I like watching team challenges best ,it’s more stressful for the contestants when they all have to work together as a team.
I still watch each and every episode of MasterChef. I still regret not catching up on the very first season when I had the opportunity. I know there are season 1 episodes on YouTube but I feel not every episode is there
Team challenges and eliminations are the most interesting episodes of the week (well the pressure tests are hit and miss… I found Nigella’s chicken one boring but last night’s one was really interesting). I can easily miss Sunday and Tuesday these days… even though Sunday is prob the best one to watch as you see more of the contestants cooking individually the episodes just seem long and the format of mystery box / invention test a bit tired.
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Tomorrow’s team challenge with guest judge Yotam Ottolenghi was held at HWKR at the northern fringe of Melbourne CBD at the end of January, based on the promo and the food centre’s Instagram account (a post said it was closed from January 28 to 30, I think the period was needed to temporarily clear existing decorations so each team had a clean room to cook). MasterChef 2017 champion Diana Chan and 2018 winner Sashi Cheliah both had pop-up food stalls at HWKR for three months.
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Next Week is Secret Week:
Sunday 26th May:
It’s Secrets Week, and, after a quick workshop with Din Tai Fung’s Edward Yulianto, our cooks must create a tasty dumpling dish and later invent a dish that incorporates a secret. Shh.
Monday 27th May:
Three contestants face a pressure test and will cook a paella based on an award-winning dish by Leno Lattarulo from Melbourne’s Simply Spanish. Simple, right? Wrong. It is Secrets Week, after all.
Tuesday 28th May:
These immunity rounds involve sauce, secrets and citrus. A contestant will face off against an established chef that will be kept secret from everyone, including the judges, until the very end.
Wednesday 29th May:
Each team is allocated a ‘secret weapon’ and must create a four-course Italian meal for 40 diners. Whichever team serves the least impressive meal will go into the next pressure test.
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That would mean contestants on the gantry would not be able to see the chef in action during the immunity challenge either. How would he or she recount her cooking experience?
Must check it out next time I’m in Melbourne
George has revealed more details about his eye injury. He said he missed just one day of filming on MasterChef but he is in genuine discomfort. He said:
What you will see on this series of MasterChef is me wearing sunnies in certain episodes and weird-coloured glasses in others, and I do apologise for that.
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2017 runner-up Ben Ungermann did a public talk at a food festival in Bali last month. Here is a compilation.
Ben said in the interview that each contestant would get around 30 minutes of feedback from the judges during mystery box and invention test (which meant contestants standing behind the benches for 12 hours), but viewers would only see five seconds of that.
Ben mentioned that there was no TV in the mansion he and fellow contestants lived in Melbourne’s east, which was a little bit different from the first few seasons of the show, in which contestants could watch a selection of channels to keep track of what’s happening on the outside world. I wondered if the producers took away the TV to ensure contestants concentrate on practicing their cooking?
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That doesn’t even make sense. What could they possibly be talking about for 30 minutes? If you include cooking and challenge time you can’t tell me that they spend 14-15 hours in the kitchen. I reckon he’s grossly exaggerating. It’s still light outside when they give the results, although I know it’s summer.
I know from past interviews that mystery box and invention test takes around 12 hours to film, including cooking, cleaning up, judges feedback and contestants recounting.
I can’t wait to the episodes that were filmed in Brisbane and the Gold Coast.Sorry that I didn’t go along that day they were filming here ,
was in February I think
Tonight’s secret chef was none other than season 4 winner Andy Allen.
He competed in the immunity challenge against Sandeep. Initially, only Poh and some of the contestants up the gantry knew who the secret chef was. To keep his identity secret to Sandeep during the cooking, Andy had to ask Poh to grab the ingredients for him.
Sandeep had a great day in the kitchen, easily winning the first round against Derek, Larissa and Tati before securing three 10s from the judges in the main challenge to beat Andy. I believe Sandeep is the first ever contestant to receive a perfect score to win the immunity pin. Andy got three 8s (the scoring video can be seen below), although I think having a separate video is unfair to the show’s overseas fans who have to wait months to see tonight’s episode.
Yes, the Queensland episodes were filmed in February. Discussion began on post 2069 of this thread.
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Well that makes more sense as opposed to Ben saying it takes 12 hours just to give comments on the invention test.
I’m so over boring cooks like Sandeep who just cook a curry 90% of the time getting constant over the top praises from the judges. We had Sashi last year who was not a creative cook but the judges loved because they love a good curry. I’m over it. In that style of cooking I find Niti a little more creative… but Masterchef is meant to be about pushing the boundaries and being inventive. Not just cooking the food that will take Sandeep “back to the coast of India”. Any average Indian cook can pull off those sort of dishes.
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The two nonnas appearing on tonight’s team challenge are Rosa Mitchell from Rosa’s Canteen (in red apron) and Olimpia Bortolotto, founder and chef of Cecconi’s restaurant (in green apron). Both restaurants are located in Melbourne CBD.
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I’m really looking forward to this week.
