Mastercheffians Assemble! Final Final 2018

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Squeaky new thread for tomorrow's final

@ScoobyGangMember what are you cooking?

I’m going to try something new this weekend. No idea what yet, any ideas? Last year I made venison with juniper berry reduction to celebrate the end of masterchef. As they were all cooking venison. This year it seems to be fish so I think fish based would be good.

A very old Good Housekeeping coconut chicken thing and brownies and ice cream .

Paranormal - I’d go piranha heads with dried alpaca heart

Or alternatively hake

I missed two weeks but Alex seemed to mainly cook fish with chorizo

Paranormal

20,000 limes squeezed into a cornbread soup with lentil shards

Piranha en croute with an octopus jus and parsnips 27 ways.

Runny jelly pudding

Coffee and after eights

Thank you for the thread!

Pirahna heads it is. Perhaps with octopus tartare.

Alex’s food looks really tasty, the type of food I’d like to get after a long day. She doesn’t use poncy techniques that they love to see in the finals though I think!

Alex cooked fish because she cooked a lot of Portuguese food, where it features. Nawamin always did Thai, unless the brief specifically said not to. Portuguese food - not OK. Thai until the cows come home? Let that be forever. And as for Nawamin's pretentious presentation - serving it up in a stick of bamboo! What's wrong with using a plate?

DH and I were gobsmacked that Alex went instead of Kenny, he made two crucial mistakes last night. He actually left one of the ingredients out ffs!

Kenny is the better cook though. All Alex seems to do when left to her own choice is shellfish, then more fish and then a bit more. And it's all thrown on a plate. Her presentation is nowhere near as good as the others.

Kenny made a couple of mistakes, true, but they weren't errors in taste or flavour or cooking. He is a lot more versatile and has cooked everything - fish, desserts, meat etc.

PMSL at 'David the Undead'. And I don't care what John & Greg said, white chocolate and profiteroles and spicy pork does not sound good to me at all...

Have to agree with Twitter re Kenny. His flavours were right last night, Alex's weren't. His dish had 1 error, hers had 3. Do love her though. Reckon she could be giving an interesting interview once the final has aired.

I really dislike Kenny for unknown reasons - he seems, I don't know, false.

In a fight between David the Undead and Nwamin the gloriously camp, I'd settle for Nwamin any time. even he admitted he would never have ordered white chocolate with pork if he'd seen it on a menu.

I must say, of all last night's dishes, the one I most wanted to eat was Kenny's, despite the unset jelly. Mind you, he was clearly wrong in saying it only needed a minute more, given that it was still running over the plate when he served it.

I like Nawarmin, but he needs to be penalised for never straying out of his Thai comfort zone. And definitely for the wanky serving dishes.

I also hate wanky serving dishes - and stupid names. "Crab Anatomy" made me shudder.

Got a friend coming over this evening. If I start cooking now I should manage one of those bizarre historical dishes from last night.

Got DS( 5) home today reckon he'd be up for a pudding?

Alternatively doritos and dips with a side serving of Bem and Jerrys phish fiod should be a winner
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I have to say I laughed at the historical dishes a bit. I don’t think the c1390 meal looked anything like the photo shown as I’m sure the population had more pressing things to worry about (plague, day to day life!).

Why on earth didn't he replate the dish, once the jelly ran all over it? At least it would then have looked attractive.

I showed DS a picture of the pirrinah fish. Here's his take on it... dinosaur surprise!

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That looks a damn sight more appetising than a bucket of piranha heads, I can tell you!

Does your DS charge for delivery?

Of the four left I think I’d left Death Pilot David to win I think.

I’m going to Deliveroo up a storm tonight in honour of the grande finale. I agree that the format could do with a bit of freshening up (although I hate the Australian MC so not like that). As much as we slag them I do think starting with two new presenters would be a good start. Torode and Wallace are both severely lacking in any kind of charm.

I like Torode but Wallace can definitely do one!

Who do you have in mind as new presenters, squoosh? Does one of them have the initials MW by any chance?

Been thinking what MC would be like if we run it...

Round one... here is a chicken and a bunch of veg from the bottom of the fridge, one bag of discounted potatos, a few stock cubes, veg oil and some bisto.. make meals to last 4 people a week

Round 2.. Here's a tenner get down to your local supermarket at yellow label time buy enough to fill the freezer and make tonights delectable meal from randomly available ingredients

Round 3... make a meal bulked out with either lentils or oats

Round 4.. This one has special challenges as there will be a toddler and a 5 year old demanding your constant attention while you cook they will also set the brief which will constantly change while you're producing meal. You must carefully disguise all vegetables

Anyone care to propose round 5?

Lotta, Marcus is far too special a being to be dealing with the numpties on Plebeian Masterchef. Also, he can be a bit irascible shall we say, so I would fear for the lives of some of the less talented contestants if they presented him with some sub-par fare.

There must be loads of bright young Michelin chefs who'd jump at the chance of a prime time TV gig. I could conduct auditions.