I like Masterchef better than the other cooking comps.
Great way to start this season rather than the mass single tasks they used to do.
Now every hopeful contestant gets 1 hour to cook a dish tasted by the 3 judges.
With second chance contestants cooking for a blind tasting.
24 contestants get an apron. 
Didn't look anything like a lemon meringue pie to me.
What ridiculous food these chefs expect you to pay top dollar for!
3D food printer? The world's gone mad
Yeah, way over the top for Masterchef.
It has it's place in specialty restaurants for those chefs wanting to push boundaries.
Twas time for Genene to go, nice person but I thought she was more in it for a bit of fun rather than a career.
Next might be Sarah or Chloe, they don't seem as committed either.
Then there were 14.
Forgot to mention I cooked Jess's chicken wings which she won with the opportunity to cook for immunity.
Good recipe, crunchy wings with sticky sweet n sour sauce all over.
Messy but very tasty. 
@imastawka wrote:Didn't look anything like a lemon meringue pie to me.
What ridiculous food these chefs expect you to pay top dollar for!
3D food printer? The world's gone mad
I've missed the last 2 weeks of masterchef (been in China) but came back in time to see a little bit of this episode.
It doesn't look like a lemon meringue pie to me either.
I don't know about anyone else, but I am totally over seeing crumbs and broken things strewn across plates and being told it is a pie or a tart or whatever. In fact i have seen people whose pastry cases have failed or broken so 'deconstructing' it is how they go, to try to cover the imperfections.
As for many of the masterchef recipes. Some seem okay but in some of the challenges, I suspect the chefs deliberately add more steps to make the process longer & harder. Saw something last year that took them hours & hours to make. looked okay but not sure the taste would have warranted the extra effort above a cake or whatever it was.
Yeah, give me a good plateful, not something artfully placed on one side of the dish.
Last night....guessing what was revealed under 30? cloches.
Some were dead easy, others, meh, not so much.
I thought the pigface was samphire - still think it is.
Samphire is a native succulent also referred to as sea asparagus, swamp grass, salicorne, glasswort, pickleweed and sea beans. Woody at the base and with many branches it grows freely on many of Southern Australia’s salty flats.
Gardeners know what pigface is, and it looked nothing like what they had.
And the main ingredient for the immunity pin?
Wow, blowed if I could think of anything at all to cook.
I was watching a little bit last night and one of the judges seemed worried-he said to a contestant-that sounds like meat & vegetables.
Shock, horror!! Meat & vegies for a main. Totally unacceptable, I know!!
As it was, the dish looked very arty, not like a big serve of vegies as I know them.
As for that plant-samphire- I wouldn't have a clue what to do with it, but then again, being on Masterchef would be my nightmare, not my dream. I'm not sure I'd even feel confident to invite any of the judges into my home for a cup of tea, let alone a meal.
Definitely sea asparagus.
Phew, a close call for Jess.
And Aldo, I was yelling at the screen to cut the chicken breast in half then return to pan if not cooked through.
No need to serve a whole breast or serve 2 halves nicely placed. He was lucky though, it was perfect but could have saved the stress.
Looks like Sunday's mystery box is just a loaf of bread. That will sort out the cooks from the rest.
Yes, the right one went home IMO.
I was worried about who it would be, and it was a good test with 3 chicken dishes.
Mystery box should be a hoot. A sammich won't cut it then? Even a fancy one?
Even a tongue and cheek sammich.
(couldn't find a pic of one of those)
