Quotes by Gordon Ramsay in MasterChef.
Season 1[]
- (To David) “When you’re good at something, it creates a confidence. When you’re insecure about something, it creates an arrogance.”
- (About Whitney’s dish) “It’s a TV dinner stir fry with bits of chicken that the dog didn’t want to eat.”
- (To Slim) "If we were on a date and you cook that dish for me, I'd go to the bathroom and you'd never see me again; I'd bolt out the door."
Season 2[]
- (To Christian) "We're trying to give you constructive criticism. If you're a man, you'd take it on the chin. Unfortunately your talent is not matching your arrogance. The dish was a let down; end of story."
Season 3[]
- (To contestant) Gordon: "Congratulations..." Contestant: "THANK YOUUUUUUUU!!!!" Gordon: "...on the worst dish in this competition so far!"
- (To Ryan) "Bananas with duck? You've gone bananas. That's what's happened; You've gone fucking bananas."
- (To Tali (1)) Gordon: "Tali. Stay there for a minute." (Walks towards Tali's cooking station) "Just... just step back." (Tali's cooking station is cluttered with equipment and food waste all over the desk, floor, oven and cupboards.) "Look at the fucking mess!" Tali: "I tried to put it all in one space-" Gordon: "It's not in one space! It's from there, all the way down and all over the place- Look at the cupboards!" Tali: "I know." Gordon: "Let me tell you one more thing!" Tali: "Ok." Gordon: If you were in any of our kitchens, you would've been fired fucking six months ago!" (Walks back to the podium) "That is a disaster!"
- (To Tali (2)) Gordon: "The point of sous vide is to lock in those flavors." Tali: "Yes, chef-" Gordon: "And I watch you cook and I just get so pissed off with you fucking around. You're misinterpreting the competition. It's MasterChef, not Masturbate."
Season 4[]
- (To Howard) "You know I'm not a rabbit and yet you serve me food that's fit for a rabbit hutch, and you expect me to get blown away? Well, I am blown away; I'm shocked. In fact, I'm not going to eat it."
- (To Bime) "Time's running out? Something's running through my fucking mouth."
- (To Lynn) "It's like eating a wall insulator, with some strawberry or banana your grandad left under his bed before he passed, it's rancid. Right now, you are close to getting kicked out of this competition because that is the worst dish I have seen on a plate in four years of MasterChef."
Season 5[]
- (To Stephani) "H-O-M-E; That's where you should be heading."
- (To Willie) "I love you when you cook humble, but I absolutely detest when you've been given the best ingredients and a chance to just show some technical ability. I call that (the dish) 'Lazy Willie', not 'Big Willie'."
- (To Cutter) "My name is Gordon Ramsay, not Stevie Wonder!"
Season 6[]
- (To Tommy) "Now I've heard of a sick bag, but this is a first for me; a sick box."
- (To Tommy) "I'm not eating a fucking tuxedo! You're saying it's number 2 and one mouthful of that (cinnamon roll) and I'm sure, I'll be going for number 2."
- (About Tommy's cinnamon rolls) "That should come with a health warning, 'Do Not Open in Broad Daylight'."
- "It's a celebration, not a cremation."
- (To Claudia) "You're a lady, but your balls are getting bigger by the minute in this competition."
- (To Shelly) "We need to eat with our eyes. That looks like a stuffed condom."
Season 7[]
- (To Bill) "You need to bring your A-game, and that is a D minus."
- (To the Blue Team) "The speeches are about to start and I'm fucking speechless."
- (To Brandi) Gordon:"I just hope that those kids are in bed right now." Brandi: "They're not; they're watching this." Gordon: "You let them watch horror movies?"
- (To Manny) "You're a fire officer. I expect you to take this fucking serious. You save lives, these guys (U.S. Veterans) put their lives on the line. Now get real or fuck off."
- (To David) “You need to learn to let go, and move on. And you need to bring every ounce of love you’ve got into what you’re good at doing, thank you.”
- (To Diana) "It's like excavating a dinosaur dig and we've just struck gold with a prehistoric tooth nail." *contestants laughs* "You can be pissed off at the balcony; they're safe, you're not."
- (To Dan) "So it's times like this that I want to get an anchor and chain and wrap it around your fucking neck, 'cause you're get a little bit off-piece now."
- (To Eric) "I'm not here to throw you under the bus, but I don't like bullshit."
- (To David (2)) “Let’s get straight to the point. You were dealt a dysfunctional card. Then you turn your back on this competition. All those challenges, all those competitions, and endless hours in this kitchen to give it up, because he (Shaun) fucked you off. How many times have you dealt dysfunctional cards? You do it for a living! So to watch that take place there, David, I’m going to be brutally honest. Depending on what you did to that plate, this could be the last time you cook inside the MasterChef kitchen.”
Season 8[]
- (To Mark) "Take it serious or take your apron off."
- (To Jason) "I fucking love you."
- (To Daniel) "Get yourself a toaster."
- (To Jeff) "Right, so don't dare send me your shit again! Because I look a bigger dick than you. When you send me that and then tell me that that's not your best. Did you hear what I said? I look a bigger dick than you, and I'm not gonna send that. Heard?! WE CAN DEBATE ABOUT THE DICK BIT LATER!
- (To Adam and Caitlin)"Mi so confused, mi so ready to go fucking home."
- (About Adam and Caitlin's dish) "I'm more fucking Japanese than this.
- (To Yachecia and Eboni) "Would you just do me a little favor? Say a prayer before I tucker into this shit because I have to taste this now." *spits food in empty chips bag*"Thank you for my sick bag."
- Gordon: "Jason, would you like some (Chocolate Soufflé)?" Jason: "Yes please." Gordon: "Fuck off, it's mine."
Season 9[]
- (To Farhan) "Let me whisper something in your ear. *whispers*"You'll never become America's next MasterChef if you can't bake."
- (To Matt) "Hey, Clark Kent, wake up."
- (To Matt) "POTATO?!?!? FUCKING POTATO HEAD!!!!!!!"
- (To Matt) "Get it together, or fuck off and feed the giraffe."
- (To Matt) "Just spin around for me, because I was hoping you would turn into Superman and it's not happening. Clark, look, spin around again and come back to me as a talented cook."
- (To Gerron) Gordon: "Gerron, where did you get the idea of the potatoes and the shrimp?" Gerron: "It was something that just popped into my mind actually, I mean." Gordon: "Well pop it OUT of your mind."
- (To Farhan) "How many times have I told you? It's baz-uhl!
- (About Bowen) "My fucking grandma's got more vigor than him, and she's dead."
Season 10[]
- (To Deanna) "Lean, sexy, and refined? I'm old enough to be your grandad."
- "Season 10? SEASON FUCKING SALMONELLA!"
- (To Shari) "It's MasterChef, not MasterMother-In-Law."
- (To Evan) "Never throw that genius stuff away."
- "Tag-Team Challenge? That was a Tag-Team Meltdown."
- (To Dorian) "If you make it to this year's finale, put that dessert on there."
- (To Joe Bastianich) " You're such a fucking snob."
- (To Shari) "They can hear you in fucking Buckingham Palace."
Season 11[]
Season 12[]
- (About Keturah's dish) "I don't know if I need a chair or a sick bag."
- (To the red team) "Word from the street is the seagulls are preferring the steak than the fucking guardsmen."
- (To Alejandro) "When you're a captain, you need to run your team. Today's performance, your team ran you. But under no circumstances will we ever be in a position where we pick food up off the floor, re-grill it, and send it. That is never happening ever. Certainly no under our watch and certainly not cooking for military."
- "I actually love vegan food."
- (To Derrick) "Just turn around a minute. I just wanna see the target on your back. Thank you. It's big."
- (To Michael) "What are you trying to do, close down Spago?"
Season 13[]
Season 14[]
- (To Joe Bastianich) "Don't be a snob in front of your mother."