MasterChef (Uruguayan TV series)

MasterChef Uruguay is an Uruguayan competitive cooking game show based on the original British series of the same name, open to amateur and home chefs.[1] Broadcast by Channel 10, debuted on April 3, 2017, it is presented by Diego González.[2] Sergio Puglia, Laurent Lainé and Lucía Soria served as judges for the first three seasons, while in the fourth one, Ximena Torres replaced Soria.[3]

MasterChef Uruguay
Genre	Cookery
Created by	Franc Roddam
Presented by	Diego González (2017–19)
Judges	Sergio Puglia (2017–19) Laurent Lainé (2017–19) Lucía Soria (2017–18) Ximena Torres (2019)
Country of origin	Uruguay
Original language	Spanish
No. of seasons	4
No. of episodes	90
Production
Running time	90 minutes
Production company	Saeta
Release
Original network	Channel 10
Original release	April 3, 2017 – September 5, 2019
External links
Website

Format

The winner plays for a prize that includes chef training from Crandon Institute, a trip to Girona to go to learn for 3 days at El Celler de Can Roca, and UYU$200,000 in cash.

The competition takes place in the MasterChef soundstage located in La Aguada, Montevideo which includes a supermarket, a restaurant, and a large kitchen area with several cooking stations which is overlooked by a balcony.

Challenges

In each episode the participants must overcome a challenge

• Mystery box: In this challenge, contestants have a box that hides ingredients or other things. With what they have in the box they have to cook a dish, without being able to go to the market to look for more ingredients. They can use all the ingredients they want from the box, be it one or all.
• Elimination Test: In this test will be the worst dishes of the previous test. They have to cook any dish, but that dish has to have a main ingredient chosen by the Chefs (in each elimination test the main ingredient will be different). In this test there is always only one loser, which is removed from MasterChef. This is the only test that is in every episode.
• Team Challenge: In this challenge the cooks are split into teams by team captains who is the one who chooses his teammates and who chooses what dishes to do. Captains are almost always the 2 winners of the previous test. Always in this challenge the judges are not the main Chefs but other people, generally several people.
• Challenge in pairs: In this test teams of two participants are formed. They have to make a dish chosen by each team. While one cooks the other stands to the side and can help you by talking and giving advice or warn you about something but cannot help you by cooking or touching something. After a certain time they rotate and the one who cooked, stands on one side talking to him and the other cooks. They always rotate more than 1 time.
• Master class: In this challenge, the contestants taste a dish cooked by a guest chef, and then they cook it with different ingredients for a certain time.

History

The rumor that a Uruguayan version of MasterChef started in October 2016.[1] In February 2017, the presenter and the judges were confirmed. The show debuted on April 3 of that year, while on Monday, May 8, in the chapter of that day, the second season of MasterChef was confirmed, it was also announced that the registrations for that edition would begin shortly and that people who signed up for the first season, they wouldn't need to do it again.[4]

The day before the end of the first season of Masterchef, on Sunday, July 23, 2017, a special called Road to the Grand Final was broadcast. It showed the life of the 4 finalists MasterChef participants.[5]

Series overview

Season	Episodes	Premiere Date	Finale Date	No. of Finalists	Winner	Runner(s)-up	Judge 1	Judge 2	Judge 3
1	17	April 3, 2017	July 24, 2017	18	Nilson Viazzo	Leticia Cicero	Sergio Puglia	Lucía Soria	Laurent Lainé
2	18	August 21, 2017	December 11, 2017	18	María Gracia Sosa	Luciana Dangelo
3	15	April 2, 2018	July 9, 2018	17	Alicia Patella	Gisela Meissner
4	40	April 22, 2019	September 5, 2019	28	Natalia González	Sebastián Piñeyro		Ximena Torres

1st season: 2017

Concursants

Concursant	Age	Profession	Residence	Outcome
Nilson Viazzo	36	Police	Florida	Winner
Leticia Cicero	35	Chemical engineer	Libertad	Finalist
Nicolas Rolando	35	Dentist	Sayago	3rd place
Lourdes Galvan	37	Employee	Piedras Blancas	4th place
Martin Mendez	41	Merchant	Libertad	13th eliminated
Sibila Ibarra	24	Architecture student	Durazno	12th eliminated
Amparo Pereira	27	Employee	El Prado	11th eliminated
Silvia Pírez	46	Publicist	Malvín	10th eliminated
Ana Maria Florentin	65	Retired doctor	Canelones	9th eliminated
Victor Bello	28	Pharmaceutical chemist	Treinta y Tres	8th eliminated
Francisco Boezio	55	Marketing analyst	Paso Carrasco	7th eliminated
Cristina Buroni	52	Interior decorator	Pocitos	6th eliminated
Mercedes Carballo	33	Carpenter	Union	1st abandonment
Danilo Britos	40	Craft brewer	Ciudad de la Costa	5th eliminated
Maria Pía Cardozo	22	Military navy	Rocha	4th eliminated
Manuel Aispuro	38	Butcher	Barrio Centro	3rd eliminated
Gonzalo Teixeira	26	Veterinary student	Tacuarembó	2nd eliminated
Chantal Tuttle	43	French teacher	Cordón	1st eliminated

Elimination table

Place	Concursant	Episode
		1		2		3		4		5		6		7		8			9		10		11		12		13		14		15
1	Nilson
2	Leticia
3	Nicolas
4	Lourdes
5	Martín
6	Sibila
7	Amparo
8	Silvia
9	Ana María
10	Victor
11	Francisco
12	Cristina
13	Mercedes
14	Danilo
15	María Pía
16	Manuel
17	Gonzalo
18	Chantal

  The concursant wins

  The concursant is finalist

  The concursant wins the challenge

  High performance

  Medium performance

  Bad performance

  (WT) Blue team wins (LT) Blue team loses

  (WT) Red team wins (LT) Red team wins

  Immunity

  Third worst performance in elimination

  Second worst performance in elimination

  Eliminated

  Quit

  Don't compete

  Returns

Spin-off editions

MasterChef Profesionales: 2018

A spin-off featuring professional chefs as contestants.[6] It premiered on August 20, 2018 [7] and ended on November 27. It had 16 episodes.

The judges were Sergio Puglia, Lucía Soria, Laurent Lainé and Narda Lepes.[8][9] The winner of this spin-off was Carlos Telechea.[10]

MasterChef Celebrity: 2020

A spin-off featuring celebrities, it debuted on September 1. The judges are Sergio Puglia, Laurent Lainé and Ximena Torres. The winner of this edition was the singer Aldo Martinez.

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Recipient (s)	Result	Ref.
2018	Iris Award	Best Talent Show	MasterChef Uruguay	Won	[11][12]
		Best TV Revelation	Laurent Lainé	Won
		Golden Iris Award	MasterChef Uruguay	Won

References

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4. Observador, El. "Masterchef abrió el casting para su segunda temporada". El Observador. Retrieved 2020-04-08.
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