It has been a special season of MasterChef this year, as the cooking competition celebrated 20 years on BBC One. Over the last eight weeks, judges John Torode and Gregg Wallace set out on a mission to discover the UK's next best amateur cook and they have found just that in MasterChef 2024 champion Brin Pirathapan ! Brin beat out 57 other contestants, including finalists Louise Lyons Macleod and Chris Willoughby, and was awarded the coveted trophy during tonight's (22nd May) final. Reacting to his MasterChef win, Brin said: "I'm absolutely chuffed to bits.
I can't breathe! I'm a big mix of my background, my culture and all the opportunities my parents have given me. "They've been incredible and I've done it for them as much as I've done it for myself. The experience itself has been incredible and to top it off with this is just the most amazing thing, ever.
" During tonight's episode, the final three were tasked with cooking the best three-course meal of their lives, leaving judges John Torode and Gregg Wallace with the task of deciding which cook's nary skill, determination and creativity could earn them the title of MasterChef 2024 champion. Brin's winning menu kicked off with fried capers, pickled chilli, pickled and charred shallots, orange and honey-glazed octopus with tempura mussels, and herb tuiles dusted with scallop roe, an orange gel and samphire, on a romesco sauce. "It's delightful.
This is a beautiful piece of work," Wallace told Brin. His main course was a spice.