Poh reveals her MasterChef recipe

A little more detail on how MasterChef Australia works behind the scenes has been revealed this week.

Poh Ling Yeow answered a fan on her Instagram about how the contestants stay across the correct measurements for the dishes they are serving.

“A page from a notebook of ingredient lists I’d committed to memory for MasterChef: Back to Win. This is what we did with every spare minute,” she wrote. Yikes.

It has long been known that judges taste dishes as they are wandering around the kitchen, in order to taste food whilst it is still hot.

In 2021 executive producer Marty Benson told news.com.au  contestants make a second plate of food for the judges to try in addition to the one they plate up for the on-camera judging.

Back in 2010, only its second year on air, a ‘scandal’ broke out when the show revealed dishes were replated before taste testings

“Due to the duration of the filming process, on rare occasions both the contestant and the celebrity chef in MasterChef‘s Celebrity Chef Challenge are offered the opportunity to re-plate dishes between the completion of the challenge and the tasting,” producer Margie Bashfield told the Sunday Telegraph.

“This occurs with elements such as ice cream, sorbet and sauces, which can deteriorate under the studio lighting before the tasting can take place.

“The only elements that are made available to them are those prepared during the allocated challenge time.

“This process is completely transparent to all parties involved in the challenge and is part of the studio process to ensure the quality of the dish presented to the judges is the same as when the challenge was completed.”

At the time judge Gary Mehigan added, “Callum (Hann, contestant) and (guest chef) Phillippa Sibley had to take the top off the little square of parfait, pop it in the freezer, because it takes -and this guys is the reality of television- about an hour before we reposition all the cameras and get onto the tasting table.”

Source: news.com.au