Masterchef the Professionals Thread 2: Mums, Nans and Nonnas

[Halsall]

And so it continues…….thanks for the title suggestion Esma.

'What made you get into cooking?'

Well, I found out Elizabeth I was already dead and I couldn't afford the galleon-fare back to Padua so I thought I'd go to catering college in Wolverhampton.'

Mmmm cheese water……

Lord Blackadder Elizabethan vibes here. I wish Matthew would stop going on about toasting peppercorns.

Wish he’d stop saying “thank you so much”

I can picture him in a doublet, being mean to the Duchess of Malfi

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I thought cacio e pepe was just pasta water, cheese and pepper.
Every day's a school day.

I liked Matthew when he was a contestant - isn't he the one who used a balloon pump to inflate some bit of animal or the other? (LOL, and as I typed that, he just described the last guy as looking "a bit deflated"!)

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

He’s quite pale, maybe he was bitten by a travelling vampire back then?

He looks just like Ken from Ken and Barbie

Methinks he gives mean side eye. Perchance disguise the rapiers in the spaghetti jar.

Sort of if Mattel made a Ken Barlow Ken.

Looks burnt to me.

Burnt

Oh i like Matthew, he reminds me of a lovely boy from school.

It might be safer to hide the sharp knives from Anthony.

This dessert looks great. I’d like to have a go at it but not in 20mins.

That hazelnut praline looks lovely!

All of these dishes would take me about two hours or more to do. Poaching stuff pastry, praline. Dishes where you have to panic-cool everything in a blast-freezer just don't seem right.

There's major cock.up potential here.

I thought praline was crunchy.

I'm sorry but 20 minutes for that? With all the freezer action etc?

That pastry is borderline burnt.

Heck that looks lovely

But 20 mins