Injera and Sourkraut – I agree out of the four that cooked last night I would only eat at Julie’s and Chri’s. However I will leave the pigs head to Injera and Culinary Boner. Hopefully his tavern will serve Belgian fruit beer, and a nice schnitzel (something i suspect he would think was far too boring.)

Werstsemmel – yes Matt’s jacket was looking a tad tight, but maybe he is just putting on weight with all the food or he is getting carried away with his culinary sex god status.

Injera – I always think Andre talks like he is on valium.

Grace – I thought filming only finished last week. They were definitely filming last week.

Mary – thanks for your congrats. I too thought the -1% now -3% was weird but I have no idea about maths. Probably a sign that Melissa never stood a chance.

Culinary Boner – agree with what you are saying re: post career synopsis.

I suspected what you say about the contestants being given buckets of coaching during the show (cunningly edited out) and time before to choose the ingredients and time to have trial run are correct. However that saddens me a little as I thought at least some of the contestants had some vague modicum of culinary talent, but if what you say is true then I can only comment that 85% of these buffoons are probably no better at cheffing than my good humble self. (note to self: don’t try a crock in bush. you might get your fingers burnt)
How to make the show truly entertaining?
1 Plant a secret MOLE (my fave reality show…..that’s why the bastards cancelled it!)among the contestants and see if they can work it out (should be plenty of entertaining chili moments etc
2 do the contesting in the Big brother slum sorry i meant house with the big brother contestants vying for camera time
3 get a regular celebrity guest from hell
4 change the location at random
5 give them a set amount of megadollars each to buy ingredients and when they run out they’re out
6 change the name from Masterfarce to mastershit as Wurstsemmel suggested.
Well there are some starters. Any advances on how to help out dear old ten for the next season.
Best suggestion gets a free night out at Poh’s arty fartydumplings for the gentry cafe.

Dang it! I wish I hadn’t read your post. How ’bout a spoiler alert next time? Just saying.

RR – If it helps Sam’s deluded sense of self to believe that it was his answer that “cost him the competition” and not the fact that he is, at best, a very average cook, then I guess he can have that. Andre shows self-awareness with his comment that “I managed to sneak a win in there”.

Eeeeeew, Sam brushing his teeth with all that foamy, saliva-y drool.

“Today we find out who’s truly serious about becoming Australia’s first Masterchef.” Mother fuuuuuuuuuckah! Why have I watched all those previous episodes with the dilettantes, then?

Wurstsemmel: agree that Matt’s orange-pants-with-not-quite-matching-hanky ensemble was scary. I’ll be watching for blazer-size from now on.

With the questioning, they didn’t ask Sam if he was ready to become a chef, they asked him what his dream menu was. Probably all of us here could answer that question, without having any desire to become chefs. Shoulda been easy, particularly given that it seems that they had a heads-up on this challenge (i.e. that they’d already designed their menus and ordered ingredients ahead, as those here have noted).

Agree, RR, Julie’s answer to the question was fab. I’m buying elasticised waisted pants in anticipation of her bistro!

Why so much recapping? Sam looks as though he was nodding off during the first big recap, but – of course – it was live for him…

Gary during pointless judge walkaround: “Are you doing three courses?” Well, der, that’s the challenge.

Did anybody else think that Chris was musing that he was surprised to see Sam go so far “without any clear erection”? Nope? Probably just me, then…

Sam “Two and a half hours – I would love eight hours to cook lamb shanks.” Then, why’d you choose this dish, moron?

Chris has a future in acting judging from his ability to convince in his interviews, after he’s won a challenge, that he might not get his dish ready. Andre’s “served in a true Tuscan way” post-hoc interview was a pre-emptive smackdown to the judges who criticised the tacky presentation.

Andre: “Always a spanner in my work”. I thought George was the appointed language-mangler. Actually, with Andre isn’t it usually a fish bone?

Possibly, Sam, the best meals the judges have had in the competition might have been those prepared by, say, Manu, Guy, Matt (Moran)… not your frozen berry pudding.

How can the food really stand up to judging when it’s been either sitting around, cooling; under warmers; or, having sat around, while others were judged, then sat around some more while the judges ask questions of the cook.

Good call, Sourkruat, that Andre’s George’s new pet. His interview with the judges was so badly edited – it really didn’t flow together at all. Makes me think they stopped the cameras, told him what he needed to be saying, and then tried to draw that out of him with unshown loaded questions.

Oh. My. God. It’s 10.00 in the morning and I WANT pig’s head. And duck neck sausage stuffed with duck, pork and black pudding. Love that Chris did the Moe menu. I was disappointed that he didn’t serve it by throwing it through Matt’s window.

Great prize, but I kept hearing “Sean Connery” and can’t help but think that he would have been a fab addition to the lunch group.

If Andre beats the chef I will be most put out.