Gordon Ramsay can see you, future MasterChef contestant

Are you Kansas City’s next cooking-show contestant? If so, your first challenge is to get past the unsettling picture of Gordon Ramsay on the MasterChef casting website. He looks amused, scared, smug, anxious and pleased with himself all at once.

MasterChef is billed as a nationwide search for the most talented home cooks in America. The winner gets a cash prize, the title of MasterChef and, apparently, the opportunity to be leered at by Ramsay during six weeks of shooting.