When you have a show jam-packed with incredibly talented folks, viewers are bound to raise some questions and misconceptions about how things are run. So, in the spirit of reality TV gossip, we’ve wrangled some MasterChef Australia: Back To Win 2025 contestants who are here to bust some of those myths.
While MasterChef Australia: Back To Win highlights stories through its contestants and their dishes, folks also grow curious about the show, it’s production and the behind-the-scenes tea.
From favouritism claims to that darn competition timer, MasterChef Australia has copped IT ALL.
So, to help dispell those naughty, naughty misconceptions, we spoke to some of the 2025 cast for their two cents.
MasterChef Australia: Back To Win contestants spill on the biggest misconceptions
Does MasterChef Australia have favouritism?
Naturally, with MasterChef Australia: Back To Win being a competition show, sometimes viewers claim that specific contestants get extra special treatment, especially if they’re a fan-favourite.
Darrsh Clarke, who appeared on Season 16 (and is my persona fan-favourite), busted this cheeky claim, adding that despite what some Redditors might think about the contestants, there is no favouritism in the MasterChef kitchen.
“I’m not getting paid by production to say this, like that is just not true at all,” Darrsh told PEDESTRIAN.TV.
“The judges make such a strong effort to stay impartial, and it’s such a hard job because they’ve got memory and experience.
“There’s no favouritism in terms of, you know, a narrative, or some conspiracy that one person’s meant to win.”
Is the MasterChef Australia timer real?
On remarkable thing about MasterChef Australia is how fast our contestants cook up some of the most delectable dishes ever. As someone who has binge-watched a bunch of MasterChef seasons — both for work and pleasure — I’ve always questioned if the timers were legit and where the heck they get these extravagant foodie ideas.
Declan Cleary — who’s gone gangbusters on the show for his beautiful romance with co-star Sarah Todd — revealed that the time they’re given in the challenges are real and that they actually don’t have much time to think about the dishes they’re about to serve up.
“It just really is like what you see is what you get, all cooking to that final clicker, like the final seconds,” Declan shared.
“A question I get asked a lot, ‘Is it real? Do you have time to, like, think about your cooks prior to doing it? Surely you don’t all work to the final seconds on the show?’ And like, you know, we really do it’s you get given 60-75, minutes for a challenge.
“Some of the dishes that we’re creating take far longer to sort of curate, develop, prepare and then cook and serve. So just within that time frame, we are all working towards those final seconds.”
Are the MasterChef Australia: Back To Win contestants are all chefs?
A personal misconception specific to the Back To Win competition, raised by season 15’s Theo Loizou, was that he thought all the other contestants had been “cooking for years”. However, to his surprise, “everyone was very similar” when it came to the pressure tests, cook-along and team challenges.
Lastly, Rue Mupedzi, who graced the MasterChef Australia kitchen in season 15, reminded fans to be kind and that she and her fellow contestants are “real people” at the end of the day.
“I feel like, if anything, the one thing that should shock people is that we are real people doing a real experience, and it always goes a long way to be kind, because sometimes I think people think we’re like TV characters, but we’re real,” she dished.
While MasterChef is on the wholesome side of the reality TV universe, I think Rue’s sweet, sweet message applies to everyone. Even the baddies on Married At First Sight.
MasterChef Australia: Back To Win is on Channel 10 and 10Play.
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