MasterChef series 20 drew to a close on Wednesday night with finalists Louise Lyons Macleod, Brin Pirathapan and Chris Willoughby facing off for a chance to claim the title of MasterChef Champion 2024. The series, that featured several contestants returning from previous years to celebrate two decades of the popular cooking show, culminated in what judge John Torode called “the best final we’ve ever done”. Wednesday’s final episode had the trio tasked with cooking the best three-course meal of their lives – but who came out on top? Read on ( spoiler warning ) to find out the winner of MasterChef 2024.
You can also catch up with MasterChef on BBC iPlayer here . Who won the MasterChef 2024 final? In the end it was veterinary surgeon Pirathapan who clinched the title of 2024 MasterChef Champion as he beat out the others to get his hands on the MasterChef trophy at the end of the show’s 20th series . Cooking his way past 57 other culinary competitors over eight weeks of challenges, the high-stakes final episode had the 29-year-old from Essex edge past his competitors, both 44, to be crowned champion.
Pirathapan’s winning three-course menu in Wednesday’s episode began with a starter consisting of fried capers, pickled chili, pickled and charred shallots, orange and honey-glazed octopus with tempura mussels, herb tuilles dusted with scallop roe, an orange gel and samphire, on a romesco sauce. That was followed by a main course of spiced venison loin, beef short-rib .