History Characters / MasterChef

* TheBusCameBack: She returns to ''Season 12: Back to Win''. Unfortunately she loses against Alejandro (Season 11) and Samantha (Season 9).

* {{Irony}}: Despite being one of the best bakers that season, she lost the Croquembouche Pressure Test due to having caramel so thick, the profiteroles broke when Ramsay tried to remove one off the tower.

* CordonBleughChef: His Squash and Apple Caramelle, because he thought about doing a ''dessert'' pasta dish by only seeing the shape of the pasta. Gordon compared his dish to "regurgitated dog vomit".

* OneSteveLimit: He shares the same name with Francis Legge, so the others called him "Francis B"

* OneSteveLimit: He shares the same name with judge Gordon Ramsay. He was referred to as "Little Gordon"

** Returned in Season 7 on two different occasions. The first time she was a guest at fellow contestant Nick Nappi's wedding, and the second time was cooking with guest judge Aaron in a Mexican themed Mystery Box Challenge.

* HonorBeforeReason: Decided to decline Tommy's offer of immunity during the Peanut butter and Jelly Elimination Challenge as she wanted to get to the Final 10 with her own skills. The gamble paid off as her dish was well received.

* HonorBeforeReason: After the Theme Park Challenge, Darah chooses her to have immunity from the pressure test, despite her minimal contribution. She flat out rejects it, since she acknowledges that Derrick deserved it more.
* LaserGuidedKarma: A positive example. Following a poor run in the theme park Team Challenge, Hetal is chosen as one of five teammates spared from the Pressure Test by team captain Darah, who was basing her choices on who smiled and was friendliest to the customers. Hetal declined the save, feeling there were more deserving teammates and chooses Derrick, who was a big part in salvaging their team's service, to go up instead, which the judges allowed. For the Pressure Test to make a box of cinnamon rolls, she ends up making the best batch.

* TheBusCameBack: She returns to ''Season 12: Back to Win''. Unfortunately she loses against Bri and Fred (Season 10).
* TheFashionista: Both her day job and her talent at plating beautiful looking dishes.

* TooDumbToLive: Despite being chewed out multiple times by [[BewareTheNiceOnes Christina]] for his presentation and saying too much to a point of being disrespectful to the professional chefs judging him, he chose to roll his eyes at a critique when Gordon looked down... even though Graham and Christina could still see him. It did him no favors when combined with his unsuccessful dish.

* HeroicBSOD: She starts crying when the birthday cake she makes on a regular basis ends up raw in the center.
* TokenMinority: She is the only contestant from Lebanese heritage and the first one wearing hijab.

* ComicallyMissingThePoint: This ends up being her undoing in the TV Dinner challenge. Despite Christina flat-out saying so to her face, she completely and utterly fails to realize that the point of the challenge is to take the contents of the TV dinner (salisbury steak, mac and cheese, and steamed broccoli) and elevate them to a dish worthy of being served at a restaurant. Instead, she simply ''recreates'' each component of the TV dinner, serving them in huge, separate portions with no effort put into refining it into a single dish. The end result was so underwhelming and outright ''baffling'' (both visually and in terms of taste) that it got her sent home.
* GenkiGirl: Despite being the oldest of the cast, she was always positive and cheerful, jumping excitedly when Gordon praised her apple pie.

* HonorBeforeReason: Deconstructed. When given the chance to save herself before the pressure test, she declined, wanting to stay as she was the captain, and wanted to redeem herself from costing her team the challenge. However, her cinnamon buns were raw, and she was eliminated.

** Returned in Season 8 on two separate occasions. The first time was cooking with the contestants on a Mystery box Challenge with ingredients he personally picked, while the second time was in the guestlist for Caesar Palace's 50th anniversary.

* {{Foil}}: To his fellow competitor David. Both reside and work in Las Vegas, with David as a professional poker player, and Shaun as a DJ. David, however, has a HairTriggerTemper despite his profession requiring him to be calm, while Shaun rarely gets agitated, being normally cocky throughout the competition.

* CripplingOverspecialization: Since she is a trainer and cooks healthy food, she can’t perform well when the challenge requires her to deep fry things, like frying chicken with batter or french fries.

* TheLoad: Is usually the weakest person on team challenges, making most people annoyed by him and quickly lost his respect. In fact, when Dan was made a team captain, he made a point to pick the protein advantage just so he would not get Nathan.
* TheMillstone: Was this to the red team in the Farming Team Challenge as he failed to prep enough kale for the customers (and this was ''after'' he complained that he was not getting respect) resulting in them pulling out fresh kale and serve it without cleaning them. But that got worse as the customers found the kale too salty, with one ''spitting'' their serving to the ground. That pretty much led to the red team losing.

* HiddenDepths: After winning a Mystery Box, he is given the advantage to choose between three rice dishes. He ended up choosing Bibimbap [[note]]A Korean rice bowl cooked on a hot stone bowl with a mix of different toppings[[/note]], because he lived in Korea Town for a few years, knowing very well that many of his competitors haven’t seen it compared to risotto or paella.

* DramaticIrony: After losing a team challenge and arguing with Nathan, she tells him that she can’t wait for him to be sent home. Not only Nathan gets immunity from the other team, but she gets disqualified during the Pressure Test.
* NonGamePlayElimination: Despite having the best sausage of the Pressure Test, she had to be disqualified because she arrived at the front counter three seconds late.

* BeginnersLuck: For the lobster challenge, he tells that it's his first time handling this kind of lobster, because he has only seen spiny lobsters (the ones that don't have claws). He ends up winning the challenge, not only because he did a perfect job, but because he managed to get extra meat from the bottom pincer of the claws (a very tough part to break and reach).

* RuleOfThree: Actually works both ways. She was immune three times in a row (two were based on being safe with one team challenge victory) and she was in the bottom three times in a row before her elimination.

* WhatWereYouThinking: She started to make her flambé right when Gordon was at her station, nearly burning his face off, if not because of his own good reflexes.

** In Episode 9, despite never eating a cannoli, let ''alone'' make one, she made a box that was equally good as Dino's (who did indeed grew up on the dessert).
* DarkAndTroubledPast: She had a TeenPregnancy and was homeless while raising her first child, living in her car

* TemptingFate: In the Pop-Up restaurant challenge, Eboni felt confident enough to pick Jeff for her team, declaring that she will be able to break Jeff’s strike of being TheJinx. She came to immediately regret it when her team loses.

** He also avoided every black-apron-themed replication Pressure Test, thus he never competed in said black apron Pressure Test once.
* AsianAndNerdy: He was by far the most adventurous, artistically inventive and innovative, gifted phenom (next to Dino) by wowing the judges with his imaginative, groundbreaking creations. As for his personality, he answers in confessional interviews by relating the experiences to his work as a teacher and music.

* TookALevelInBadass: When he was appointed team captain in the Pop Up Restaurant, he couldn’t control his team because of his soft-spoken nature. It’s only when he starts harshly and angrily yelling at his teammates with an iron fist and regaining control that his team wins.

* GirlyGirlWithATomboyStreak: Despite looking proper and nice, she is also a country girl that used to hunt with her father.

* ChekhovsSkill: He succesfully passes the Scrambled Eggs challenge because one of the first dishes he learned from [=YouTube=] tutorials was Gordon's video.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: He came from a very poor family in debt, his financially struggling parents battled cancer, and just barely make enough money to manage things. In fact, Gabriel had to work very hard at many part-time jobs throughout his high school years just to support his family. Thankfully, this burden was lifted off his shoulders due to the offers from Gordon and Aaron.

* NiceGuy: By far one of the nicest, friendliest, and most down to earth, humble, cool dudes and most likable contestants on the show. Aside from his inexperience and skill at cooking, he seemed to get along well with everyone, never held grudges, did not want to start, or get involved in any drama, and his departure was met with tears.

* OutOfFocus: He initially flew under the radar with very little on-camera screen-time at the beginning of the competition, living in the shadows of other prominent standout contestants, and never really stood out at the beginning of the competition until the second half of the season.
* TookALevelInBadass: Started off fresh off high school and with a job at Chipotle. He ends his run in [=MasterChef=] in 7th place with a scholarship from Gordon.

* TheBusCameBack: He returns to ''Season 12: Back to Win''. Unfortunately he loses against Cate (Season 8) and Michael (Season 10).

* TokenRichStudent: He studies at Harvard University, one of the most prestigious universities in the world, which judges and contestants alike refer him that.
* WhatTheHellHero: After his team lost the Providers Team Challenge, Adam was asked who he would send to safety. He picked Brien, but everybody called bullshit since Brien was the worst performer on the red team, leading him to admit that he didn't want to face the latter in the Pressure Test. However, it turns out that he had no say in who the save as the judges decided to save Yachecia themselves.

* InformedAbility: She proudly told that her mother was Peruvian, which influenced her Chicken with Rice dish, but Aarón couldn’t taste any of the Peruvian flavors, expressing his disappointment considering that he worked with Peruvian chefs in college.

* CoolTeacher: His main reason to compete in [=MasterChef=] was to use the prize money to open a Culinary program at his school.
* InformedFlaw: Gerron claimed that desserts were not his expertise, but he managed to excel at the three chocolate-based desserts during a Pressure Test against Farhan and Samantha after The Restaurant Takeover. And, he made a peach bread pudding that won him a Mystery Box Challenge. The only time he did wind up on the Bottom 2 in a baking challenge was the Cupcake Pressure Test, but that was for the density of the batter (Mark, the person who got eliminated and sent home over him, made very big technical errors on his batch in comparison).

* DramaticIrony: His white apron audition battle was a beef-themed challenge. He got eliminated and headed home in the final five quarterfinals (before the Top 4 semifinals) featuring a gauntlet trio of consecutive black-apron-themed Beef replication Pressure skills tests.

* GenreBlind: Joe was baffled and incensed when Bowen admitted that he had never made, eaten or cooked pasta before in his life, even before auditioning. [[note]] Farhan wrote on social media that they had a pasta-making cooking class off-camera behind the scenes before filming the replication Pressure Test, which Joe even gave a clear demo[[/note]].

* NiceGuy

* WhatWereYouThinking: Subverted. During a team challenge, she decides to plate all the dishes with smiley faces using the sauces because they are serving kids, Shanika points out that they aren't toddlers and the decorations look stupid, which she ignores. She only averted this because Gordon tells her exactly what Shanika said before serving.

* InsufferableGenius: As a food anthropologist, she didn’t miss any opportunity to show off her food knowledge. While the judges were impressed with her, Samantha mentioned once that she didn’t want to be in her team because Emily came across as pretentious.

* TokenMinority: He is South Korean-American from LA's Koreatown.

** This hit him again during his last team challenge. He assured that he could do the Bearnaise sauce, but refused to listen to the judges about doing it in a double boiler instead of doing it in direct contact with the flame since he learned the latter way from his father at the restaurant. As a result, he only had raw yolks instead of a sauce, and crippled the team.
* HumblePie: During his audition, he started off very cocky, claiming that he already knew everything about cooking from his mother's family restaurant so he didn't need to go to culinary school. When the judges point out that every single mistake he did on his dish were basics taught at culinary school, Mark is reduced to tears, begging to be given the apron. Before deciding to give him the apron, Joe made him promise to let go of his ego and really learn during the competition.
** Unfortunately, Mark didn't keep his promise and sunk his entire team because of his own cockyness showing again, which leads to his elimination that same night. To top it off, the guest judge that night was Christina Tosi for a Pressure Test that required baking cupcakes. Mark decides to do his cupcake strawberry-mint as a play on one of his mother's restaurant cocktails, but he again commits a lot of basic mistakes, like undercooking the batter, not caramelizing the strawberries before stuffing them, which makes the cupcakes completely soggy, and he even fails to present the complete box. Not even Joe is sad to see him go after this.

* UnskilledButStrong: Mark only learned how to cook from helping his mother at the family restaurant, but refused to go to culinary school because he felt that he already knew enough, which the judges quickly prove him wrong when they see that he lacked of the skills needed for the competition. Joe decides to take him under his wing as long as he learns and wins the competition. And while he does have good instincts, great seasoning sense, and managed to pass all the technical challenges, his arrogance hit again in Episode 11, leading to his elimination.

* OneHitWonder (InUniverse): He only won the Churro Elimination Challenge, but otherwise, was a middle-run chef that was eliminated after a very poor dish.

* MissingMom: He tells that his mother was deported to Mexico when he was very young, and he remembers her every time he cooks.
* ShortLivedLeadership: He was appointed Team Captain during Shaun’s Wedding challenge, but his lack of leadership frustrated Ramsay to the point he was demoted mid service and replaced with Taylor.

* WhatWereYouThinking: At the last minute of the churro elimination challenge, Alecia decided to toss her churros in sugar with a bowl, leaving them overcaked in sugar and severely disappointing Aarón.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: She was terrified of dungeness crabs because they looked like big bugs, so she was squirming and screeching when she picked the crab out of the tank and boiled it. She still managed to pass the challenge.

* GenreBlind: Gordon is baffled when Darrick admitted that he never practiced making whipped cream even before auditioning.

* TheBusCameBack: She returns to ''Season 12: Back to Win''. Unfortunately she loses against Cate (Season 8) and Michael (Season 10).
* TheCameo: Appeared in Season 11 during the audition rounds along with her cast's winner Dorian and finalist Nick.

* TheGlomp: When her husband arrived to the competition, she ran to him and jumped to hug and kiss him.
* HappilyMarried: Her husband Michael served in the United States army/navy.
* MyGreatestSecondChance: She failed miserably as a team leader in the Season 10 pool party field team challenge. In the London Restaurant Takeover, Gordon appointed her to the team leader once again, this time, she succeeded and her Blue team won.

* VerbalTic: Is frequently mentioning her army background and talking about being in the U.S. military.

** All of Nick's over ambitiously grandiose, wildly inventive, and innovative ingenuity blueprints to knock the judges' socks off is this. Great concept, but trying to execute it is a very difficult challenge due to time restraints.

* TheCameo: Appeared in Season 11 during the audition rounds along with his season's winner Dorian and other finalist Sarah.

* CrazyEnoughToWork: His audition dish, a handmade lamb ravioli with primavera vegetables, greatly impressed all three judges (especially Joe, who was blown away for how stunning it was) easily netting Nick a white apron.
* CruelTwistEnding: Nick's mid-finale elimination twist. Many felt that this mid-challenge curveball of eliminating Nick two-thirds of the way through the grand finale showdown was downright cruel, defeating the whole purpose of him being there in the first place since Gordon outright ''demanded'' the trio (including Nick himself) to serve him a ''three'' course dinner (which he explicitly ''promised'' to judge them all for). Not to mention that previous season finalists have also historically served raw/undercooked food but were never eliminated halfway during the finale because of it.

* FatalFlaw: His over ambitiously grandiose, wildly inventive, avant-garde, and experimental ingenuity, which can lead to him struggling and struggling to execute his ideas and get everything done in time (sometimes with unpleasant results).

* NiceGuy: Likable, humble, and soft-spoken, his pleasant personality made him a fan-favorite.
* OutOfFocus: Nick initially flew under the radar with very little screen-time at the beginning of the competition, living in the shadows of other prominent standout contestants until episode 6, "Hot and Spicy", when he wowed the judges with his Brazilian cheese tortilla and red snapper ceviche, after which he was considered a front-runner.

** He also greatly improved his speed later on, producing an exceptional dish in the One-Pot Wonder Pressure Test and won the Replication Pressure Test featuring Gordon's potato crusted sea bass in the next episode.

* WhatWereYouThinking: In Episode 23 (the semifinals), Nick struggled with time management since he over ambitiously bit off more than he could chew, and for that matter, he forgot to remove a small piece of string still attached to his otherwise-picture perfect dish. The judges harshly berated and lambasted him for such a careless, silly blunder. He nearly got eliminated and sent home that night but fortunately for him, Noah did worse by majorly overcooking his risotto (ruined half the plate).

* HappilyMarried: He was constantly talking about how much he missed his wife, mentioned that he never got apart from her before entering the competition.

** Subverted in Episode 9. Dorian saw him like this during the Tag-Team Challenge. Despite his slow pace and Dorian constantly freaking out, both managed to survive the challenge without landing in the bottom.

* NiceGuy: Despite his fellow contestants being constantly annoyed by his slow pace in team challenges, he didn't hold grudges, and the judges mostly laugh with him rather than scold him harshly.

* CripplingOverspecialization: Subverted. Most of the dishes she cooked early in the competition were all Indian based, frustrating Ramsay as he felt she can do more than cook like he's her mother in law. Fortunately, by Episode 6 she learned her lesson, and going out of her comfort zone got her immunity twice.

* ObnoxiousInLaws: She is from Minnesota, and her husband is Indian. According to her confessional, her mother-in-law is constantly criticizing her, so Shari had to teach herself to cook Indian food to please her.

* TheBusCameBack: He returns to ''Season 12: Back to Win''. Unfortunately he loses against Tommy (Season 6) and Big Willie (Season 5).

* DramaticIrony: Micah got his apron (the last white apron of the season) with a perfectly cooked fish entrée dish. He got eliminated and sent home for failing to properly replicate Chef Ramsay's potato crusted sea bass, with his fish being way undercooked by a lot.

* EpicFail: His sausage dish wound up being so far below the other contestants', the judges didn't even bother with a bottom 3 that night and told Jamie to turn in his apron, thereby sending him home.

* RealMenWearPink: He is a fisherman, captain of his own boat, and even he got surprised when the judges praised his Dessert baking skills and technique.

* {{Irony}}: Despite being the only person in the kitchen whoever made a tart tartin before, he ended up making one that was raw on one half. It landed him in the bottom three, but he survived after Evan did worse.

* TheBusCameBack: He returns to ''Season 12: Back to Win''. Unfortunately he loses against Amanda (Season 6) and Christian (Season 5).

* TheEeyore: Since the captains of her team challenges didn't listen to her ideas or gave her tasks she wanted, Renee often spent the entire challenge doing her parts with a resigned attitude, rubbing her teammates on the wrong side. Shari has to put her aside and tell her to stop bringing down the team with her attitude.

** For their first team challenge, she kept claiming that she was an expert grilling meat, and was constantly complaining about doing vegetables. When she is finally given the grill, some of her burgers turned out raw.

* EpicFail: Her attempt at a mushroom sauce came out more like "mushroom flavored cottage cheese". This was the reason for her elimination.

** In Episode 11, she discards Joseph's suggestion of doing a Lobster Crepe (because she doesn't know how to make crepes), and insisted on doing a steamed halibut with sticky rice and miso sauce because she once ate something like that at a Japanese restaurant. As a result she kept giving Joseph directions that didn't go well with the dish and thought she didn't have to strain the sauce.
** In the following episode, she gets eliminated in the kaiseki challenge. While the judges had minor criticisms about the actual taste, her overall presentation was predominantly beige, lacking color or having the adequate plating for the theme.

* EpicFail: His pasta dish from the 5 ingredient challenge was so poorly executed that Joe tossed his dish to the side and would have been eliminated if it wasn't for Tay forgetting his uni butter.

* AllWomenLoveShoes: Despite being struggling with money, she was always wearing expensive high heels. The first thing she praised about Tana Ramsay was her yellow heels.

* TheAce: Won 4 individual challenges and every team challenge never once being in the bottom.

* TheGenericGuy: He didn't have much screentime in the show, outside of his two times being on the bottom.

* DramaticIrony: His white apron audition battle was a beef-themed challenge. He got eliminated and headed home in the final five quarterfinals (prior to the Top 4 semifinals) featuring a gauntlet trio of consecutive black-apron-themed Beef replication Pressure skills tests.
* FriendlyRivalry: He and Cesar kept this one, coming across more as VitriolicBestBuds

** Bowen was technically correct about the Chinese people's dislike and unfamiliarity with Dessert baking cupcakes and desserts in general. Since he lived in China for years, many others had never seen a cupcake there. It’s not something they usually eat, and back in the U.S. whenever a Chinese person tasted a cupcake they generally didn’t like it. Dessert baking isn’t popular in East Asia. Most homes in China have a counter stovetops or hot plate kind of burners but no ovens (ovens are where the pots are stored). It would be very rare to find a home with an oven in it, and most restaurants in China don’t have ovens there. However, in recent years, South Korea, Japan, and the Philippines are very much into Dessert baking. About 80% of Filipino homes have legit ovens, and there are tons of bakery companies and home-based bakeries.

* TokenMinority: He is the only Chinese contestant

* CameBackStrong: He surpassed his original season's placement and only landed in the bottom three in the Top 10 round (episode 14) and the two semifinal rounds; his dishes placed top three four times, including winning one immunity. Gordon states he was eliminated far too early back in season 10.

* HistoryRepeats: Like in Season 9, Emily was eliminated on a temperamental dessert.

* HeroWorshipper: She cries TearsOfJoy when she first sees season 3 winner Christine Ha for a Mystery Box Challenge, because it was the first season Amanda watched Masterchef and was inspired seeing Christine's journey on the show.

* ItsPersonal: He was not happy Shelly did not pick him for her blue team[[note]]possibly remembering their season 6 Las Vegas field challenge in which Shelly's poor leadership lead him and another team member to take charge and significantly salvage the team's service, only for Shelly to make both of them compete in the elimination round while she remained safe (of which both also survived)[[/note]], nor was he happy about being one of the final picks. This fueled him up to defeat the blue team even more.

** She was the second pick for the baking challenge, but chose the mille-feuille, a dessert that the contestants would usually avoid due to its complexity. Shelly chose it with no hesitation, but crumbled under the pressure due to her pastry taking a long time to cook. When she presented it, she gave an ugly-looking dessert that was sloppily presented and looked a far cry from the example dish she chose. However, she was spared due to the judges liking the taste of the mille-feuille as well as Tommy's lemon meringue tart being worse.

* BreakoutCharacter: After the competition, Nick became the most prominent contestant from the cast, with a Youtube channel of '''''12 million subscribers''''' (and still growing today), and became even more known than the actual winner of the season.

* TheRunnerUpTakesItAll: He was eliminated right before the dessert portion in the finale, but has become extremely popular on social media ever since he left the [=MasterChef=] kitchen. As of June 2023, [[WebVideo/NickDigiovanni his Youtube channel has 12 million subscribers and he has close to 11 million followers on Tiktok]].

** She also appeared in a ''Masterchef Junior'' season 7 team challenge where all the dining guests were influential women to the judges and in the culinary industry.

* SelfDeprecation: During the restaurant takeover challenge, she joked about how she combined with Monti, who's somewhat hard of hearing, was "Team Helen Keller" for their captain Becky.
* SpecialGuest: Appears to present and judge the ingredients challenge in Season 4.

* AwesomeMcCoolName: Both her (at first Gordon and Joe were thinking it wasn't real) and her son, who she named "Danger"
-->'''Monti''': He is gonna love me for that in college.''

* DarkAndTroubledPast: She is a recovering alcoholic, finding cooking as an important key in her rehab

* SpringtimeForHitler: Downplayed in the food truck challenge, where she tried to set up the team containing Josh, Christine, Felix, and Mike to lose, but not only did they work together well, they nearly ended up beating her own team. However, Stacey's team still won out thanks to her soliciting custom from a nearby skate park -- and both teams finished far ahead of the team containing Anna, David, Monti, and Tanya, who were sent into the pressure test.

* OutOfFocus: After Episode, she doesn't get much focus unless she is in a pressure test. She gets more focus in the episode she is eliminated.

* LaserGuidedKarma: A rare positive spin in this case. After choosing to stay in the Pressure Test with Cutter, Dan Wu, and Leslie, the dish was revealed to be a red velvet cake, a dish he made several times. Unsurprisingly, he made the best cake that night.

* TheAce: He was the most elite, formidable frontrunner seen as an awesome, badass cook by many viewers due to his audaciously avant-garde and artistically inventive ingenuity.

* SpringtimeForHitler: When her team lost the Las Vegas Team Challenge, she chose to keep Derrick and Christopher in the pressure test just so one of them would go home. However, not only did they make it, she lost her ally Ailsa in the process.

* NeverMyFault: She completely botched her catfish which was a dish she presented to Season 3 winner Christine and was on the receiving end of Joe's wrath after having mouthed off to him during the aforementioned challenge. After returning to her station she continued to insist her dish was perfect, for which Joe quickly shut her up.

* NeverMyFault: During the Frozen Dinner challenge, he tried to argue with ''Gordon'' that his venison dish wasn’t dry, which was evident it was because of the color. This cemented his elimination that night.

* MyGreatestFailure: In the first challenge, Dara was faced with her spot prawn dish from Season 1's (Junior) finale, as she overcooked them by a minute.

* CameBackStrong: He surpassed his original season's placement and only landed in the bottom three in the Top 10 round (episode 14) and the two semifinal rounds; his dishes placed top three-four times, including winning one immunity. Gordon states he was eliminated far too early back in season 10.

* BreakoutCharacter: After the competition, Nick became the most prominent contestant from the cast, with a Youtube channel of '''''10 million subscribers''''' (and still growing today), and became even more known than the actual winner of the season.

* TheRunnerUpTakesItAll: He was eliminated right before the dessert portion in the finale, but has become extremely popular on social media ever since he left the [=MasterChef=] kitchen. As of June 2023, [[WebVideo/NickDigiovanni his Youtube channel has 10 million subscribers and he has close to 9 million followers on Tiktok]].

!! Kennedy U.
->Occupation: Festival vendor
->Region: West (Colorado)
* SoleSurvivor: She is the last remaining contestant from the West region in the Top 6.
* {{Hipster}}: She wears a beanie hat and her personal style matches, has a lot of tattoos, and lives with her girlfriend in a remodeled school bus.