Kate!!!!!
Imagine cooking for the best chef in the world? That is what Kate and Michael had to do for their final challenge in the Masterchef kitchen.
Presented with a snowman with the skinniest carrot nose that you have ever seen, Kate and Michael had to cook a dish created by chef René Redzepi from the number one restaurant in the world – Noma in Copenhagen. But not just any dessert – it was a dessert of carrots, including carrot sorbet dipped in nitrogen and sprayed with yoghurt, a passionfruit mouse and meringue.
Aside from the fact that Channel Ten decided to put an episode of Renovators in the middle of the final episode ensuring that every child who has religiously watched Masterchef will have to sleep through school tomorrow, it was pretty nail biting stuff.
I was team Michael all the way but Kate was superb and the judges loved her.
Did you watch Masterchef this year? Were you Team Michael or Team Kate?
Top Comments
i was expectin Micheal to win but it was shokin dat.. Kate WON..!!!!!!!
though its great dat for so much time v were waitin for Masterchef Australia 2011 and v finally got it !!!!
CONGRATS...Kate !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Im sorry but i just have to get on my soap box here.
Masterchef is totally degrading to the industry in the way they present it. Im not at all against cooking shows but keep it real please.
I am a chef, have been for over 10 years and i have worked my BUM off to get where i have.
I have worked overseas for years in top restaurants. Im not about to roll out my CV but one of them was The Fat Duck. I was a pastry chef that pulled 16hour days to do what you have to do at that level.
It infuriates me when Masterchef somehow lures the likes of Rene Redzepi (presumably with a lot of money) on an ameture cooks show, putting them up to the challenge of his Snowman and suggestinig that the contestants replications can even come close to his original???? Give me a break!! Chefs train for YEARS to be able to make food like this, a home cook in 90 mins???? WTF.
The other episode that took the piss was when the final 3 created dishes for each of the top 3 restaurants in Sydney, Quay, Marque and Est. To be told their dishes could be put on the menu and not be out of place was sickening. An apprentice chef may approach their head chef over and over with menu ideas only to be shot down because its not good enough for the menu, it takes time, practice, and skill to do this. A mockery it is, a mockery of our industry. I wonder how much of it was their input and how much "encouragement" was from others "behind the scenes", the plating up was definitely not the contestants own, it had to be the chefs to even let it leave the kitchen.
This season in particular, probably by pulling the big names made my blood boil on several occasions.
You have to work dam hard to make it as a top chef, not go on a reality show for a few weeks and have it all handed to you. If anyone thinks this is how it is they need a "reality" check.
It is possible to have an ameture show keeping it that way by not blurring the line between cooking good scones and replicating 3 michelin star dishes to that standard.
Yes, I completely agree with you Professional Chef. It is really awful to watch your industry tainted with underqualified people claiming that they want to become a chef, but can't be bothered to do the hard yards for years doing their apprenticeship. It dumbs down the genuine talents and hardworkers of the industry. And as you said, the food definitely could not of been plated up by the contestants. Reality TV is shocking for lying to the viewer. Another example is The Block. Love the show, hate that some contestants did not build anything themselves yet are still in the running and produce perfectly finished renos without showing the level of help they recieved.
I would be pissed if I saw a show where contestants were given a block of land and told to make a farm profitable. It really does undermine the years at Ag College or the apprentice Jackaroos/Jillaroos who work for years trying to make it as manager of a station. Probably shouldn't of said that, someone will end up making that into a show now.
I think this instant success can be really damaging to our youth who thinks that it all falls into their laps without seeing the reality and that hard work.