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How to be Eliminated from MKR Without Cooking a Thing

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he dashing duo lost by a seven point margin to their fellow Victorians. Source: Channel 7

If last night’s My Kitchen Rules sudden death cook off showed us anything, it’s that appearing on a cooking show without actually displaying any kind of cooking ability will only get you so far before being found out – regardless of how popular you are.

VIC boys Harry and Christo, often criticized for not actually offering any dishes that were either completed to a high standard or appropriate for a cooking competition (hamburgers anyone?) were booted from the cooking show after losing out to VIC twins Helena and Vikki during their sudden death cook-off.

From the outset, most had low expectations of the boys …

and they didn’t fail to deliver.  Their menu of raw tuna (on purpose) followed by raw Wagu steak (not on purpose) finished off with under cooked crème brulee (not on purpose) was no match for Helena and Vikki’s well thought out and well executed menu.

While the boys might have made for entertaining viewing, MKR is after all, a cooking show, and no matter how much you try to hide the fact you can’t actually cook, sooner or later, you will be found out!

The House of Horrors Returns: An MKR Recap

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We were invited back to the house of horrors last night for a chance to see VIC friends Harry and Christo redeem themselves from their failed first instant restaurant. If you remember, there were cut fingers, dropped eggs, broken pastry, exploding pastry weights….what could have gone wrong did go wrong.  Surely, this time round, they’d have more luck.

Taking note from Carly, the boys have opted for a positive vibe and zen like calmness for the night.  As Harry states “We’re here to cook, not cry”.

That is until the power goes out.

[Cue Tears]

Thankfully when the power came back on (one of the camera crew must have accidentally tripped a fuse) the food prep is fine and no one was injured.  The guests all arrive and i’m saddened to see no edible menus – Josh and Danielle really did set the bar high with that one.

Best Dish of The Night: Hunger!  A THREE HOUR wait between entree and main (now where are those edible menus?) saw some of the contestants go a little insane.  David offered up the ‘severed moving finger’ gag (to which Danielle claims to have NEVER SEEN BEFORE?!), Carly offered up a joke “What color is a burp?  Burple!”  while Kelly showed along with a jaw that unhinges, she also have no joints in her arms or shoulders.

The Food Overall: A giant step up from the boys first attempt, though I’d love to know who told Harry that pheasant only needs 15 minutes to roast in the oven.  A simple Google search tells me pheasant needs a minimum of 40-50 minutes in an oven that isn’t opened every 5 minutes.  Their entree was the only let down of the night.  Calamari and dressed rocket was too simple and too bland but the dessert of crumble filled stone fruit with ice cream (made with sugar – well done Christo!) impressed most.

The Final Result: Easily made it through to the next round allowing David to offer some impressive and well practiced eye rolls.  The massive time delays for food saw some points taken off, giving the boys a total score of 65.

Next Up: We’re back in sunny QLD with David and Corinne (yay?) who are aiming for the highest score ever in MKR history, but first they need to pop a bottle of champers and he needs his trousers ironed.  Will the ‘Queen of Seafood’ regain her throne?  Will David poison Harry and Christo’s food?  Will there be enough chairs for all the guests?

My Kitchen Rules – David and Corinne airs tonight, Channel 7 at 7:30pm!

The Zany Adventures Of The Clumsy Chef!

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Best Mates Harry & Christo from VIC

Well well well.  Didn’t the boys from VIC just go balls up in their Instant kitchen last night?  They pretty much ruined the plan to keep David and Corinne in the bottom position on the ladder and now, it looks like, these boys won’t make it to the second round.

From dropped eggs to cut fingers to broken pastry to popping open a can of pastry weights…nothing was going to go right tonight – for Harry.  Christo on the other hand managed to rip out a dozen individual tart bases while Harry was out buying eggs…think this tells Christo that his team should of consisted of one?

David (Regina George) was in fine form.  His constant use of ‘this dish has no technical skills’ again, only reinforced the fact that they screwed up their ‘highly technical seafood menu’. 

The Best Dish of The Night: Manu finally loosing his shit about there being NO SAUCE provided with the main.  According to Christo, the plan was for the ‘veal to speak for itself’.  Manu was right when he retorted “The veal can’t speak for itself.  The veal is dead”.  

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The Food Overall:  Bad.  So the onion tart for entree was the best dish, the fact that it looked like cat food made it the least appealing. The main of Veal and beans was dry and chewy while the dessert of Blueberry everything was semi under-cooked and the ice cream was SAVORY!

The Final Result: BOTTOM OF THE LADDER.  Yep, these two pushed David and Corinne off the bottom of the ladder.  You could almost hear the sighs of despair nation wide when Pete offered up his final 2 point score for the desert leaving the boys in last place.

Up Next: The mums from SA tidy house, put on ball gowns and give the kids to the grandparents for the night.