The Bear Minimum

I have, and it’s rather good!

I’ve watched the show on and off for most of the last decade. Both my wife and I love to cook, so it’s natural that we’d watch the show. I didn’t get into the Junior MasterChef or Celebrity MasterChef, but MasterChef: The Professionals is quite good. The original MasterChef is always the most enjoyable, though, because the journey seems much greater to these people.

I happened to be talking to a friend from Australia a few weeks back, and he said that they had the show in Australia, and that it was very good. I did a quick Google search of it and found that it was quite like our original MasterChef, and when my friend offered to send me a DVD of the episodes so far that he’d recorded off of TV, I happily accepted.

So earlier this week the DVD appeared in my letter box and my wife and I sat down to watch it. It’s actually very enjoyable, and feels very authentic to the original series. Sometimes the seasons of MasterChef could get quite stale (no pun intended!) and you could lose interest for a great portion of the season. There’s so many contestants in the first half of the show that you don’t get a chance to see much of them, and as a result you’re far less invested.

With this Australia season there’s that same issue, but when you’ve the chance to watch a great portion of the episodes back to back, you don’t get that feeling so much. I’m quite looking forward to receiving the next DVD of episodes, which my friend said would take me up to the point where there’s ten contestants left, which is a pretty good point to be watching at. I look forward to seeing who wins, and I will be avoiding any spoilers!