Everyone is so devastated. - by Chanelle Mansour 12 May 2021
It was undoubtedly one of the most shocking eliminations from the
MasterChef kitchen so far, and Dessert Queen Therese Lum was left feeling the aftermath of it all when she was sent home from the competition.
WATCH BELOW: MasterChef s Therese on her elimination
She wowed the judges from the very beginning with her mushroom dessert, and Therese managed to score herself an Immunity Pin, which is the biggest advantage in the competition.
But it was her refusal to the play the pin that saw the fan favourite sent packing. Going home where I do have a safety net to save myself is definitely one of the hardest things that has happened, Therese tells
MasterChef kitchen a week much like any other week in the
MasterChef kitchen, except the producers trapped several famous chefs in discrete shadow realms and put them on display in glass cages as a warning to all others.
Please save them
A huge week full of stars can only mean a whole bunch of award-worthy business went down, so let’s hand out these trophies! And by “trophies”, I mean awards I have made up because I cannot bear for anyone on this beautiful show to go unrewarded.
Biggest Friend to Vegetables – Yotam Ottolenghi
On Monday, we kicked things off with a team challenge set by Yotam Ottolenghi, who revealed that he’s maybe too into veg. He declared that he has “an intense passion for vegetables” and called them his “friends” and “heroes”.
Well god damn, we did it. One week of
MasterChef down, about five million to go. What have we learned? We learned that it’s good to have actual first-time contestants back in the kitchen, rather than returning favourites all hell-bent on protecting their ~brand~. We learned that Andy, Jock and Melissa remain the best decision the show has made ever since floating a block of white chocolate under John Carasig’s nose. And we learned that big weird screens do absolutely nothing to replicate the experience of having an actual celebrity chef stand in the kitchen in person. But that’s the world we live in now, and we adapt to it as best we can.