The contestants seem to be by the seaside and today’s challenge seems to be all about crayfish.
Andy is
already putting pressure on Sabina which means she is bound to mess things up
today.
Before they
begin, Jock is going to teach everyone how to break down a crayfish. He shows
everyone new and disgusting parts of the crayfish they never knew existed. For
some reason he finds all these parts beautiful – like lobster tripe – which
looks like solidified puke.
Anyway, they
will compete in teams of 2 and have to make 2 dishes. One has to be familiar
and one has to be inventive. This could be interesting.
The bottom 2
teams go to elimination tomorrow. ANOTHER elimination? WTF?
Minoli is
excited she’s teamed up with Sabina i.e. the best fish cook here. What could go
wrong?
Amir seems
super excited and is running towards the pantry yelling “winning” for some
reason. Amir is making pasta, and tripe
salad with the ovaries as vinaigrette. Linda is teamed up with him and is doing
a south east Asian salad and using a couple of things from the crayfish there.
Seems like a reach for an inventive dish.
Aaron is
grilling crayfish and Elise is doing trippa alla romana with the disgusting
lobster tripe. Jock comes over and says this is not exactly “lobster tripe” –
it’s just something he calls lobster tripe. He openly tells them that
this dish will land them in the bottom two so now Elise is rethinking the entire
dish. Now she’s using the legs and making gamba alla romana.
Brent is
going familiar and cooking cajun crayfish, while Scott is going inventive and
making lobster filled choux pastry.
Sabina is
making barbecue crayfish with compound butter while Minoli is working on crayfish
doughnuts with an ovary aioli.
Kishwar
unsurprisingly is going for the non-inventive dish and is making a (shock and
awe!) a curry.
Thankfully
she is teamed with Tommy – who is going super inventive. He is making a bun riu
where he will make a patty like a consommé raft.
Poor Depinder
is stuck with Justin so clearly the aim for her today is to simply survive.
Justin is making garlic butter crayfish and Depinder is doing a Lobster kathi
roll. This is a simple protein substitution – doesn’t seem all that inventive.
It’s not like she has to do anything different at all with the rest of the
dish.
Pete is doing
creative – he is using the meat from legs and serving with fennel which will be
wrapped in blanched onion skin. He wants them to look like onions. This is
another insanely weird dish from Pete – so as always its either going to be
amazing or utter garbage. Nothing in the middle.
Maja is doing
a safe hibachi crayfish with a soy emulsion.
Tommy’s patties
have not worked, so now he is using the raft to make an omelette as a part of
his bun riu.
Jock says “don’t
want to rock the boat” and announces the time left on the cook. He then ruins
this by asking Andy if he understood the joke. #facepalm
Minoli’s
aioli is not emulsifying - Andy and Mel are stuffing their faces with the
doughnuts – and complaining about the aioli while Minoli and Sabina are trying
to fix it.
Mel comes to
eat some more and then gives the profoundly valuable input – “That needs work”
– while both of them are exclusively working on the aioli. She says that the
judges have been sold on the aioli so now they HAVE to make a good one. Because
no one has changed dishes in this kitchen ever. They ignore this advice and now
their aioli is a dipping sauce.
Tasting
Maja and Pete:
Maja’s cray is beautifully cooked. Pete’s crayfish onion is described by Jock
as “Ethereal”. He says its delicious, amazing and very clever cooking. Andy
also says the dish is “ethereal” and for some reason Mel takes credit for him
knowing the a big word.
Elise and
Aaron: Elise is worried they are not hitting the brief. But Aaron’s grilled
lobster tail in compound butter is perfectly cooked. And Jock (and less
importantly Mel) loves her gamba alla romana. Aaron graciously praises her -and
she takes full credit adding that Aaron also did a few things well.
Depinder and
Justin: Justin’s crayfish is perfectly cooked. Depinder’s kathi roll is super delicious
and Jock says it needs to come to Australia.
Brent and
Scott: Both their dishes are great and don’t get much coverage.
Amir and
Linda: Ami’s butter poached crayfish and linguine is perfectly cooked, but Jock
says felt like 2 dishes and the linguine was not required. Mel also thinks the sauce
was thin and insipid – should have just focused on the crayfish. Linda’s salad
doesn’t have enough lobster flavour, Jock agrees and says they should have used
the whole crayfish.
Sabina and Minoli:
Sabina’s Barbecued Cray in compound butter is nice with beautiful flavours but
Andy says his piece was slightly overcooked. Jock and Mel got good pieces, and
Jock says its probably an uneven coals issue.
Minoli’s dipping
sauce has split and she has successfully dragged Sabina down. Jock says it was
conceptually great but the dipping sauce was terrible.
Tommy and
Kishwar: Super nice guy Tommy is worried about pushing Kishwar into elimination.
Her Crayfish malai curry is beautiful and the lobster is well cooked. Tommy’s bun
riu is really good as usual.
The results
are quite clear – only 2 bad dishes today. Amir, Linda , Sabina and Minoli are
in the elimination tomorrow.
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