In a new group test Celebrity MasterChefAfter the elimination night that eliminated Alex Bellao from the match, the participants of the program hosted by Wanda Nara met with Two refrigerators, each bearing a sign: “First of the month” and “End of the month”. Of course, while the first had many ingredients, the second was almost empty.
The person responsible for explaining how these refrigerators affected the game was one of the referees, Damian Petular: “The idea is to prepare a dish for free, without going to the market, and test your ability to cook a lot, with a little.He pointed out.
“The boxes at their stations will be crucial when the test begins,” added Germain Martitegui, referring to some metal boxes that each competitor had on the testing table. He explained: “Those who are more fortunate will receive a ticket that says: ‘Added salary,’ and this will give them access to a full refrigerator. Those who are less fortunate will receive a ticket that says, ‘No balance,’ and they will have to make do with what is in the refrigerator at the end of the month.”
Probably the luckiest are Agustín “Cachete” Sierra, Julia Calvo, Ian Lucas and La Joaqui, and that Sophie Martinez, La Reyni, Chino Leones and Emilia Atias had to prepare a dish with few ingredients and little economic value. But not everything has been said: “Here is a scale, we want you to do a little test until you win.” A “Bonus Box” that contains some premium components that they will be able to usePetular later explained.
To win this extra amount, contestants had to cut a cucumber into slices until it weighed 270 grams. “If they think they have that weight, they come to the scale, and if it’s accurate, the competition stops and they win. If it’s not accurate, they go back to their station, recalculate and come back. There’s only one scale and there are eight participants, so they’ll have to organize themselves,” explained the master pastry chef.
The first to take his container to the scales was Leonis, but he lost about a hundred grams. Something similar happened to Calvo, while Sierra weighed more than 300 grams. On the second try, Chino hit 230, while Ian Lucas also cut a lot.
After several attempts, Ian reached 265, but added a chip and He became the first to achieve precise weighing and obtain the distinction of premium ingredients: Smoked trout, feta cheese and salmon eggs.
From that point on, they had one hour to cook, and once that period was up, the first to come forward so that the jury could taste their preparation was Attias, who served the meatballs with cream potatoes and French fries. flavor “Three well-made preparations,” Donato De Santis said. “There’s one that makes a bit of noise when you eat it with the others: the aftertaste. It creates a little bit of confusion, but it’s more than enough.”
“The flavor of the meatballs is very good. No one says the sauce is made from chicken necks, because no one asks for it. It’s chicken stock,” Petular added, referring to the way the contestant presented her dish orally. He added: “The offer is incomprehensible.” Martitegui confirmed that it was “very delicious.”
Then it was Joaqui’s turn, who served a cold soup of cucumber, basil and Greek yogurt with prawns that earned praise from Petular: “I love it! The cucumber is very delicate, I thinned it out a lot with yogurt and it’s very balanced.”
“Maybe the garlic shrimp could have been boiled in water with lemon or some herbs, because it’s like something grilled that has nothing to do with cold soup,” Martigui added. “But beyond that, it’s very good.”
Third, try the Chinese Rice Lyonnaise with Parsley and Cucumber Salad. “It’s very delicious. This is proof that with a little you can do a lot,” Martitegui said. De Santis agreed: “It tastes very good. What I like most is that with the little you have, you can work and make a very good dish.” Petular, in turn, confirmed that through this path the driver can reach the final.
Immediately afterwards, Calvo tried his steak with grilled avocado, sautéed asparagus and cucumber salad. The first thing that caught Martitegui’s attention was the direction of the meat cuts. “It is a sacrilege,” he said. “You had a refrigerator full of amazing items, but no kitchen: grilled meats, boiled asparagus, chopped avocados… the beauty of those items is missing. There are so many things that are not right,” De Santis added. The return of the jury made the actress’s eyes fill with tears.
Sophie Martinez approached the jury thinking her plate of fried chicken legs, corn ribs, fresh salad, pickled cucumbers and onions was the worst ever. “It cooks well, which is really hard, but it doesn’t have a lot of flavor. It lacks flavor. I don’t understand lettuce, because it doesn’t go with any of that. And the corn ribs lack flavor,” Petular said. Meanwhile, Martitegui confirmed that the chicken cooking point was “incredible”, but everything else had “little issues”.
Sierra in turn knew that they would point out that he had once again decided to cook beef, but, in any case, he confidently presented the tomahawk with papain and fried asparagus with bacon, and in front of the jury he cut the protein into slices and added salt and pepper. “I’m tired of being told that if you’re going to make a steak, it has to be amazing, and if not, don’t make it. This is it,” Martigui began his comeback.
“The plank is very precise and the presentation was amazing. Everything was very good. I would have cut the potatoes larger and left the asparagus whole to continue the magic of the giant,” he added.
“Two things stand out: the lack of care when cleaning the bones, and there is a portion of fat that could have been removed,” De Santis said. “Too much presentation, not enough sauce,” Petular summed up.
Next, Renee approached the jury with her lemon ham with creamy pumpkin and parsley butter. “The matambre is very well seasoned. You would have left more of the crust for it to caramelize. The puree is a little salty and invasive,” De Santis said. Again, Petular agreed: “It’s almost raw pork.”
In the end, the biggest beneficiary of the night remained: Ian Lucas. The influencer prepared the offal with a green salad, sweet potato chips, fried capers, and chimichurri. “I don’t know if a Greek salad looks so good over the offal. The flavors are good, but I don’t know if everything together looks good,” Petular explained. “Greek, it’s not Greek. When you see it, you recognize it, but you’ve added bacon, chimichurri, and capers. It’s a bombardment of flavors,” DeSantis explained. Martitegui, who was the one who advised the participant at his station, disagreed with his colleagues and praised the result.
All that remained was for the three jury members to decide which contestants, thanks to their performance, moved on to the benefit night and which of them had to continue fighting to stay in the competition on the last chance night before elimination.
After deliberation, Petular, Martitegui and De Santis first called Joaqui and Lones to announce that they would go directly to the terrace. Then it was the turn of Attias, Calvo and Martinez, but only the trio included the protagonist Almost angels He managed to assemble a jury. Sierra, Ian Lucas and Sierra were left for last, with Cacchetti being the last to go to the benefit party.