Heya Trashies!
So three eps in and I’m still not gelling with this new show. There’s too many kids, or not enough time for each to get show cased, whichever way you want to look at it. Waving bye bye to contestants you haven’t even seen before that ep is a sign that things aren’t going well.
Hopefully this week I’ll find something nicer to say about the demonic hellspawn and their cooking antics.
Yay! They’re all chained up!
Sadly not. The rugrats appear and start yelling at a large box. ‘Oh my god its a box!’ Which is what we did in the UK in my childhood when tv ended, at about 10pm.
Its supposed to the kids that play dress up
What this means for the mystery box is, well, a mystery to me. Tracey Dyson appears, a ‘real live astronaut’. We wouldn’t want to see a real dead astronaut wheeled on so that’s a good start. The kids get to ask questions of the astronaut, and she talks about re-hydrated food, and then we’re told the challenge is space food. Making rehydrated food would be ace. One mini guesses it will be cheese as the moon is made of it, and who ever owns that child should send her to a better school – oh holy crap she’s right.
Masterchef doing its bit to educate children. Moon is made of cheese.
I wouldn’t be a fun Dad. As a child, I refuted the possibility that Father Christmas existed as illogical by the age of 5, so I certainly wouldn’t encourage my kids to believe stupid crap like the moon is made of cheese at the age of 8. I was learning about vulgar fractions, reverse percentages and long multiplication by then, so ideas like ‘the moon is made of cheese’ should be binned long ago. Luckily I’m bitter and single so it’s all worked out ok.
A cheese mystery box doesn’t like a half bad idea though, so overall things are looking up. Cheeses can be creamy to salty, strong or mild, so there’s loads of scope here for savory or dessert dishes. Addison is going a fairly classic ‘three cheese’ ravioli, and shes rolling her own pasta so go girl.
Remember what I said about new faces? Meet JJ the previously unseen.
A ‘Bond Villain’ in his spare time.
He’s making a cheese enchilada, with cheddar and Gouda. I’ve had a very long hard day, on the back of three long hard days which were supposed to a weekend, so that sounds like it would hit the spot right about now. Preferably with a tumbler of neat vodka, but it still sounds great.
Judging time already! So far they’ve just been focusing on the best three, leaving the disastrous burger inferno of ep1 for instance, so I imagine they’ll be doing that again today.
Addison is up first.
Its certainly green.
It looks ok and Gordy is pleased., bar the presentation piling them up like she did. Bit picky Gordy, but fair enough.
Next up is Kaitlyn. I think she’s appeared before. She’s made lemon ricotta cookies, which don’t fly my boat but sound ok otherwise.
Ok they aren’t really cookies, they’re stuffed macaroons.
As a bunch of French nuns invented that, and France hasn’t had a good week, its only fair to stick to what they called it. Even if they were French. TG loves them, and she has been fairly imaginative.
Last is JJ and his enchiladas.
The presentation could use a little work.
It does sound good food though, with a sharp cheddar. He’s put a cheese crisp on top giving the enchilada a new texture too, so it sounds ace.
The winner is Kaitlyn with her well balanced, stuffed macaroons. Or sandwiched, whichever you prefer. She doesn’t get to go the pantry with the judges, they just wheel out a big tray of fish.
Bet these smell good after three hours under studio lighting
So its not a large stretch of the imagination to see they’re going to be cooking fish. They’re not going to have to fillet any fish.
Fillet this, before it fillets you.
Its a moon fish. No I wouldn’t want to tell it it was dinner. TG proceeds to expertly fillet it, which is pretty impressive.
Kaitlyn gets immunity, and she gets to be masterchef fishmonger. A word which mystifies the kids, although how I don’t know. Ok I grew up in a port so I knew what a fishmonger was. She looks like handing out the fish is fun for her, and she gets to save one other sprog – Addison the soft ball queen.
Each sprog then gets to pick the kind of fish they want to fillet and work with, and Kaitlyn gets to try and smack them in the face with a dead fish. Shades of Monty Python there. Kya chooses a salmon that is almost as big as she is, so she gets spared having it thrown at her.