MasterChef US Season 6 Episode 11 Recap and Review: July 22 2015

July 23, 2015 | Posted in EPISODE RECAPS, REALITY TV | By

Screencapture from the Jul 22, 2015 episode of MasterChef.

This week’s episode begins with soaring scenes of fields and open landscape…and mooing cattle. We are “70 miles north of the MasterChef kitchen” and the remaining 10 home cooks are here for their next team challenge. Shelly says it’s beautiful, nothing she’s ever seen in Brooklyn.

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MasterChef US Season 6 Episode 7 Recap and Review: June 24 2015

June 26, 2015 | Posted in EPISODE RECAPS, REALITY TV | By

Screencap from the June 24 episode of MasterChef, "Bring Home The Bacon".

Nick is the first chef we hear from this episode…he’s been in sales for ten years but being in the MasterChef kitchen is humbling, he says. Veronica is also spotlighted at the beginning…

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Who will win MasterChef Season 6?

June 13, 2015 | Posted in REALITY TV | By

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Last season, I thought I would be clever and try to predict who would win MasterChef after only the first episode had aired. Clearly, I was wrong in thinking that Elise Mayfield was being set up to be the plucky, come-from-behind winner as she ended up going down rather quickly…

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MasterChef US Season 6 Episode 4 Recap and Review: June 3 2015

June 4, 2015 | Posted in EPISODE RECAPS, REALITY TV | By

Screenshot from the Season 6 MasterChef episode "Cinnamon Roll-er Coaster".

Last week we said goodbye to two home cooks we’d barely gotten to know: Mateo and Brianna. The remaining 20 hopeful contestants are now going to have to face their very first team challenge…

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MasterChef US Season 6 Episode 3 Recap and Review: May 27 2015

May 29, 2015 | Posted in EPISODE RECAPS, REALITY TV | By

Screencap from the MasterChef Season 6 episode "You're The Apple of My Eye".

Last week on MasterChef, we (briefly) met the top 40 contestants for this season, which was then whittled down to 20 in a series of head to head battles, plus a final cook-off for 6 chefs who got a second chance to earn a white apron.

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My MasterChef Open Call Experience – New York 2012

May 27, 2015 | Posted in REALITY TV | By

Times Square billboard advertising MasterChef. Photograph by

Auditioning for a reality television series is not something I had ever dreamed of or planned on doing. But in November of 2012, I spent the day lined up with hundreds other hopefuls in New York City, wishing for just one thing…

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MasterChef US Season 6 Episode 2 Recap and Review: May 20 2015

May 22, 2015 | Posted in EPISODE RECAPS, REALITY TV | By

Screencapture from the May 20, 2015 episode of MasterChef, "The Battle Continues".

We’re back for the continuation of the season premiere, where the top forty home cooks in America (picked by FOX, at least) had to battle it out for their place in the top twenty. Each had to face off against another hopefully in a battle of signature dishes, based on their common theme or ingredient…

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MasterChef US Season 6 Episode 1 Recap and Review: May 20 2015

May 21, 2015 | Posted in EPISODE RECAPS, REALITY TV | By

Screen capture from the May 19, 2015 premiere of MasterChef season 6.

This week we have a special 2-part premiere episode of MasterChef, so I’m going to divide this recap into two separate posts (part two to follow shortly). There are a lot of new hopeful home chefs to meet – and a new judge as well – so let’s not waste any more time on getting started, shall we?

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MasterChef Junior Season 2: November 18 2014 Episode 3 Recap and Review

November 19, 2014 | Posted in EPISODE RECAPS, REALITY TV | By

Screencapture from the November 18 2014 episode of MasterChef Junior.

There are 10 young chefs left now in the MasterChef kitchen: Abby, Oona, Mitchell, Samuel, Sam, Logan, Sean, Adaiah, Josh and Levi. The competition is just going to get harder as it’s time for their next mystery box challenge. The

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MasterChef Junior Season 2: November 4 2014 Episode 1 Recap and Review

November 5, 2014 | Posted in REALITY TV | By

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So here we are, back for a second season of MasterChef Junior! After my disappointment with season 5 of the “adult” version of MasterChef this year, I was really eager to get back to some fun kids cooking—less drama, more food, or so I hoped. We’ll see how the rest of the season plays out but already I’m a little concerned…

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