The Julie Goodwin Masterchef Result Shits Me!
I’m just going to add my voice to the enormous amount of material on the internet already regarding MasterChef Australia’s result last night that Julie Goodwin, the somewhat dumpy IT employee was the best of all the contestants. She’s not, that was clear to a majority of viewers it would seem, maybe the judges were too close to the action?
I have watched many episodes of the original series from the UK and never once did I feel the judges were favoring a particular contestant. It’s rare in my view to find an Australian remake of an American or English hit TV show being up there in the same high quality, think Australian Survivor, good lord, that was awful. But, MasterChef Australia was very good, the production value was excellent, the guest chefs, everything about this Australian version was top notch, except for the judging decisions.
Chris and Poh should have been the final two and either of them winning would have been satisfactory.
I was pleased that Kurtis invited Poh over to do some filming in America with him, and I think Chris will do well, he’ll find some backing to help realise his plans for a restaurant. Chris and Poh were present, they had personality and passion for what they were doing. Julie was a bumbling fool.
If the producers want to avoid this sort of thing in the next series, they must make most of the judgments “blind”. For example, in the final episode, the chocolate dishes should have been presented to the judges as A and B, the judges must not know who produced the dish. They will not be able to remain objective to personalities, they’re human, but if there was any encouragement from the producers then it’s even worse. They should make the judgments blind even if just for the viewers. The viewers will think it’s a fair contest even if the producers tell the judges who prepared dish A and B.
It shits me that the producers were this inconsiderate of the viewers and allowed Julie to win, I think you’ll see her fade away with her $100K, whereas I think you’ll see Poh on TV cooking of some sort and Chris will get his restau opened, and good luck to them both. What do you think?
Check this out too at ClubWah, seems the Daily Telegraph got the right result!
Don.
Reader Comments
Hey, that’s a bit nasty and stop knocking someone like Julie who has obviously shown the judges and the Australian public that she has shown great technique, has studied and learnt from the best chefs in Australia and taken on board the judge’s critiques. Unless your a master foodie yourself, leave the judging to the experts!
Carol,
I respect your opinion. I think it’s naive though to think that the producers are not out to maximise ratings and the demographic of people watching this was mums with their kids.
Don.
Julie in IT? Can you imagine the hysterics that Julie would go into if she saw a computer bluescreen?!
I agree that the judges did favour the demographic, and were kind to Julie. The $100k will go to good use with her family and I do believe that it went to a good cause.
However, while Julie is the winner of the show I do believe that in the longer-term the personalities who will rise will be Chris and Poh. Poh is out there like Jenny Kee, while Chris proves that men can cook meat with passion.
Thank you Trish!
Julie was prone to a dash of panic and there’s often plenty of reasons to do that in IT!
Don
I totally agree with you. If we were to re-wtch the entire series and count the amount of times that Poh had made the Judges exclaim loudly her praises and their love of her innovative style and then see what they said about the majority of Julie’s dishes we would see that they definately backed the wrong horse. Achieving a medium quality food standard should not win you a prize . Julie should have “Wowed” the judges and us and she just didn’t. I most certainly do not need to buy a book from her to learn any of her skills or concepts of food as I too understand the basics of cooking.
Sian,
Good point about the whole program results, I did not watch much at all over the first 11 weeks, but I bet you’re spot on!
Don.
Don,
It sounds like you have too much time on your hands. How about instead of critisism, get off your backside and do better. I very much doubt that will be anytime soon. So in the meantime use the old adage of if you can’t say anything nice, don’t say anything at all.
Chris,
Thanks for your input. The whole point of this website is to try and improve things in our society and without expressing an opinion and providing an alternative approach then people will not be able to improve. If we only ever say anything nice then nothing will ever improve, but that’s just my opinion and thank again for yours!
Don.
Don,
How on earth do you improve a student by harshly criticising them?
- I ask, how would this work for you?
and how will bagging someone you will never meet “improve society”?…. get a grip!
You have done this so cowardly over the internet- you are nothing more than a faceless bully
Are you Chris or Rose? Same email, same location? Or two of you share the computer maybe? Anyway….
If you have another read you’ll see I’m trying to improve the program, not the students. I’d like the producers to improve the judgment process so that we do not see the preferential treatment for the contestant that represents their majority viewer demographic, and to that end I offered a suggestion of blind judgment and you may have noticed the compliment on the excellent production quality. As far as your claim of cowardice goes, if you can organise for me to meet the producers I’ll tell them to their face. As far as harshly criticising students goes, didn’t the judges do that time and time again, and Julie and the others improved didn’t they?
Don.
Janine and Poh should have been the two finalists but sorry ,although I thought Chris was a good cook he certainly needed to have a good scrub up as he looked dirty and scruffy to me . Compare the appearances of the guest chefs and none of them looked like Chris.And the hat? Chris was also very critical of some of the other contestants which was unnecessary.As to some of your critics Don If they can’t stand the heat get out of the kitchen.Ha Ha.
So now that all the hype has died down, are we going to see a rise in Australian’s interest in cooking? And if so will it be sustained for more than a few months…
Good question David. So you’re saying, despite anyone’s views on the program, winners and losers, has the program had an impact on the Australian public’s desire to cook, and preparedness to do so, rather than consume even more take-away and gain even more kilos of fat. I can offer this observation, I asked a nine year old last night during Idol if he’d like to audition for Idol when he’s 16, he said he wants to enter MasterChef. I didn’t expect that, especially when he’s quite the performer. Will we see a drop in take-away and prepared meals? I hope so, as this would be a good thing and it would probably mean more people are cooking. I guess the volume of sale of fresh produce would be another measurement. We’ll wait and see.
I didn’t see anything dirty about Chris. The fact that he wore a hat, didn’t stop him from being the best CHEF. He was fantastic. His whole approach to cooking was confident and competant. At least he wasn’t sweating profusely into the food, like our muddle puddle Julie. OMG she was just dreadful. LAUGHABLE.
Julies idiotic book idea got her across the line. That fogettable “special guest judge” influenced the sychophantic psychos that masquersded as the “regular” judging panel. Julie was a good “cook” like countless other mothers (and some fathers)across this great land, but the show was called Master Chef…. one more time for the dummies MASTER CHEF