MasterChef Australia episode 10 recap: Show slammed for back-to-back commercials

It was a dramatic night in the MasterChef kitchen but the show left many viewers outraged after the lengthy episode was peppered with constant ads.

MasterChef returns with a night of commercials, interspersed by tiny episode breaks.

Oh, and Minoli goes home.

Apparently, this isn’t How to Stay Married, but actually a week two elimination challenge.

Masterchef is ruining my night of watching ads! #masterchefau

— Mark (@kramsirrom) May 2, 2021

I’m expecting this ad break to be disrupted by another ad break, at the rate we’re going lately. #MasterChefAU

— Alex Jayne (@Funsiiize) May 2, 2021

To mark the end of Superstars week, Poh, Callum and Reynold return to the MasterChef kitchen to send someone home.

The contestants are tasked with creating a dish worthy to appear on Poh, Callum and Reynold’s restaurant menus.

Both Poh and Reynold have dessert venues, which means contestants must choose between creating a rustic, homestyle dessert or a technically impossible sugarscape. Which will it be?

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MasterChef Australia superstar alumni Poh Ling Yeow, Callum Hann and Reynold Poernomo. Picture: Network Ten

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It’s been a week of talking back to prerecorded video messages, so naturally, the contestants are more than just a little excited to have some real-life chefs in the kitchen.

Particularly Therese, who turns into a giggly schoolgirl when she meets her idol, Reynold Poernomo, for the first time.

To impress him tonight, she’ll be making another Reynold rip-off, this time around, it’s his season seven Forbidden Fruit, made from vanilla mousse and a tuile nest.

‘Dessert king’ Reynold Poernomo. Picture: Network Ten

For the first time tonight, we also meet Scott. He announces he will be making a ginger fluff cake with custard buttercream based on an incomplete family recipe. Nice knowing you, Scottie.

Inspired by Callum’s menu, Aaron decides to make vanilla poached tomatoes with yoghurt sorbet and basil oil, but he can’t decide whether it’s an entrée or dessert.

It’s been fifteen minutes and I’m still thinking about how Aaron added vanilla to tomatoes #MasterChefAU

— Lynn K. (@_lynnnnk) May 2, 2021

Minoli announces she will be sous viding a very low-fat steak and that’s all we want to hear about that.

Somehow, there’s still another hour to go, we hope you didn’t have plans for your Sunday night.

A bunch of things happen that probably should have been edited out, including Maja making a second-rate version of Poh’s “milly filly” and Wynona’s parfait with un-set raspberry gel. That said, there’s never enough Kishwar, so fix that please.

With just minutes left on the clock, both Elise and Wynona go into panic mode and play their immunity pins.

Reynold has only one dessert to critique and that’s Therese’s squashed apple that looks like something Reynold would have made when he was three.

Therese’s dessert. Picture: Network Ten

There are plenty of mistakes in the MasterChef kitchen tonight, but none compare to Minoli’s steak. Apparently, she messed everything up.

“This challenge was about three things,” said Andy.

“Number one, designing a dish that would fit on one of these three menus. Number two, make whatever that dish is delicious. Number three, execute it perfectly. One dish missed all three, that dish belonged to Minoli.”

Oh, and don’t forget to tune into the new season of How to Stay Married, launching tomorrow night. But if you forget, there will almost certainly be more ads to remind you tonight.

I don’t care how many ads TenPlay throws at me, I’m not going to watch My Shit Husband. #MasterChefAU

— Alex Jayne (@Funsiiize) May 2, 2021

And that’s it, we can’t watch any more. Tune in on Monday night when the remaining contestants battle it out for immunity.

Erina Starkey is restaurant and news editor for delicious.com.au and will be recapping all the action from the MasterChef kitchen.