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MKR eliminates Gary and Peter

The Queensland couple may have been ratings gold for Seven but now they have been sizzled.

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Outspoken My Kitchen Rules couple Peter and Gary were eliminated from the Seven show in a showdown with Victorians Carly and Emily.

“Dr. Evil,” as Peter had been branded by the show, and partner Gary scored only 17/60 points for their three course meal, losing out to the 51 points scored by their rivals.

“The best team won tonight, no question,” Gary said afterwards.

Peter added: “What we’ve always wanted is a good, clean, fair fight. And all power to the girls, they won this round.”

The Queensland couple have been ratings gold for Seven with their instant kitchen episodes charting over 1.9m viewers.

“It’s been a rollercoaster. We came for an adventure and we got one!” said Gary.

Next week, MKR will air from Sundays as the teams head to Tropical North Queensland.

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  1. @steveany 2.0, when you don’t watch the show and don’t know the people cooking of course it won’t be as interesting to you.

    I’m not sure what ads your talking about, its 2012, you start watching it 20mins after it starts and then skip through the ads with your PVR.

    I agree with Mr.J, that episode was hilarious!

  2. Agree that the standard of culinary skill is not as good as last year’s contestants, but the casting is stellar. Ratings figures this consistent don’t lie!!!!

  3. Thank God they’ve gone. Their arrogance was astounding, given they didn’t know the first thing about cooking (failing to blind-bake pastry cases, not knowing how long to rest meat, mis-timing just about every single dish they attempted). Worse, their food was beyond old-fashioned; it was kitsch. Swirling spinach and cauliflower soup in the same bowl was pretentious when the Women’s Weekly championed it in the 1970s. Nowadays it’s just sad – and a silly way to ruin two soups at once. It’s amazing to think there are still people cooking like this out there – going to enormous lengths to ruin perfectly good food.

  5. Totally agree with David’s call that the conflict and tension has taken over the cooking. We still watch the show out of habit, and yes, laugh at the stupidity of some comments (“I can’t understand why the potatoes aren’t boiling”) but more and more I’m feeling manipulated by the manufactured rivalries and the “We’ll never get it done in time” only to, surprise, surprise, get it done in time!

  6. My 14 yo and I were head slapping last night … how can a cook with any knowledge about root vegetables throw potatoes into boiling water? As my mother used to say … anything from under the ground goes into cold water, then bring it to the boil. The standard of actual culinary skill this season has been dire, leading me to think the casting was pretty much from a personality/conflict view.

  7. @pegasus, if you are talking about the up where they are wearing black&white aprons. That was a promo pic for the first round and only included the first round contestants. Either way a pretty rude comment.

  8. Someone needs to give Peter and Gary their own series, they are hilarious!!! Great episodes this week, I loved the pop-up lunch bar episode in Melbourne and last night’s cook-off was great. Also loved Manu’s ads last night for Campbell’s stock, spoofing himself as a walking product endorsement/ celebrity chef. Great deadpan delivery, very funny ad!!! LOL

  10. I finally decided to watch this juggernaut of a show last night to see what all the fuss was about. My second ever episode of MKR in two years and I was hugely disappointed.
    The actual cooking was mildly interesting, but the fake tension and suspense, manipulating editing and the contrived personality clash between teams, plus the idiotic ‘barracking’, really put me off. “Come on, cook faster, you’re not going to make it”. Please.

    And could there have been any more ads? At one point I timed 7 minutes of show followed by 5 minutes of ads, then 20 seconds of show followed by 2 minutes of ads. Literally painful to watch.
    It’s terribly sad that almost 2 million of my fellow Aussies can’t find something better to do with their time.

    1. My feeling this year is that the conflict and tension has taken over the cooking. MasterChef was big hit in its first season because it celebrated culinary and the individual. The balance has tipped this year. But the numbers suggest I am in the minority.

  13. @Butterfly Carnage- Mmmm. I tend to agree. Perhaps they can cook, but just need all day to do it. Let me be first – “How hard is mashed potato?”.

  16. Not quite sure what to focus on now the boys are gone. Nobody else on the show is that interesting, what I liked about Peter & Gary was they saw how boring everyone else was and said it. Well at least I get back my Mon to Thurs!

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