Finally, the truly boring stuff out of the way, we are getting into some real mastercheffy action.
Today, 16 cooks trying to get into the top 24 by cooking one
of the best 5 dishes of the day. There are 2 pantries – one with less
ingredients but 90 mins to cook, and one with a lot of ingredients with 45 mins
to cook.
Only 3 cooks – Conor, Sarah and Cameron decide to go with
the small pantry. Conor wants to channel his Greek grandma, Sarah is intense
and wants to make steak and chips, Cameron seems like he is just having fun and
trolling everyone else.
Conor has no clue what he wants to cook – also he doesn’t
follow recipes. Have a feeling he is going be an entertaining addition to the mix this year. Or it is going to be one massive disaster. Time will tell.
Sarah says she is not leaving without an apron – and that
judges are going to pry it out of her sticky fingers. Cameron says the apron is his and trash talks
Sarah saying they've already started embroidery on his - not realizing that both could get aprons. Sarah (also not realizing there are enough aprons for both) says its just a typo – betraying that she has no clue what a typo
is.
Everyone else is regretting massively that they didn’t take
more time. Ben the Tool is asking whether the others having more time is an
advantage. Max the nice guy is totally ignoring him. I really like this episode
because Ben the Tool gets about 30 seconds of additional airtime in the rest of
this entire episode.
Max tries to sneak an ingredient from the small pantry and
fails. He is doing a peach tarte tatin in 45 minutes. The other contestants are
worried and say “he’s brave” and “hopefully he’s made the right decision” which
I can only assume is the Aussie way of saying “He is an idiot and has fucked
this up beyond recognition”.
Aaron is making crispy skin duck with fennel and onions.
Wynona is doing her pork dish from Instagram. Conor has finally decided what he
wants to make – an avgolemono substituting the chicken broth for fish broth.
Katrina has been totally thrown off by the judges coming
over an asking her what she is cooking – and has forgotten her own dish. She
has also forgotten to score her fish.
Max once again reminds viewers of his terrible decision to
cook Paris Peach Tarte Tatin in 45 mins and Depinder now weighs in saying “He’s
pushing it” which I can only assume is the Aussie way of saying “There is no chance of this happening,
why is this guy even here?”
All contestants say how good their own dishes are – while
Cameron makes a Dad joke.
Charlie makes his only contribution to this episode by
cutting his thumb.
We are back on Max now. The judges now tell him he is an
idiot as he could have used nectarines instead of peaches and had 90 minutes.
Max finally realizes his error but still foolishly clings on some hope of
making it.
Times up and now let’s get to the tasting.
Jock likes Elise’s dish. Andy says he wasn’t expecting that
because before this he had no idea what the dish was.
Jock likes Wynona’s dish which he basically asked her to
cook yesterday. Mel also liked the dish. Andy doesn’t bother commenting.
Ikesh’s dish is “work-in-progress” i.e. not good at all.
A few other good dishes follow.
Katrina up next – who is nervous and worried about
everything. Jock likes the fish and the dish overall – the other two just
repeat what he says. Some things don’t change. Sigh.
Aaron’s happy at his awesome looking dish. Everyone loves this
dish and he’s basically got the apron.
Max is now up next – to be put out of his misery. Somehow he
is still optimistic that his dish is good despite making a 45 minute dish in 25
mins. Max lies he’s happy with his idiotic decision to go for 45 mins. Jock
says overall it is still decent but the pastry is a bit undercooked. Bye bye
Max.
Ben the Tool’s dish is universally panned – oily tostada,
too much sala verde. So long Ben.
Cameron’s pasta is too thin. Sarah’s dish is just plain bad
with the undercooked carrot, grainy puree and overcooked steak. Two more gone[1].
Finally coming to Conor – everyone loves his avgolemono with
the King George Whiting. And it turns out his peppered nectarines were an
inspired last minute addition.
The final fives chosen are Aaron, Elise, Katrina, Wynona and
Conor. All highly deserved.
Cheers and see you guys in Episode 3 – and the start of the
actual Masterchef Season.
[1] As
the parrot said to his co-passenger in the classic marathi joke “If you cannot fly, why do maaz?”
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