MasterChef Australia (2009–…): Season 14, Episode 33 - Episode #14.33 - full transcript

ANNOUNCER: Previously
on MasterChef Australia...

..the man behind Messina
brought an exceptional pressure test.

Wow.

Oh, stop.

This is one of the hardest things
that I've ever made.

The kitchen was a hive of activity.

MICHAEL: I couldn't have dreamt this
dessert up in my wildest dreams.

They were challenged
in ways they had never been before.

MONTANA: This blown sugar
has just completely thrown me.

(CRUNCH)
DANIEL: NO!

But it was Matt whose
MasterChef dream came to an end.



Tonight, they're in the midst
of a masterpiece.

SARAH: It's just so magical.

But can they create
their own work of art?

# 'Cause you're hot, then you're cold

# You're yes, then you're no

# You're in, then you're out

# You're up, then you're down

# You're wrong when it's right

# It's black and it's white

# We fight, we break up

# We kiss, we make up

# You're hot, then you're cold

# You're yes, then you're no

# You're in, then you're out



# You're up, then you're down

# You're wrong when it's right

# It's black and it's white

# We fight, we break up

# We kiss, we make up

# You
# You don't really wanna stay, no

# You
# But you don't really wanna go-o

# You're hot, then you're cold

# You're yes, then you're no

# You're in, then you're out

# You're up, then you're down. #

(LAUGHTER, CHATTER)

Pretty good day!

BILLIE: Gee, they're
setting the pace, aren't they?

Another team challenge today,

and we're heading towards

the Melbourne Convention
and Exhibition Centre,

which is...interesting.

ALDO: Don't run, Julie!
JULIE: There's always running.

Very scary, 'cause you can fit a lot
of people in this kind of space.

SARAH: Oh, my God.
This is gonna to be a big one.

This is good! This is gonna be fun!

So, if we're cooking
for, like, thousands today...

..I think we need
a few more team members.

(ALL EXCLAIM)
BILLIE: What the hell...is this?

Oh, my God!

MINDY: Do you feel, like,
goose bumps? (LAUGHS)

Walking into this space is just...

I just have no words for it.
I'm just awestruck.

Wow. It's so pretty.

Looking around at all the walls,
and the floor and the ceiling.

MICHAEL: A little rabbit
popped out here before.

Oh, really?

DANIEL: The clouds are cool.

There's moving parts
to what we're looking at as well.

It's just... It's astonishing.

(ALL EXCLAIM)

JOCK: Take it in, guys.
We are blown away as well.

How good is this!

It's amazing.
Stunning.

You're literally inside
the middle of a painting.

Welcome to the Lume, Melbourne,

Australia's first
digital art gallery,

located at the Melbourne
Convention and Exhibition Centre.

Sarah, what do you think?

It's incredible.

And I think having
this kind of inspiration

is so good for us
when it comes to food,

because it's going to allow us
to be really creative,

and it's just so magical.

That's exactly
what I wanted to hear,

that you look
at something differently.

And with food,
that's half the thing, right?

Now, of course, Tommy,
you won the mystery box.

And that means you won a spot
in tomorrow's immunity challenge,

and you won't be cooking today,
so you can stand over there.

Peace out, guys.
BILLIE: Well done, Tommy.

ALDO: Thanks, Tommy.
JULIE: See ya!

So lucky.
I know.

For everyone else,
let's divide you into teams.

No looking - please
take an apron out of the bag

and organise yourselves
into your team colours.

Ha-ha!

I'll make sure
that you're not looking.

Wheeey!

(JULIE LAUGHS)

I can't even see the sack!

MEL: OK, so, on the green team,
we have

Michael, Keyma, Alvin,
Montana, Harry and Mindy.

And on the yellow team,

it's Aldo, Steph, Billie, Julie,
Daniel and Sarah.

Hell, yeah.

Now, it wouldn't be a team challenge
without a captain to lead the way.

Each team needs to have one.

ALDO: We already decided, I think.
We already decided!

ALVIN: I'll be captain.
MINDY: Good on ya, girl.

You know it. You rock it. Yes!

OK?

So, captain of the green team
today is Alvin

and captain of the yellow team,
Steph.

Yep.

I have never been team captain

but, in my role for the Reserve Bank
of Australia, I was a team leader,

so I am confident
that I can lead the team today.

For today's challenge,

you'll need to take inspiration from
where you are standing right now.

To be more specific...

..from this.

ALVIN: Oh! (CHUCKLES)

HARRY: It really doesn't get old.
No.

What you're looking at

is a beautiful piece
of impressionist artwork

by the Dutch master Vincent Van Gogh,

one of the greatest artists
of all time.

We want you to create
a three-course menu

inspired by the world around you.

We want your dishes to take us
into the heart of the forest.

The Lume is a multisensory,
immersive experience,

and we want to have that same
experience when we taste your food.

You aren't just cooks today,
you're artists.

So make us a masterpiece.

So, artists...

..you've got two and a half hours
to prepare.

Your teams will be serving
30 diners each, plus us.

The pantry's stocked with all kinds
of natural ingredients.

And the winning team will join Tommy
in the immunity cook tomorrow.

Get inspired, guys...

..'cause you time starts now.

MONTANA: Go, go, go!
HARRY: Aagh!

Oh, my God! Oh, this is so cool.

OK.

ALVIN: A three-course menu
inspired by the forest.

Now, this is a good challenge.

Find the paper.

It's taking something
that you see, like, so abstract,

and you have to turn that into
a full three-course meal.

Alright, Team Green, let's do this.
Let's go.

JULIE: Get planning. Get planning.

If you can pull this off,
there's something clever about it.

And I've always been fascinated
when chefs can do this.

So, first of all, the whole
imagery of the forest

is really something
we can sort of draw on.

So we can do our courses
in three tiers, I'm thinking.

MONTANA: Yeah.
MICHAEL: OK.

My idea is actually looking at it
from a bird's-eye view,

looking at, like...
at the top of a forest -

you know, all you see
is, like, a canopy.

If we're doing entree
and we go for the canopy,

which is really bright
and beautiful and leafy.
Nice. Nice.

Something lighter.
A vegetarian starter.
Yep.

And then in the middle layer,
there'll be sort of more leaves,

you know, like, trickling through.

I'm thinking, like, a red meat.

Like, if there's venison, that'd be
great - like, deer in the forest.

And then, like, for me,
mushrooms, forest...
HARRY: Yep.

And then, of course, at the bottom,

which would be this, you know,
like, forest floor sort of stuff.

My first thought is, like, ice-cream

with, like, foresty berries
or something like that.

Sort of savoury ice-cream?
Very sort of savoury sort of...

Yeah.
And we can do chocolate twigs.

Yes. Yes.
Thank you, Reynold.

I've come up with the artistic
concept and they're happy with it,

so now we all need to come up with
some great dishes to represent that.

Mindy, Harry, happy to do entree?
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Mon, obviously,
we'll stick you in dessert.

I'm happy to do... Yeah.
So, Michael, Keyma, happy to do main?

Yeah, I'll do main for sure. Yep.
Cool. Main.

STEPH: Taking inspiration
from the forest,

I think we should do
kind of like a life cycle.

You know, the forest
is not always green.

So I'm thinking, for entree,

we want something
really bright and green.

For main, I want it kind of like
a forest fire has come through

and it's going to be dark and earthy.

And then, for desserts, we get
a little bit of a re-emergence

of life coming through
and back into the forest.

So good.
Yeah, goose bumps.

Yeah, look! Actually,
physical goose bumps.

It's part of our life in Australia,
where we have bushfires

and we've had a number
of really bad ones over the years.

So I'm taking inspiration from that.

So, entree, we'll do something very
green. It's really green in there.

So, do you guys want
to do the entree?
Yep.

Deep green, yeah.
Really green?

Yep.
Let's do that, Jules.

I'm working with Aldo
on the entree today.

Cool. Let's do that.

And Steph has a concept

that this forest starts bright
and light and fresh and new...

ALDO: Eggs. Eggs.
Where are the eggs?

Eggs are over there, Aldo.

..before it's swept through
by a bushfire.

What kind of spinach, honey?
Proper spinach, yeah.

We're very conscious
that it must be very green.

So the dish we decide on
is tortellini with peas.

Jules, do you want
to start on the ricotta?

Yeah. So, now just let me
run my recipe by you,

make sure it's alright. I just...

I trust you.
Well... OK.

(LAUGHS) OK
You know what you do. Come on!

So, inside the tortellini,

we're going to make
some homemade ricotta

with spinach, some pecorino cheese,
salt and pepper, and lemon zest.

Very dark, moody kitchen, isn't it?

Channelling your inner Van Gogh.

And that's going to come together

in a beautiful, creamy filling
for the tortellini.

And then the tortellini
are going to be served

in a beautiful fresh pea juice,

and then some pea shoots
and tendrils over the top.

Julie, once it's ready, the ricotta,
put it in the blast chiller, OK?

I'm on it, mate. I'm all over it
like a fat kid on a cupcake.

I'm excited by this dish.

When I think about standing
in that immersive Van Gogh forest,

it was deeply green,

it was calming, it was soothing,

and that's what I think this dish
is going to deliver.

So, two parts lemon myrtle,
two parts mountain pepper?
SARAH: Mm-hm.

So we want some more
black pepper in there.

Yeah.
Yep.

Out main is going to
represent a bushfire,

so it's going to be
charred and beautiful.

Everything has got
a pretty strong bitter flavour,

so I think, just gotta
balance that out.

So, today, we are going to make
a native spiced crusted lamb.

(COUGHS)

We're serving that
with a smoked macadamia puree,

lots of layers of charred leek
and caramelised leek,

and also a quandong puree.

I like it.
It's bush-fiery.

It's bush-fiery.

It's showing these different layers

of charred and earthiness
to a bushfire,

but at the same time representing

different natural ingredients
and natives.

I'll try and bring it together
so that it takes you to that place.

So, do we want
to call this dish the canopy?

Yeah. Yep.
So we've got the canopy.

I've got the forest floor
as dessert.

I need to think of a name
for mains.

Yeah.
But I like this idea.

Alvin's got this incredible idea

about moving through the different
layers of the rainforest.

But it's up to Harry and I
to really actually create the dish.

Bower spinach?

Oh, yum.

So, we're really thinking a great,
strong vegetarian starter

because we want it to be
reflective of the canopy.

Grains underneath.
This will be our base.

This will build around it.

Fresh herbs and carrot tops.
We've got asparagus.

Pickled caper leaves!

I've never seen pickled caper leaves
before, but I'm loving it.

Having a beautiful
pickled leaf on there

is definitely going to give
that idea of being in a canopy.

Let's do it, girl.

ALVIN: 'Cause we've got
the canopy, forest floor,

and I need something foresty
in the middle.

Like, what would you call it?

Well, you know how it's, like,
a bull in a china shop?
Yeah.

Like, could it be a...?
A bull in the forest.

I like that.

Alvin wants to have some creative
names for the dishes. I love that.

And we're going to call our dish
A Bull in the New Forest.

So, a bit like a bull in a china
shop, there's a lot going on.

I've got another little idea
to be more the middle of forest.

And when you pick mushrooms wild,

you find them under pine needles
and under leaves

and in the weirdest places.

So I think we might have
a little foraging element

to our dish as well.

It's a fun one.

It's just about
cooking the beef well,

making sure
the mushrooms are perfect.

Make sure the sauce is good as well.

The first thing I get started on
is prepping this beef.

I just trim it up and square it off

so I've got a nice cube
of sirloin that I can cook.

And Keyma is going to work on

getting the bones roasted
and the vegies chopped for the jus.

Perfect and then make sure
we give it a good dry-off too,

so it caramelises.
Yeah.

We'll work on those separately

then come back together
for the other elements,

then we'll just bring it together
as a team inside of a team.

Is this enough?
Yep. Perfect.

Nice work, Keyma.

ANDY: We hope you can see
the forest through the trees.

You've only got 90 minutes to go.

(JUDGES APPLAUD)
TOMMY: Whoo-hoo! 90 minutes!

Salt.
Bit more salt?

Salt and lemon juice.
Salt it up, baby!

JOCK: How are you, mate?

I'm good.

Tortellinis?
Yes.

How many are you gonna give
a portion?

Just three. It's an entree.

Three?
Yep.

So, in 90 minutes' time, you're going
to have 100 tortellini ready to go?

I think one tortellini per minute
is 60 minutes...

No, unless... It has to be more.
It's 90 minutes.

You need to be like
a tortellini factory!

Sort of. Let's say that.

I hope I get three.
Oh, God!

(LAUGHS) I can hear Jock
asking Aldo,

"You're really doing tortellini?

"You haven't started them yet?

"How many have you gotta do?"

And I'm thinking, "Oh, gosh. We need
to get on with this right now."

Aldo, if we don't get started
on those tortellini, buddy,

we're going to be serving...
Don't worry, my love.

I need to make 100 tortellini,
but probably even more,

because I need backups in case
they're going to burst in water.

So I need to just be folding
those tortellini as a mad person,

or otherwise it's not
going to have an entree.

Entree needs some hands.

We need that cleaned down.
We need those machines out.

We've gotta get rolling pasta.
We've gotta get onto it now.

What do you reckon?
Are they going well?

Look.
Oh, sick.

You know, the one thing that I've
learnt from a previous challenge

that I can bring today
are those chocolate twigs.

Thank you, Reynold.

Today, you'll be making my
new signature desserts - noi.

What do we find in the forest floor?
Twigs.

We need lots of twigs.

BILLIE: So, I'm on
the dessert course.

Our concept that Steph came up with,
I think is really beautiful.

My idea is a little choux pastry log
that's sitting on the ground

of the forest,
that's starting to sprout again,

using flavours of dill and rhubarb,
which are both really fresh.

I've used dill and rhubarb before
in my semifinal dessert dish.

I made a dill ice-cream
with a rhubarb champagne spider.

Are you pouring it over the top?
That's better.

When you pour a spider...

(OTHERS CHEER)

It was good enough to get me into
the finale of season seven.

So I'm hoping today that flavour
combination will get us a win.

OK.

I'm really trying to
work methodically

to make sure that each of
my elements are perfect.

And the fact that I'm on
the dessert course by myself,

I cannot afford to
make any mistakes.

(GROANS)

Mmm. Yum.

Everything's going well so far.

The flavour in the mushroom
ice-cream is really cool,

it's really interesting.

Is it good?
Yeah.

Everyone on the team's
had a little taste of it,

and we're really happy with it.

That's quite mushroom.
Yeah.

Yeah, I like it.

So we're happy that the sort
of main element of the dessert

is on its way.

Dessert's on track, so I'm just
helping out the entree team

while everything's sort of
sitting and waiting for me.

I'm up against Billie
on the yellow team,

and I have beaten Billie a few times
in service challenges on desserts,

but it's a little bit different
today, it's one v one.

She is such a powerhouse
in this competition.

She just knows flavour
like the back of her hand.

A bit chalky.
Chalky.

So I'm going to just
try my very best

at producing something that
could be better than hers.

MICHAEL: These bones came.
They look good, huh?

Yeah, good.

The Wagyu's been trimmed up,

the macadamia nuts are
in the oven, roasting.

Now it's time to work on our jus.

Now stock time.

Now, Keyma's already roasted
the bones for the jus

and diced up the vegies, so
I just have to cook them down.

Keyma, any time you walk by this,
you're just gonna strain it off.

Yeah, every...
Just any...

Any scummy bits that come up,
just strain them off.

I've never made this dish before.

That's the great thing
about MasterChef,

it drags new and interesting
and creative

and exciting dishes out of you.

I think it's that, you know,
being inside The Lume

and experiencing feeling like
I'm inside of that

beautiful Vincent Van Gogh painting.

The dishes need surprises
and elements of excitement.

MAN: Michael, you're OK?

Yeah, I'm just
searing all the beef,

and then it's going in the oven.

I've got eight pieces of Wagyu, six
in one oven and two in the other.

I've never cooked a bit of Wagyu
this big before,

so it will be a bit of a test for
me, but I reckon I can make it work.

Oh, yeah.

That's the paper bark.
SARAH: OK.

So if we put that with the macadamia.
Yeah, perfect with the macadamia.

So you want to smoke them whole
and then puree, or smoke it after?

I think it would be best to puree,
and then we'll smoke it.

Do it after, yeah.

As a firefighter,
I've been to several bushfires

and I've witnessed how destructive
they can be

and destructive they are.

Being inspired by Van Gogh,
who was inspired by nature,

seeing it from
a different perspective.

So we're doing that today.

We're looking at the forest
and how in Australia,

you know, part of nature is
bushfires wiping through,

and so hopefully we can execute it.

Sarah's finished preparing the lamb,

she's got that brining
in the fridge,

and now she works on the leeks.

The main part of the leek,
which we've roasted gently,

we're gonna sort of
cut them into planks

and lay that on top of the lamb
so that it kind of covers it.

I reckon just check these in longer
because we don't need the sweetness.

We're also going to get
some other bits of leek

that we're going to cut finely
and char as well in the deep-fryer.

It'll kind of symbolise charred hay
or charred grass.

While she's doing that,
I've got my spice blend done,

I've got my smoking set-up
ready to go.

Um, cool.

Now it's time to get to work
on this quandong jelly.

Oh, yeah, that smells mean.

We wanted this really deep redness,

which will sort of signify
the little red embers of the flame.

You're kind of searching for it

because it will be the lift
and the acidity of the whole dish.

Mmm. Yummy.

Don't lose your way in the forest.
You've only got one hour to go.

ANDY: Come on.

JULIE: Can we please put tortellini
down now?

ALDO: One second, my love.

Julie's concerned about the timing
of folding of the tortellini,

but, you know, I think an hour
time to get tortellini done in

will be more than enough.

Are you going all the way down?

Slimming it from the top.
Just from here?

Yeah, from the top.
OK.

That'll save a lot of time.
Yeah.

Huh.

So, we're just starting with
a very simple thing

that Julie's going to start
to roll the pasta out,

and then I'm going to
pipe it in, the filling,

and then I'm going to fold it.

Beautiful, Jules.
We're on a roll, mate.

I'm feeling super confident.
It's my A-B-C.

I know that I can get it done.

One serving done, 33 to go!
(JULIE LAUGHS)

MINDY: Right, let's move, Harry.
We've gotta move our arse, babe.

We've got a lot of components
to do, so let's get this done.

Do you think that's enough?
I think you might need a bit more.

More? I can keep going, I just
don't want to spend too much time.

No, you don't wanna waste time on it,
I know.

I'm stoked that I'm doing
entrees with Mindy.

Entrees is where I feel
most comfortable,

but I've got so many elements

and we've still got so many
things to achieve.

I'm really hoping that the two
of us can pull this together

because otherwise we're just going
to have a lot of half done things.

So, what I'm thinking, babe,
we will do a little pea puree.

That will form the base
under our plate,

but we might add a bit of
a goat cheese into it.

Yeah, I can do that.
We'll cook those down.

We're thinking that the pea puree
will be the base of our dish.

So Mindy has this great idea
to paint it onto the plate.

This is to mimic the fact
that we're in an art exhibition

and you can see the paint
strokes on the wall.

So we want to translate
that directly onto our plate.

Like paint strokes.

I think it's a great idea

and I think the judges
are going to love it.

ANDY: Listen up, gang!
You've got 30 minutes

until the entrees leave the pass!

Let's go!
Come on.

47.

ALVIN: How's the beef, Michael?

It's ticking along, Alvin.

What are we at?
We just got to 48 on the back one.

48?
Yeah.

So I'm going to take it out now.

What did you roast it at? 165?
Yeah.

Whoo!

Mate, that's saying 19.
That can't be right, can it?

Looking at my Wagyu, and the
temperatures aren't coming up

in five of the six pieces
in my big oven.

And the thermometer in one of
the pieces is saying 40 degrees,

but the others are at, like,
18 and 20.

There's a real discrepancy there
and I can't quite figure out.

I'd be checking them all.

How long have we got?

What...

And two more at...18

18?! Wow.

If you think that these are
going to get up to temp in time...

Because they're so small.
..which they need to...

They're so small, it's going
to happen quickly, right?

I don't know.
It's going to be stressful.

It always is for me, Andy.

If I keep watching the Wagyu and just
focusing on it, we're going to be OK.

Will it be a stressful
next 25 minutes? You bet.

MINDY: What else smells like
the rainforest?

Should I stick a bit of
fennel in our atomiser?

Yeah.

Entree is light, leafy,
and it's a beautiful canopy.

I want to create
the sensory experience.

When you walk into a rainforest,

one of the first things you do
is you smell what's around you.

For the experience of the guests,
we're going to create an atomiser,

which is basically an infused liquid
we can spray onto our dish.

Oh, yeah. Ooh, yeah.

We'll strain it into there, and
then they kind of get this scent.

It smells like lemony rainforest
to me.

I'm smelling lemon myrtle, lemon
verbena, very citrusy notes.

And that is what for me
is moving through a canopy.

Eau de forest.

Coming to a store near you -
a scent for the real man.

JOCK: The forest is starting to
fill up with diners.

You've only got 15 minutes to go!
Come on!

Go, green!
Come on, yellow!

I pause helping the entrees
for a second

and just have a look
on the ice-cream,

and it's looking really good,
it's churning nicely.

Mindy, how many do you need
to help you plate up?

MINDY: Just you, girl.
OK.

Alvin has sort of gone and jumped
on to help with the entree team.

There's a lot going on.

I've got the cream there, Mon. Can
you just finish that off for me?

Yep.
Have you got time?

Yep, yep, yep.

I can see that mains is sort of
struggling a little bit for time,

so I'm going to jump on and
help them with a few elements.

So, I'll get that. Can you give
Keyma a hand with the kale?

Yep. Yep, yep, yep.

One sec, Keyma.
Yeah. Thank you.

..17, 18, 19, 20,

21, 22, 23, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27!

(EXCLAIMS IN ITALIAN)

Yes, darling, yes!

I just got 27 servings.

I've got probably six more to go
and I'm fine as.

How many tortellinis have you made?
27 servings.

Mate, I'm on the right track.

Despite that people, they didn't
have faith in me, I made it.

I'm tired enough.

Just folding the last ones
and then we're ready to go.

ANDY: Hustle!
10 minutes till service!

MINDY: Let's do it.
Let's go, go, go, go, go.

Let's start plating, guys.

Dan, when they start the entrees,
let's start getting our lamb on.

Yeah.
Yeah, so we'll sear the lamb.

Yeah.
And then we'll crust it.

Finish it in the oven.
And finish it in the oven.

Yeah, do the probing, yeah.
Yeah.
OK, cool.

10 minutes until
entree service starts,

and we have a lot of things
to do for the mains.

That macadamia puree
is still not done,

I haven't even started
searing the lamb.

The leek isn't quite finished.

I know that this is going to
take quite a bit of time

to make sure that
everything is balanced.

So I'm kind of relying on
the help from the entree team

to bring it all together.

Is this definitely going
to be cooked in time?

We need to go now. Chuck it on.

Right, let's just
clear some space, guys.

We've got to think clear about this.

It is all about the visual today.

Customers, yes, eat with their eyes.

Harry and I are going to
start attacking this

to see how
the dish comes together.

Let's go. So some peas, Harry.

It's fresh, it tastes of peas,

but you've got that acidity
and creaminess of the goat's cheese,

earthiness of the black barley

and a little bit of nuttiness
with pepitas.

Look how pretty that looks.
Yeah, that looks really pretty.

High five. Let's go. Let's do it.

It is looking exactly
what we wanted it to look,

but, my God, this plating
is going to take us so long.

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MELISSA: Come on, guys!

Team, can you come and have
a look at entree, please?

There's a lot of pressure
on us right now.

This is a lot of tortellini.

I'll do juice and tortellini.

And I'll do olive oil,
black pepper and peas.

We're cooking them as they're
going out on the pass

because you want them to be
beautiful and hot

and to be juxtaposed against that
lovely, fresh, cool broth

that we've got in the bowl.

So it's all systems go.

ALDO: Guys, we gotta hustle, OK?

A little bit of cracked pepper
on, and that's it, guys, OK?

OK, here we go.

JUDGES: 10, nine, eight,

seven, six, five,

four, three, two, one.

JOCK: That's it!
Service has started.

Service, please!
Yes, baby, yes!

Let's go.
Come on, everyone.

Service, please.

Entree service begins,

and the judges are expecting
multisensory, immersive experience.

And I think the entree sets
the scene of the entire menu.

Let's be a little bit organic
about it, yeah, this time?

Just let it have
a little bit of movement.

It looks like a painting on a plate,
which is, you know what?

If that doesn't hit the brief,
I don't know what does.

Ooh, here we go.

Thank you.

Wow.
Thank you.

Fantastic. So, this is the entree
from the Green Team,

named The Canopy.

Pea and goat's cheese puree,
black barley and leafy greens.

And very fancy little atomiser

of lemon myrtle, lemon verbena
and lemon zest.

A bit of a lemony multi-sensory
experience, if you will.

May I?

Thought you'd never ask.
(SPRAYS)

I think it looks stunning.
Yeah, I reckon it looks epic!

I think, as well, you know,
like the painted-on puree,

which is the goat's cheese, right...?

I mean, look around us.

It kind of looks like the
brushstrokes in the painting, right?

The perfect dish
for this surrounding.

Yeah.

You know, you could probably
hide a plate of that

just somewhere over in the distance

and it wouldn't look
out of place, you know?

Which, I suppose, means
you've ticked the brief.

For me, flavour-wise,

a concept is nothing on paper

if you don't deliver on flavour,

and they definitely have here.

You get that kind of grassy taste

of the combination of the peas,
the black barley and the pepitas.

But then I really liked
when the goat's cheese kicked in,

it just rounded it out
with a bit of fat.

So, it was a nice
little layered dish.

MEL: I like all of
the different textures.

I think the chew on the black
barley, the crunch from the pepitas,

even just the tenderness
of the asparagus,

was really lovely.

Mindy and Harry as a combination...
Yeah.

..pretty good.

You know, put those two together,
have a look.

A little bit of inspiration
from the forest,

and we've got
an absolutely banging dish.

Yeah.

Here you go, loves.
JULIE: Thank you, darlin'.

Alright.

ALDO: The dishes, they're all
consistently looking good.

I'm super happy.
They look beautiful on the plate.

But sometimes, you know,
the way that it looks

is not always the way that
it tastes.

Did we add the other lemon juice in?

I did put another splash in.
Beautiful. Perfect.

I think it's really nice.

ALDO: But I know that we've got

the creaminess of the filling
of the tortellini.

The pea juice, it's beautiful,
it's vibrant and fresh.

And then at the very end,
when you bite onto the pea shoots,

it just brings back the beautiful
sweetness of the pea as well.

JULIE: Service, please.
Service.

BOTH: Thank you.

I just hope that we
just done enough.

Amazing. Thank you.
Thank you.

ANDY: Thank you.

Wow. OK.

So, entree from the Yellow Team,

Entering the Forest.

Green tortellini with peas.

I didn't think we'd get three.

We got three.
We got three.

You know, Aldo stuck to his guns

and he pumped those tortellini out,
didn't he?

There's things I like
about this dish

and there's a couple of things
I'm unsure about.

The filling I thought
was delicious -

you know, that real richness
of the ricotta

and the spinach pureed,
folded through there.

It was seasoned perfectly,
touch of lemon, on point.

I really like the broth.

You know, it's green,
it's vibrant, it's light.

It feels at home right here.

But I just feel the two components -

the beautiful tortellini, which is
quite rich and warm and lovely,

and that light broth -

aren't marrying up to create
one beautiful dish for me today.

JOCK: The pasta looks fantastic.

It's kind of like
a pasta salad, isn't it?

Do you know what I mean?

The broth is more of a vinaigrette
dressing, if you like,

rather than a broth itself.

And as soon as you start
thinking about it that way,

it begins to make
a little bit more sense to me.

So, I think there are things
to really love

and some things that,
I echo your sentiment,

doesn't really quite feel complete.

Come on.
Three, two, one, go!

Yes!
Thank you. Let's go.

That's entree done.

Entree service is done,
so that's a huge relief.

Michael, what do you need?

So, now it's all hands on deck
to help with the mains.

MICHAEL: Mon's helping
with the puree, which is good.

Here's the beef moment.

I've got to carve a bit of beef

to make sure it's nice and pink
in the centre.

And it's perfect.

Pretty good, guys?
MONTANA: Yeah, nice.

The fat's rendered,
so there's no chewy bits of fat.

And I'm glad I spent so much time
paying attention to the Wagyu

because it's worth it when you get
beautiful pink beef like this.

So, do you want to put everything
together for me to taste?
I do.

Keyma, can we get the mushies out?
Yeah.

I make our test plate up -
I add the beef,

I hide the mushrooms
on top of the puree,

hide them in the leaves,

and it looks how I want it
to look - I'm happy.

When they dig in, they'll find
herbs and mushrooms.

Yeah.
Happy?

Yes, I'm happy.

Alright, good.

Alright, let's set up the station.

SARAH: Oh, my God. Are we
going to get this done, Dan?

Steph is helping out
on entrees right now

because, you know,
they're going out first,

but we are crying out
for an extra pair of hands.

DANIEL: Aagh!

We're sinking.

Can you portion the caramelised
leeks as well, and season them?

DANIEL: Um, yep.

I definitely feel like
we're sinking at the moment.

We've got to get
that lamb on, man, hey?

We need to motor.

I'm not sure if we can
bring it all together in time.

STEPH: Is this side not hot enough?

No, it's not hot enough.

I know that our main course
has kind of delayed the service.

ALDO: This taking forever.

Guys, this will be pushed out
right now, please.

JULIE: Yep.
Come on, hustle.

Hustle, hustle on the herbs.
Hustle on the herbs.

SARAH: So, this could definitely
cost our team immunity.

SARAH: Aldo's going to
help us do the lamb. So, we're good.

Yeah.

Although we are feeling the pressure
right now and a little bit behind...

Come on, come on, come on, come on.
Quick, quick, quick.

..Aldo and Steph are going to help
us get this dish over the line.

Go, go, Sarah.
Yeah.

Come on.

STEPH: Come on, team.
Let's get this goin'.

DANIEL: Yeah!
SARAH: Whoo-hoo! Go, Steph!

It's slowly coming together,
but we just need to really focus

and get everything across the line.

ALDO: So, you want to just a little
bit of colour on the outside.

That's it.
Just colour. That's it.

Are you finishing this in the oven?
Yeah.

I'm just hoping we're not
going to be delaying the customers

from getting their meal on time.

OK, first one's ready.

HARRY: Alright. Ready.

Service?

Just those two. Thank you so much.

MICHAEL: The dish is coming along
exactly how I imagined it.

It tastes great. The mushrooms work
really well with the beef.

The puree adds a nuttiness
and the leaves add that bitterness

and that interesting element
of hiding the mushrooms.

So, I think it hits the brief.

Mindy, this is looking great.

The flow works in my mind.

Hopefully, the diners
get that as well.

Thank you.

ANDY: Thank you very much.
MEL: OK.

So, from the Green Team, their main
of A Bull in the New Forest.

Roasted Wagyu, macadamia puree,

roasted and pickled mushrooms

and roasted beet leaves.

I'm guessing everything's
underneath the beet leaves.

Beautiful plate of food, that.

For me, the Wagyu, it was beautiful.

It'd been rested for long enough.

It was nice and pink. It was juicy.

Beautifully well done.

Then the plating.

I thought, you know,
A Bull in the New Forest,

the leaf, great, looked fantastic.

Kind of hiding stuff.

I was kind of searching around,
getting little surprises.

The jus itself, I thought,
was really fragrant with herbs

and a really lovely thing to bind
this entire dish together.

My commendations to whoever
made the macadamia cream

because it had
the most luxurious texture,

the most lovely balance

and such a small amount on a plate
made all of the difference.

Yeah.
Pretty good dish.

STEPH: Whoops.
I'm behind you.

Yep.

Done. OK. Service, please?

Perfect.

SARAH: Watching those first plates
go out for service

feels pretty great

because I really felt like
we were sinking for a moment there.

ALDO: Sarah, the lambs
looks beautiful.

I think the concept of this dish has
definitely been brought to life.

And not only that, I think
it's a dish to be really proud of.

Come on, puree, puree, puree!

Let's go!
Got it.

Need to catch up. Beautiful.
You hold this.

The flavours
are so interesting and unique

and they really play together
really well.

Come on, let's go.
Have we got more leek?

Yeah, there's more coming.
Beautiful. Thank you, Jules.

SARAH: I feel like, at this point
in the competition,

it's really important
to bring well-executed dishes,

but also to really push
the boundaries with them,

especially in a challenge
where it is conceptual.

So, I hope we've done enough.

Service, please?

ALDO: Well done, everybody.
Thank you.

JOCK: Can't wait for this.

Thank you.

Thank you.

OK. So, from the Yellow Team,

we have a main named Forest Fire

It's a native spiced lamb

with charred leeks

and smoked macadamia.

I think it looks really impactful.

It's...I think it's quite
a clever interpretation.

I like their thinking.
Yeah, I like the thinking.

Let's see what it tastes like,
though.

OK.

Diving into the details.

The lamb was cooked really,
really nicely.

Loved it.
Yeah.

You know, blushing, medium.
Just how I like my back strap.

Mine had some good caramelisation,

and it was quite light on that
Aussie spice mix that they made.

That native spice mix.

I thought they did well
to kind of tame that.

The deep-fried leeks,

I'm...I'm not digging.

Maybe if they were
really, really finely shredded,

they would have been
a lot less in-your-face

because they are still quite bitter

and because they've just been
flat-out deep-fried

until they're that colour,

they are quite tannic as well.

When leeks are soft and beautiful
and melting,

there's just nothing better than it

because it coats everything
in a veil of sweetness.

And we didn't really get
that opportunity today.

But I really liked
the macadamia cream.

I thought it had a really
lovely texture,

a light, smoke flavour to it.

For me, it feels like the guys
have been under the pump.

This is the first iteration
of the dish

and we've just been so busy that
we've had to get it out the door.

"Let's get it on the plate
and out the door, ASAP."

ALVIN: And then we'll take a couple
of berries soon...
Mm-hm.

To finish our menu today,

our dessert is going to be
based on the forest floor.

And I think the plate

that Alvin has in his mind

is to have
just a scoop of the ice-cream,

a few of those little
pickled blackberries next to it,

and a few of the little chocolate
twigs leaning up against it.

But it doesn't look as refined
as we thought it would be.

MINDY: What's the ice-cream
going to sit on?

Have you got something
for it to sit on?
Um...

We've got a test plate
of our dessert

and the ice-cream is just
sliding all around the plate.

We've just got three blackberries
on there.

We've got a bit of ice-cream,
the chocolate twigs,

but it doesn't look quite complete.

Is there a sauce or...
what are we doing?

Um...

No?
No, there's no sauce.
No.

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MICHAEL: I think it needs
something green.

No, forest floor -
I think we're going brown.

OK.

One of the things that a lot
of people tend to forget is,

it needs to be travel friendly.

You know, like from the pass to
the diner, there's a lot of movement

and you don't want things
to fall off or slide off.

Then it'll ruin
the general image of the dish.

Do we think sitting it
on the raspberries?
Yep.

And then just do some
blackberries on the side?

I think raspberries and
Blackberries mixed together.

Yep. Great.
Yeah. Cool.

Do this in five minutes, guys.

Thank goodness
smart Montana suggests

we rest the ice-cream
on a bed of raspberries.

Mon, is it just gonna be like this

and you're gonna, like,
nestle on top?

Yep.

Which is great, because
with our time limit,

we think the easiest way to do it

is to incorporate
another type of berry,

and it'll bring some freshness

and it'll cut through the earthiness
and the richness of the dessert.

Perfect. Let's go. Let's go.

Up the end, please. Pushing.

MONTANA: The final dish
looks quite pretty,

but I'm worried about
the balance of flavours.

Service!

I'm definitely worried
about those blackberries,

and I'm not sure if this hits
the brief visually.

That one might need a tiny wipe,
but there's that one.

I'm up against Billie
on the yellow team,

which is never fun.

She's an exceptional cook

and she is definitely
really strong in this competition.

I think I need to produce
an absolutely perfect dish today

to beat her.

Thank you.

I just hope that I've done enough.

Alright, so, from the green team,
we have dessert of Forest Floor -

mushroom ice-cream, pickled
blackberries, fresh raspberries

and chocolate twigs.

I was hoping for
a lot more, to be honest.

Yeah.

Interesting dessert.

In terms of a forest floor,

I mean, the twigs, you get it
from a visual aspect,

really nice and organic looking.

But, from a flavour profile,

it probably needed
a bit more mushroom

to make me buy into the
forest floor concept, you know?

Yeah, I've got to agree.

Like, when I first tasted
the mushroom ice-cream,

I was like,
"Yeah. Like, that's tasty."

But then, once you get
the bitterness of the chocolate,

the sweet sourness, I would say,

of the raspberries
and the blackberries,

it really does drain it out.

It just felt like
a nice mushroom ice-cream

that had just been drowned out by,
you know, some things that were OK,

without blowing me away.

Yeah.

STEPH: Service, please!

Whew!

Well done, guys.
Yes! Thank you!

Oh, you guys did so well.

So, we've been hectic with mains,

the mains just kind of flew,

and now it's up to dessert.

JULIE: That looks
exactly like a log.

And I turn around and Billie's
plating, and it looks incredible.

Billie, What do you need?

BILLIE: Um...

I think we're pretty well...
You're good?

..good.
OK.

Plating up is pretty simple
for this dessert.

The idea is just a log
sitting on a forest floor.

There's some rhubarb and some dill
as the main flavours.

I feel like they're
quite fresh flavours,

and represent the regrowth
of the forest.

Just on the soil, and then
we'll go dill on top of that.

So, the great thing about being
on the dessert course on my own

is that this dish
is just what I wanted to make.

But...

Service!

Thank you.
..if they love it, then great.

But if they don't like it,
it's all on me.

Thank you.

It's just that fear, I think, of...

..are they gonna like it?

Wow.

Thank you.
Thank you.

From the yellow team,

their dessert of Regrowth.

Dill choux with rhubarb.

What I love is that little contrast
of the green dill sugar in the fronds

just popping up through the soil,

because it does suggest
that little bit

of the first regrowth after a fire,
which is the whole point.

Who made the choux?

Did Billie make the choux pastry?
Billie.

She made everything.

That was a cracking dish.

Absolutely loved it.

Choux pastry - light as a feather.

Dill flavour - beautiful.

Billie, again, just...
she's got a really nice touch

when it comes to
tempering strong flavours,

in this case dill, in a dessert.

Dill is one of those things

I think a lot of people only think of
it as being something super savoury,

but we also know it can stack up
against really big flavours

and hold its own.

And here, paired with the rhubarb,
I think it works really well.

The rhubarb is a very intense
sour flavour,

but it's really balanced

with that delicate herbal fragrance
that the dill brings.

I think it's just enough to be there,
but not to be overpowering.

30 plates! Billie did 30 plates!

Like, start to finish.

Man, she's...she's good.

Billie, the choux is beautiful.

BILLIE: Happy?
Yeah! Great.

Good-O.

ALVIN: Oh, my God.
Is that the last plate?

Yeah.
Oh, Jesus!

(MIMICS ALVIN) Oh, my God!
Oh, my God!

ANDY: What started as like,
you know, the perfect surroundings,

the perfect kitchen,
the perfect pantry,

seemed to be
the perfect menus as well.

Yeah, I couldn't agree more.

Today we delved deep into the forest

and what we found were
some truly artful plates of food.

And for one team today,

that imagination has secured you a
chance to vie for immunity tomorrow.

So let's see who it is.

The energy in the kitchen today
was brilliant

and the results
speak for themselves.

Let's start
with the really big hits.

One of the desserts
absolutely blew us away.

It was downright delicious.

That dish was cooked by...

..Billie, giving deserts
to the yellow team.

(ALL CHATTER EXCITEDLY)

Great work, guys.

Well done.
Thank you.

The next dish that really
impressed us was an entree.

It was balanced and fitted
seamlessly into the environment.

And that entree...

..was cooked by the green team.

Really proud of you, babe.

Mindy, Harry,
what a partnership that was.

Well done.
BOTH: Thank you.

DANIEL: Oh, man, oh, man.
Here we go. (CHUCKLES)

(LAUGHS) Dan!

So, the main course.

Although both teams' proteins
were beautifully cooked,

only one's accompaniments
were equally as impressive.

And only one team brought us a dish
that was executed near perfectly.

And that main...

..was cooked by the green team.

(ALL CHEER AND LAUGH)

I'm so happy. My first team
captaincy, and my team won.

Our creative director!
Good work, babe! Good on ya, Alvin.

That's great.
Holy moly.

I mean...

Yes! Yes!

Green team, you lot were clearly
inspired by what you saw today.

Keep cooking, keep pushing
yourselves,

and do not get comfortable.

Because tomorrow
we are dialling up the heat.

Tomorrow's immunity,

it is unlike any other immunity
that we've had this season.

(NERVOUS LAUGHTER)

It is going to be a monster day.

Oh. What?

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