This Wednesday, a few steps from the great definition, Juariu, Tomás Fonzi and Micaela Viciconte, the three semifinalists of MasterChef Celebrity 3faced a new challenge full of surprises.
But before putting their hands in the dough, the three confessed that they are nervous and badly asleep due to the tension of living these final instances and Viciconte made a revelation that sounded like déjà vu from other editions: a dream that involved one of the jurors, German Martitegui. In this case, the dreamer was not the participant, but her partner, Fabián Cubero.
Then if, Santiago del Moro He surprised them by showing them the three gray aprons that were on a small platform. “Whoever wins today will have a fundamental benefit for tomorrow’s gala,” she informed them.
“I imagine that seeing the gray aprons does not make them very funny… In MasterChef Nothing is what it seems; There’s always a little surprise around the corner.” donato de santis. Y Damien Betular He specified: “They will have 60 minutes to make a free plate. But since they are the three semi-finalists, we know that we can ask them for a little more”.
“So today we want them to work in series. This means that from the same preparation, they will have to serve six identical dishes”, added Martitegui.
By each choosing an apron at random and unrolling it, the participants found the names of three of their eliminated companions: Viciconte’s had “Malena” (Guinzburg) written on it, Juariu’s “María” (Del Cerro) and Fonzi’s ” Joaquin” (Levinton). Immediately, the three entered to help them. However, as De Santis had anticipated minutes before, they brought another surprise with them: mysterious trays covered with a red cloth.
The joy of the two female semifinalists vanished as soon as they discovered the contents of those trays. Mery’s, frogs; Guinzburg’s, white salmon. Fonzi had more luck: the former Turf leader had steaks with lamb loin.
Viciconte decided to make ceviche, taking advantage of the fact that both she and her “helper” had good returns when they had to make this preparation, accompanied by fries and sweet potatoes. The problem arose when preparing the cancha corn. Advised by Guinzburg, the semifinalist tried to fry it in a pot full of oil, but the grains began to jump. So she, yes, she decided to skip them. Minutes later, a new inconvenience would arise: the tiger’s milk that they had prepared was not enough for the six dishes. “Go ask for a lemon, they’re going to give it to you and not me,” Viciconte asked her partner, who followed her orders and got Fonzi to deliver what they needed.
“Can I borrow some cilantro?” Levinton asked Guinzburg in a low voice, while Viciconte was distracted looking for kitchen utensils. “I’ll give you a little, because she doesn’t like to lend,” said the comedian as she cut a bit of the aromatic grass to give to the singer.
“We’re going straight to Morocco,” Fonzi told Betular, when the jury came to see how his preparation was progressing. “And how are they going to make us travel to Morocco?” asked the pastry chef. “We are going to accompany the T-Bones with a hydrated couscous with orange juice, and we are also going to serve a curry, we have coconut milk…” Fonzi replied, to the surprise of Betular, who told him that the curry He was from India. “Well, it’s a wide area, our plate covers 70% of the planet,” he defended himself humorously.
“Germán throws me a couple of ideas,” acknowledged Juariu following Martitegui passed through his island, who recommended that he cook the frog legs with curry to give them color and flavor. As a side dish, carrots and zucchini with orange juice and yogurt.
The first to present their dishes was Viciconte. “What did you cure the fish with?” Betular wanted to know. Surprised, the participant replied: “No… I already had the medical certificate”, but the jury did not seem to like the joke very much.
“It is not easy to make six dishes, as you may have realized today, and they are quite similar”, Martitegui began his return. And she continued: “They are well presented; perhaps a little dirty around the edges; That’s why at the last minute you always have to clean them up a little.” True to his confrontational style, Viciconte disagreed with the remark. And despite the fact that the other two members of the jury showed him the stains on the edges of her plates, alone with the cameras, the former participant of Combat indicated: “If mine is stained, look at the one behind”, in reference to its competitors.
“The flavor of the cilantro suits it very well, the crispness of the potato, the onion, the fish is well cut, they filleted it,” praised Martitegui. But then he expressed: “For me, tiger’s milk has an excess of acidity. It was missing something… Maybe a little more fish or garlic. It’s tasty, but it has a lot of lemon.”
Betular agreed: “Garlic and ginger lack intensity. It’s like a ceviche for someone who doesn’t eat ceviche. Very correct. Little emotion.” Donato, in turn, indicated: “It is a very nice presentation. It looks very cool. The potato is very crispy, the onion is perfectly cut. The foam catches my attention a bit… Tiger milk is like sea water. He lacked a little more spice and salt, ginger, coriander, to give it the exotic touch that ceviche has so that it is not a simple lemon bath ”. At the end of the round, the driver recalled that since she was pregnant, the participant might not taste the raw fish.
Then came Juariu’s turn. “We never have a good experience when there is a frog,” Betular began. And he added: “I thought it was going to look like fried chicken. And no… I love the frying layer, I like the yogurt, but the zucchini puree is not puree. And it seems to me that the carrots burned a little, they are a little bitter”.
“The zucchini puree, to forget,” agreed Donato. “It is very easy when making the breading to go too thick or too many seasonings and everything is perfect here; very balanced throughout the frog’s leg, from end to end, ”he expressed.
Martitegui, completed: “It is not very nice to bread the bone until the end; I would have left a clean piece of bone even to grab her. When you told me regarding the purée, I imagined something with the taste and color of fresh zucchini, very spring, and this is more like a soup. The yogurt sauce is very good and the carrots don’t look like carrots; if you tell me they are tomatoes, bell peppers or anything else, I say yes”.
For the end, Fonzi remained. And while she was carrying the first two preparations for the tasting, she tripped, staining one of the plates. From behind, Viciconte, who was still annoyed by the jury’s statements, added: “That was already there, Tomás. That was already there.” Oblivious to the small interdict, Juariu praised his partner’s preparation: “This smells of India and Morocco.” Listening to her, the former participant of “Dancing for a Dream” questioned: “Juariu, do you want to win?”
At the time of tasting, Donato found a large piece of hot pepper that Fonzi had to remove at the time of serving, but he might not find it. Hearing the participant’s warning, he had already put the morsel in his mouth. “What do I do?” he asked Fonzi. Played, the actor told him to swallow it. Something similar happened to Betular, but with a thick slice of raw carrot.
“I like lamb. It’s not easy and I imagined a little more cleanliness in this little rib. It is mixed with the couscous… It is a somewhat difficult dish, apart from the fact that it is generally tasty. At least the piece of lamb that I got was well cooked,” said De Santis.
“You had a piece that was very difficult to obtain… The amount you served seems excessive to me. You didn’t have to clean all 12 pieces. For me, just one and the couscous was fine. More, in the dish you chose. There is an issue of proportions that makes it seem a bit grotesque. It has flavors, you mixed several things, but you lacked vegetables for the couscous. It is a good attempt, ”he indicated, at his turn, Martitegui.
Betular, then, closed: “The flavor is good and the curry has become an ally of yours. Starting today, I forbid you.”
“The curry was taken by Denise (Dumas),” Del Moro joked. Attentive, Viciconte took advantage of the opportunity to throw dirt on his companions once more. “But the boys grabbed him once more. They both made curry,” he expressed. But this time Juariu was not silent: “And how many ceviches have you already made, four?”
It was still missing to know who they would give the benefit for Thursday’s challenge. After deliberating, the three members of the jury revealed the mystery: the best dish was that of Juariu, who will then have an advantage not yet revealed.
