The MasterChef Australia 2025 winner will be decided by judges Poh Ling Yeow, Andy Allen, Jean-Christophe Novelli and Sofia Levine, who have guided and critiqued the contestants all season.
However, with such a small group making the final call, some viewers have wondered if a blind taste test by the judges in the finale might make things fairer.
“For me, at the end, it really should have been a blind taste (even with Laura using a lot of Australian ingredients),” one Reddit user speculated. Another added, “I think a blind tasting is a very good idea, and not just for the semi-finals.”
However, Jamie, who placed third on MasterChef Australia 2025, told Chattr that the contestants on the current season had such distinct styles that a blind taste test by the judges wouldn’t have removed any ambiguity.
“I think that blind taste testing would not have mattered from probably around top eight in this competition, in particular last night, if you didn’t say whose dish was whose, I guarantee that you could still tell whose dishes, because we all cook differently,” he explained.
Jamie added that the differences between the contestants’ cooking styles started to shine towards the end of the competition.
“I think that’s probably one of the things in this Back to Win competition that I really started to notice, and it’s when I started to put my foot down. Around that top eight mark was when people [started to] try to say something with their cooking, and they cook within their own style, and they just ended up cooking better.”
Jamie breaks down the differences in his, Laura’s and Callum’s cooking styles
By the time the MasterChef Australia 2025 semi-final rolled around, it was plain to see that all three contestants generally took a different approach to their dish choices.
Jamie pushed himself but generally focussed on making the food he chose to a very high standard. Callum tended to try outlandish dishes, while Laura often incorporated native elements into her dishes. Jamie broke down the difference between the way they approach their decisions.
“Laura’s dishes are unmistakably Laura’s dishes, likewise Callum’s. And I think by the end of it, likewise mine,” he said.
“I was very concentrated on limited things on the plate, and just concentrated on doing them really well and succinctly. Callum is all about getting as many weird combos and chucking as much technique at the plate as possible. And Laura is so dedicated to just beautiful flavour combinations that rely and showcase a lot of her technique with a Japanese background and the native background, and obviously her Italian heritage.”
For this reason, Jamie added that “the blind tasting would be completely irrelevant.”
“I guarantee you that if the judges were blind in any of last three or four weeks of television, they could tell you exactly who cooked what.”
MasterChef Australia airs on Sundays at 7pm and Monday – Tuesdays at 7:30pm on Channel 10 and 10Play.
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