Wednesday night’s MasterChef featuring John Torode and Gregg Wallace and this year’s hopefuls will feature the Royal Crescent throughout the episode.
With only ten contestants left within the popular cookery competition on BBC1, Bath is used for the competitors first time to cook for the British public, in the words of the BBC ‘creating fantastic food in a field’ with that field actually being the Royal Crescent lawn.
Divided into two teams of five, the contestants work to prepare an elegant lunch for 100 patrons of the Jane Austen Festival. They have just three hours to create six savoury dishes and two deserts between them, but can the teams manage to impress both the judges and the guests, and can they get the food out on time? With a range of ingredients to work from including chicken, salmon, duck, samphire, gooseberries, basil, figs and quince, the menus are set to be mouthwatering.
John and Gregg will then decide which team performed the best, at which stage the successful five then have the opportunity of working with one of the country’s most exciting and respected chefs, Jason Atherton. They may have triumphed at mass catering, but the five winning team members must now show they have what it takes to cook at the top level. They are each made responsible for one course at an exclusive dinner. Cooking of this standard requires the utmost attention to detail and impeccable timing, but one of the hopefuls won’t quite reach the mark and their MasterChef journey will come to an end.
You can see BBC1’s MasterChef as they visit Bath on Wednesday evening at 9pm.
