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The much anticipated MasterChef Ireland is now on our screens every Tuesday and Thursday, RTÉ Two at 9.30pm. Judges Dylan McGrath and Nick Munier search for Ireland’s best amateur cook in the biggest cooking competition on television.
This series promises to have MasterChef fans, foodies and cooking enthusiasts glued to their screens twice a week for the next six weeks, as sixteen exceptional amateur cooks battle it out every Tuesday and Thursday night on RTÉ Two for the coveted MasterChef Ireland title and a prize of €25,000.
Judge Dylan McGrath is one of Ireland’s top chefs and won his first Michelin star at the age of just 30. His judging colleague Nick Munier is a Dublin restaurateur and Maitre d’, who has been in the industry for 22 years working for some of the world’s best chefs, including Marco Pierre White and the Roux brothers.
Earlier this year RTÉ announced the search for amateur cooks to take part in the first-ever MasterChef Ireland. More than 1100 applications were received from all over Ireland. Hopeful applicants had to make it through a number of rounds to get to the audition stage of the competition, with just fifty people making it through to compete against some of the best amateur cooks in the country for a place in the Final 16.
As the series starts we meet the 50 hopefuls chasing a place in the final 16. The outstanding amateur cooks that make it through will be put through a series of intense culinary tasks and challenges testing their talent, skill and determination.
Over the coming weeks these exceptional amateur cooks will be faced with a series of increasingly complex culinary challenges from taste tests and mystery boxes, to mass catering, fish cookery and Indian cuisine right up to the intricacies of pastry, fine dining and Michelin-starred cooking, and more. Contestants will be eliminated at different stages of the series until there is one winner, the very first MasterChef Ireland champion.
MasterChef Ireland fans will be spoilt for choice as the series airs on Tuesdays and Thursdays on RTÉ Two at 9:30pm with extensive extra coverage the following mornings between 9am – 10am on The John Murray Show, RTÉ Radio 1 which as the official MasterChef Ireland radio partner, will have the latest Masterchef Ireland news, interviews and exclusive behind-the-scenes updates.
MasterChef Ireland fans are also invited to go behind the scenes on www.rte.ie/masterchef for exclusive photos and interviews with the judges and contestants, engaging updates on each episode, original recipes from the show and great weekly competitions. Fans can follow MasterChef Ireland on Twitter at #rtemc, and on www.facebook.com/rtemc and catch up with episodes on the RTÉ Player (www.rte.ie/player) and the RTÉ YouTube channel.
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