Masterchef All Stars – The Blue Team Cook For “Redemption”
Now Shine Australia has obviously given a nod towards the Olympics with their relay’s and team challenges this week, however last night it would have been good if they implemented a diving style scoring system with more points given for the level of difficulty for the dish in .
Last night the blue team aka season one were cooking off to win some money for their charity of choice and they had to cook one of the dishes that had tripped them up in their original season.
The dish was supposedly decided by a random pull of the knife. Poh had to cook the Matt Moran Chocolate Tart the she had to make in the finale, including tempering chocolate. It was a dish with a lot of technique. Justine was to cook a Matthew Moran Pear Tart which she had burnt when she had originally cooked it. Chris had to cook a Zumbo dessert which involved macaroons and panna cotta and a passionfruit smear, and Julie had to re-make her Passionfruit Puddle Pie.
Poh and Chris were given an extra hour to make their dishes. What was unfair was Julie’s dish was really only a couple of elements, the pastry and the passionfruit creme anglais in the middle. In fact she only filled the pie two-thirds of the way up the pastry which I doubt that was how the original was intended. There was some mention of ice cream but this was never shown.
Poh again was having trouble tempering chocolate and did not get it on the plate, however Matt Preston allowed her to put it on at judging time and then mentioned it had a good crack to it. It had been in the fridge. Apparently this is all in the spirit of the All Stars.
Justine plated up a nice looking tart but it was not good enough, nor was Chris Badenoch’s complex Zumbo dessert because the macarons were not good.
In the end Julie took out first prize as that would be the dish the judges would eat night after night. If I had been the other three cooks I would have been outraged at the injustice and put in an appeal, but then that would be seen as being far too competitive for this series.
Julie did end up sharing her charity money with Poh as she had yet to win any. It was all heartwarming. The challenges are great but there needs to be a more competitive vibe. When Richard Blais went back into Top Chef All Stars he was as focused as an Olympic athlete and he was only there to win.
However on that show they are also competing for money for themselves and so it is game on from episode one.
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Do you think all the knives had the exact same dish on them?!
Loved the suspense of the knife pull! LOL As if all the other knives didn’t have exactly the same thing written on them. Did you see how quickly the judges put the knife block away after each random pull?
I think Julie was earmarked to win from the start. Lots of people thought it was outrageous that she won Masterchef after delivering a cock up dish of ‘puddle pie’ and this way MC could prove that it really was all about the taste and that pie could outstrip anything else anyone delivered; cracked case or not.
A rubbish challenge, with a rubbish result.
The White Wings like pie somehow manages to trump creations by Zumbo and Matt Moran. Piffle pie.
Agree with you all on all points. Now get rid of her. She is an embarrassment.
Hopefully it will become more competitive when the eliminations begin, although if I were Dani or Julie, I’d want to be eliminated straight away to save further embarrassment.
Yes, I do think the knives had the same dishes on them. The puddle pie had too much pastry and not enough filling. This was originally made in a shallow fluted tin but this time she used a deep plain sided pan to make for easier removal. She should have made double the amount of filling. I don’t think she deserved the win.
suit – That did cross my mind…
And what was with giving the contestants crappy ( was it Coles brand?) almond meal to cook the macarons with? As Poh said, she makes them constantly and she knew the meal wasn’t right. Therefore Chris (who’s never made them since the challenge) wouldn’t have had a hope of suceeding making them).
I’ve made them twice – that almond meal looked like it needed to be processed to make it finer, rather than just sieved.
What a load of rubbish. I missed the very beginning, watching Olympics again, so didn’t realise it was a competition to put right earlier errors. Well, Julie’s pie was shocking, too much pastry, not enough tart filling. By making her last night’s winner I reckon they were trying to justify making her the winner of Season 1.
Someone yesterday was right when they said this show will ruin their ‘brands’. I doubt there’ll be another All Stars series as after watching this effort no one will be willing to take part.
I agree. I was really excited but it is so boring…curing my insomnia.
Also RR spot on Poh had a much harder dish. Go Poh, I love her spirit and her cute smile
If only Julie Goodwin had as little filling as her pathetic Puddle Poi.
Get her off.
I did not watch much of season 1 but Julie has shocked me with her lack of skills … and she panics a LOT
Oh, well. I enjoyed the ep and thought they all acquitted themselves nicely, and all redeemed themselves. Justine as a headless chook is distressing viewing, though. Chris leaping to Justine’s aid was a sweet side hardly highlighted before. Julie’s pie was far more complex in its makeup, in Matt P’s assessment of it and his listing of it’s components than you’ve reported, RR.
I am overall enjoying this friendly all-stars series, and god knows it is a tremendous relief to have it on air as I don’t want to know the Olympics is even on let alone watch any of it.
MC All Stars (really?) is becoming increasing more cringeworthy as each show goes on. Julie creates mayhem and doesn’t seem to have confidence and muddles her way through – I’ve now started to watch the beginning to see what they have to do, then the end to see who won – all the nonsense in between, is not entertaining.
Glad Justine told George to bugger off as she finds them intimidating and perhaps the MC Kitchen is very stressful. I’d hate to cook under pressure and The Clock and people asking me what I’m doing and peering over my shoulder and sticking their fingers in my food.
Wonder if Justine was primed to win MC1 but because of a lucrative offer had to leave the show early – (in the world of make believe reality tv) so I hope she or Marion win MC-AS.
Will the suppliers of Matt P’s red circus trowsers from last night will be rushed off their feet today? Near the end of the program, there are credits for the shops who provide clothes for the judges – I’ve often thought that would be a liability, particularly for George.
Agree with all the comments about the rigged nature of this series. Some of the failed dishes would have had specialist ingredients not readily available in Coles or the pantry (which didn’t even have cous cous the other day) and specialist equipment, all of which would have taken a great deal of off-camera production time to aquire and set-up if this was real . I can’t work out how or why the producers let Julie win Series 1 when she has so little cooking ability. I reckon even S4 Andrew had better technique than her.
PlanB, I’m glad I’m not the only one with zero interest in the Olympics.
PlanB – I am sure Julie’s pie is delicious and if they are going to continue judging the winner on what the judges would want to eat each day these are the dishes that would win. The chocolate dessert just looks far to overwhelming to eat more than once a year, the same goes for Chris B’s. It think needed to be given to what they contestants had to do and the technique involved, not just the end result. I must confess I have been watching the Olympics but normally I am a first week watcher than I fade out.
Chris W – I think Julie is probably a good cook but does not have the skill or range of some of the others.
Also I wonder what Julie Jenkins thought of boyfriend Chris assisting Justine, not sure she would be happy having him locked in there with her! As that is where she hooked up with Chris B. Also she must be working her butt off keeping the restaurant going whilst he was away.
Didn’t think the dishes were particularly fair considering that the ‘puddle pie’ is in Julie’s cookbook!!
If I recall S1 finale correctly, Julie only got across the line because her chocolate was tempered so why not make her recreate that dish as well?
Agree with Suit. The knives all had the same dish to cook.
Thought Justine would be performing better than she has been. Hope her game picks up.
Plan B I have zero interest in the Olympics too.
Justine did seem flustered but only half as much as Julie who basically threw her pastry at the pie dish, unlike Poh who carefully rolled it around a rolling pin and unrolled it into her dish. Julie was very flustered, bouncing around, shrieking at her oven, shaking hands; I can’t understand why anyone would buy Julie’s cookbook or follow her recipes in Woman’s Weekly if this is how she behaves in the kitchen. MC thinks they redeemed themselves with their decision to award her first place last night. They didn’t.
Ma$terchef and the Olympics have so much in common, though.
Aussies continually failing in their chosen pursuits.
I am a bit disillusioned with this series. I thought last night it was weird that they judged the dishes on what they would like to eat night after night. That wasn’t the background to the dishes in the first place. When they cooked them in the first series they were part of different challenges. I agree you couldn’t eat the chocolate dish night after night. Although I’d be willing to give it a try!
I love watching the old contestants especially Poh, Marian and Callum (Go SA!) but with Julie and Justine with their TV experience and cookbooks I would have thought they’d breeze through the challenges. Last night did show how much Chris has turned into a restaurant chef (who doesn’t specialise in macaroons!). I thought his dish looked great.
I’m looking forward to the eliminations, as hopefully it will bring a new dynamic to the ‘love fest’ we have seen so far.
Ugh..so far it’s like an Osho Rajneesh ashram,lots of free love,helping,caring,sharing,raising the ” downtrodden ” from mediocrity lest all the cookbook purchasers so far revolt n similar hogwash. Letting every team n everyone win is as scripted as it can get. One thing for sure , in less than week the images of many stars have been tarnished and don’t burn bright anymore. Wonder if Julie would have the guts to publish one more cookbook.
Julie Goodwin certainly doesn’t lack for guts, Whitewine.
The Today Show ought to give her the flick after this , too.
‘…I don’t want to know the Olympics is even on let alone watch any of it.’ – Hear hear
After watching this and constantly cringing, I really home Andy takes up an apprenticeship because I’d hate to see his talent and enthusiasm wasted. These all stars are not masters, not chefs and apparently barely cooks.
You’ve got to realise that after the contestants all leave the show, then they generally go back to their specialties that they cooked before they went on the show. Very few cooks and chefs are all-rounders. My husband is a former Army cook and then chef and he certainly is not an all-rounder. I must admit that I think that Chris probably should have won as his dish had the most techniques but you just really have to accept that the judges have their favourites. Brain Dead Dave, you just lived up to your name, in your criticism of Julie’s physique. This isn’t Biggest Loser, it’s MasterChef All Stars and people are not being judged on how they look.
I read somewhere that Kumar’s book has gone to the publisher and will be out shortly – who is going to buy that after his poor performance this week.
And what a wanker Matt looked in his matching pants, cravat and pocker ‘kerchief.
Did everyone hear Matt Preston?
“It gets down to the dish that we’d like to have for dinner tomorrow night.”
The dish they’d like to have for dinner. And they were all desserts…
Yes, agree that all the knives had the same thing. And I can’t believe Julie won. Her pie looked very “meh” and the pastry was all uneven. I was expecting her to come last!
But I think Julie will probably stick around for a while. The entire MasterChef series after the first season is based on the premise that Julie is a good cook and actually deserved to win…so eliminating her early would be difficult for them.
Thanks Bern but I’ll wait til I’m at church on Sunday to be preached to.
Meantime, learn what a paragraph is for if you want your drool to make sense.
What the judges are planning to “have for dinner tomorrow night” – http://media1.break.com/breakstudios/2012/6/7/Dessert-Buffet.jpg
Good point, Jess.
They often use the ‘wot I’d like to eat’ line as a judging criteria and invariably choose some gooey dessert.
Their collective over-riding sweet tooth along with George’s aversion to chilli leave me wondering just how reliable their palettes are for judging the food.
Bern,
Don’t worry about BDD.
He’s just a spineless little man who likes to pick on females.
You mean like this, bully? You need to back up your garbage slurs, instead of lurking with your moralistic big stick.
I reckon your wheelie bin goes out more than you.
http://www.realityravings.com/2010/07/30/claire-winton-burn-talks-about-her-personal-life/#comments
Stick your bullying, you know where.
“moralistic big stick” –
isn’t this is the star of 50 Shades of Grey?
Ummm – like what exactly?
And LOL at you of all people commenting on someone’s social life.
Ultimate irony.
#26 – Lol, apparently though, it’s okay to give TBL contestants a thorough drubbing about ‘how they look’.
Georgie – I know you’re a BDD disciple and therefore not exactly on the high end of the Mensa scale however Bern’s point was TBL is a show specifically about appearance and weight.
Masterchef is specifically about cooking.
Not exactly difficult to understand I would have thought. For most people anyway.
No such thing as a “Mensa Scale”, Georgie. Just a desperate bully who’d be out of his depth in a birdbath.
Again, where did I call Claire Winton Burn a “slut” btw, bully? To hell with your smears. Bet you can’t back them up.
awww paul’s back szzzzzzzzzz
Thanks for the recap RR! Also LOL @ #20 BDD !
It was cute to see Justine giving Poh a kiss on the cheek!
Julie winning was bullshit. She had the easiest dish to cook andnit wasn’t even executed well. They only gave her the win because it didn’t collapse, so of course it meant to them she had redeemed herself. I’m not even sure why the Puddle Pie was chosen for her, the judges still loved it back in Series 1 and she still knocked out Lucas in finals week with it. She had much bigger disasters.
I definitely would love her to be among the first to leave, but the producers probably won’t want the original winner to be gone so early. She’s the reason this show has never had any real credibility. They gained some with Adam winning Season 2 but then they lost it all again with Season 3.
Morgan,
‘No credibility’
Its been consistently the highest rating show on Australian TV for the past 4 years.
Every chef in Australia clamours to get on.
Advertisers are willing to sell their right kidney to get a slot.
It has spawned a monthly magazine which sells very well.
Its spawned a whole host of cooking accessories that bear the Masterchef name.
Its illuminaries are doing everything from owning their own restaurants, writting cook books, overseeing product ranges, hosting their own TV shows, daily/weekly newspaper articles, guests at Food shows. The list goes on and on.
Thats some pretty fair achievements right there I would have thought.
I reckon you’re being a bit harsh.
First time poster, long time reader… Interesting to see that the brand of almond meal was never shown, although Masterfoods would most surely be the ones used in Chris’ and Poh’s macarons last night.
You lot leeerrrrve <3 <3 <3 a good bicker, doncha?
#40 – Truth is Duddles, bdd is fun to have around and you’re a drag.
bdd@20, JS@41
even our bloody hipsters are failing dismally:-
http://twitchfilm.com/news/2012/07/bondi-hipsters-take-on-the-olympics-opening-ceremony.php
Georgie’s idea of fun = calling other people ‘whores’ or ‘fat’.
Anonymously of course.
Re link on #46… It’s ‘planes of existence’… I must not be a hipster. Success!
Marepoppin it’s plains not planes – they are referring to different ‘lands of existence”
No, it’s ‘planes,’ as in tiers or levels.
I reckon it’s “planes “of existence as opposed to – Julie Goodwin is just a “plain” lardar$e.
More hipster Olympics fails.
This time in interview with some local British rag (http://madeinshoreditch.co.uk/2012/07/30/interview-with-the-bondi-hipsters-dom-and-adrian/
Interviewer: You criticize the looks of English people and say that even Gollum would get action here. Have you gotten any here yet?
Adrian: Basically we have been given many propositions by local East Londoners and some of them look like that young girl in The Ring.
Dom: I’m on the count of four so far. Four for four nights.
Adrian: So me personally I haven’t picked up just yet but the propositions I’ve had are fucking scary. Basically I must attract a certain kind of women and currently that woman is the autistic or mildly disabled.
Dom: Well the Paralympics are just after the Olympics so…
Adrian: Maybe that’s it!
Dom: So when I was like searching for the things about the Olympics that were like interesting and cool I found that condom sales go up by 30 000 units in any given Olympic village alone and you know that sounds like something I wanna be a part of.
Adrian: Yeah true. Not like you’d actually wear one.
Dom: No yeah but the fact is a lot of people are having sex.
Adrian: Yeah and sex is great and therefore anywhere a lot of sex is happening is a great place.
Dom: And the athletes are so geared up on hormones throughout their training and by the time they finish their events they are ready to go.
Adrian: And most of the athletes restrain until they finish their event just to maintain their energy and by the time their done seriously…
Dom: And if you are lucky you can score yourself a Nigerian sprinting woman and you’re into four day sexathon.
Dudley’s idea of fun =
Julie should not have been given the puddle pie to cook last night!
If the whole idea was to revisit failed dishes from the past to try to get them right:
(a) the puddle pie wasn’t really a fail for Julie, because it got her through to finals week in S1 – there were lots of other dishes that she cooked poorly! AND
(b) she has obviously spent LOTS of time working on perfecting the puddle pie recipe since, as it features in her cookbook. And the judges/production team would know that!
http://aww.ninemsn.com.au/food/7924679/passionfruit-puddle-pie
(by the way – look how the pie in the picture has filling all the way to the top).
Even with those significant advantages, her performance was very poor and the others (especially Poh and Chris B) should feel robbed!
I understand that they want her and Kate to do well, as it doesn’t look good to have past winners showed up as failures, but the whole challenge just reeked!!
Julie is what they wanted/needed for a Masterchef winner in the first place. The mum next door typical Aussie type, completely marketable to the public. Do Shine/Channel 10 represent the winners after the show ends? If so look for a Kate/Julie final.
Agree with all the comments about Julie. She is the least talented of the contestants and is only in the fortunate position she is in because she won the first series. They’ve made her the poster girl ever since. People seem to forget that JULIE WAS ELIMINATED IN THE FIRST SERIES and they brought her back!!! None of the subsequent winners were brought back from elimination like Julie was. Not a deserving winner and definitely not an ‘All Star’!
Foodiefan, it was Poh who was eliminated and brought back, not Julie.
I thought you were leaving BDD! I thought you weren’t into preaching … and yet you just preached to me.
Interesting that the judges asked Julie to cook a recipe which she has since published in the AWW. So some facts do come out of this Comments section, not just Comments made on someone’s judgement of a person’s physical appearance …
Ok, I’ll weigh in for a sec or two; Paul, from what I’ve gauged from these last 2 MC seasons, you’ve accused bdd of making derogatory remarks re the contestants’ physical appearance. Rightly or wrongly, he does that, but most of us realise that it doesn’t come from any genuine malice or hatred …. just a bit of sport, with the intent of humour. I think he’s a pussycat, underneath.
You, on the other hand, swoop in like the Archangel Gabriel … and with a haughty ‘benevolence,’ seek to advise the lesser mortals re matters of behaviour etc. It’s a tad irritating.
So bdd critisises physical attributes … you disparage bdd’s character and psyche. What’s the difference? What takes precedence? Smacks of hypocrisy to me.
Anyway, AP, I’m enjoying MC-lite/all-stars … no sweating pressure.
Unfortunately Reality Eraser wiped out a pretty good discussion.
Let’s hope that Paul and the Pussycat will be back soon!
I know! Just saw … did my ‘weighing in’ at the end of about 80 comments and a pretty decent stoush. Now it’s out of context, and I look like an idiot (don’t say the obvious … er, thanks).
Thanks Lulu, I might give MC another go now that the Olympics have gotten pretty boring. I must have missed a lot of the recent comments but yours doesn’t seem out of context considering what was going on.
PS, I just realised my earlier comment looks out of context too!
Yeah AP, I reckon the Olympics, these days, have just about the same veracity of MC, except with more dummy-spits and self-absorption. Actually, I’m surprised they don’t have onion-chopping as an Olympic event … they have everything else.
Still, it’s fun to watch some of it.
bdd; collective noun for your detractors: The Pussycat Trolls ( ….. titters to self)
OK from now on I would ask that Paul and BDD don’t interact with each other and if you do the comment will be deleted even if it says “I Love You and I think you are great.”
The arguments are starting to get repetitive and dull for other readers on this blog.
Thanks for the correction, Moonstruck. You’re quite right – Poh was the one eliminated and brought back, not Julie. I must have got that wrong because it didn’t make sense that Poh was eliminated over Julie. I’m still surprised that Julie won. She is sooo messy and frazzled in the kitchen and not creative at all! If she wins All-Stars, I’ll have to enter – I’m sure I’m better than her!
Foodiefan I think Justine was also brought back after being eliminated. I think Poh did not win because she did not follow the recipe and her chocolate was not tempered. That’s why she got to do it over. Also bringing back eliminated contestants became very controversial and Poh was called the Impohster. So that might have also been a factor in her not winning.
Yes Julie is messy and Justine went into a daze so perhaps being under time pressures is something they are not used to. Perhaps that’s why they had them do a week without eliminations so they can get into the rhythm of being in the masterchef kitchen. As has already been commented on, it’s not their best hour. I wonder if they are regretting appearing on the show.
Yes, you’re correct on all points, Moonstruck. I remember all of those issues now (Poh not following the recipe etc). I just hope Julie gets eliminated soon – she’s an embarrassment! If she somehow goes on to win All-Stars, I won’t know what to make of it. She definitely doesn’t cut it against the likes of Adam Liaw or recent winner Andy.
At least Julie did not win tonight. Not sure about Dani’s win though. However, the judges should have been impartial. If I were one of the chef’s not shown I would be pi$$ed off. It was very obvious who would come out a winner. While Kumar is cute, he is out of his depth. He should be the first to go.
Yeah, glad she didn’t win! I agree that Kumar is out of his depth (and cute) and that he, Dani and Julie should be in the early eliminations. Hoping Marion takes out the title.
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