Comments on: MasterChef Australia – Andre v Emmanuel Stroobant

By: Chestnut Gnocchi And The Impending End of Masterchef @Not Quite Nigella

Chestnut Gnocchi And The Impending End of Masterchef @Not Quite Nigella — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 20:22:42 +0000

[...] knew he was hard core and when he was standing next to me, I felt him draining my power”. As reality raver said, this was not a comment from a 4 year old boy or Superman and it appeared spoken in complete [...]

By: Coldfish

Coldfish — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:48:08 +0000

This whole judging thing looks very suss to me. Have you noticed how they pull the judge’s slip out of a wallet thing? What evidence is there that they don’t have a few (i.e., more than two) slips in there and they take one out to make the result the one they had planned, that is, that the celeb chef wins over the dud, and they don’t end up with egg on their faces because they couldn’t tell whose the dish really was! Or am I being naive here?

By: Sooty

Sooty — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:27:05 +0000

Is it the role of the celeb chefs to bend the rules?!!! For feck’s fecking sake. Maybe it is. I mean, let’s take a reality check, we are after all watching reality tv.

By: Culinary Boner

Culinary Boner — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 23:58:33 +0000

Let’s take a reality check here. Did Andre manage to plate up the complete dish – no. Therefore, he failed. Sure, The Stroobot said he could have 30secs more, but is the role of the celeb chefs to bend the rules? What would have happened if he’d won? Which is always a possibility on this show because of the judges penchant for focussing on one aspect of the dish – in this case the sauce – and not the entirety of what’s in front of them. I’m sure Chris would have had something to say if Andre got the Wonka ticket to the final. Highlight of this episode was watching The Stroobot show us the clinical skills of a seriously high-quality chef.

By: Sooty

Sooty — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 23:11:07 +0000

Jeez! Give the boy a break. I burnt my fingers last week and it took four hours (not ten minutes under running water) to finally ease the pain. He had a sizable burn. It was the competing chef who graciously offered the 30secs. Plus Andre was not childish to talk of power draining out of him, he was sensitive in the psychic sense. He might giggle when he’s excited but at least he’s human enough to react and show his pleasure and passion and respect for the competing chef— who in turn showed him genuine kindness and respect in so many ways, and telling him several times to do come by when in Singapore only cemented that.

Only a day or less until evil blusher queen Poh returns and the beam of collective hatred and contempt can focus on her instead!

By: Jacqui

Jacqui — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:59:09 +0000

This episode was really boring! Hoping tonights episode makes up for it! Andre should not have been given more time to cook, or potato juice from Emmanuel. Agree with your pringles comment Injera!

By: sourkraut

sourkraut — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:47:08 +0000

Injera
Yep potato chips’

Able to recognise tall buildings from 50 paces
more powerful than a steaming cabbage
faster than a speeding snail into a pot of garlic sauce
look
up in the MC kitchen
is it a bird? is it a plane?
NO its semi-super Andre with cheffing powers beyond those of mere aahhh shit I’m bored with this one!
Anyway some kryptonite sauce drained his powers and turned him back into captain slow’
I did actually feel a little sorry for him as his opponent as a 3 star chef was probably the best one so far. Make me wonder how easy Julia’s was and we already know Lucas’ was easy. Why? you cynically quiz
Scampi… I’m having trouble finding it in wiki it says Norwegian lobster. It looked like a sort of overgrown prawn. can anyone assist me out of my ignorance?
Again the meal looked yummy but as Matt said….classic modern cooking ie give em bugger all on the plate and sauce it up and charge the earth. Well off to greasy joe’s after, for a midnight lamb/garlic sandwich.
End of time 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.9, 1.8, 1.7, etc plus 30!!!!1
Now to the tasting. Swap the plates don’t tell the judges>…
plate 1 not enough soss and had more fines sorry finnesse. so guess whose it was Geo.
NOw a SERIOUS question……… In all the eps I’ve sat through I have not once heard the Einstein judges speak about the dishes olfactory appeal Yes Matt that thing just below and between your eyes is called a nose. Its for smelling which is more important to taste than the visuals…………
ONward bravely to the judging… Sarah “I’ll go tally the votes” Me ” you do that and I’ll count the bu….ers” (oops wrong reality farce) It’s all down to POH faced sorry POKER faced George. Willy wont e willy wont e willy join the dance? Drum roll for 30 seconds or more and at last 6. Wot horror wot shock says the TV rags.. wot a surprise……….. Iron Chef win again.
FINALLY who can get me some of the burn cream Andre must have used as his hand clapping and hand shake APPEARED to give no discomfort
OK aNdre NOT A BAD EFFORT I gave you a 7

By: Wurstsemmel

Wurstsemmel — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:35:24 +0000

Look. I think Andre is good vale. You always get that little extra…a fish bone, a piece of shell, an intestinal tract. … Matt may not stroke but there’s a high chance he might choke.

Cut off time should be exactly that and the incomplete plate marked accordingly. Marks for effort? Are we in culinary preschool?

By: Injera

Injera — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 11:52:56 +0000

Ha! We already eat “potato tuilles” in this house. We call them Pringles.

Giving Andre an extra 30 seconds was booshit. He burnt his ‘ittle hand when he had about 1.2 Gary seconds (that’s 7 seconds in real time) to go [good to see that Sarah has been taking the tutorials on slow-time-counting on board. Who says this show's not educational?] so the additional 30 seconds was rubbish. Particularly, as you say, at the pointy end of the so-called competition.

And, particularly, since he specifically requested, and received, help from the peanut gallery. Let’s not forget the extra potato juice…

A booshit episode, all round. Next time I’m going to skip the telecast and just read the recap. Much more fun!