MasterChef 2026, Episode 16: Fish and Chips Swear Jar

I have a name!

Do you like misery? Do you like trains? Then you’ll love Misery and Trains Magazine!

Anna Haugh and Grace Dent endlessly trapped in a cycle of recreating the Withnail and I meme has been my series highlight.

Sorry this is late, I was having to fight for a recap oven.

A rare insight into how they make Olympic-grade Curling stones.

The Straits are at it again.

Clean up on aisle Sean!

How long could washing one octopus take

The MasterChef studio has been put in lockdown.

So close, that is a shape!

It took me far too long to work out he was talking about blushing.

[FIRE ALARM BLARES]

Exactly the face I pulled for a good third of this episode.

No egg is safe.

We’ve gone on holiday by mistake!

I could do with one of Antos’s patronising pats right now.

Anna is listening, listening like the sun in the sky!

Content Warning: Distressing Eggs!

Certainly one of the more novel dishes anyone has served this series.

Blankets up, tongues out.

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