A tricky, albeit quick pressure test 
Sad to see Trent go, although I am not surprised.
He failed to properly execute the dish and it just didnâr gel.
Jess safe by the skin of her teeth.
Sam on the other hand was excellent, huge redemption.
Tonightâs pressure test was a classic case of tortoise and hare race. Sam was meticulous and worked way too slow in the first 1.5 hours, but he gradually caught up and those components contributed to a near perfect dish. Trent and Jess were steady during cooking but made mistakes towards the end, the lack of crunchy elements leading to Trentâs elimination and Jess barely surviving despite the bitter beetroot puree.
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It was so close for Tamara in tonightâs immunity challenge, losing to Clinton Oliver by just one point. I wonder if the result would have been different if Tamara made the chicken broth first instead of the dumpling dough, giving the broth more time to develop its flavour. Earlier, Tamara just beat Ben and Samuel in the mac and cheese challenge. It was funny to hear Tamara using Hong Kong-style âcheung funâ (correct name is rice noodle roll) as the inspiration for her cannelloni dish. Samuelâs twist using cauliflower instead of cheese was admirable but the sauce was a bit too heavy for the judgesâ liking.
The preview for the South Melbourne Market team challenge (against State of Origin opener) says a massive problem developed when the food went on sale. I wonder what that problem was (but I think itâs not the vegan protest).
P.S. the herbs in the immunity challenge were arranged in order based on the lyrics of Paul Simonâs Scarborough Fair:
Are you going to Scarborough Fair?
Parsley, sage, rosemary & thyme
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The editors did work hard to remove any references to protests by the vegans in tonightâs South Melbourne Market challenge, however if you look closely at the screen you can still see some traces. For example, when the judges were sampling food from green team (this photo is from the Herald Sun report of that day):
During the TV broadcast, the camera zoomed in to the judgesâ faces so you could see people holding up the signs behind, but you could not see what the signs said.
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Yep, good editing.
I loved tonightâs episode, best team challange yet.
Some delicious dishes.
The crowd at the South Melbourne Market was HUGE!
Bad luck Red and Yellow.
Why edit it? Shows how fake the show is and is probably a reason the show is suffering this season.
Of course they were going to edit that out, that can hardly can be considered fake for remove something real from a reality tv show 
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I would consider that the sole definition of fake. They could have embraced it.
Meanwhile - nothing to see at all in the many wide shots that were shown. Is the Herald Sun image fake?
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Fake news
And end up with a protest at every outside event going forward? They should not be encouraged and glad they were ignored.
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Despite the protest it was an exciting challenge. All four teams underestimated the amount of food they had to cook and serve, so much so that red team ran out of pancake (and had to serve pork on lettuce cup) and the green team sold all its pork before the two hours were up.
A total of $13,728 was raised for Kidney Health Australia from the sales. Great effort from all four teams.
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What makes Masterchef stand out is that theres no manufactured drama unlike MKR. It should stay that way. Why would they embrace a bunch of crazy vegans protesting the consumption of meat.
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Yeah that is true.
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Whoa whoa whoa. Theyâre passionate, not crazy. If they were crazy they wouldâve tried to physically or phsycologically harm the judges, contestants or crew.
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Well all the judges have done some very questionable things since the event 
Well I was at the challenge when it was filmed and those protesters were a nuisance. They ruined the vibe of the entire event so of course they werenât going to show themâŠ
Watching it back last night I was impressed at how well they edited them out, although you could tell that they limited the crowd shots and repeated shots of crowds from earlier on before the
protesters were there in full force to get by it.
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No. Someone that wastes their day making a protest sign, then heading down to an event where other people are enjoying themselves, to then just scream and wave signs on television, thereby ruining the day for everyone else, is crazy.
Now thatâs separate to vegans actually being crazy for denying themselves nutrients in the mistaken belief that they are somehow displaying how morally superior they are to others.
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Now I get youâre trying to stir the pot but Iâm going to try and take this seriously.
Have you ever been so passionate about something that you try to make a difference to the cause, and then have people with the opposing views mock you?
The crux of their belief is to stop animals being slaughtered for human consumption. The reason why they protest and make placards is because, maybe not today but in the future, animals wonât be slaughtered for food and everyone will turn vegan.
Canât speak for these folk, but the veganâs Iâve encountered have all been nice blokes and donât try to push their agenda (if they even have one).
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It had been a bad week for Jess. She twice faced elimination and her team lost in the South Melbourne Market team challenge. I admired her creativity and determination but sometimes she was too stubborn. In tonightâs elimination Jessâ poached egg was not runny in the first round, so why did she try again in the crucial final round? She should have tried another cooking method.
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