On the first day of finals week, each contestant will cook with one of five mystery boxes from a past season. Who will be make it through to the next challenge?
I’d be hoping for a season one mystery box. Here’s an example: Chocolate, oranges, eggs, sugar, coconut, flour. Poh won for Chocolate Pikelets with Orange Sauce. How times have changed.
So true Juz, times have changed.
Desserts are so repetitive now – always ice cream/mousse/tuile/crumb with jelly blobby bits – always the same. And adding mushrooms or basil doesn’t make it different, just stupid.
When was the last time anyone made pikelets, a flan or even, dare I say, a cake?
Other than a “micro sponge” – cakes are just too hard for this lot!
“Flashback ” or “flushback”? Here lies a show that has gone down the toilet.
Let’s hope Finals Week isn’t a bad trip.
From TV Guide, no episode on Thursday!!
So the Finals week drag on for another week!
I think they don’t want to have the finale against Ninja Warrior finale ( only assuming it will be on Monday ,30 July).
So now finale on Tue
So Survivor will start on the Sunday, do you think?
No. survivor starts on Wed
Oops sorry yes Wed, August 1
Called 19 a genius in the flushback not even out of the intro yet. We know where this is going.
Ben gets Burnt is that supposed to be irony?
Chloe gets the Mini Box, which has teeny ingredients like Tiny Teddies, whitebait and mustard seed. Ben’s Burnt Box includes tea, ashed goat’s cheese, pork ribs and a hibachi to cook it on. Khanh’s Big Box features a cabbage, giant strawberries, tomahawk steak and pearl couscous. Jess gets the Molecular Box, which includes tonnes of dessert ingredients, like chocolate, orange, hazelnuts and fancy setting agents. Sashi has the silver box, with silver beet, silver side, silver edible glitter and a can of a mystery ingredient. Khanh’s Box is a good all rounder, although as he says there are no herbs or spices
I just want to take a pair is scissor and cut the strand of hair that is always falling off Chloe’s face
Of course Only 19 get to do dessert
IKR the fix is definitely in
Most definitely. Plus she gets extra ingredients under the bench.
I am not watching so please let me know how/ why she gets extra ingredient?
Because she got the molecular gastronomy box.
Chloe’s wearing the infamous mustard top.
Why is it infamous? Back story please
Just a very observant observation on my part
Khanh hijacks dessert.
It’s top five exclaims Khanh and then proceeds to make a strawberry sorbet.
I think Ben can win the mystery box
Spoke too soon. Ben is doubting himself again
I was going to post that. When he gets doubtful, he gets flustered.
Hahaha…the voice over intones that these are the ‘best of the best’. Talk about oversell.
“These are the best turds we could find!”
Maybe it’s Chloe who gets Burnt. Maybe she should turn down that fry in her voice as well.
Oops posted in the wrong place. Lol
The judges tell Only 19 the difference between agar (strength) and gelatin (flex).
Oh… she is making a cherry sorbet.
Khanh tastes hi food again and it tastes really good. What? No?
I’m proud of you. Guess the contestant who got this praise. Not seen given to the other.
As usual Khanh is singing his own praises
Given how much praise is being direction towards Chloe and Under19, if you didn’t pat yourself on the back, you would wonder why you had applied for the show in the first place. Self-doubt has sent many a cook home.
Too often this season there has not been an even playing field. It is much fairer to make them choose from the same group of ingredients.
And I’m heartily sick of “playing for a super advantage”, just let them cook FFS!
I’m not sure how they chose who got which box but not at all surprised 19 got one she was thrilled about. Chloe must me feeling her slip from favour.
Ben wins the Mystery Box with his sticky ribs. The others get 75 mins for the invention test and an open pantry, with no theme. They can do whatever they want.
Jess is doing a Negroni dessert with a granita. What is with all the granitas this season? Sashi is making an Indian styled dessert. Khanh is doing a prosciutto ice cream with crackling and apple. Savoury desserts are so in. Chloe is doing a “forest floor” with “chlorophyll”. I have no idea what this means – no doubt there will be kale dust involved
I had no idea of chlorophyll as a cooking ingredient, either, only knew that it’s something to do with photosynthesis.
After a very brief read of google results, it seems to be a fiddle fart way of extracting the green from parsley. For Chloe’s forest floor, maybe moss or green slime? Ick.
Here we go again. George mentioned Jess age again
How old is Jess?
Dunno – I don’t think they have ever mentioned it.
Oh here we go 19 and A Genius. Lots of conferring. Eating without words and knowing loving look amongst the judges. Age mentioned. Molecular box not easy, brilliant cooking, clever. Didn’t see that coming.
I’m so glad I haven’t had a drink every time 19s age was mentioned, if I’d started at the beginning of the season I’d need a liver transplant by now.
That’s ok JayBlossom, I can do that for you. So my trigger words are 19, genius, scared, nervous and phrases, this tastes so good, she is only 19, and that’s fantastic. Drunk already on.
Drinking game!
Bwahahahaha yes!
We ded.
oh Maz. I am drunk and I have just read this – it took like 5 seconds of masterchef for a full card and an empty glass.
Ben don’t stand a chance. It will be Only 19 or Khanh winning the mystery box
Gary tells Sachi his fish is not one that can be used for stock 15 minutes out. A hint could have been dropped at the beginning IF this was a fair challenge.
Wow Sashi did better than I thought he would there is some light in MC world
Agree
And Ben! Huzzah
No. survivor starts on Wed
Oh wait is the fix in? Nope Ben!
I’m stunned! Happy but stunned.
Finally !!!!! Ben winning dish!!!
More mousses. I won’t be disappointed.
More tuile!!
So they finally get to shine without the fixers. Jess knows about alcohol and booze. Maybe the fix hasn’t left the building. Jess is pulling on the heartstrings really George.
But it is yet another “cook whatever you want” challenge. The umpteenth this season. The judges really need to go they can’t even be bothered thinking of challenges, just in it for the pay check.
And another granita.
She’s used booze a few times now. One for the chef, one for the dish
Forest floor. That is Reynold’s dish.
I knew I heard it elsewhere, but was it also an elimination challenge from someone else. Chloe’s original thought bubbles. Look like Gary and George have lost interest mentoring her.? Oh wait Matt just gave her the idea.
Huh. She still is blank. How did she get into the Top 5 again?
Um – forest floor – I ordered it about 7 years ago at Sepia in Sydney! https://www.goodfood.com.au/eat-out/good-food-guides/watch-martin-benn-make-sepias-amazing-forest-floor-dessert-20160901-gr662s
https://www.google.com.au/amp/s/www.pinterest.com/amp/pin/238972323956660935/
This dish is a tweak of that~ Forest Flaw.
Oh look – mousse and tuille – something different
They are the best. So of course they push themselves.
While the judges merely pull themselves.
Chloe is stuck on emulating moss..
Can’t help remembering last time Chloe did a chocolate log, she served up a giant chocolate turd.
I wonder if this will be the mossy turd?
The turd with stomach lining present
I love working with chocolate. It is one of my siiiiiiiinnns.
Kale and Chocolate?🤢🤢🤢🤮🤮🤮🤮
As a nutritionist. . . I like to ruin perfectly nice chocolate with kale.
Gordon Ramsay finds a load of rotting kale in a restaurant on his new show this week. He’s not impressed.
Did Khanh not learn anything from MKR cut the cracking off and just roast that under high grill heat. Sheesh I don’t eat meat and I even know that. Lol
Don’t worry. He is doing an ice cream as well.
When he is only using the pork crackling, why bother to roast the whole pieces
Oh yak. Pork belly in a dessert!
Even Sachi is doing an ice cream.
But an interesting one. I say.
That’s a log???????
Here Chloe….https://tenplay.com.au/channel-ten/masterchef/recipes/moss
Jess need not to crack the frozen balls.
Did Gary just say squirt Chloryphyll? (Sic)
Even Chloe reckons her dish is yum.
Are we going to hear ‘ you are only 19?’
Why? Is there someone who is only 19? I doubt it – they would have mentioned it before.
I am 19 btw 😃
Me too. We are all 19.
Yes, I started blogging when I was eight.
But I am only 18😶
All the faux hugging pisses me orf
Yep, that’s pissed me off all season. It’s so fake and over the top
i haven’t seen this much hugging since our last family wedding.
Has Sashi done his dashi ?
So Chloe essentially makes a mousse?
Exactly! One tuile, mousse and a microwave sponge. The rest was all picked herbs and flowers.
When will Jess learn not to make super sweet desserts? This has happened several times now and it seemed they were being kind with their “it’s a bit sweet” comments, so it must have been in Mars Bar territory. Khanh’s dessert was a clear winner.
You are talking about someone who sugared a savoury sauce! Her palette is clearly loaded to the sweet.
Mind you, as I said below, I would still rather eat a sickly sweet dessert than a weirdo kale infused parfait, and I don’t especially love sweet!
Sashi will be in the pressure test tomorrow.
Chloe may win this. Unless Khanh do the impossible and pull the rabbit out of the hat
All Hail19 wait, no the fix is shakey. Sashi Nope. Fixers shaken up. khanh looks like he has put the boot through fixation . Wait did Gary just say it’s a fix it’s a fix!?
I wrote the first part before the ad waiting for the response and holy Sheet.
Finally a pressure test where that have much more time. Reading comprehension not so much.
I think Chloe thought she had it won from the look on her face while they were rabbiting on. Although there is still help being thrown Chloe’s way, it does seem that she is no longer flavour of the month with the judges. Maybe she rebuffed Gary’s advances?
Sashi is in dangerzone against only 19 and honey mustard shirt Chloe!
Even more so than usual, this was the night of cliches.
I watched the mystery box portion. Some of them lifted their games tonight; except for Chloe, who still did vegetables, and tested the teeny vegetables by sticking them up her nose. Her kitchen habits are disgusting.
When Only 19’s cherry bubble was cut open, it looked like the result of pricking a blood blister.
I liked the look of Khanh’s dish, and it sounded appetising
But, yay for Ben, hoorah. He didn’t sabotage himself when he got stressed, as he often has done. Plain old pork ribs done well even beat little missy and her molecular gastronomy, or gastromy, as she pronounced it a couple of times.
I didn’t see much of the invention test, because I was busy making my own dinner, which won in my kitchen. I’m sure, though, that I wasn’t the only one yelling at Khanh to stop opening the oven door. Was he trying to torture the crackle into going crackly more quickly by continually prodding it with tongs? Since his odd little dessert won that round, I gave him a polite round of applause.
Gary annoys the hell out of me when he makes judgmental comments before he has even tasted something.
I choked when George called them the Fabulous 5!
Good on Ben & Khahn for having winning dishes. I was holding my breath at the end there thinking don’t pick fucking Chloe. Now let’s hope she really fucks up so badly tonight that even the biased judges will have to let her go.
Jess’s dessert with the berries looked really pretty but they say it’s too sweet. It’s a fucking dessert it’s supposed to be sweet.
I wondered about that too – are we so up ourselves in the “make it different, make it original, do something different” wankery that we forget that usually desserts do not require pork crackling? I would rather Jess’s too sweet concoction that actually contained dessert-issue stuff than some crap with mushrooms or pig fat or basil or fennel frond or kale or whatever else we’ve been forced to applaud this season.
If this was the elimination round, the feedback would be along the line, it’s looks fantastic, creative, sophiscated and very sweet and that’s what desserts should be, well done Jess! You have shine and what an accomplishment and omg you’re only 19.
On the side note, have anyone keep tracks on how many times past winners have been in the elimination round? Think Jess been placed in eliminations so they can add that to the “history” of MC …
” She was only 19 and didn’t know what a tv dinner is but her genius has seen her triumph over culinary adversity and alimination cauldrons into MC legend”
Feta and Parmesan , well, one smells like fresh vomit and the other doesn’t. No need to be a Ma$terchef “genius” on that one.
Think Sashi is kaput tonight… he’s struggling now without spices, and desserts he’s not great at (ignore the apple thing as with apples and icecream hard to screw up)… and following recipes is something I don’t think he’ll be great at.
Definitely rigged… prior to walking in they would be told the order to stand in… and with the knife block you notice the contestants usually can only grab the one closest to them, so easy enough to rig the boxes to a prefered contestant.
Granita’s and Tuiles have been done how many times the last few weeks? So sick of the same crap being regurgetated.
And every cook this season is like 60mins.. what can you do? If you apply for this piece of turd you’re best just buying copies of Women’s weekly quick family meals in 30 minutes and Jamie Oliver’s books in cooking in 20 mins.. memorize them and you’re a chance to pull out a dessert.
I have the same icecream machine at home… so my doubt on being able to do an anglaise, chill it enough and then churn it to get fully set ice-cream is questionnable… needs at least 40 minutes in the churner.
If I was Chloe’s nominated producer I’d just ask her lots of questions in the hope her gesteculation overload would cause her to knock herself out. She was smug thinking her unoriginal idea won her the challenge.. genius creating a microwave sponge.