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The end is in sight and its time to whittle out the last two losers before the finale. My guess is that Avery and Amaya go, but maybe the producers will leave off forcing ‘stories’ for each contestant on us and just let it happen, but we’ll see.
Addison and Zac witter on about how important this all is, but I suppose as 100,000 dollars is at stake it is fairly important.
The four remaining minis get told that something important is under the cloches in front of them.
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We’ve decapitated your parents and made a salad out of them.
It would be a nice twist if they had, but alas its just another mawkish way of reuniting the sprogs with their spawners. There’s a few minutes of excited screaming at how amazing it is to see someone you haven’t seen for a while. Amaya claims ‘things just got real in the Masterchef kitchen’. Hopefully not, or your mom has just been beheaded. I don’t actually know what ‘things just got real’ means, I hear it all the time but I’m never sure what I’m what I’m supposed to take away from it. Up to this point we had extra lives? We could Ctrl+U and have another go? In the end the only interesting thing in this segment is that Amaya’s Mom is a bit of a hottie.
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I shouldn’t find disembodied heads attractive
Next the parents get to give the kids a gift box chosen at random, then they go, having dispensed the ever so important inspiration the kids needed. Or something like that.
The gift boxes appear to be mystery boxes, Amaya gets dark chocolate, Avery gets strawberries, Zac gets milk chocolate, Addison gets blackberries. I think. Or black raspberries. They’re making souffles with their ingredient.
Unfortunately Amaya has never done this before, so its going to be a 45 minute voyage of discovery for her. There’s no mention of what the winner gets yet, which is odd, but as its a mystery box it must be a super-duper-game-changing advantage. Souffles are hard to make, but not as hard as is now being suggested. The hyperbole gets out of control and the expectation is now that Christ’s second coming is more likely to happen in the next five minutes than the souffles working out ok.
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This or the Rapture
Tosi, as the token baker, explains how to make the souffle. Don’t split the mix, and so on. She does mention a key point, they take 18 minutes to cook. They don’t really have the time to do a test batch so they’re winging it and picking the best one they make. They end up serving some very decent efforts, looks-wise.
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March of the Souffles
Addison’s in the far background looks the best. The judges rapidly taste all four, as they will be deflating with every passing second. Amaya owns up that she didn’t taste the mix until after it had going into the mold, Zac winged his mixture instead of measuring it, but that’s not a bad thing if he knows what it should taste like. Gordy asks Addison if she tasted her souffle before serving one, she didn’t. It wouldn’t have helped her if she did, as by then it was too late to do anything about it surely?
We get to hear a lot of the judging, and its mainly all positive. So we don’t hear the bits where they mention any bad parts. In fact, they don’t criticize anyone they just announce Addison has won. She wins an advantage for the elimination round – presumably her main advantage is the producers have decided she’s in the finale already. She makes some more softball analogies which fall on deaf ears as me and sports are barely nodding acquaintances.
She has to cook, but she is getting an advantage. The judges show her four plates with the contestants faces on it.
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The worrying undercurrent of cannibalism in Masterchef continues
Addison gets to choose cuts of pork and give them to contestants, and picks on for herself. Traditionally this is where the meme of ‘You thought making contestant X would fail with the pork belly, but in fact they cooked amazingly well’ would kick in, but I’m not sure it will in a semi-final.
The cuts are pork belly, pork loin, pork ribs, pigs ears. The obvious trap are the pigs ears, because although they’re very popular round the world, they might be a bit unconventional for the minis. The other trap are the ribs – cooking those in an hour is a hard sell even with a pressure cooker. All delicious cuts though.
They have an hour – Zac gets the pig ear, Avery gets the pork belly, Amaya the pork loin and Addison kept the ribs for herself. That very likely means Addison has a clear idea for those ribs, so is going to be fine. Zac on the ears, well that’s a crap shoot.
Avery might be in trouble as she’s cut the belly very thick. The dish she’s making sounds good though. Amaya is also on the rocks.
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I’ll have my tapeworm and food poisoning to go please
She has to put it back in the oven, but now its cut that’s a one way trip to crapsville with a loin. Not that she has a lot of options at this point. Gordy is already singing Zac’s praises so has the meme has triggered after all?
Judging!
Addison is up with her soda-braised ribs, with a strawberry and potato salad.
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This is as close as I’d like to get.
I like ribs dry, or dry ish, with salt and chilli myself. The sticky sweet stuff I’m not so fond off, but your mileage may vary. Gordy thinks the presentation sucks but the taste is good, and she braised the ribs for long enough. Tosi loves them even more.
Zac is up, and is still bleating about how amazing it is he’s made the ears taste good. Hes get props for doing well, but then again the ears are pretty tasty and are eaten all over the world so it’s not like he’s discovered a new continent or the cure for cancer.
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Quail and pigs ear, the natural pairing on any menu
He’s made the ears crispy, and its presented really well. Then TG discovers a hidden problem. The pigs ear is under cooked and has the texture of silly string.
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In the shops for christmas, gooey pigs ear string
Shocker! Has my deep cynicism led me up the garden path? Could Zac be on the rocks? Everything else is great, and TG hints that it might not be a problem. Gordy backs him up on this, and the squealing of metal and gears as the Zac train is forced back on the tracks is audible. But that pigs ear looked rank, can they spin it as a win?
Avery is up next with her Braised belly and sweet potato mash.
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It reminds me of a fried snail
Tosi loves it. She thinks its perfectly braised, and well balanced. The pugnacious Avery might have pulled it off. You can see why her family want her back to do the cooking again. Surely this is Zac booted? First there’s Amaya though.
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It all looks well and good, and sounds tasty, but Gordy thinks the presentation is too simple, and the pork is undercooked through lack of resting. She gets high points for the flavors but its the boot for Amaya almost certainly.
The final elimination is here. The first cook through is Avery! Serves me right for being a cynical old bastard, but that’s a wicked good result. If Addison gets dumped I’ll be shocked beyond my capacity to express it.
The second through is indeed Addison. Was it fair that Zac got a harder cut? No. Tough luck though and his rampant ego needs a bit of deflating. Gordy declares he was his ‘front runner’ and he sounds a bit pissed to let him go. It does make you wonder if Zac’s mis-step with the ear wasn’t planned, and Avery did so well they couldn’t justify keeping him in.
So the finale is Avery and Addison, with Addison seemingly on a roll, but it would be great if Avery could snatch victory from the Annoying One.
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