At long last, the time has come for MasterChef  to decide its season 3 champion. The two remaining finalists are a hulking army contractor who fought his way back onto the show after elimination, and a small, blind creative writing grad student who k more

After three months of charming profanity from Gordon, scowls from Joe, and generously donated steaks from Walmart, we've at last arrived at the MasterChef finale -- I'm not sure how a penultimate episode airing one week before the season's actual conclusi more

I'll say this for MasterChef : it certainly knows how to raise its fresh Wal-Mart stakes. Rather than artificially escalating the team challenge by making the contestants prepare dozens of plates -- I half expected to see our top four aboar more

At this point inthe season, the five remaining MasterChef hopefuls have pretty well-defined personal styles: Frank does Italian, Becky does cute, Monti does Wholesome, Christine does Vietnamese, and Josh does Southern. This week's MasterChef upends t more

Last week on Masterchef , the final six home cooks were put to the test in a real live culinary kitchen during their team challenge in which they were responsible for completing dinner service at the well known Michelin starred Hatsfield’s Restaurant in L more

After a three-week hiatus, MasterChef's third season finally seems to be entering the home stretch. With only six -- now five -- contestants left, this is no longer the judge-centric food mob show of its early episodes, but rather an intimate character dr more

MasterChef may be a pre-taped show, but tonight's mystery box ingredient is 100% live: the MasterChefs are forced to contend with fresh, living prawns. Some contestants rise to the promise of such a fresh ingredient, while others do not--Monti has even mo more

Though the pressure on the prospective MasterChefs has steadily increased over the past few weeks, tonight every one of them gets the night off: the eight most recently eliminated contestants return, and they are the ones competing for an open space in th more