Points for improvement:
- Less meat. Come on man, it's 2024. Make it accessible to vegetarian and vegan contestants, if they can cook Michelin star versions of the meat dishes, why not let them? Contestants should have the option of making a vegetarian version of any given meat dish, it can be a fun 'disadvantage' or advantage depending how good they are with veg!
- Less obviously putting participants one against the other (less fuelling gossip and hatred). Sometimes it really puts me off the show to see how mean people are to each other and how this goes not only unpunished but fuelled by the judges and the showwriters.
- Less 'luck' component, make it less like a game and more like the COOKING competition it's meant to be. Too often, very promising contestants leave the show for things that seem really stupid and something they would have learnt on day 1 in a professional kitchen (e.g. Making omelettes a very specific way, or removing bones/sand from fish, or they get massively disadvantaged for not spotting a specific herb or cut of meat). This should be about whether someone can cook a tasty dish and present it decently, not about knowing niche things about cooking which they would learn on the job. They should take more inspiration from the original (Masterchef UK) where everyone is nice to each other and they focus on cooking.
