History Series / MyKitchenRules

* EverythingSoundsSexierInFrench: Although he doesn't actually speak French, a number of female contestants finds Manu's French accent particularly appealing.

''MKR'' is hosted by Pete Evans and Manu Feildel, who also serve as the series' main judge, and also features Jacqui Gowan, Guy Grossi, Karen Martini, Tobie Puttock, Liz Egan and Colin Fassnidge as the guest judges.

* TrailerAlwaysSpoil: The first Redemption Round trailer already gives away that one of the teams will break the Instant Restaurant score record of 95. The second trailer tells us ''who'' it is before the episode begins. It's [[spoiler:Eva and Debra]].

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Despite their status as "MKR's new villains", and generally quite bitchy attitudes, Katie and Nikki are actually quite fair, even generous, in judging their competitors' instant restaurants. They were shocked when Kat and Andre admitted to have "scored strategically" (i.e. giving their opponents a ridiculously low score regardless of their instant restaurant's quality) to get out from their perilous position in the bottom of the leader board.

* TheGadfly: Manu seems particularly fond of poking fun at the contestants with his BaitAndSwitchComment. He'd made a statement of displeasure, wait for the contestant to panic, before revealing that he actually liked the dish.

** Gina and Anna from Season 6's first round. They were always complaining about the how poorly made their opponents' dishes are, made a derogatory remark about how the first two teams of the group were unworthy competition for scoring below 60/110, and constantly place themselves as better cooks than the rest. When their turn to cook does come, they screwed up every dishes, disappointed both the judges and their competitors and was eliminated from the competition's first round.
* CelebrityResemblance: Many people remarks on how much Season 6's Rob looks like Chris Hemsworth's ''Film/{{Thor}}''. Justified since they're apparently cousins.

* SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: High school sweethearts Annie and Lloyd have this dynamic. Lloyd is a medical student, and is the less talkative of the two. Annie is very generally shown to be cheerful, bubbly, and sweet (almost sickeningly so, with her love for pink, sparkles and Disney).

* CriticalDissonance: In-universe. In Kat and Andre's redemption round, the judges seem to really enjoy the ''ile flottante'' dessert they served, but the rest of the guests find it too sweet/sugary and generally unpalatable (even though they do admit that the dish is technically cooked well).

* MommasBoy: Josh, the first contestant in the history of MKR to form a mother-and-son team, is very dedicated to his mum. A long-time fan of the series, he jumped at the chance to compete the moment he reached the minimum age limit, but declares that he will not compete with anyone but his mother.

--> '''Will:''' ''(Regarding the hypothetical wedding)'' You just have to say yes.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Despite their status as "MKR's new villains", and generally quite bitchy attitudes, Katie and Nikki are actually quite fair, even generous, in scoring their competitors' instant restaurants. They were shocked when Kat and Andre admitted to have "scored strategically" (i.e. giving their opponents a ridiculously low score regardless of their instant restaurant's quality) to get out from their perilous position in the bottom of the leader board.

* ShipTease: Emma flirts a lot with Steve during the third Instant Restaurant round of Season 6, and their "budding relationship" does not go unnoticed by the other teams. Steve is noticeably less critical towards Emma's cooking than he had been to others, and Emma got a HesNotMyBoyfriend moment when she was asked to give an opinion for Steve's dish.
* SilentSnarker: Ash is said to be the most vocal in expressing her dislike over a dish without actually voicing the complaints. She makes her displeasure very evident with her expressions.
* SpiritualSuccessor: Seven Network used to broadcast a similar show called ''My Restaurant Rules'' in 2004-2005, where, instead of cooking, the couples are tasked to open successful restaurants by renovating a vacated one.

* EvenEvilHaveStandards: Despite their status as "MKR's new villains", and generally quite bitchy attitudes, Katie and Nikki are actually quite fair, even generous, in scoring their competitors' instant restaurants. They were shocked when Kat and Andre admitted to have "scored strategically" (i.e. giving their opponents a ridiculously low score regardless of their instant restaurant's quality) to get out from their perilous position in the bottom of the leader board.

* AlphaBitch: A lot:
** Season 6 Katie and Nikki. Referred to as "MKR's New Villains", the two often flaunt their beauty, are very quick to dismiss other team's dishes by claiming how much better they could perform, and almost immediately antagonize the other two-girl team, Jane and Emma, because [[TerritorialSmurfette they want to be the only two-girl team in the group]].

** One particular example is Gina and Anna from Season 6's first round. They were always complaining about the how poorly made their opponents' dishes are, declares the first two teams of the group as unworthy competition for scoring below 60/110, constantly place themselves as better cooks than the rest. When their turn to cook does come, they screwed up every dishes, disappointed both the judges and their competitors and was eliminated from the competition's first round.
* CelebrityResemblance: Many people notes how much Season 6's Rob look like ''Film/{{Thor}}''. Justified since he's Chris Hemsworth's cousin.

* FriendlyRivalry: Despite everyone being in a competition against each other, they usually get along well during the Instant Restaurant rounds -- which is usually more like a group pals having dinner together.
* GratuitousFrench: Socialite Camilla goes to France often, and she tries to showed off her familiarity with the culture by introducing her team's instant restaurant in French. This only serves to confuse the rest, since no one else in the room understood French (not even her partner!).
* HeartIsAnAwesomePower: MKR's judges, especially Pete, would prefer for the contestants to create simple dishes that are done wholeheartedly, than have them try to impress by using overly complicated techniques and ingredients.

* TheOneGuy: The Instant Restaurant: Redemption round of season 6 has way more girls than guys. It contains of 2 couples, and 4 two-girl teams -- when one couple is doing the cooking, there would only one guy sitting in the table, surrounded by 9 ladies until the judges arrive. Lampshaded by the judges.

* PlausibleDeniability: In Episode 17 of Season 6, Will and Steve planned to serve a roulade for their dessert. However, due to an error, their cake turned out too hard and could not be rolled. So they cut up the dough into circles and stacked them up like a cake sandwich. To cover up their failure, they proceed to say how "roulade" is derived from the Latin word for "circle", so that as long as their dish has a circular shape, it is still technically a roulade. The explanation seem to work for everyone but Colin and Drasko.
* TheRival: While all the competitors are technically each other's rivals, Steve and Drasko are probably the ones who clashes the most during their group's instant restaurant rounds. Both are aspiring chefs and both are indeed knowledgeable about cooking techniques. So they both continually try to show-off these knowledge and one-up each other by debating about how a well-done dish should be made.

* WhamEpisode: Several "twists" have been offered in the history of My Kitchen Rules. It doesn't usually change the format by much, but it does increase the stakes for the contestants by a great deal.

** Season 3 Simon & Meg (Though Simon more so), they made a splash due to their harshness in critiquing other teams food in the Instant Restaurants, but when it's their turn, they made a huge blunder and ended up last in their group (though not eliminated, since they had one more shot in another Instant Restaurant round with the bottom 3 teams in the 2 groups).

* TheOneGuy: The Instant Restaurant: Redemption round of season 6 has way more girls than guys. It contains of 2 couples, and 4 two-girl teams -- when one couple is doing the cooking, there would only one guy sitting in the table, surrounded by 9 ladies until the judges arrive.

** Season 5 Chloe & Kelly.

** Season 3 Simon & Meg (Though Simon more so).

** The 6th season amped this up with the "secret round", where a whole new group of 6 teams are added to the competition. Not only that, this "secret" instant restaurant round will not be judged by Pete and Manu (as they usually are), but by the iron-fisted judge, Colin Fassnidge.

* TrademarkFavouriteFood: Manu simply loves oysters, and said that if there was only one thing to eat in the world, it would be oysters.

* ShipTease: Emma flirts a lot with Steve, and their "budding relationship" does not go unnoticed by the other teams. Steve is noticeably less critical towards Emma's cooking than he had been to others, and Emma got a HesNotMyBoyfriend moment when she was asked to give an opinion for Steve's dish.

The following pre-final elimination rounds varies from season to season, but the grand finals and semi-finals usually follow a typical Cook-off duel, where each team would present a three-course meal for the two main judges and four additional guest judges, and the lower scoring team is eliminated. The champion will win a prize of $100k (later raised to $250k).

* FriendlyRivalry: Despite everyone being in a competition against each other, they usually get along well during the Instant Restaurant rounds -- which is usually more like a group pals having dinner together (until the judging, that is).

* NiceGuy: While this by no means lowers his judging standard, Pete is usually far less harsh in his criticism than Manu would be. He seems to sincerely try to find something good in the dish he's judging, give appreciation to the team's efforts, encourage the teams to do better in their next courses, and sometimes even apologize for having to give the dish such a low score.

* SpoiltSweet: Jennifer of Leigh & Jennifer in Season 3. With the title Princess to prove it, she gave excessive details of what she didn't like in her dish and had a tendency to say "Yeah!".

* AlphaBitch: Katie and Nikki from the sixth season are presented as such. Referred to as "MKR's New Villains", the two often flaunt their beauty, are very quick to dismiss other team's dishes by claiming how much better they could perform, and almost immediately antagonize the other two-girl team, Jane and Emma, because [[TerritorialSmurfette they want to be the only two-girl team in the group]].

* BreakTheHaughty: This happens very frequently, as many teams confidently declare they could do better than the previous teams in their instant restaurants, but when they finally get to the kitchen, the pressure gets over their heads, a lot of things go wrong, and things go downhill from there. One particular example is Gina and Anna from Season 6's first round. They were always complaining about the how poorly made their opponents' dishes are, declares the first two teams of the group as unworthy competition for scoring below 60/110, constantly place themselves as better cooks than the rest. When their turn to cook does come, they screwed up every dishes, disappointed both the judges and their competitors and was eliminated from the competition's first round.