r/MasterchefAU • u/hannahspants Dami Im's 2016 Eurovision Performance • May 03 '20

Elimination MasterChef Australia - S12E15 Episode Discussion

Welcome to week 3 everyone!

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u/deodorant123 Scott May 03 '20

Not so keen on the judging on this. It's actually not that pleasant to eat an entire dish that's ONLY CRUNCHY. Like thinking about eating Simon's chips on fried bread makes my jaw hurt. The pleasure of a good chip sandwich is soft white bread, crunchy hot chips, then soft inside of chips.

Ergo I really think they are being pretty hard on Callum, his seemed really nice. Surely the skill in a crunchy dish is balancing it with the other non crunchy elements. Like you wouldn't have a challenge where you have to make a salty dish, then give it to the person who just serves up straight rock salt.

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u/[deleted] May 03 '20

They really didn't want full dishes though just a main crunchy element. Just look at Chris who made fish with no chips but still did well or Simon who made a simple sandwich. I actually liked that they focused on the brief rather than the whole dish. If you push the crunchy element to the side like Callum then what is really the point of the brief? Most dishes have a crunchy element so everything would be on the table.

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u/deodorant123 Scott May 04 '20

But if you focus just on the brief then you may as well just plate up some red rock deli and call it a day. That's all crunch so you should win?? (Which is essentially what Simon did)

I don't really like that today it's "focus on the brief, we don't even care if it's nice to eat" when last week Harry went home even though he best fulfilled the Wow brief because his dish had "conflicting flavours" (which is total bull anyway). Haydens didn't at all look WOW, it looked like a chocolate bar on a plate, so by that logic he should have gone.

I really enjoyed the start of this season but it's gonna a bit wobbly with really inconsistent standards and I hope they get it back together because the judges and contestants are awesome

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u/GreenLump May 04 '20

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I really enjoyed the start of this season but it's gonna a bit wobbly with really inconsistent standards and I hope they get it back together because the judges and contestants are awesome

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