After Eugenia Tobal’s elimination, yesterday the participants of MasterChef Celebrity They started a new, very special round: the one from “the Olympic Games”. The first challenge they had to face was the group.
“This week is dedicated to sport, and today in particular to football. For this test you have 30 minutes, but you can add more time,” Donato de Santis told the participants, who, like his fellow judges Damián Betular and Germán Martitegui, received them dressed as referees.
“The limit today is 70 minutes. That is the maximum time they have to cook,” Martitegui added. And he pointed to the goal that was behind him and explained: “The numbers written in the holes of the goal are the minutes that they will gain if they manage to put the ball in.”
Canchero, former soccer player Claudio “Turco” Husaín wanted to know: “If we score, will the minutes be for everyone? I want them for myself.” And the improvised referee’s answer was emphatic: “You’re a team of eight. You have to share here.”
Before the competition officially began, Wanda Nara, the presenter, announced the presence of the narrator Pablo Giralt, who would be responsible for narrating the “pieces” and calling out the participants’ goals. And then he hinted: “I remember Maxi (López) and El Turco in River in 2004. Only one image comes to mind: their hair flying in the wind, that youth, those ripped abs they had. Shall we relive that moment?” At that moment Donato appeared with two wigs that they both had to put on.
Momi Giardina was the first to go but couldn’t sink the ball. She was followed by La Joaqui, who added 5 minutes. Marixa Balli and Andy Chango, Sofi Martínez also didn’t do their job, but Miguel Ángel Rodríguez equalized and added another 10 minutes. When it was their turn, Husaín and López each added 10 more minutes.
In total, They managed to prepare a “farm menu” for 65 minutes, now individually.: three complete choripanes, three complete bondiola sandwiches, three milanese and three hamburger sandwiches, accompanied by a bag of fries. However, one detail still had to be announced: once the preparation is complete, the participants they would face each other in duelsone against the other to define who would go to the performance night and who would go to the last chance instance.
“I assume they’ll want to know how these duels will go… Marixa, the gold medalist from the last round, is tasked with determining who will compete against whom. She will also assign them the dish they will cook,” Wanda reported.
The “Cachaqueando” singer chose Giardina as her rival and as a menu the Milanesas. Husaín and Andy had to prepare the bondiolas, Martínez and Rodríguez the hamburgers and López and La Joaqui the choripanes.
In the market example, Andy Chango was the only one who grabbed eggs and then agreed to give some to Sofi, but when he went looking for the elements for the coating before starting to cook, Giardina and Husaín “stole” a couple each. At that moment, Rodríguez, returning to his place from the shelves where the dishes were placed, stumbled and fell to the floor, and Martínez took the opportunity to steal the cardboard bags in which to put the potatoes, which were lying on the floor like the actor.
All these thefts aroused the wrath of the victims and Andy was forced to take away from Momi and Sofi the ones he had “gifted” to them, which left his friend in a strange situation: that of making Milanese without eggs. But everything was solved when Husaín decided to return the copies stolen from him and the actor and musician gave one more to each of his companions. Some time later, Donato came by the train stations to give everyone eggs.
After the allotted time passed, it was time to move forward so the judges could taste their choripanes. But before the chefs tasted, Wanda got a little nostalgic: “Maxi, you are so serious. Didn’t you see yourself through the oven mirror? Look at the hair! “You look just like you did at our wedding.” noticed.
After the “emotional” moment, the chefs began their return. “The potatoes are very good. The meat in the sandwich is a little burnt,” said De Santis. And Betular emphasized: “The chorizo is very fatty. For a sandwich it needs to be more buttery.” And Martitegui concluded: “I liked the chorizo and I think the bread is very well chosen. What seems unnecessary to me is putting the same caramelized onions and the same sauce on the potatoes and on the sandwich.”
And before her ex-husband returned to his station, the presenter once again recounted her memories of their years together as a couple. “We did cream baths together because his hair was very silky. The Turk had it strawier because I didn’t tell him the secret… We did cream baths, I did something like that with the hair clip, I left it in for 40 minutes. I also gave him a straightener several times,” he said with a laugh.
In second place was López’s opponent La Joaqui, who faced the challenge of making chorizos for the first time. “I really like the chorizo, it has a good taste, but the dressing is not chimichurri, because the chimichurri only has herbs, it is a fusion with Creole sauce. I also like the classic potatoes,” said Betular. But Martitegui didn’t entirely agree: “This green chimichurri is spectacular. I would have put something else in it because the slogan was a complete choripán.”
The second duel of the evening was between Sofi and Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, who were responsible for preparing the hamburgers. “I love your enthusiasm. The hamburgers are very good, they are very generous. The cheddar goes well with them and the bacon too. Maybe it also needed a sauce on the bun because it is very thick and a bit dry,” Martitegui mused. And De Santis added: “I would have added more bacon because, as Germán said, it is very dry. But this chimichurri is very good.” Betular, in turn, noted: “Aesthetically, they are very pretty. The sauces are very good.”
After trying Rodríguez’s suggestion, De Santis explained: “I don’t think you put cabbage on the hamburgers in a dish. At least you would have done something about it because it’s very hard to bite. The hamburger is dry, it falls apart, but it doesn’t add any flavor.” And Betular added: “For me the idea of adding cabbage is not bad, the question is how. Cutting, it is always practical, it helps, it moisturizes. There is a search.” Martitegui, in turn, complained that he had used packaged mayonnaise without subjecting it to any treatment.
Husaín’s Bondiola also had cabbage because, like Rodríguez, the footballer thought it was lettuce. “You have to remove the skin from the bacon. The meat and the egg are very good. It is complete, but I have a lot of doubts about the bread because it does not enclose the bondiola,” reflected Betular. And De Santis explained: “When you heat it, this type of bread falls apart, and when you eat it, it falls apart. But the preparation of the Bondiola is very good.” Once again, Martitegui disagreed with his colleagues: “For me it is the perfect bread for Bondiola. It is the only complete bread that has reached this point today.”
When it was his turn, Andy Chango took the floor and made a forceful statement: “I demand the immediate elimination of Husaín because he does not respect this Fair play. “He stole two eggs from me and it was filmed.” And to make it clear that he wasn’t entirely serious, he added: “Besides, I don’t know if the blood alcohol level is exceeded.”
“The caviar in the fries, in this bag, placed like this, is a meaningless canchereada because it is completely wasted and ends up among the hot potatoes. It is not good,” Martitegui reflected after tasting his Bondiola sandwich.
“This potato with caviar thing I think is beautiful, eccentric, novel… Very Andy. The Bondiola is very well cooked and has a lot of moisture with whatever you put in it,” De Santis added. And Betular broke the tie: “The bread is toasted much better and I think it is a very good choice in this sandwich because the bondiola is cut so that it encloses it. I don’t like the pepper, but here it is sweet, it is tasty, the teriyaki sauce turned out very well. And finding the potatoes with the caviar needs work, but I don’t like it at all, I love it.”
In the end, those responsible for preparing the Milanese remained and the first to come forward was Marixa, who was unable to convince the jury with her Milanese with bacon and raw ham and no sauce. “We were almost screaming for sauce. I saw you had some fried eggs that you didn’t use and that would have saved the situation. The Milanese are well fried,” Donato explained. “It’s bread with bread. When you fry, yes or yes, you need something, mayonnaise, ketchup, tomato slices… Whatever. Adding bacon doesn’t help either. I stick with the taste of Milanese,” Betular added. And Martitegui concluded the return by saying: “The instructions were clear to use a sauce and that’s not there. It’s all very salty. If it’s from Bombonera, the catering came from a River partner.”
His opponent had better luck: “It tastes very good, but everything in it is a bit uncontrolled. The sauce is very good and the peeled potatoes don’t seem to say anything, but they say a lot. You have to work on the order,” Betular reflected. “It feels like a Cuban sandwich to me because of the sweetness of the sauce,” Martitegui added. And Donato analyzed: “When you cook, it seems to you that you are defensive, as if you want to leave. You cook deliciously, but you lack order.”
All that remained was to know who the winners of each four duels were, and this time the jury did not need to deliberate. From the first duel, Donato leaned towards Maxi López’s proposal, but Betular and Martitegui decided La Joaqui and she made her the winner.
In the second duel, Betular chose Andy, but De Santis and Martitegui declared Husaín the winner. Then they unanimously announced the victory of Sofi Martínez and Momi Giardina.
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