Top Chef Masters

is an American reality competition show currently broadcast on the cable television network Bravo. It is a spinoff of Bravo’s hit show Top Chef. In the series, 24 world-renowned chefs compete against each other in weekly challenges. This show is a contrast from Top Chef, which typically features younger professional cooks who are still rising in the food service industry. The first season began airing June 10, 2009. The program takes place in Los Angeles.

Critics

  • Kelly Choi (Host)
  • Gael Greene (Critic)
  • James Oseland (Critic)
  • Jay Rayner (Critic)
  • Gail Simmons (Critic)

In each episode, the chefs compete to win money for their charity. The Elimination Round winners are awarded cash donations ($10,000) for their charities. For each of the first six episodes, only four chefs compete out of the twenty-four and one of the four chefs moves forward to the Champions Round.

Episode format: Each episode consists of a Quickfire and an Elimination challenge. The Quickfire is a short, simple challenge that can vary from cooking, tasting or a food-related task (e.g. peeling a certain amount of apples to certain quality standard in a limited amount of time). The Elimination challenge is a more complex challenge which usually requires cooking a meal for many people with certain requirements. The chefs are scored based on how well they execute in the Elimination and Quickfire challenges.

Scoring: The Quickfire is scored on a scale of one to five stars, and the Elimination challenge is scored on a scale of one to of 20 stars (five stars given by the tasters, and fifteen given by the three critics). A chef can thus win a maximum of 25 stars. The chef with the most stars at the end of both challenges is considered the winner and will move on to the Champions Round. The six total winners will then meet up for the final four weeks when one person will be eliminated in each episode until the finale where one winner is crowned Top Chef Master. The winning chef will receive $100,000 for his or her designated charity.

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Finally to actually see real Chefs in action. People who can actually do the cooking and not a bunch of people who can’t cook. Sadly Padma Lakshmi is not part of this Spinoff as it’s Host and the Head Chef Tom Colicchio is just gonna pop up just every once in a while for the show.

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