LE MILLEUR PATISSIER 2022. The Best Pastry Chef is back on M6 this Wednesday, September 7, 2022. Several new features await regulars of the M6 program
[Mis à jour le 7 septembre 2022 à 16h04] On your marks, get set, tap in! The Best Pastry Chef returns to M6 from 9:10 p.m. on September 7, 2022. Still presented by Marie Portolano, with Cyril Lignac and Mercotte in the jury, the show resumes the Wednesday evening slot, and no longer Thursday as it could be case in the previous season.
For this eleventh season of the Best Pastry Chef, 16 candidates will try their luck to win the blue apron each week and avoid elimination. Several novelties await regulars during this new burst of episodes. The main one is the secret kitchen: broadcast in the second part of the evening, a duel will oppose each week the eliminated of the day to the one who won the duel last week. After a few weeks, the last in the running will be able to re-enter the competition.
Another novelty in The Best Pastry Chef 2022: the guest chef will have more impact on the final ranking of the episode, being able to help save a candidate or being able to contribute to the choice of the blue apron. During this first episode, the candidates will also be able to choose the qualification test in which they will participate. In the coming weeks, there will also be a brand new event where Cyril Lignac realizes, live, one of his emblematic creations, which the participants will have to reproduce in real time… and without recipe. So many new features to dust off the M6 game, which celebrates its 100th broadcast this year!
Who are the guest chefs for the Best Pastry Chef 2022?
Each season of the Meilleur Pâtissier sees the exceptional arrival, each week, of a guest chef. Some regulars are back for the 2022 edition, such as Pierre Hermé or Thierry Marx. Among the other professionals who will come to judge the creative event, we also find Philippe Conticini, Glenn Viel, Kevin Lacote, Joakim Pratt, François Perret, Christelle Brua, Jeffrey Cagnes, Yann Couvreur, Anne Coruble and Desty Brami.
Change of scenery in 2022
The most observant viewers will notice that the filming sets for Le Meilleur Pâtissier have changed during the 2022 season. The cameras landed at the Château de Neuville, in Gambais, which was already filmed in the first season of Le Meilleur Pâtissier. Usually, the show was filmed at the Château de Groussay, in Montfort-l’Amaury, also located in the Yvelines department.
program sheet
The Best Pastry Chef is a cooking show broadcast on M6 since November 26, 2012. During this pastry competition, amateur candidates must take up the culinary challenges launched by Cyril Lignac and Mercotte, the two jurors, until they reach the final. The winner wins each year the edition of his own recipe book. The Best Pastry Chef is currently presented by Mary Portolano, after having been presented in the past by Julia Vignali (2017-2020) and Faustine Bollaert (2012-2017). Since the creation of the French program, there have been several variations of the program presented on M6: The Best Pastry Chef – celebrity special, which sees stars take part in the competition, but also The Best Pastry Chef – Professionals which is this time a competition of professional pastry chefs.
Le Meilleur Pâtissier is broadcast on M6 every year from the beginning of autumn, between September and the end of year celebrations. From season 10, in 2021, the show is no longer broadcast on Wednesdays, as it has been since the start of the show, but on Thursdays. In 2022, broadcasting resumes on Wednesday evenings, from September 7 at 9:10 p.m.
Season 11 of the Best Pastry Chef welcomes sixteen candidates. As every year, they are of all ages, and come from several regions of France and Belgium. All will fight to get the blue apron and avoid elimination, in the hope of winning the Best Pastry Chef trophy. You can discover their portraits and their particularities by clicking on this link.
- Adelina, 28, store manager from Belgium
- Alicia, 27, heavyweight driver from Strasbourg
- Benjamin, 32, fruit and vegetable buyer from Saint-Alban
- Carine, 45, civil servant in a community in Le Mans
- Cléo, 20, figure skater from Montlignon
- Franklin, 76, retired from Paris
- Hervé, 47 years old, team leader in the construction industry
- Justine, 30, pharmacist from Amiens
- Karel, 29, engineer in conversion from Paris
- Manon, 20 years old, student in dietetics BTS from Montpellier
- Najoua, 29, foreign affairs consultant from Courbevoie
- Nils, 26, doctoral student in finance from Levallois-Perret
- Sébastien, 47, head of a Toulouse cybersecurity company
- Sébastien, 37, choreographer and dancer from Saint Affrique
- Vanessa, 41, business manager of a communication agency in Kintzheim
- Wiggings, 25, executive assistant from Nanterre
In 2021, Maud was crowned winner of the Best Pastry Chef. Aged only 16, the candidate imposed herself during season 10 with her dazzling progress, impressing Cyril Lignac and Mercotte with all of her creations. As a reminder, at the end of the show, the winner leaves with the right to publish a recipe book.
As always, M6 broadcasts are available for replay on the 6play.fr site, which allows them to find the programs broadcast on the channel. To take advantage of this feature, you can use your TV box in the Replay section or go to the website, log in with a Facebook or Google account or register by email and thus watch the catalog of shows available for replay.
It’s hard not to be tempted to taste the creations of the Best Pastry Chef candidates. And if you have the soul of a pastry chef, it can even make you want to go behind the stove! As a reminder, each winner of the M6 show publishes their own book of recipes made during the show. But some recipes can also be discovered online: the site KitchenAZ offers recipes from previous seasons of the best pastry chef, while Mercotte publishes on its website advice on how to carry out the famous technical test that makes program participants tremble every week.