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Orson Welles said that falsehood is as old as the tree of Eden , and how right he was. If MasterChef 8 is proving anything, it's that neither the good guys are that good nor the bad guys that bad. This edition is not out of controversy - and hey how entertaining we are! -. However, when in a culinary talent the talent is in the shadow of other tasks is that something is happening. Last night, again, the applicants (not all) of this edition of MasterChef did not put on the table their culinary capabilities but the dark side of this edition, the bad slime that is spent, the bad vibe that is between them, the lack of camaraderie and crawling strategies that no matter how much they are being played begin to be more than incomprehensible.

And it is not that I take it out of my sleeve, it is that even the judges themselves are aware that something does not work in this edition with the applicants. They do not know how to work as a team because the objective of the majority is to fuck with the one next to them. Each one follows his tactic. There are those who do not hide their desire to win and tread next door ( Andy says ); there are those who hide behind a smile, but in reality they put it bent ( José María says) ; there are those who face it and do not mind showing themselves as they are with their defects and their virtues (says Iván ); And then there are those who hide under the skin of a lamb, but who are actually part of that dark side that is so characteristic of MasterChef 8 (it is said, the sweet Juana ).

It happened again last night. Again, it was the night of the sharp knives, the night of he stabbed you in the back, the night of here we are not friends, the night of the crawling strategies, the night of throwing as much shit as possible on the enemy. Because if there is something that characterizes this edition of MasterChef it is that there are few friends, if not none. How do the judges intend to work as a team when the majority objective is to crush the one next to or the one in front or the one behind you? It is impossible. And it is not only because the team tests do not finish curdling is that the bad roll installed in MasterChef 8 is a constant that makes it very difficult for us to see a real evolution in kitchens.

That is why Jordi Cruz , Pepe Rodríguez and Samantha Vallejo-Nágera wanted to try to smooth things out and learn to work as a team by proposing an unprecedented test in MasterChef Spain in which the applicants would have to replicate a sea bass in puff pastry with Chorón sauce, proposal of the famous French chef, Paul Bocuse, promoter of nouvelle cuisine. The two Michelin star chef Luis Valls Rozalén , from the El Poblet restaurant, was in charge of showing the dish that the applicants would have to replicate. But not everything was going to be as simple as it seemed.

Juana, a she-wolf in lambskin

Juana , the adorable Juana (Ha ha ha! Sorry I was laughing). which was the best in last week's elimination test, had two advantages. The first, the configuration of the couples, in which she undoubtedly came out on top when she was chosen by the guest of the first test, Yolanda Ramos, who returned to the kitchens of MasterChef after her fun and crazy time with Celebrity , to put on your jacket again and get to work. A Yolanda Ramos him to get back in the kitchen did not make him an iota of grace, but at the same he did in his Celebrity , Yolanda Ramos threw in a good mood and returned joy to some kitchens where there is bad baba and evil rollito .

Juana's other advantage was that Pepe Rodríguez gave her instructions on how to prepare the sea bass. Instructions that the other applicants could not hear, but that Juana with them could do what she considered. That is to say, he could shut up and not open his mouth and let his companions cope as best they could, he could give clues or he could directly sing the whole cooking and thus lend a hand to all of them. And Juana, another of the contestants of the controversy after discovering that she is the caretaker of the house of the sister of the director of the producer of MasterChef ; and Juana , the sweet granny who had the entire audience in love; and Juana, the mother and grandmother of all the contestants; and Juana , the woman who dedicates all her dishes to the MasterChef team and the judges (everything is explained now); and Juana , who seems to have never broken a set ... She took off her mask last night and revealed the wolf that was really hiding behind the Red Riding Hood granny costume .

Already last week with Michael he showed the little leg and a little the ears, but last night he already showed that dark side that even the best looking ones have under their masks. Juana decided not to say a word of the recipe. She was silent throughout the cooking and only, from time to time, when Pepe Rodríguez pointed out how smart she was being, she said, "I don't remember anything." And it really seemed that she didn't remember anything because not even her cooking partner, Yolanda Ramos , gave her a single instruction on what to do. Juana made herself practically the entire dish so as not to have to reveal anything, since Yolanda Ramos , who certainly does not have that evil, made the decision to go screaming at the four winds every step that Juana did in the kitchen. Until seeing that Juana was a grave, and did not drop a garment and did not tell her absolutely, she decided to keep quiet and leave the rest in panties.

Pitorreo at the expense of sea bass

The result? Well, you can imagine it. Only Juana and the team made up of Iván and Sonsoles managed to get the replica off the plate. The rest became the pitorreo on Thursdays and on social networks in a new Lion eating prawns and a new Bird with feathers a la Saray . Yes, the result was worthy of all the memes that flooded the social networks last night and of the judges' messing around that I think are already spouting for not crying.

Luna and Ana's sea ​​bass , for example, was like a malformed monster, while Sara Lúa and José María's was worth exhibiting in the museum of horrors. Neither was able to replicate a dish that, although it sounded difficult, in reality was not one of the worst that had to be faced in MasterChef . But it is that the level is what it is. Of kitchen, little; of show, a lot.

Juana took off her costume and let out the wolf that most of the applicants have inside. And I am not saying that what Juana did was not lawful because she was given the option to remain silent or to give instructions. She chose to remain silent, but what would have happened if instead of Juana it was Andy or José María or Iván who had that option? They would have eaten them with potatoes. And I am not just talking about the comrades who did describe the wolf in the guise of a granny as a true "strategist", I am talking about the assessment that the judges would have made in the event that someone else had the option to remain silent.

I play a hand that if it is, for example, Andy who has that advantage and presents a plate like Juana's , they put him back and a half. But with Juana those things do not happen, Juana does everything phenomenal, Juana is a love, Juana is wonderful. And I begin to think that everything responds to a strategy, to the strategy of selling ourselves to Juana as the sweet and affectionate granny who cooks like yesteryear and from which everyone has to learn, but that in reality is one more hook to keep us ojipláticos in front of the screen. Could it be that the thing about Juana last night was all set up? Could it be that Juana was told not to open her mouth? Or is it that Juana really is the Emperor of MasterChef Wars?

The battle Jordi Cruz vs Pepe Rodríguez

It costs me a lot to think that someone can play a role for so many weeks and suddenly take off the mask and take out a side so different from the one that has been showing so many days. Hey, maybe I am very innocent, but it gives me that there is more than meets the eye. The fact is that Juana is no longer as good as she seemed and from the sweet grandmother of the first programs, she has become the black hand of MasterChef 8 .

A black hand that never makes mistakes and makes everything so great is always rewarded, but it is just, so that it does not have too much responsibility but the opportune one to screw up what is necessary for the show to continue. So, chosen the best of the first test, in the outdoor test it would also have a new advantage, it could give one of the teams one more member. Luna and Ana, having been chosen the worst in the previous test, would be the captains, but with the option of being able to be replaced at any time, either by members of their own team, or by Jordi Cruz and Pepe Rodríguez , which last night took their rivalry to a further point. Applicants would have to prepare a traditional menu made by Pepe Rodríguez or an avant-garde menu, made by Jordi Cruz . The first for 50 diners and the second for 15. All this in La Rioja.

Pepe's menu, which would be prepared by Luna's team, to which Juana gave one more member, consisted of Rioja-style potatoes, cutlets with sautéed grilled vegetables and French toast. Ana's team, made up of Andy, Alberto, Sara Lúa and Sonsoles , would prepare the modern interpretation of this menu: Tupinambo a la Rioja, lamb ribs 2.0 and French toast by parts. It was not the night of Jordi Cruz . Not only because he ended up putting on his jacket and going into kitchens to lend a hand to the disaster they were preparing, but also because his avant-garde menu did not fit well with diners who preferred tradition and a Pepe Rodríguez who was prodding them until almost blood will remain.

And that in the blue team Luna lasted as captain as a candy at the door of a school. The "loca del toto", as she describes herself, was carried away by that uncontrollable momentum so characteristic of her. That Pepe Rodríguez tells him not to put green pepper in La Rioja potatoes, Luna does what she likes and throws the pepper causing Iván to inflate the flats and request that the captain's apron be removed, supported by a Teresa who, as she was more anxious to mutiny and command than her cooking, almost presented some French toast that not even the soles of her shoes. The red team that saw them and wanted them to carry out the Jordi Cruz dishes were saved by the bell and by the chef who practically made them the elaborations of all the dishes. And although Pepe Rodríguez's team had some other failure, it was finally the one that took the cake.

Sonsoles' lesson after being expelled

But even so, even if there were not too many fussings, even though it was not an absolute disaster, the applicants managed to make the evil established in MasterChef 8 come out again in the judges' evaluation . They want to play castanets because it is very difficult for me to understand that you are being valued for your work and your only defense is to attack the other team because they decided to dismiss Luna. I 'm talking about Andy , another one who gives me that his role is not to cook, but to lay mines so that the show doesn't lose steam. I don't know what planet it comes from, but it's not from Earth. Really, it's hard for me to think that someone could be like that. He has an open war with Iván , also, increasingly bloody, and with José María , and until one of the three does not end up going out the door, he gives me what will be our daily bread. And I don't want you to count next week with the play-off and the return of Saray . That can be a full-blown massacre.

For the slaughter of the elimination test, in which it became clear that the level of this edition is more than low. Since there is no evolution in the applicants - how will there be evolution if they are more aware of stepping on the next door than their own! - Masterchef 8 prepared a test in which the applicants would have to use the different techniques culinary. The quarrels between the contestants made an appearance again. Luna reproached Ivan for his attitude in the outdoor test by dismissing her and blamed him for "the huge ego" he has. Ivan, who is the only one who seems to be facing him at all costs, did not hesitate to admit that if he had to do it again he would. Bronca, again. And that they were playing staying or leaving. It does not matter if this is no longer in the kitchen.

Nobody chose Luna to cook with her, so Luna would directly risk the expulsion in a second cook. Of course, they left it up to them to distribute the techniques that the couples would have to use and train, in a new attempt for them to work as a team. If no matter how hard they try, it has no solution. Luna , who is heavy to the point of saying enough and knocks Holy Job himself out of his boxes, is one of the few that I think really is as shown. No folds, no shadows. You may like her better or worse, but she is a real madwoman. If he wants to bitch he says it and he does it, and if he really doesn't even know what he does, he also says it.

Of that first test, Sonsoles and Teresa (another such dance) were the worst. According to Teresa's version, she wanted Sonsoles to have the singing voice of the cook (a free dish in 45 minutes using four techniques assigned by Luna) because the judges had told the pharmacist that she did not get her character or prevail. And a milk! Teresa let Sonsoles carry the preparation of the dish on her back because Teresa was the one who mistakenly chose some carabinieri to marinate, press and I don't know what other techniques. It was impossible that with the techniques Luna had assigned them and the ingredients chosen by Teresa, something minimally edible would come out. It is much easier to throw balls than to assume that he did not feel like leading the kitchen because he did not even know where to shoot.

Teresa , Sonsoles and Luna played it in a last cook, where techniques were once again the protagonists (smoking, gelling, marinating or gasifying) and where Sonsole s was overcome by her nerves and by her low level in the kitchen. She was so nervous that she almost didn't send Jordi to fry asparagus. A "chaotic" and "dish with many flaws". Neither did it right, but at least Luna's plate was edible. Between Teresa and Sonsoles , the jury saved Teresa and Sonsoles said goodbye to the MasterChef kitchens giving a lesson that will never be forgotten in the culinary talent . The lesson of those who have no limits and do not let them set them. "The only thing left for me is to thank the 3 of you, my colleagues, and all those who see us from home, to tell them that there are no limits, that you come forward, and that what you set out to achieve," Amen.

Sonsoles was on the side of the luminous force. There are few of that side and many of the dark side, and it gives me that there is still a need for someone to remove their costume even more. And the play-off arrives, with Saray , who continues to heat the environment, I do not know very well if in search of a reality that adapts more to what she is looking for, or is that she is directly sworn to MasterChef 8 . Whatever, but what a show there is for a while.

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