Masterchef Australia – The Heat Has Been Turned Up
Masterchef Australia turned up the heat and pressed the turbo button as this week three contestants will be eliminated and then one each night next week until three are left standing for the Wednesday night finale.
Tonight the mystery box enlarged and became the mystery fridge. However the challenge was really a masterclass by producers in how to get as many of the shows sponsors on screen in the space of a few minutes.
The contestants had thirty minutes to cook a dish from the “leftovers” in the fridge they had randomly selected and all the ingredients in there had to be utilised.
As per usual the judges would only pick three dishes to taste.
Julia’s baked eggs were never going to get picked as they were very undercooked with her underestimating the time required to set them.
However Mindy’s Raviolo with her left over bologanise was tried, as well as Andy’s Smoked Trout Pie, and Audra’s Roast Lamb Murtabak.
Even though Gary was thinking he was still in Italy when he described Audra’s dish as “numero uno” and Mindy’s plate had George “salivating”, it was no surprise Andy won as the judges had flagged it five minutes earlier by saying he had never won an individual challenge. There is always the not so hidden clue on who is going to be judge the best.
The win was to give him an advantage in the next challenge which was to cook a dish that could be put on the cover of the Masterchef magazine. Another clever bit of product placement. Sally Feldman the editor was the special guest and she gave them the brief. They had to make a dish that when someone looks at it they want to make it right away and it has to be achievable.
She also said there were to be no bones and it needs to look recognisably yummy. Not sure why they didn’t just ditch the challenge and just put Andy on the front cover – instead of beef put on the beefcake. It would have been a best seller.
They had 90 minutes to make the dish with Andy getting an extra 30 minutes.
Andy kicked the challenge off making Roast Beef with Root Vegetables, with Mindy being her passive agressive best saying “He actually looks like he knows what he is doing behind there now”.
Sally in an aside to Matt Preston said chocolate was always a good choice and since it would be the July cover it should be seasonable.
Something Kylie had not thought about as she used the time waiting to start cooking to flex like she was about to run a marathon. She had to change her ingredients in her tart as she was going to use unseasonable and hence over priced raspberries. She turned it into Strawberry and Apple Crumble Tart.
However the change of ingredient did not hinder the flavour the judges thought it was absolutely delicious.
Julia who was making an Apple Tarte Tatin with a Butterscotch Ice cream also had to change strategy as Sally informed her there had been one on the cover a few months ago. She changed the core ingredient to pear.
Conversely Wade ignored their advice and clearly didn’t understand what “no bones on the cover” meant. He made a Rack of Lamb on Braised Lentils. Sally and Matt Preston were quite incredulous that he was not following the brief. He thought he would be able to change their opinion. He did not and was hammered in judging with Sally saying “It has bones, it looks brown. It just does not cut it in any way”.
Brown is bad except when it is chocolate. Mindy made Chocolate Mousse Tart with Caramel Oranges and it was described as “super yum”, and Matt gave his view that it was the kind of cooking that will get you the big trophy at the end of the series. Clearly no bottom three for Mindy.
Someone who was not having such a great time of it was Julia. George Calombaris must have had a bet with the other judges about how he would make Julia crack before the end of the series. He sensed a win when she teared up over her Pear Tatin not looking how she hoped, he kept on asking hard questions until she broke down crying for the first time on the show. However after he had her on the rack, he did tell her he thought it tasted great.
Matt Preston thought it was a little ungenerous with only three tarts, he would have liked to have seen six.
It would have been interesting to know Matt’s opinion about the token offering of Beau’s which was a single small Lemon Meringue Pie served on a plate. Maybe Sally spoke for all the judges when she said “On its own it just looks a little sad and lonely”. It was polite of her not to use the word pathetic.
Maybe Matt cut him some slack as Beau’s dish gave him the opportunity to drop in the conversation that he was writing a cook book. He said he had been told there should be a lemon tart in every cookbook. So there is one spoiler from the upcoming publication.
Ben made Thai Beef Curry which was described as pedestrian. However his best mate Andy’s roast beef looked great however his vegetable were overcooked, sometimes that extra time can be a negative thing.
Alice made a Georgian Cheese Pie. George said the filling was too salty. Seriously if Georgian food was a decent cuisine wouldn’t there be restaurants making it? Also there is no market for a Russian cook book.
Audra made a delicious looking Apple Pie and Matt evocatively described it as “Looks pregnant with appley promise!” However the apple still had bite to it which apparently is a negative thing.
The top three were Kylie, Mindy and Julia’s. Julia’s was a bit of a shock as it had not presented as she had wished. However in hindsight it was because the dish had been served cold so the ice cream did not drizzle as she had hoped.
Unsurprisingly Mindy won and gave her equivalent of an Oscar speech about how she “went out on a limb” etc etc.
The bottom three were Wade, Ben and Alice. How did Beau miss out on the bottom three? Oh that is right Alice had to be there to provide the drama of will she or won’t she play the immunity pin. If Alice does play the pin Beau will replace her. Unfortunately we have to wait for Monday night’s episode to see how this plot line unfolds.
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I have a bit of a crush on Andy. And he really has come quite far as a cook.
If he was on the cover of any magazine at all; I will buy it in a heart beat.
Surely no one still believes this is a real competition after watching this episode. I’ve seen better looking meringues made from a packet mixture than the rubbish that Beau presented. RR’s last paragraph says it all.
I thought that “doing a Kev” would be the expression we took out of this series for making a monumentally stupid stuff up, but may be it should be “doing a Wade”.
Andy’s roast meet looked magnificent (pity about the vegetables) but does that sort of meat come out of any regular Coles supermarket? The last time I cooked a supermarket roast, I could have used it for shoe leather. For day 2, I ended up slicing it as thin as possible and putting it in a casserole to make it semi-edible.
Chris W – Maybe your roast should have been in the leftover challenge. LOL.
I thought Wade might have at least tried putting some foil around those bones with some cheffy twirls to get him out of $hit Creek. Not a lot happening behind those Thunderbird Eyebrows. The beard isn’t a bad move though, it kind of balances out those brows a bit.
Alice should be able to whoop those culinary drongos she’s up against without the pin on what I’ve seen. Beige Ben can go now because Eye Candy Andy seems to be $hines’s golden boy. I can see Andy getting plenty of fish pie wherever he goes now.
I think Mindy’s dish looked pretty good but RR has already busted her on the appallingly overblown Oscar speech content. She’ll need to tone it down a bit for the Zovirax and Proactiv* ads that’ll be pitched at her.
Also Wade should have been in the bottom three with whatever that dish was. I took it for a Wagon Wheel with some shaving cream squirted recklessly on top.
I’m hoping Alice will roll the dice ,keeping Beau safe and terminating taco boy.
Glad Julia my last chance got through. It looked real dodgy but. George asked her if she wanted to win tonight. Of course not.
I hate Mindy. HATE. Mindy. And am over her fakeness, am over Kylie’s, am over them both.
Who is stupid enough not to just slap Andy on the cover of a magazine and watch it fly off the shelves?
I’m glad Andy won a challenge even though it was obvious they wanted to give it to them, they’d have to justify it by it being at least good enough to not lose. He/Beau/Ben are like the only genuine people left in the competition. Andy deserves the praise that he’s getting, but it was a little wonky that he was criticized for his presentation and Julia’s presentation was dismissed ‘oh we can visualize this being beautiful.’ They just wanted a pretty blonde on the cover. Shame they short circuited and picked crow’s-feet Mindy.
The impaling of the pigs would have been a great shot for the cover.
Did not enjoy tonight’s episode other than the fact that Andy won. He deserved to win the challenge.
The editor came off as quite pompous and arrogant to me. I really thought that the show was not the least bit rigged until Mindy once again won. Andy deserved this cover in my opinion. If they had just chosen Andy’s dish people would actually go buy it. But no, it’s always about Mindy Mindy Mindy.
I think Alice has every right to use her immunity pin. I won’t be mad at her if she does.
I think it is Wade’s time to go. I really don’t want Ben to leave. It would break Andy’s heart.
This episode was more about this editor whipping the judges. It was as if she chose the winner from the beginning.
I like Mindy but she’s starting to come off as quite sly and competitive. She may be a great person but I guess it isn’t her fault if she IS favoured among the producers. But I guess it could be a way to rile us up like they did with Dani last year.
My favourites now are Andy, Audra, Ben, Kylie, Beau, Julia and Alice. Andy’s my favourite but don’t want him to win (unless he would like to). I really want him and Ben to open that Mexican restaurant together.
I hope George is satisfied now that he made Julia crack. I’m so pleased she ended up in the top three. Her dish looked delicious and would photograph well. At least her surprise was genuine.
From the constant screen shots of Wade saying how well he thought he had done you knew all along he would end up in the bottom three. Not only did he use bones when specifically told not to, he covered up the actual meat part with a pile of greens so that all you could see were the bones!
Pompous and arrogant editor is spot on AJ . Telling one of the guys( Eyebrowz or Andy) they weren’t a stylist or needed a stylist while she’s standing there looking the complete psychedelic frump in that paisley bad trip of a dress. Oh man.
It’s going to be like Brokeback Mountain tomorrow night $hine style if Beige Ben goes home to Nanna’s scones. Someone gots to quit chew, Andy.
George’s brutal questioning of Julia just confirms it again. George is a life support system for an asshole.
RR, for some reason I find these “cookbook-picture ready” challenges so infuriating and unfairly subjective. Worse still, the food was judged tonight by a food stylist! It goes against that damn motto the judges repeat ad nauseum that even though we eat with our eyes, “it all comes down to taste” in the end. With that said, a curry dish NEVER looks good as a front cover picture. Jimmy said so himself in the Season 2 finals week and tried to do something else and got eliminated again. Donna Hay fell hook, line, and sinker for Julie’s quivering family chapter concept despite not finishing her dishes. And as we know, she made the final two cut at the expense of Chris partly because his nose-to-tail dishes would never be photogenic on the front cover of a cookbook or on the MasterChef magazine.
Putting aside the fact that Alice oversalted her food, Alice was clearly hurt when this food stylist pretty much slammed her entire cultural food heritage by dismissing her offering so off-hand. I’m surprised Sally Feldman didn’t mutter something disparaging about peasant food under her breath. So yes, Wade did ignore Sally’s view about bones, but his lamb was cooked perfectly. So Sally’s personal preference is that she doesn’t like to see bones on the cover. Well who is to say that view would not change next year or with a new editor/editress? (Currently, there is that raging debate going on whether the 13 year old winner of the re-instated model search in Dolly magazine is a good thing or not. The previous editress axed the competition because she felt it sent a bad message to young girls about their body images and aspirations). And what was the final insult to us viewers after we were browbeated about glistening food needing to capture the readers’ attention so they would buy the magazine? Mindy’s syrup on her tart was photoshopped for this month’s MC magazine cover so that it looked like it oozed decadently all over the plate. So what was the point about kicking Ben around for cooking a curry when everything can be fixed in the end with a little bit of photoshop magic? And don’t even get me started on how they could imagine (read, FIX with photoshop) Julia’s dessert!
Sorry, it is late. Finishing Survivor recaps after hearing how a contestant was compared to another contestant’s special needs students. So am on the warpath. I am just mad that four years of hearing how people get through on flavour, in spite of ugly presentation, this whole mantra was just vomited into obliteration after this 90 minute hypocritical episode. I certainly have not forgotten that two eventual winners, Julie and Kate, got through eliminations despite serving a puddle pie (to eliminate Lucas) and something that looked like cat crap (to eliminate Billy) because flavour trumps presentation every time. Sure it does.
Jstar – some valid points. However the challenge was to get on a cover so visuals had to come into it. Would love to know rationale for no bones. Re doing more interviews of contestants as you asked on another blog post. I will consider it. But what do I ask beau or wade if they are eliminated? How did ou prepare formasterchef?
“The impaling of the pigs would have been a great shot for the cover.”
Yes Georgie, but will Gary ,George, Jowl$y and all that woodwork fit on the cover?
Gary doesn’t pronounce “paratha” very well, but that’s okay.
It almost seems as if Andy was set up to win the first challenge. All the “Andy has never won an individual challenge before!” talk aside, it still came across as: “Let’s let Andy beat the two strongest cooks in the competition so the viewers won’t raise their eyebrows at us bringing Andy further in the competition as the token male.” Not to mention the constant reminders since Italy week that Andy has “grown” and improved throughout MasterChef. It’s as if they’re trying to justify his place in the competition.
Audra: “I have never cooked a leg of lamb in the last 14 years of living in Australia.”
Does that mean she has never, ever cooked a leg of lamb? Or just since coming to Australia? Because she did live in New “Sheep Capital of the World” Zealand for quite a number of years, so you’d think it would be hard to avoid…
I really liked Audra for that challenge, though. Cooking with something that she was unfamiliar with, and showing genuine and sincere joy at plating up a dish. That kind of honest is what I’ve been looking for in her, and she finally delivered.
“Luckily, there’s some beautiful double cream in the pantry,” said Julia.
Okay, now berries and produce and whatnot being “beautiful,” I can live with. But…double cream? It’s white, slightly viscous liquid…
I’m pretty sure the contestants are told to use lots of adjectives, and this is the most common one. Just as how they only ever used to say ‘protein’ instead of ‘meat’ in the previous season.
Did anyone catch Wade semi-rejecting a hug from Beau at the end of the final challenge? Beau went in for a hug, and Wade kind of pushed him back with a pat on the shoulder.
“Pregnant with appley promise” was a good line. Matt Preston does have a way with words.
I actually thought Kylie was going to win. Mainly because I didn’t think Mindy’s chocolate tart looked all that appealing. And I liked Andy’s board of beef and vegetables, too. Wade’s dish looked really bad. Ben should have done tacos, in all honesty.
I felt the same about Alice’s dish, JStar. Alice rarely cooks Georgian food…and when she finally did, it was quickly dismissed. But come to think of it, Amina would have aced this challenge.
RR, I’m sure once this chamomile tea kicks in and the Enya music in the background is turned to 11, I’ll be fine. I know, visuals was the governing criterion – I just don’t agree with that concept as some people’s pet cuisines just aren’t visually appealing. I have several books with Indian curries and yet the Taj Mahal somehow is the front cover picture! LOL!
Would love (if you have the time) to have the interview with all the remaining contestants when they are allowed to speak. Wade, is probably easier (besides the obvious tweezers and brow stylist questions). At least we got to see a bit of him “grow” as a cook. Beau, well, “Are you still going to be a firefighter?” Let me sleep on those questions tonight. Too hard and chamomile doesn’t act as quickly as Stilnox.
Oh and one more thing, probably more to (if I’m remembering correctly) Jess, EH, and littlepetal. I think all of you are from Malaysia/Singapore (like me). What did you all think about Audra saying she hasn’t cooked a leg of lamb in 14 years of living in Australia. I know eating lamb is not a common thing for my family. My mother and I tried doing the “Aussie” thing and cooking a leg of lamb once a long time ago for visiting relatives. That was the first and last time we diverted from our usual cuisine for relatives after the comments we got about the smell and taste of the meat (which they all found so foreign). And believe you me, they never let us forget it!
I remember Donna Hay saying that brown never looks good on a magazine cover, so bones must be the new brown – Mindy’s tart looked very brown to me!. Nice to see Wade is still very confident in his talents – ignore the brief but still reckon that you’ve nailed it!
I really don’t want Mindy or Audra to win – Audra is up herself and Mindy is passsive aggressive. I watched master class on Friday (purely for the scenery!) with subtitles on. Almost every comment in the background was from Audra, so many OMGs, wows .. nothing intelligent.
Did anyone else see George put a fork AND a knife in his mouth at the same time? Hope little George isn’t picking up Daddy’s bad habits!
Noticing little things lol
1) When Kylie says “Far OUT” just because George mentioned they are each going to have different ingredients.
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2) When Audra and Mindy taste Andy’s dish as if they need to see for themselves whether or not the dish is actually good – like the suspect the judges are lying and just trying to give Andy the win.
3)Julia offers a plate for Mindy…Mindy takes her up on the offer. Did Julia have nothing to do?
4) Andy feeding Ben in as ‘blokey’ a way possible. L.O.L
5) Andy’s cool reaction to winning. If it were Kylie/Audra/Mindy there would have been OTT screaming and fake surprise bullshit.
6) Sally Feldman smells of bitch.
7) Getting an extra 30 minutes is not an advantage if you don’t know how to use it.
8) Kylie’s OTT reaction to being told that the bottom 3 dishes will go into an Elimination. IT’S BEEN TEN WEEKS KYLIE YOU ALREADY KNOW THIS.
9) Matt asking Sally what needs to go on the cover (in more detail) only AFTER Andy’s gone into the pantry and can’t hear her answer. She basically says exactly what she wants (chocolate/desserts). Any other kind of dish was probably destined to fail. WTF.
10) Andy’s running LOL
11) “Pretty Boy.” Ben/Andy OTP
12) Again, having an extra 30 minutes and having all those people watching your every move is just not an advantage. It’d make anyone nervous. Why can’t Andy have nice things?
13) Audra: “Are you going to make it look pretty? Is it going to be delicious?” Clearly trying to psyche him out/distract him.
13) Mindy: “He actually looks like he knows what he’s doing behind there now.” Audra: “Oh he dooes!” Basic Bitches.
14) Andy having a great plan (but his vegetables are destined to be overcooked
15) Andy cheering for himself. OMG LOL SO CUTE. Especially since in Eliminations/Cook Offs whenever one of the judges says you’ve got X minutes to go, the contestants would cheer no matter what. This time, silence. LOL. He’s like one of the only genuine ppl left. You know those A/K/J/M bitches had no fucks to give and probably wanted to see him fail.
16) Loved Alice’s reaction to Andy’s cheering to himself – she seems somehow more genuine than A/K/J/M which is astonishing. Also, did someone BOO? lol
17) But where was Mindy? The reaction shot to Andy’s cuteness showed everyone but Mindy was around…bathroom break? Checking in with the producers to make sure she’s still on track to win the competition?
18) Fake Kylie: “I would love love to have my food on the front of a magazine.” Shut up, Kylie. This fake bitch.
19) While that was happening Ben was just staring at Andy watching him cook with this silly grin on his face. YAY
20) These are beauuuuuuuuuuutiful. BEAUUUUUUUUUUUUTIFUL.
21) Mindy decides to use cocoa. Funny, remember when Sally said chocolate was the way to go? But then the other contestants didn’t go that way so perhaps Sally only told the judges that….and MINDY?
22) Andy/Ben a team in the kitchen
23) Sally F being a bitch to Beau. Problem is she’s not interested in how it tastes, Beau, she’s interested in whether or not she can photoshop it to look pretty enough to sell her shitty magazine which will never sell anyway.
24) A little too much of a coincidence that the dessert Julia’s doing is precisely the dessert that was on a cover recently. I’m thinking Julia knew that and was hoping she’d get away with it.
25) Sally F about Mindy’s dish. “I’m dying and gone to heaven already. Oops, can I say that?” Oop she just remembered that she’s not supposed to actually let slip that all of this is rigged in Mindy’s favour.
26) “It’s a complete comfort having Julia beside me cooking my dessert today.” Wow Mindy, you’re just using Julia left right and centre today, aren’t you? Doesn’t matter as long as you play the game to win, right?
27) Wade not listening. He’s done smarter things in the competition.
28) Poor Ben but nice on the judges for really trying to help him.
29) Do we really need to walk through every detail of Mindy’s rigged dish? WTF
30) Asshole George being a bitch just because Audra said ‘hope.’ Asshole Gary racially profiling her “Oh, it’s WEIRD that you’re not doing something Asian because YOU’RE ASIAN.” But then Audra’s always done something tied to her roots so it probably IS a bit of a surprise that she’s stepping out of her comfort zone. But then nobody bats an eye when Mindy crawls out of her comfort zone once every five years (which is Asian cuisine, like Audra) so WTF?
31) “You wanna be there? Or not? You wanna be there? Or” George, shut up. You’re single-handedly killing this show. Also Julia, saying “no” every time makes you stupid.
32) There’s some BEAUUUUUUTIFUL double cream in the pantry
33) Funny how Mindy expected Julia would just jump in and help her if she needed it. But now that Julia’s self-destructing, Mindy’s just calmly getting on with her dish. O I C.
34) Wade thinking he’s got the winning dish. Oh lord Wade NEVER day that. The gods are cruel and love their irony.
35) I’m sorry I don’t care what anyone says, I love the look of Andy’s dish and he clearly thought long and hard about it. I mean, why is Sally F even there? She’s a hag and needs to gtfo this Earth. Andy’s board looked awesome and I totally would have inhaled that.
36) Poor Andy looked so proud of himself walking up to the bench and then walked back looking absolutely dejected. It’s like they build Andy up just to kick him in the shins and now it’s back to the bullshit lovefest of Mindy.
37) Julia’s wiring is leaking cooling fluid.
38) Oh, Andy’s dish looks just fine, but no it’s terrible and irredeemable. There’s nothing that can be done to make that dish look more beautiful on the magazine. Julia’s dish looks like utter shit but it’s okay because they can just make it look more beautiful on the magazine. Buh?
39) Getting tired of Julia.
40) Guys, if you wanted them to do pastries, then just say so.
41) Matt: “I love it. Love it. Love it love it love itlove itlove itlove itlove itlove itlove itlove itlove itlove itlove itlove itlove itlove itlove itlove itlove itlove itlove itlove itlove itlove itlove itlove itlove itlove itlove itlove itlove itlove itlove it.” I hate it.
42) Again if you want desserts, just say so.
43) Sally Feldman disses Alice’s cultural roots basically. What is this show.
44) Pregnant with apply promise?
45) Mindy quietly finishing her dish up at the front. I still thought it was shit.
46) Blah blah blah it’s all about Mindy just give her the win. This series has officially turned to shit.
47) Kylie, Mindy, Julia (JULIA? JULIA IN THE TOP 3????). Fake blonde bitches FTW.
48) What’st he point of the competition if they’re just going to pretty up the dishes for the cover anyway?
49) MasterChef Magazine – didn’t know the magazine existed and now that I do know, I can promise you I’ll never buy it.
50) Nobody asked for an acceptance speech Mindy. But she had all the time to practice. You know she’ll have won prepared for when she inevitably wins.
51) Sally Feldman, thanks for coming in and reminding us what Bitch smells like.
52) Mindy your family won’t be able to buy copies because I’ll burn all of them the second they make it to the shelves. Promise.
53) Wade’s dish actually looked good. I’d eat that.
54) Alice’s food looked good.
55) Ridiculous drawn out drama.
56) That cover looks like shit. And they used photoshop anyway to make it look more appealing. They could have done that with ANY of the dishes. ANY of them. They could have used Andy’s dish and just replaced the vegetables.
This was a ridiculous challenge and a ridiculous episode.
Mindy and her jank ass teeth.
what a snob that editor is !!!!!!! and she expects me to buy her overblown mag and put money in her pocket ,forget it . i cannot stand photo shoot cooking challenges as dessert always wins , now with this challenge are you supposed to make a dreamy meal or make something that taste good ,remember chris from series one he was the true masterchef but got kick off because of that wanker donna hay ,ooh not pretty enough god i hate these people . i thought ben’s look more colourful than kylie’s, i thought she was doing a museli breakfast which looked bland . as for mindy doing sally fields oscar “do you really love me ” speech my god she thinks she has won it already , i tell you she is going to be the most unpopular winner ever if she wins . felt sorry for alice after they put her meal down she took pride in her culture by cooking her meal and gorge says to salty and then the smartarse editor said it would not look good on our crappy mag because it was to flat ! mindy’s mousse was flat . it’s all a big wank this series ,it’s a running commentary in our house we are one step ahead about what is going to happen next .
#fred that was the best bloq i have read this series !!! totally agree with everything well done .
I will keep it nice & short today:
1. The only time Ben should have made taco, he cooked a curry.
2. This is my new wallpaper & screensaver on my computer until the finale day. Hope it brings good luck
http://i1263.photobucket.com/albums/ii625/bettyenty/07afb7f7.jpg
p/s this one is for Audra (Don’t get me wrong, I do like Audra): Your Asian mom’s apple pie recipe? Really?
ROFL at George’s remark on Alice’s Georgian Cheese Pie (khachapuri): “It looks flat on the plate”. That’s the equivalent of saying “your pizza looks flat on the plate”. It’s not a fault with the pie – it looks flat because it’s meant to look flat you twerp!
Fred! Wow as Audra would say! I obviously zone out too much when watching – but that’s a fantastic summary!
Isabel- yes I noticed George’s infantile use of the knife and fork. Maybe he’s been watching his son eat!
Jesus – any halfwit knows that desserts sell food magazines.
I really have to wonder about some of the critics off this blog.
Do any of you even cook ?
Or buy food magazines?
Mindy, Audra and Kylie have been superb all competition – in fact, they would be up there in the top 5 MC Oz contestants ever IMO with probably only Marion and Poh in front of them (apologies if I’ve missed anyone).
But of course, everyone has to criticize don’t they?
Can some of the rocket scientists on here tell me what exactly they would have served up last night – I feel like a laugh.
#24 – We criticise the show and you criticise us. That’s why we watch the show and that’s why you read this blog. Everyone is getting what they want out of it hey!
Matt P donned the red pants (with matching jacket)…. what a dead givaway to who was going to win.
Mindy’s earrings are such a distraction…
If they put Andy on the cover of that mag, I’ll definitely would buy it.
Beau should of been in the bottom 3, his dish looked a lot less appealing than Alice’s.
Ben should of stuck with tacos.
Mindy deserved her win. Bring on the haters. Although Kylie’s dish was equally good. Sally was irritating, I hated it when she was nitpicking Andy’s roast. Seriously it looked amazing and should’ve made the Top 3. I’m pretty sure the reason they put Alice in the bottom 3 instead of Beau because they finally want to see a pin be used. I hope she does use it because that was such bullshit how Beau wasn’t in the bottom 3.
Paul – I’d say Adam and Amina are above those three.
ROFL Fred – “37) Julia’s wiring is leaking cooling fluid.”
I’m a Julia fan but that was very funny.
I think Mindy’s dish was the right pick. Chocolate always trumps everything. I’m only disappointed she ruined it by putting mango or whatever fruit on top of it. Still, I suppose it made it “look” good. Alice should really use her pin tonight – even Beau said so, but as someone had already mentioned above – she should be able to beat the boys if she opts to cook.
I received Masterchef magazine subscription for 12 months as a present and can honestly say did not make one thing from it in that time and of course have never bought it, very pedestrian magazine I
could say “bogan” when compared to others.
FRED, I don’t know where you came from but keep it coming, I agreed with all your remarks as well! Sally the editor did come across as arrogant, she was always going to choose a dessert, anyone who chose anything else was doomed from the start. Maybe Audra realised this and thats why she stepped out of her comfort zone and did an apple pie. The judges were shocked as they said “an apple pie!!!!! Really!!!!! Poor Alice, her dish looked good and rustic, it would have been fine on the cover as would have Andy’s, but Sally’s mind was mind up, dessert or nothing!!!! Lets just give the prize to Mindy now, why bother with the rest?
BDD and Georgie, thanks for the ~9~ info, I was just curious, very interesting.
COOKIE MONSTER, hope everyone has commented enough for you now.
What are they going to do if they get to the top three and all three of them have immunity pins?
And overuse of the unnecessary term ‘bitch’ is beginning to occur.
Paul – Big call on the contestants being in the top five ever MC contestants. That is a interesting issue – which of series four should have been in All-Stars.
Morgan – I think Mindy will be in the final next Wednesday and probably deserves to be ahead of any of those boys. However I prefer Julia’s focussed I am here to win approach than Mindy’s I am here to win disguised by I am a team player.
However if Alice does not play her pin tonight I will be scathing. Seriously if you are not there to win at this stage get out of the kitchen.
Fred – hilarious thanks.
Jess great comments as usual.
By the way have met the editor a the MC launch she was nice. I suppose she has to pick the right dish as in mag land are you only as good as your last cover. It is a pity at that stage they did not realise who was going to super popular.
EH – I thought Audra’s pie looked nice and homey. In fact more likely to cook that than Mindy’s for me. But personal taste.
Wot a pathetic challenge!!
I almost threw the remote at the TV, when Alice was dumped into the bottom three for having the temerity to stump up WOG FOOD – instead of the obligatory effing CAKE FOR FAT CHICKS TO SLOBBER OVER WHILST AT THE SUPERMARKET CHECKOUT – but Beau’s sub-par tuckshop lemon meringue pie (junior size and almost in shorts itself) was safe. FFS!
Well it would safe…. Safe that is from finding it’s way near anyone’s lips.
No wonder I kicked my food-porn addiction a few years ago if this is the standard of magazines nowadays.
“Fifty shades of brown gloop” seems to be the order of the day.
Chick food-porn. Cakes, desserts, cherry pies, did I mention cakes?
Oh, and just make sure it wont scare the bogan audience, will ya.
Us superior Mag Hags know our audience real well, even if we have only ever visited the suburbs they live in whist driving to the snow.
NO BONES. NO WEIRDO WOG FOOD. JUST A NICE CAKE, IF YOU DON’T MIND.
And don’t get me started on how rigged this was for Mindy with her being able to actually assemble the damn thing at the table a long after they were told tools down.
Or on why Andy’s perfectly good roast beef wasn’t in the mix.
What is it with timber this year. Are they sponsored by a lumber yard. I lost count of of how many of last nights offerings were plated up on a lump of wood.
Wade. Bones on brown on brown on a brown plate was an epic fail for a photo shoot.
How was Mindy allowed to finish her plating up in front of the judges. Pouring on the syrup I understand but surely putting on all those orange segments after times up should not have been allowed.
Wouldn’t Wade’s rack of lamb be more expensive than Kylie’s raspberries?
Great comments Fred – agreed with most of them.
Paul -’I really have to wonder about some of the critics off this blog’ At least get it right if you are going to criticize – *of… makes more sense!!
I wondered why they let Mindy finish her dish at the presenting block – a bit sneaky of her.
JStar – agree the puddle pie was pathetic. Hard to believe you could win with that. Funny how that never made the cover of MasterChef. Perhaps it was too brown.
Did anyone else notice the large bug crawling along the meat (sorry protein) on Friday’s MasterClass?
Another excellent recap RR and the comments are getting more and more clever.
Fred – what is OTP and OIC?
And RR thanks for entertaining me with this blog for a long time, never commented before but I hope to get into it a bit more.
Didn’t Kylie pour the custard over her tart at tasting, though?
The Puddle Pie incident proved that Julie was pre-selected to win Season 1.
I was sure I was watching Madge Ramsay circa 1986 last night.
lol PollyB
What was Madge’s policy – bone in or bone out?
I know recipes can’t be trademarked but at this pointy end of the competition, don’t we expect the winning recipe should have a little more originality?
Mindy’s chocolate mousse tart is a rip off from Manu’s chocolate souffle tart. Exactly the same ingredient lists but she half the portion and adjusted some of the quantity. I am rushing out so I will post both of the recipes here later of the day so you can compare them & share your opinions.
Alice’s dish would be perfect for another TV channel’s food magazine which focuses on food from other cultures. I liked how she used pomegranate seeds which popped the colour of the overall dish.
Funny to see Matt P cheek-kiss his “boss” at the end of the segment. Don’t know many other guys who do that.
Fred: That was a great summary! It was worth reading until the end.
Kinda wondered last night. The judges just let Mindy Decorate her cake when she was called! She shouldn’t do that. Her time was up! But they let her. Mindy knows how to play the game to win. She is using every one of them to her advantage. Look what happened to Amina!
Just last night, she used Julia. Contestants should avoid this Mindy. Fred was absolutely correct! When it is time for Julia to need a hand, mindy was just there doing calmly her dish, as if no Julia was there that she can see and hear. Mindy got so many mischievous tricks to win this competition.
And btw, Andy’s dish looks divine. I will buy the mag just for Andy’s face infront of the magazine
The brief was pretty clear. Matt says this woman is my boss. The woman says, well my boss has only one absolute no for the cover and that’s bones. Bones on covers are not super-yum.
So Wade does I’ll show you, lady. Bones.
Love how he gets white streaks under his eyes when stressed. In pressure tests he gets two little stripe-patches on his cheekbones. But last night his entire under-eye area went white once he realised he hadn’t turned the tide on the bones.
Even if his meat was ‘perfectly cooked’ his crust had fallen off and he’d ‘saved’ it for the picture by placing a sort of merkin of parsely on top. Rested in a sea of sewage-like lentils.
Really loved the bit Fred has picked up in his list where first the reigning patronisers made their ugly sister-type comments about ‘Little Andy’ actually looking like he knows what he’s doing now. Then he gave himself his own fake wooh-wooh cheer, really calling the entire clique out on their usual bullshit. I hope if he ever gets eliminated he does his own fake ‘three cheers for Andy’ too.
I’ll start by saying that I really liked the leftovers challenge.
But the top three in the mag cover challenge are all desserts?! It says a lot about the mag buying audience, doesn’t it? Mindy really knows when to play the game. We’ve pegged her as an Asian-style cook, yet she can turn out decent Italian, and now a winning dessert. Kylie and Julia were not happy that someone else beat them with a dessert dish…
If Alice was told that her food was too salty, it must have been REALLY salty, as the judges always seem to love “seasoning”.
How revealing to see the photo-shopping of the cover at the end! Why even bother to cook a real cake when you can create a fabricated one on the computer? No wonder mine never turn out like the picture !! Makes you realise how ridiculous the “styling” comments from Sally were. Mindy’s cake is too dry and doesn’t have enough sauce? Jst a sec – now its absolutely oozing with glossy, overflowing caramel. Andy’s veggies are too small and shriveled? No problem – just phtoshop them into bigger, smoother offerings. Alice’s pie is too “flat”? Problem solved by puffing it up on the computer! Why even bother to taste the food in such a stupid challenge…
If Alice doesn’t use her pin tonight she’s officially an idiot and deserves to lose the challenge.
By the way – very interesting SMH article this morning on the problems with Masterchef:
http://www.smh.com.au/news-and-views/-22110.html
Is being a monkey for the Ma$terchef organ grinder all you can do , Paul?
Don’t be a one trick troll all your miserable life. You feel like a laugh~ go take a look in the mirror.
I also got very cranky at Julia’s continued mispronunciation of “tarte tatin”. If you’re going to cook desserts, practice naming them properly It’s not tart tar-TIN, it’s tart tar-TAN! Even when Matt P pronounced it properly in front of her, she continued to say it incorrectly…
You certainly have an eye for detail Fred. Have to say this is the first time I’ve ever actually disliked any of the contestants on Ma$terchef. Really can’t stand Mindy or Kylie. But the mousse tart did look mouth watering.
Jas – OTP = one true pairing (it’s a fandom term)
OIC = Oh, I see.
(also I’m a girl = Winifred)
Jruth – the link did not work can you re post it would be interested in reading it. I went across to SMH site but could not find it.
What is interesting will be if Mindy does win what type of cookbook would she put out. Personally I don’t think a white person putting out an asian cookbook is going to work. However could be wrong.
Jas – Welcome and thanks for reading and now commenting much appreciated. All viewpoints welcome.
EH – Interesting point about recipe. A food blogger here had the same issue with the SA girls doing a recipe like this in one of the challenges http://www.citrusandcandy.com/2010/08/baked-alaska-french-earl-grey-ice-cream.html
Obviously it is too difficult to prove.
Agree with lots of comments, especially kingfisher. I thought Alice’s Georgian cheese pie with the side dishes looked lovely and that is something I would pick up a magazine for, as something that looks and sounds a bit different. I like that right the way through the show, Alice is proud of her culture and brings up her offal-eating childhood. Poor girl, does she know it’s all in the name of drama that she’ll be asked to relinquish her pin? I hope if she uses it, she won’t later be thrown into an elimination with M and K, and if M/K are in an elimination and use their pins, will someone else replace them?
I thought Kylie’s tart looked awfully like dry, burnt, brown muesli. I never buy magazines with desserts (especially pastries) on the cover anyway so didn’t find Mindy’s appealing either. Speaking of Mindy, the editing really showed she’s not a very nice person – she didn’t offer help or any suggestions to Julia re why the eggs weren’t cooking, yet there she is saying how glad she is that Julia is beside her to save her should she have problems with her dessert. And then they showed Julia helpfully offering to get Mindy a plate.
Also, did anyone else notice Ben using the plural pronoun ‘we’ when he said “we’re making a curry” when first asked what he was doing in the main challenge. I heard and read it with closed captions… so he still thinks it’s a Ben and Andy challenge? (Also Andy talking about himself being an electrician totally reminded me of that cute incident when he split his pants during the Maggie Beer challenge in the top 50 week. Imagine the screen grabs if he did that now…)
Wot was that about a “no bones” on mag cover policy?-
http://resources3.news.com.au/images/2009/11/20/1225800/168723-demi-moore.jpg
Seems it only applies to the food mags.
Though, on the other hand-
http://l.yimg.com/ao/2012/news/january/newideajulie630.jpg
Culinary Boner – OH LORD @ the second picture.
I love nature stuff, so thanks for the shot of the Blue Whale in the second photo , Boner.
The upside of the mag deal is we don’t have to get the Coldsore Queen’s skanky head on the front.
FIDES, speaking of Maggie Beer, look how gracious she is when judging the conteastants, unlike that Sally woman. Maggie always says nice things to encourage them, not shoot them down in flames like Sally did with Andy, Alice, Beau and Ben. It was just so mean seeing their faces when they thought they’d done their best. I thought Alice’s dish looked delicious ( and I love desserts).You are right about Mindy just using Julia for herself but didn’t offer to help Julia in return, its just typical Mindy behaviour, and poor Andy having to cheer for himself! Bet he and ben can’t wait to get out of the place and start their Mexican Restaurant.
Fides – “Also, did anyone else notice Ben using the plural pronoun ‘we’ when he said “we’re making a curry””.
Maybe Ben’s scone making Nanna has passed over and he consults her during the cooking process?
If I were on the show I wouldn’t care if I won or not after making Top 10. Because you’ve already got exposure and plus staying in the house for an extra two/three weeks when you know others are rigged to win just seems like a waste of time. I’d be spending my time planning what I was going to do once I got out.
BDD and CB, don’t be too mean to Julie Goodwin, she says she’s happy with her body otherwise she would have gone on Biggest Loser instead of Masterchef.
Also BDD, yes I remember Terri from BL, she deserved to win after the way she was treated.
I really cannot understand how anyone can say with a straight face that any of the 3 girls nominated did not have the best looking dish. And for mine, Mindy’s was the clear best.
Seriously, do any of you buy any food magazines?
Do any of you know how to cook?
Is anyone interested in cooking?
Did I miss them tasting that pathetic Lemon Pie from Beau, all a joke really
Fred,
Considering you are certain its rigged, then please tell us who wins and why.
Thanks.
I was thinking that too JKo – it’s been a long time since I bought a rack of lamb. I buy frozen raspberries, much cheaper than fresh and would have been perfectly OK in Kylie’s dish.
A whole fresh chicken in your fridge is not ‘leftover’.
Julie Goodwin’s big enough to handle her knockers, I’m sure of that.
Back into your bean bag , Paul and take your meds.
Dunbi; well said – there was a full wrapped chicken in the fridge and it didn’t occur to me that it was not, a left over. lol
Paul, I get that those overpriced glossy mags are for mainly for women and I get that this means they predominantly feature sugary junk over other types of food.
However, I still can’t accept that Alice’s food was in any way worse than Beau’s abysmally pathetic tuck-shop recess pie.
And I still can’t accept that Ben’s beef roast was not superior to the Blade Runner Replicant’s trio of tarts – especially after the plummy (and very off-putting) mag hag had declared that her mag had only recently done tarte tatin and also because Julia herself was unhappy with the result. How was Ben to know that his veges needed to look like they’d been grown on steroids?
But hey, I’m only watchin’ because I am interested in food (mainly entrees and mains admittedly), not because I care about the declining industry of hard-copy magazine production.
Oops, I meant Andy not Ben.
Alice should have tried Jamie Oliver’s way of getting the seeds out of the pomegranate.
As for actually paying for a MCA magazine, they should be giving them away at the Coles checkout to anyone who’s sat through more than one episode of fantasy hour.
I’d probably still so “no thanks”!
Yeah a whole chicken in the fridge. I thought that was a bit weird too for a leftover challenge.
Hey guys, any other good reviews/recaps out there? I love reading these (RR good job btw!)
CB – Agree on Beau. That lemon meringue pie looked poor. It must have come down to taste in the end I guess.
Personally I thought Julia’s dish was more appealing from a food cover perspective than Andy’s. I understood where the editor was coming from there.
Fred, yes there is SMH website and Molks TV TALK. This one is the best though!
Nigella also had a nifty way of de-seeding a pomegranate.
*sigh* no, no…you people. She didn’t stroke it. She hit it.
I really enjoyed last nights show – thought the final 3 were deserving…… I would definitely buy a magazine if it had Andy on the cover too – RR I loved that!!!!
Being de-seeded by Nigella. Oh to be a pomegranate.
RR – re my comment on Audra’s apple pie. Her pie looks gorgeous. I was questioning whether it is indeed her mom’s recipe. Asian moms especially the same generation as Audra’s mom usually don’t make apple pie. She took a pause before uttering “it is my mom’s recipe.”
Re Mindy’s chocolate mousse tart vs Manu’s chocolate souffle tart, I am not going to go on about it anymore. At least now I know how to create my own original recipe by copying others, 1/2 the portion, adjust the sugar quantity, add some orange segments. Boom! It’s my own recipe on the MC magazine cover. Will I buy Mindy’s cookbook if she win? No.
Beau’s was slammed & placed in bottom 4th due to his lemon meringue tart lacks of originity, how about Julia tarte tatin? We see the same dessert in almost every magazine every winter.
Thought this episode said more about the (lack of talent possessed by)MC Mag’s food stylists than the actual food presented.
If you couldn’t create the impression that Beau’s tart was anything but ‘sad and lonely’ then you are not trying hard enough.
Don’t think last night’s episode did the magazine any favours. You have an hour to plug the magazine you could have gone with a different cover (Alice, Wade, Andy) rather than the stock standard chocolate tart enriched by the tears of false modesty.
Andy better follow in Hayden’s footsteps and win Cleo Bachelor of the Year.
Does the Cleo Bachelor of the Year come with a nude centrefold?
That’s a good point about the talent at Ma$terchef magazine, Maz.
It’s far out, awesome and beautiful having to be informed that a dish needs to be “recognisably yummy” to grace the cover of the Ma$terchef Wankzine. No! You don’t say?
Nevermind… A brownish cow pat with some orange thrown on top at the death will do.
How many bags of peanuts a week do Ma$terchef Hagazine pay that pathetic bundle of rags?
Best not follow in Hayden’s footsteps unless you can run like a girl.
Will it be a bone or no-bone centrefold?
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-IcMeCNmW9hs/TaO88_yoVnI/AAAAAAAAAos/YuBeeFcwsr4/s1600/bone-a-phone.jpg
Praise the Lord for the bone.
Gotta love Anthony Bourdain.
CB – Madge’s policy would definitely be ‘bone in’!
Thanks for clarifying that PollyB. Just as I suspected.
Getting away from this bone-a-fied discussion and getting into the issue of getting some meat (and fat) on ya bones, surely Matt, Gary and George, by their very appearance, have scientifically proved what this article wastes its time investigating?:-
http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/restaurants-bars/are-celebrity-cook-books-making-us-fat/story-fn93ypt9-1226426937927
Dear god CB, who would eat like that for a week? I gained half a kilo just reading the menu. Pretty sure even Jowlsy has a few days off the gourmet stuff and sticks to some humble veggies or salad and meat.
Haha @Morgan he certainly deserves that title! Andy’s certainly more of a pretty boy than Hayden ever was. And I have a bigger crush on Andy than I did with Hayden. But I think Hayden had more groupies.
Only someone so stupid would be dumb enough not to put Andy’s or Alice’s or Audra’s dishes on the cover. She could have influenced an entire new demographic. Shame. Mindy reminds me of player Chris in season 1. Really competitive. But I think Chris was a better sport (I was sure he wanted Poh to win). It’s a shame because I really gave Mindy a chance. I really like her but after tonight’s episode it seems as if she’s flirting her way through. Smart and feel really bad for Julia.
I am late today and it’s a long read !!!!!
JStar#15 I will be hopeless in MC. I don’t eat red meat (maybe because my family don’t eat beef when I was growing up). Thus I have never cook beef or lamb etc. I am a bad example for the Malaysians. I can’t blame my family for that because my mum don’t eat curries when I was growing up in Malaysia. She only have chinese food. But I am a curry lover and can cook curries.
EH- I agree with you about Audra’s apple pie. Mum’s recipe-I am not too sure.
Did they even taste Beau’s pie? And Mindy just garnishing that tart at the judging table was revolting. I was glad Julia was safe though, she’s my favourite now (although Andy really has improved throughout the series).
With a monthly readership and circulation of just on 100K and 450k respectively, I’m pretty sure that the people running Masterchef Magazine know what they’re doing.
And FWIW I don’t find it a bad read actually. Its not as good as Delicious but its better than Gourmet Traveller.
I’d recommend some of you buy one of these one day. You might even learn something…..
Well I’ve just seen the magazine at Woolies and Mindy’s cover looks awful. The orange syrup just looks all wet and sticky as opposed to glistening and makes me think of sticky, soggy pastry and wee… on the few occasions when I’ve made orange syrups for desserts, the kitchen smells of urine as the orange peel cooks away and it’s just not a very pleasant smell, so thanks Mindy for that! The tart looks too flat (almost slightly sunken in the middle) and brown…looks more like the cover of the free Coles/Woolies mags than one you have to pay for. Another mag had something seafoody (paella?) on the cover and to me, it’s more got the wintry comfort food appeal.
If sales go up this month, methinks it’ll be from Mindy’s family buying them out.
It seems a little strange to me that the way they edited Mindy. If they really wanted her to be the winner (which I believe they do), why keep feeding us glimpses of her being sly & competitive eg the interactions between Julia & her last night.
However, we need not worried about Mindy winning as all the damsels in distress that Paul has been trying to protect in the past (S2 Claire & S3 Dani), did not win.
JStar #15 – I remember growing up in Malaysia, lamb was not available in the market. Mutton & goat yes, but not lamb. My first taste of lamb was during my first holiday to NZ. I have not cooked a leg of lamb before (14 years in Australia) mainly due to my European hubby came from a country that lamb is not at all popular (haha.. You can rule out the Great Britain). He doesn’t like the taste & smell of the lamb. The only cut I have cooked is the cutlet.
Fides #54 – I had the same thought! Posted the Andy’s cute ‘split his pants’ screen cap in comment #20
Andy Pandy #58 – Maggie Beer is nice to everyone who buys & uses her verjuice.
Littlepetal #89 – Apples were ridiculously expensive in South East Asia when we young because most were imported & to use such a lot of apple to make a pie would cost a lot of $$. Also if I recall correctly, most kitchens didn’t have proper ovens.
What’s the 100K and 450K Paul? Circulation (100) and estimated readership (450). I’m always very sus about those readership figures magazines like to fling around. I really doubt most are looked at by more than one person unless they’re sitting in a doctor’s surgery or hairdresser. I’m sure the magazine does well, but even a circulation figure is only the number of copies actually distributed because a CAB audit doesn’t count how many are actually picked up, only how many are delivered.
@ Maz #79
“… tart enriched by the tears of false modesty”
Lol – love it … great wording… so true although I admire her ability to constantly shaft other people on her way to winning while at the same time seems to remain friends with everyone in the house (possibly just editing) … I wasn’t paying enough attention because I was burning dinner at the same time but did Julia really help Mindy again after that group challenge in Italy (the claustrophobic kitchen of doom challenge)… wow way too nice.
What is up with George making Julia cry… again… Mr I would have you work in my restaurant (so I could torment the crap out of you and feel better about how short I am).
why didn’t they just ask everyone to make a dessert rather than being so cryptic … were they cryptic? – I wasn’t paying attention. I think it would have been more interesting if they’d just all cooked the best dessert they could.
Troll#92. Starving for attention again, Paul? Anyway don’t you mean 450k annually in your first sentence of familiar coffin chasing? Careful with those statistics, you might hurt yourself.
Hi BDD,
Yes you’re right – its annually.
Anyway send your CV into MC Magazine – I’m sure they’d appreciate your ‘advice’ of what makes a good television show and magazine.
I tried giving some free “advice” to Ch 9 re the Today Show , Paul but they didn’t appreciate it, so I’ve been blocked from their website for years now. Since the Asian tsunami ,in fact.
I’d love to edit a food magazine and produce a cooking show.
I used to be a fan of Delicious, until I cottoned on to how repetitive the mag was*, with the same or similar recipes each season and too many of the usual suspect celeb chefs that get rammed down our throats – Perry, Kwong , Nigella, hell, even Jamie (who I reckon is a legend btw).
Now that you can obtain and cross-check recipes very easily on line, I can’t be bothered with these mags.
The pretty, food-porn pics even leave me cold. Perhaps I’m soon going to need Ready Anytime to be able to crack even a semblance of a culinary boner.
* apparently us blokes are slower than you women – http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/world/multitasking-means-women-now-smarter-than-men/story-fnddckzi-1226427052220 **
** hey, hang on…but if that’s the case, why do you chicks keep buying these mags?
@EH #93: I’m like you, littlepetal and JStar–lamb wasn’t readily available when I was growing up in Malaysia, and I didn’t really eat it until I came over here. I think I’ve cooked lamb like 4 times in the 10 years I’ve been here, but never a leg of lamb. Boyfriend is Australian and loves lamb though, so I’ve had it more than 4 times =) Having said that, just to rehash something that everyone on the forum has said a million times–if you’re going on Masterchef wouldn’t you practice making something like this!
I thought Alice’s dish was interesting–I would actually go and look at it just because I’m not familiar with the cuisine and want to try it. Why would I buy a mag for a choc tart which recipe I already have in my gazillion other books/magazine collection? Just a thought though, if they were doing it for a winter cover, why did no one do soup?
p/s: Fred, your rundown was aaahhhmaaaayzeeen; I want to do an Audra/Mindy and go OH MY GOD WOW! =))
In my opinion, when the Masterchef magazine editor says ‘no bones’ preferred, they might as well just say “We are looking for the most photogenic dessert…”. Because I honestly believe that was what they were looking for right from the start. Its fortunate that sly-as-a-minx Mindy picked up on this vibe and quite unfortunate for straight-as-an-arrow Wade to dish up some succulent lamb. As a professional photographer, I actually find lamb cutlets or rack to be highly photogenic. It has that refined culinary finesse but also warm and inviting to the visual palate.
Folks, it always comes down to market audience and revenue. I would safely say that the majority of consumers of this particular magazine are female and knowing my wife, she would more than likely pick up the mag and conveniently slap it on the check-out’s conveyor belt upon seeing that rich chocolate tart instead of the savoury alternative.
Being mindful of the (God forbid) expanding waistline during the winter months, I on the other hand would definitely choose the latter.
Overall, MC this season has been a little too melodramatic for me and abit too “awww….come and give me a Goddamn hug.”
Chanp, perhaps Wade would have had more luck converting the judges to his view about the lamb if he’d served it with some colourful veggies instead of brown lentils.
RR – Sorry that the earlier link to the Masterchef article didn’t work (was reading the SMH on the iPad app, which always seems to make it difficult to link to articles) – hope this one works instead:
http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/whats-missing-in-the-method-20120713-2205a.html
This is Mindy’s tart: http://i.imgur.com/z2Cv8.jpg
The juice caramel on the plate looks really messy to me. (Which would explain why they cropped out three-quarters of the shot when posting the recipe on the MasterChef website.)
@EH
Audra didn’t pause before replying with, “My mother’s apple pie.” She announced it almost before Gary had even finished asking the question. But, to me, that sounded staged. Why would Gary ask whose apple pie it is unless he already knew beforehand?
Audra’s mother having “an” apple pie recipe, I can kind of believe, even if apples and ovens were rare and expensive at the time. But an apple pie recipe with muscatels and vincotto? How many Singaporean mothers of her generation would even know what those are?
I love how Audra has her little spats with George, though.
Audra: Hopefully, it’ll be…really oozy.
George: Hope? Hope?! A week before finals?
Audra: No, it will be oozy.
George: Hope? Are you hoping?
Audra: No, I know it’s going to be. >: (
@Andy Pandy
I don’t think the apple pie was too far out of Audra’s comfort zone. She did do that dark chocolate raspberry tart in the Mornington Peninsula challenge, after all. (The one that Matt Preston said was a “magazine cover” shot, which is ironic in hindsight, yes.) And she seems pretty skilled with pastry, having made a rough puff on the fly for the fish pie in the Oz Harvest challenge, which Andy referenced. Audra focuses on Southeast Asian food, but she looks to be a pretty competent all-rounder.
@JStar
I haven’t cooked a whole leg of lamb, either, come to think of it. Lamb was never a very prominent “protein” in my family. Chicken, pork and beef would make up maybe 90% of all the meat/poultry consumed, and a chunk of the other 10% would be a special occasion turkey for Christmas or something like that. The last time I cooked lamb was when my Mongolian friend gave a little cooking demonstration last year. And even then, lamb was used as a substitute for mutton.
And here’s a link to Mindy’s recipe:
http://www.masterchef.com.au/recipes/chocolate-mousse-tart.htm
Hey bdd, on barely related matter, have you an opinion on Status Quo – http://www.statusquo.co.uk/ – appearing for Coles?
Will this mean they make a guest appearance on MCA so George and Gary can show us their best boogie moves? Especially after we got to see George’s moves to the village brass band in Italy.
Will George look his spiffing best in a classic Quo denim jacket? – http://www.statusquo.co.uk/shop/.
Will he serenade Julia with “Roll Over, Lay Down”?
@Chunks. Waydo having some of Andy’s pre-dehydrated vegies would definitely be a Godsend. But nothing wrong with lentils either. I just don’t think he plated it up right this time around. Getting rid of the half cut citrus and replacing that huge green overgrown lawn with a few sprigs or rosemary and plate up on pure white china would’ve definitely given him some sort of edge.
But even if Waydo did present the world’s best looking rack of lamb, I think that issue’s cover was pretty much preordained.
Thanks EH – don’t know how I missed that! And yeah, Mindy’s getting an unpopular edit – they could have left out the bits with her ignoring Julia, or just made it look like Julia’s thinking aloud to herself, as the contestants are encouraged to do. (I remember in S1 when the contestants were running through Coles – it was my Coles
– all talking to themselves while scrambling to get their ingredients in the culinary legends challenge…made me wonder if once out of the competition, is it hard to break the habit of doing a running commentary)
The only magazines I’d buy are food mags. I did have a one year subscription to MC magazine when it first came out, but didn’t bother to renew it. Have made a few things from it (including risotto, not one of George’s recipes though I tried his method of agitating the rice). I’ve got way too many recipe books and food mags there is no room to put them. I’d only buy another if the cover really enticed me to look and see what else is in the mag, and sweets/chocolate just don’t do it for me. Though I know they’re appealing to their wider market who are apparently dessert loving women.
Oh and another thing about the fridges – how handy that the fridges’ contents all co-ordinated so well with the main left over ingredient. Whose fridge is like that?! I’d have loved some fridges (OK, especially the Italian fridge) to have had a rotting apple, a 2 year old jar of gherkins and some salad dressing from last summer in there as well.
I think it’s time that TEN landed this mother, put it in the hanger and locked the doors. George and Garry sucking the last bit of oxygen from what was originally a slighty more authentic product (at least from season 1) has just resulted in a jaded audience watching a cynical show (I mean that Barilla episode FFS).
I remember my delight at watching Matt tap his fork on the side of the counter after delicately tasting a dish he loved in season 1. Ithought to myself, “Wow – is that like a bravo at an opera? It’s so cool.”
Now all three just shovel what is placed before them and look off camera for the script board.
Just was out and noted Good Taste and Super Food Ideas had choc on the cover.
As EH suggested earlier, compare Mindy’s recipe to Manu’s chocolate souffle tart. The only hanges are reduced quantities and the orange caramel on top:
http://almostbourdain.blogspot.com.au/2011/03/dark-chocolate-souffle-tart-have-very.html
Enjoyed the read thanks Jruth on smh – rings so true of the state MC is in
The reason why I don’t buy any more of those foodie magazines is because I get my food porn online. I’m sure there’s more sites out there, but the sites that I frequent are http://foodgawker.com/ and http://photograzing.seriouseats.com
@Bolders, yes ‘delicately’ tasting was in S1, now, as per last night, we saw Gorge (sic) stick both the fork and knife in his mouth, together, gross
JKo wow, thanks for the link, love the photography, haven’t even checked the recipes yet, going now for a read
“Maggie Beer’s nice to whomever buys her verjuice,’ haha
I thought Sally Feldman was holier-than-thou too and looked, at times, like she was having an enema. After all, she’s just a glossy maghag, not a foreign correspondent in Azerbaijan.
In her defence, so what if she and the others didn’t like Alice’s offering because of its appearance, saltiness, whatever? Suddenly it’s a diplomatic incident and an affront to Georgian history and culture? Gimme a break.
Julia’s tarts looked great, and she was the only one who did herself a disservice by talking them down. George, as usual, tried to show that he has a personality by bombarding her, Spanish Inquisition-style … ‘I’m gonna break that bitch if it kills me.’
@Fred/Wini, brilliant recaps by Ben Pobjie in The Age/SMH. As for your rant, no offence and I’m probably on my own here, but wtf …… not a good idea to hit the bottle in the mornings.
I’m starting to think Mindy might not win because of how she’s been edited to look like the past few weeks.
Daze, seems to me Gorge is taking the concept of ‘food porn’ a bit too literally
Interesting – BH&G posted their Winter Warmer special today online – now this mag I would buy if this the cover!
http://au.lifestyle.yahoo.com/better-homes-gardens/recipes/r/-/14240959/easy-roast-pork/?cmp=fb
JKo – http://www.bestrecipes.com.au – is one of my faves………….
I know I am very critical about the Mindy’s chocolate tart recipe because it is quite a unique recipe for the filling and that’s why Manu calls it Chocolate souffle tart and not mousse. You need to make a sabayon and the filling puffs up then sinks when it cools & Mindy copied it to a T!! In Manu’s cookbook, he gave special credit to his friend and former colleague Jeremie Mantelin, who is a brilliant pastry chef. Mindy just grabbed it & called it hers.
Thanks Jruth for Mindy’s chocolate mousse tart recipe:
http://www.masterchef.com.au/recipes/chocolate-mousse-tart.htm
Here is Manu’s recipe:
Ingredients:
1 quantity Chocolate Shortcrust Pastry (recipe follows)
Plain flour, for dusting
450 g dark chocolate, chopped
225 g unsalted butter, chopped
3 eggs
6 egg yolk
150 g caster sugar
creme fraiche, to serve
Method
Roll out the pastry on a lightly floured benchtop, lifting, turning and dusting the bench as you go, until the pastry is 4 mm thick and large enough to line the base and sides of a 25 cm tart tin with a removable base. Use a small sharp knife to trim off any excess pastry. Prick the pastry base all over with a fork, then refrigerate for 30 minutes.
Preheat the oven to 190C.
Line the pastry shell with baking paper, then fill with pastry weights, dried beans or rice and bake for 15 minutes. Reduce the oven temperature to 180C, then remove the weights and paper and cook the tart shell for another 5 minutes or until it is dry.
Meanwhile, heat the chocolate and butter in a heatproof bowl over a saucepan of just simmering water, stirring occasionally, until the chocolate and butter are melted and smooth; take care that the bottom of the bowl does not touch the water. Remove from the heat, reserve the pan of simmering water and leave the chocolate mixture to stand until cooled to room temperature.
Place the eggs, yolks and sugar in another large heatproof bowl and place over the saucepan of just simmering water. Using a whisk (a balloon whisk is ideal), whisk until the mixture holds a trail. Remove the pan from the heat, then gradually whisk the cooled chocolate mixture into the egg mixture and combine well.
Pour the chocolate mixture into the tart and bake for 18-20 minutes or until just set; the tart should be nice and gooey. Leave the tart to cool to room temperature, then serve with spoonful of creme fraiche.
Chocolate Shortcrust Pastry
Ingredients
150 g plain flour
100 g Dutch-process cocoa
125 g unsalted butter, at room temperature, chopped
1 egg
90 g icing sugar
30 g ground almond
Method
Sift the flour and cocoa into a bowl and stir to combine.
Using an electric mixer fitted with a paddle attachment (or a wooden spoon) beat the butter, egg, icing sugar and ground almonds until smooth. Gradually add the flour and cocoa mixture; stop beating as soon as the mixture comes together to form a dough. Do not overwork the dough or the pastry will be tough.
Shape the dough into a disc, cover with plastic film and refrigerate.
Jruth – sorry.. Didn’t read your comment before posting mine
No problem EH – great minds think alike! By the way, have you ever made Manu’s tart?
Jruth, what do you reckon? :p I recognized it when Mindy presented it to the judges. It is different from the usual choc mousse tart.
@Morgan,
I don’t think Mindy has been edited bad and if people are silly enough to start disliking her based on that, then that’s their problem I guess.
She seems very popular with all the contestants as far as I can see and I think they would know her better than all the moaners watching 45 minutes of edited tape…..(not you)
@EH – just about every meal you care to mention has some sort of component pinched from another recipe. What did you expect from Mindy – to list in detail every component that came from someone else. FFS, each episode would go for 24 hours if it came down to that.
Laughable.
Note to self – Do not react to Paul’s nonsense and his distorted & baseless accusations. He is in his menopausal mood again. Repeat 1000x while staring at this image: http://i1263.photobucket.com/albums/ii625/bettyenty/07afb7f7.jpg
Lulu #115 – Glad you appreciate the Maggie Beer humour.
Jess #104 – Hehe… I didn’t want to mention the muscatels and vincotto, I thought it was….. too obvious. Thanks for clarifying the pause. I knew there was some awkward moment when she mention ‘my mum’s recipe’ I thought it was a pause.
#107~Boner, about the $tatus Quo commercial for Coles. Those guys have gotta eat. I’ve got every album from the beginning to Blue For You. They can do no wrong.
Re Mindy’s edit, I would appreciate the cold sores and acne being pixelated as well as the plastic smile. Can anything be done for the Cro Magnon forehead , I wonder?
If Andy wins is he putting out a cookbook or a calendar?!
bdd, agree 100%. Old rockers shouldn’t have to endure the humiliation Doc Neeson has been put through with constant press articles about his pitiful financial situation.
I wonder if George, Gary and Matt are nodders or foot tappers, when it comes to the likes of Status Quo and Canned Heat?
Apart from superior editing, challenges, judging and cooking, here are two very good reasons why Top Chef shits from a great height on MasterChef Australia:
- http://www.bravotv.com/top-chef/bio/gail-simmons
- http://www.bravotv.com/top-chef/bio/padma-lakshmi
I rest my case, yer honor.
We can be sure that $tatus Quo weren’t thinking of Jowl$y when they wrote Pictures Of Matchstick Men , Boner.
Jowl$y would have made a great understudy frontman for Canned Heat or Mountain, for that matter.
“If Andy wins is he putting out a cookbook or a calendar?!”
I think it’s suffice to say that Andy will be putting out. A lot.
I can hear him rumbling now, bdd…
…”I’m built for comfort, I aint built for speed”
Sioux Denim; BH&G, omg, the crackling made me salivate, it was beautiful, oh sorry that’s MCspeak – lol. Uum, it looked very inviting and made me hungry!
Culinary Boner – #118 Gorge needs to get some lessons in etiquette – odd how that wasn’t ‘edited’ out actually
Jowlin’ Wolf…”I eats more chicken than, any man I seen “
I forgot to mention that it was pretty unfair to tell Alice that someone will have to take her place if she uses the pin. Didn’t they just have the other two competing in the elimination challenge when one uses the pin?
Bloody Mindy and her tacky animal print acrylics and skanky whore giant hoop earrings. She wears them in the kitchen (yeah real professional) and she wore them again to the photo shoot. I’ll take Alice’s fuckoff glasses any day (at least Alice doesn’t have a forked tongue and turns you to stone with her gaze). Jeebus she makes fembot look human. Man-of-the-house took his first look of Mindy and first thing out of his mouth; ew, bitch.
I love how Mindy was all oh I never do desserts but I pushed myself yada-yada I’m so brilliant and versatile blah-blah. Get this in your giant forehead woman, soggy syrup-soaked tarts are shitty shit shit shit and the biggest reason why you’re doing so well is because you give the judges tingles between their legs (perhaps it’s the plastic cougar nails that does it for them). Georgie Porgie pretty much walked around with a boner and his pinky in his mouth last night. I swear he sneaks a touch every time Mindy looks at him.
I would buy the calender and the cookbook if Andy puts them out! It would be beautiful I’m sure! Also, where is Cookie Monster, he or she was complaining about us not commenting and he or she hasn’t commented themself yet.Littlepetal, I’m with you, can’t see why they have to have a third person in the elimination, another unfairness in this comp.
Beau could have jagged it into the firemans’ calendar , as it is , he’ll probably be in a sphincter slamming alimination with Beige Ben and Eyebrowz tonight.
Is this calendar Andy may put out simply food porn or simply erotic? Either way I’m sold.
I think the Andy cookbook combined with nude calendar and token Ma$terchef magazine in an environmentally friendly shopping bag with a “generous” Masterchef logo on the side is the way to go.
*Ma$terchef vibrator optional .(available in washable zucchini or corncob sheath)
@EH
. Point taken!
@EH, littlepetal, Socs, Jess – So it is fair to say that you too are immune from the Sam Kekovich ads to eat more lamb? I have to applaud Audra then for clearly cooking a protein well that she doesn’t eat so much during the leftovers challenge. So EH, will you still add her in your list about “Having not cooked a lamb roast before?”
@Paul – I think my issue with this challenge was that Sally has a particular view of the MasterChef Magazine demographics. I think Chanp summed it up about who he thinks buys it. I find that quite sad then that if Sally believes her readers aren’t adventurous – she must appeal to this base denominator. Why then didn’t she just tell everyone to cook a dessert? Has the MC Magazine descended into beigeness? Has it always been like that? I remember buying the first two editions and I don’t recall it being the height of pedestrian (or maybe I was just too enamoured about the show to think critically at the time).
@lulu – I think Alice’s big mistake was that she didn’t know what the MasterChef Magazine demographics is. She wouldn’t have had any access to the magazine whilst in the MC prison. I believe she saw it as an opportunity to cook something that would make her family proud that she has represented a part of herself and them on the front cover. It wasn’t a diplomatic incident of axis of evil proportions but Sally was insensitive. Her bias, not just against Alice but towards certain foods that weren’t dessert-based, spoke volumes about how unqualified she was to be there judging. If it wasn’t a dessert that she understood, she didn’t want a bar of it.
Socs – welcome to the blog
JStar – will definitely add it. First entry for Audra
JStar & lulu – I should add “I have never read Masterchef magazine before.” lol SBS Feast magazine would be happy to publish Alice’s recipe.
Just bought some lamb chops. I’m not going to stress out about the bones or the brown colour they’re going to be.
It’ll come down to the dish I cook tonight, Mindychef(tm)
Sure JStar #140, but don’t you get that the brief was not to represent herself or her family? It wasn’t one of those ‘cook from the heart’ things where they all get teary about their childhood, their mums and Fluffy the dead guinea pig. It was about what’s supposed to look good on a cover, and Alice isn’t stupid, right? She, like Wade, took a punt and came a cropper.
This woman was just bagging her food, not her culture/whatever.
Yeah , what happened to the generic “cook from the heart” that George used to cane like there’s no tomorrow,yeah?
@JStar
Its for the cover – most covers of food mags have desserts. Over and above what there should be in any case.
Completely understandable she would want a dessert – They sell the magazine.
That’s the reality.
@Baz,
Gee you’re a classy one aren’t you.
Give us a rundown of how contestants are supposed too act and look please – maybe stick a picture of yourself up. Now that would be funny.
I remember seeing a show some time ago where they were going through the process photographing a food magazine cover. They were saying that it was cold, pretty much inedible, then sprayed with some goop to make it look glossy in the right parts. I wonder what the point of tasting the dishes is if all it’s supposed to do is look like a cover shot. The brief last night only mentioned the look, nothing about the taste, until the tasting.
C’mon Paul. Lift with the punctuation. Some of us have very weak comprehension skills~ as you’ve so often pointed out. Help us,ffs.
I kind of agree with you Paul that Baz @134 you went too far with your comments. No need to swear or be so rude but you can give constructive criticism.
Good on you Alice, you go girl!
I don’t find Baz’s effort any more or less offensive than Paul beginning his post(#24) earlier today with “Jesus”, when it comes down to it.
Then launching into another poster for being a classy one.
I may have been a little more restrained than Baz but his impassioned post is just proof that the Coldsore Queen is doing a few heads in…including mine.
Read this on tumblr. Hilarious about Wade:
“My friend saw Amina getting gelato in Sydney last week and I SWEAR I saw Wade walking down Johnston St last Friday (it was a bald guy with big eyebrows, duh). He was wearing a hoodie and I heard his friend say, “Put it down, no-one recognises you!”
Daze @131.
George is clearly working his way from his lowly but practised Sho Dan belt status in table etiquette obscenities by emulating the real masters:
Booger – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDdbg_Q-LMI &
Bluto – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZN4r8p6KbU
Hell yeah, he’s even mastering chopstick etiquette…Hi Yah!..take dat ya effing dumpling.
I take your point BDD, I guess what offends some doesn’t offend others. I’m not religious so probably the Jesus thing is not as bad to me as the bad language and rudeness that Baz used but I can see where you’re coming from.
Just wantin’ to register our disapproval with all the negative comments about Mindy’s alleged skankiness on this site.
Me and Liz have made a career – no, make that a lifestyle – outta being skanky.
So lay off will ya!
If it’s good enough for celebs like Big Blonde (that’s moi, in case ya didn’t know) and Luna (that’s lizzie, for you thickheads out there) to be total skanks 24 – 7 then it’s probably time the rest of ya caught on. Alright!
I think it’s funny that we’ve been talking about bones a lot today and Gary scores a beauty in his dish tonight. The show’s choking .Why shouldn’t the judges?
Alice rocks for not using her pin. Awesome waterworks from Beige Ben. Guys with tatts crying ~ unless it’s a bikie or criminal’s funeral~ always looks a bit lame . He really picked up after George whispered sweet nothings in his ear.
I loved Alice’s declaration to the food tasting panel that her badge of honour represented her outstanding achievement. From memory that old Italian fellow whose dishes Alice and Mindy massacred really didn’t want to declare either of them a winner. Her achievement was to be the best of a bad two. Bravo Alice you’re starting to believe the fantasy.
Alice fell down the rabbit hole tonight for sure. She took a hit on the hookah that big jowled caterpillar was choofing on.
Lol bdd – maybe if she took those glasses off for a while she’d be able to see clearly. I think they’re fogged up with bullshit!
Yeah, Alice is living the dream. She’s ten feet tall.
I’m starting to think Jowl$y is a pot smoking Dandy just like his mentor Oscar Wilde. It explains the colourful attire, frequent donning of paisleys , the florid language, the insatiable appetite and the bloodshot,drowsy eyes.
Jowl$y took the Door Mouse’s advice to “Feed Your Head” way too literally, however.
Wow – WTF – I flip to TAR from Ben losing the plot to then flip back to Mchef to see he safe first – Alice & Wade the last two then bye bye Wado! Did George’s pep talk really help or was it Andy’s encouraging that got him over the line?????????
How about some of that wobbly, black gloop for the mag. cover? Swear it was alive.
You shouldn’t insult O.Wilde like that, bdd.
George offered Ben a kick up the ar$e but I think Andy was offering more than that.
Sorry, lulu, I’m a big O.Wilde fan, too.
No Sioux Denim that’s just the same old red herring they’ve been serving up for years. When you see the drama unfolding you know the central character is safe.
You get a bit tired of ham 6 nights a week!
@Paul For one thing, don’t wear dated big-ass earrings in the kitchen. I thought I made that point clear already but perhaps you were too fixated on the part about Georgie’s boner. But apologies for the crude language. I promise to never mention Georgie’s nether regions ever again.
Bwahahahaha BDD – you terrible!!
Yeah I know Georgie, I got duped!
Baz can you stick to calling him George or Gorge and drop the ‘i’ please. I feel like it’s my nether regions getting bandied about here.
Some gels on The $hire were packing the big- ass dated earrings, too. Says it all.
Yes Baz, you’re stressing Georgie out here without realizing it. It’s okay. Just call that groping Greek midget Gorge or George, please.
oooh ah – anyone read Womans Day today?- http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/entertainment/sydney-confidential/womans-day-spills-beans-on-masterchef-top-5-finalists/story-e6frewz0-1226427519547
Thanks for your support bdd. There are soooo many names you could give that runt its not necessary to use mine.
Umm ahh Sioux Denim, I’ll have to avoid looking at WD in the supermarket. After suffering months of MC I don’t want it blown in the last week.
I’m so thinking of braving the freezing night to go to the servo to read Woman’s Day but I won’t. Maybe tomorrow.
If anyone does ,please head your post with “SPOILER” in ‘ken Caps ,please.
Another day, another Ma$terchef Snafu. Beautiful.
If it is not so late, I would duck down to have a read at the WD magazine. I did get some goss from another blog.
Oops massive apologies to the real Georgie who, unlike Mr Colombaris, has real manners and doesn’t eat like a rabid monkey.
Okay… I’m on my way.
Please report back BDD asap. Thanks.
Okay, I’ve got it. Now I’m quickly going to ask RR , in case she wants to put a spoiler thread up because either way , some may be annoyed even if I warn.
I’ve emailed RR.Shouldn’t be long.
George redeemed himself slightly – slightly – after giving Julia a hard time for no reason yesterday. I thought it was cool that Alice didn’t play the pin as well. This is quite interesting for tomorrow (well, today) as everyone is in an elimination and if one or two people play their pins they’ll feel terrible!
BDD- That was quick !!!! Is the servo just next to your home? or are you just pulling our legs !!!
Should we start laying our bets for the next 5 minutes until BDD gets approval to post?
Yes, it’s a two minute walk littlepetal. For once, I am not joking.
56 k’s of Tour to go. Just waiting to see what RR wants.
Okay, I’ll have it posted in two or three minutes. Big hand for Ch10 and Woman’s Day, folks!
Good idea Bolders! My pick is Kylie, Beau & Alice will go. Top 5 Ben, Mindy, Audra, Andy & Julia.
I’ll go with Mindy, Kylie, ( on the nose for those two) Andy, Ben (because of George’s sweet nothings in his ear tonight er last night) and Alice becuase of her pin.
SPOILER/SPOILER/SPOILER/SPOILER/SPOILER/SPOILER/SPOILER/SPOILER/SPOILER/SPOILER/SPOILER!!!
Thanks Ch 10 and Woman’s Day. This years Ma$terchef FINAL 5:
SPOILER/ SPOILER/SPOILER/SPOILER/SPOILER/SPOILER/SPOILER.
Julia, Andy, Mindy, Ben, Audra.
You can take this to the bank, thanks to Ch10 and Woman’s Day.
You are now sworn to secrecy on the main blog.
SPOILERSPOILERSPOILERSPOILERSPOILERSPOILERSPOILERSPOILER
Far out BDD! Thanks!!!!
If that Top 5 DOES work out most fans would prefer either Andy or Ben to win. Most people don’t warm up to Julia (though I DO like her), a lot of people do not like Mindy (I can see that since she does appear to be quite sly and competitive) and a large number of people still think that Audra’s catering business was ‘professional’ and people wouldn’t see that as fair.
If that DOES work out, I’m shocked Kylie isn’t on there. But we’ll see.
Geez, I must have missed something as I got back home and logged in and thought I’d respond to comments from lulu and Paul only to see this spoiler. Oh well, there goes that theory you had EH last week. BDD, you’re not pulling our legs now are you? You’re dead serious right? Who won Season 1 of Masta Shef Straya?
Ha! Thx bdd, glad I stayed up for this intrigue.
Agreed with you EH, for what it’s worth now.
EH did you have a sneak peek before the reveal?
So glad Julia made it
Happy for Julia, Andy and Ben.
I like the strong silent types.
And yikes, more screeching and posturing from Mindy and Audra to come.
I’m not pulling your legs , folks .These are the five amatas listed in Woman’s Day. I know plenty of spoilers turn out to be wrong~ but this is as I said as it appears in Woman’s Day, dated July 23, 2012.
JStar~ Season I was Julie Goodwin.
Hey, you ba$tards are sworn to secrecy, I said!! Like I’m going to go out and risk getting robbed/mugged to pull your legs.
Good one BDD. Now my guess for the Top 3 will be Andy, Ben and Julia. They finally going to get a male winner and it will be Ben with 101 ways of making tacos.
Oshada, I swear on all my Masterchef magazines that I didn’t lol! Littlepetal can be my witness. We were privately chatting who should rush to get the WD tomorrow morning.
I based on the logic that Alice won’t use her pin, Kylie spotted working in Melbourne & Beau definitely not top 5 material with his sad & lonely lemon meringue tart.
JStar – My conspiracy theory still stand. If it is still true, it will rule out Ben, Andy & Audra. Final 2 will be Julia & Mindy. Oh gosh…….. Please let me be wrong this time!!!!
BDD – the fact that you could type Julie Goodwin’s name so straight-face (I’m assuming), can only mean two things:
1. Dammit Woman’s Day! You suck!
2. BDD, you have the flu or you’re in shock at the Final Five. You better get back to your normal self come Thursday week when All-Stars starts airing!
@EH – I think the clues for me were from Amma and Deb. I remember when Amma was eliminated, she said a boy would win (Andy , Ben, or Beau). At that stage with the tv airing schedule, I thought it was a strange remark as we had not seen the guys excel. Deb said that she wanted Andy or Julia to win. So maybe the Top 4 would be everyone spoiled minus Ben as on cooking alone, Mindy and Audra are still above the rest.
BDD – Thank god you are not living in King Cross. Wouldn’t want you to risk your life for a spoiler.
ah by secrecy you mean we shouldnt have copied the winners in our subsequent comments?
Sorry.
EH-check you email
An email from Littlepetal which will potentially make BDD & myself very very happy. Hmm.. I have to brush up my photoshop skill. Night night guys especially BDD, thanks for a fun & exciting evening.
Now if someone can leak who is the winning, MC is done.
It’s not our fault if we can’t help talking about it now, Bolders.
All the glory belongs to Ch10, Ma$terchef and Woman’s Day.
Bugger I’ve read this – woohoo for my fave Julia!
SPOILER/SPOILER/SPOILER/SPOILER/SPOILER/SPOILER/SPOILER/SPOILER/SPOILER/
“A friend of a friend” reports that the filming has occurred and the final two are…… Julia and Andy.
Just you wait and see I’m right.
Boom!!!
I hope you are right, Reality Ranter. They are both my fav! Boom!
I think you are right because I think one of them Top 5 left before the Final 3. There were some photos of her taken end of May.
My guess for Top 3 was Ben, Andy and Julia .
RR I would be ecstatic (for me anyway) if they are the final two.
Yay! I can commit to the end of this series now.
***** Spoiler warning *****
Ok. This is my logic:
Audra, Kylie & Ben are safe and they are in top 6 not top 5 (MC commentator or whoever they are have made a huge mistake).
The EPG said there is only one elimination tomorrow & the another elimination on Sunday before we have out top 5.
So tomorrow Alice will go home.
Top 6: Kylie, Audra, Ben, Mindy, Andy, Julia
Sunday elimination: Kylie will go home.
Monday we have our top 5 as spilled by WD: Audra, Ben, Andy, Julia & Mindy.
I see what you’re saying EH. The confusion comes from the idea that tonight’s 3 survivors were going into the ‘final’ and then the other expression ‘top 5′. Apparently these 2 groups are not one and the same.
It seems strange that the ‘final’ will have one more single elimination before the real final?
Phewwww. Thanks George!!!!! English is my 4th language, it is so hard to express myself. The ‘final 5′ was probably said after tomorrow challenge and was edited in to lead us believe WD is wrong with their spoiler.
I see your side too, but presumed that the ‘top 5′ and ‘finals week’ meant the same thing. So accordingly, re the spoiler, Kylie shouldn’t have won tonight … didn’t one of the judges say she and Ben were safe from elimination? But I guess you’re saying just safe from elim. tomorrow night?
Just sucks that Kylie is destined to get so close and then leave before less consistent cooks do.
George & Lulu, Sunday is always the start of MC week (not Monday). So the MC final week consist of Sunday (top 6), Monday (top 5), Tuesday (top 4) & Wednesday (final 3).
However, WD is released weekly on Monday. So if they didn’t make the ‘human error’, the Monday will be the top 5 day.
btw, doing rather well for a 4th language!!
Thanks lulu, lots of grammar & spelling mistakes if you look closer.
Can’t help but comment on this now. Reality Ranter says filming has occurred and top 2 is Andy and Julia…I thought the final was Wednesday and it will have three finalists? Unless Wednesday’s episode was filmed over two days? Ahhh so much intrigue.
Oh fuck…I’ve just started reading this from the last comment upwards.
I sincerely hope this spoiler is true and Julia wins.
I’ll be ordering extra refreshments to celebrate the cullings as they happen.
But BDD, the rapid fire cullings are already happening. Dry week this week for you?
MAY CONTAIN SPOILER MATERIAL/MAY CONTAIN SPOILER MATERIAL.
I’m thinking of “who” rather than “when”, J$tar~ ie when Mindy and Ben are culled. I’m salivating.
Here’s another spoiler~ Jowl$y will gain weight next week.
Salivating like George when he gropes the young female amatas or salivating like Gary & Matt when they are served pork crackling lathered in duck fat? I believe this show has taught me different forms of salivation!
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My guess – Mindy will be send packing on Mon
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* salivating like Jowl$y, that would be. Please let it be Mindy Monday.
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I better get my Alice in bondage photoshop ready on Monday.
BDD, Littlepetal – Just curious. Based on your past encounters, how will Paul react to the monday news?
Not well, EH. You might want to look back at the archives to when Marion Grasby (his odds darling) was culled but then again, life’s too short.
He didn’t even like it when I said she wouldn’t win today because she lacked humility.
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I just love spoilers, I want to get one to go on the back of my car… makes me go faster around corners
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http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/masterchef/dessert-leaves-nasty-taste-on-masterchef-20120722-22ilq.html
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Wow! Can’t say I’m not happy about the winner but definitely surprised they were keen on another Dessert-esque cookbook.
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The promo shows when the judges criticised the dish (they call it a disaster), I assume it is the worst dish, the dish was served on a brown plate.
Andy & Mindy served their dishes on white plates
Julia served hers on tiles
Audra was the only one who served her dish on brown plate.
So Audra may be the one who is going home tomorrow.
But how do you know who served on what plates?
Because Shine showed us all 4 clips of the contestants bringing their dishes to the judges tables during the promo. So we can see the plates they used.
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JLo, your theory of having one dessert queen, one Asian specialist, and one boy is taking shape. I almost feel that Andy is being nudged towards the final three (more on that from me later on RR’s recap). I remember the Legends Dinner in Season 1. Definitely had chefs there that were culinary heroes of the remaining contestants. Margaret Fulton (Julie), Jacques Reymond (Justine) and Cheong Liew (Poh). Mindy being coached by a French chef tomorrow? Who was mentoring Audra? The preview showed Matt talking about Audra’s dish being let down by the execution but Gary’s line about an “unmitigated disaster” did not have a shot of the dish he was referring to. Editing trick to me but I suspect Audra definitely in the bottom two with whoever cooked the “unmitigated disaster.” I’m leaning towards Mindy given that Jacque was warning her not to burn something – (meaning she burns it).
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JStar – That’s why I said potential spoiler because Matt & Gary may be talking about the same dish or may be not. What made me think they are talking about the same dish is that 4 great chefs mentoring the top 4. They will ‘give face’ to the chefs only to critise one dish and let the othe 3 dishes to be ‘beautiful’ :p
Andy – Mark Best (Sydney)
Audra – Peter Doyle (Sydney)
Mindy – Jacque Raymond (Melbourne)
Julia – Shannon Bennett (Melbourne)
I love the combination of ice queen Julia with greasy-hair Shannon. Sure that dessert will be “beautiful.” Jacque mentoring Mindy. Hmm…French flavours married with Asian flavours. Jacque does like to do that. I’m surprised Peter Doyle wasn’t on Andy’s team. No seafood in the pantry?
But I read on the TV guide that each contestant only have 15 mins with the celeb chef and they are on their own.
Julia looked like the one in trouble which means she will be safe.
Read that in the EPG too littlepetal. But who knows. Maybe they’ll scream down suggestions as per the peanut gallery rule and Julia will tell Shannon to be quiet and to stop distracting her with his suggestions.
Jacque Reymond is famous for his Asian inspired French dishes. If you have a look at his cookbook, it is full of fusion recipes. I think Mindy & Jacque are a good match.
Out of the four, I reckon Audra & Peter Doyle from Est are the weakest pairing.
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I had it recorded on foxtel. Audra served hers on long brown plates but the problem dish being judged was perfectly square.
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What I found out today is that some of the eliminated contestants like TK, Beau, Tregan, Emma, Alice have all landed in Sydney. There were also photos of the the MC kitchen and Kylie said that is where she is.
I guessed they are filming the last bit of the announcement.
If Mindy is one of the Final 2, you would think her dad will be in Sydney? No, her dad has mentioned on FB that he will be watching tonight episode at Sarah’s place (Sarah’s is Mindy’s sis). Somehow I think Sarah is not from Sydney and thus Mindy dad is not at the filming today. 2 + 2 = 4 = Mindy not Final 2
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@JLo – Okay, your conspiracy theory has been proven. So who really did kill JFK? I’m going to piggyback off it and feel slightly chuffed that I picked Mindy as the bottom two with Audra. HAHA. littlepetal, just read your post and great pick up as well!
Care to try for the finale, JLo? I saw a few things in the preview that make me think….er….better selection of shots in the editing booth would have been nicer so as to not give away the final two. Anyway (and this isn’t a spoiler) if the finale is to be super close, given that the last round is a dessert, then it would have to be between Audra and Julia. For Andy to win, he has to do so convincingly in the first two rounds. I’m sure he can follow a recipe for a Pressure Test but this is Christine Mansfield’s “Let’s toss 101 ingredients in the pot” recipe. Anyway, more on my thoughts later of what I saw in the previews if people are game for some speculation.
Betches, I told you all over a week ago that Andy and Julia were the final two…
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JStar – They didn’t even air the “unmitigated disaster” segment!! Or did I miss it? So happy my brown plate theory kaput! Phewwww, so worried Audra would go. Good on you for picking Mindy
love playing Sherlock Holme with you. Fun!!
1 x dessert queen, 1 x Asian expert. 1 x pretty boy
Winner will be Andy with seafood cookbook solely based on cookbook conspiracy theory. Haven’t seen the promo yet. Hubby hogging the tele.
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JLo – No longer a theory if proven a fact! 1 x various experts = Final 3 Fact! And you’re right. No “unmitigated disaster” comment.
Not sure if you taped it and I note that Ari (on another thread) pointed out something I noticed as well, but definitely the cloche reveal by Christine Mansfield shows the reflection of two of the contestants. I have my suspicions of who based on other shots but will wait to see if other people want the speculation thread to continue. No fun spoiling if no one else wants to spoil. Lonely spoiler = spoiled sport.
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The final 2 picture:
http://i1263.photobucket.com/albums/ii625/bettyenty/2ec44e4c.jpg
One standing with leg apart, clearly a male. Both are same height. Ruled out a short one.
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wow. i would not have predicted a finale between those two a month ago.
Tomorrow’s Christine Manfield dish:
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Don’t know if this counts as a spoiler but my TV guide says the dish will be a ‘deconstructed golden gaytime’. HOW INTERESTING!
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hahahahaha!!! ahhh this show.
I must admit I love a golden gaytime and the old devil’s gaytimes- which I haven’t seen for ages!
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Ari, Bron – believe or not but that dish is one of her signature dish at her Universal restaurant. I bet they are going to describe the dish as a dessert that has lots of flavours with different textures and layers as they always do. lol
Wow – see post 199.
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Description of the Gaytime dish:
gaytime goes nuts
honeycomb ice cream, caramel parfait,
chocolate crunch, salted hazelnut caramel
OMG JLo – you are right onto it – I m so very, very impressed – bloody cloche – hee hee
Thanks to Ari for the heads up
Hi Sioux Denim, I’m watching the Survivor final as we speak and checking on whats happening on here is keeping me awake! We are just up to final three about to appeal to the jury, can’t wait til its all over.
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Now we are down to one last mystery to solve. Was the SMH winner spoiler indeed a spoiler? Dessert is Julia forte and Andy has never made ice cream before. But I still want to believe the cookbook conspiracy theory that there is no way they are going to have two dessert cookbooks back to back.
Hi A.P – hope you enjoying it.
At Re-union my tape ran out with only 10 mins left (it musta gone over) – so I got most of the stuff – but will have a few questions for you tomorrow! There, I have set you some homework now to keep you awake- hee hee!
Will try! they have just announced the winner now in the studio so I’m dying to see what Colton and Alicia have to say for themselves. Another final tomorrow night with Masterchef, its reality heaven!
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@A.P. & Sioux Denim – You’re putting me to shame! I’ve almost finished the penultimate episode recap but calling it a night. Too tired. Let me know tomorrow on the Survivor thread if you both think Colton & Alicia got off way too lightly (the latter especially – apparently like in Masta Shef, tears forgives everything).
@JLo – Would Julia’s dessert cookbook be different to Kate’s? I have to admit I didn’t flip through hers. If Julia won, would hers be more accessible? As for Andy, didn’t he get through the Top 24 in that Peach Melba challenge? The way the finale is set-up, it definitely favours Andy for the first round. Julia and Audra have cooked entrees but I always thought Audra’s strengths were more mains (comes with cooking for a young family). So in my mind, it really was a toss up as to who would be joining Andy in the next round. But if Julia doesn’t stuff up too much in the next round – (and I don’t think the previews described it as them having to cook a main but it would make sense right?) – then you would expect her to gain ground in that last round.
@JLo no problem.
Oh, you guys are digging deep but I’m too pissed to see what’s on my monitor. I’ve aliminated myself.
Julia…you are a champion.
BDD- I know you will be too pissed tonight with all the celebration. We should all recharge our batteries and fight another day! Incase you know what and who turn up.
Go Julia and Andy. I don’t care who wins and I will not buy their cookbooks.
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I think that looks like Julia and Audra on the cloche.
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I agree. The person standing on the right looks like Audra rather than Andy looking from the pose… could be wrong though
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Oh,what a rockin’ ride it is on the Julia train. She’s come from the clouds to blouse those jive turkeys .You are a ‘ ken champion, Julia. Stick it up groping George ,baby.
We’re in the queue, Georgie! 25 to 1 ,turd features.
Just a reminder of the contestants’ heights:
http://i.imgur.com/eb3I1.jpg
Audra is only slightly taller than Julia’s shoulders. Julia is slightly taller than Andy.
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Compensating for the convex reflection on the cloche…
http://i.imgur.com/PgDWV.jpg
Julia and Andy, it looks like.
Remember, if they make a point of telling us how much someone has improved throughout the competition, that’s almost always just an excuse to convince us, the audience, that they deserve to be in the later stages of the show.
bdd – I went back through the odds and she was 41 to 1 when we started talking her up mate. JStar was there too.
Princess Moxie!
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Regarding the standing posture of the person on the right. Audra could grope Andy or jump all the men she wanted but it is very unlikely for an Asian lady to stand with her legs so far apart.
JStar – Kate’s book plays with a lot of new flavours as with her dessert recipes in Masterchef magazine. In my opinion, Julia is much more traditional and conservative in her dessert – melting moments, lemon syrup cakes… etc. Her dessert cookbook will be concentrating more on techniques and classics which will be slightly different from Kate, I would think.
Julia had every right to be 40 odd to one. She was the last one saved on 5 eliminations and I think one double elimination. Basically on the cusp of elimination from about week 3, and burnt the crap out of that pastry last night, only to saved by raw fish – the unintentionally raw fish, not the intentionally raw fish, and the strategic angling of the camera to only show that burnt crap side on for the tasting so we couldn’t see it was also elimination fodder
It would seem that she’s been destined to be in the final for some time, possibly for reasons other than ability, and she’s only now near the top because, well, with only 3 people left, any position is near the top. You don’t get that close to elimination without being eliminated so often without someone pulling strings for you. If given the choice of whose food to eat, I’d have Andy’s, Audra’s, Mindy’s, Ben’s, Amina’s, non-hormonal Deb’s even (as long as it’s not pig on a spit), and Kylie’s (as long as she didn’t chew the lids off the cream bottles again – pic.twitter.com/NxJgJELX ) before I’d have Julia’s.
I’d be happy for Andy to win. At least he’s improved the whole way through. But even he possibly dodged a bullet in the Tasmanian non-elimination elimination. Maybe the last two were soft scripted into the final some time ago.
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from above:
http://www.realityravings.com/2012/07/15/theheathasbeenturnedup/#comment-56946
Suggested “on good authority” Andy and Julia as the last two, so haven’t even bothered getting on Audra’s case I’d guess the best 3 for the whole series if you averaged an out of 10 score for their individual dishes were Audra, Mindy and Amina, with Andy making a very fast finish down the outside rail.
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