Jock and Mel are concerned that Aaron’s choice to cook bar food isn’t out there enough on a day of experimental ice-cream and flavour-packed curries. Tommy gazes down from on high with deep concern. Nick advises him to go back to first principles, offering some truly Socratic wisdom: “Sour is sour, spicy is spicy, hot’s hot.” Mmm, yeah man, yeah.ĭepinder “ have time to read” the instructions on her packet of glutinous rice. “Fortune favours the brave,” says Nick, which seems like a polite way of saying: “What the hell are you doing, Pete?”Īaron is struggling: he’s making coconut prawns, and … that’s it. It’s tropical pavlova roulade time! Think white people don’t have culture? Explain this then sweetie ??♂️.Īndy and Nick ask to try Pete’s curry ice-cream anglaise, which so far includes such storied dessert flavours as fenugreek and coriander.
Scott wistfully explains that he envies his fellow contestants’ rich cultural heritages, and says he’s going to go with his own: retro Women’s Weekly desserts. Depinder is doing a tropical curry with a pineapple side. Thrilled by the tropical ingredients, Minoli is “going Sri Lankan” and combining pineapple and prawns. Hope everyone’s ready for young coconut with lamb and green bananas! Even worse news? All they get to cook with in round two are the 50 ingredients that Nick used for his three dishes. Scott, Depinder, Pete, Minoli and Aaron guessed fewer than 30 ingredients. The first person safe is Tommy, who reacts with the delight of a child who hasn’t been picked for this year’s Hunger Games. Jock and Andy collect the papers, and the general mood in the kitchen is not unlike the doom that suffused my year 9 geography exam. Going out on a limb here: I reckon there might be sugar in it? Just guessing! The dessert so confuses the contestants that it’s possible we’re currently in a Matrix-style simulation.
I’m starting to think it’s not even meat. Elise “couldn’t imagine that it’s any other protein but lamb”.
The main stumps the contestants even further than the entree.