In the fourth episode of MasterChef Italybroadcast Thursday, January 4th At Heaven One and streaming on SkyGo and Now TV, we were there for the premiere Golden mystery box of the season again led by Bruno Barbieri, Antonino Cannavacciuolo and Giorgio Locatelli. The eliminated from last night – we remember – are Valeria and Nicolòthe young 19-year-old who became “famous” through his alleged flirtation with Francesca, the aspiring chef who failed the selection.
MasterChef Italia, January 4th: From the Golden Mystery Box to the first elimination
The episode starts very well: Settimino says he is a lion, and Niccolò (the hypochondriacal doctor) says he feels like a clam. There Golden mystery box There is not only a chance to win the Golden Pin, but also to go straight to the balcony like all participants who present a well-prepared dish to the jury. Anyone who isn't one of the best or doesn't impress the chefs at the tasting has to face the invention test. The test is to use all or just some of the yellow ingredients in the package. To avoid a single color, they can choose to add the artichoke (-10 minutes time compared to the total 45 minutes) or the saddle of venison (-20 minutes).
Many things happen during the challenge, but one in particular happens anger Chef Cannavacciuolo: Cassandra bursts into tears due to a problem with the siphon. His intention is to create a foam that accompanies the meat, but the instrument seems to disagree with this idea, as does the Neapolitan chef. “Kassandra, when you see it doesn’t work, it changes. However, it's not like I'm putting foam on a piece of meat… I'm trying to show you where you're going wrong,” says Cannavacciuolo. However, the girl justifies herself and denies his words several times and Locatelli intervenes: “You seem very arrogant in that, he is trying to explain something to you. You're just not listening.” Antonino concludes by explaining: “Foam… The siphon is in charge, you're not in charge, and today he won.” TO The test winner is Niccolò – “Did you understand what you did? The plate explodes. You are not a shell, you are a lion,” says Cannavacciuolo – followed by Alberto, Sara, Settimino, Marcus and Eleonora on the balcony. After receiving the Golden Pin, Niccolò comments: “I am the brightest shell in the Adriatic.”
AtInvention testing Instead, everyone who has not conveyed emotions to the judges takes part, who propose a rather significant challenge: they have to create a dish with cod in the lead that tells something about themselves, but Niccolò can decide to whom he will give 4 disadvantages . The doctor would like to give them all to Michela, but the judges don't accept that and so she is only forbidden to use them to cook dishes; he bans Antonio from using knives; Alice uses small household appliances; and Deborah is responsible for using the dishes. The best is Michelawho approaches the balcony to say to Niccolò: “The only thing stopping me is the coffin“.LValeria is eliminated from the challenge.
The skills test
The foreign representative of the Skills test he is the Brazilian celebrity chef Alex Atala, who has the power to stop for a minute, hourglass in hand, those he believes have lost their way, all with the aim of giving these aspiring chefs useful advice on how to keep the race going. The first step is to prepare a savory dish with typical Amazonian fruits and honey. Only Michela, as the winner of the invention, gets to taste the chef's delicacies before she starts cooking. Settimino, Andrea and Lorenzo are stuck while Michela, Beatrice, Eleonora, Alice, Alberto, Sara and Deborah immediately pass the first stage. Under these circumstances it is so Bruno Barbieri gets angry with Lorenzo because he reacted badly to Cannavacciuolo, who only told him how a certain part of the pork should be prepared. “Country you go, custom you find,” commented the young man, but the chef from Romagna defends his colleague’s good deed and replies to Lorenzo: “Lower the comb,” before sending him back to his place and continuing with the next test .
In the second heat, the participants struggle to enhance cassava and tapioca – two common ingredients in Brazil – in a vegetarian dish: Filippo, Kassandra, Settimino, Anna and Antonio go to the balcony. Finally, the third step is to prepare a dish that represents their idea of the Amazon. Out of fear, before the tasting, Niccolò decides to lose his golden pin to save himself, but later discovers that his dish is actually very good, saying: “If I hadn't used it, it would have been an inedible dish.” At stake now are Lorenzo, Andrea and Nicholas (“with just a c,” he remembers) who comes eliminated.