This is a good pressure test for once where no one goes
home. Out the kitchen itself, Eric is trying to psyche out Minoli and Katrina
by pointing out that it’s their first pressure test. Considering that Eric is
good at making exactly one kind of food, I have full confidence he is going bulb
this and be a non-entity for this spot.
Mel explains what is about to happen etc, but Andy doesn’t
care about all this and is fixated on Brent’s glorious beard which he has now
braided.
Today we have another Vue de Monde chef – Anthony Hart – who
is a big time dessert chef having worked for 18 years across the world. He
describes his style as “very delicate” and that his dish is very fragile which
means horror scenes for the contestants.
Minoli is already worried because this is very far from her
cooking style. So is Eric – who, as mentioned earlier, can actually cook only
one kinda dish which is regional Chinese, and pretty much nothing else.
They are cooking a dish called Chocolate Oasis – which seems
insanely intricate.
Jock has decided to be a bigger asshole than usual and is
asking Minoli while she is tasting the dish “how she is feeling”. Even worse,
Eric is trying to concentrate and focus on taking in the dish and Jock is
asking him if he is deep in thought, thus breaking whatever deep thought he was
in.
Minoli doesn’t normally do recipes so this is a leap for her,
but she is says she can handle pressure very well so this might actually work out
well for her.
Eric has decided to be calm and organized – lol lets see how
long that lasts.
Everyone has got their chocolate cream done and is on their tempered
chocolate. Jock is asking Conor if tempering the chocolate which will make or
break this dish and thereby give him a place in the competition is scary or not.
Like what do you think, bro?
Eric says he is laser focused – and has promptly fucked up the
his temper on the chocolate. Now he has to re-do the chocolate.
Meanwhile Minoli and Conor are already on to making the
shapes on their tempered chocolate, and Conor has moved on to his Streusel. He says
he feels super zen and calm – so for sure he is about to make some massive
mistake in the last few minutes of the cook.
The judges say Eric and Katrina are struggling more than the
others and have already written them off. Andy has now gone to Katrina (who
seems fine really) to tell her that how her brain is feeling and that she should
calm down. He then mansplains how reading works for some reason.
Minoli has left her boiling water on for too long and now
there is no water in the pot. So now she has put on a new pot and is waiting
for water to boil. Andy helpfully tells her that the mandarins need to go in as
soon as possible, and is constantly telling her that the mandarins need to go
in NOW – as if she can make the water boil any faster.
Eric after struggling with another batch has finished his chocolate,
his streusel and is onto the Mandarin jam. But now he has peeled the mandarins
and started cutting them. The gantry is telling him to read the recipe – he does
and has not yet seen the point about not peeling the mandarins so he ignores
them and proceeds to make a super runny jam.
Conor has said for the 100th time that he is
ahead on time and is now getting cocky saying that “the apron is mine”. Surely
he is going to fuck up somewhere now.
Eric is still all over the place – now his orange choc disks
are also not working and he is “worried about finishing the dish”. Finally he
has given up and he is cutting his chocolate layers with scissors. We do not
have a view of the horrified expression on Anthony’s face in a moment of
absolutely amateur camerawork.
It seems like Conor has forgotten his chocolate twigs. He
has left them on the acetate. I have always hated this rule that you have to
have your elements in a certain place, or they don’t count for plating. It’s
totally stupid. It’s not like in a restaurant you cannot enter the kitchen
again if you miss something on a plate and have to be fired.
The tasting
Mel has forgotten the word entry and says the cooks are competing
for an “entrée” back into the competition.
Katrina’s dish is decent. Andy says got to be commended. Chocolate
is tempered well but a touch thick in places – eats pretty well. Great effort.
She is in with a chance.
Eric’s dish is unsurprisingly bad. His jam is not a jam,
more of a juice. He says “little mistakes like this set you back” referring to
his huge fucking mistake because of which he is not even in contention here.
Conor’s dish is a good effort overall. Chocolate was beautifully
tempered. But Jock says it ate quite differently from Anthony’s dish because
the ratio of cream to tempered chocolate was out. There was too much cream and
that left the judges with a dry mouth. The fact that he missed the twigs are
also brought up as a negative.
Minoli’s dish is actually holding itself together. She can’t
wait to get out of the room – she totally doesn’t want to talk to the judges. Jock
says “interesting version” but then only showers praise on it. Says the cream is
velvety and jam was identical. Anthony agrees it was a really good rendition
and Mel says the balance was very good.
The results are unsurprising – Minoli has won her place back
in the competition. She totally loses it and hugs all the people she just beat
who are super depressed and totally in the mood to celebrate their loss right
now. She also goes and hugs the judges, snatches the apron, puts it on and is
out of breath and still screaming while Jock tries to get some lines in at a
normal volume.
Good result today – I was hoping for Conor to win, but I’m
glad Minoli is back as well.
Now we have a mystery box followed by another challenge for the other spot. Here’s hopinh Therese, Conor or Wynona get that other spot.
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