Here we go – last immunity challenge of this godawful season.
This seems to be the lucky dip challenge where you randomly
pick 2 cloches out of 60 and cook with whatever is under those. When your
reward is so big – straight through to final week – you need a more objective
measure – which is why the judges and producers in their infinite wisdom have
decided to go for a challenge that almost entirely relies on dumb luck.
These cloches have ingredients, cuisines and equipment –
they have to pick 2 cloches and combine them. If they aren’t happy with their
first two choices – they’ll get a third choice, but they HAVE to give up one of
their earlier choices and then they are stuck with the third choice.
Linda goes smelling every cloche – this is looking hilarious
– but it might just work. She picks some
strong smell – and she has picked preserved lemon. Again she goes smelling.
Tommy is disgusted with this competitive behaviour and suggests she should go
with the “vibe”. She may have found a way to game this system. She picks
another cloche – and her second pick is lemon verbena – she’s got 2 lemons. Jock
is encouraging her to change – because they have to then eat a dish with 2 strong
lemon flavours which may suck. Linda says she is sticking with the 2 lemons –
worst case she can make them eat a fuck all dish. Which is a win win situation
for all.
Elise’s strategy is to go with lucky numbers. Her first pick
is the number 19 – Andy who cannot count beyond 10 is incredulous that someone would have 19 as their lucky
number. The 19th cloche reveals that her first pick is 70% dark
chocolate. Her second pick is no. 1 – she needs a dessert leaning ingredient.
Its pistachios. Not bad at all. Her challenge to lose now. Ghissu is so ghissu
that she is happy that she has passed the “luck” part of the challenge.
Justin is walking through and seeing what stands out of the 56
identical cloches. He goes to the one at the corner because it looks lonely and
he wanted to invite it to the party – he does get the hibachi! Well played –
and now he goes for the other corner and gets Italian. He says it is very cool
– but he just wants a third pick. Sigh,
just as I am starting to not hate Justin, he goes and pulls this shit. He picks
one in the middle – he gets sweet – and he puts on cloche like dunce hat in
accurate representation of his mental state right now.
Side note - not sure how sweet is anything really – its not
an ingredient, equipment or a cuisine. What the hell does “sweet” even mean in
this challenge. Anyway, Justin knows he has made a mistake.
Sadistic Jock cannot stop laughing.
Finally, after all these shenanigans, they start cooking.
Linda has come back with a duck – she is making a simple
homely soup to be had with boiled rice. But she needs to masterchef it up – so she
is using lemon verbena in the soup instead of the preserved lemon. She is using
the preserved lemon as a glaze for her duck.
Justin is doing some charred orange granita and a pop corn
ice cream. No one is convinced the charred orange granita is going to work. But
Justin has decided to ignore all the judges altogether, and stick to his
rational thought process that made him give up a winning combination for this
sureshot losing one.
Elise wants to show she can do different things with the
chocolate and the pistachio – so she is making pista ice cream. Yup so unique.
No one has made pistachio ice cream on this show before. She has decided on a whisy
chocolate mousse – but does not have much else of an idea about the dish.
Elise is adding a smoked olive oil to enhance her chocolate.
Justin’s charred orange is bitter – its definitely smokey but not what he
imagined.
Elise has by mistake put in Lagavulin (a very smokey whisky)
into her chocolate. I am judging her for using Lagavulin for cooking and also
judging Jock who doesn’t like smoky whiskies. Jock is concerned about the
number of elements on Elise’s dish – which has a lot of conflicting flavours.
Linda’s broth doesn’t have enough oomph – so she is dumping
in a lot of salt, sugar, more lemon verbena and vinegar. Jock is tasting Linda’s broth NOW – with a
minute to go. Her duck is also well cooked.
After much stress Justin gets his popsicles out of the
moulds.
Elise is tasting everything together – everything tastes
nice but she needs to balance the dish as she plates – which is a sure sign
that she has fucked this up. Amazingly Linda might be winning this.
Tasting
The very fact that Mel has said “who is going to be the
first lucky contestant into finals week” – should tell is that this challenge
is a stupid idea.
Justin has done a play on his favourite movie snacks. Mel
asks what movie they are watching – disappointingly Justin says Lion King and
not something like Fast and the Furious. Jock says he doesn’t get much of
either sweet or hibachi – its very savoury. Even though the ice cream is
delicious, because it doesn’t “taste sweet” they are fucking him over. Andy
says he wanted more Pop Corn flavour – even though that was nothing to do with
the brief
Linda has brought out 2 distinct dishes but the judges are
insisting it is one dish. Linda is now crying because it reminds her of her
grandmother. Everyone seems to have caught on to Kishwar strategy. Jock says
she has met the brief - which is bare
minimum these days now that they have thrown out all the good, creative cooks
like Conor, Therese, and Depinder.
Elise – Andy says he loves the pistachio ice cream but with
the mousse and smoked olive oil it seems like 2 different dishes. Mel also says
she’s overdone it. Jock says she didn’t highlight the chocolate enough. Somehow
she has managed to pull defeat from the jaws of an easy victory.
No point of any suspense also now - Linda is the clear
winner. She wins immunity and a place in finals week.
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