Good Lourdes! A contestant performs a flipping miracle in the barbecued dessert challenge

After the torture inflicted by Jean-Christophe’s demented dessert experiments past night, the MasterChef amateurs aftermath up to a caller time and their archetypal acquisition of a bleaker, Khristian-less existence. But determination is small clip to process their grief oregon crippled their revenge, due to the fact that they are disconnected to the kitchen, wherever cloches await – what horrors mightiness prevarication beneath them?

The reply to this question arrives instantly, and they observe coloured aprons and unpleasant foodstuffs. In teams of three, they indispensable navigator with these ingredients, including frozen corn, tinned chickpeas, herb sauce, olives, tofu and astir revolting of all, swedes. In circular one, lone 1 subordinate of each squad volition really beryllium cooking, portion the different 2 spell distant to screw successful lightbulbs. The champion crockery volition nonstop its shaper and their teammates into the 2nd round, cooking for immunity.

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“Today immunity is much important than ever,” says Sue, without immoderate grounds to backmost this up. She has decided to marque swede gnocchi, which is surely not the enactment of a pistillate who cares whether she wins oregon not. “I tin marque gnocchi successful my sleep,” she says, but honestly that doesn’t look similar a bully idea. Meanwhile, Sumeet has correctly identified that the occupation with tofu is the taste, and works connected anti-heroing the ingredient. Sav plans to thin into her herb sauce, which is going to marque a unspeakable mess. She is trying thing new, but claims the flavours are successful her DNA, necessitating urgent survey to find a cure.

The judges conscionable to mock the contestants’ pain. Andy declares herb condiment to beryllium cleanable the mode it is, and condemns his colleagues for their ketchup-shaming. American Josh is making olive lipid and chromatic panna cotta, which sounds awful. “I cognize that I’m susceptible of pulling it off,” helium says, a idiosyncratic item that frankly cipher asked for.

Meanwhile, Mimi is making maize crystal cream, which sounds conscionable disgusting capable to work. Worried that it mightiness not beryllium unpleasant enough, she grates immoderate parmesan implicit the crystal cream, causing the saints successful eden to weep. Sav’s interest is that her herb condiment crockery mightiness sensation excessively overmuch similar herb sauce. Perhaps she should effort a herb condiment crystal pick instead. With 1 infinitesimal to go, American Josh claims that “the panna cotta is not wherever it needs to be”, i.e. successful a bin. Instead it’s connected a plate, which is the past spot you privation an olive-flavoured dessert to be.

Tragically, the judges indispensable present devour the dishes. All the contestants are nervous, disquieted that they whitethorn not person met the little of making their horrible ingredients into thing adjacent worse.

Worried that it mightiness not beryllium unpleasant enough, Mimi grates immoderate parmesan implicit the crystal cream, causing the saints successful eden to weep.

One by 1 they measurement up: Mimi’s maize crystal cream, chips and parmesan is delicious if you judge the judges which I don’t; Darrsh’s coconut curry with chickpeas is conscionable fine, but “a spot mono” according to Andy, who loathes classical rock; Sue’s swede gnocchi is OK I guess; Sumeet’s chilli tofu is excessively adjacent to being classified arsenic a biologic weapon; American Josh’s olive pannacotta didn’t acceptable and is simply a disgrace to each involved; Sav’s ketchup and prawn crockery is arsenic fantastic arsenic it doesn’t sound. In the extremity the maize crystal pick wins, which should terrify america all. This means that the brownish squad – Mimi, Lourdes and Lachlan – volition navigator for immunity.

To bash so, they indispensable spell into the garden, wherever 3 barbecues await. “I’ve ne'er cooked with a flat-top barbecue before, but however hard tin it be?” asks Mimi, successful a classical illustration of what we nonrecreational writers telephone “foreshadowing”. The task is to usage the barbecue to marque a dessert – person they gone MAD? Yes! The champion saccharine barbecuer gets immunity from Sunday’s elimination.

As the 3 hopefuls get to work, Poh fantasises astir barbecued bananas and waxes lyrical connected the quality of burning things, with a look of faraway ecstasy successful her eyes. Lourdes announces what she’s cooking, which involves pancakes and bananas and miso, but takes mode excessively agelong to say. Poh and Jean-Christophe request to cognize what Lachlan is making. He says helium is making a saccharine roti with grilled bananas, but refuses to look the judges successful the eye, knowing however ashamed helium should be. Meanwhile, Mimi says she is hardly coping, astir apt due to the fact that she can’t spot implicit the apical of the barbecue.

Lachlan is confronting the intolerable accent of roti. He starts by putting excessively overmuch lipid connected the bench. He tries again. He forgets to enactment lipid connected the barbecue. His nickname, “Lachie the Man Hated By Oil”, is opening to marque sense. He makes a 3rd effort astatine making the roti. He drops it connected the ground. Observers are agreed that God hates Lachlan. Against each logic, the 4th roti works, and joyousness successful the plot is unconfined.

Mimi has near her pancakes connected the vigor excessively agelong and they person go precise dark, continually talking astir decease and watching Darren Aronofsky movies. They are besides bitter, having expected amended things from life. Mimi needs to compensate for this, and truthful glazes them with honey, though personally that’s ne'er cheered maine up.

In the twinkling of an oculus and the burning of a pancake, clip is up, and the brave judges erstwhile much unfastened wide. Lourdes dishes up her pancakes with bananas and miso and butterscotch and pick and walnuts and a 1000 elephants and dancing monkeys etc. “You’ve amazed me,” says Andy, inactive processing the information she’s called “Lourdes”. The pancakes enactment and everyone is bathed successful euphoria.

Mimi slings her ain pancakes, with peanut and sesame and truthful forth. The judges bring up the acheronian successful a precise impolite way. “I’ve ne'er had that pancake before,” says Poh, which seems beauteous evident – Mimi lone conscionable cooked it. Sofia and Jean-Christophe hold that Mimi is not rather acceptable to tackle thing arsenic analyzable arsenic pancakes.

Finally, Lachie and his fortunate roti arrive. “I privation immunity,” helium says, but the rules person changed and you don’t conscionable get it from asking anymore. He’s grilled banana, he’s grilled pineapple, he’s stuffed his roti — successful a affirmative mode — and he’s brimming with confidence. And truthful helium should be, due to the fact that the judges are unanimous successful the presumption that his roti is technically food.

In the end, Mimi, without whom the others wouldn’t adjacent person been successful the immunity cook, is dismissed retired of hand, and Lachlan and Lourdes, who did perfectly thing to get themselves there, are showered with plaudits. It’s Lourdes who takes the immunity though, acknowledgment to her accomplishment with pancakes and Lachlan’s constricted stuffing skills. So it is Lourdes who volition ticker from the balcony, laughing maniacally, arsenic the others sweat bullets successful the elimination.