MasterChef contestant Chris.
MasterChef viewers weren’t too keen on a dish plated up on the latest episode (Picture: BBC)

MasterChef viewers have been left appalled after a contestant served up a dish inspired by Jack The Ripper.

On the latest episode of the long-running BBC cooking series, the five remaining amateur chefs were tasked with coming up with a ‘theatrical’ dish for judges Gregg Wallace and John Torode.

Professional fire breather Chris decided to go with a ‘murder mystery’ detective themed meal, serving beer tartare with roasted bone marrow in a locked box.

‘You are detectives and you have to guess my identity,’ he told the judges, before the lights went down and they had to use a code shown under UV light to unlock the food.

There were clues like Victoriana and Whitechapel which led Gregg to correctly guess his identity as Jack The Ripper, and viewers were shocked.

One viewer wrote: ‘Apparently it’s ‘really tasty food’ but there’s a guy on #Masterchef who has just done some kind of cabaret/meal event on the theme of Jack the Ripper (steak tartare) which is frankly pretty tasteless.’

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Another complained: ‘How delightful to see @MasterChefUK celebrating the murder and dismemberment of women. #BadTaste in so many different forms. Worst episode I have ever seen. Who on earth at @BBCOne thought this was a good idea? #Masterchef’

And yet another said: ‘Can’t beat a lovely bit of nosh themed on a man who committed some of the most heinous acts of assault and murder of women in British history #masterchef.’

Elsewhere on the show, the contestants were asked to present dishes without electricity and instead simply use an open flame.

But when it came time for each to explain the dishes they were preparing, those watching at home were shocked by what Chris, 44, shared.

As the camera cut to him carving up a slab of meat, he exclaimed: ‘What a great piece of meat to be cutting.’

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MasterChef judges John Torode and Gregg Wallace.
Judges John Torode and Gregg Wallace tasted food cooked on an open fire (Picture: BBC /Shine TV)

It was then explained he was ‘butchering down a whole saddle of Highland red deer’.

Given one of Niklas’ dishes, Chris had to make a lion juniper smoked venison with a reindeer blood pudding, fire roasted beetroot and beetroot sauce.

‘I’m really keen on Scandinavian cooking with my boyfriend being from Denmark and we do have an obsession with Nordic food,’ Chris said.

Niklas then explained the inspiration behind the pudding.

MasterChef's Chris pictured on the right, preparing a dish
Chris was tasked with preparing a venison dish that included a reindeer blood pudding (Picture: BBC)

‘The reindeer blood pudding is a dish I learnt from my son in France, and they make on the mountains when they take a reindeer down. They take the reindeer and immediately make a blood pudding over the fire,’ he said.

However, viewers weren’t as convinced.

‘Reindeer blood? Gross. Not doing it for me this week,’ Maisy posted on X.

‘Reindeer blood?? That was an awful episode imo,’ user melkay shared.

‘Utterly disgusting, reindeer blood ffs,’ bobbleyone added.

A picture of the final dish.
Viewers weren’t quite convinced despite the judges’ praise (Picture: BBC)

Under the watchful eye of Niklas’ head chef Baxter, Chris had to blend the blood with flour, Port of Madeira and melted butter and then cook it at exactly 58 degrees over hot coals seasoned with juniper to set properly.

Chris said he was ‘looking forward’ to tasting the final product, and when it came time to plate up, things looked promising.

Judge John Torode said Chris had done a ‘good job’, while Gregg Wallace said the final dish ‘looks and tastes fabulous’.

Praising all of the contestants, who were cooking in below freezing temperatures, he added: ‘What they carried out and achieved today was nothing short of miraculous.’

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MasterChef continues tomorrow at 7.30pm on BBC One.

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