This was soooo disappointing! No elimination challenge? No cooking for your life? Boooooo! And I hate the announcer! Oh well, leave it to the americans to screw up a great show. I will still watch though.

Faruq really annoyed me in this episode. "What? What? What?", staying in a trance for the rest of the episode and doing funny faces is a little over-dramatic for me.

pork chops and coleslaw? these guys could not compete with the Australian Masterchef contestants.

Where oh where do I begin…? Where did they find these morons? This is the top 14 of American cooks? Let me stop, because I am just so disappointed right now.

how could anyone attempt to be considered a "master" chef and have NO skills? it's a joke! this is a spoof of the actual masterchef, right? i cannot believe Gordon Ramsey put his name on this show and then allowed these people to pretend to be chefs, much less think they have any chance of becoming a masterchef! and then he's going to allow them to author a cook book? arghhhhhhhhh! they need to find better contestants. the viewers are expecting quality contestants and the contestants have not embraced the gravity of this competition!

Let me simply state for the record that I grew up in Mississippi (though not where Whitney did) and I doubt you could find 5 people who have never cooked pork. "We don't eat pork in Mississippi" Are you kidding me? Really? What a bunch of nonsense.

There are some good cooks on here. The weekly format really is messing up the show and the judeges just don't have much charisma. Did anyone else miss Matt's descriptive adjectives for the pantry time – languid, leisurely and such?

I also really prefer Masterchef AUS, this American show is suck 5555. Please update the Kid Masterchef AUS.