MasterChef: The Ultimate Cookbook

Yes, I was a MasterChef groupie while the program was on. Wish there was a followup - but on the other hand, Gordon Ramsey on the tube 3-4 nights a week gets a little @#$%^ing old - LOL.So you pick up the bet recipes and the techniques of all the chefs throughout the series. I've really enjoyed several of the dishes. Haven't NOT enjoyed any of them.Perhaps the only drawback is the expense of the components. It's easy to watch on TV as they whip out a few lobsters, or monster rib-eye steaks, sea urchins, rock crabs, etc and you don't think anything about the cost of the dish they are preparing. But to do these recipes right, you need to replicate these high quality ingredients and they are not cheap - heck they may not even be available at your local Safeway or King Soopers, so you'll need two things:1) Access to a high-end, restaurant quality food market and2) Permission from your banker before you go shopping! LOLOverall, it's a GREAT cookbook.Enjoy!Bon Appetite!Buono Appetito

Masterchef Ultimate Cookbook is a very good cookbook with minimal overlap with Masterchef Cookbook. It is a must buy for fans of the series for sure.The approach is to explain the goal of each dish that the contestant made so the teaching approach is more indirect. There are not specific "Techniques" pages or recipes from the judges.There is also some content spent on what some of the past contestants are up to.In comparison, Masterchef Cookbook has sections on:Kitchen toolsKitchen PantryTechniques include for chopping onion, poaching an egg, cubing a mango, peeling a mango, segmenting citrus, boiling and poaching an egg, cracking a crab, seeding tomato, toasting spices, cleaning leeks, homemade pasta, perfect pie crust, cooking rice, roasting and cutting a turkey, and making chicken, beef and vegetable broths.There are also recipes from the Masterchef kitchen and not just from the contestants.Amazon, of course, is excellent. I preordered the book weeks before and got it exactly on Sept 18 as promised.

Cooking good food

I have only had this cook book for a day and I am already in love with it! It is written very similar to the way I write my food blog, with more of a "this is what you are trying to accomplish" approach. I love the little technique sections such has how to "fix a broken holandaise sauce". This is definitely a great cook book for those aspiring to "do it like the pros". I hope to have a few of these dishes up on my food blog, justalittleginger.com very soon. Now I just can't wait for Christine's book! If you are like me and very excited for Christine Ha's book, not slated to be released until the spring :( , then look up her blog theblindcook.com and show her some love!

I bought this cookbook on a whim after binge watching Master Chef and was pleasantly surprised. The day I got it I made the savory soda bread recipe and it was amazing - I doubled the recipe and it all got eaten. Since then I have made several of the other recipes and every one of them has been a family hit. I dinged one star because some of the recipes are unapproachable for your average home cook (meaning me). Finding Uni in Wyoming? Inconceivable (not that I looked very hard). The molten lava cakes were delicious and the recipes I have tried were easily adaptable (I couldn't find blood oranges so I used regular, etc.).

Nice gift

This is not really a cook book. It’s more of a book on techniques.This book reports on the contestants of Masterchef season 3. It talks about the different challenges they faced and provides the recipe of the winner of each challenge.I wanted a recipe for a cheese soufflé and it was there.Technique of cooking 4 eggs didn’t excite me much.Treat this as a souvenir or supplemental read for the show but don’t expect it to be filled with restaurant quality dishes.You would get more buying Christine Ha’s cookbook.

While watching Masterchef this season, did you want to learn how to make Christine's highly-praised scallops stir-fry? Josh's startlingly different curried Cornish Hen? Frank's Meyer Lemon Tiramisu? Well, all the best recipes of Season Three are collected in this book, along with a few from previous seasons - Whitney makes a welcome return! - and plenty of cooking and prep advice throughout from the three judges. I've already tried several recipes from this book, and they've all earned rave reviews from family and friends.The kindle price is unbeatable, but it would be worth paying the hardcover price if you don't have a Kindle.