It’s blood, sweat, and literal tears IN THE KITCHEN!
Ready to find out which ones made it to season 5’s top 10 Masterchef worst dishes?
Blueberry Pie with Pecan
Episode 3 of season 5 begins in the Mojave desert.
The task was to prep a meal in two hours for 500 army soldiers.
The Blue team served Grilled chicken with BBQ sauce and potato salad.
The Red team, on the other hand, served double cut pork chop with apple chutney and coleslaw.
In the end, the Red team won with 329 votes compared to the Blue Team’s 171.
What was next?!
That’s right!
With Daniel saving three members, the rest were given 75 minutes to bake a perfect blueberry
pie with a lattice crust!
Making one of the Masterchef’s staples is more than enough to make any budding chef
shake in their aprons!
Whose blueberry pie earned the judge’s ire?
Joe Bastianich had little to say.
In the end, Stephani’s Blueberry pie with pecan had a combination that simply didn’t
work.
Disappointing Doughnuts
With 18 contestants left in the running, the pressure just went up a notch earlier than
expected.
To jolt the home chefs into action, the judges had set up a mystery box that contained something
that warranted caution.
The winning dish was Ahran Cho’s Spicy Seafood Stew with Jasmine Rice.
The next challenge was an elimination test.
Among muffins, cookies, and doughnuts everyone had to make doughnuts served in a box.
Doughnuts are certainly delicious but not easy.
With 90 minutes on the clock, the home chefs worked at a frantic pace.
Everyone managed to wing it except for Kira.
Unfortunately, her doug hnuts weren’t filled and were more like Kaiser rolls than doughnuts.
It was visually appealing but her doughnuts were a huge disappointment!
The Un-Medium Rare Steak
This episode saw the home chefs cook for a Masterchef wedding.
And boy, did tempers flare!
The winning team was...!
With the Blue team immune, the Red Team now had to walk through their elimination challenge.
But the twist was only three would be cooking for the pressure challenge.
For this pressure test, the three of them had to cook a dish that defines America – the
quintessential American protein - Steak and steak frites.
And it wasn’t enough for the dish to have the steak down to a T; the steak frites had
to be perfect as well.
Whose steak was less than perfect?
Jordan’s!
His steak frites, on the other hand, had no color whatsoever even though it was seasoned
well.
Gordon had really nice words to say even though Jordan had to give up his apron this early
in the game.
Panna Cotta by Another Chef
This episode had two returning champions...
But before they stepped in, the remaining home cooks had to unlock the mystery box.
The Mystery Box contained 52 unlabeled aluminum cans containing various processed vegetables,
fruit, meat and seafood.
This challenge tested everyone’s ability to elevate lowly canned ingredients to restaurant-standard
dishes!
Elizabeth’s dish won the challenge.
As the winner of the Mystery Box challenge, she would be in control of the elimination
test.
Two Masterchef winners presented Elizabeth with choices.
She had to choose who would cook which dish.
Who went home for the worst dish?
Tyler!
His Passion Fruit Panna Cotta, looked like, well, a disaster on a plate.
And to make things worse, Chef Ramsay suspected...!
He took out someone else’s panna cotta off the fridge by mistake!
This was certainly a capital offense in Masterchef!
Greasy Spring Rolls
The pressure to cook has divided the Masterchef kitchen in so many ways.
The team challenge was a challenge most home chefs feared.
Each pair had to cook a surf and turf dish in just an hour.
Ahran and Leslie made Pork Belly Tostada with Crab Guacamole and Kimchi fried Rice.
Dan and Cutter’s plate didn’t look very appetizing.
They had made seared venison loin with seared ahi tuna.
It didn’t look good.
However, it wasn’t Cutter and Dan’s dish that got the boot; the pressure test had them
cooking against each other.
The dish?
It had to be light, crispy, crunchy, and bursting with flavor.
There are so many ways to mess this up.
Get the wrapper wrong, you go home.
Get the filling wrong, and you can say goodbye to your apron.
In the end, Francis’ and his spring rolls got the boot.
His spring rolls with glass noodles and vegetables didn’t make the cut with ratio out of proportion.
Beet Root Stuffed Pasta
With just 11 home cooks left, a coveted spot in the Top 10 was this episode’s top prize.
To begin, the contestants had not one but two Mystery Boxes.
One box contained everyday ingredients.
The other contained a fancier, high-end version of the first box.
The best dish went to Leslie’s was a trio of protein – pork, beef, & ahi tuna with
truffle puree, stilton and pea puree.
With him as the Mystery Box winner, he got to pick among three different types of stuffed
pasta…
Joe’s tortellini, Graham’s caramelle, and Gordon’s raviolacci.
Leslie had another advantage though… he got to choose who among his competitors could
use a hand crank or a rolling pin.
Fortunately, the rolling pin didn’t send Daniel’s head rolling out of the kitchen!
Francis’ dish was a short rib caramelle with cauliflower and pepper puree.
Someone had to go home for going too far out of the box.
And it was Francis.
Yolk-less Poached Egg
Masterchef contestants are all fighters.
Many of those who earn the coveted white aprons gave up their jobs for the rare chance to
earn the title of Masterchef.
With the dream within reach, the remaining contestants were, more than ever, feeling
the heat in the kitchen.
The first challenge for this episode was a chicken dish.
With only 5 minutes allowed in the pantry, they had to shop blindly as the teams did
not know which part they were getting.
The immune teams for the first challenge were Elizabeth and Leslie, and Christian and Courtney.
But one of them had to go home…
Who would that be?
We’re about to find out after not just one, but two pressure tests.
With just one egg per contestant, they only had one chance to nail this delicate dish.
Cutter’s poached egg was disastrous, but Daniel’s was way worse.
Daniel lost the yolk during the cooking process.
Unseasoned, Burnt Dimsum
The battle is on!
The remaining 7, or shall we say, Top 7, found their Mystery Boxes filled with...
Nothing says home in America than apples, indeed!
Everyone looked forward to making a dessert dish...
BUT...
Courtney’s dish was the winner.
With her as the winner, the rest had to slug it out with the elimination challenge.
The tall order was to make dim sum.
How did Willie and Christian do?
Hmmm… not too well.
Their potstickers were burned, the other had too thick a dough...
Chef Gordon thought it was disgusting because their dim sum simply lacked seasoning.
Unfortunately, Willie had to give up his apron.
Sticky Cream Puffs
With just six contestants in the running, everyone was just fighting tooth and nail
for the coveted top spot!
The first challenge for the top 6 was to prepare dinner at a restaurant under Chef Gordon and
Chef Graham’s supervision.
The Blue Team headed by Jaimee versus the Red Team headed by Leslie.
Could Leslie head his team smoothly this time?
Apparently, he could!
The pressure test was to create a...
A what?!
This dessert consists of cream puffs piled into a towering cone.
It is a classic French dessert finished with threads of caramel.
And just like Chef Ramsay put it...
The home cook that would’ve done excellently well in this challenge would have been Jaimee,
the bakery assistant.
But she was made to give her apron up!
While Jaimee’s looked really awesome, she lacked the spun sugar.
It looked good but did not taste as good as it appeared!
Undercooked Risotto
The final four home cooks were divided into two pairs.
On the Red team were Courtney and Elizabeth – leaving Cutter and Leslie on the Blue
Team.
Each team had to make an appetizer and an entrée based on two boxes which both teams
received.
The girls won with their pan seared rainbow trout with poached pear and cheddar cheese
appetizer plus a venison medallions entree.
They were immune even if Chef Gordon felt that their performance was underwhelming.
With Cutter and Leslie about to butt heads… the pressure just hit the roof.
Leslie and Cutter were assigned a California box of ingredients.
Leslie had replicated the risotto dish better.
Cutter’s risotto was seasoned well but undercooked.
The technique for making it involved stirring small amounts of hot stock to the rice a little
at a time – a process Cutter didn’t do enough of.
As for the chicken teriyaki, Chef Graham thought that both overcooked the chicken but the better
one belonged to Cutter.
As for the salad, it was 50-50.
Leslie forgot the eggs while Cutter undercooked the tuna.
But the winning salad belonged to Leslie.
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