Ben Pobjie reviews Twins waiver challenge

Sweet Week, during which every dish must pay tribute to the classic glam rock band in some way sweetcontinues to develop rapidly. Today, the kitchen is separated by the old wall that is familiar to old hands. MasterChef audience. Poh announced that today’s challenge was “what we call the ‘Twins’ challenge” – each amateur contestant had to give birth to twins and raise them to adulthood.

Wait, no – the amateurs will actually work in pairs, but the pairs will be separated by a wall so they can’t see each other and communicate. The winner will be the team whose dishes are most similar. The amateurs will be assigned a partner by choosing a colored box that also contains the items they must use. “Oh my god!” Nat yells in despair. “No, you can’t cook with him,” Andy replies, which I think is worth including in this recap because it’s actually pretty funny. Good job, Andy.

Gill will cook with Lachlan and the air fryer. Darrsh will cook with Harry and the stand mixer. Nat will cook with Sumeet and the ice cream maker. Sav will cook with Josh and the blender. Let the chaos begin!

The team starts running around, yelling at each other like ring-tailed lemurs at a zoo. “Nat and I are roommates, and we both have the exact same vibe,” Sumeet says, which makes one wonder why this vibe is never hinted at on the show. Josh is worried because he’s not familiar with desserts, and he might find it hard to follow Sav’s recipes since she’s not even part of his family.

Jean-Christophe really enjoyed the challenge: it reminded him of his restaurants in France, where the law required that all catering staff be separated by walls. Back in the kitchen, Darrsh and Harry were making a meringue nest, hoping that the meringue would take up residence there and lay some meringue eggs before the time was up. Darrsh came up with a plan that didn’t involve any fish, much to Harry’s confusion.

Sumit waved her hand toward the wall. “Can you see my hand?” she yelled. Nat could see her hand. But it was no use because they were not communicating through sign language. “I’m ready to eat your sticky rice!” Sumit continued tactfully. Meanwhile, Josh couldn’t hear what Sav said, and they were doomed to fail.

“Get one of your pastry jars,” Sav said. “Get one of my pastry jars?” Josh said. “First row,” Sav said. “First row?” Josh said. This went on for a long time, longer than the universe had seemed to have been.

Harry is desperate for Darsh to win and for his partner to get the credit he deserves. He suggests adding some barramundi to the meringue to give it a nice texture. Meanwhile, Jill is figuring out how to use an air fryer. She’s never used one before and initially fell behind when she tried to use it to make ice cream. Luckily, she knew the sponge cake recipe by heart. Unfortunately, it tasted exactly the same.

“I’m ready for your sticky rice!” Sumit yelled. Didn’t she already say that? Wasn’t the episode already replayed? Sumit had trouble hearing what Nat said. Nat had trouble hearing what Sumit said. Josh still had trouble hearing what Sav said. The chefs paused and they assembled a support group. The contestants’ difficulties were not relieved when Bo and Andy began a little comedy routine on the wall. At times, it was a miracle that these judges didn’t get hit on the head with a shovel.

“Get one of your pastry jars,” Sav said. “Get one of my pastry jars?” Josh said. “First row,” Sav said. “First row?” Josh said. This conversation seemed to go on longer than the universe had been in existence. Sav asked Josh to get his jar out of the freezer, and Josh asked him if there should be pastry in the jar. Sav replied that yes. Josh replied that he didn’t know. Sav started pulling out clumps of his hair, “Sorry, Sav,” Josh said, as he was about to look up the word “pastry” on Wikipedia.

The judges noted that Harry and Dash’s puff pastry looked very similar as they nestled in the oven, except Harry’s was filled with shrimp. Meanwhile, Josh’s tart crust had fallen apart, probably from disappointment.

Jill and Lachlan yell at each other about the air fryer, which is louder than an F-15 fighter jet. Lachlan asks what setting it should be on. Jill says she doesn’t know. Lachlan asks if they should put it on “bake.” Jill says she doesn’t know. Lachlan says you use it like an oven, don’t you? Jill says but isn’t an air fryer better than an oven? Lachlan says he doesn’t know. They have a high-level meeting on the feasibility study of the possibility of setting the air fryer to 180 degrees for “bake.” The other three teams begin discussing anesthetizing Jill and Lachlan with chloroform.

Meanwhile, Harry’s meringue was in danger of breaking. He wondered if it was because he had put too much salmon in it. There was a hole in the middle of the meringue, but he covered it with mud crab.

There were a few minutes left. “Have you seen Teletubbies?” Nat yelled to Sumit, her mind finally snapping. Nat wanted their dessert to look like the sun, and the only reference point she could think of was the Teletubbies, since she had never been outdoors. Sumit had no idea what Nat was talking about, but she must be used to it by now.

At the last minute, before plating, Darsh told Harry to put a tablespoon of lime curd on top of the meringue. Harry was confused because he had never heard of a fish called “lime curd.” And then, it was over. The Iron Curtain had fallen, and the people of the East and the West could embrace again, just as David Hasselhoff had always dreamed. But in many ways, the greatest tragedy was yet to come – the tasting.

Jill and Lachlan serve Swiss rolls. Jill suggests they hold hands. Lachlan is not interested. Their Swiss rolls are very similar, and the color is very tempting, similar to Dr. Seuss’s green eggs and ham. Jean-Christophe compliments them on how well they are baked and on annoying their neighbors, two of the French’s greatest pastimes.

Sav and Josh serve up a chocolate cherry pie. Sav tells the judges what the dish is, and Josh discovers for the first time what his voice sounds like. The pie is very different. Sav places the cherry on top of the pie, but Josh places it on the edge of the plate. Everyone laughs at this unforgivable faux pas, and Sav and Josh are banished from high society.

“It’s a bit like a Tweedledum and Tweedledee situation,” Sophia said, but Tweedledum and Tweedledee are twins, so it looks like the opposite. Andy praised the pair for overcoming the obstacle of not being very good at this challenge and making something really badass.

Darrsh and Harry served their key lime meringues. Their meringues were almost identical, except Harry carved his into the shape of a white whale. Harry’s meringue was more stringy than Darrsh’s, which Andy despised forever.

Nat and Sumeet served mango sticky rice and cardamom ice cream. The two dishes looked almost identical, and everyone was ecstatic. The judges raved about the duo, although neither dish looked like the Teletubbies’ sun, so they were deducted points. “You proved that you don’t have to shout in the kitchen,” Jean-Christophe said, which seemed like a compliment to Nat and Sumeet, but was actually a serious insult to Gill and Sumeet.
Lachlan.

So Nat and Sumeet have won immunity—duh!—and will join Mimi and Alex on the balcony for Sunday’s elimination round, when we’ll find out which of the amateurs is just not sweet enough.