Esther Mucientes Madrid
Madrid
Updated Tuesday, April 9, 2024-08:31
MomenTVs Cañita very brave on MasterChef 12: "It's an attempt at sabotage"
My mother always told me that everyone deserves a chance.
MasterChef
must be of the same theory. When last week they introduced the new contestants of
MasterChef 12
and among them was
David
, former legionnaire, flat-earther, anti-science, pro-conspiracy theories, he was clarinet that the moment he opened his mouth and spoke about something other than
MasterChef
or kitchen was going to get messy. We didn't have to wait long: last night he got messed up.
There are two options, thinking that
David
really cooks so extremely well that despite his scientific beliefs it is worth having him on
MasterChef
- at the moment, this is not proven -; or having given him the opportunity to demonstrate that
everyone has a place in
MasterChef
, making sure that maybe David
didn't cook well, but he was going to be furious and that as soon as he opened his mouth with his theories - or they made him open it -
MasterChef
was going to go to waste, but without making it very noticeable. After what happened last night, it seems that the second option is the one that gains the most strength.
Let's see, we must be clear about one thing,
MasterChef
does not live only from the kitchen. It is an entertainment program and for there to be a show and spectacle it is not enough to just have 16 people cooking. It is necessary, as
Samantha Vallejo-Nágera
says , tasooooorrrrr! And that flavor is achieved by looking for peculiar candidates, with a story behind them that impacts, with character, that generates a reaction in the program and, of course, in the viewers. And this is where you take a chance and where you assume that in the search for the perfect candidate for a television talent you may choose someone who you know is going to make trouble for you. With
David
,
MasterChef
was clear that this was going to happen sooner or later. The fact is that it has happened sooner rather than later.
The hesitation of the MasterChef judges
First test of the night. Applicants have to cook a free dish, but with products of only one color: black. Santiago Segura, as guest. Everyone delighted.
Gonzalo
, winner of the test, sipping a gin, which according to
Pepe Rodríguez
, is what they use to clean the kitchens when they finish cooking; some lost, others found, the first quarrels typical of coexistence are brought to light, but without the blood reaching the river - it will come in the outdoor test - and the tasting arrives.
To tell the truth, the tasting of the first test last night, although it was overshadowed by
David
's atrocities and his theories, revealed something that viewers have also complained about: the low standards in the kitchens. Of all the dishes that were presented, only two,
Pilar's
and
Gonzalo
's , were saved; the rest, for the most part and in the words of the judges, left much to be desired. And under the mystery box, among so many black products, there was everything: pasta, mussels, eggplant, grouper, squid ink, lentils, caviar...
The fact is that the time for the tasting arrived and it was David
's turn
. One thing is certain,
David
only speaks when asked, but when asked... Oh, mother! And
Jordi Cruz
asked him . After trying his pasta dish "lubricated" with oil and listening to Santiago Segura himself lament when he had to say that "the dish is bad, really bad", it was
Jordi Cruz
who opened Pandora's box: "Santiago, You who are a man of culture, do you think the Earth is round or that it is missing or that it is missing a little?" "I think it's flattened at the poles," the director replied, laughing. "David is a flat earther,"
Pepe Rodríguez
confirmed to the guest.
"I don't think it's round. I don't know exactly what it is like. There are many theories and the alternative ways that I have been able to hear fit me more than
what the science that they have sold us up to now defends
." Boom! If this is what they were looking for, they found it. "But, then, the images of space, you don't trust that, right?"
Santiago Segura
asked him . And at what time. "I see it's TGI, honestly." One after the other. Obviously, the judges asked him what that TGI thing was and, obviously,
David
answered: "It's an edited computer image." One after the other. "I will tell you that there are photos of the Earth and because of the water, due to the effect of gravity it looks completely spherical," replied
Jordi Cruz
giving the lesson of the day, while that melody of "once upon a time there was a planet" played in the background. sad and dark..."
And
Pepe Rodríguez
, who was planted last night, couldn't help but blurt out "the spaghetti is taking effect on you." Let's see, without humor no one will swallow this. "There are so many things that I question... because I don't believe practically anything that appears in the news. I inform myself with the media that I consider appropriate for the level that I find of awakening of conscience, that I called". One after the other and the end, but the poisoned candy had already been left on the table. A little candy that
MasterChef
knows perfectly well will cause what it did, that viewers through social networks would ask for David's immediate expulsion for many reasons and all of them more than obvious: because "what people needed was to hear buffoonery." ", because "oxygen does not reach the brain", because "they have crowned themselves", because "now flat earthers are also given a voice".
Samya and "the market posh" from MasterChef 12
This is partly good because it means that even if
David
spouts his conspiracy theories, viewers know where the limit of good and the limit of evil is. The story is if anything goes for a show. And it is clear that the intention of
MasterChef
is not for David's theories to resonate with viewers because that is what the judges are for, to ridicule him as they did last night making it clear that what the former legionnaire thinks is absurd, but because it is to give voice to What we try to do is not have it because that is what science is for. It was normal for the spectators to get angry and ask for expulsion. It was expected, also by
MasterChef
.
Because then it is true that
if you don't ask
David
he won't say anything. He is not in front of the cameras all the time saying that the earth is flat, that science deceives us and that he looks for sources of information that awaken his conscience. However, it is obvious that if you put
a flat earther in
MasterChef
you are going to look for the flat earther to play. And here is the danger.
After 12 editions,
Masterchef
has to search and find what attracts, what draws attention, what produces an emotion, good, bad or semi-pensionary, and that is the reason for choosing David
for
Masterchef
12
: to provoke a reaction. It is the same as that caused by many of his colleagues in this edition. Let's see if we think that everything falls on David. There's
Samya
, who also gets it, or
Tamara
, who made a mess with
Maicol
because, according to her, he had occupied her space and had pushed him. Because in last night's outdoor test, the second of this edition, the little legs have already begun to be seen under the door. That is, the alliances, the bad vibes, who gets along well, who gets along badly...
In the middle, again
Celeste
, whom the captains, Gonzalo and
Pilar
, chose last to be part of their team, and, of course,
Samya
, who as she says is "flower power" until she gets her nose in it. . "Flea market posh,"
María
called her after
Samya
pointed her out as one of the "fakes" in this edition, along with
Alberto
. Samya
loves it and MasterChef
loves
it
.
The red team, captained by
Pilar
, and with four black aprons after the disastrous first test -
Celeste
,
Samya
,
David
and
Choco
- were the losers after Jordi Cruz had to intervene to correct the cooking errors. The blue team, captained by
Gonzalo
, for whom no one gave a damn, worked perfectly, with a rare good vibe on
MasterChef
. Be careful with
Gonzalo
who points out ways. So
Adriana
,
Celeste
,
Tamara
,
Maicol
,
Choco
and
David
had to risk it in the elimination test after
Pilar
saved herself.
The test was to catch: the applicants had to replicate a dish with which Jordi Cruz won a cooking contest 21 years ago in which
Pepe Rodríguez
happened to be a judge: a dish of gnocchi as cod loins, with teardrop peas with black truffle and a flavored oil. And here it got messy again because the viewers have already found their really bad guy from
MasterChef 12
:
Samya
. Her cooking level is undoubtedly the lowest, but the candidate is pure entertainment and show. Come on, she is on the path of staying until there is no need to entertain anymore. The problem is that while some stay for whatever reasons, others leave better. This is what happened last night with the
expulsion
of
Adriana
, hard-working, good teammate... but as
Jordi Cruz
always says , a mistake puts you on the street. A mistake or whatever.