'MasterChef's John Torode and Gregg Wallace eat 'lukewarm' food when judging

How do MasterChef contestants keep their food warm while judges Gregg Wallace and John Torode do their judging sessions?

Well, apparently they don’t.

In a revelation that will shock viewers, apparently the course served up by Masterchef hopefuls aren’t always at their best when Gregg and John are shovelling them down.

“There are definitely times Gregg and I really don’t want to eat something,” Torode explained to What’s On TV.

“I’m open to most things, it’s the dangerous combinations that usually frighten me the most, like when people start putting fish and blue cheese together, with an egg on top of it.

“That’s when I start feeling a little bit… Eugh! Also, by the time we actually get to taste stuff, everything has been sitting around for at least 20-30 minutes.

“So it’s room temperature. We don’t actually eat really hot food unless it’s soup!”

How this works when it’s a time-sensitive dish, like a chocolate fondant, he did not explain.

However, the pair did have a swipe at misleading, so-called healthy foods.

“I’ve got a real issue with foods that sell themselves as healthy and aren’t,” former green grocer Wallace told The Scotsman.

“I’ve got no issue at all with someone going out and getting a doner kebab or ordering a burger because you know exactly what that is.

“It’s when you’re buying recovery shakes and yogurts and breakfast cereals and breakfast bars sold to you as fit and healthy when they obviously aren’t. Have a look at all the foods sold as healthy and look at the amount of sugar and fat in them.”

“You would have to consume more than six McDonald’s cheeseburgers to consume the same saturated fat as you would in some yogurts. In some pasta sauces, there are up to eight tablespoons of sugar… that makes me angry.”

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