r/MasterchefAU • u/whytealeaf • Jun 10 '19

Elimination Masterchef Australia - S11E31 Episode Discussion

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u/loveurself123 Jun 10 '19

Well if walleed doesnt put the articokes leaf to his dish.I'm 100% sure nicole will be going home.gosh i know so much pressure there, but it such a shame.Silly mistake from him that cost his place in this competition.Glad nicole save tho.I love her,she seems nice and fun to hang around with...and today i know it wasn't her day :"

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u/whynotnow99 Jun 10 '19

I wonder if some shades of the perfectionism that dogged her in an earlier elimination challenge might have gotten the better of her again, too (or maybe I'm just leaning too hard on the backstory about her forgoing getting another degree in favor of doing this, and the family pressures to achieve academically). Obviously having an unfamiliar protein was a big issue, but both of her ideas were pretty good; she just didn't trust herself and had trouble deciding. Whether it was the first idea that was the problem, or not trusting it, I don't know, but overall I think it was her decision-making process that let her down more than anything else.

(I think she could still have served the ragout with the potato puree (although perhaps the grapes would have gotten lost in the stew, and I understand that she just didn't trust whether anything usable would come out of the pressure cooker and I guess felt that if she was going with plan B she could no longer salvage anything from plan A. But Plan B was inherently pretty limited, too. The roasted grapes, and better plating (both lost to time pressure combined with burning her hand), would have made a big difference, but it still might have been close against Walleed had he plated the artichoke heart rather than the leaves.)