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Four way elimination test looms on MasterChef

Dani, Michael, Alana and Kate will all face off in a MasterChef elimination challenge on Tuesday night.

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Dani, Michael, Alana and Kate will all face off in a MasterChef elimination challenge on Tuesday night.

The shock result follows all four being stretched by a challenge involving chickern terrine by chef Maggie Beer.

The judges were unimpressed with all four dishes, ruling that they were undercooked and did not represent restaurant-quality.

In finals week the decision will ensure that the game is still wide-open, and perfectly primed for a bumper battle with the Grand Final of Australia’s Got Talent.

All four will cook with an open pantry tomorrow night.

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  1. @Moses, I’m not sure whether it was a timing stuff-up, as Gary said that the terrine had been tested by being cooked 15 times, then an extra half-hour was factored into the cooking time to accommodate the contestants. I think the problem was that the contestants stuffed around too much with it at the start. Understandable, as they had to completely remove the skin from a large chicken without tearing it. A chef or senior apprentice could probably de-skin a chicken in five minutes flat. For amateurs, it would take a hell of a lot longer. From memory, it took Kate almost half an hour to do and the others took a similar amount of time. Fatal, as it meant they were never going to get it cooked.

  2. Another bizarre move by the producers. Of all the things to be cooking in finals week, how many people really want to see a terrine?! It’s like a loaf of dog food at the best of times!
    And apart from some assembling, it’s a case of covering it in foil and putting it in the oven for more than an hour – hardly interesting in a TV sense watching people checking the oven and poking a thermometer in to watch the temperature rise slowly.
    As for the four-way failure – it speaks volumes about the skills of this season’s contestants.

  3. Gary said they had tried the recipe 15 times and then they added 30 minutes to make sure there was enough time…….slight exaggeration perhaps??? 15 times – really????

  6. This was the biggest waste of tape I’ve ever seen. The challenge was obviously timed incorrectly because everyone in the clhallenge produced a raw terrine (would you like salmenella with that?) and even Michael who had the recipe 24 hours early couldn’t do it. This was not a reflection of the contestants at this late stage of the competition it was a production stuff up or a complete contrivance. That episode should have been canned, it doesn’t have any consequence to the eventual outcome; why did we need to see it? Even Maggie Beer was embarassed. I know I said in previous postings I wouldn’t watch it again and was trapped in a pub with it on every TV!! Aaaaaaaaah. Infuriating. I only wish the Judges had have eaten each terrine and then we could have watched as each one keeled over. Now that would have been worth watching!!

  7. hope Kate or dani wins- even tho Dani’s confidence is shot- im with Guy – michaels arrogance is so bad- he loves himself and is tickled pink evey time he does anything at all….thinks he’s preety good micheal does

  12. What an indictment!!! Not one of the final four of the so-called “best amateur cooks” could serve up a restaurant quality dish after six months of intensive cooking and training. LOLOL!!! Loooooo-sers!!!!!! The cavalcade of criticism about this series has been vindicated. What a sorry bunch. Agree that Michael’s arrogance is wearing very, very thin.

    @James, I doubt whether Gary and George themselves test cooked the terrine 15 times, but they’d have umpteen cooking assistants on the production crew, so I’d say they would have had a number of them test cook it.

  14. Good move by the judges. Serving up food which could put someone in hospital is a big no no. Maybe it shows that this top 4 isn’t quite up to the standards.

  15. Pretty much sums up the entire season really. Served up raw and not well done.

    I am so over Michaels arrogance. He really annoys me more than Dani does atm. I want Alana or Kate to win.

  16. You can still be a great cook but have poor time management skills. I think that’s what happened here.

    I agree with the decision to send them all to elimination since none of them were able to impress. Although I think Dani should have been eliminated on the spot for not even getting the bread done. Oh dear…

  17. Quite disgraceful that none of the top 4 could cook the terrine through. These are supposed to be the best that was on offer this year….seriously!
    Also do you think this recipe has been made 15 times by the judges then added another half hour of time? seriously?

  20. So, they preplanned that the contestants would all undercook their terrines? Or perhaps they knew weeks in advance to get someone like Maggie Beer to trip them up? Not everything is a conspiracy, people.

  23. How was this pre planned? Masterchef is filmed months in advance, so how would the producers know when seven would schedule the grand final of australias got talent

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