Radio Times: Review by:; Jane Rackham

Oh, how MasterChef loves a spot of mass catering to sort out the wheat from the chaff. Cooks who can coolly produce an exquisite single dish in the studio often get very hot under the collar when asked to prepare dinner for a hundred people or more.

There’s added pressure for the six remaining amateurs, because their latest challenge is to create a delectable three-course meal for 200 of the country’s most high-ranking legal figures at Middle Temple. Presumably, if they don’t like it, they’ll sue.

After that, it’s back to the MC kitchen to make an elegant meal that will be tasted and judged by the gimlet-eyed Michel Roux Jr.

About this programme

9/15. The contestants cook a three-course meal for more than 200 people at Middle Temple, one of the historic Inns of Court in the City of London, where guests include high-ranking legal figures including senior High Court judges and lord justices. The six cooks are divided into pairs with each team delivering one course, and the pressure of cooking to such an exacting standard for so many diners proves extremely challenging. The chefs then create two elegant courses to be tasted by guest arbiter Michel Roux Jr.