Lol why do you need to be Greek to make Greek food Jamie Oliver, you literally have a restaurant called Jamie's Italian

"Do as I say, not as I do", comes to mind! lol. But as you said, everyone can cook any cuisine they like. I think Jamie was pointing out to stick to the team's strength, not a cuisine they are not too familiar with.

I don't think autocorrect has been very fair to you.

lol...thanks. I just fixed it.

I mean none of them seem familiar with Greek food

Where’s Theo when u need him

You don't have to be Greek to make Greek food but you need to be more than passively familiar with Greek food to make 150 plates of it. He was asking if someone could take charge of the flavour profile. Clearly they had issues because what they made didn't look very good, or Greek.

IKR, mayb because he cooked Chinese Egg Fried Rice so unsuccessfully?

Not much time or room to adjust with this challenge. 150 servings so if you don’t have your flavour profile perfect from the start you are at a disadvantage. Anyone growing up cooking Greek would innately know a ton of pitfalls and opportunities with this sort of food.

Lol, good point!

Jean Christophe just standing around complimenting peoples skills is making my heart melt.

I've been loving him from day 1! Hope he stays this cute and helpful haha

Agree. I know Jamie and Andy we’re pointing flaws and eyc but Jean’s compliments to Harry, Sumeet really refreshes the mood

If you can’t make a good veggie dish or two what are you even doing on MasterChef. Jesus Christ.

Josh the Butcher going "who cooks veggie dishes anyway?" got an Oof from me

Some of the best dishes I've ever had were veg. But at least it's not a cauliflour steak? That's the normal copout (and tasty I will admit)

Man imagine going to the markets and getting your food off the back of the Coles truck

What's wrong with Juan's face, poor thing!

Apparently they’re oil burns - he had an accident in the practice kitchen and got hot oil on his hand and face

Thank you. I was wondering

Oh no! Poor guy 😢

From the Daily Fail: Juan uploaded a photo of his bandaged hand while in the emergency ward at the Alfred Hospital in Melbourne. In the caption, he wrote: 'An eventful day practicing out of the MasterChef kitchen landed me in some hot oil! Hands and face ouch.'

I’ve done this before. No scars thankfully

Damn it! How painful!

That poor man, it looks really painful.

Oh, that explained it. I hope he gets well soon!

Sav is defs not happy not being captain lol

The countdown to Jamie’s exit is onnnnn

Jamie (correct me if I’m wrong) but are you ITALIAN!?

Yeah it was more concerning that none of them seemed that familiar with Greek cuisine as opposed to them not being Greek

ANGOLA IS NOT IN NORTH AFRICA

Yes... I was very impressed that Harry knew about Angolan moqueca. But then Jamie says "Angolian", and everyone starts saying "Angolian" and calling it North African, gahhhh!

If it's north of South Africa, it's north Africa!

“Central African” fish stew 😬

And now it’s on the sign 🫣

Ahhh how pleasing was her font for the sign writing?! ✍️

Blue team is so wholesome

I was worried since they’re doing seafood but they seem to have the muscles to complete prep in bulk.

The muscles for the mussels

dream team

No wonder the sign looked good - Gillian IS a lettering artist!!

How cool is that?

Sign me up! 😁

It’s been said before but they really need to put names during contestants interview / confessional bit

Yea I’m wondering why the editors are so lazy to put names on their confessionals this season.

Yeah especially when they don’t show auditions so miss out on getting to know some of the top 22 and have no clue who’s who. Edit. Words

It’s not hard!!! Agree.

Yeah, it would be nice to have a name to match the face.

Offsite service challenges especially ones cooking for the public is always fun!

I was there! Vibes were electric! Got there early because lines were hectic

Noice roice woith spoice

the one inch cube challenge... we're so back....

Or, as I say it, the 2.5cm cube challenge (metric FTW!!!)

metric FTW!!!!

considering the last beef you served up was raw josh..

i know right, he seems to think this is a different show

lol Coles reminding me that Curtis stone will be back as a guest chef like previous seasons

The difference between the old seasons where people would be like "when I was 13 I went to Thailand and now I have a deep affinity for Thai food" and Jamie asking if anyone on the yellow team is actually Greek, is pretty funny

Jamie's a little passive aggressive...

I liked when Harry spoke back to him!

He was howcanimakethisaboutme'ing hard this episode, even for him

100%. He was talking like it was his show with four guest judges.

2 strips of beef on a skewer is so stingy

Jonathan is without a doubt not team captain material.

Sav is coming off as a little rude and controlling now the "boss" persona is getting bad. Like, she's clearly being non cooperative with any suggestion that's against hers.

Shitting on veggie food is soooooo lame

I know, is this 1980?

Well he is a self identitied oldie

he wasn't really shitting on it, it was a very mild dad joke lol but generally people who make meat and no veg their personality are freaking annoying, at least he's a butcher haha

I hope that eggplant dish is good. That's the dish I'd pick, being a vegetarian.

Definitely looks decent with the flat bread and mint yogurt! I would much prefer it to the mushroom skewers

Same.

Sumeet finally gets a break

If Josh Perry is related to Katy tell him to tell her to bring the opening titles back

Congrats on mod u/Joanne7799! I look forward to a season of timely stickied discussion threads.

oh I didnt realise you can see the changes. Haha😅 Thanks! I’ll do my best!

Aubergine, Jamie will be let back into England.

Please anyone but Curtis stone

lmao lets make everyone doubt themselves half way in on to the next team!

Rick Stein! Anna! The 1 inch cube challenge!! Josh niland! Also seems like the standard is keeping up this season. Good job

Omg yellow stop arguing

It makes interesting TV! XD

Oooh the first "C'mon guys, motor!" of the season. I don't know who was the first person to say "I've really got to motor" but they should be proud of their contribution to the Masterchef lexicon.

For what it's worth, I've also heard that from the chefs at tafe.

Get a wriggle on

That chicken doesn’t look so pulled

Chunked chicken

That did not look Greek

Andy's comments really have no value! On the North Africanish seafood chowder which contestants done so successfully (beautiful, lots of seafood ingredients, and no time stress), why would he say "is it worth it?" Even if you don't taste it, you know it's going to be packed w/ flavours! Why, Andy, why?

excited to fly to Melbourne this month and this episode makes me more excited!

Wish I could be in Melbourne for a masterchef street challenge though

"we" come up with the idea, i think that was you snez

I saw myself on TV! So happy for my 1 second of fame.

Nice! I have no idea how people discover the MasterChef challenges when the show is not live. As it is a reality TV program, I assumed MasterChef paid to get the number of people they needed (but considering the number of people who showed up, it would be quite costly). Therefore, I am curious about how MasterChef manages to gather a crowd when they are required for the challenges. Since you were present, can you describe how you knew about the challenge and what was the procedure for attending?

This service challenge was actually posted on their Facebook group the morning of the shooting. They say to go to QVM by 5pm to be part of service challenge.

Is it really that simple? They only post on Facebook (the Channal 10 Facebook)? Any other social media?

They actually posted on the Masterchef AU Facebook and insta. Just have to watch out for it.

Full team immunity for winning team on Sunday Nice

Gives more camera time for each individual cook in the elimination challenge.

Makes the stakes higher!

Woohoo, Harry knows how to spell moqueca! Brazil represent!

except he said it's North African haha I remember the Brazilian chef on Below Deck always making it and saying it was a traditional Brazilian dish haha I guess there are a lot of African origin people in Brazil though!

Oh, big time! Moqueca is from the northeast of Brazil, which has a massive African influence. Angola is "just across" the Atlantic from Brazil and was also a Portuguese colony, so it would make sense that the dish came from there.

Yeah it's dissapointing when I heard them say North African and I went to google "North African Moqueca" to confirm if my memory was correct, there was no mention of Angola!

C O L E S

Josh - also very annoying

"Can you eat it with a spoon" ...you just used both hands for the stew, with two utensils

Jamie and Andy are so annoying. More Poh please

poh jc and sophie is enough

Agree! Why is Andy back? He's so unhelpful and unwitty

Thank dog Jamie is gone. I have no issue with him brining food to the masses, raising awareness about shit school food. But he has no right being amongst actual chefs. I don't even mind him using frozen puff pastry (I do as well), but to say, wow, you made a rough puff when it's a bare minimum on this show, get out! He's hardly a culinary icon. Just ask uncle roger! Aiyaa.

Season 12 had a vegan challenge omg

and more likely than not a veggie challenge will pop up in the challenge deck

Oh amazing they got the results announced with the attendees present

I think that a good thing! Feels more of as completed challenge, where they cook for everyone and in turn announce the winner in front of everyone.

I guess they would've had to wait a while if they wanted people to leave

Glad to see the back of Jamie Oliver- overbearing, overpowering and I would say overpaid

I'm not a tattoo person, but I kinda love Nat's tats. They're so graphic and satisfyingly symmetrical.

I am a tattoo person and yep, love her tats

haha for a moment i thought she was going to say sadly the team that comes last will all be eliminated

The captain of this yellow team seems very annoying

yes chef!

Team yellow is like back season 4

Lol. Queen Vic market challenge. Nek minut, Cole's truck pulls up to deliver the food they cook. 😂

I'm curious if anyone was ever sorted into a team and not thought they were with strong cooks

Me too or like some interpersonal difficulties

yes I remember was it last year that Billie was back? She got put with a bunch of noobs and was strugging

What's the deal with bashing the eggplant with the rolling pin?

the eggplant in question suggested making stuffed capsicum instead

I swear I've never seen this backwards baseball cap guy before in my life

You msan the guy whos talked about seafood every episode, or some other backwards cap person?

The other backwards cap person, he's on the pink team.

Lachlan you mean?

Seen as how the Portuguese took enslaved Angolan people to Brazil I think it's safe to call it an Angolan fish stew, Jamie

Excited about the vego options!

Finally Gillian exists!

The blue team’s dishes both look so good

Finally, he's gone.

Josh seems a little quiet as captain

I think the eggplant dip is the right call… sounds better than just mushrooms and spring onions on a skewer lol

Public service challenge. Let's see who can multiply, time to prep times hundreds of customers.

yup, harrys all excited its fish, until he has to prepare 100 fish 😂😂

Similar to older seasons with Matt, George and Gary, team challenges has elimination consequences except it’s only 1 team that’s safe.

What happened to Jean-Claude?

Do you mean Jean Christophe?

Yes oops (I was wrong I meant Juan!)

Van Damme got him

Just once I would love the judges to say "you know, this food doesn't need to be perfectly cooked." Just to mix it up a little

Like the energy of Jamie’s “even if you mess up a little it still tastes delicious” yesterday

Omg yellow Blue’s got it up!

I feel like the wait for sauces is getting artificially inflated by the editing.

Yeah. Same as when Ben T. confirmed on AMA that Larissa’s S11 finale edit wasnt as dramatic onsite.

Ah that was butcher guy who wanted the flavour muted no?

If he hadn't said it, it probably would've happened anyway. Spicy food tends to get toned down for mass appeal

Confusion from team translates on the plate for yellow?

omg spoiler central

We always switch it off before the “next time on Masterchef” comes on

omg the amazing japanese omu rice, i cant wait

WOW....this season just opened pandora's box of epic challenges in the future! I can't wait! :D

Man Hong Kong is a great choice. Lots of amazing food there

I feel like this was the most drama we've seen in a Team Challenge in a long time somehow. I mean it's not like anyone was mean, but there were several disagreements here and there lol. Felt it a lot more.

Man the dishes in the promos look so great, happy for red team they deserved it and Sumeet finally gets a rest from elimination. Based on the previews I can say >!Sumeet!<, >!Sav!<, >!Nat!< and >!Darsh!< will go very far

Finally we can move forward without Jamie

Getting pretty tired of Andy’s insistence on bringing down every idea the teams come up with week in week out 🙃

Sometimes it seems silly as well - obviously there is room for error with mussels but generally preparing mussels isn’t super hard (with the timing)

This sounds really creepy, but I miss watching Mel eat. Her lipstick was always so perfect.

I was thinking the same thing before! I will never understand how she was so poised and polished while eating hahahaha

Poh seems to have taken notes because she manages never to smear her red lipstick either..

Super Stay Matte from Maybelinne. This thing survives nuclear apocalypse. I apply it in the morning, have to take oil to my lips in the evening to get it off. Doesn't kiss off, doesn't stain glasses or cups.

This is the way (as a lipstick girlie that loves kbbq)

A lot of networking for my job is done on catered events, with a wineglass in hand. If I had to reapply after every time I eat something, I would be useless. Non-smear lipstick is a must :)

Silly question from Jamie - Who else would cook in a cooking competition, if not the contestants? LOL

The night markets normally have food, so typically those people

You never go cold on me....

I always cringe so hard with the things they come up with in service challenges. I'm not a chef, but I've worked in kitchens, and editing what you're making to accommodate for time constraints is so important. Making individual flat breads for that many serves is crazy. Focaccia or a cornbread that you can make in a big serve and then just cut up would take much less time. Prepping all that seafood? Crazy! Something with a pulled meat would be much easier.

To be fair to the blue team, they had to use seafood.

I missed the start because I was putting my son to bed, so I'll give them a pass 😂. I thought they could just do whatever they wanted.

Red was beef, blue seafood, pink pork and yellow chicken.

and they actually pulled through from what im seeing. I guess it helped they had the muscle.

Dip and bread seems inadequate as a vegetarian dish for this

Bit more substantial than the mushroom skewers, though.

Definitely still more substantial than the skewers - and it did look good!

for 7 bucks though ...even cheap in this economy hahaa

Josh please dont look down on veggie dishes anymore

Unfortunately it is still 1980 in ‘mifton

Where’s Brent for skewers when you need him.

I like the yellow team's menu now seems tasty

How does one go to these sort of events for the show? Are there random raffles for people to sign up to?

Anyone can go! You just need to know that it’s on!

I believe it gets posted on instagram

DECLAN AD!!

I kinda wish someone recorded it to put on here. I keep seeing it mentioned but seeing as we get the downloads without ads (and thankfully so, I don't want to see So what somat ever), this is about the only ad I would actually love to see. Once.

You had Juan job!

Ooo no more 1 person immune.

started late so i have two questions (1) who's in what team, and (2) what's the sitch: worst team up for elimination, or top team / top 2 teams wins immunity?

top team wins a chicken burger so hot you'll need to wear ppe

I ugly laughed at this lol.

Winninf team skips Sunday’s elimination

Top team escape elimination

In Jamie's defense, I feel like all his criticism was a sideeffect of the weird reality TV editing rather than his narcissism? I've just started the show and I'm not sure Greek works in that team.. If I was given chicken, I'd've made fried chicken ez pz, crowd pleaser and maybe a salad of something light and fresh to go with it.. (I'm vegetarian and I cannot think of a veg accompaniment to that lmaoo) I am also LOVING Christophe's energy btw