MasterChef judge and acclaimed chef Jock Zonfrillo to host an online Scottish cook-up on Saturday

MasterChef judge and top SA restaurateur Jock Zonfrillo is celebrating his Scottish heritage with a tartan-clad live, virtual cook-along on Saturday.

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SA restaurateur and MasterChef judge Jock Zonfrillo is cooking up a Scottish storm via his social media channels this Saturday.

“Wear tartan :). I’ll be answering as many questions as I can while we cook so keep it clean!,” the owner of the closed Orana restaurant in Adelaide told his more than 100,000 followers on Instagram and another 43,000-plus on Facebook.

Glasgow-born Zonfrillo, who is in the midst of the Victorian pandemic lockdown, said he will be making rolls (made in Glasgow) with a square sausage, a breakfast meal loved by the Scottish.

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Jock Zonfrillo celebrated his Scottish heritage during the final episode of MasterChef. Seen here with winner Emelia Jackson and co-judges Andy Allen and Melissa Leong.

Zonfrillo has long been a champion of Australian native produce.

“If you are Scottish living away from home you know exactly what I mean,” he said sharing his own memories of counting down “the days, hours, minutes and seconds till we’re reunited with it once again”.

The planned cook-up is planned for 4pm (Sydney/Melbourne time) a note on his social media accounts said.

It comes as questions remain about the fate of his Orana restaurant in Adelaide, which closed in March.

Zonfrillo blamed the COVID-19 pandemic for an unrecoverable loss in trade, but rumours of him pulling up stumps from Adelaide had been swirling for months.

The closure came after he and wife Lauren put their $1.2 million property at Summertown in the Adelaide Hills for sale earlier this year.

That property at Hollidays Road, which they had called home since April 2016, was sold in July.

Jock Zonfrillo at his former home in the Adelaide Hills. Picture: Russell Millard/The Australian

Real Estate images of Jock Zonfrillo’s former Summertown home. Picture: Dee-Anne Hunt / Williams Real Estate

The award-winning chef cut ties with the Tasting Australia festival in September last year, and in October was announced as one of the three new judges for MasterChef Australia.

Questions have since also been raised about the failure of his Mallozzi restaurant in SA and internal payments from the Orana Foundation to businesses owned by him and Lauren.

Zonfrillo has been contacted for comment.

Jock and Lauren Zonfrillo with their dogs Norrie and Aggie. Picture: Tricia Watkinson