Rick Stein

Today's challenge is to cook a dish that transports the judges and guest chef to a special destination. In other words the contestants must cook some kind of ...

Unlike most eliminations, this one seems genuinely sad, but the silver lining is Michael will now have more time to learn how to cook fish. She tells the poignant story of how it rained the whole week she was in Paris with her husband, so the coq was her only consolation. Her pumpkin has been steaming and turned her chicken skin soggy, so she takes the skin off to serve on the side. Julie is sweating into her mashed potato, worried that she's going to run out of time to cook her chicken properly. Montana is thinking of Christmas in New York. She had turkey, but there is no turkey in the pantry. Why is there no turkey in the pantry? Keyma decides to make pasta, to transport the judges to Italy, which kind of startles everyone because she's Venezuelan and generally speaking the iron law of MasterChef is if you have a foreign accent you cook food from the place your accent is from. Julie is making coq au vin, hoping it will bring to mind a trip to Paris, where she first learned the pleasures of coq. A dramatic twist occurs when Sarah reveals, against all expectations, that she is making an Indian dish. However, before that happens, "Rick" is going to cook a Madras Fish Curry, or as it's been officially known since 1996, a Chennai Fish Curry. He asks Montana to help him, and she's overjoyed, since he is the chef who, more than anyone else, first inspired her to try to monetise a social media presence. "Rick" comes round to engage in some sexy banter with Julie, who is rapidly gaining a reputation as the ultimate seductress of guest chefs. The judges introduce tonight's guest chef, one of Australia's most beloved personalities: it's Alf from Home and Away! Everyone is overjoyed to see him.