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MasterChef SA Season 4 Week 4: Top visiting chefs, ostrich eggs, lamb chops, offal, mosbolletjies on the menu!

 

Week 4 of MasterChef SA Season 4 saw more contestants eliminated, but the highlight was cooking for some top celebrity judges.

A total of three contestants had to leave the MasterChef SA kitchen during the past week, leaving six contestants in total for the Finals Week. Continue reading →

MasterChef SA Season 4 Week 3: Top 10 contestants, tomatoes, cake, honey and abalone on the menu!

 

 

 

 

 

The MasterChef SA Kitchen is getting hotter and hotter, and sadly three more contestants were eliminated in the past week.

During the past week a guest chef and a guest baker came to visit, and new challenges were set to the Kitchen Cook contestants. Continue reading →

MasterChef SA Season 4 Week 2: things heat up in the kitchen, more contestants have to go!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Last week I summarised the first week of Season 4 of MasterChef SA, during which five contestants were eliminated:

This post summarises the second week of the series, during which three more contestants were eliminated.  Only 12 contestants go into this week of MasterChef SA.  Continue reading →

MasterChef SA Season 3 episode 10: Sommeliers judge Tapas and Nederburg 56Hundred pairings!

MasterChef 3 10 four teamsIn MasterChef SA episode 10 last night five top South African sommeliers were invited to evaluate the pairing of two Tapas dishes of each of four teams with two Nederburg wines.  The Red Team won the challenge, winning a Secret Reward (it looks like it could be lunch at The Pot Luck Club), while the Blue Team had the lowest score, and will go into an Elimination Test in episode 11.

In winning the best chicken dish with her Coq au Vin in episode 9 last week, Penny Fitchet was honoured with the pairing of the eight finalists.  She paired herself with Francois Zietsman and decided on Blue aprons.  Philippa Robinson and Roxi Wardman were paired in the Yellow Team; Abigail Mbalo and Mel Sutherland were paired in the Green Team; and Ian Young and Sipho Mdlankomo were Nederbrug 56Hundred MasterChefpaired into the Red Team.  Each team had 60 minutes to prepare each of two Tapas dishes, to be paired with Nederburg 56Hundred Chenin Blanc for the first dish, and Nederburg 56Hundred Cabernet Sauvignon for the second dish.  We had learnt in a previous Season of MasterChef that the 56Hundred range was named after the price of 5600 guilders which was paid by Philippus Wolvaart to buy the farm which he named Nederburg.  Invited Sommeliers were Neil Grant, chairman of the South African Continue reading →