After two episodes of seeing countless amateur chefs put their best food forward and Gordon Ramsay, Joe Bastianich and Graham Elliot telling most of them that they sucked and wouldn't earn an apron, we got to see some actual challenges take place during last night's episode of MasterChef that didn't include merely putting together a "signature dish" or at the very least, something that would impress the judges.
Last night's episode of MasterChef consisted of a giant truck driving into the MasterChef warehouse and unloading more onions than I have ever seen at one time. The contestants were told that if they could not properly chop and dice an onion, they had no place being in the kitchen at all. The judges lived up to that very harsh statement by booting every single chef who could not produce perfect onions. Needless to say, there were not an abundance of contestants left after finding that more than half of them could not chop and dice onions.
Those who were left after the onion chopping challenge, which had some chefs chopping for 90 minutes straight, mind you, there was no time for celebration before Gordon Ramsay announced the next challenge. The remaining chefs then had to cook an egg in 30 minutes. Yes, 30 minutes. Eggs typically take just a few minutes to cook, but they had to cook something to accompany the one egg they were given. They got to choose from a spread of protein, greens, fruits, vegetables and garnishes to make something delicious. Some chefs did indeed make something extraordinary, while others made some giant messes.
Find out what Renee and I thought during last night's episode of MasterChef after the jump.
Holly: Hello!
Renee: Booo
Onion chopping, are they serious?
Holly: That is a lot of onions. Crazy amounts of onions.
I can't even be in the kitchen when someone ELSE is cutting an onion.
Renee: Yeah well the homecomes have gadgets for chopping onions
Holly: I love Avis! I have loved her since the first episode, she has amazing energy.
I think I need her to come here and cook for me and keep me company all day. Hell, I'll just go move in with her. Problem solved!
Wow, four people cut themselves in the first minute!?
Renee: Wow they boot very fast
Holly: Gordon Ramsay wanted a show where he didn't have to listen to people fight for themselves to stay on the show, I guess.
Renee: Thank goodness Shaytal stayed
Oh great another inspirational disabled person. I fucking hate when they say that shit
Holly: I was JUST going to type that! It was coming out of my fingertips as you pressed enter!
Avis stayed. I saw her jumping up and down and hugging a judge a little bit ago.
And the mom to special needs kids who didn't need "an extra responsibility" just got kicked.
Renee: Big surprise, he had it in for her
Holly: To women: "You have kids at home! Do you really need another responsibility and stress by being on this show and, I don't know, following your dream?" To men: "Oh, you have kids at home, how nice. And look, a lovely wife! You're in and hopefully you stay for all of the weeks!"
Why is Joe Bastianich just standing there as Gordon Ramsay and Graham Elliot massage chopped and diced onions and kick people out?
Renee: He is just for decoration
Holly: Well he does have the pretty suits.
30 minutes to cook an egg. And they only get one egg. I kind of want to see someone drop theirs...
Renee: This is a ridiculous challenge
Holly: Graham Elliot should be a teacher. He has a higher-pitched voice that makes me calm and comfortable.
Renee: it gets on my nerves and I hate this challenge...an egg, really?
Holly: An egg... and 27 minutes of cooking other things to make the egg "shine"!
Renee: I suppose, but if it takes me that long to make an egg someone should shoot me
Holly: LOL! Well, at least you can make eggs. I am not trusted to do anything in the kitchen anymore.
Renee: Its not hard really
Holly: I really do not like software engineer David.
Renee: I am still learning their names
Holly: He's the one who made bouillabaisse and had this huge arrogance and then cried on the first episode when the judges "found him out."
Hey, Whitney, the 22 year old woman who needed her parents and sister to vouch for her last week is still there.
Renee: They are going to boot her as well
Holly: And a stove had sparks start flying out.
Renee: Ramsey was not impressed
Holly: A scotch egg? I don't even know what that is.
Renee: And why should they know technique from France?
Holly: Because the judges want these "amateur cooks" to already be master chefs. They don't understand the premise of their own show.
Renee: I know...home cooks do not have the same training, and yet they were yelling at people for being too over board last episode
Holly: And the first episode they were nitpicking the plating and in the second episode they were "pretentious." You cannot win.
Renee: I get the feeling they are looking for someone in particular and that food does not matter as much
Holly: Well that is unfair to any cook on that show.
This makes me want to watch some episodes from Australia and see if it's as contradictory as the U.S. version.
"tortilla espanol" egg looks burnt.
Renee: yeah and unattractive
Holly: And he's out, which I think is a good decision. Burning eggs.
Whitney and Slim's egg dishes looked so pretty. And one of the Whitneys is gone.
Renee: Slim's food looks good
Holly: I don't like the look of creme fresche.
Oh that banana egg thingy looked amazing!
Renee: technical baking ability
Holly: And the construction worker who they were expecting to just go in and make a steak poached an egg perfectly! And he is in!
And they wanted to get rid of him last episode for not being the "right" Italian.
Holly: "Inspirational" disabled man is out, along with the woman who wasn't Latino enough. She is too Latino today, so out she goes.
Renee: And Analese what a loss
Notice how they got sheetal name wrong. Why bother to pronounce it properly
Holly: Because they don't want to have to make the extra effort. But if someone mispronounced their names they'd be pissed.
Renee: I know but basic human decency you know..
Holly: Oh yes, I know. They, however, do not know.
Or care. Because they're already master chefs.
Renee: Yeah but I have a problem with this whole concept because for the contestants, cooking is from a place of love and the master chefs have commodified cooking and turned it into a classist piece of bullshit
Holly: I agree completely. Case in point: What the fuck is a "scotch egg?"
Renee: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotch_egg
Holly: Hm. Yeah, that looks disgusting.
Renee: they need to stop fucking with their emotions as well
Holly: I agree! It isn't entertaining and doesn't put me on the edge of my seat or anything.
Renee: The woman made island provisions and it is supposed to be heavy jackass
Holly: Yeah, that's like ordering meatloaf and mashed potatoes and then complaining that it's heavy.
Renee: I know just goes to show they are not experts in everything. I grew up eating that kind of food
Holly: I grew up on my grandmother's food; she who does not know anything other than heavy. It was magnificent.
Holly: David is going to cry again so he can stay? I do not like David. He's fake as all hell.
Renee: I know...I don't like the look of him thus far...and the shame of lumpy potatoes sticks to him LOL
Holly: HAHAHA!!!
Holly: MasterChef is on on Wednesday at 8 next week. They're moving it for some reason.
Renee: I guess now that it does not have the lead in of Hell's Kitchen
He so wanted to hug Ramsey
Holly: Yes, yes he did. And he also wanted to scream "Thank you so much for not seeing right through me and how absolutely fake I am and please, thank you for not seeing that I should have been sent home at auditions!"
I love Avis. She better not go home.
Joe Bastianich really just asked Whitney if she dropped out of school to become a master chef and asked what was going on. He needs a good punch in the face. Seriously.
Renee: I cannot stand the Italian cook at all
I know and that she is ballsy yeah I hate it when they use that kind of language with women
Holly: Yep, same here.
Renee: Avis almost mushed Gordon hugging him
Holly: Yay, Avis stayed!
Renee: That cracked me up
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