Today we have a team challenge. This is a Deliveroo pop up menu challenge – each team has to prepare 60 serves of food – each containing a starter, a main dish and a side dish.
The teams are:
Green Team – Kishwar, Aaron, Justin, and Minoli
Orange Team – Scott, Sabina, Linda, and Elise
Purple Team – Pete, Depinder, Maja, and Tommy
The Orange team is going with a Thai
style menu since most of them are familiar with the flavours. Linda has
suggested doing fish cakes – which now itself I can tell is going to be a
massive failure because who the fuck is going to fillet that much fish for 60
plates of fish cakes??
The Green team has 3 people who can cook
nothing at all except for curry, and Aaron – so they are building their entire
menu around Sri Lankan flavours. Aaron has been given the job of captain so
that he can stay as far away from the cooking as possible.
The Purple team has chosen Maja as
captain. They are going Indian because they have Depinder in the team – which
is kinda idiotic since literally none of the others who anything at all about
Indian food. This doesn’t look good for Pindo – it might well be her first
pressure test.
Now Aaron has the job of explaining the
Green team’s menu to Mel. Which is hilarious because neither know anything
about Sri Lankan food. Anyway, the Green team are making a cutlis (basically
fried potato ball) for their starter, a
black pepper beef curry for their main and a dry potato curry with sambal as
their side dish.
The second most useless person in the
team for this challenge is Justin – which is why he has been told to cut the
onions and do all the prep.
Maja explains the Purple team’s ‘Pindo
inspired’ menu to Mel. Which is also hilarious for same reason as Aaron
explaining Sri Lankan food menu to Mel.
Anyway the starter is an aloo bonda (i.e.
fried potato ball), Lamb Chettinad curry and a side of Gobi Matar. The big
worry of course is that none of these are things she can just ask one of the
others to make – ALL the cooking will have to done by Depinder. Doesn’t look
like this is going to end well.
Tommy is thinking 100 gm of lamb per serving
is fine. Maja says 120 gms and now they are struggling with the maths of how
much lamb is required. They well of course go to the Indian on the team for
help who duly does the maths instantly. Side note – 120 gms seems too little
for a main. This is already a fuck up.
The Orange team is doing fish cakes for
starter, duck red thai curry for mains and pad kra pow as a side dish. They are currently struggling to break down
ducks for their main – they are just going with 1 duck leg for the dish – Jock
is appalled with the wastage, and asks them to rethink their menu.
Now they are going duck breast + one
Maryland. They have chosen 2 dishes which are super high prep – Sabina suggests
they do something different for the starter – everyone ignores her.
Andy says to Depinder that the Green team is
also doing fried potato balls and a curry so it makes it super easy to compare.
Depinder says it’s not worrying when you know you are the better one. Oh no!
Pindo has gone cocky – these fuckers have ruined her. Surely, surely going into
elimination now.
Asshole Andy now goes to Green team and
throws petrol on flames – and now they are all ganging up on Depinder. Depinder
tells them that she is definitely better than the other 3 curry cooks in the
green team – which, of course, is totally true. But the problem is that there
are 3 of them.
Andy asks Minoli if the spices are too
dark – she says its supposed to be like that. Andy – who has no fucking clue
about this – has nothing to say and admits he was being a nosy shit and didn’t
actually have any point to make.
Jock and Andy are now pointing out that
Minoli still has to ball the potatoes. They are freaked out that she alone has
to do 180 balls but Minoli seems to be pretty confident about this.
The Orange team is starting to fillet
fish now – the snappers they want to use are super small. So that’s even more
fish to fillet.
Now Jock and Andy are not convinced that
the Purple team have enough curry. Jock actually comes with scales and measures
it out – says 5 pieces of lamb is not enough meat in the curry. Which world is
this guy living in - if I got 5 pieces
of lamb in a small takeaway box, I’d be thrilled.
They are short by half now. They think
about adding some vegetables to bulk it up. Depinder is adding green capsicum
now – she says it goes well with curries and she likes to add it at the end so
it remains a bit raw and retains crunch. Sometimes, Depinder shows she’s Aussie
– because no one in their right mind is doing to serve raw capsicum in a lamb
chettinad!
Pretty sure the Green team is doomed now.
But wait, the Orange team has to fillet
15 fish in an hour. Sabina now loses it and tells her team that they are all
idiots – and they need to get their heads out of their asses and listen to
clearly the smartest person on the team. She says this is stupid, and they are
sure to go into elimination like this. The prospect of failing an exam has
woken up even ghissu Elise who was mostly absent till now and they have decided
to ditch the fish cakes altogether. If only they had listened to Sabina like 2
hours ago!
Now they are serving the pad kra pow as
an entrée – and making a fragrant rice as the side. Lol. The other teams are
making additional dishes on top of rice to serve with their curries – and these
guys are basically selling rice as a side dish. If they don’t get disqualified
– this is genius.
Pete and Maja are working on the aloo
bonda, while Minoli is doing the balls by herself.
Aaron, whose one singular job is to
manage the pass, is worried that they don’t have the pass set up yet.
The Orange team is amazingly done with
their curry. Sabina is now packing the rice. And they are suddenly the team
that are most on track.
Justin has been relegated to runner now –
and is charged with getting ingredients and bowls for the other capable cooks.
The Tasting
Orange team – Jock says he loved the
curry. Mel says would pay top dollar for this. The starter is super dry
through. They have bought the fragrant rice as a side dish lol. I bet the other
two teams are kicking themselves.
Green team - Entrée is crispy and so much going on
inside. The curry is also very
good. Sambal also very good.
Purple Team – Jock loved the aloo bonda
and the gobi matar. But the curry predictably is bad because it tastes of
capsicum. It was an idiotic decision to put so much responsibility on Depinder –
but on other hand maybe it was clever plot to try to get her eliminated.
Unsurprisingly – the Purple team is in
the elimination and they go into the pressure test tomorrow.
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