In a complete departure from the homeliness of Marcus’s Bangers and Mash (Brandy Optional), Monica’s skills test was for the chefs to prepare and cook a fillet of Monkfish and serve it with a bacon and pea ragout. Sadly even with onions in the gravy the whole thing lacks a certain depth of flavour, I imagine because it’s all slowly being consumed by the very existence of that oppressively gloopy mashed potato.
In his favour was the fact he didn’t strain all of the onions out of his Onion Gravy… and he had pulled off a Grade A MasterChef favourite: The Sausage Stack If they don’t contain that starchy lump it will slowly consume us all – WHAT HAVE YOU DONE NICO?
I think over all he might have had the better dish, mostly because his mashed potato was mashed potato and not whatever lab experiment Nico had created I do appreciate the authentic greenlessness that was an unstated requirement of this particular challenge – Bangers and Mash is always 50 shades of beige, it’s a British staple for a reason. The fact she’s sitting on her own in a cupboard only makes it 10 times funnier. His biggest sin though was the fact that in his flustered panic he strained the onions out of the gravy, which might have given us a rather thin and pitiful sauce but did give us one of the greatest soundbites in MasterChef history Which he at least stopped trying to cook in the pan at this point and whacked them in the oven out of shame and so that the camera operators couldn’t film them anymore. Nothing goes particularly right for Dan from his sausages rupturing BURHAN, I’LL NEVER FORGIVE YOU.īeing a private chef he apparently doesn’t get asked to make Bangers and Mash very often – I fully expect he’s mostly coming on to the show to escape the slow Goopening of his mind – there’s only so many times you can cook a Paleo Eggs Benedict for Gwyneth-Lite in Kensington before you go utterly insane. I fully expect him to be eviscerated in the Critics’ Chamber – EVERY.
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And, really we only say that they didn’t rise to the occasion because Marcus was expecting them to flambee their onions in brandyįirst up was private chef Dan and his statement facial hair, who is an early contender for My Honourable Series Boyfriend We shouldn’t really be surprised that neither of the two chefs fully rose to the occasion considering the 2018 series when 3 consecutive chefs all failed to make an adequate grilled chicken sandwich, and one of them was indeed someone who worked in a garden centre café and should have known better.
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I can only imagine that next series we’ll have to phone and pre-order every second episode off the back of the TV Choice magazine – you get a free Monica Galetti ringtone if you pay in one installment! Bangin’!Īs usual we start with the skills test, the first being from Marcus Wareing whose challenge was the deceptively simple Bangers and Mash. Right off the top, I am as baffled as everyone else by quite why they’ve scheduled the Monday show as an EastEnders Sandwich but I’m going to be treating it as 1 consecutive episode because apparently I care more about the show than the BBC does. I think we might be slightly mixing metaphors there but… I get the gist.
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