MasterChef: The Professionals
MasterChef: The Professionals is a food & cooking program on BBC2. The hunt for the the next superstar chef. Professional cooks are put through their paces. Who will cope and who will crack? The popular program has been available since 2026. A total of 6 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in February 2026.
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MasterChef: The Professionals
The chefs are challenged to create their own special twist on rice pudding, before serving up two plates of food to impress restaurant critics Jimi Famurewa, Jay Rayner and William Sitwell.
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Philli Armitage-Mattin sets the chefs a skills test challenge using her own recipes. Two must recreate chicken wings stuffed with pork mince, the other chefs, souffle pancakes with sake-poached plums.
2020 professional finalist Philli Armitage-Mattin sets the contestants a Korean-inspired skills test to make it through to the quarter-finals.
It's the first quarter-final, and the chefs face an invention test demanding that they do something magical with an ingredient they will all have probably worked with before – king prawns!
The challenges for another group of contestants aiming for a place in the quarter-finals include preparing a dish of steamed razor clams and a dessert with authentic cranachan cream.
2016 winner Gary Maclean, who has gone on to become the first National Chef of Scotland, sets the challenges for four chefs seeking to make it through to the quarter-finals.