MasterChef 8 and the monumental (and fair) row that came too late

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Eleven programs, 11, which are said to have soon had to pass, for the judges of MasterChef 8 to have taken their stand on the sick rivalry of the applicants of this edition. And I say sickly because for 11 weeks it has been seen as the desire to win, to be the rooster of the corral, to step on the one who shadowed you have been setting the pace and evolution of the entire edition. If there were errors in the tests, especially in the outdoor ones, the cause was always the same: the cockfight. Roosters, which as the judges described last night, are each of their father and mother - the submissive ( Andy ), the cordial ( Iván ), the crazy ( José María ) - but who have directed and orchestrated all Masterchef 8. Sometimes with grace, but most of the time causing not only uncomfortable or embarrassing situations but situations that have been very expensive for culinary talent.

We have lived from shameful and humiliating boycotts, through unjust and undeserved eliminations, to the moral destruction of colleagues. Rivalry is not bad, cockiness is. Especially when what is at stake is much more than passing a test or making a good dish. And I speak, how could it be otherwise, of Iván , Andy and the worst of all failures, José María .

All of them are already MasterChef 8 semifinalists , but if the expulsions were not based only on an elimination test, some of them would have been watching the program from home for a long time. Last night Juana was expelled from MasterChef 8 , the grandmother of this edition, "the grandmother of MasterChef ", as Jordi Cruz called her , hung the apron causing the tears of her colleagues and the joy of social networks, which they had been waiting for a long time that this she-wolf with grandmother's skin said goodbye. It was a more than just expulsion after a disastrous elimination test, but Juana, for all the sweetness she conveyed, for all the affection her peers had for her long ago that she should have said goodbye to the program.

Juana and the blatant favoritism

In all the editions there is a winning horse, one or two applicants who see the language that are the meat of the end, Juana was not a winning horse, but she has been the contestant for whom more favoritism has been seen for a long time in MasterChef . I've never been through an elimination test, call it luck, call it planet alignment, or call it interests that go beyond the kitchen. But Juana had always been spared, until last night in a new move by the "wild and sometimes even aggressive rooster", José María is said to have returned to throwing strategy and took Juana (collateral damage from her war to control the chicken coop) to the elimination test.

Juana's first elimination test and goodbye. I only think of all the applicants who have left and could have been there, while Juana has endured because she was the tender character that must be in each edition. I admit that a tear escaped me, but not because of his departure but because Juana contributed more to her colleagues than she could give in the kitchens. And in the end, let's not forget, MasterChef is a cooking talent , not a story by the Grimm brothers.

And the worst thing is that she had been singing for many weeks that Juana was not going to reach either the final or the semifinal, which she has endured because she provided an element that MasterChef has made necessary for her kitchens. Like salt or sugar, the role of Juana is already essential or they want it to be essential and, in the end, a large part of the audience, who started worshiping her, ended up hating her.

Because if José María is the rooster, Juana was the hand that rocked the cradle. An expert in the art of transformation, a chameleon with a spectacular ability to give to those who believed they should give without being too noticeable, and to flatter and rant those who believed to bring their corral. Regardless of whether she entered MasterChef 8 for being the goalkeeper of X, Y or Z, the mistake was not Juana's , the mistake was to take a role over the essence of talent, of the kitchen. Yes, Juana was the sweet touch that any edition needs, but her chewing gum has been stretched so much that, having been the fairy in the story, she became the witch who delivered the poisoned apple.

It cannot be denied that the woman has a hand with the kitchen, also a hand with the kitchen that Pepe Rodríguez likes, the usual kitchen, that of our mothers and grandmothers. And, perhaps, that at first works and serves as an excuse, but, as the programs go by, as it is seen that there is zero or no evolution, and for many efforts that Juana made to arrive, the reality is that Juana It will go as far as it has gone, it responds to something that goes far beyond cooking well, evolving or demonstrating what has been learned. And if in this edition the fallen had fallen because they did not really give for more, then nothing happens. We would have enjoyed her role in the play, her attitude as a meticulous grandmother and what in the end I think there is to stay with Juana , who is no more and no less, than the strength, desire and effort of a woman of 74 years old who knew how to look face to face at a program that is not even easy for the youngest, so imagine for someone like Juana .

The same Juana did not evolve in the kitchens, nor did her kitchen evolve, but Juana has been the sign that if you want you can, that if you want there is no obstacle that is put ahead. Yes, with a lot of help, with a lot of favor, with a lot of care, but Juana could have thrown in the towel and never threw it away. And, for many witch she had hidden inside, Juana has been a great example not only for people her age but for everyone. I honestly think that is the reason why there is always a grandfather in every edition. The problem is that in MasterChef 8 , Juana was much more than a grandmother.

A semifinal more than expected

Without Juana there are already the semifinalists who for weeks, even before the confinement, have been singing that they were going to be: Ana, Luna, Alberto, Iván, Andy and José María . It is not only that they have shown what the judges appeal so much, the evolution, it is that they have been the sauce and the game of all MasterChef 8 . What would have been of MasterChef 8 without the submissive rooster that turns away from the others and waits for everyone to finish eating to eat the one of the remains they leave? What would have been of MasterChef 8 without the cordial, but lethal rooster, whose competitiveness has brought the rest of the roosters of the corral down the street of bitterness? What would have been of MasterChef 8 without the mad and evil rooster boycotting himself in order to destroy the rest of the competitors? What would have been of MasterChef 8 without Luna's crazy and her insistence to end up falling in love with Alberto and have the folder of the edition? There are those who from the beginning were identified as the protagonists of this edition, such as those who have managed to combine show and learning, show and cuisine, reality and evolution.

In the first test last night and after several tests showing that they have enough deficiencies to give a good service, MasterChef 8 took out a new test in which the judges, accompanied by Florentino Fernández , sat in an improvised room to see a movie while the applicants would have to prepare the dishes that they were asking for. A kind of delivery to walk around the house. The test served to confirm that indeed under pressure very few work well. Luna , who should have been given lime for several programs already, was carried away by his irremediable nervousness, which accompanies him from program 0, and erred in all the dishes he prepared.

The same happened to Andy , while Juana and Iván saved the ballot, and José María and Ana knew how to focus, take out the dishes and on top of that make the judges die by eating more than they had prepared. It was time for Ana to get her act together, it was time for one of the contestants, if not the most focused contestant, to be valued as she deserved. I begin to glimpse a final in which Ana can not miss. And then José María , that if the rooster was already more than raised with his unbearable immunity pin, he only needed to win another test and end up being captain.

Just as last week José María used all possible tricks to boycott Michael's captaincy and kick him out on the street, in last night's outdoor test I think that more than trying to eliminate his strongest rivals, Andy and Iván , José María wanted to spare. It is what happens when they give you an immunity pin and allow you to use it when you feel like it, that whoever had monster aspirations, ends up becoming a monster. I don't think he tried to boycott himself last night, but he did bid for Andy and Iván, especially Iván, because he saw the possibility that his team went to the elimination test, he used his pin and thus placed Ivan on a tightrope. And that rivalry, that strategy above all and everyone is what made the judges no longer able to finish and ended up giving them a well-deserved rapapolvo that should have come a long time ago.

Lorenzo Caprile, shouting 'pelao'

The outdoor test last night was not an outdoor test like the others. The outdoor test last night was a tribute to all the Red Cross volunteers and the titanic work they have done and continue to do since the coronavirus crisis broke out . The applicants' job was to prepare 150 menus that would be distributed among 150 of the thousands of people to whom the Red Cross gives food every day. No, it was not nonsense, nor was it the time or place to take out her unbearable suckers. Ana and José María were chosen as captains of the test, but to choose the applicants who would cook in their team they would have to bid for them. Each contestant had a starting price, which translated into cooking time, and Ana and José María would have to bid more or less to get the applicant they wanted.

Ana quickly saw the feather duster. She wanted her friends - Alberto , Luna , Juana and Iván - on her team, and José María caught Ana's cravings quickly and played at losing as much time as possible so as not to cook with those who did not want to cook. At no time did either of them think about what was really important, and that the judges and Lorenzo Caprile , a Red Cross volunteer during this whole crisis, repeated it to the end: they had to feed those 150 people and had have to do it right. But the rivalry, the competitiveness, the desire to win clouded everything and relegated to last place what should have been a priority for them. Ana lost 55 minutes of cooking for Alberto and Luna , while José María lost 60 minutes for Juana , Iván and Andy . Yes, José María , Iván and Andy in the same team. It could have been like a nuclear bomb, but it is true that the three knew how to keep the shapes and adapt in the best possible way to the peculiarities, let's leave it there, of each of them.

The problem was that José María lost too much time to burst Ana and Ana to cook with their friends , time that almost led them not to be able to finish the dishes that MasterChef winner Carlos Maldonado had prepared for the occasion. Ana knew how to lead the captaincy backed by an Alberto who was 10 and by a Moon , who reached the semifinal, as she herself recognized, thanks to Luna's good work and Alberto's patience who knew how to redirect her. However, in José María's team, the crazy rooster chose to delegate and leave Iván in the hands of a captaincy that obviously surpassed him. As Pepe Rodríguez told him , how the tables turn. Last week it was José María who tripped Michael and this week he was the one who had to trust that his colleagues did not do the same. His teammates did not do it and worked like boars, but the shortage of time, the errors in the quantities, the failures in the preparations on the point were to blow up the blue team.

So much so that even the judges started to iron the jacket, seeing that the cooking was not going to finish on time. They did it, but because of Lorenzo Caprile's hair and screaming that, as Jordi Cruz said , while he was in the kitchen, Jordi would save most of his honking. He put the batteries in them and made it very clear that the important thing here was not the "mustard" but that people ate "because it may be that the food given to them today is the only one they eat throughout the week." You can say higher, but not clearer.

They reluctantly pulled out the outdoor test, but the judges were not happy. The rivalry and the cockiness that have been present for so many weeks in MasterChef were about to load a test of exteriors more than important. Jordi Cruz could not keep silent and finally he gave them a well-deserved row that should have come a long time ago. The Catalan chef told him very clearly: "I confess that when we prepare this test we imagine some kitchens full of passion with motivated applicants taking their best version and the truth is that it has not been so. Both teams have gone to the limit, so much so that Carlos asked us to iron the jackets because you did not arrive. And do you know where your mistake has been? At the auction. It is good to compete and enjoy the game, but always with your head. You have wasted minutes that were golden. I think you have sinned both of them reckless endangering the most important thing , that there are people without recourse who remain today without eating. Do you understand the seriousness of what I am saying? " And both answered yes, but it is not really true. It is not true because half a minute later the tiresome cockfights returned to take center stage.

José María uses his immunity pin (finally)

Yes, that's right, while Jordi Cruz made things clear to José María , Iván and Andy only worried if José María had boycotted himself to take the others to the elimination and keep a rooster or less or if in In reality José María had become better than bread and from strategies to nothing. Wait for me to fall to the ground and play dead. Well, the blue team to the elimination test, José María to make use of his immunity pin (finally) when he was unable to prepare the complicated dessert of Valentina Lorieto. At least the strawberry and rose mousse proposed by the pastry chef at the Sant Pau de Carme Ruscalleda restaurant served to see José María's tender side .

As in stories, the wolf is not as fierce as they paint it and everyone ends up having his little heart, although José María's is very well kept. He decided not to do the test and go up to the balcony and there Juana , Iván and Andy stayed . The elimination was sung by much emotion that the program wanted to put on it. The dessert was a dessert with so many elaborations that Juana was practically unable to get any of them. A dessert that cost Ana and Luna a black apron for warning Andy of the mistakes he was making. A dessert that the granny ate from the story.

Once upon a time there was a sweet granny who lived in the realm of MasterChef 8 . Under her angelic face , Juana , who was called that, hid an evil witch who distributed poisoned apples left and right as she moved the strings of her puppets to dance to her tune. One day the desire to beat a fighting cock named José María placed her on the precipice. It ended up falling and now it is the roosters that are vying for the throne that granny leaves in the kingdom. And colorín, colorado, this story is not over yet .

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