Here we go with this week’s immunity challenge. Everyone is excited for the challenge. Pete says to Dan “Lets get that immunity” – he seems to have completely misunderstood how this works.
Jock says they are turning the heat up in the kitchen because
this challenge is all about the hottest chillies on the planet. He adds that this
has never been done before which is totally false because this challenge is
pretty much the same as one that happened in Season 6.
Andy – this season’s spice intolerance comic relief - is
already nervous as Jock and Mel reveal the chillies. We start with Orange and
White But Jolokia.
Linda is worried because she’s never seen ANY of these
chillies before – like chill its literally the second chilli so far. Kishwar on
other hand grows bhut jolokia so this is totally fair for all.
The other chillies have fun names like God Stopper, Hurt Berry
etc.
The contestants don’t get to choose the chili which makes
this equally tough for most (assuming Kishwar doesn’t get bhut jolokia). They
choose via random number tokens.
Dan gets the Orange Bhut Jolokia – he thinks it tastes south
east Asian ….. because it kinda is from a very similar geography. He is thinking
about how to get leg up in this challenge which means he is surely going to go
overboard.
Pete gets the ominously named Hurt Berry while Elise gets the
Lemon Burst (which sounds like the name of a candy, whoever named this was a
total sadistic asshole).
Linda gets the God Stopper which she says is nice and floral
which totally crushes the poor chilli’s fragile ego.
Kishwar gets the Chocolate Trinidad Scorpion. Jock asks if
you can taste chocolate. Kishwar tells him this is a really stupid question because
the Chocolate part is because of the colour.
They get cooking:
Elise is doing prawn pappardelle with a lemon burst chilli
oil, while Linda has started on a barbecue eye fillet with the chilli all over
the place.
Now the judges are trying the chillies. Jock seems to have a
very high tolerance to chilli. Mel also gives a loud but mostly okay reaction,
and Andy seems like he is dying. Andy feels like his teeth are sweating which I
gotta say is a nice way to describe the feeling.
Pete is doing a Caribbean pasta with a hot sauce inspired
from one uncle (Papa Joe) in his family who refused to share the recipe. This
seems like an airing of personal grievances in a very public forum.
Jock asks Elise if the dish will be balanced if you just
throw the chilli oil on top afterwards since it is literally her only chilli
element. He really drives this point home by saying “even he” would struggle to
do it, so there is no hope in hell that Elise will be able to manage it so she
may please kindly stay in aukaat and do something else. She is now thinking of
a plan B – but eventually settles on the obvious plan A which is to add the
chillies to the sauce itself.
Andy, btw is still struggling with the chilli. He is stuffing
his face with yogurt. I have no clue how he is going to get through this
tasting.
Kishwar, shockingly, is doing a curry. And not just any
curry, the mud crab curry that she wanted to do yesterday. Now she has added half
a scorpion chilli to her paste for the sauce and finds it not very pleasant to
eat.
Dan is doing something insane. He is doing a dessert only
because everyone else is doing savoury. This apparently will help him stand
out. He is making a chocolate chilli ice cream with a bunch of other things.
Linda is making kohlrabi salad with Laotian dressing and
barbecue eye fillet. She is adding the chilli to the dressing of the salad as
well. It seems like she had the chilli in every element of her dish. Pretty
certain she has had enough of Andy and wants to get rid of him for good.
Pete has mostly finished balancing his sauce and is happy
with it. Judges come over to Pete’s bench and try the sauce. Jock asks if there
is any chilli in that. Mel says she wants it to hurt more. So basically his
well balanced sauce is pointless – he just needs to throw in more chillies. He
is visibly frustrated with this stupid feedback and says that since Jock is a
maniac, he is adding a whole chilli into the sauce.
Kishwar’s sauce is now finally tasting pleasant but is not hot
enough – so now she is adding a little chilli over time since the judges want to
“taste the chilli” and they “want it to hurt”. Mel comes over and tells Kishwar
to make the dish how she wants to make it, and now how the judges want to eat
it.
WTF! They literally told Pete to fuck up the sauce he was
happy with so that they could get more chilli and they tell Kishwar the exact
opposite thing?
Pete has realized that he has badmouthed an uncle on
national television who is probably not going to forgive him lightly and mentions
for the 100th time that he is “doing this for Papa Joe”.
Kishwar has started crying again because ….. it’s her
signature curry. Sigh. I have no words.
The Tasting
Starting with Kishwar’s Mud Crab Bengali curry. Andy is
worried as fuck that she has used 5 chillies in this dish. He seems to be eating
with a tweezer lolz. Jock says curry is delicious but somehow doesn’t comment
on the overcooked meat, which is super strange. Mel and Andy both say that the claw
was overcooked – but body of work is deeply impressive, so you never know, the
way this nonsense season is going, she may still win immunity with overcooked
crab.
Elise’s dish is dispatched quickly by Salt Nazi Jock who
feels there isn’t enough on the dish.
Linda’s Andy Killer dish up next. Andy is amazed that all the orange stuff on
the side is chilli – he is horrified as he realizes Linda’s plan. He tries a
bit and is choking back tears, he seriously seems to be having a hard time,
Sadistic Mel is laughing as he struggles. Andy has to give compliments for the
attempt on his life and says it was so spicy but so good. Mel says it’s a firecracker
of a dish. Jock says amazing thing is balance – he loved the dish.
Pete’s Papa Joe Dish. Jock says he took the sauce to right reduction
which was fantastic, but would have liked more fruitiness of the chilli. What
does this guy have to do to win one of these things?!
Dan says the fact that he is the only one doing a dessert is
playing on his mind – this is after saying he wants to stand out by doing a
dessert. This is why I don’t think this guy. Mel says it was a tropical delight
– Andy says didn’t need meringue there and there was too much going on.
Results are quite unanimous – Linda wins immunity! I’m glad for
that dish did look great through I am sure I would be in the same boat as Andy
if I tried that.
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