MasterChef Season 4 Episode 20

MasterChef Season 4 Episode 20

Reprinted with permission from www.healthywaytocook.com

Twenty episodes, and the cooks finally see the inside of a real kitchen. The judges meet the remaining six contestants on the top of a roof because whatever. Oh, wait. Five contestants. Krissi is afraid of heights. The cooks will take over WP 24, one of Wolfgang Puck’s many “fine dining” restaurants. Natasha and Bri are team captains. In a schoolyard pick, the teams are:

Blue Team: Bri, James, and Krissi

Red Team: Natasha, Jessie, and Luca

The cooks will have to learn to prepare the restaurant’s top four dishes to twenty-two guests. The dishes are steamed scallop shu mai, crisp lettuce cups with lobster, Singapore-style chili prawns, and stir fry wagyu beef. All of the dishes are prepared in a wok, which could throw some of the cooks off of their game.

James is concerned with this team because Bri is moving slowly and is a vegetarian, and Krissi doesn’t know the first thing about Asian cuisine. But the women surprise James and rocket food out of the kitchen. Meanwhile, the Red Team is running behind thanks to Luca having no idea how to steam shu mai. He’s been sending them out raw, and they’ve been returning to the kitchen trash bin.

When the teams move on to the main coarse, the Blue Team starts to have some problems. Krissi has never touched a wok in her life, and her food is going out cold. In contrast, the Red Team is working their woks like pros. Chef Ramsey is losing his sh*t over the lack of Blue Team entrees leaving the kitchen. The Blue Team eventually send out their last dish and the diners submit their comment cards to the judges.

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The judges give the win to the Red Team. That means Bri, James, and Krissi will cook in a Pressure Test. This is Krissi’s millionth Pressure Test, by the way. The cooks will have forty-five minutes to prepare fried calamari with marinara sauce. They will start with six whole slices of squid that they must prepare themselves without puncturing the ink sac.

Apparently the difficult part is the oil temperature, which is hard to keep consistent. James as cleaned squid before, but Krissi has not and she’s butchering the squid. James’s squid are overbreaded, Krissi’s are a mess, and Bri is burning the oil. Yet it still looks better than most of the fried rubber bands that come out of this country’s kitchens.

Bri’s squid have too much flour on them which is causing the calamari to taste burned. Graham tasted one that is undercooked. She also added lemon to her marinara sauce which, according to Joe, is stupid because it’s adding acidity to acidic food. Krissi’s squid has a bready texture. Joe thinks her batter tastes like funnel cake. James cooked his calamari perfectly, with evenly-sliced squid. But he sort of forgot to make a marinara sauce, so it tastes like it’s straight from the can.

James is safe because of his tasty calamari. Krissi is also safe because her calamari was slightly better than disgusting. Bri is going home again.

Next week, the judge’s sons take charge of the Mystery Box.

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