MasterChef 2011: It’s Kate vs Michael!
It's official. MasterChef Australia 2011 will be a battle between Michael Weldon and Kate Bracks.
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It’s official. MasterChef Australia 2011 will be a battle between Michael Weldon and Kate Bracks.
Kate beat Alana Lowes for the final place in tonight’s pressure test.
Both were tested to their limits by a spectactular gingerbread house by the Patissier of Pain, Adriano Zumbo.
The completely edible creation – featuring walls, chimney and roof of gingerbread covered in crunchy praline, roof tiles of salted caramel, isomalt windows and a garden of magic gum mushrooms and jellies – followed his croquembouche, macaron tower and V8 cake.
Kate’s gingerbread house was tasty but she took so long on it that it lacked a variety of sweets. Alana made more sweets but her roof was burnt and inedible.
In the end the judges gave it to Kate for the charm and taste of her house.
“I’m so incredibly happy. I can’t believe I’m in the finale,” she said.
Alana said, “If there was going to be any challenge to leave on this was the one because
everyone talks about Adriano Zumbo‟s dishes – and I had created one of them.
“I‟m really proud of that, and to be going home on the back of that felt, well, okay.
“I was so close to the finale. But I was actually a bit scared of the chance of going into the finale; there‟s a lot of expectation. Going out at number three – there‟s definitely no disappointment with that effort. It‟s been an insane ride; a crazy rollercoaster of emotions,
experiences and meeting amazing people.”
The two part final of MasterChef begins at 6:30pm Sunday on TEN with a one-hour cook-off and resumes with the announcement of the winner at 8:30pm.
The winner won’t be declared until after 9:15pm.
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Go Masterchef UK, the true Masterchef
Bring it on. Kate to win.
I’m glad it’s those two-they deserve it and Alana was getting too competitive.
I hope Michael wins though..
I hope Masterchef puts up the recipe for the Gingerbread House would love to try make it, with more than 4 and a half hours especially 🙂
Just for the record I love MCUK, and then I felt the same about OZMC, no need for pickiness, just enjoy them for what they are or don’t watch them. 🙂
Micheal flew back into Sydney tonight from Adelaide. (know this because he was sitting one row behind my wife). Apparently the final is live on Sunday……but he’s already quit his day job.
Grantly: they film the announcement on Sunday arvo.
PS will they have a 2 minute noodle challenge?
OMG what was that? Sharks leaping out of the water to take a bite out of the Fonze.
I loves MC and its whole premise but this year…meh.
@Chris
Damn you.. I was just about to say that. Since there are soooo many MC UK fans I’m quite surprised I don’t know a single person who watches it despite knowing over a dozen who watch and enjoy the Aus version. Enough already!
@steveany
What are you going on about? I don’t hear anyone claiming a ginger bread house is original. Just the way I don’t recall anyone claiming a croquembouche and macaron tower were original too but I suppose you want to tear those down as well.
@justin – Alana actually broke bits of the gingerbread from the front of the house to serve, you saw the vision of it… I think the judges just saw how burnt the roof sections were and pointed it out.
stop complaining and get cooking! yahyah, am I rite! yahyah!
Is the UK Masterchef series coming up the first one where they change it to be more like the Australian and US versions? There might be a few unhappy fans…
I’ve never watched an episode of this show, but I have to ask if anyone remembers Heston Blumethal making an edible gingerbread house & garden in his fabulous series last year? There’s nothing original about this show at all.
In fact, there seems to very much not to like about Masterchef.
Zzzzzzzzzzzzz.
Why do Masterchef UK fans constantly talk about how crappy the Australian version is? If the UK one is good, just ignore the Australian version, don’t post about it, and watch your boring UK show.
Here’s a challenge for the next series – have one of the jduges have to do the challenge and be judged anonymously with the others. That may remove a few of the smirks.
Looking forward to the day when a Masterchef’s occupation is “dad”.
Tony h. Its a tv show! Theyve got to sell stuff.
An unreal & stupid test for the penultimate. Who serves a giant gingerbread house with lollies, in a restaurant ? Something wrong with the judging. Was it based on the quality/quantity of tears? Gumbo, mumbo, jumbo should be sacked from the perhaps next series. More embarrassing than even the chicken terrine ! The final is 50/50 only because the judging is totally unpredictable, biased to the unexpected & sometimes plainly dumb.
Every judgement/elimination points to the fact that the tastings should be anonymous. The judges shoud’nt know who has cooked each dish. Deja vu!!!!!!! I have the feeling I said this 2 years ago!
Tonight is typical of many shows this series. Donald you hit the nail on the head. This has been a very disappointing series. How about getting back to cooking!!
I am so happy Masterchef Aus are Finally ending this Sunday! I didn’t watch it, stop watching since last season. Cant stand it.
Here comes the true cooking show- Masterchef UK – end of this month – so happy!!!!
Considering Kate is the desert queen, not really surprised she won however I would have preferred Kate vs Alana.
Found it interesting that Kate got to serve the bits of gingerbread she wanted, but when it came to Alana, George in paticular decided to select the burnt part of her house. Seems quite suspicious, surely the fair thing to do, would be to try each part of the house’s parts on both dishes, because Alana’s walls were perfectly cooked
@ Donald You are spot on.
Nice to see Matt Preston in the promo for Sunday night saying “cooking doesn’t get tougher than this!”. Yes it does… every episode of Masterchef UK for the last 7 years has had JohnTuroud or Greg Wallace saying exactly the same thing in the opening credits. So who’s tougher? Time for Shine Australia to prove it by dumping the preening pompous Preston for someone less prat-like for Masterchef 2012. Perhaps, to be sexist, someone female….. or, more realistically, someone who most people can relate to. Would anyone deliberately go out for dinner with him???? If you would ..you need to make more friends. Roll on Masterchef UK starting on Foxtel later this month.
Like the rest of the series though, this challenge wasn’t really a showcase of their cooking skills. The elements were simple to make, but it was fiddly and the assembly was the challenge. Just not what you’d hope for in a preliminary final.