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Before The Bump. Parent Opinion. Can you imagine just walking into your kitchen and creating an incredible meal entirely from scratch with no recipes or references to help guide and inspire you?
Now, imagine doing that with the clock ticking and Gordon Ramsay ready to judge the final product, perhaps with one of his now notorious insults. Sure, some people are up to the challenge, but let's be honest.
The vast majority of us are not ready to have Ramsay yell at us for burning the risotto, even if we have a step-by-step set of instructions right in front of us. Few would dare to go into such a challenge without even those guidelines. But for MasterChef contestants, that's exactly what happens.
With no recipes allowed in the kitchen, contestants must lean on tried and true techniques, guidance from the chefs when they offer it, and a heavy dose of luck.
There are moments when you're like, 'Oh my god, it worked! So how do they do it? It turns out that studying for MasterChef is a lot like studying for grad school. I quizzed myself all the time," says Mayfield.
Have you ever noticed how each contestant seems to have an endless selection of one particular kind of clothing in their closet? Like all camouflage shirts for the guy who hunts, for instance, or all lace dresses and cowboy boots for the girl next door?
Naturally enough, these contestants don't have magically coordinating outfits or a closet full of the same shirt. MasterChef's costume department gives them a wardrobe that fits their personality type, then told what to wear for each episode. The MasterChef wardrobe and makeup crew are trying to build a particular character, after all.
And it's usually done so well that you hardly even notice. Season 5 contestant Elise Mayfield told AV Club that "You are in your outfit that you've been told to put on, you are going to wardrobe and hair and makeup.
Often cooks wear durable and comfortable shoes while cooking and change into nicer shoes and high heels that match their wardrobe when it's time for the big judging scenes.
After all, MasterChef hopefuls may be working up a sweat in the kitchen, but television demands that they've got to look good while doing it. If you've ever been on the set of a television show, whether it purports to depict reality or is a scripted show, you'll know that what's going on in front of the camera is just the tip of the iceberg.
Behind the camera, there's a small army of people making it all happen, from camera operators, to makeup artists, to the people setting up craft services. Even from the comfort of your own couch, you can surely see that the MasterChef set is massive and complicated. It houses a working kitchen built for 24 cooks to work at once, including a viewing balcony, a small grocery, and a full dining room.
What you don't see is the rest of the stage and people working behind the camera. How is it possible for three judges to keep track of everything that's going on in the whirlwind of all of that chaos? Well, they have help. Chef and judge Christina Tosi gave up a little insight into how it all actually works. Everyone has the exact same advantages, and we want them to leverage those advantages fairly," said Tosi in an interview with Lucky Peach.
So you can rest assured that no one is sneaking in a little extra cook time. Furthermore, Tosi says that everyone gets the same amount of help from the judges. In such a large kitchen, you might not even be able to hear what the person next to you is saying, much less the conversation between watching judges.
Between the pots and pans getting thrown around the stovetops, stand mixers whirring, and trays coming in and out of the oven, the noise of the kitchen can be frankly overwhelming. Even with all of that going on, every single word the contestants say is recorded via Delish. Small microphones worn by each cook can pick up even the quietest whispered conversations while cameras are recording the action from every angle.
With so much audio and video to go through, the production crew has a massive amount of material to manage for every episode. The microphones are attached to the cooks' aprons and capture conversations between contestants, people talking to themselves while they cook, and hopefully even a few dramatic sound bites to make an episode especially exciting.
Still, it's got to feel a bit like George Orwell's Big Brother is watching for the contestants themselves.
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