Masterchef US s02e18

previously on MasterChef the home cooks face their biggest test ever you'll be cooking a dish created by the man who put the F in food Gordon Ramsay and it was nearly impossible to make the grade unknown I see did I just fall over the place I could cry honey crown and Ben's time in the MasterChef kitchen came to an end tonight the final four battled it out and come face-to-face with the world's toughest critics and their true colors are revealed should have made a better addition that I'm pissed at her I'm pissed at myself he's making himself look like an idiot Christian's going down poor cooks remain to battle it out in front of three culinary heavyweights at stake a quarter of a million dollars and the title of MasterChef tonight in Los Angeles California the search for America's next MasterChef has come down to the final four for this critical stage of the competition their latest challenge is coming to them come on boys [Music] it's like running a 5k you know that last quarter mile when you come around the bend you're I can see it and I'm ready to sprint into the finish line there's four of us left that journey has been intense but I'm here now and I want to win and I really want to shine through to get to the finals food is my life I daydream about my future and having a three truck in Chicago and having it financed by MasterChef such a dream I've been growing up the way I grew up and having to like fight for custody of my son and fight not do drugs I feel like I've been fighting my whole life and now I'm fighting for the title and a special Wow welcome the Final Four this is where we normally leave the comfort of the MasterChef kitchen and sort of disappear to a stunning location but not today today we're bringing the challenge home here MasterChef is more than just an American competition it is a global phenomenon home cooks just like you are battling out in versions of MasterChef in nearly 30 countries around the world from Germany to New Zealand from Greece to India in France it's the number-one show every time it airs showing any slave in Israel it was the highest-rated non-sports show of the decade to smash hit in India where over 20 million people tuned in to the finale Wow we think that you from the American MasterChef are the best home cooks in the world we want to show you off because today we've invited master chef judges from three different countries to come to America just to taste your dishes what an unbelievable experience it's a huge honor I mean I was fortunate to go to Miss USA and represent my state and to represent America there's no greater honor there really isn't you'll be split in two teams of two and you'll make one dish six portions we ask you to leave nothing behind you need to feed six of us got it we've built your pantry with the best meat and produce that America has to offer it's a wonderful bounty for our international judges Susie yes the individual with the best dish in last night's elimination tests you have an unbelievable advantage you get to pick your teammate as a result you'll also be picking your opponents so think carefully essentially Suzy's picking about teams and I don't want to be on her team I don't see her listening to me I got to be with someone a little more balanced I really feel my cooking style and my thought process is aren't the same as hers I don't want to cook with Susie though Susie knows that I'm the strong competitor and I'm one of the best here but I am the best heir but almost like something really important there will be a losing team and one of you will be leaving MasterChef the person that I'm giving this red apron to is somebody that I truly respect in the kitchen that I think will work well with me on a team but somebody that I really think that I can beat in the end who is that person Christian Wow Susie picked me because she knows that whatever T my mommy when I when I anticipate taking Jennifer and Adrian down but at the same time I feel like they're better chefs than Susie Susie overthinks things and she doesn't know quick enough for my liking Christian are you happy to be on Susie's team yeah I think we're gonna work well together I think we'll be able to come up with something to really wow the judges Adrienne's blogged up a lot of times in Jennifer's Justin because she's got a really good smile please take your stations I'm really happy with this matchup Christian's you know talking the big game all the time and then Susie's mrs. know-it-all I really want to kick some ass Red Team Blue team you have 19 minutes to create the most inspired dish you've ever cooked so far make Master Chef America proud your 90 minutes start from now both teams must conceptualize prepare and plate an original dish impressive enough to WoW the palates of not three but six MasterChef judges we look at our patroclus ingredients that we think of America I think of the lamb and the beef it produces it's seconds and others very hard to match it anywhere in the world we have the creme de la creme of what America has to offer Adrienne is from California you know spot prawns very well then we see the lobster so we figure if we can marry both coasts and put together an amazing dish okay so let's do an upscale Thanksgiving dish I could definitely be the duck very easily and that goes seriously and then we could do like the sweet potatoes you could even do the song gourmet a fancy enough yeah it's gonna be totally champion gourmet we only have 90 minutes the other teams already cooking on Christian and I are literally standing in the pantry discussing the concept of her dish I just feel like I mean everybody's Thanksgiving what's here we need to decide what we're doing quickly I'm really thinking Thanksgiving I think it's gonna be upscale it's gonna be awesome what's gonna be so upscale about the duck and duck sauce I'm not fully comfortable with the whole Thanksgiving idea but I had to pushing my gut feelings aside because we're both incredible cooks so we should be able to really put something great together [Music] we're gonna do avocado roasted corn and Maine lobster combination then on top of that we're gonna put our spot prawns and then just a little bit of red pepper coulis with some blood orange in there can I share this board with you of course so the blue team what do we think about the proteins they picked me now jumps out spot falls the beautiful lobsters yeah so there's got that kind of vibrance to it I love the idea of the blood orange I love the fact that they're showcasing from the west coast East Coast West Coast probably the question is is it gonna be a seafood salad is it too simple to impress the judges it's risky we're making a Thanksgiving concept pan-seared duck breast with a sweet potato mash caramelized fennel raspberry gastrique mushrooms and an apple chutney you got to trim all that fellow pratik thanksgiving style dish duck is a very noble ingredient as we know a lot of great restaurants of the world cut their teeth on duck preparation so I appreciate the ambition of trying to present the duck dish properly 40 minutes left so what do you think of the red team's dish not a good idea silly honestly as America I'm embarrassed that they would turn that out for some of the international chefs that we're going to be serving today and judges I can tell you that I think technically a Christian and I are way more advanced than the other team I think that the lobster that they're doing it's enough that they've actually done before so I'm really surprised that they're doing that again thirty minutes left bring magic the judges have traveled around the world for finesse creativity and something stunning making a raspberry gastrique I'm doing the fennel and roasted corn Guinea Bissau Christian Susie's not really doing much she's making mushrooms I'm trying to tell her you can't pile all the mushrooms together in the pan so of course they don't taste good I don't hurt him over again and she's throwing away Christians not happy well I think he let the captain take the lead and he's being the team player but I think his emotions coming through he can't hide it I wonder if he's being quiet now in acting respectful because if the poop hits the pan he's gonna say I was Susie's idea you know it wasn't me thrown to the bus the shrimp yes don't throw those in at all to them very less for the very last very last yeah okay boo team are working brutally together there's an energy there that almost looks like it's been done so many times before because they're hardened they respect yes but more importantly they have that synergy they sort of understand each other's strengths and weaknesses and their plain of it what do you think it's far as presentation or anything that avvocato then I'll put the layer of fennel then we'll do the corn crab in the middle okay ten minutes to go ixnay the corn sauce what happened Christian's corn sauce is supposed to be the sauce for the duck it's not coming together all right Christian why don't you slice the duck and do the funnel and then I'll make a pan sauce quickly now I have to make a pan sauce in the last 10 minutes soozee talk to me quick about the sauce cuz yeah but no idea what you're doing it's gonna be a quick you're gonna make a sauce for the duck use the 90 minutes angry with you we were actually gonna do you like this corn sauce but it would of its developing in flavor chef thirty minutes to go developing flavor the judges are minutes from arriving hopefully we can get this pan sauce on the plate before these international judges get here otherwise we're screwed [Music] as our four remaining home cooks compete in their final team challenge the judges minutes from arriving three international MasterChef judges are about to arrive for the most intense tasting yet come on five minutes to go Susie told me quick about the sauce gonna be a quick count on that say you're gonna make good stores for the tough use the 90 minutes Chef Ramsay is doubting this pan sauce time second-guessing myself right now which sucks but no idea what you're doing our international judges are just touching down now we have Sebastian the Moran I mean legendary food critic he's not just a food critic he's French leek a landscape of Fame food writer from Israel first woman ever open a farmer's market in Israel so her food walking Bible right lady I mean extraordinary Canal cookbook faint across India he's currently nominated for chef of the year in India these guys have never been under this kind of scrutiny last-minute get prepared to serve our international panel of MasterChef judges 30 seconds to go our international MasterChef judges are in the MasterChef restaurant waiting fifteen seconds to go come on I need fronds right here yeah ten nine eight seven six five four three two [Music] Christian and Suzie's plate looks like 1977 that's all I could say it just looks old maybe Adrienne and Jennifer did a really good job doing like the same ingredients that they've done a thousand times before but I know both of them can do a lot better this probably is one of my proudest dishes since I've been here at MasterChef first to face the International MasterChef judges is the red team Susy and Christian I'd like you to meet our very very special guest today I'm Kunal Kapoor and I happen to be the judge at the MasterChef India my name is Sebastiano Mahal I love judge on MasterChef France Shalom red team my name is Mika Lansky they're not happy to be a judge on MasterChef yes ma'am red team our fellow judges have traveled thousands of miles to get here I think they're ready to hear what you have so can you please explain today we have a play on Thanksgiving we wanted to do an upscale version so instead of using turkey these duck instead of using regular mashed potatoes we use sweet potatoes we have a raspberry coulis and some caramelized fennel before I begin I'd like to ask you why Thanksgiving for me when it comes to Thanksgiving you're with your loved ones and I think it's very much of American culture [Music] I think the flavors are nice but what really works is the sauce that you've done with it actually I kind of disagree with my fellow judge Kunal I didn't like the sauce very much I felt cessation of like a flowery sensation when I tasted it but I did like is the mash sweet it's comforting it goes well with a duck which is well executed you can cook duck definitely I like the skin crispy just like it should be little bit spicy somewhere I think that issue for me is that although the individual components are fine for you to bring this to these people that we brought from all over the world to be here is a little bit disrespectful Christian everything all right kind of pale honest I don't think it's complex enough I think we should have used lobster why is he doing does Christian have to throw our own team under the bus you're wiping your hands of guilt no I'm just as embarrassed up by the dishes you are your embarrassment should have manifested itself in intervention at the time when you could have made a difference you guys weren't communicating and I think the dissonance in your relationship manifests itself in the plate because I don't taste harmony here I taste a couple of pretty well cooked ingredients and a lot of a lot of animosity quite frankly I look up and gordon's like this and I felt like I liked it just let my dad down or something you know what I mean I wanted to run I there's exit doors somewhere I would have ran away there is the puree works I mean the puree was nice but I honestly thought they'd be putting more than three things on the plate after 90 minutes but the duck was well cooked told you Thanksgiving was a bad idea Suzie it's not that that question it's our execution that sucks Suzie is still trying to defend Thanksgiving dinner to me and I'm not having it at that point I'm pissed at her I'm pissed at myself it was humiliating shoulda never listened to you Suzie Christian's getting super defensive and it's embarrassing for him to be quite honest because he's making himself look like an idiot lesson learned I'm not trying to learn lessons I'm trying to win Top Ford should have made a better dish [Music] three international MasterChef judges have come to America to taste what our final four have to offer Susy and Christian served up a Thanksgiving dinner that didn't quite deliver you can cook duck definitely I didn't like just sauce very much you guys weren't communicating that don't taste harmony here I taste a lot of animosity quite frankly I should never listen here Susie lesson learns I'm not trying to learn lessons I'm trying to win top Ford should have made a better addition that the final team to face the judges is the blue team Jennifer and Adrian why don't you tell us about your dish us as Americans what we want to show you is it we have a lot of international influence here the star that shows a spot water prawns we have a coulis on the bottom that's a blood orange roasted red pepper infused with Chipotle and ginger I took the back side of the lobster and on the bottom we have our oven Otto where do you choose to you know chop that lobster and mix it with everything you know with the corn of akkad oh we didn't want it to be the star of the dish it is a start show it [Music] everything is a little bit mushy it lacks texture for me and the sauce a little bit reminding me of catch up with water and it lacked a heat it's the semi-final give me some oof honestly I think we should have picked one of the two ingredients prawn or Lobster the second phone that I had has not been cleaned you need to clean out the way before you serve it or before you cook it that's very very important I actually have the same issue my prawn here is not cleaning forgetting to clean the prawns is a huge error to lose the challenge on the back of not cleaning out a prawn would kill me I could almost see your vision of this dish but you guys got a little bit lost in the execution well I did see out there across 90 minutes was a phenomenal team spirit because you both pushed each other and there's a breath of fresh air we're sorry that it fell short of perfection but thank you for the constructive criticism Blue team thank you very much indeed thank you thank you we had some major like detail oversights how did I forget to clean the freaking prawns too but we're still in the game the red team they had an idea Thanksgiving which is hundreds in America of course the mashed potato was okay and the duck was well cooked as far as the Blues are concerned prong beautiful beautiful bronze even slightly undercooked that was quite interesting lots of flavor you know what blue team I really really enjoyed what they had cope coming it was invited they've experimented you know they've got the cultures in there so I quite like the texture I quite like the favors Nixon okay red team I couldn't understand the take off or they play off from the thing given dinner though judging the dish by taste the duck was well executed thank you for the most amazing feedback let's go let them know sure [Music] okay at this point in the competition with only four contestants left it all comes down to attention to detail the judges loved the duck so I consider this a win we had some errors but I know that our flavors were on Sebastian guys first thing thank you all six of us really enjoyed what you prepared for us we voted and we have a unanimous decision the winner of this challenge mr. boot [Music] honestly I just want to dance around it was that ultimate battle heart versus technical and we want London it really sucks because Christian and I have so much technique but Christian's ego is always gonna get the best of him in the kitchen so blue team congratulations judges thank you so much let's we saved it back thank you thank you right the blue team have now catapulted themselves into the final three red team the two of you will go head-to-head in the ultimate pressure test I don't want to face the pressure test obviously I would have liked to have been catapulted right into the top three but that didn't happen today so I don't have to kick Susie's ass I'm planning to win the title of MasterChef and having Christian in my way it's just another hurdle to cross and I'm taking him out of it Christian's going down he's out of here blue team congratulations red team start panicking are you the next masterchef go to fox comm and apply for season 3 now [Music] as the losers of the team challenge Kristian and Susie must now face a pressure test after which one of them will be going home Susan keeps saying she wants to go head-to-head with me and she's getting her wish pumped up I'm gonna take Susie out and the pressure test and then we'll be rid of her usually when people are walking into a pressure test they feel pretty lousy for me I'm excited I've been wanting to go face to face with Christian for a really long time I think I could totally beat it both you can breathe a sigh relief you're in the final three just over 90 minutes from now somebody's leaving MasterChef Adrian who do you think it is based on what you know I think Susie would be Gohan thanks Jonathan who do you think will be leaving MasterChef Christian he lacks sometimes that creativity and the true deep passion within him for cooking right blue team start marching up those stairs and watch with great anticipation I am excited to see this battle go on I want Susie to win because Christians a competitor and it would be nice to see him eat a little bit of humble pie Christian Suzy the theme of today's pressure test is the most amazing the most sumptuous stunning beautiful lemon meringue pie yes it's desserts I love it I'm kind of like the pastry gal in those competitions bring it Christian bring it on of course they give me pie to measure and the pressure does soured on desserts look at it absolutely stunning it's made up of three parts a delicious crust zesty curd and then a wonderful meringue susie-q baked a lot in this competition feeling confident okay I'm gonna put a lot of love and care into this pie and make it taste delicious for you guys feeling confident Christian absolutely even though you don't bake absolutely Wow is that confidence or just the bravado of arrogance I'm confident it is gonna make our last dish okay both you please take your stations look at that pie carefully ninety minutes make the most amazing lemon meringue pie just make sure for both of you it's the best pie you've ever baked your 90 minutes starts from to make a lemon meringue pie Susie and Christian must focus on three primary components the crust the filling and the meringue never have I ever made a lemon meringue pie before I'm a little nervous and I want to go home but uh that's not gonna happen this is going hunter 15 minutes gone 75 minutes ago interesting how they follow each other Christian gets his pastry out Susie gets a pastry huh we might have the tough call and judging there may be very very close but this could be down to the technical ability that pastry has to be cooked they cannot afford to be undercoat because that curd hits it and it's undercooked the whole thing turns soggy yeah next is the curd super amazing love the balance between sweetness our that's totally the heart of the pie just up a 25 minutes gone by Christian how is your pie gonna be different to Susie's my crust is gonna be perfect it's gonna taste better and my meringue is gonna be on the spot it's gonna be put together with finesse and love and it's gonna secure me up spot in the top three why'd you carry so much baggage on your shoulders why is that is that you in general I've had a pretty tough pretty tough life so yeah sometimes it comes up I'm gonna show you today that uh I came to win [Music] Haeju has gone good yeah you like the consistency of it yeah I think it's gonna hold and consistency yeah you were always kind of the pastry go what happens if you get your walking papers on a pastry challenge it'd be kind of ironic wouldn't it David a super ironic just over 30 minutes to go guys so much on the line now guys all about the details success in the details just three more people to go before you guys can from me Susie just stay focused on your game I think the dark horse in this one was Christian because he hasn't paint yes with any form of pastry and I think he is just focused so heavily on getting this rise my money's on Christian I think Susie has that pastry understanding and she might just keep it simple and make a nice stunning lemon right pie so I'm thinking that she's gonna have to be manager I think the Christian has the fire in his belly he wants this really bad it's gonna be interesting seven minutes ago [Music] Oh [Music] the air in the room is heavy right now I just think back to the battles that I've had to win to make it to this point I really consider myself as the next master chef because I don't have an ego and I'm a way better cook than Christian twenty seconds to go I'm looking at Susie's pie and I'm thinking sayonara it looks kinda like lost ten nine eight six five four three two [Music] 10 9 8 three two one and stop good job please very carefully bring it up to the table thank you it's taste testing time I'm feeling good if you were gonna get a piece of pie and they brought you out both of those pies I'm pretty sure you check my thighs right Susie let's go please my pie doesn't look very pretty but I've been tasting my lemon curd the entire time so I know that my flavor is definitely there did you purposely put little egg white on top in terms of the meringue I think this is a lemon meringue pie I wanted to have consistency in even amounts of lemon and meringue probably Rivet I actually I do like the flavor in the lemon curd I think that's really good as well as the meringue always a great way of seeing how the pastries cooked in terms of the transparency and normally where it's appearing damp and there's wet patches underneath it it's almost like it's undercooked there's no firmness underneath there the pastry soft just by the tip of my knife I can feel it [Music] it looks delicious Thank You chef and it looks a lot more appetizing out on the pie dish and it is in yeah love the color of the lemon curd [Music] mmm it's delicious the curd is wonderful because it's it pops and it's got that wow factor what I'm missing is my Moran curl is the easy part boomerang please yeah sure Susie what did meringue ever do to you pastry a little a little thin and yeah kind of spotty in parts right [Music] I wish that there was more meringue but dough does seem to be a little inconsistent but the flavor is great thank you [Music] it's a little drippy what's up with that [Music] actually like the flavor of the crust although it's a little bit unevenly executed your meringue it's raw there's not enough of it kind of flavorless too too bad cuz I I love a good meringue Thank You Christian let's check it out I'm a little nervous Susan obviously has more baking under her belt than I do I'm kind of my pants a little bit because that's not my forte but I have technique I have skill and finesse so I'm gonna rock it out I'm Ryan nice and even they're golden I like the swiping action that you did here instead of her Peaks just a little more refined crust looks nice from the top but it looks very uneven [Music] doesn't look like a smooth creamy texture looks like scrambled egg whites rang almost up separated Curtis nice I like the crust but it looks like it's just broken it's your first time you've ever made a lemon meringue pie yes it is beautiful color I'm concerned about the texture of meringue it's a really bizarre texture that have a taste of that now that Eric kind of area so light and broken see how just disintegrates not taking the sugar at all it's a delicious pastry but you've been let down badly with the incorporation of the sugar across the meringue it's a good-looking pie kinda holds together nicely good structure you ever think your first pie would be so monumental the pastry is delicious has food consistency encourage rich but lemony the meringue itself doesn't really add anything to the pie Thank You Bush thank you Christians looks better than it tastes and then Susie's been available yeah I could possibly go on to the final steps of winning $250,000 or lose it all in the next 60 seconds well Susie I want Susie to win because I want Christian to understand what it's like to have somebody put him into the ground with a dessert tough pressure test both fuels were not perfect and one of you is gonna be leaving MasterChef is it the stay-at-home dad that's obsessed with fish that's not really comfortable cooking desserts or is it the neural engineer that it's so meticulous with amazing attention to detail staying there and waiting to see if I'm going home as you know I'd say it's nerve-wracking I totally don't want to go home right now I've got the passion I've got the drive and I just want to keep cooking here in the MasterChef kitchen for one of you it's the last time in the MasterChef kitchen I'm for the other you're a semi-finalists [Music] soozee soozee you're gonna lose 'yes yes a stainless steel appliances inspired by boxes MasterChef are perfect for professional and aspiring chefs alike with our electronic controls multitasking features and a design that makes cleanup a breeze [Music] for one of you the last time in the MasterChef kitchen I'm for the other you're a semi-finalists I see myself before the judges as the next MasterChef and I see Christian next to me as just this pompous arrogant guy who deserved to have left a long time ago Susie [Music] you're not come through the semi-final the time is done in MasterChef thank you so much for the opportunity can't shake your hands think here great highs great lows amazing tenacious talented cook you are and those are the smile every time and you know what you've been amazing don't stop that burning desire get back Chicago get that food truck yeah and I'll be one of your customers okay well done well done well done the big question is who's gonna win MasterChef Adrian he's got the skill but he doesn't have the arrogance he's gonna stop him from winning Adrian's gonna win it thank you thank you Joe make sure you stop by and work with us in the kitchen knife job Susie thank you I'm so proud of the journey that I've had I've suffered through things and I've had so many highs and so many lows but I don't think I've been as happy as I have been in the MasterChef kitchen in my entire life and I am done being an engineer Susie this is where I'm supposed to be in my life this is what I'm supposed to do I'm supposed to cook thank you for validating what I'm supposed to do with my life I'm so grateful take care and then there were three hey it sucks to go home but everybody's gonna have to go home except me at some point only one person can win MasterChef yes you won granted many congratulations but my god it wasn't perfect I'm the last girl standing bring it on baby bring it on okay one two three of you left you're so close I cannot tell you now it's like real game on you know I think it's three strongest cooks of this entire competition and got to be perfect got to be better than them I could feel the tension now I want this so bad top three it's like right there I'm gonna take it you are looking at the next MasterChef one else Kristen who's gonna win MasterChef it's got the crown baby big day tomorrow get some rest good night well top three tomorrow night on MasterChef the competition comes full circle freakin chicken again I have no idea what I'm gonna do and it's every home cook for himself he's got flour I do but I'm using it Karma's a [ __ ] isn't it don't try and blow smoke up my ass flour Kristen's just a pain in the ass really don't care what Jennifer thinks when I take her out of the competition she's gonna eat those words - we'll move into the finals and one home cooks MasterChef dream will come to an end the person leaving MasterChef is your local news is straight ahead

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Length: 42min 4sec (2524 seconds)

Published: Sun Sep 23 2012