Masterchef Australia Recap S10e11 Monday Night

21-May-2018



Welcome to the Able And Game recap of the Masterchef Australia Monday Night Pressure Test.

Adele, Chloe and Jenny are competing in tonight's pressure test after cooking the worst dishes in last night's Invention Test.

Before they arrive at the kitchen they talk about a few things, like feelings.

Jenny sees the pressure test not as a failure but as a detour.

Adele reads a letter from her Dad that is full of quotes from all the best motivational posters at your school or workplace:
Believe in yourself!
Follow your dreams!
Do what you love!

Chloe is offering none of this motivational thinking and simply says this is her first pressure test.



Nigella has created this pressure test and Matt tells us it is a doozy. They start bringing up cloches from under the counter. They lift the lids to reveal Nigella's favourite chocolate dishes:

White chocolate cookie dough pot
Milk Chocolate Brownie
Dark Chocolate Olive Oil Mousse
and then a slow down big reveal for the ....
Ruby Chocolate Cheesecake

What is ruby chocolate? It is not white chocolate with food colouring. It is a new fancy chocolate, the first new chocolate in 82 years (the other chocolates are dark, milk and white FYI).

Only a few of the top chocolatiers in the world have used this, so Channel 10 getting their mits on it is a big deal. If you want to buy some ask Kristen to pick you up some when she has arvo tea with Nigella at Fortnum And Mason.

Chloe, Adele and Jenny try all the desserts and marvel at how amazing they are, but then they find out they have 75 minutes to complete all four dishes. That's less than 20 minutes per dish.

Chloe starts off fast and is melting the ruby chocolate, making the buttery biscuit base and starting to prepare the Philadelphia Cream Cheese.



People yell the following things from the gantry:
Breathe!
Stay Composed!
You Got This, You're So Close!
Keep Moving, Keep Moving!
Don't Stop!

Broad statements on time are also made:
Time is not your friend (Gary) and time is running fast (Jess)

The judges chat about how this challenge is hard and Gary tells Nigella her recipe is simple but having to cook four of them compounds the problem. Nigella says she feels panicked on their behalf and George says a pressure test is usually a marathon, but this is a sprint.




Matt then says it's the little mistakes that will sent you home so don't make them. Jenny then proceeds to make big mistakes, free pouring olive oil into her chocolate mixture before her scales are on (Nigella "you didn't measure it out first??") then over whips her egg whites despite numerous people yelling "egg whites" at her.



Michelle then says she hopes Adele remembered to put everything into her cookie dough mixture and we realise she has forgotten the hero of the dish, the cadbury white chocolate buttons. The chocolate budget was obviously all spent on the Ruby Chocolate so they couldn't get Lindt or even the good stuff from Aldi. Although if they did get the Aldi stuff they'd have to hide it from Coles, otherwise they might get all snarky with them.

Adele, Jenny and Chloe then spend three minutes looking into their ovens willing their cookie dough to cook. It needed 10 minutes and Chloe's had about 8, Adele's around 5 and Jenny's maybe 4 minutes.

 



The cook finishes and Chloe is happy with her dishes. Jenny is happy with everything except the mousse and the cookie dough pot and Adele is happy with everything except the cheesecake and the cookie dough pot. It will be between Adele and Jenny on who is going home and at this point they've not revealed that Adele has left out the chocolate from the pots.





Top dishes

Adele's mousse
Jenny's cheesecake
Pretty much everything Chloe made but she was first up when they were hungry for chocolate

Bad dishes
Adele's cookie dough pot has no chocolate and is the great disaster
Adele's cheesecake lacks ruthless precision and the crumb on it spoils it
Jenny's mousse is not a mousse, it is a sauce
Jenny's cookie dough pot isn't cooked and had only the briefest of touches in the oven. George could take it home and then bake it into cookies.

The judges deliver their verdicts and Adele is going home. Leaving chocolate out of a dish in a chocolate challenge is too big an error and even her perfect mousse will not save her. Nigella tells Adele she has two skills: you can cook and you bring joy and hopefully Adele's Dad will make her a nice poster with those words on there and she can hang them in her kitchen.


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