Sorry to see Pia eliminated,I thought Ray would be going instead
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So sad to see Pia eliminated 
Still shocked!
What a pressure test though, that cake was insane, certainly the hardest Iâve ever seen.
Glad to see sheâs moving on well.
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Tonightâs immunity ep was the BEST yet 
WOO HOO! Congratulations Eloise.
What⌠A⌠Dish.
That whisky sauce made Gary cry with joy and as a result a perfect score.
Not what 23 y/o restaurant owner Charlie wanted to see.
Eloise really showed her talent tonight. She won the first round with a tasty Japanese fried chicken with chilli caramel, then beat Atlas Diningâs Charlie Harrington in the immunity challenge with a stunning dessert. It was a one sided result too (28 to 21).
Tomorrow is the dreaded team relay challenge. Some of you may remember that relay challenge in season 7 when John Carasig changed his teamâs intended dish, forcing fellow team member Georgia Barnes to come up with an entire dish with just a few minutes to go. The preview for tomorrow suggests there will be another controversy coming up. Also the preview seems to suggest a twist in the relay challenge. Normally contestants would be divided into teams at the start, but it looks like only the first member of each team would be picked, with other team members to be randomly assigned by the judges in the storeroom.
Also, what was Ten thinking when its promo said âif there is only one episode of MasterChef to watch this season, it is the relay challengeâ? Doesnât it want viewers to watch the grand final too?
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Has the floating egg or whatever aired yet?
Nope. It is âcoming soonâ apparently.
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They are really overhyping that floating ice cream. Hopefully it comes next week as Iâm tired of the promos.
Really good Immunity challenge last night - it is usually my least favourite episode of the week but I enjoyed it. The guest chef didnât really do anything outstanding, but it was the case where Eloise was playing to her strengths with desserts and the guest chef was a more savoury cook.
Tonight is the relay, always a fun task to watch.
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It is the Pressure test on Monday.
I enjoyed tonightâs episode,the relay team challenge,they only had 45 seconds to hand over to the next team member and explain what they had done to the dish so far.Not being allowed to choose who goes on what team made it harder too
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It was another eventful relay team challenge. It was a bold idea having the judges deciding who cooked next on all teams, making the 45 second changeover all important.
Michelle almost ruined the blue teamâs team when she fried the roast pork and steamed the bun too early and without much preparation (it also showed her weakness in savoury dishes - I hope she made one in next Sundayâs mystery box and invention test). Fortunately, Karlie and Jess came to the rescue and salvaged it with a shallot pancake plus twice cooked maple pork and a salad.
The green team was doomed from the start when Benita decided to make a Singaporean crab and chilli dish and used maple syrup in place of brown sugar in seasoning. As George pointed out, the maple taste was lost during the cooking, so no matter how Benita and the four contestants which followed her tried, it was always set to fail.
The yellow teamâs maple syrup ice cream with a tuile was the best dish from the challenge with red teamâs maple nut ice cream with maple bacon not far behind, but the latter was almost derailed by Ray forgetting to add the finished jelly at the end, which would have enhanced the dish even further.
Gee, funny they had two options then - healthy (savoury) and indulgent (mainly sweet)âŚwith the indulgent containing whisky. What ever shall Eloise have chosen? 
I couldnât stand Tuesdayâs ep. Eloise is this seasonâs Dani - she narrates well and looks âuniqueâ enough to be taken to to the end by producers (no matter what).
Her waffles dish was a dish on top of wafflesâŚthe other two contestants actually cooked a waffle dish. I canât stand the pre-planned shenanigans where they all âfightâ over the food at the tasting table. She was going through no matter what.
Then when it came to tasting the final dishes from the pro and EloiseâŚthey had any more gripes about the proâs dish that didnât even happenâŚapparently hard to find an acidic element in that grouping to cut through the sweetness (he did with the cherries)âŚthe dish needed to have a light element to offset the heavy ganache (he did with the foam).
Eloiseâs dish looked like slopâŚoh but that whisky sauceâŚgee, they havenât tasted whisky beforeâŚit was ah-mazing. Give me a break. Gary holding up and licking his spoon like an idiot. Matt scraping his bowl clean. How cringey. How juvenile.
She was winning that pin no matter what. Theyâre back to their old shenanigans this season.
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The yellow teams dish looked yummy,they all worked great together as a team,deserved to win the challenge
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I donât agree with that. It was a very modern and inventive take on waffles that a lot of cafeâs are doing these days. Iâve seen similar style dishes at cafeâs in Melbourne.
I agree that her presentation wasnât very good and it was very sloppy. Although to be fair regardless of the scores (which it probably didnât deserve 10s), the professionals dish wasnât that great and pretty basic and she deserved the win. Not by that margin though.
Yeah it did. I donât know what Benita was thinking with the seafood dish. Who the hell thinks of seafood when they see maple sauce? There is a thing called being inventive but that was just being stupid. Although the second cook that came in should have probably ditched that idea and gone for something else.
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###Sweet Week
From Sunday 21 May At 7.30pm.
It is the sweetest week ever on MasterChef Australia, with a week full of unforgettable challenges, impossible creations and a dessert that will defy gravity.
Chocolatier Kirsten Tibballs sets a mystery box challenge on Sunday but all is not as it seems when the contestants take to their mystery box with a mallet.
Then, two-time winner of Asiaâs pastry chef awards, Janice Wong (pictured left) treats the contestants to a display of her edible art â a spectacular wall of over 1,000 hand-made flowers that glow in the dark â to inspire them to create an winning invention test dish of their own.
On Monday night, dessert queen Christy Tania sets a pressure test challenge like no other with her awe-inspiring dish, floating ice-cream which includes a helium-filled toffee balloon. It has to be seen to be believed.
In a surprise immunity challenge on Tuesday, there are not one but three immunity pins up for grabs. All three contestants will have a chance to cook against a professional chef. The professional chefs taking on the contestants this week are MasterChef Australia alumni Reynold Poernomo plus Angelique Peretto and Lauren Eldridge.
Our contestants will be pushed to their limits on Wednesday when they must design and create their own edible art installation in a specially constructed greenhouse. Pastry chef Darren Purchese is our guest mentor and will help guide the contestants through this marathon eight hour challenge.
We wrap up with Sweet Week on Thursday evening with a blind taste test that will send one contestant home.
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Angelique Peretto and Lauren Eldridge are two of the rising stars in the food industry (Lauren even worked for several months at Massimo Botturaâs Osteria Francescana, award the worldâs best restaurant last year) so it promises to be a great immunity challenge.
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They should do a vegan or vegetarian week
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I expect next week to pull large audiences, Monday will be huge (given the heavy promos the past two weeks).
Canât wait, so interested to see how Christy (who had the largest non-final audience in the final weeks last year) made her unbelievable dessert 
Thereâs lots of things they serve up in Melbourne cafes. Often involving test tubes or plating up on chopping boards or an old bathroom tile. Doesnât mean that they are right. 
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On Mondayâs pressure test you could see Pia starting to write her diary. The date on top of the page said Tuesday, December 6, 2016. If the challenge was filmed on that day, it means next weekâs Sweet Week would be the last before the contestants and crew had their Christmas/New Year holiday.
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I donât know I prefer food in Melbourne to amywhere else in Australia.
Thereâs a reason that we are known as the food capital of Australia.
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