, and porterhouse steaks. The contestants then cook what they think would be the best dish possible and Chef Ramsey, Joe, and Greg pick the best three looking dishes that they would like to taste, and from there they then pick the winner of the competition. The top three contestants were Jennifer with her Risotto, Adrian with his short ribs, and Suzie with her Prawn bisque and Bison with pan gravy sauce. Then right before Gordon declares the winner they go to commercial to hold the viewers in suspense.
The winner of the first competition is Jennifer with her risotto, and she is given a big advantage going forward into the next competition. Jennifer is then taken back into the pantry where she is shown three pictures of kids, that turn out to be childhood pictures of Gordon, Greg, and Joe. She is then told that she is going to have a choice to cook one of their favorite childhood meals. Greg’s favorite childhood meal was mac and cheese, while Joe’s favorite was pizza, and finally Gordon’s favorite was tomato soup and grilled cheese. Right before Jennifer gets to pick her choice they go to commercial.
Jennifer then picks Gordon’s favorite childhood meal of tomato soup and grilled cheese. All the contestants now have to make an adult version of tomato soup and grilled cheese. They are then given five minutes to shop in the pantry for ingredients and forty five minutes to prepare their meal. When they return from the pantry they find pictures of themselves as children at their cooking stations. The contestants then start to cook their meal while the trio of chefs observe and comment about their meals that they are cooking. Suzy cuts herself as she is cooking then they go to commercial.
When they get back from commercial it shows Suzy running to clean up and start over because she bled on everything. After a few more minutes the contest comes to an end and everyone has their plate served and they are now subjected to the judges’ comments both good and bad. They get to Ben Star’s meal and he is upset with his dish and the judges agree that the dish is bad, they then go to commercial.
After the commercial the rest of the dishes are tasted and the bottom three are chosen; Kristen, Derek, and Ben Star. They then go back to commercial, after they return from the commercial they tell Ben to step forward and after a dramatic pause Gordon tells him to go back to his station. Leaving only Kristen and Derek up for elimination, then Gordon says, “The next person leaving master chef is” a brief pause again “Kristen.” Before anyone knew it Gordon then says, “Were not done yet.” He then kicks Derek out of the competition.
I do believe that this reality show is popular because of the stress and surprises that the competitors face on a daily basis. Also Chef Gordon Ramsey is also a person with charisma and knowledge, and lets us not forget that he loves to yell and put down the contestants that produce horrible or below par food. This show is tended for family audiences and differs from other shows with Gordon’s character (of course played by himself) and the two other judges. Although they do try to sell items on their website http://foxshop.seenon.com/index.php?v=fox_shows_family-guy&AID=10710187&PID=2203897&afsrc=1&ecid=AFF-7975437&pa=affcj. There is however on show that is relatively the same with a different twist that is advertised during commercials and you should watch if you liked “Master Chef”, this show is called "Hells Kitchen" which can be found at http://www.fox.com/hellskitchen/. "Hells Kitchen" is also ran by Chef Gordon Ramsey, but instead of a quarter million dollars as the prize, it is a job at his restraunt as head chef.
The commercials during the showing of this program was family based commercials that included: Walmart, Verizon, Aflac, Red Lobster, Mountain Dew, At &t, Target, Ikea, Allegra, Fred Myers, State Farm and the list goes on and on. Altogether there were five commercial sets with seven to eleven commercials in each set. I would end with saying that this is one of the few better reality shows that I have watched and would recommend this show to others to watch and enjoy as well. Not only do you get to see people squirm, but you get to learn how to cook great food as well.
You can find further reviews of this show at http://www.fox.com/hellskitchen/.
You can find further reviews of this show at http://www.fox.com/hellskitchen/.
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