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MasterChef Australia - S13E46 - Surf n' Turf Team Challenge

 Everyone is amazed at URBNSURF in Melbourne – no one seems to know or care that Andy owns Three Blue Ducks here.

Which brings to the worst news of this episode – Andy is in an apron – he is going to run the pass. 2 minutes in, and this is already my least favourite episode of this season.

There is some good news for the contestants though - there are no eliminations till end of the week. And there will be 2 chances to win immunity for that elimination.

The cooks have to make one shared entrée, two shared mains and two shared sides – each team has to cook for 80 people.

Andy is trying to show his legitimacy by saying that he is not his usual chilled out self in the kitchen, Three Blue Ducks reputation at stake etc etc – but still no one is taking him seriously.

He asks if the teams are ready – and everyone is visibly depressed that they have to spend the next few hours interacting with Andy. 

Anyway – the teams for today are the Blue team – who will be cooking ‘surf’ – Sabina, Elise, Depinder, Scott and Pete. And the Green team – who will be cooking ‘turf’ -  Minoli, Justin, Linda, Kishwar, and  Tommy.

Justin is the captain for the Green team as this is what he wants to do. He seems to have found his feet in the competition – they are going middle eastern. They have a number of nice dishes like lamb ribs, beef cheeks, roast chicken, baba ghanoush etc.

For the Blue team, ghissu Elise is the captain and she predictably tries to suck up to Andy rather than play to their strengths. They are going Mexican for their theme today. They have a braised octopus, whole baked flounder, prawns, corn and a Mexican rice with grilled pineapple.

Linda and Kishwar are doing the beef cheeks in ras al hanout tomato sauce and Tommy is making the chicken by himself.

Poor Scott is on the butterflying job for prawns. Being nicest guy ever, he is still incredibly nice about being given this total thankless fuckall job of butterflying 180 prawns.  

Andy is amazingly actually doing a decent job of this - giving advice, helping the teams and showing them how to do stuff.  He is truly enjoying all this attention.

Scot has done only about 30 prawns so far. He says he needs to take his time and get it right.

Ghissu Elise reveals her agenda of making Mexican by telling us that maybe Andy will offer us a job after this. (Narrator – He won’t). Andy is right behind her – and ignores this entire conversation and runs away.

Poor Scotty is on his own  - everyone else is on much more interesting things. Scott is saying he needs help – for some reason both Elise and Sabina are working on the flounder.

Scott tells Elise that he has finally sliced all 180 prawns but he hasn’t de-veined anything because of Andy’s advice. Elise, who as team captain has totally ignored this section for the last 3 hours while brownnosing to score a job, is wondering why alarm bells on this didn’t go sooner for her.

She has to take the call to ditch the grapefruit salsa and make an avocado crema.

Justin gets the beef cheeks out of the oven – and they are super tough. But the Lamb ribs are looking good. Andy is even helping them with the chicken.

Jock and Mel, starved of attention and coverage,  are trying to contribute to this episode by telling the contestants that the diners are here.

Pete almost drops his entire tray of the octopus giving everyone a heart attack. Elise says she is really proud of the octopus dish that she had nothing to do with while she was basically cleaning founder for 3 hours.

Entrée Tasting

Blue team’s Octopus is beautifully cooked. Jock says it is great attention to detail and every bite is delicious.

Green Team’s Lamb ribs are also delicious. Jock says it too close to call.

Back in the kitchen, poor Scotty is finally done with the prawns. And now sabina is noticing that Elise has fucked up her one job i.e. the cleaning of the flounder – and that they still have guts in them. Andy is now helping the Blue with the flounder.

Green team have a scare that their beef cheeks are not soft, but the ones at the bottom are perfect. So they start sending those out. For some reason they are putting yoghurt on everything.

Mains Tasting

Green team’s beef cheeks are excellent. Jock says the texture of the beef is amazing, and the flavour of the sauce is amazing. The chicken is tender, and has a nice smoky char.

Mel says this smells and tastes like teamwork – Jock totally does not hear what she says while he stuffs his face some more and says “Fantastic”.  

Blue team’s flounder has the guts in. And the avocado crème is meh. Jock says it is a mixed bag – which is code for garbage.

Results

The Green team wins – pretty much entirely because of Elise’s terrible leadership.

Tomorrow is a Pressure test - which they have to write themselves – so….. not a pressure test. Also they have to make it sweet and feature vanilla.

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