Great British Christmas Menu (S2020E05) – Watch Online Season 2020 Episode 05

Great British Christmas Menu – Season 2020 Episode 05

The Christmas competition comes to a climax with desserts and petit fours. Eight chefs, all former winners of the Great British Menu, are competing to create the final courses of an extra special festive feast for some of the heroes of this year’s pandemic. Only three from each course can go through to tomorrow’s judging. Former judge Andi Oliver hosts.

These are two of the most demanding rounds in the competition, requiring incredible technical skill if the chefs’ dishes are to arrive on the plate perfect, and not a molten mess! Who will keep their cool, as well as that of their dishes?

With so many talented chefs taking part, expect imaginations to run riot. Among the dishes prepared are edible snow globes and a whole new take on the Christmas selection box. There’ll also be some new interpretations of old favourites such as mince pies and baked Alaska.

In a new twist for this Christmas competition, the chefs won’t just be cooking but also judging each other too! Four chefs will cook, and the other four will taste and score their dishes in a blind tasting. Then the roles will be reversed. Expect incredible cooking, tough criticism and surprising scores.

It’s the final chance for chefs to make it to the banquet, and two special guests are joining the competition in hopes of stealng a place. Multi Michelin starred chefs Simon Rogan and Tommy Banks have both been Great British Menu winners and judges, and they haven’t come to make up the numbers!

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Great British Menu Show Summary

Great British Menu is a BBC television series in which top British chefs compete for the chance to cook one course of a four course banquet.

Series one and two were presented by Jennie Bond, the former BBC Royal correspondent, whereby each week, two chefs from a region of the UK create a menu. In series three and four, both narrated by Bond but with no presenter, three chefs from a region of the UK create a menu; only the two with the best scores went through to the Friday judging. In series five and six, the fifth narrated by Bond while the sixth is narrated by Wendy Lloyd, three chefs from a region of the UK create a menu, with in kitchen judging undertaken by a past contestant chef; only the two with the best scores go through to the Friday judging.

In each series, the Friday show is when chefs present all courses of their menu to a judging panel, tasted and judged by Matthew Fort, Prue Leith and Oliver Peyton. One chef each week goes through to the final, where the judges taste the dishes again and award them marks out of ten. The three dishes that have scored the highest for each course are then put to the public vote.

During the first series, it was decided that a chef could only win one course overall, therefore any chef who won the public vote for a particular course was then eliminated from any subsequent courses they had been shortlisted for. As the results for all four courses were announced on the same day, some chefs were eliminated under this rule. During series two, this rule was dropped, as highlighted by Mark Hix winning both the main course and dessert.

On 28 October 2016, it was confirmed that Prue Leith was leaving the show and would be replaced by Andi Oliver for series 12 in 2017.

On 1 October 2019, Susan Calman was announced as the new presenter for series 15. Filming took place in Stratford-upon-Avon and was completed in November 2019. The show will be broadcast in Spring 2020.

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