Steve’s great palate and innate understanding of ingredients won him the title in the end. He dreams of running his own restaurant and deli and one of his proudest moments was having Raymond Blanc and Michel Roux praise his food.
For Ben, winning MasterChef would have ‘been the proudest achievement of anything I’ve done and I don’t say that lightly’. He didn’t win the competition, but he can still boast to have developed a new kind of instinct for cooking.
Hannah’s country-style cooking showed a natural flair for flavour, yet it was her lack of confidence that caused her to crack under pressure. She learnt how to simplify her food and how to believe in her own abilities.
