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 2023. A total of 42 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in October 2024.
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MasterChef: The Professionals
It’s heat two, and a second group of four chefs arrive to kick-start their MasterChef adventure. It will take every ounce of chef know-how to deliver across two tough challenges.
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Thirty-two of the country’s most ambitious chefs are invited to battle it out in the MasterChef kitchen, in a bid to become the 2024 champion.
Series 12
The final three chefs face one last challenge - to cook the best three courses of their lives.
The four finalists are challenged to create a single exceptional and evocative dish inspired by a place that is special to them.
Only the four most talented chefs out of the original 48 remain. The first challenge they face is a once-in-a-lifetime chance to cook at the chef’s table.
The first three semi-finalists battle it out for a place in the finals. They are given the opportunity to work alongside one of the UK's most exciting chefs.
The remaining eight chefs brace themselves to cook up a storm as they face a double beast of a challenge in the MasterChef kitchen.
As knockout week continues, the second group of five chefs face two intense challenges set by Monica and Marcus in a bid to become semi-finalists.
Only ten chefs remain in the competition. In a new event, the chefs must show off their versatility and style, creating and serving a dish that will win over the judges and specially invited guests.
12 chefs remain from the initial 48. They face the most intense invention test of the competition in a kitchen stripped of all the modern gadgets.
The week's remaining professionals are given a larder with a wide range of pumpkins, squash and other sweet and savoury ingredients to choose from in their invention test.
The last three chefs step into Marcus's test and are asked to create drop scones and a suzette sauce - a perfect batter mix and a sauce that goes up in flames.
In the final week of the heats, six more chefs head into the MasterChef kitchen. Monica's skills test sees the chefs cooking up a braised artichoke with saffron aquafaba mayonnaise.
Tonight's quarter-final sees the six most talented chefs from this week's heats set out to impress Monica Galetti and Marcus Waring in two high-stakes challenges.
In the second heat of the week, six more chefs head into the MasterChef kitchen to show the judges they have what it takes to be this year's champion.
In the first heat of the week, six professional chefs from across the UK put their reputations on the line. Each professional's journey begins with the infamous skills test.
This quarter-final sees the six most talented chefs from the week's heats face an invention test focusing on the onion.
In the second heat of the week, three contestants are given 15 minutes by Marcus to prep and cook his calves' liver with a bordelaise sauce.
Monica challenges the first three chefs to employ some deft knife skills and spatchcock a quail before cooking it to produce quail with a rocket pesto in just 15 minutes.
Series 17, Episode 3
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It’s the first quarter-final of the series, which will see the week’s best competitors don their chef whites to compete for a place in knockout week. Two challenges stand in their way.