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ANNOUNCER: Previously on MasterChef Australia.
Spice up your love life.
Four teams battled for the best home delivery menu...
Hot dates want hot food!
..that brought the romance.
WOMAN: Lady and the Tramp, guys?
Meatballs. That's really romantic.
The orange and purple teams nailed the brief...
ANDY: Something that's outside the box
in terms of creative, fun, that you want on a date night.
JOCK: It was cooked so beautifully. It just melted.
..and they felt the love.
Yes!
Tonight, the pink and teal teams are fighting for survival.
WOMAN: It's really scary to think
that one mistake could be the end of it all.
Who will say goodbye to the MasterChef kitchen?
And later...
I'm going to get some tomatoes. You need some tomatoes?
..a garden-variety masterclass of the very best kind.
JOCK: Andy and I are going to show you
how to make the most out of the MasterChef garden.
And... MELISSA: They are gorgeous.
..the secret behind the best pies in Australia.
# 'Cause you're hot, then you're cold
# You're yes, then you're no
# You're in, then you're out
# You're up, then you're down
# You're wrong when it's right
# It's black and it's white
# We fight, we break up
# We kiss, we make up
# You're hot, then you're cold
# You're yes, then you're no
# You're in, then you're out
# You're up, then you're down
# You're wrong when it's right
# It's black and it's white
# We fight, we break up
# We kiss, we make up
# You # You don't really wanna stay, no
# You # But you don't really wanna go-o
# You're hot, then you're cold
# You're yes, then you're no
# You're in, then you're out
# You're up, then you're down. #
Alright. Game face, people.
Let's do it.
Come on.
(APPLAUSE)
Come on, guys.
Shock eliminations are never good.
Because I've been isolating,
I've automatically ended up into this elimination.
So the feeling is quite scary.
The Fans, they are all amazing cooks,
and I can't miss a step today.
Good morning, everyone.
ALL: Morning.
I'm sure you weren't expecting to be standing here
on a Thursday in black aprons,
but you can never predict what's around the corner
in this competition,
and you need to stay ready for anything.
Daniel, decision making is a huge part of getting ahead in MasterChef,
and choosing the right dish for the right challenge
is definitely part of that.
How are you feeling about it today?
Um... Yeah, I mean, you pretty much said it all.
Jock's been going on about it as well.
Like, just make the right decision from the start and...
Jock going on about it every day trying to help.
No, but that's... (ALL LAUGH)
No, like bless him.
It sounds like my old man, like, just beating it into me
until I finally learn it.
That's also what he wanted to hear. (LAUGHS)
I'm trying to be nice!
Yeah, it's becoming quite apparent to me now,
take a little bit longer rather than just panic and make a decision.
It's like that measure twice, cut once...
Exactly right. ..kind of mentality.
So here's hoping you all make very smart choices today,
because the tough reality of today's surprise elimination
is that this will be the last day in the MasterChef kitchen
for one of you.
Do everything that you can to make sure that it's not you.
You can head to your benches.
MAN: Good to hear. (LAUGHS)
Alright.
Underneath the black cloche in front of you
is something that you will need to work with today.
It's going to ask you to make a choice.
And that choice could see you stay or go.
Are you ready to find out what it is?
Yeah. Yeah.
You can lift your cloche now.
What's this?
I open the cloche and there's a weird black timer in it.
What you're looking at is 90 minutes.
That 90 minutes is the total time available
for you to cook with today.
That time has to stretch across two rounds.
In round one, you can cook whatever you like,
using however many minutes you like.
But as soon as you finish your dish, stop your timer.
Bring it up the front for tasting.
If you cook one of the best five dishes in round one, you're safe.
You can head up to the gantry.
You want even need another minute of your time.
But if you cook one of the least four impressive dishes in round one,
you will cook in round two...
(EXHALES)
..and you'll only have the time that you've left yourself on the timer.
That clear?
Yes, chef.
We hope you made the right decision.
The pantry and the garden,
they are all yours.
Good luck.
You can start your timers in three, two, one, now.
(APPLAUSE, SHOUTS OF ENCOURAGEMENT)
Where's the ginger?
There's kind of three ways you can play this.
You could take as much time as you want in the first round
and put up a really banging dish
and hope to God you're not in the second round.
Hey, where are the shiitake mushrooms?
Or you could split the time evenly.
Ginger. I think that's everything.
But I'm leaning towards banging out a dish
that's going to have maximum flavour in a short amount of time
and really hope that that ticks all the boxes
and keeps me safe from round two.
Sago.
For this first round, I think I'm going to give myself 60 minutes.
Let's go all-in at the beginning,
and, yeah, make a dish that I'm not going to regret.
It's a dessert version of a melon and sago,
and I'm putting a Malaysian twist on it
with a bit of pandan and coconut.
I'm hoping it'll be a knockout.
So this is...this is all in for me.
I am doing a quick cook to start.
I'm doing a salted watermelon and tuna tartare.
If I can get done in half an hour, I'll be happy.
ALDO: Just got a few prawns.
Um, today I'm cooking a Caribbean prawn curry
with pineapple salsa and a fried bread.
I'm going to deglaze those prawn heads
to make a really rich curry base.
This is a dish that is from my grandmother.
You know, I can put a smile into the judges' faces with this dish.
It just makes me feel so happy when I cook this dish.
It's just delicious.
My strategy today is to make sure I make a really good dish
in 60 minutes.
MAN: Go, Keyma.
I'm putting everything into round one.
I'm not thinking about round two.
I'm thinking about going to the gantry in round two.
I love this challenge. Yeah, this is a good one.
Two rounds, 90 minutes.
They've got to make smart decisions.
We've been hammering about it for weeks now. Yeah.
Today's the day where we actually see if they've been listening.
If they're an intuitive, quick cook,
then I think if that's producing your best food,
you should do a quick cook
and then hopefully you don't have to use the rest of your time.
They have to play to their strengths.
That's it. Yeah, definitely.
Hey, Montana. Hello, Mel.
Firstly, what's the dish? And then what's the strategy?
So I'm going to do a, like, sesame crusted tuna loin,
just sort of seared, still raw in the middle,
avo wasabi puree,
and then just like a little reduction
of some soy, mirin, ginger, garlic.
How long are you using?
I'm going to do a quick cook today, so I'm hoping for under 20 minutes.
I definitely want to hedge my bets in case I'm in that second round.
You said 20 minutes you're expecting to spend on this dish?
Um...hopefully.
OK, well, you've had eight, so just to use the time well
and use as little of it as you can.
Yeah. Thank you, Mel.
MAN: Montana is going to be finished first, I reckon.
Yeah, it's...
I'm sweating my ass off.
MAN: Go, Dan. MAN: Go, Dan. Come on.
Daniel. Yes?
How's the decision making going?
I'm going to go with my gut. OK.
What's your gut telling you?
I'm just going to go for a quick cook for the start.
And I'm going to do some nice grilled...
..well, some fire-grilled snapper wings for the time.
So I'm going to get them nice and crispy.
But I'm gonna have it with, like, a nice, spicy salsa
with some fire, like, some grilled, like some, charred cherry tomatoes.
Take a... Take a... Take a breath.
Talk to me about when you say a nice spicy sort of salad,
what sort of flavour profile are we looking at?
So it's going to have some charred...
It's going to be a real charred, smoky sort of thing.
But it's going to have a bit of habaneros and cherry tomatoes.
And hopefully I've got a nice crisp on the...on the fish skin,
which will be beautiful.
Just don't forget, taste everything at the end,
and make sure it's as balanced as you can make it.
Yes. Thank you, Mel.
For the spicy salsa,
normally the way I do this is
I'd love to put these chilies on a hibachi, get a nice char on it,
but I only want to spend 30 minutes in this cook,
so instead I throw them under the grill and char them that way.
MAN: Go, Dan.
Then next thing I do is I get to work on my fish wings.
MAN: Wow. Red emperor. Beautiful.
MAN: Come on, mate.
Harry's got a lot of ingredients too.
A lot of ingredients. Is that for two cooks or one?
I'm going to do a little play on the little springtime dish.
So I'm going to do cauliflower and apple.
Just for this one?
Trying to get lots of flavour in there.
I want to get it out in, like, 30 minutes.
I want to make sure that if I, heaven forbid,
have to go into the second round,
I've got enough time to really pack flavour into something
and I'm not rushing too much.
I think it could be doable if I keep up this pace,
but I just need to keep motoring.
My puree is on the go and my apple juice is reducing
from my green apple dressing.
MAN: Go, Harry.
I need to move on to prepping all my cauliflower elements.
There'll be some sliced and charred, just plain white cauliflower.
Some pickled purple cauliflower.
WOMAN: Go, Harry. Smash it, baby.
Today's all about time,
and you've already had 15 minutes.
(CLAPPING, SHOUTS OF ENCOURAGEMENT)
So my strategy today is to cook mapo tofu,
which is something I can do with my eyes blindfolded.
I know I can make it fast.
MAN: Go, Jenn. WOMAN: Go, Jenn.
Mapo tofu essentially is a tofu dish that's got ground pork
and it's a big stir-fry.
JOCK: How are you going, Jenn?
Hello. Good, thank you. Smelling good over here.
What are you cooking? I'm making mapo tofu.
Yeah? I cooked it before with restrictions.
This time, I have no restrictions.
How long are you going to take? Well, you do.
Well, yeah, but in terms of ingredient restrictions.
Very true.
I'm going to incorporate everything I've learnt
to make it a really bombtastic mapo tofu.
How long are you going to take roughly?
I'm hoping 30 minutes. Just 30 minutes?
You reckon you can get this done in 30 minutes?
I'm hoping.
40 minutes, maybe. Well, you know what?
You've already used half of that 30 minutes.
See ya. Definitely.
I want to make sure this is the absolutely best version
mapo tofu can ever be.
WOMAN: Smells really good.
MAN: Yeah, it does smell good.
I'm excited about what I'm cooking today,
but I'm also pushing the boundaries of what I normally do.
Tommy. Yo, what up?
How are you, mate? (LAUGHS)
I'm good, man. How are you guys? What are you cooking?
I've got this dish that I've been working on that I freaking love.
It's going to be, like, crudo style
with some buttermilk, sour cream, nuoc cham.
Yeah. Just to base the bottom of it.
I actually thought you would go just traditional Vietnamese.
Yeah. Like, blow us away.
Yeah. In your comfort zone.
Yeah.
But this is kind of different.
Yeah, yeah.
But, like, you know, I want to show my growth, you know, evolution.
And I just love this dish so much because it...
..it really shows that I've evolved in the competition,
and it's just, like,
cool to taste these kind of flavours in a different context.
Good luck, mate. No worries.
I'm pushing the boundaries of what I normally do, and that's risky.
I really hope that my risk pays off today.
ALDO: Come on, Harry. Go, Keyma.
Come on, mate.
MELANIE: In the MasterChef kitchen,
every split-second decision you make is really important.
We don't have a lot of time.
MAN: Come on, Melanie.
(MUTTERS)
For today's shock elimination,
we have to think a little bit strategically.
It's really freaking me out.
# Melanie... # Hi, guys.
How are you doing? Good.
What are you cooking? Dumplings.
Dumplings? I'm doing... Kind of.
It's like Japanese flavours, but in more like a wonton soup situation.
Ooh, OK. Wonton soup.
Tell us about the flavours.
So I've got a katsuobushi, kombu shiitake broth coming along.
In here I've got almost like a gyoza kind of filling.
Pork, spring onion, garlic, ginger, all the good stuff.
I've got my dough there already.
And, um...that's... That's it.
Gluten free.
Ah, how long out of your 90 minutes are you going to take for this dish?
I'm hoping 30 to 35.
Are you thinking that you'll be in round two?
Is that why you're leaving so much time?
No, I'm just being smart, Jock.
Well, I think you should be smart by just nailing this.
Well, that's the plan. Do you know what I mean?
Because if you go into this and you're like,
"Yeah, I've got a good idea, but I'm going to rush it
"because I need 60 minutes
"for the dish that I haven't really thought about yet in round two..."
If I'm in round two I'll be making choux pastry
and I know that's a 60-minute cook.
OK. So you have thought about round two?
Thought about it insofar as I'll need 60 minutes. OK.
Good luck. Thank you.
JULIE: Go, Mel.
Some interesting dishes out there.
Keyma is doing a Caribbean prawn curry.
How long is she taking? She's taking 60 minutes.
And she's confident that this is going to...
Doesn't leave much time. ..keep her out of round two.
Here's hoping that that's true.
On the opposite, Montana is actually doing a very quick cook.
She's doing sear-crusted tuna, an avocado, wasabi kind of crema.
Oh, good Lord.
It's, like... It's... We've had...
Sounds like early '90s nostalgia. Yeah.
If you dip your toe in nostalgia it's going to want to be good.
Yeah. Exactly.
Who are you worried about up the back?
Look, Melanie is a bit of a weird funk.
I think that the reason that she's hustling so hard,
she's in that bit of a funk,
is because she's already said, "I'm going to do choux in round two."
And I think she needs 60 minutes for the choux in round two.
So she's basically decided, "If I'm doing choux in round two,
"I need to get this thing done in 30 minutes,"
which could be her demise.
Tommy is doing something, a dish he's been working on for a while.
He's talking about I think a dill oil.
There's a raw, crude oil.
There's a buttermilk something. Yeah, buttermilk.
Because Andy was like, "Are you going to...
"I thought you would hit us with, like, you know,
"full-on Vietnamese flavours, things that we love and remember.
Yeah. He's not.
He's doing the dish he hasn't really finished yet.
I just think it was a perfect opportunity
for him to cook a quick dish that he knows he can pound flavour in,
he knows that we love that style of food, and get upstairs.
WOMAN: Wonder if anyone's going to be close to finishing.
ALDO: Montana, probably.
MONTANA: 25 minutes has passed.
I wanted to get this tuna dish done in 20 minutes,
but now I'm just rushing to get this finished
before that 30-minute mark.
This is absolutely hectic.
I'm just doing a smear of the avocado puree,
finishing it with my tuna...
..and then just a little bit of my dressing.
All done. Alright, Montana's done.
Good work, Montana. Well done. Go, Montana.
(APPLAUSE) (SIGHS)
Montana. What have you cooked?
It is a sesame crusted tuna with an avo puree
and a soy mirin dressing glaze.
And how many minutes does use?
27 minutes.
Confident?
If it's packed full of flavour, if it's all executed well,
then fingers crossed it keeps me in that top five, so...
OK, Montana.
I think it's a decent 30-minute dish.
There's a lot of that avo puree on there, which kind of takes...
That was an accident.
..everything to a bit of, like, heaviness land.
Montana, I feel like this is a safe dish,
but on a day like today, I don't know if safe is going to cut it.
We'll have to see what happens with everyone else. Yeah.
Thanks, Montana. Thank you.
It's 30 minutes down.
That means you've only got 60 minutes left on your clock.
Let's go!
(CLAPPING) Come on, guys. Come on. Go, Keyma.
MINDY: Jenn!
I can smell it up here, girlfriend.
JENN: I'm glad. It's great.
I definitely feel very confident today about my mapo tofu.
Like, it's really yummy.
This is sick.
Like, tooting my own horn here,
but this is going to be my signature dish.
But the clock is ticking. It hasn't slowed down.
And I'm trying to work as quickly as I can to finish it off.
That looks unreal, Matt.
(CLAPPING, SHOUTS OF ENCOURAGEMENT)
And Matt is done!
OK, Matt.
You took 32 minutes to make...?
MATT: A salted watermelon and tuna tartare.
KEYMA: Everyone starts taking dishes to the judges
and I'm still cooking my prawn curry.
I'm doubting myself
whether it was the best strategy to take an hour to do this.
But I have to keep going.
Matt, love the chips.
They're a bit on the salty side, though.
Like you've fully loaded them with salt
and you're not getting the beauty of the fish.
You're not getting the beauty of the watermelon either.
We'll wait and see what happens. You might be lucky.
There might be some disasters out there.
Thank you, anyway.
ALDO: Come on, Dan.
Go, Tommy.
MAN: Come on, mate.
Go, Harry.
WOMAN: Go, Jen.
JENN: I'm done.
Jenn's done! And Jenn is done!
ANDY: Mapo tofu done.
Ooh.
I can smell what this is,
but why don't you go ahead and tell us what you've made?
I've made mapo tofu today.
Yeah, I actually want to eat that.
WOMAN: That looks delicious. I'm salivating.
I make this quite often at home for my family. They love it.
But they always told me it's not it's not cool enough for MasterChef.
Mapo tofu is so cool.
It is the coolest. One of the coolest.
Sorry, family. (LAUGHS)
Ah, I'd be all in for the family dinner
because the mapo tofu itself is, like, so cool,
so delicious and so cool.
You've nailed that component. I've got two things.
Yes.
The rice is really gluggy down the bottom.
OK. It's not light and fluffy.
And did you wash your coriander? Because I got grit.
Thanks, Jenn. Thank you very much. Thank you.
(CLAPPING)
MAN: I like what Dan's doing.
It'd be better if had hibachi but I like what he's doing.
I'm halfway through cooking my fish wings on the pan.
I think it's going to be delicious.
I just know that the flavour is so much better from the hibachi.
But all I'm thinking about is
what is going to be strategically right here.
What's going to pay off for me?
I'm umming and ahhing so much right now, thinking,
do I go with the time or do I go with the flavour?
So I'm really having an internal battle right now.
I'm thinking, do I go with the time or do I go with the flavour?
I've gone over the time that I wanted to,
but it's going to make sure everything's the way I want it.
I just know the hibachi is the whole experience that I'm after.
I want that char and that smoke.
I just bite the bullet.
It's OK?
Yeah, it's like...it's hot. (LAUGHS)
Good. It's good.
Just enough smokiness, because I've got this now.
I wasn't going to have the hibachi, so... That went so quick, man.
And now I'm getting really excited
because I know this is going to be really yummy.
I just need to gun it because the clock is ticking
and it's breathing down my neck.
Right now, I'm just getting all the little purple florets
of cauliflower and they're going into a pickle.
I'm making an apple and cauliflower dish.
30 minutes is definitely out the window now.
I need to just focus on making this dish perfect.
I would love to stay out of round two,
so I really want to not get fazed by the fact
that some other people have already finished
and just keep powering through with what I know tastes good.
I'm 10 minutes over what I thought I was going to be using for this cook.
But that's alright at this point,
because I'm almost at the point where I'm going to start plating.
So I just need to prep these scallops
and taste everything together.
Dan, get your ass up there now, mate. Seriously. Get your timer.
You don't need to finesse. Just go.
I'm past the 30 minutes that I originally didn't want to go over,
so now I'm just, like, panicking.
Come on, then.
I don't want to go any further.
I don't want to take it to 40 minutes
and give myself less in round two if I need to.
So I'm just like trying to get everything done, finish it off,
and hit that timer as soon as possible.
Yes, good work. Yeah!
Yes! Nice.
And Daniel is done.
(CHEERING)
Daniel, you hit the timer at 34 minutes.
Yep. What did you make?
I made ocean spare ribs with a charred chilli tomato salsa.
That's mine. That's Andy's.
Yeah, that's... And Andy's is...
ANDY: Daniel.
The tomato salsa is epic. Thank you.
Like, it's really well done.
Mine's raw as well.
I think it doesn't matter how good that tomato salsa is,
my wing was perfect.
Mel's? Not so much.
Jock's?
Not so much. They're both raw.
Yeah.
That, my friend, is going to put you in danger today.
And if you'd just spent another five to seven minutes,
this might be a very, very different result.
Alright. No worries. Thank you.
Come on, mate.
(GROANS, LAUGHS)
So, none of them are safe yet.
None of them are safe. None.
In round one,
the plan was always to just use 30 minutes,
but I've used seven minutes more than I wanted to.
If I'm in round two, my backup plan was to do choux pastry,
but I can't do that in 53 minutes.
I think it's ready, so I'm basically ready to plate up.
This dish has to save me from round two now.
And I'm done.
JOCK: Melanie's finished. Well done.
ANDY: Yeah, Melanie.
I never feel super confident,
but whether it'll keep me safe, I don't know.
What's the dish?
It is my gluten-free version of wonton soup.
You seem extremely nervous.
There's a lot on the line today.
Of course I'm nervous.
There's no... You're not 100% happy or there's just so much on the line?
I don't think I've ever been 100% happy.
There's always something that could be wrong or could go wrong
or, you know, I don't know.
This is a really lovely bowl of food.
It is savory, it's clean, it's elegant.
You clearly know how to balance these flavours really well.
And this is nourishment going on right here.
The dumpling mix is really nice. It's not dried out.
This...the broth is absolutely gorgeous.
Melanie, there was a lot on the line today.
When you cook food like that,
you don't need to worry about round two.
I think that's probably the best dish that we've seen so far.
So that's a good thing.
Well done.
Good work. Well done, Mel!
Good on you, mate.
(LAUGHS AND CRIES)
Well done. Thank you.
What a gun.
Well done!
You did so well.
I've taken a big risk today with my first cook.
It's different.
It's an experimental dish.
I have a bed of my nuoc cham buttermilk,
some kingfish with some garlic inside it.
It is looking exactly like I want it to look.
Really modern style plating,
and I really, really like the way it's looking right now.
Alright, I'm done.
And Tommy's done. Yeah, Tommy.
Go, Tommy.
Here we go.
That's all yours.
Thank you. Thank you.
Tommy, what's the dish?
So I've done my little play, like a modern version
of... (SPEAKS FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
Same flavours, just in a different way.
I made a buttermilk nuoc cham sauce,
dill oil, garlic and turmeric oil.
Kingfish as well.
Because buttermilk is dairy, it's fatty,
it does coat the mouth at the end.
It's not an altogether bad sensation.
Yeah.
But I think it's still not quite there.
Tommy, there's something weird going on with buttermilk
that makes it taste cheesy.
Yeah, it tastes... It's got an aftertaste of cheesiness. It's very odd.
Which you don't want to be thinking when you're eating raw fish, right?
Yep. Thanks, guys.
MAN: Go, Tommy.
Come on, Keyma, cook from the heart, girl.
Sorry? Cook from the heart?
Yes.
Let's just try and get it up fast, yeah?
Yes. Yeah, sure.
Beautiful, Steph. Oh, yes!
Go, Steph. Come on, Steph. Come on!
(CHEERING)
Down the front. We want to taste Steph's dish.
(APPLAUSE)
Seeing everybody around me finishing and taking their dishes
to the judges,
I'm starting to stress out.
Righto, Steph, what's the dish?
So, it's melon, sago and coconut.
That is delicious.
It is so tasty. (CHEERING)
I don't think you will be needing any of those minutes on the clock
because that is an absolute belter.
(CHEERING)
Thank you.
I'm starting to feel the time pressure,
and I just need to get this plate done.
Go, Harry.
I've got the cauliflower puree, some pickled purple cauliflower.
Some fresh green apples, a little bit of the apple juice
and the scallops as well.
Alright. Let's do it.
Aargh!
Come on, Harry, bring it down.
In the end, I've used 46 minutes and 30 seconds for my cook.
Phoo! It was too long.
Everything's starting to sink in
that maybe today was not the day to try something new.
I've made a little cauliflower apple combo.
There's lots of different cauliflower elements.
The purple cauliflower is pickled with a tiny bit of smoked vinegar.
There's cauliflower and fennel puree.
There's an apple juice that I reduced with some spices in there.
There's also some raw scallop.
And then finally, there's some raw white cauliflower
that's just been shaved really finely and torched.
I like the textural elements on the dish,
but you're probably two or three too many flavours.
The foundations are there,
but strip it back
and I think you'll find that's where your best food is.
Thank you, thank you. Well done.
Well done, Harry.
Keyma needs to work faster.
Looking at the front, there's no one left.
I mean, everyone finished.
I'm the last one.
The nerves are getting me,
so I'm just...I'm just shaking at the moment.
I'm trying not to shake.
Get everything ready to plate, Keyma.
I have 33 minutes to go.
Come on, Keyma.
I'm starting to plate my curry base.
It tastes delicious.
Is your bread done, Keyma?
But still my bread is frying.
I just need this to cook through
so I don't serve raw bread.
It has to be fried perfectly.
It can't be raw in the middle.
So I'm waiting for it to puff up and it's not puffing.
Come on, come on.
Alright, Keyma, you've got half an hour to go, so make a call.
30 seconds more and I'm done.
Hit your timer.
Keyma's done. Let's go.
I hope this really hits the mark,
because if not, I'm really in trouble.
I don't know what I'm going to do for the next round.
I love that smile, Keyma.
And a little shimmy like that.
Oh, hang on.
Comes with the shimmy. With a shimmy. Yeah.
Of course. You're going to the Caribbean today.
What have you made us?
So today I made you Caribbean prawn curry,
pineapple salsa
and some... (SPEAKS FOREIGN WORD) which is like a fried flatbread.
So you were kind of all in on round one.
Are you hedging your bets,
not being in round two?
I put all my cards in that.
If you find yourself in round two, have you got a dish?
Um... 29 minutes.
I will have to... I will have to look deep.
Yeah, right. Because I don't...
You really are all in.
You have not thought about a dish for round two.
I'm not thinking about round two.
Keyma... Yes?
Ahh...
Definitely shimmy worthy.
Yes?
Definitely shimmy worthy. Can you do it?
No, I can't shimmy. Come on.
Come on! (LAUGHS)
The curry sauce is so rich, so complex and luxury.
The prawns are cooked perfectly.
Keyma, you continue to evolve in this kitchen.
And I think that you made a fantastic decision today
to push all of your chips in
and just commit to just making this the best version
you could possibly make in the time that you needed to do it.
It is a triumphant dish, and you should be very, very pleased.
Yeah, Keyma!
Not everyone gets a round of applause,
but you deserve it for that.
This is the kind of food we want to see more of from you.
Well done. Thank you.
Nice one, Keyma. Thank you.
Oh, my God!
I can't believe it.
Andy said it's definitely shimmy worthy,
so I'm going to make my happy dance.
We saw some excellent cooking in round one.
And if I call your name, you're safe.
Keyma.
Melanie.
Steph.
Matt.
Lucky last...
..Montana.
Well done, guys.
See you, guys.
Goodbye.
We got this. Head up, yeah?
Yeah. Let's do it then.
We got this.
I don't want to cry.
I know. It's really hard.
Daniel, Jenn,
Tommy, Harry,
all of your dishes suffered with some bad choices.
I'm sorry, but the four of you are in round two.
And at the end of this round, one of you will be going home.
You can cook whatever you would like, but you only have the time
that you've left yourself for this round.
The person with the most amount of time is Jenn.
You have 57 minutes and 45 seconds, and that time starts now.
Come on, Jenn!
Go, Jenny!
I'm in the second round and just absolutely gutted.
I just feel so silly about my mistakes in round one.
OK, what else?
I feel like it's just such a cardinal sin
for an Asian not to cook rice properly.
(LAUGHS)
Go, Jenn. Go, Jenn.
Oh! Oh!
Oh.
Oh!
Bottle of oil down.
Mapo tofu is like a secret signature of mine.
I can't just leave it like this and taint its name.
Shake it off, OK? Yeah.
You got it.
This time it's going to be perfect.
Perfect rice and washed garnishes.
In this round, I have almost double the time,
so I'm gonna concentrate on making sure my rice is bang on.
By doing one batch on the stove top, one batch in the rice cooker...
..I'm going to do this right and do this properly.
Jenn, looks very much to me like you're giving us another mapo tofu.
I am.
That is the plan. 2.0.
Yes. How's it gonna be better than 1.0?
I'm gonna make sure the rice is cooked perfectly.
When you brought it up,
did you think that we were going to notice what we noticed?
Well, I was wondering if there was an issue with the rice or not.
Because to be honest, I don't eat a lot of rice. (LAUGHS)
(CHORTLES)
(LAUGHS) So...you don't eat a lot of rice
so you don't cook a lot of rice but yet you're still going to do it...
Yep. ..in round two?
I do cook rice. 'Cause my family eats rice.
And how do you normally cook rice? In a pot or in a rice cooker?
Neither.
OK, I have this really old thing and every Taiwanese person has this...
Tell me. It's a steamer.
It's literally called electric pot.
It has one button and you control the cook by putting water in.
Yeah, that's how I've always cooked my rice, so...
Hang on, so...is this it? Yeah.
No. No? It's not that.
What's that? What's in there? That's a rice cooker.
That's got rice in it.
What's in here? Rice. In the stove top.
So you've got two sets of rice
in the hope that one of them comes out right. (CHUCKLES)
Neither are the way that you normally cook it.
Awesome.
We'll leave you with that. (CHUCKLES)
Good luck.
It's very important that I get this right.
I'm just not ready to go home yet. ALDO: Come on, Jenn.
Onions, garlic, garam masala, chilli, chilli, coriander.
What are you doing? (LAUGHS)
MEL: Hey! (CLAPS HANDS) Game face on and focus.
(SIGHS) I'm kicking myself that I'm even in here.
'Cause I could have given 5-10 more minutes on my fish
and the judges said I would have been safe as houses.
How much time do we have again?
56 and 17 or something, I think.
I screwed up something that...
..to me is quite important.
My old man would be spewing, he'd be pulling his hair out.
He'd be like, "Give it a little bit longer,
"get the perfect cook on that fish."
I'm limbering up.
I'll be like a bull at a gate in a second.
Daniel.
You've got 56 minutes and 7 seconds...
..go!
(CHEERING)
Go, Dan!
My brain and my guts are saying, "Just do it again.
"Do this dish justice, do the fish justice.
"Just nail it."
Palm sugar.
Hit this out of the park...
Palm sugar, yep.
..and just, yeah, really make my old man proud of it.
Hey! Go.
Go, Dan! C'mon!
Go, little fishy.
So it's gonna be slightly different
because the first round, I used, um, red emperor.
But kingfish is a bit bigger and a bit meatier
so I have to spend a little bit more time to cook it.
But the beauty of it is it's quite evident to me that's what went wrong.
So I'm going to be spending as much time as possible
to make sure that it's cooked perfectly.
Go, Dan! (APPLAUSE)
HARRY: For round two, I'm really concerned
about the amount of time I have.
This is so...crazy to think that this is an elimination
and that I'm cooking with 18 minutes less than everybody else.
You reckon they'd give me 44 minutes, if I ask really nicely?
(CHUCKLES) How long have you got?
43.
Fish, pots...
Round one, I stuffed up.
It was an experimental dish and I should have gone safer.
I didn't and now I'm in round two.
Tommy, you've got 52 minutes and 4 seconds and your time starts...
..now. Go, Tommy!
Go. Go, Tommy.
To make sure I stay in this competition, um,
I've got to go traditional, old school, Tommy-style dish.
Gotta get the chicken and the fish.
And I need to cook my heart out.
Let's go, Tommy! Go, Tom.
Ready to let round one go, put everything into round two.
And I'm just gonna go straight up very Vietnamese food today.
A broth, some fried fish, some noodles.
I've only got 52 minutes so I've gotta move pretty quickly.
I'm definitely worried about the time that I've got
to build the flavours in this broth.
I need to make sure I get so much flavour into this
really quickly.
I need to cook things as soon as I can
and get chicken, fish into the water so that it can build that flavour.
I've just gotta, you know, cook, cook, cook, cook.
Hope that this broth develops in time.
I'm desperate to get into that pantry and start cooking.
JENN: Ah, I forgot my tofu.
Gotta go get my tofu.
It's always a risk in redemption cooks
because you're cooking something you've already given to the judges...
Yes, Jenny!
..and it has to meet that standard or go beyond that standard.
I know I can do this mapo tofu with my eyes blindfolded
so...I can kind of just do that on the side.
I need to focus all my energy into cooking the rice.
The judges want rice where you can taste every single grain.
Not...everything mooshed together.
If you ordered this dish in Taiwan, you'd probably get jasmine rice.
But...I've decided to use sushi rice today
because that's what my family likes to eat
and it's usually what I cook for them.
(EXHALES)
# Going back to... #
MELANIE: Did you wash your coriander?
I washed it. (LAUGHS)
And what, should I just, like, wash another bunch
and just triple, triple, triple wash it?
You know what, maybe I will.
My mum, when she watches the episode, will get so mad at me.
She always tells me to wash my coriander.
(MELANIE AND JENN LAUGH)
That's the way, babe. Good on you, Jenn.
MEL: Harry. Yep?
You left yourself 43 minutes and 30 seconds
and that time starts now.
Thank you. (APPLAUSE)
Go, Harry! Go, girl.
And no basket for me! (LAUGHS)
Thanks, guys.
Not only do I have more of a time crunch compared to everybody else...
No basket. All good.
Argh!
..Tommy, Jenn and Daniel are all massive flavour powerhouses.
Mustard.
I also know that I have the least amount of time out of all of us.
An onion.
With this kind of time pressure...
(EXHALES)
..this is a big ask.
MEL: Hey.
Just take a minute and breathe, OK?
Don't panic. Yep.
Just take a moment and breathe.
Be confident in what you know... Yep.
..and don't overdo it.
You good? Yep.
Sure? Yep. I got it.
Alright, baby, let's go! Yes, Harry.
Go, Harry!
Two pans, two pots.
The dish that I'm gonna make today is curried carrots.
So the elements of the dish are curry sauce, which is carrot-based.
Carrots, which I'm gonna char on the hibachi.
Yeah, I just need to...motor 'cause I have heaps of...
Like, I have less time than everybody else.
I can get enough flavour if I work hard enough.
Get in.
So the first thing I need to do is juice a whole bunch of carrots.
Get that on the stove and make sure I'm reducing it
so it condenses the flavour
and makes it really kind of like tasty and rich.
The fact that it's an elimination
means that I just need to get it done.
Worst thing about improvising is, like,
you forget about how much of anything you put in.
MICHAEL: Taste, taste, taste, my brother.
I'm doing the same dish that I did in round one
which is grilled fish wing with a smoky tomato and habanero salsa.
In round one, judges loved my last salsa.
They said that was perfect, that was 10 out of 10.
So how do I make this 11 out of 10? How do I do this better?
Do you want all this char on it? On that one, I do.
But these ones, I'm gonna take off. Go, Dan, the man.
So for the salsa, I know the ingredients are perfect as they are
but for the chillies, I'm gonna cook them over the hibachi this time
because it unlocks a level of sweetness
and caramelisation that grills can't.
Yum. Happy, Dan?
Yeah, that's sick.
It's gonna give the sauce just that other layer of depth
that I think it needs.
I've set the benchmark but, like, I did that on the fly,
sort of improvising, so there's no reason that I can't do that again.
Just gotta trust myself and taste it as I go
and I reckon I'll be fine. Looks amazing.
I'm really happy with the salsa.
Now I just need to try and focus on grilling the wings perfectly.
Oof!
(COUGHS) That's good, man. (LAUGHS)
MICHAEL: Oh, wow.
Oh, Tommy.
That's how you make rice noodles. That's cool, man.
I've never seen that before.
For round two, I'm making a dish that's,
you know, a traditional Vietnamese dish.
Got my broth on the go, my noodles are done.
It's time for me to fry up my fish. Get a tea towel, Tom.
Oh! These hands... (LAUGHS)
They're Asian hands, alright?
I've been deep-frying since I was five.
It is really, really difficult to fry little chunks of fish
and get it right.
Did you just touch the oil?! Oh, come on, guys.
Tommy, what's going on here?!
But I haven't got much time to experiment more.
I need to start working on my dippy dippy for this dish.
For my dip, it's just fish sauce, sugar, chilli and lime
and you just need to balance that so that, you know,
when you dip something into it, it tastes amazing.
If I stuff up one of these elements too badly,
I might just be going home.
No matter how much time you started with,
you only have 30 minutes to go!
30 minutes! Come on, guys.
Let's go! ALDO: Go, Jenn! Go, Dan!
Go, Tommy! Go, Harry!
HARRY: 30 minutes left in the cook and I still have so much to do.
I need to just focus on making this dish perfect
and produce a really yummy dish that's full of flavour.
C'mon, Harry.
JOCK: Harry. Hello, guys.
How's the vibe? Yeah, how is the vibe?
It's good. It's good.
So tell me what's the dish, Harry? So I'm going to do curried carrots.
There's a carrot kind of crumb on the top as well.
Yep.
I feel like when I go a bit too hard and...and, you know,
try to compete too much, that's when I lose myself
because I'm comparing myself against everybody else.
I think it's great how you're thinking about it. Yep.
You need to find YOUR zone. Yep.
You'll be fine. Thanks, guys.
Nurse.
Oh, no. She's cut herself. (GASPS)
Is it bad? Yeah.
You alright?
No, you're not alright. Nup.
This is the worst thing that could happen in a cook like this.
Nurse. (GASPS) Oh, no, she's cut herself.
Is it bad? Yeah.
This is the worst thing that could happen in a cook like this.
It's alright, Hazza. You got this, Harry.
Go, Harry.
My time is just disappearing.
Alright, Harry, steel your nerves. Yes.
Pull yourself together. Yep. Thanks, guys. You'll be fine.
Thank you. Keep going, Harry!
Come on, Haz. You got this, mate.
You started the day with 90 minutes, but now, you've only got 15 left.
(ALL CALL ENCOURAGEMENT)
TOMMY: I'm moving like lightning right now.
My fish is fried, my noodles are done
but it took way longer than I expected.
I'm still balancing this broth and working at my dip.
But I'm worried the broth is definitely not there yet.
It still needs that time to develop.
JULIE: It smells amazing from where I'm standing.
Tommy! Tommy!
(LAUGHTER)
Let's not use that then.
Time is ticking.
And I've still gotta make it perfect.
So I need to keep that broth on the heat until the final moments.
There's only three other people
between me and walking out those doors.
Come on, Tommy.
One little slip up on my dish could really just send me home.
JENN: My mapo tofu is done.
I just need to decide on the rice.
(SIGHS)
(TIMER BEEPS)
Rice cooker rice? Stove top rice?
Does the dish even need rice?
I don't know. Like...
But do you wanna check it? Do you wanna check it? Fluff it.
But it needs to rest, doesn't it?
Yes, rest. But check if it's ready.
This cook isn't meant to be about the rice!
It's meant to be about the mapo tofu and...
(GROWLS) ..it's wrecking my brain!
Jenn, are you happy with the rice?
I don't know.
I don't like rice! (LAUGHS) If you're unsure...
MELANIE: I think you're overthinking it now, are ya?
Yeah. Definitely.
DANIEL: My salsa's done, I'm happy with it.
So in round one...
..I sacrificed a really great dish by undercooking my fish.
I'm not making that mistake again, that's for sure.
Nice char.
I'm gonna really char up that skin, cook it right the way through.
I'm just taking my time.
I am being so pedantic.
(GRUNTS REPEATEDLY)
Come on, guys! Only three minutes to go!
Come on, guys! Go, guys.
Come on, Tommy.
Carrots look good, Harry. Yeah, they look sick. Thank you.
Somehow, miraculously, I'm in an OK position.
I just need my carrots to finish charring.
Sauce just needs to be blended
and then I need to taste everything and plate up.
STEPH: Just serve 'em rice, Jenn. (LAUGHTER)
Just serve rice? Perfect rice?
Do I serve rice or not serve rice? Which one to serve, like...
(INHALES)
30 secooooooonds!
(ALL CALL ENCOURAGEMENT)
Let's go! Whoo!
Come on, guys!
Keep going, Harry!
Straight up in 10!
ALL: 9, 8, 7,
6, 5, 4,
3, 2, 1!
Done. (APPLAUSE)
Well done, everyone. DANIEL: Good work, man.
So, end of the cook, I was like,
"Rice? No rice? Rice? No rice? Rice? No rice?"
Like, maybe I started to overthink myself.
(SIGHS) It's a really tough decision to make.
HARRY: Obviously, it was a bit frantic 'cause I cut my thumb
and, like, that's not the best way you wanna go about it.
But I just have to hope that it's good enough to beat the others.
Go, Haz. You got this. Let's go.
Even though I finished my dish,
I...didn't have as much time as I would have liked to.
My place in the entire competition relies on this dish.
That's scary.
Harry.
Today, I've made curried carrots with some smoked yoghurt
and some crispy carrot leaves.
Tough cook this morning?
Yeah. I had a...a weird morning.
But coming in to the second cook, I knew I was going up against,
like, three flavour tycoons.
And so I had to bring, like, big flavour. (LAUGHS)
We'll taste. Thank you.
Thanks, Harry. Enjoy.
I'm very impressed. Mm.
There's great flavour in this dish.
It's well balanced, the carrots are beautifully cooked,
the smoked yoghurt's delicious.
This does not reflect the worried contestant
that we visited at the bench early in the cook.
She's definitely pulled out an ace because this is a fantastic,
confident, delicious bowl of food.
When you've got the potential to do this,
you've got the potential to win the competition.
And it's, like, a bowl of curried soup.
Yep. But it's just done so well. So good! (CHUCKLES)
HARRY AND JENN: Good luck, Tommy. DANIEL: Let's go, mate.
(GROANS) That broth.
I'm the only one out of the four
that knows what it's like to be eliminated.
And all those feelings, like, I can't help but feel again.
I am really, really scared.
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Tommy, what have you made us, mate?
Uh, today, I've made bun cha Hanoi.
Are you ready to go home?
No... OK, I'm gonna quote little Miles here,
"No way, no way am I going home." (ALL LAUGH)
'Cause that's his new word right now.
He used to just say, "No." But now it's "No way."
So no way, no way am I going home, I don't think.
Alright, we're gonna taste it.
Make sure you eat this and you dip it into this, alright?
Alright. You'll feel like you're at home.
Peace. Thanks, Tommy.
Why don't we all have a little dip?
Let's do what he asked us to do.
MEL: I like the punch in that dipping sauce.
I'll put some of that in the soup, actually.
Yeah. It's ten times better.
Yeah.
See, isn't that a worry, though?
That it needs it? Yeah.
Or that it's elevated by it? Well...
..that it needs it and it is elevated by it.
Yes.
Given it's a dipping sauce for the fried fish.
Arguably, any kind of side sauce is intentionally supposed to be...
..mixed within.
He didn't tell us that. He told us to dip the fish in it.
Mm. Yeah.
My piece of fish was a little bit over.
The broth.
My problem here is the seasoning of the broth.
It's not that seamless plate of food that Tommy commonly brings us.
Really, I mean, if you taste that on its on now,
it tastes like a beautiful light, clean chicken stock.
It's not yet a complete broth.
And then when you do add
his little side homestyle dipper, as he called it,
it just amped it up.
That's my problem with this.
You know Tommy, we all know Tommy, if he'd intended it that way,
then he would have done it. Yeah.
But he didn't. So that's the question of doubt that I have
in this bowl of food.
Will that see him in trouble today?
You know, he's got one-in-four chance. It might do.
BOTH: Mm.
TOMMY: OK, Jenn, good luck.
Thanks, guys. DANIEL: Good luck, Jenn.
Alright.
Please take a seat.
OK.
This morning's mapo was fantastic.
We absolutely loved it.
The flaws were more in the... The rice.
..in the garnish and in the rice. Yep.
In choosing to recook everything again in round two,
how do you think that you went about rectifying those things?
Um, I cooked my rice two ways, in case one didn't turn out.
I was very careful with my garnishes.
Washed them. Heaps of time.
I know this tastes really good and it's something I really love but...
..when you sit there and you start thinking,
you start wondering if it's enough...
Always be proud of the food that you love. Yep.
Whatever that is.
Yep. OK?
Thank you very much. Thank you.
Enjoy.
I'm a bit disappointed in this redemption.
This is a very different dish than what we've seen this morning.
I think round one Jenn brought us
a glossy, well-balanced beautiful mapo tofu
which we all enjoyed.
Here, we've got rice which is super confusing.
Both overcooked and undercooked rice in the same bowl
is like that's a major error.
She spent so much time on it.
And because she spent so much time on it,
I think she took her eye off the ball with the mapo tofu itself.
It was perfect in round one.
And this is... Unfortunately, this is far from perfect.
I'm really worried for her. This could really see her go.
DANIEL: Don't...cry.
I'm actually really seeking redemption in this dish.
Got this, brother.
Being eliminated today on a dish like this
would affect me more than, say, a pressure test.
Just because...this is essentially my playing field here.
This is a dish that I'm familiar with.
I've taken it personally that I screwed that up the first time.
Big man. Here he is.
How are we? Very well, mate. Good.
Round two of the fish wings. Yep.
Ocean ribs version 2.
Grilled fish wing with a smoky tomato and habanero salsa.
Mate, let's talk about the first cook.
Yep. Let's just rip that Band-Aid off.
Yep. It seems like you knew what you were doing.
Mm. It looked like you'd done it all the time.
Yeah, I've done this...
On the beers, I've done this casually, like... (LAUGHS)
I've done this so many times
and it was just because I got so fixated on the time...
So...you happy?
Oh, it's killing me.
I'm like, yep, I reckon they're cooked
but there's just that shadow of a doubt that's like...
(SHUDDERS)
OK, we'll taste now. (LAUGHS)
Maybe just poke into it now while I'm walk...
No. (LAUGHS) Nah, enjoy, guys.
Thank you. Thank you.
All done now. Yeah.
That's it. I've presented my dish.
It's finished. Yep.
Good job.
JOCK: One's much bigger than the other one.
Mm.
So I'm gonna go into the bigger one of the two first.
Just to see... This part worries me here.
I just wanna...
JOCK: I just wanna...
Looks good.
That little nook in there, that's the best...
ANDY: That's the best bit. (GASPS) That's the bit there, look at it.
It's come away nice and cleanly. Oh, so nice.
Oh! That looks so good. Look at that.
It's cooked like...
Like, just perfectly. Look at that. Yep.
Oh, my God.
That's pure luxury.
Pumped for him.
Like, absolute pumped for him.
The sweetness of charring those chillies over the hibachi,
gotta hand it to him.
You know, he's...he's slowly been stepping up the ladder,
this one's a big step up.
Look, I know firsthand what staying in this competition can do for you.
I came in so raw and knew very little about food.
And you can tell by the way that he's talking about food,
it's just starting to click.
We're starting to see it here but imagine,
you know, in two months time, it's just gonna go to another level.
Can't wait.
This challenge was all about making the right decisions at the right time
but the four of you made some poor decisions in round one.
However, round two was full of redemption.
Starting with Daniel.
(EXHALES DEEPLY)
Thank God.
It was your best dish so far.
There is no way you're going home today. Well done, buddy.
(APPLAUSE)
JENN: Well done, Dan.
Holy crap. Yes! Sorry.
There was another dish that we loved equally as much.
And it was also the best dish that we've tasted from this cook too.
And that dish was cooked by Harry.
(APPLAUSE)
(LAUGHS) Well done.
MEL: Tommy and Jenn.
You both chose to redeem your round one cook in different ways.
Jenn, you brought us a second version
of the same dish from round one.
Tommy, you brought us a traditional throwback.
And Tommy, while we loved your noodles and the flavour of your fish,
your broth was under-seasoned
and it only came alive when we added your dipping sauce.
Jenn, while your rice was an improvement on round one...
..sadly, your mapo tofu was not.
It lacked the punch and the dynamism of your first dish.
And I'm sorry...
..that's why you're going home.
(JENN SIGHS)
Thank you, everybody.
I'm sorry.
Jenn, you've thrown yourself into this competition
with absolutely everything you have
and we love that about you.
With your determination, you'll get there very soon.
I've learned so, so, so incredibly much.
And I'm just so happy that I was able to be a part of this.
It's been so good to get to know you
but, unfortunately, it's time to say goodbye.
(CRIES) JULIE: Beautiful girl.
(APPLAUSE)
Give it up for Jenn, everybody! (CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)
I'm gonna go home, I'm gonna cook every single type of rice out there
with every single appliance until I nail it!
And I'll still be cooking mapo tofu because... (SOBS)
..I don't begrudge it at all. (CHUCKLES)
Well, it's always hard to say goodbye
but, to lift everyone's spirits again,
next up is a very special masterclass
and we're gonna kick it all off out in the garden.
We'll see you out there.
Hey! (LAUGHS)
Hello! ALL: Morning!
How are we? Good.
Good. Come in, find a seat.
(LAUGHTER)
Masterclass is like the best day of the week.
We just get to chill out,
we get incredible information shared with us by awesome chefs.
I'm really excited for today.
Welcome to a very special masterclass.
And even though she was eliminated from the competition,
it's great to have Jenn back with us for the masterclass today
in the beautiful MasterChef garden.
(ALL CHEER)
First up, Andy and I are gonna show you
how to make the most out of the MasterChef garden.
Ooh. Great.
What are you doing, Andy?
So I am going to do some stuffed zucchini flowers
with a pretty rustic prawn mousse
served on a Romesco with some guanciale over the top.
You?
I'm gonna be cooking my eggplant agrodolce.
I haven't done this. (ALL LAUGH)
So I'm on the wing here.
But there are some eggplants that I noticed in the garden
that are, like, ripe.
I want to show you how to use it in a different way.
Shall we pick some stuff? Let's do it.
What about this? (LAUGHS) I know!
(ALL LAUGH)
# We're off to see the Wizard. #
(ALL LAUGH)
Oh, golly gosh.
Alright.
I need eggplant, garlic, chilli.
Capsicums for me.
I'm gonna get some tomatoes. You need some tomatoes?
I need a few tomatoes.
Righto.
How 'bout that elephant garlic?! Oh, yes.
ALL: Yes.
So from the garden, I got a couple of capsicums,
which will be the base of our Romesco sauce.
Red jalapeno, just for some spice.
I'm gonna char those up.
I also got some onions and some garlic
and we're gonna fry them in the pan, caramelise those pretty hardcore.
Alright, so...I wanna go away from these smoky flavours
that everyone tends to do with eggplant
and just show you an eggplant dish
that's got a lot of bitterness tied in along with the dish.
I'm gonna start by making an aromatic stock
to poach slices of eggplant in.
I'm gonna add my seaweed, so kombu and also kelp.
I've picked lots of aromats from the garden.
We've got cinnamon myrtle, lemon and aniseed myrtle.
Then the mountain pepper.
And I'm gonna add one of these chillies.
We're just building up layers and layers of flavour.
Now I'm gonna add some acidity.
So the seaweed vinegar.
White soy.
Lastly...
..some lemon juice.
Gonna taste it.
Thanks for putting your spoons there. It's great.
(CLANG!) Where's my spoon?
(LAUGHTER)
Now that we've covered broth town... (LAUGHS)
..we'll recount what's going on here.
I've got a little bit of sizzle on my onions.
I've got my capsicums on here.
We wanna blacken those up so that's...looking good.
And now, I'm getting on to my prawns.
I just wanna show you a little trickety trick
with peeling the prawns.
So to try and get the intestinal tract out,
pull from the bottom and then pull up.
See right there? The intestinal tract?
We've revealed that so we can rip the head off.
And then just start to slowly tease that out.
Normally, you guys give me that to eat. But today...
(ALL LAUGH)
..I'm gonna take that out.
Take the head off and the body and we're left with our nice prawn flesh.
I've got my oil heating up.
So we're gonna fry the shells and the heads off...
..to make a bit of a prawn stock.
And now, I'm gonna quickly chop up the prawn flesh
to make the prawn mousse.
Meanwhile, I'm gonna start making my agrodolce.
And what is, specifically, an agrodolce?
Sweet-and-sour. Sweet-and-sour?
That's what it means.
I know there's many versions but what would be the traditional ingredients
that you HAVE to include?
My nonno, for example, used to make an agrodolce
which was honey and white vinegar.
That's your cheapest form of an agrodolce, pretty much.
Right. Something sweet, something sour.
So, nice hot pan.
In with the onions.
And I'm gonna add some of the aromatic stock.
And then, we've got the beautiful elephant garlic.
There is a bit of an earthiness to it, which is really nice.
Adding a little bit of chilli.
Golden sultanas.
Chopped almonds.
I'm gonna cook that all the way down
and then I'm gonna start adding some honey and sugar for the sweetness
and red wine vinegar for the sourness.
I've got my mousse.
So 100 grams of the prawn meat with the zest of a lemon
and you'll see here, I've reserved some of my prawns
because then we're gonna fold chopped prawns through the mousse.
'Cause I want it to be chunky.
I want the texture and the flavour of prawns to really shine through.
And then I reckon that's it.
So that's ready to go inside the zucchini flowers.
Our capsicums are charred up.
We just wanna soften them, we'll just cover them up.
And then, I've got my prawn stock on the go here
so we caramelise all of the heads and all of the shells pretty hardcore.
And now I've just filled up with water,
we're gonna reduce that by half so it intensifies even more.
ANNOUNCER: Coming up, Andy and Jock
plate up their garden-inspired creations.
Alright, who wants to taste? Yeah.
Then...
These guys are the real deal
with 200 medals awarded for their pies and pastries...
..the brothers behind Australia's best pie reveal their trade secrets.
This is our secret seasoning so everyone would be try to know.
(LAUGHTER)
That's the best pie in Australia.
(ALL EXCLAIM)
Best thing about pies is you can make them in bulk!
YOU get a pie! And YOU get a pie!
Come on up!
And later... Take it easy on me.
..it's Keyma and Michael in a 30-minute dessert showdown.
Alright, so we're making lime churros.
It might be soup-ffle, Andy.
Today, we're cooking my tempura zucchini flowers
stuffed with a prawn mousse.
And I'm cooking my eggplant agrodolce.
So I've got some good caramelisation on my agrodolce.
The garlic, the onions, almonds, golden sultanas.
And then I've just gone in now with the anchovies
and a tablespoon of capers.
And then we're just gonna let that cook down
and I wanna take it to the edge
where I start getting a bit of bitterness.
It's the bitterness that gives you complexity, you know?
You guys should play a drinking game when he says 'bitterness'.
(LAUGHTER)
So, where am I at?
Romesco stage, onions and garlic.
They've been sweated down.
Our capsicums are soft.
We'll slice that up.
And I've got my jalapeno as well.
Cumin, half a tablespoon.
Smoked paprika, same amount.
Now we wanna cook these spices out.
So, zucchini flowers.
You need to take the stamen out. You wanna be quite gentle here.
We'll just wiggle our finger in.
And you'll just hear the...
(SNAP) ..the click.
And then you tease it out.
Stamen...gone.
I'll eat at least four of your zucchini flowers.
Oh, I was only gonna put three on the plate.
(LAUGHS) (LAUGHTER)
Done.
So now, I'm just poaching my eggplant.
Three or four minutes and then I'll take 'em out.
We're gonna go back to the Romesco.
Now it's time to go in with our cherry tomatoes.
See how it's starting to caramelise on the bottom there?
And we want these guys to collapse.
I am now gonna get onto my tempura batter.
We've got 90 grams of tapioca flour.
Just gonna add some xanthium.
And now, we're gonna go lid on and blend it up.
So we'll bring that together.
So you can see now...
..that's exactly what the xanthium does. It makes it kind if gluey.
But now, we're gonna aerate it.
So we'll introduce our iSi gun.
Give it a good shake.
Hello. Wow!
That's so cool. Look at that.
Like, it's light and it's gonna go super crispy.
So we're just gonna dredge our zucchini flowers.
And then we're gonna fry them.
I'm kind of ready to plate. Are you far off?
Are you plating?! Yeah, I'm plating.
Dude, I'm so far away from plating.
Well, that's alright. It takes me ages to plate.
Then I'll just finish our Romesco.
So our mixture is, like, completely caramelised and collapsed.
So we'll get all that in.
I've got about 15 grams of almonds.
And now, our prawn stock.
Now we'll blend away.
Alright, so I've layered on the plate slices of eggplant
and guanciale straight on top.
A brush with my very bitter lacquer.
Now I'm just gonna add my agrodolce to that.
I've got dill, parsley and mint.
Then, a lacquered piece of eggplant in the wind.
Which sits on top of that.
And then we're gonna go back to our fried basil
and try and make it look like the head of the eggplant.
Alright, mate...
..do you need a hand? Wow, they look amazing.
Super crunchy. Super crunchy.
I'll let you do the honours.
Take 'em out. Yes, Chef.
I'm gonna start on plating.
So my Romesco, gonna get a fair bit of this on the plate.
Then some zucchini flowers...
..with some guanciale over the top.
Just want it to melt over.
Sensational.
So...tempura zucchini flowers stuffed with a prawn mousse
and a Romesco sauce with some guanciale over the top.
(APPLAUSE) Beautiful.
There it is, my eggplant agrodolce.
(APPLAUSE)
(POSH ENGLISH ACCENT) Bravo!
(NORMAL VOICE) Alright, who wants to taste?
Yeah.
Jenn, Mindy, let's go.
I'm gonna go Melanie and Julie.
I tried to make it look like an eggplant.
JENN: It DOES look like an eggplant.
MINDY: Keen on that texture, it looks incredible.
Far out.
The layering of flavours is unreal.
I love the acidity.
And that bitterness actually just sits at the back.
It's just such a beautiful vegie
and we don't think of other ways of cooking with it.
Yep. Bloody beautiful.
Thank you, ladies. Nice work. Thank you so much.
Yeah! Thank you.
So, I reckon use your fingies but then, get a bit of sauce.
Or just it however you wanna eat it.
(LAUGHS) You just go. Grab one.
I'm going in. Here we go.
That's got sauce on it. There you go. Ha-ha!
Oh, that's amazing. That batter is awesome.
Really light. Really, really light.
Do you want another one? You can have it.
Jules, go halves with me. Alright.
(BOTH LAUGH)
Twist your arm.
Thank you. No worries.
(BOTH GIGGLE)
We hope that opened your eyes up to what's at your disposal out here
and how valuable it can be for any of your cooks.
Up next, you're off to see Mel and a special guest inside.
See ya! See you later.
Hello.
Take a seat.
I would like to introduce you to some very special guests today.
These guys are the real deal,
with 200 medals awarded for their pies and pastries,
they've been elected Australia's best pie makers three years in a row.
Please welcome, from Country Cob Bakery in Kyneton,
Chan and Ryan! (CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)
Chan, you came to Australia in 2004.
Yep.
And...you didn't know what a pie was.
(LAUGHS) Exactly.
Yeah, so, when I first come to Australia, I worked for a factory
and every lunch time,
we can see the food truck come in and everyone line up for pie.
Everyone love it so much and the first day I held onto the pie,
it feels different.
(LAUGHS) What did you think?
Well...it's not the best.
(LAUGHTER)
But the thing is, I told myself if I'm gonna make this,
I can make better pie.
There are no pies in Cambodian food tradition, is there?
No, not really. Not at all.
(BOTH CHUCKLE)
We love Asian types of flavours and things. Yeah.
So when I start baking with my brother,
combine the Cambodian with the Aussie flavour.
We always try crazy idea and some crazy idea can be...
..can be very successful.
What's the craziest combo or filling you've put into a pie?
Oh, we have quite a few. (LAUGHS)
Uh...the caramelised pork with mac and cheese pasta.
Wow. (ALL SIGH)
There you go.
Now, what pies are we going to be experiencing today?
So today, I'm going to cook
the slow-cooked barbecue beef with quail egg.
And I have our famous curried scallop pie.
OK, let's get into it! (LAUGHS)
Let's start, yeah.
I'm gonna start with our filling first.
We have all the ingredient - corn, pea, carrot and lentils.
Butter, salted onion.
Yep. And we have scallop.
Beautiful plump scallops.
That's our secret seasoning so...everyone will be, you know,
try to know. (LAUGHTER)
Any hints on what's in your special seasoning?
Nothing special.
It's turmeric, curry powder, cumin powder, ginger.
Yep. And chilli flake.
But it's the combination and proportions of everything
that makes it special. So... Yeah, that's correct.
Fantastic.
First, we always start with onion and garlic. Yep.
After we got that sweating, we put our seasoning.
This curry scallop is dominant in South-East Asia cuisine,
in Singapore, Malaysia or Thai, Cambodia, they're all similar.
We want to make a pie to suit all the people.
So that's why we come up with silly idea.
(BOTH LAUGH)
Silly but not so silly because everyone wants one.
Add the coconut after that.
And that already smells really, really lovely.
So, yeah.
And Ryan? Where are we at?
So, first step is a caramelise the palm sugar to cook the beef.
Beautiful. So it's bubbling away. Yeah.
And just wait a little bit more until it turn brown. Yep.
How many of these pies a day would you sell?
Uh...probably 400.
So, probably around five kilos of this one.
Add a little bit of water.
Probably another five minutes then we can add the meats.
Amazing.
Time to add all the vegetable.
And then...
..let it simmer a bit.
ANNOUNCER: Coming up... Alright, ready to go in the oven.
..Chan and Ryan reveal why they're the best pie makers in Australia.
(APPLAUSE)
MEL: Woooooow.
And later, Keyma's take on homemade lime churros.
I don't like buying pre-packaged.
They're not the best. No.
So that's it. Try mine.
Your churros are the best. (LAUGHS)
I didn't say they're the best. That's exactly what you just said.
No, I'm into it.
So I'm here with Chan and Ryan from Country Cob Bakery in Kyneton,
and we're making award winning pies today.
There's just something old school Australian
about seeing corn, peas and carrots in a curry sauce.
Is anyone else feeling a bit nostalgic right now?
This is me going to preschool.
Thursdays was chicken curry pie day, and that smell is still with me.
It was... It's amazing.
Well, I still remember my first beef pie.
Yeah? Red wine, slow braised beef.
Yep.
Nobody told me that it was very hot.
(ALL GROAN)
First bite, I burned myself and it just went all over my shirt.
My husband was looking at me and say, "I can't take you anywhere."
So that was the reaction.
Oh, my goodness.
OK, so, Ryan, you have the caramel and you have the water
in there as well. The water, yep.
And I will start adding the mince for the gravy.
Yeah.
So the reason we use mince and the chuck steak together,
the mince play important roles in the gravy part,
giving the gravy body
so it fill up the gap between the steak and the gravy.
Fantastic.
And we use the chuck steak because it's a more beefy flavour.
Yep. And it is very tenderised.
I love that. All killer, no filler pies.
Chan. Oh, wow.
I mean, that's fantastic.
It's obviously, you can see the consistency of it,
beautiful and smooth and velvety.
I'm going to jump into my dough. Yep.
So we're going to make short crust for the pie base. Great.
So this is half a kilo, 500 grams, plain flour.
The pie that we eat, 70% of the first bite going to be a pastry. Yeah.
So your dough, you need some flavour in it.
So add 1% milk powder and 1% salt.
I love that because you're considering eatability.
You're thinking about, it's not just the pie as a whole,
but what is that first bite? Exactly.
That's the winning key that we can make the best pie in Australia.
Yeah. So, always start with low speed.
So one or two minutes first and then we can add water.
Yep.
OK. Where are we at, Ryan?
Alright, so I just put in my seasoning in.
Once it start bubbling again, add the barbecue sauce.
So this is a smoky whiskey barbecue sauce. Yes, smoky...
Very nice sauce, this one. Beautiful.
Let's talk about quail eggs.
How do they end up in this particular pie?
This dish is originally from Cambodia,
called the caramelized pork and pepper with duck egg or chicken egg.
But because the egg is too big to go into the pie,
we decided to go with the quail egg,
which is similar textures and tastes and everything.
So we love changing things. Yeah.
How's it looking?
Yeah, it's nice and soft texture.
So easy to work on as well. So... Yep.
Julie, you're watching this with very keen interest.
Would you like to pop up and have a feel of the texture?
Oh, wow.
It's soft. Chan, this is Julie Goodwin.
I don't know if you know... I know.
That's a lot more elastic than what I'm used to in a short crust.
Yeah. Can I take this back to them?
Sure, absolutely.
Take it and pass it along.
So probably that is around three mil.
So we put it just in the middle and then we use the extra dough,
tame them in.
So that's how nice and smooth. There you go.
Simple as that.
The excess, you can just trim it off and then we come back again.
So we've got to sear the scallop now.
(TIMER BEEPS) Oh, my one done already.
Beautiful. So we're looking at gorgeous consistency.
Oh, yum.
OK.
And you're aiming for roughly three to four quail eggs.
A little bit of sauce. Yeah.
Amazing.
Now, are you putting a puff pastry lid on?
I love a clean cut.
Love a clean cut. Yeah.
So Chan, he love the pinch.
Do you guys get competitive?
A little bit, sometimes. Yes.
We always fight in the kitchen.
Yes.
I need to assemble my pie as well.
Filling first and then we start to arrange this into the middle.
So you have like a full layer of scallops in the pie?
Yeah, that's correct.
How much does this thing RRP at?
I think we sell for $8.90.
Gee!
That's a bargain.
How?
We look up to the customer.
I'm mentally getting in the car and driving to Kyneton right now.
Use the back of the knife to make it evenly.
Who knew you could trim a pie with flair?
It's so great, such style.
To notify which pie is which,
I always put the sign on my pie and then give them a nose.
(LAUGHTER)
A smiley face!
Aww! Alright.
Ready to go in the oven?
Yeah.
Beautiful.
OK. It's been 12 minutes.
I think everybody is eagerly awaiting the results of your labour.
Would you do the honours, please?
That's the best pie in Australia.
(APPLAUSE)
Wow!
They are gorgeous.
Would you guys like to plate up your pies?
Oh, it's hot. Yeah.
Hold on. Yeah.
(ALL EXCLAIM)
OK.
Aldo and Daniel, please come on up.
ALDO: Try to not make a mess.
Daniel, I'm thinking beef. Yeah?
And Aldo? Seafood.
Scallops.
Go for it.
No. What you doing there?
Don't tell me how to eat a pie. Oh, God.
He's doing it that way.
And that's the way.
ALL: Yeah!
MELISSA: And it didn't spill!
Oh, my God.
Tell me what you're feeling.
Oh, it's delicious.
The pastry, it's amazing.
And you got the pop of the corn and then the sweetness of the peas.
And then you got the beautiful scallops, which are very sweet as well.
Yeah, still tender. And then you got a little bit of the kick of the spices they've got.
It's just subtle. Beautiful.
And Daniel, I mean, clearly, you don't hate it.
It's delicious. It really is.
I think you nailed it on the head like you were saying.
You fill the gap between the beef and the gravy with more beef.
It was great.
Back away from the pies.
Please join me in thanking Chan and Ryan,
reproducing the best pies in Australia!
Thank you so much.
Thank you.
Just one minute.
Best thing about pies is that you can make them in bulk.
YOU get a pie! And YOU get a pie!
And you get a pie!
Come on up!
ANNOUNCER: Coming up...
ANDY: So, Michael, you got 30 minutes. What's your go to dessert?
Passionfruit souffle, Andy.
Ooh! I hope.
Ooh!
..Michael attempts the impossible...
What's the secret to the souffle?
Hoping that it rises.
..in the 30 minute dessert challenge.
It might be soup-ffle, Andy.
Don't worry, guys. There's some churros here for you.
It's fine.
Righto, gang.
Now we're going to handball it to you guys to show us
a thing or two.
We want to see a 30 minute dessert.
Something quick, something easy,
something that's going to be full flavour.
And we've singled out
Michael and Keyma.
Step forward, guys.
Come on up.
Thank you, mate. There you go, big fella.
Over to you, boss.
Thank you.
Take it easy on me. Alright?
So, Michael, you got 30 minutes. What's your go to dessert?
It's going to be a passionfruit souffle, Andy.
Ooh! I hope.
Ooh! That's a ballsy one.
It is. Yeah. OK, I like it.
Passionfruit souffle versus...?
Lime churros with dulce de leche.
Yeah.
Oh!
Lime churros.
30 minute dulce de leche.
I'm in that. Ooh.
A bit of risk involved in both of those things in 30 minutes.
So I'm interested to see if this pans out.
We're going to put 30 minutes on the clock.
Your time starts now.
Ah! I wasn't expecting this.
What do you need? Oh, you're helping out?
Yeah! Yeah, great.
But it's not my fault if it doesn't rise.
(LAUGHTER)
We're a team today, Andy. We're a team.
So we're gonna make a souffle base,
so you can do this with any fruit juice.
So, they're gonna be easy. A passionfruit juice.
Yep. Into there. Halve them, seeds. The seeds.
I'll separate the eggs.
So, Michael, what's the secret to the souffle?
Hoping that it rises.
I've got about a 50% strike rate on it, so...
50? Yeah.
Mate, you can't bring that strike rate into the MasterChef kitchen, surely.
You know I like to take a risk, Andy.
I'm starting to say my prayers.
I'll start now, eh?
So, into a pot with your fruit puree.
Yep.
Now, Andy, next thing... Yes.
..is lining these ramekins. Gotcha.
Alright, so we're making lime churros.
We've got 30 minutes to do it.
What are we doing?
Well, first thing we have to do is the churro batter.
The batter. Yes.
We're gonna put a cup of water.
A cup of water? Yes.
I've never measured a cup of anything in my life.
You don't use measuring cups?
It's not really my scene.
So, let's zest probably two limes. I can do the zesting.
In there. So I want them to really taste like lime.
Is that just because you love it?
Yes.
Lime everywhere.
So I want you to bring that to a boil,
and I'm gonna be sifting some flour.
How many churros do you reckon your kids have eaten in a lifetime?
Oh, my God, so many.
It's something easy to make when you come home and they want a snack.
I don't like buying pre-packaged.
Would you not buy them out? They're not the best.
Not the best. No. Try mine.
Your churros are the best.
I'm not saying they're the best...
That's exactly what you just said.
I didn't say that.
No, I'm into it.
MICHAEL: Alright, so this is thickening up now.
We can go in with our cornstarch.
Just need to keep mixing because it thickens up quite quickly.
It's just a nervous dish, you know, the souffle.
ANDY: It is. I don't know why you chose to do it in 30 minutes,
but hey, I love the grunt.
I want a good texture here.
We need to chill this down which is gonna take about five minutes.
Now, we need to whip our eggwhites to fold through
our passionfruit base.
I've got about 75g of sugar.
Now we can relax for three minutes.
We've got to beat them. Let's go. OK. The dulce de leche.
So it's South American, Caribbean, dulce de leche is a big thing.
What does it mean to you?
It means a lot. You can find it everywhere.
Loads of different types, isn't there?
In different stages of caramelisation.
So from lighter to really, really burnt caramel. Yeah.
We're measuring 100g of sugar.
And then we're gonna put some unsalted butter in it.
Yep.
And then we're gonna deglaze it with evaporated milk.
What sort of level of caramelisation are we gonna do?
Um... I don't want to go too dark because I want it to be sweet.
Yep. So, not too much.
And then let it reduce until it's thick.
What about the batter?
Is it rolling boiling? Yes.
Just turn it off. Yep.
Now we add the flour.
And just keep it moving until it comes together into a ball.
Yep.
Isn't there machines to do this?
This is like exercise.
That's enough. That's enough. Oh!
(LAUGHS)
Medium, before we can thin it out.
OK?
I'm gonna go and turn their oven off. What's happening over here, Andy?
Mate, I'm under the pump. Yeah?
I don't know about you over there. For real.
Just as always, Jock and Andy do this thing where they try
and mess with each other's stuff.
Are you turning the oven off? No.
Me, turn the oven off?
Don't know what you're talking about.
They take it all a bit how's-it-going,
but you know that deep down neither of them wants to lose.
Oh, he turned it off.
Yep. What did you think he was doing over here?
You know, you should probably try and fry your souffle if I were you.
If you want a souffle up in time.
So it's Keyma versus Michael.
They're making 30 minute desserts.
Keyma has picked the perfect, perfect dessert to make.
She is doing churros and dulce de leche.
Michael's dessert sounds so risky.
Passionfruit souffle in 30 minutes. I'm like, errr...
What's happening over here, Andy?
Mate, I'm under the pump. For real.
Are you turning the oven off? No. Me, turn the oven off?
Don't know what you're talking about.
Oh, he turned it off! Yep.
What did you think he was doing over here?
I mean, I get Jock trying to stitch Andy up, but this is my dish.
What have I done to Jock?
He's not here to help.
He's here to sabotage.
I switched their oven off, so I reckon we'll beat them.
They're taking it quite seriously. I'm just cooking for the fun.
I don't know what's going on with these guys.
Alright, spot-on. So, stiff peaks. Yep.
Best way to tell, can I do it to you? Oh...
(LAUGHTER)
That's a trust exercise. I appreciate that, brother.
So we just get our puree that's been chilling,
and I just sort of use the whisk,
thin that base out so it's nice and light and fluffy.
And we need to get it in the oven with nine minutes to go
'cause it's gonna take eight minutes to cook. Righto.
Dulce de leche sauce is reducing.
Our oil is heating and we're gonna thin out the batter
so we can pipe it.
And you see it coming together.
I can see it coming together. Yep.
This is the consistency for the piping bag.
Have to be softer to be able to pipe it.
Got it.
So I'm adding some of that in there.
This is a churro gun. Yep.
We're gonna start piping.
Awesome.
And that's a churro.
Wow.
Do you want me to put them in? Yeah, you can put them in.
How long does the dough take to fry and at what temperature?
3 to 4 minutes, 180.
Quick, desserts are coming in hot! 10 minutes to go!
ANDY: You said they take nine minutes.
Eight, nine minutes, yeah. We've got two minutes.
Alright.
You can be a little bit firm at this stage with the tap.
Hey, you've only got eight minutes left for your nine minute souffle,
just in case you're wondering.
Yeah.
Well, lucky that we think they're gonna cook in eight.
It might be soup-ffle, Andy.
Alright, so we're making lime churros.
So these have been frying I reckon about four minutes.
Yep. This one is good.
This one is good, ready? Yes.
Out it comes.
Keyma did it. Those churros look absolutely awesome.
I want to eat them.
Alright, we're good.
So, we have to do the last thing.
We're using the icing sugar, lime zest, bit of cinnamon.
Alright, now we're gonna quickly whip some cream.
They're rising.
Slowly.
Phew!
We're gonna be right down to the wire.
Massively right down to the wire.
How glad are you that this is a masterclass and not an elimination?
Oh, I'm pretty happy about that. Pretty happy.
Depends how good the churros are.
Our churros are cooked. How is the souffle?
Plating.
Let's do this.
Oh, come on, go. The one on the right is alright.
Just not brown enough. There is a rise.
Just no colour.
MELISSA: Do we have lift-off?
Uh... Don't worry, guys.
There's some churros here for you, it's fine.
One minute to go!
(CHEERING)
Are you just gonna serve up passionfruit on a plate?
Is that what's happening? Hey, we've got cream.
We've got whipped cream, Jock.
Awesome, perfect.
(ALL EXCLAIM)
That's cruel.
They look great, Keyma.
How good do these look?
They look so golden and crunchy.
When do we get them out?
Like, when they start the 10, I reckon.
OK.
We're finished.
We're done. How you going, boys?
Yeah, good. Uh-huh.
Great.
ALL: 10! 9! 8! 7!
6! 5! 4!
3! 2! 1!
That's it!
Phew! Oh, far out.
Michael's taken his souffles out of the oven and they're perfectly risen and puffy.
I don't know how the hell he's done it.
But you never know if they're cooked until he cuts into them,
so we'll wait and see.
MELISSA: Alright, you motley crew.
I need to pick Fan and a Favourite to join me in a panel to taste.
I think it's going to be...
..Tommy.
And...
..Montana.
Let's go.
Let's do it.
Yes.
OK.
Michael, Andy. What have you cooked?
Passionfruit soup-ffle.
Soup-ffle. Souffle.
We'll see. We're gonna find out.
OK. Please do the honours.
So you want to drop some cream in the centre.
Oh...
It's just cooked through.
It's lovely. I'm surprised by how passionfruity it is.
But it's very tasty. Thank you very much.
Light, airy, cloudlike.
That beautiful fragrance and tang of the passionfruit.
Beautiful texture. Well done, Michael.
And Andy. My scotch missed or what?
Yeah!
Thank you very much.
That was very fun.
Well, well, well. What do we have here, Keyma?
Lime churros with dulce de leche sauce.
Gorgeous.
Look at the gloss on that dulce de leche.
Oh! Mm.
OK.
(CRUNCHES)
Perfect crunch. Amazing. The sauce is beautiful.
Whoo-hoo!
It's really light, actually. I didn't realise it would be so light.
And the sauce, I can't believe she got that flavour into it so quickly.
It's just incredibly crunchy and light.
I think the lime lifts everything.
A really nice take on dulce de leche and churros.
Thank you, Melissa. Beautiful. Thank you so much.
So we're about to turn and huddle to decide.
The judging panel and I have made a decision.
And the winner of this fun little sweet foray is...
..Keyma!
Well done.
Well done, Keyma. There you go.
Well done.
What an absolutely fun and awesome day.
Some great cooking.
Sunday is the biggest day of the competition so far.
So go home, get some rest, and we'll see you then.
Bye!
ANNOUNCER: Sunday night on MasterChef Australia,
there's a major shakeup in the kitchen.
It's no longer Fans versus Favourites.
It's every cook for themselves.
(CHEERING)
And...
It's wild. It's a wild time.
..an exciting prize
that will spark some of the best dishes yet.
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