[Elemenopee]

Purpletulip girl:
9,9 entree
6,6 main
5(m), 4(P) dessert
Grand total 63, in position 3

[By the way]

Pete scored something like 9,6,4.
Manu I think was 9,6,5..

That was hysterical. The table setting was ridiculous and looked like it came from a kids party section in the Womens Weekly.

That meat looked so bad I'm not sure I could have eaten it. It looked as good as one of our everyday dinners and I'm a terrible cook.

[*Finn*]

Awwww I'm disappointed they were scored so well. Still watching here in qld but I thought after a 3 hr wait I thought they would have received a low score

[Chocolate Addict]

Dessert at 1am and they wanted good scores?? WTF?

He still didn't get it though, his arrogance still shone through.

The main - meat and one veg. Potato isn't considered a veg in most restaurants. Plus it was potato bake - not exactly hard to make, very mainstream no matter what posh name you give it. lol

OH and I couldn't stop laughing watching him do the beans one at a time. We had a kitchen hand doing that once and I had to remind him we didn't have all day and you could in fact do 5 or 6 at one time.

The plate the dessert was on was so impractical. There was no lip on it so no way to scoop up the sauce or keep the pear on the plate.

Pretty poor effort after the way they talked themselves up. Perhaps if they didn't take 1 1/2 hours for brekky they might have done better. What prep did they get done in the 3 hours apart from set the table?? (without the Champers glasses! lol)

[YEP...]

Ah what a great episode!

A THREE HOUR wait for main!!

The pear was not cored (haven't they ever seen masterchef)

Tart tin bottoms left on the tarts

Main was very pedestrian I thought. The potatoes and beans looked nice, but I expected better from them.

And I think it was the lawyer that said that the people who know nothing or little about food scored them or would score them low (something along those lines anyway).

Nic and Rocco are killing it!

[namie]

Ba haha ha ha haha ha haaaaa!!!!!!!!

The sad thing is their ego's are so huge that they cant see any fault in what they did tonight. What horrible, horrible people they are. They have really disgusted me with their self importance and although they seem to have a great understanding for cooking, they aren't as amazing as they think they are.

I agree completely. It was such a woeful effort I can hardly believe it but I really can't believe they think the scores came from strategising! Well, maybe they partly do, but for heavens sake! No one should have to eat main course at midnight after a 3 HOUR wait! I'd have scored 5, I think, overall because let's face it, after 3 hours even a burger from Maccas is going to pretty bloody good!

What the hell did they do in their 3 hours of prep time? Gary made the pastry and Peter made the stock aaaaand . . . what else got done? I actually can't remember what else they worked on. I don't think there was anything else. Pastry, no matter how short and perfectly buttery and delicious, doesn't take 3 hours to make. A good quality stock shouldn't take 3 hours to prepare. 3 hours to cook, maybe, but not that long to chop!

I am totally underwhelmed by them and I am really, really pleased they'll be in the bottom 3 - although, I'd like to see them stay in the competition so I can watch them fail spectacularly at the first timed challenge

One bean at a time? *shakes head in disbelief*

[Cheryl_v]

I’m sure they know their food and it was probably very good but it’s a competition, you don’t faff about during prep time! This season has been all about the faffing, I really hope next year’s potential applicants have learnt from this. During their prep time they spent more time on the pastry and making it "perfect" than on anything else. Given the judges' score I guess you could say that paid off for them but really you can't base your effort for a 3 course meal on how well you do the pastry for the entree.

My DH said that he’s sure they cast these two based on their food knowledge and dislikability rather than their cooking skills and I have to agree – after the media storm with Mel from Tassie last year the producers must have realised that the common reality theme of casting a villian is gold for this show.

Does anyone else think there is an element of gamesmanship in the judges’ scores? Most of the time I think their comments match their scores very well but sometimes, well, it just looks like they want to put a team in a certain place on the leaderboard. Also if the original promo showing one team scoring based on gamesmanship is true that must be this next round to keep themselves out of the bottom three. In which case I feel really sorry for the Vic girls but hopefully their food is good enough that everyone else gives them a proper score.

[Chelara]

Remind me never to get 'surgery' from that doctor, I'd bleed to death before he managed to stitch me up. Amm guessing for all his surgical skills he is probably a gp though.

I didn't quite get the judges scores, surely technique should enter into the equation and I saw very little technique. That steak, mushies and potato bake was a 45 min weeknight cooking job around here. Not to mention a very basic tart with perhaps nice pastry.

[blue4me]

Mwahahaha

Good to see them get a taste of their own medicine. It took them 3 hours to get main out, after complaining about other teams taking too long, I mean really!? What on earth were they doing in the kitchen? And even if Dr Evil has only ever cut 1 bean at a time, wouldn't you think that maybe when you are in a competition and running late that maybe it would be a good idea to cut several at once


They also didn't like others themes/decorations of their resteraunts and then they put out a tacky GC beach tablecloth, plastic figures and bluetac!?

I hope the girls tonight do well but I'm sure Dr Evil and sidekick will give them really low scores out of spite.

[jessie123]

Other than the time it seems there food was pretty good.

I don't think it will stop their b**chy comments they have obviously been cast into that role.

On the topic of the beans though, if they were still waiting for the meat & potatoes etc to cook would have cutting the beans quicker have really saved any time ?