Sashi MasterChef

The 'favourites' are all on the chopping block in a time-based elimination, and (get the tissues) a popular former winner is sent home.

In the morning Julie checks her lamb and finds that it is very lambish. "There'll be a giant Sashi-shaped hole in our hearts," says Melissa who thinks that everyone who gets eliminated is immediately murdered in the garden. A whole new world opens up to her: a world of sitting and waiting and taking much more time than the dish is worth. Meanwhile, Sashi is fermenting his batter, which is not really the kind of thing that should be allowed in this timeslot. Michael hallucinates that his pin is trying to kill him in his sleep. The food served up ranges from the disgusting to the almost-edible, and in the end the dish that the judges choose to be most hyperbolic about is Melanie's, which had tofu in it so you can be fairly sure the judges are lying. Aldo is making octopus, a risky move as it is a notoriously impatient animal and could well try to escape overnight. Minoli is going to marinate her pork belly rather than slow cook it, until Jock tells her she can do both – which is unfair because it's Michael who's making tacos, so if anyone's going to do both of something it should be him – and Minoli makes the startling discovery that the MasterChef kitchen has slow cookers in it. Michael has a pin but is hoping he won't have to use it, and to keep it safe he's whipped out his big meat. "Today is a long-distance race, and unfortunately one of you won't make it to the finish line," says Melissa, who doesn't understand how races work. It is now round two, which will take place over two days, and since round one was a ten-minute cook that lasted more than twenty, god only knows how long this is going to go for. The them is "time", as in the episode will go so long you will lose all sense of it.