Today’s elimination features Nick Holloway (and his glorious beard) from Nu Nu. First up is a taste test – where contestants have to taste 3 dishes and identify as many ingredients as they can.
Everyone can see Nick literally laughing
at them – and know this is not going to end well.
Andy says this is the biggest taste test
that Masterchef has ever seen continuing this season’s random hyberbole of everything
being the biggest MasterChef has ever seen.
Nick shows one dish – and then moves it
to a side and shows another dish – and then another one. Now he is properly laughing
at the contestants.
There are a total of 50 ingredients across
these 3 dishes – the bottom five go to Round 2.
Scott says he has a lot of visual cues
and writes down stuff that he can see.
Elise thinks the protein is lamb, Aaron
thinks its pork and Depinder thinks its beef. Ok then.
Aaron has already given up – he can’t get
his head around this – and by that I mean how the hell he has made it this far
in the competition with extremely pedestrian cooking.
Tommy is showing his teacher cred and
gaming the system – he is putting down a laundry list of ingredients that could
possibly be used to make a curry.
Jock is also saying just write
ingredients – its not like any of you have functioning tongues etc.
Minoli is confident she has aced this –
which means there is no doubt whatsoever that she is in Round 2. She is happily
still eating while everyone else is stressing the fuck out at the end of the 15
minutes.
Highest
score goes to Tommy with 30. They don’t bother with the other scores and go
straight to the bottom five - Scott (24), Depinder (25), Aaron (26), Minoli (26)
and Pete (27).
In round 2, they have all the 50 ingredients
in Nick’s dishes at their disposal and have to create a dish.
In a move that has shocked no one at all
- Minoli has gone straight for the pineapple and prawn – she is going Sri
Lankan.
Turns out everyone is using pineapple in
their dish in some way. In the understatement of the year, Aaron says not the
ideal pantry for him.
Scott thinks this could be the challenge
for him even though he is god at Thai food.
For some reason he is going sweet today. He really likes the retro stuff so he’s
doing a pavlova roulade.
Pete is going unexpected and making dessert.
He is going for curry ice cream. As with all Pete’s dishes this will be either
brilliant or utter garbage. Nick tastes the anglaise and says it’s a “brave” move
which is code for “this is suicidal you maniac, what the fuck are you doing??”
Pete, as always, acknowledges that his strategy
is stupid, and as always, he is going ahead with it anyway. He is himself
saying he would not order a curry ice cream lol.
Depinder is making prawn curry and a few
other elements including glutinous rice. Nick says that rice is risky because
it doesn’t behave like normal rice.
Minoli is making her own coconut milk
from dessicated coconut which is super resourceful and is also cutting a
coconut with a SAW – which is insane. Everyone is yelling at her to use a cleaver
like a normal person.
Aaron still doesn’t know what the rest of
his dish is – other than coconut prawns. Nick is telling him to “cook from your
soul – make something really delicious” – which is totally actionable specific
advice.
Depinder is saying she doesn’t have time
to read the instructions to make the glutinous rice. I mean its only an
elimination – what could go wrong. This is what happens when you tell someone
for 40 episodes that she is the person to beat. Same thing happened with Sashi
in S10 as well – he really struggled to get to get through to the finals. The
gantry is also noticing that this is a different, rattled Depinder.
Pete is pairing his curry ice cream with
pineapple granita, peanut coconut crumb and he is also making a chutney.
The gantry is worried about Aaron – who is
sticking with his super basic dish. Jock is also worried about Aaron. Now Jock
is telling Nick that he’s worried about Aaron. Mel is also worried about Aaron
and I really feel they should have used some different words to not make this
so comical. Mel straight up says he’s going home unless someone pulls an
icarus.
Scott is now rolling his roulade – Jock
is here to watch him do it from 3 feet away. His roulade looks beautiful. Minoli
is adding chillis to her broth – she is not happy with the spice level.
Mandatory “Aaron tastes his own food and
says it’s awesome” moment of this episode happens.
Pete’s passion fruit curd is not
thickening – he’s worried about the balance of his dish and is now finally
thinking that he’s an idiot to choosing to do this curry ice cream on
elimination day.
Depinder’s rice is super sticky but she
is on such a high thanks to the judges constantly chadhaoing her for 40
episodes that she is confident that this is how glutinous rice is meant to
be.
Pete has dropped his crud – he is adding
lime zest for fresh element – not sure why he didn’t think of this in the first
place.
The Tasting
Minoli -
Nick is already excited about the colour of that broth and thinks it
looks and tastes delicious. Andy – like he has said for 500 other dishes this season
– says this is the best plate of food Minoli has brought them.
Aaron now - He’s super nervous that his dish is simple.
Andy says your body language isn’t you today – No shit sherlock, it is an
elimination bro.
Nick is disappointed with the dish and
says it is indicative of how he saw the cook. There is nothing to tie the dish together.
It’s just random stuff and even that isn’t great. Like salsa is over seasoned
etc.
Scott - Jock enjoyed the roulade. Nick also thinks it’s
delicious.
Depinder - She has gone the Poh way and brought some 4
separate dishes. On just smell Nick is saying this is like being transported to
another place. Jock says prawn curry and
pineapple curry are amazing but the rice is raw - it’s like a rice cake.
Pete – Everyone loves it. Ice cream
texture was perfect - Mel says
everything meshed beautifully. Andy says overall dish is exceptional. Nick says this is suave and elegant
– a tight rope dance – he is super impressed.
Results
Minoli and Pete are safe – Pete has proceeded
to hug all the judges. Scott is also safe.
As expected, it comes down to Aaron vs Depinder, and as
expected, Aaron is gone.
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