Amateur Chefs Compete for Semifinal Spot | MasterChef UK | S05 EP08

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It’s Master Chef we’re looking for  a great amate cook who can make it   as a professional someone who can turn  out exceptional food I am not prepared   to give this opportunity up without a fight I  think I’m a good enough cook to win this this  

Is one tough competition won’t be happy  if if anything else really I want to win   the competition whoever wins it’ll change  their life cooking doesn’t get tougher than this in this 1eh hour episode These  six contestants will all compete for   the last remaining quarterfinal  place the winner will then be up  

Against three other exceptional heat  winners our quarterfinalist is Chris congratulations is Steven congratulations [Music]  Jennifer well done but first it’s the quick   elimination test these guys believe they’re good  they want to find out just how good they really  

Are they want to match their cookery talents  against the best amateurs in the country today   I would just love to see a really beautiful  delicious tasty plate of food served with confidence 50 minutes one very good plate of food  off you [Music] go the contestants have to invent  

And cook a dish from any of today’s ingredients  which include pork medallions chizo puff pastry   peaches tinned butterbeans sweet potato  quail’s eggs whole grain mustard and seavo cabbage mom of two Zoe likes to put her own stamp on  classic recipes I do like spicing things up  

I can take a a recipe but I can’t help but  change it and do my own thing to it what are   you cooking for us you have a spicy Chito  TT I’ve got onions Torito peaches and soy   sauce mhm that’s going to work you’ll  taste it later I love your confidence

Training accountant Alice is torn  between her new career and a Love of Cooking you’re working very hard now to become  a qualified accountant yep there’s no way you’re   going to give that up and go and work in  the catering industry yes I’m I’m absolutely  

Determined to working in an office has made me  actually realize concretely what I want to do   I’m here because I want to win I’m absolutely  passionate about cooking my dream would be to   to have and run a [Music] restaurant dad of three  sha is inspired by his love of Indian food I like  

Strong flavors with a love of the strong flavors  I always like to see how far I can push push that   boat out if you like uh how good are you sure  given the right ingredients I think I can give  

You a a cracking dish cuz that’s the important  thing today you don’t have the spices that are   important for a curry what are we going to get  then Sean we don’t know we’ll have to wait and see you are half [Music] way 33-year-old  rasher has never felt fulfilled by her career  

As a solicitor why didn’t you enter a career  that you loved there is a lot of pressure on   Asian children to go into a more academic  career so to be honest with you with Mom   and Dad you know becoming a full-time Chef  wasn’t an option I was given engineering  

Medicine all I’m at a turning point in my life  really where I’ve done the career thing I’ve   had my children now’s my time to pursue  my passions and cooking is is definitely that 27-year-old Gareth regrets not taking the  chance to be a chef 11 years ago I went down the  

Route of nearly joining the Royal Air Force to  become a chef I was accepted and decided against   it so you learn by mistakes the job I’m in now  it’s pays bills and that’s all I need something  

I’m happy in why now do you want to change your  life G well I’ve got a baby on the way so I want   everything you know to be perfect for when the  little one comes [Music] along 22-year-old student  

Caroline loves to cook but has to keep an eye on  her bank balance I’m living on a budget I have   to feed myself so I can’t afford to buy a lot of  very fancy ingredients and do very fancy cooking I  

Just cook food so I can eat what are you studying  at University I’m studying Russia at University   at the moment I’ve just finished my second year  ultimately I would like to go to Russia and open   a restaurant there with specializing in English  food ladies and gentlemen you have only two minutes

[Music] time is up step away from your bench please dad to be gareth’s future as a chef rests  on spicy bean stew with quail’s eggs and garlic bread I love the flavor combinations  it’s rich with tomatoes you have been   brave enough and good enough to give a big chili

Kick well seasoned rich with that paprika and  chili that’s come out of the toito sausage I   think Gareth you’ve done pretty well Mom  of two Zoey has made a chizo tart with   cheese soy sauce and peaches you must admit  that is a highly highly unusual combination

Yes I’ve I’ve got my doubts here  Zoe I’ve seriously seriously got my doubts the idea of taking a  peach ttho and soy sauce is just wrong will training accountant Alice’s pork with   creamy mustard sauce and saute  potatoes be her ticket to a new

Career I really enjoy the textures of  the crisby potato and it’s soft on the   inside I think your pork is cooked very  very well indeed that sauce is slightly acidic nicely cook pork still lovely and  moist really well seasoned on the outside  

I love the potatoes then you got this lovely  velvety cream sauce actually I really like it dad of three sha has made medallions of  pork garlic mash cabbage and cream and mustard sauce I think your mashed potato needs  more seasoning in it I think your sauce  

Also needs a bit more oin it your pork  slightly overcooked and it’s gone a bit   dry and cardboard I don’t hate it  but I don’t doesn’t make my heart fump I really like the textures I really  like the smooth Mash I really like the  

Creamy sauce I really like the crunch of  the Cabbage really like the softness of the pork student Caroline has  made sweet potato and chizo soup I really like the flavor of it my issue  is the texture I feel like it needs to be

Smoother I’m not sure yeah know I I like  chorito I I love that paprika flavor but   I’ve got a paprika bowl of soup that  ends with a sweet flavor I don’t get it solicitor rash’s culinary dreams rest on  pancakes with Peach compt and cinnamon butter  

I’m really concerned about two great big slabs  of butter that is just solid butter and so is that that’s fantastic we have got the lovely juicy  flavor of Sweet Peach with cinnamon I like that good I love the compat of the  Peaches I love the flavor of  

The cinnamon that goes through I think  the butter is a bit of a mistake but um great we’re going to have a mate in a chat  you’re going to have a long wait I fear off you

Go we’ve got some amst who are actually really  really good Cooks we’ve also had one dish today   that is probably the worst dish of the whole  competition anybody who believes that a paprika   flavored pork sausage with cheese and a peach  go together does not belong in this competition  

There’s no hope for Zoe oh it just went so  wrong I think just the overall being there   the pressure and I just either lost my mind  G’s actually my first choice that Stew was   well made then dropping those little quailes  eggs on top brilliant tomato Rich strong with  

Papra the beans were giving it real body and  it had a big whack of chili in it as well I   mean he packed some big flavor in there he’s  in Ratner I really really enjoyed the flavor  

Of that compt I then found myself searching to  find out why this woman stuck a load of butter   on the top the butter probably was um a mistake  perhaps the amount of it could have been greatly  

Reduced it probably should have melted over the  top of the hot pancakes it didn’t you got come   on she’s a good cook and I’ve got to be fair I  love the flavor so Ratner in Caroline there’s an  

Issue here in the fact that actually you didn’t  like the bould of soup I quite like the idea of   that spiciness against the sweetness I found the  texture a bit weird with the sweet potato you see   you didn’t like Caroline soup texturally I didn’t  like the flavor of Caroline soup so Caroline’s out  

Zoe’s out Gareth is in Rat is in the simple fact  is this is between Alice and sha I I I prefer sha   and texturally he got it all right he cooked it  all well I don’t agree with you on Sha the pork  

Was a bit dry the sauce didn’t have enough orph  I like the texture of the mash and the Cabbage   together but in this round right now I think that  sha is a bit off the mark be great to get through  

Great to come back tomorrow cook what I like  to cook and show them that I can really work   with some pretty complex flavors Alice cooked  lovely lumps of pork really well seasoned with   a great reduced velvety sauce I think it was  really good that sauce was slightly acidic and  

It needs something like the the Cabbage which  is exactly what sha gave us it means so much   to me to get through to the next round I’ve put  so much work into this I would really want to go  

Further in this competition both of them cooked  pork and mustard cream sauce which one was the better great cooking today some really  really good cooking and that’s made   our decision quite tough Gareth  you’re staying with us my friend congratulations Caroline and Zoe  I’m afraid you are leaving us

Ladies Ratner you’re staying as well R Alice or sha Alice congratulations I’m sorry Sean I’m feeling fantastic I’m so pleased to  be through it was such a close competition   today um but I feel really lucky to  be here very happy I’m feeling really  

Relieved and just kind of quite surprised  actually elated um I’ve got through to the   next round I’m excited I’m happy to go  through and I just want to go all the way three Great Cooks now about to find out what  

It’s like in a professional kitchen I  hope they love it I think they will I   really think these three are going to get  something from this experience [Music] it’s day two and the contestants arrive at lass   iguanas a Latin American restaurant  situated on London’s busy South

Bank with 200 expected for lunch headchef ABS  patil Wast no time in telling the contestants   what he expects if I see the plates are not good  enough it will not go in the is all right yes  

Customers they expect their food on the table as  soon as possible this is a fast space restaurant   who cooking the food fast putting on the table  so can customer eat their food and go in and   out fast it’s 12:00 and the orders start flying  in Alice you got one chicken faita please yes  

Chef Alice is looking after the fajita section  she’ll have to juggle cooking the chicken duck   and lamb fillings to order and she’s already under  pressure where’s your chicken Pita you can’t sell   that Pita Alice can’t sell that Pita you just  burn I need one fresh P use that one throw that  

One come on wake up rashna you got two Zim Zim  to cook rashna also got several orders on the go   she’s responsible for the traditional Brazilian  chicken and fish dishes but with so much going   on she’s panicking I need your food rashna  come on one Paso how long rashna I’m talking  

To you pasc K Coco 3 minutes you cannot sell  that fish no it’s waste broken you cannot sell   that one this is crazy G yes chef one chicken  G with Kasa fries yes Che you got lamb medium  

Rare yes chef thank you Che Gareth is in charge  of grilling the steak chicken and lamb and with   the restaurant almost full he’s swamped by orders  how long for your stline 10 seconds Chef a medium  

Sirine Chef we Garr G come here please come here  what’s wrong with the plate tell me what’s wrong   with the plate a bit messy Chef see then make it  right che che his first dish isn’t presented to  

Chef’s standard and he has to replate one thank  you it’s halfway through service and there’s no   let up after a slow start rash’s now found her  feet high is going to be rash now everything’s  

Ready to go one chicken Zim Zim chest it’s looking  good rashna one St makaka plating up now nice one   rashna it’s looking good it’s looking good  I’ve got another Zim Zim coming now Alice   fire the fajita but Alice is still overcooking  her fajitas G so because it’s burned okay but I  

Want that duck for up properly yeah okay I don’t  want any complaint one medium chef salad looking   good Chef gareth’s put his presentation problems  behind him and is turning out perfect dishes ready   just coming now Chef TI to bras it’s looking  good G is your steak ready Chef half a minute

Chef chef got it that’s look great after two  hectic hours lunch service finally comes to   an end well done we made it so how have the three  amateurs coped in their first professional kitchen   rashna initially when she started I think  she messed up few things she was struggling  

But at the end somehow she managed to get it  better and the final product was really good   that was a manic Place absolutely manic Alice  is the one who struggled a lot two three times  

I have to reject the food but finally she got  it right I feel sad that I made mistakes um   I’m annoyed that I made a couple of mistakes  G impressed me his work was good among three  

Of them he was the best one to get your food  out and the chef to say it’s good food that’s   all you want in life really pretty it’s now  straight back to Master Chef HQ for the final Challenge ladies and gentlemen your two courses  1 hour one quarterfinal place up for grabs let’s go yesterday dad to be Gareth wowed the judges  with his spicy bean stew and excelled in the   Pro Kitchen can his two courses of pork belly  and Cherry cleftie pudding make it three in a  

Row pork onions mashed potato Y and cfti I’ve  not actually done a cherry one before so it’s   going to be uh different you decided not to  sign up for the Air Force that’s right and   uh not to take up cooking now you’ve got  your chance absolutely yes it’s something  

I’ve wanted to do for a very long time now how  are you going to win this competition Girl by   creating in good hearty meals with brilliant  taste um and for you two to really enjoy them   GTH has makuti a classic French dessert that is  technically difficult can he pull that dessert

Off traine accountant Alice scraped through the  invention test and had a disastrous Restaurant   Round can she make up for it with her two  technically demanding dishes Master Chef is   about finding a professional chef and being able  to keep control in a professional kitchen how was  

Your day today uh I had a couple of dishes that  were sent back but you going to redeem that little   mistake I am yes I am doing a panser fillet of  venison with beet treat puree and then for the  

Next course we’re having a raspberry and almond  topped and clotted cream this whole change in   your life Alice why now I’m almost about to get my  Char accountancy qualification I’ve got the naive   theory that restaurants fail either because you’ve  got a foodie that knows nothing about business or  

A businessman that knows nothing about food so  I’m hoping that I’ve got a little bit of both   Venice beetro lovely classic combination I like  the idea of it actually it sounds like a really   good [Music] dish you’re halfway you have  30 minutes left after impressing the judges  

Yesterday with her pancakes and Performing  well in the restaurant can solicitor rasher   two courses now secure her the quarterfinal Place  Asian style food from you today yeah I like fresh   clean flavors um with a hint of the Exotic what  are the two dishes are going to make you win sea  

Bass with a Thai Noodle and carrot salad and a  hot chocolate pudding with a cardamom cream we   have what we call death by chocolate corner right  where all the the carcasses of those who’ve tried  

To cook chocolate puddings now sit rotting I can  only cross my fingers and hope that I get it right   on day John I love a chocolate pudding anytime  of day I’ve seen so many collapse on Master [Music] ship you have 5 [Music] minutes [Music] that’s it time’s

Up Alice has cooked a classic menu of filet  of venison beetroot puree chalot tatan mashed   potato and red wine sauce followed by  raspberry and Armond tart with clotted cream what I’ve got there is that rich  deep very very good sauce against that  

Very well cooked Rich meat the soft shots  coming through the pastry also very very   good indeed I don’t pick up potato in that  I’m not surprised I’m not quite sure what   the beetro is doing there I don’t think  it can hold up against the strong strong

Flavors beautifully buil very rich  with a lovely sweet but yet almost   bitter red wine reduced sauce love all that  actually really really like it bring in your pudding you got the flavors right sweetness  buttery almost Armond Mazy pan sharp but  

Sweet raspberry coming through there’s no  way a near enough cream more more cream please I think it’s pretty good the pastry is  really buty the raspberries are sharp inside I   like the flavor of those against the the almonds  your raspberry sauce is really raspberry Rich you  

Could be a good little cook thank you what  do you think your chances are now I put my   everything into it I feel like I’ve given it  everything I could I don’t know we’ll wait   and see Dad to be gareth’s dream team of a  career as a chef rests on roast pork belly  

Olive oil Mash baby onions and cider sauce  followed by a cherry cfti pudding with K cream I like the flavor of those shots  against the pork I feel the pork needs   to be cooked longer it needs to be softer  it’s still a bit hard for a belly of pork  

Flavor of the sauce sort of disappeared  because there’s not very much of it on the plate it needs to be cooked longer  this this fat needs to melt right down   and you’ve overworked that potato  and it’s going a little bit gluey yeah I don’t believe it I  expected more from you so did

I the batter is just starting to curd a  little bit um it needs more fruit in   there Gareth you’ve worked really  hard today I know we have um have   you blown your chances um I’d like  to say no but on that display who

Knows solicitor rashers hoping to  impress with pan fried Seabass and   Thai carrot and noodle salad followed  by chocolate pudding with cardamon cream your fish is cook beautifully it’s lovely and   soft and lovely and sweet the  noodles for me need more orm

Yeah you say Southeast Asian to me and I expect  salty and I expect heat as well I was expecting more bring in the pudding it’s light it’s got lovely chocolate  flavor through it’s got a little moist   Center on it your chocolate  pudding is very very very good

Indeed it’s nicely made it’s light strong  strong camon in that cream do you think now   that you’re going to make it through it would  be immensely disappointing to leave at this   stage you guys have done your job we’ve now  got to do ours it’s judging time guys off you

Go we have three decent Cooks we have to choose  one for the next round in my mind on the display   of the work we’ve got to knock Gareth out right  now the pork was not cooked enough it was tough  

And a bit chewy his side of sauce gone that  mashed potato was overworked and gluey Cherry   cfti but I had a stone in mine I think he’s  got the heart and he’s got the soul he hasn’t  

Got the knowledge or the ability yet I’ve made  a few childish errors really in the kitchen um   but uh yeah slightly dispointed I know I could  have done a lot better ratch sea bass was cooked   really beautifully absolutely perfectly  cooked the noodles didn’t quite have the  

Chili kick they needed but actually it wasn’t  a bad dish and she made a really really lovely   lovely little chocolate pudding it was elegant  it was simple it looked beautiful it was very   very good I would love to have the opportunity  to go all the way and um and take the title of  

Master Chef Alice I’d say I think that Venison  and that sauce thought was absolutely stunning   beautifully cooked venison beautiful sauce  the girl obviously knows how to make good   sauces and the little shot tatatan were very  very good I think the flavors in a raspberry  

Tart were good as well but we put our guys in  professional kit because we want to see if they   can cope Alice didn’t cope there are question  marks over Alice but there’s no question mark   over the girls ability to flavor and to  cook meat I would be so excited to be um  

Invited back for the quarterfinal I really hope  still be in the competition who’s he going to be our quarterfinalist Alice [Music] congratulations GED uh in a word I’m feeling  very very disappointed with myself now I could   have done a lot better I’m definitely going to  carry on cooking this certainly isn’t going to  

Stop my enthusiasm in the kitchen not one  bit I’m just absolutely ecstatic to be   going through to the next stage of this  competition it’s my dream I’m brilliant   Alice’s place is secure for now but in the  morning she’ll be back for the next daunting

[Music] stage it’s 8:00 a.m. on quarterfinal  day and these four heat winners have returned   to battle for a coveted place in the semifinals  everything now just gets harder and harder and   harder we get to see four Great Cooks  go head-to-head and find it out for one  

Semifinal Place hugely pressurized fantastic food  on offer definitely think I’m in with a good shot   of of winning this now now it’s giv me a taste  of what feels like I want to go further in the   competition I’m absolutely convinced that I  could win Master Chef stiff competition out  

There for uh whether I could win or not we’ll  see only the absolute best of these will make a   semi-finalist I mean Sublime full free food today  we may have the winner of Master Chef amongst them first up is 29-year-old experimental  cook Steven in his heat he impressed with  

His imaginative crayfish asparagus and basil  stack wow they are powerful flavors right it’s   actually quite exciting but his pork and muscle  combination was not a hit all flavors are Reon   potato pork crackling and muscle completely  different texture not for me Steven is an  

Experimental cook dropping lots of flavors lots  of ingredients together to create his own Cuisine   there is no d denying the guy’s talent and  his knowledge but some of his Creations are   a little bit weird I still believe in myself  100% thinking that yes I can go forward and  

Win this competition Management Consultant  and mother of two Jennifer dreams of having   her own family beastro in her heat she wowed  the judges with her refined food and intense flavors I love The Zing of that mayonnaise sitting  with that fish so it now becomes quite creamy and  

That’s where the sauce is coming from that’s  really nice Jennifer I am seriously excited   about Jennifer real subtlety in her flavors real  Elegance in her presentation that lady is cooking   in an extremely modern and quite unique style  but she has to believe in herself and the food  

That she serves she has to stick to her guns I  would really really like to win Master Chef I’ve   got plenty of my life left and I think I can um  change its [Music] path trainee accountant Alice   showcased her love of techniques and processes  with her venison chalot tatan beetroot puree  

And mashed potato beautifully cooked very rich  with a lovely sweet but yet almost bitter red   wine reduced sauce really really like it but  she added unnecessary ingredients not quite   sure what the beets doing there I don’t think  think it can hold up she makes very very good  

Sauces she cooks meat to absolute perfection  there’s bags and bags of potential in there   John she loves classic cooking and as long as  she does that today she’ll be absolutely fine   I feel great to be in the martial Chef  quarterfinal got to really perform in  

This round to get [Music] through 24-year-old  Christopher has only been cooking for 3 years   but his natural ability to produce great  flavor combinations sha through with his   sea bass with chizo and his summer pudding  this is good-looking well composed thought  

About food it’s very very good indeed big pile of  Summer goodness and uh I quite happily stick the face Chris believes that he’s cooking simple  food when actually he’s cooking Majestic food   that young man has an absolutely exceptional  natural pallet but he has to prove to us that  

He has the confidence to go through this  competition to be in the quarterfinal is   amazing now it’s kind of just down to me I think  I’ve got a really good chance to go through to   the semi-final and that’ be amazing if I could  I love quarterfinals they’re exciting it’s great  

Food we have stunning amateur Cooks in that  kitchen today who must have that semi-final place it’s 10:00 and the contestants are back at Master  Chef HQ they’re about to be tested on their food   knowledge and on their commitment after this  one of them will be sent home this is ingredient  

Recognition test we just want our contestants to  see if they can identify these ingredients I’ve   got here five cheeses lots of Cuisines around  the world make their own very distinct cheeses   I have have five cuts of lamb starting right  from the front of the Lamb going all the way  

To the [Music] back there are three famous blue  cheeses in the world this is one of them the very   English Stilton got a rich creamy texture not  a strong in flavor as other blue cheeses hello   Jennifer nice to see you again this is ingredient  recognition could you tell me what that is please  

Some sort of Danish blue right I think it’s  still shop your blue i’ say that was Stilton   Christopher is off to a good start but will he  be able to convince John and Greg that he has  

The drive to go further if I went out because my  food wasn’t good enough then that’s fair enough   but to go out because I haven’t taught myself up  well then that I’d be really disappointed with  

That F kind of just started off of being a bit of  a hobby something I took an interest in and it’s   just kind of grown into an absolute Obsession  now I you know think about food read about it  

The whole concept of cooking now and doing that  as a profession as well just kind of you know   means everything is something that I really really  want to do thanks very much Chris cheers thanks guys this one is the shoulder and it has lots  of muscle in there it needs long slow cooking  

It is a shoulder and definitely not a leg see  what that is it’s not a leg lamb it’s it’s   pretty on it’s a thigh the top that’s the  shoulder shoulder do you know what that is leg Jennifer has failed to identify the  shoulder of lamb she now needs to persuade  

John and Greg that she has the commitment  to make it through Master Chef I’d love to   cook this ofing CU I think I’ve concentrated  hard on the three courses and I think they’ll   really enjoy what I’m making and I hope I can  convince them 18 months ago I started cooking  

More and I started doing things more traditional  things making Chutney making Breads and growing   more vegetables and all of those things and  realized that’s what I actually love doing   and so basically I still work as a consultant  at the moment I can make a lot of money doing  

That and that’s what I’m good at but I actually  love cooking and that’s where I want to take my   career now and I’m in a fortunate position that  I can do that thank you very much that’s okay

Thanks they should all get this this is breed  it’s soft it’s got that easily identifiable white   outside almost nutty softness with its flavor easy  what’s that pretty sure that’s Brie Bri Brie it’s   Brie Alice has recognized all the ingredients  she now needs to articulate how determined she  

Is to succeed I’m feeling really nervous at the  moment if if I can’t cook this afternoon I’ll   be gutted I’ll feel like I’ve let myself down  in some way food is what I’ve been wanting to  

Do all my life I’ve decided what I want for  my dinner by 10:00 in the morning running a   restaurant would just be fantastic and with Master  Chef I’ve got this real opportunity to do it and  

To do it properly and I want to be involved in  this process and to win thank you Ellis thank you [Music] this is the neck fillet only the neck  fillet has this amount of fast around the outside  

Of it full of flavor milky soft slow cooked  or cooked very very fast indeed what’s that   and that’s a neck fillet That’s A Neck fillet  the tenderloin fillet or like a of tender line   of uh the lamp Steven hasn’t done well in the  ingredients test but can he persuade John and  

Greg that he has the passion and drive to be  a Master Chef semifinalist I’ve practice these   dishes I believe in these dishes and I want  to go further in competition so I just hope   they actually give me the chance this means the  absolute world to me I think about food I obsess  

About food I go and meet friends I talk about  food I I just it just it’s taken over my world   all I want to do is just work in the kitchen  I would like to work for like a top chef and  

Just bust whatever I need to bust to what you get  to where where I want to get to thanks very much D we’ve got four Great Cooks we know they’re  Great Cooks we’ put them here already but the  

Fact remains only three of them will cook this  afternoon I’d like to plead the case of Young   Chris I think he held his own in the ingredients  test and I just admire the young Fell’s honesty  

And we both love his food I like you like the  guy’s honesty so there we go Chris stays Alice   did very very well in the ingredients recognition  she is determined she thinks about food she’s got  

Inspiration I have no problem with Alice at all I  I think Alex Alice should be cooking absolutely so   Alice is in that gives us uh Chris in and Alice  in this means we have to decide between Steven  

And Jennifer what do you think of Steven part  of me is concerned with Steven’s uh inability   to guess the ingredients in the ingredients test  but uh absolutely Blown Away by the guy’s passion   and commitment to the cuse I really like the  guy’s passion I know the guy can cook that’s  

Why he’s here I’m not necessarily convinced by  Jennifer’s want to be in this competition she   has not given me any sort of feeling that  she actually really wants to do this but   Jennifer’s food wowed us I mean really wowed  us we thought it was different clever thought  

Provoking she definitely did better than  Steven in the ingredients recognition yeah   but but you know Steven’s here for a reason  as well when it was an invention test and   they were just those ingredients together  he created a really delicious plate of

Food this is difficult because obviously  one of you doesn’t get a chance to cook now but we’ve made our decision sorry [Music] Jennifer thanks J good luck I don’t think I did very well on the  ingredients test and um perhaps my passion for  

Cooking didn’t come through in the passion test I  will go ahead and do something in cooking in the future nice one congratulations  you three are now battling out   for a place in the semi-finals you guys  now have to cook your socks off let’s

Cook the three remaining contestants  now have an hour and 20 minutes to   produce a three course meal that they’ve designed   themselves the standards expected at  this stage are at a much higher [Music] level so far in the competition  24-year-old Christopher has   shown an ability to produce perfect  flavor combinations from only a few

Ingredients I’d very much like to know what  your three dishes are today CH okay so for   start I’m doing a PE and mint soup with a seared  scholet and for main I have a lamb’s liver served   with mashed potato and for pudding I’ve got  going to attempt a chocolate fondant so you  

Must be aware of the amount of failed chocolate  fondants oh you know going on for the semi-final   here I think I need to kind of Step It Up do  we see the essence of Chris the cook in the  

Food it’s minimal ingredients I like that I  know what flavors go well together so I’m not   going to mess about them too much it stood you in  quite good stad so far isn’t it yeah so I’m not  

Going to change that that formular [Music] anyway  nothing wrong with that boy’s menu at all I would   happily eat every single mouth please please  don’t let that chocolate F be because as I’m doing just 50 minutes [Music] left traine accountant Alice is pulling out all  the stops cooking a technically demanding three  

Course menu [Music] Alice how are you feeling  right now nervous um bit rushed but I’m I’m   enjoying myself what are your three dishes sweet  potato soup with roasted cashew nuts and then   roast pork belly with scollops and then chocolate  bread and butter pudding with a white chocolate  

Mousse and a mango and passion fruit salsa what  do you think is special about you which is going   to hurt with you into the semi-final I’ve got  a strong foundation in classic techniques and   methods which I think is important for every  cook to start with um now I’ve kind of I’ve  

Got that basis and I’m experimenting and moving  on slightly Alice can you win could do get that   pork belly right those scallops beautifully  cooked absolutely fantastic we got chocolate   B my pudding like the idea that but with a white  chocolate moss and with mango and passion fruit  

Is it deep and it rich or is it tropical which  one is it going to [Music] be just 20 minutes   left in past rounds experimental cook Steven  has shown off his creativity with some unusual combinations step how you getting on uh not too  bad quite stressed quite busy what are you three  

Uh starters is a mushroom soup with Parmesan Cris  and basil oil main course I’m doing a c liver with   mustard potato uh Masala sauce and crisp Panetta  uh and then for dessert caramel uh banana and  

Ameta compt what what is it about this do you  think that makes it special or makes you special   I want to keep things simple and I want to FL us  to wear at the same time I want to try and fit in  

A few techniques in there so I can actually  prove I should be allowed to go through the semi-final is he going to have time to do  the detail to make that food look fantastic   I don’t quite believe he’s playing it  as simple as he says he is any moment  

I expect to find something a little bit crazy  from him 3 minutes get stuff on plates [Music] now 30 seconds do it now that’s it time’s up to win a place in the semi-final Christopher   has cooked a starter of pee  and mint soup with seared

Scallop in there you have that lovely sweet  Rich pea wonderful soft salty scallop and   then the the whack of mint the flavors are  delicious and it’s very very good indeed thank you very good I’d order it I’d eat it  I’d order another one next time I win  

In can he continue to win praise with his  pan fried Lamb’s liver with Panetta and   horseradish Mash I have a terrible  feeling that this is going to need   something to make it a bit wetter yeah  yeah there was a little issue with the  

Kind of reduction Source it just reduced it  is a reduction in the true sense of the word yeah the flavor though of that liver against the   sage and the onions the bacon is lovely  the issue as I suspected is it’s a bit

Dry they are such good flavors me y Rich  deep liver Sage bacon smooth mashed potato   it’s a little too dry but very well seasoned  finally will Christopher’s gamble of cooking a   chocolate and amoretto fondant dusted with  cinnamon pay off perfectly moist in the

Middle what is my biggest surprise and my joy is  that I didn’t expect that cinnamon and it’s sugary   it’s sweet the cinnamon just adds that little  bit to the top of it it is really really tasty good soft on the inside it’s got a very  light crust on the outside but it’s also  

The amoretto in there that is making it grown  up it’s perfect absolutely perfect how do you   feel I’m really happy with the the pudding  a little bit disappointed with the main but   you know I try my best I think it’s a good effort  for her starter Alice has cooked sweet potato and  

Roast cashew nut soup I love the color of the soup  it’s actually the colors of aut but uh but I love it but it actually develops in flavor  Herby spicy the longer it stays in your   palette I think that’s a very good  bowl of soup I like that a lot thank

You very intensely flavored more Ginger  and coconuty flavored soup with that sort   of toasted cashew on top I really like  it I really like it will her roast pork   belly with scollops peas and carrots  be as big a success am I supposed to  

Eat this all together totally go  for it load up your fork good for you you’ve got very very very  strong flavors there pee onion   pork carrot I have no scallop at all  I don’t even pick up the scallop as a texture every single component part  of your dish is beautifully cooked  

And really really well seasoned and I had  a flash of this salty scallop before that   salty crisp rind of that pork kicked  in and took over but I do like it a lot How will John and Greg find the  combination of dark chocolate bread  

And butter pudding white chocolate  mousse and mango and passion fruit salsa I love love love love your  chocolate bread and butter pudding   in comes tropical fruit white sugary  chocolate individually I think they   are very very well made together I  think they collide with each each

Other one half of my mouth is tasting white  chocolate and mango the other half is taking   the the dark chocolate and the custard that goes  in that rich bread and butter pudding and the two   Come Together Like The Clash of the Titans do  you think that you may be trying a little bit  

Too hard I’m trying to demonstrate my skill um  and I think I probably am trying too hard you you   would rather we said could you give us your best  eight dishes wouldn’t you yeah I would definitely yeah for his starter Steven has cooked wild   mushroom and Parmesan soup  with basil oil and Parmesan

Crisps wow there are some seriously big  flavors in there that basil oil on top   is really rich and then the saltiness of  that parmesan cheese which really gives   you a big kick and what you actually  get last is the smokiness of those mushrooms

Very very good flavors I don’t enjoy the texture  it’s too thick I want it to be a soup for his man   he’s cooked pan fried carves liver with mustard  Mash Masala sauce Panetta and caramelized onion God you’ve got big flavor boy aren’t you  you really Pack full flavor in there because  

The onion is beautifully sweet your sauce is  intense Your Spinach is cooked beautifully   your mashed potato is full of mustard  and lovely and smooth and what I don’t   get to taste is the liver but you know I  really love the other flavors I love the

Combinations it is about the other flavors  it’s not about the liver it’s sweet sweet   onion it’s meaty sauce it’s mastered  in the mash lovely textures big big   flavors it’s beautifully beautifully  cooked presented in a very very modern   style can Steven continue to impress  with his caramel banana and amoretto

Compt caramel banana cream chocolate and  digested biscuit each flavor comes together as a dessert I so want to love it I so want to say to  you it’s great but it’s far too sweet for me yeah I love the flavors of caramel of the sweet  banana and the texture of the cream and  

Hints of chocolate yeah I just want to take  a running jump into it it’s uh it’s a lovely   looking thing would you like to go further  in this competition I just look at this  

And there’s a few things I like about it at the  same time I know I can do better and it will do   better if I go through the next round because  I want it more than I’ve ever wanted anything  

Before I honestly would have no problem at  all putting any one of you three through   to a semi-final we can’t do that obviously  we do have judging to do off you go thank you today we have had some great great food to see  the pure love and joy of cooking is exhilarating  

Now Steven we said to stepen you’ve got to pair  it down a bit today his food was well presented   it was clean it was crisp it had bags of flavor  certain things not quite right but I tell you what  

I’m I’m Blown Away by what Steven did with these  first two courses dessert I’ve got a I’ve got a   very very sweet tooth caramel banana cream right  up my alley if I got knocked out of this stage I  

Mean I would be uh I would be good it anything  less than actually winning the competition i’   feel quite gooded about I thought Alice’s soup  just looked great I think it was well balanced   well thought out well made main Co everything  cooked very well indeed but I lost the scallop  

Dessert there you have three separate desserts  on a plate she’s desperately trying to show us   lots and lots of processes and I think when she  does that she ruins the whole I think the case   of the dessert I totally agree but I do think  other two courses actually are pretty good the  

Idea of that pork and scallop classically is  quite a good one and I I sort of applaud her   for her thought process in trying to do something  as adventurous and it was so close I’ve given it   absolutely everything today I’ve submitted what  I think are my best three dishes and I cooked  

Them really well I think I’ve definitely done my  best Chris has a very very good palette he did P   soup with a scolar simple in its presentation  no frivolity ticked every single box but his   main course was dry it should have been moist it  should have been delicious and it wasn’t quite  

There it it made his main course flawed but  I still have to say I mean they’re absolutely   bang on the right flavors Chris’s dessert of that  chocolate fondant with the amarat inside and then   the inspired splash of cinnamon on top that is  clever cooking and that was his food was like  

Today it was quite evocative if I went through  that would be amazing I’ve got a lot more to   give just hope I get the opportunity to you  know show that I I can do pretty good food oh  

Cy John it’s a long time since I’ve seen you know  three people cook like this Chris has a natural   understanding of flavor and texture but you’ve  got really inventive creative food in Steven you   know he’s trying to push the boundaries Alice is  also o pushing the boundaries but she’s pushing  

With flavor and flavor combinations all three of  these guys are so driven and of course that’s what   this competition is all about but who has the  biggest gift so hard to choose one from these three I have three enormously talented Cooks in  front of me absolute pleasure to be part of this

Today our decision has been  really tough but we have made that decision our [Music] semi-finalist it’s  Chris congratulations [Music] [Music] Jing can’t believe it no way I am very gutted because I felt I could have  done better and I think if I’d have cooked my  

Abilities I could have gone through and I should  have gone through but I’m a bad loser I know that I’m disappointed but I still love  cooking and um hopefully one day I will   have my own [Music] restaurant very few people  in this country could cook food like he cooked  

Today I challenged them every single plate of food  he’s given me has left me wanting more the f is an   exceptional Talent it’s going to take a while to  sink him but I’m ecstatic yeah semifinal um it’s unbelievable thank you let me  finalist hey I know I can do  

It now definitely I’ve got this far  so I really want to go all the way so Christopher will return for  the semifinals but next time   we’re back with six new contestants all  battling it out for the title of Master Chef [Music]