njdrd 2 guest judges, five equal votes with a blind tasting/voting for the final cook off. Only fair way to do it. It is too painfully obvious who the teacher's pets are(I do love the show either way). They should go from 0% blind judging to 80% (at least) with guest judges to round out the favoritism. A great chef could be a judge's pet, but is that fair to the other great chefs that are competing? And this pandering to the cooks!! 15 mins over time on a one hour cook- that's a 25% increase in the amount of time that you get to create your dish. I bet the other chefs would love to have a 25% increase in their time as well to polish their dish. 1 min. over and you should be automatically disqualified, kicked off, period. The other chefs brought their dishes in on time, why give one or two chef's 25% more time when other chef's didn't get that favoritism????? Why give a one hour/3 hr time limit(or whatever limit) then not follow through with it. Oh, it's OK if you break the rules, you're my favorite...

jackdegroot Why do you call Gregg Wallace a Masterchef? He is a greengrocer, not even an apprentice chef. Michel Roux might well be a Masterchef, although already for 16 years he fails to get his third star. Gregg may have watched a lot of cooking being done, but no cook learns anything without practice. A Masterchef has many thousands of hours of practice and is able to take on every part of the kitchen: meat, fish, pastry, desserts. Final comment: the level of knowledge of your contestant chefs is very low. Masterchef is an entertaining program but with too much screaming in the style of "We expect the best.Only the very best chefs will go through. And: Masterchef Gregg will judge you."