FTA-TV Masterchef Australia

[Papa G]

I get what you're saying but don't know if some of Poh's recipes will have mass market appeal.
Will definitely sell units to the high end cooking market though.

As Donna Hay said, her book would appeal internationally as well.

Can see both sides really.

Again, I don't think Poh would have total say in the project and the editors of the magazine would get her to tone down some of it for more broader appeal. You'd expect the publisher's of the magazine would want to make a quid too, so they are hardly going to release something that is not going to sell. Additionally, I doubt Poh would cook such way out stuff all the time herself and is just doing it (rather effectively) for the competition.

 

[GuruJane]

If the producers were manipulating the result, then Justine would be in this weekends final. Easily the most popular contestant, would have sold a truckload of cookbooks with her French cuisine and is telegenic as well.

Can the tin foil hat brigade explain why she got eliminated please ?

That puzzled me too. At that stage I was still completely sucked in to Chef, despite some odd moments, and that confirmed to me the show was ridgey didge.

Oh dear.

Last night. Right up until the result, I was musing as to how a 100 day egg and squid ink just happened to be in the pantry? I couldn't remember ever seeing one before in a Coles supermarket? And would everybody have access to two pressure cookers each?

Ah, brilliant, brilliant scam, helped no end by Gary and George's apparent credibility.

The reason why Justine and Chris went out? Because for some time they were the stand out favorites. And reality TV is geared around constant surprises and shocks. Julie the battling mum is your classic audience favorite type; it was probably a toss up between Andre and Poh to get the other guernsey. Whatever, woulda been decided by the network's Q ratings.

Matt Moran is Justine's prize, and no doubt there is something for Chris we haven't found out about yet. Chris no doubt co-operated by making making some at the time very odd mistakes in the home stretch, most notably when he put the whole salmon in to roast 10 minutes too late and served it raw!

 

[J-Train]

sorry? I worked there 15 years ago as a kid whilst at high school, but left as a manager when I was at uni. Haven't worked in one for probably 10 years.

Or did I miss something?

LOL. No it looks like i missed the last 15 years. I thought you were a 15-16 year old trolley boy at a supermarket and thus a little surprised by your detailed analysis of the contestants and their future prospects. Play on.

 

[lifelike_]

Oh dear.

Last night. Right up until the result, I was musing as to how a 100 day egg and squid ink just happened to be in the pantry?

Thought the same thing.

 

[Hawthorn United]

I would also like to congratulate Chris for taking the decision well. Spose they could've edited the nasty bits out. He obviously knew how badly Julie was going with her running around like made and swearing with not being able to finish.

 

[hamG]

Thought the same thing.

Not to mention the random meat offcuts for Chris. Going to take a wild stab and say they were asked to place orders of some specific items for the challange.

 

[Falchoon]

She won't be able to complete and plate up in time for the show to end.

Here's one i prepared earlier, much much earlier.


I've read most of the pages here, did no one else think Chris was GAWN when his response to Donna Hay on her brown on brown comment was "I didn't put much thought into the presentation". This is from a guy who produces his own beer publication.

I was staggered and thought it was an absolutely stupid thing to say, he was battling uphill big time from there on in.

 

[crownie]

Here's one i prepared earlier, much much earlier.


I've read most of the pages here, did no one else think Chris was GAWN when his response to Donna Hay on her brown on brown comment was "I didn't put much thought into the presentation". This is from a guy who produces his own beer publication.

I was staggered and thought it was an absolutely stupid thing to say, he was battling uphill big time from there on in.

i thought he was gawn the minute Donna Hay walked thtough the door, plus she gave away to quickly she wasn't a fan of what he was doing while he was cooking and then once she proclaimed how good Julies dishes were and that presentation suddenly mean't nothing, it was hardly a shock he was gone.

 

[crownie]

]Here's one i prepared earlier, much much earlier.[/B]


I've read most of the pages here, did no one else think Chris was GAWN when his response to Donna Hay on her brown on brown comment was "I didn't put much thought into the presentation". This is from a guy who produces his own beer publication.

I was staggered and thought it was an absolutely stupid thing to say, he was battling uphill big time from there on in.

either that or clever editing. Julie had nothing on her plates with a so called minute to go.

it has happened every episode yet everytime the person has been able to plate up.

 

[IanG]

I've read most of the pages here, did no one else think Chris was GAWN when his response to Donna Hay on her brown on brown comment was "I didn't put much thought into the presentation". This is from a guy who produces his own beer publication.

He didn't actually say it like that, it was more along the lines of he didn't think about the brown on brown thing. And in his position I wouldn't either, they sprang it on them at the last minute that the presentation is very important this task but then in the end they ignored it anyway. Except for the colour Chris's presentation was good unlike Julie's.

 

[IanG]

i thought he was gawn the minute Donna Hay walked thtough the door, plus she gave away to quickly she wasn't a fan of what he was doing while he was cooking and then once she proclaimed how good Julies dishes were and that presentation suddenly mean't nothing, it was hardly a shock he was gone.

Its interesting, the judging on the show seems to have gone downhill with the celebrity judges. I wonder how much power they had.

 

[GuruJane]

did no one else think Chris was GAWN when his response to Donna Hay on her brown on brown comment was "I didn't put much thought into the presentation". This is from a guy who produces his own beer publication.

I was staggered and thought it was an absolutely stupid thing to say, he was battling uphill big time from there on in.

Not if he already knew he was going anyway. Chris played the game pretty well, I reckon. They all did.

Not sure if it had been planned for Julie to miss plating up! But maybe it had. Made good drama.

 

[DonsRule]

He didn't actually say it like that, it was more along the lines of he didn't think about the brown on brown thing. And in his position I wouldn't either, they sprang it on them at the last minute that the presentation is very important this task but then in the end they ignored it anyway. Except for the colour Chris's presentation was good unlike Julie's.

And Donna made a comment very early on that brown on brown never works in a cookbook, no matter how good the taste


WHen I thnk it was Gary and George asked him during the cooking, he said specificly he had thought of white with the mash, a bit greens etc for the differences in color, etc. He might have been better trying to find another beer focused dessert (if he had one) like Beeramasu, just to offer something different.

There was an article online today where he said he was pretty much beated fair and square, and they judges didn't like his dishes last night.

However, he did made the pointt wasn't exactly clear what they were judging on.

They were told to make it look sexy by Donna. George said it had to look like "food p0rn", etc, just taste was what let him down, but as others have mentioned, trying to cook long cooking dishes, even for a pressure cooker, might have been a little narrow minded, and it cost him in the end.

Also, is anyone else a little interested wording in Matt's comments when judging this week "One of you MAY be Australias first Masterchef.?

But Badenoch told ninemsn he respected the judge's decision.

"I've read the comments and I can understand where they (the viewers) are coming from, but at the end of the day the judge's didn't like the food I put up," Badenoch said.

The 41-year-old beer merchant said his offbeat style of cooking cost him the title.

"My approach is definitely a bit more unconventional than Julie — I'm sure she will sell at lot of cookbooks and that might have been a factor," Badenoch said.

Badenoch admitted there had been some confusion over what judges were basing their decision on for last night's elimination.

"I think the brief and the end result was a bit different," he said, adding that the elimination "certainly wasn't based on overall performance".

 

[asanque]

Julie was also the only one who had a clear vision of her cookbook.

Could be onto a winner.

Probably appeal to the same people who buy Donna Hay and Margaret Fulton cookbooks.

Chris and Poh's pitches were half-ar$ed...

Julie's cookbook vision (blank pages at the end) is just like her cooking.
Unfinished!

Masterchef is a joke.

Maybe Julie can cook something from the last pages of her cookbook, i.e. present an empty dish, and still win.

It'd be more appetising then the Passionfruit Puddle pie, or the raw lamb that miraculously turned cooked between plating and judging.

 

[SunKing]

I'll be buying it just to get the recipe for that killer vomit/puddle pie

 

[crownie]

Julie's cookbook vision (blank pages at the end) is just like her cooking.
Unfinished!

Masterchef is a joke.

Maybe Julie can cook something from the last pages of her cookbook, i.e. present an empty dish, and still win.

It'd be more appetising then the Passionfruit Puddle pie, or the raw lamb that miraculously turned cooked between plating and judging.

and wow we can put on own receipes and pictures in there.

it astounds me no one has ever done something like it before.

 

[bighit006]

As soon as the judges tried to almost justify Julies unfinished meals as being "homestyle," it was pretty obvious who was going home.

 

[Chief]

What is it with the younger generation these days Chief trying to see shadows that aren't there ?

Apparently it is all scripted. Like Wrestling.

 

[crownie]

Apparently it is all scripted. Like Wrestling.

its reality tv, so it must be real

 

[Chief]

I've read most of the pages here, did no one else think Chris was GAWN when his response to Donna Hay on her brown on brown comment was "I didn't put much thought into the presentation". This is from a guy who produces his own beer publication.

That stuck out like a sore thumb and I knew he was going to be marked down.

They were specifically and clearly told about presentation. He was specifically told about 'brown on brown' and produced dishes that were almost completely brown or dark brown!

He didn't listen, over-reached trying to fudge it with pressure cookers, produced food that did not taste good and lost.

Now, to talk about what DID NOT make it on the plate is irrelevant.

They judged what DID make it onto the plate. They have also, at times, said that they judged some dishes up if they tasted OK but all they needed was a little extra accompaniment to lift them further. No simple accompaniment was going to save Chris's beef dish. It was badly cooked while the judges Julie's lamb was perfectly cooked.

It was plain as the nose on your face that Chris failed while Julie put out something mediocre but BETTER than Chris's food, and had a much more clear idea of what her cook book would be.

Not rocket science, but we humans love to have a blue over our opinions

 

[crownie]

That stuck out like a sore thumb and I knew he was going to be marked down.

They were specifically and clearly told about presentation. He was specifically told about 'brown on brown' and produced dishes that were almost completely brown or dark brown!

He didn't listen, over-reached trying to fudge it with pressure cookers, produced food that did not taste good and lost.

Now, to talk about what DID NOT make it on the plate is irrelevant.

They judged what DID make it onto the plate. They have also, at times, said that they judged some dishes up if they tasted OK but all they needed was a little extra accompaniment to lift them further. No simple accompaniment was going to save Chris's beef dish. It was badly cooked while the judges Julie's lamb was perfectly cooked.

It was plain as the nose on your face that Chris failed while Julie put out something mediocre but BETTER than Chris's food, and had a much more clear idea of what her cook book would be.

Not rocket science, but we humans love to have a blue over our opinions

it would of been interesting if Pohs food tasted rubbish, because she clearly assumed (rightly) that it was the presentation that was going to mostly count as she made the effort to plate up 10 minutes before the end.

 

[IanG]

They were specifically and clearly told about presentation. He was specifically told about 'brown on brown' and produced dishes that were almost completely brown or dark brown!

Only not, each dish had something of a blend of different colours from the accompaniments.

And besides by the time she spoke to him about that it was too late anyway, they were halfway through cooking. And if you're going to mark him down specifically on that presentation point then why shouldn't Julie be marked down more than double based on her lack of presentation.

 

[Chief]

As soon as the judges tried to almost justify Julies unfinished meals as being "homestyle," it was pretty obvious who was going home.

They looked OK and tasted good. Chris's looked less than OK and tasted bad.

All through the series people have been saved by good taste over presentation. Chris didn't even have good taste going for him. Not sure why anyone is still shocked he lost.

 

[asanque]

That stuck out like a sore thumb and I knew he was going to be marked down.

They were specifically and clearly told about presentation. He was specifically told about 'brown on brown' and produced dishes that were almost completely brown or dark brown!

He didn't listen, over-reached trying to fudge it with pressure cookers, produced food that did not taste good and lost.

Now, to talk about what DID NOT make it on the plate is irrelevant.

They judged what DID make it onto the plate. They have also, at times, said that they judged some dishes up if they tasted OK but all they needed was a little extra accompaniment to lift them further. No simple accompaniment was going to save Chris's beef dish. It was badly cooked while the judges Julie's lamb was perfectly cooked.

It was plain as the nose on your face that Chris failed while Julie put out something mediocre but BETTER than Chris's food, and had a much more clear idea of what her cook book would be.

Not rocket science, but we humans love to have a blue over our opinions

Julie's lamb was raw 5 seconds before plating.

I'm sure if you look around you'll find photos.

However, Julie's raw lamb miraculously turned cooked and sliced between plating and judging.

It was so miraculous one could believe Julie = Jesus

Edit:
Pictures here
Lamb before plating: http://img139.imageshack.us/img139/6660/rawbng.jpg

Final lamb dish: http://img406.imageshack.us/img406/2055/raw3.jpg

 

[Chief]

Only not, each dish had something of a blend of different colours from the accompaniments.

And besides by the time she spoke to him about that it was too late anyway, they were halfway through cooking. And if you're going to mark him down specifically on that presentation point then why shouldn't Julie be marked down more than double based on her lack of presentation.

Is there a photo of all of Chris's together? I think the two sets of dishes were pretty even in presentation. Julie's tasted better. Add in a more sale-able cookbook and she kept herself in the game by a slim margin. End of story.

Julie's lamb was raw 5 seconds before plating.

Asanque as I recall that was far from 5 seconds before. It was a minute or two. At the last moment she was placing the lamb slices. The two look identical to me. The judges loved the rare lamb.