THERE’S nothing wrong with second place, say this year’s MasterChef finalists.

Michael Weldon and Kate Bracks, who face off in the series three grand finale tomorrow, say they are going to follow their food dreams regardless of the outcome.

“Kate and I are two of the luckiest people in the world, if not the luckiest,” Weldon said yesterday.

“I’m not going to walk away feeling like a loser finishing second. I’m going to walk away from this knowing what I want to do for the rest of my life.”

Bracks echoed Weldon’s sentiment, saying she and her husband Luke planned on pursuing their dream of opening a B&B.

“If I was to win then it may get pushed back a year because I’d probably be looking at a busy year,” she said.

“It’s definitely something Luke and I are working towards.”

The finalists, who have been under the show’s strict communications lockdown since Easter, enjoyed a brief production break ahead of this weekend’s grand finale filming.

Both are now preparing themselves for what is sure to be an intense and emotional finale.

“I think we have learned well and truly by now they love to throw us curveballs. If we had Adriano Zumbo (on Thursday) goodness knows what’s next,” said Bracks.

“I’m happy to be cooking and if that transfers into good food then awesome. I just don’t want to go out of the competition on a bad dish.”

Judge Gary Mehigan was full of praise for both finalists.

“Kate went from doing a retro coffee cake to getting to this point of the competition where she was cooking that dessert at Quay. I was blown away,” he said.

“That was better than a lot of the chefs I’ve worked with at my restaurants.

“And when Michael did the pig cheeks with roasted fennel, that’s the sort of dish I go ‘I should have come up with that’.”

But Mehigan is a steadfast fence-sitter when asked for a finale prediction.

“I’m very proud of both of them. I don’t mind who wins,” he said.

“They’re both great ambassadors. They have different skills, but they are equally matched.”

He said over the past two series he had learned to keep his favourites to himself.

“It’s like in series two, I expected to see Marion (Grasby) in the finale,” he said.

“That’s why we (judges) don’t tell people who our favourites are; we’ll jinx it.”

The MasterChef Australia grand finale starts at 6.30pm tomorrow on Network Ten and takes a break for The Renovators at 7.30pm before returning for the winner announcement at 8.30pm.