MasterChef 10 lives its most brutal and ruthless semifinal

• MomenTVs MasterChef 10 puts David on the ropes

• TV Jokin, the most "epic" and painful expulsion ever experienced in MasterChef

María Lo

became the first

finalist .

It was more than sung from the first program of this edition of

.

,

and

followed after a tremendous elimination test

.

While

, after starring in one of the worst semifinals in memory of

was the most deservedly expelled.

In fact,

could have been expelled directly before even finishing the team event.

If they had, they would have been spared one of the most brutal, challenging and ferocious moments in

.

Few times has

been seen to go through the confrontation that he had to go through;

Rarely has a contestant been seen to face the way he faced the judge;

Rarely has the frustration generated by a poorly cooked

been about to end like last night.

's fuse

had already lit last week in an outdoor test in which the pressure of

led him to almost cross the limit.

So,

knew how to take him, how to calm him down, how to get away so that things didn't get out of hand.

However, and as surprising as it may seem,

found himself with the same demon that

had brought out last week, but

did not want to have the same patience or the same left hand that

had .

In

opportunities happen once, the next it's over.

It is true that

and

's terrible cooking

at the

de

z restaurant in Madrid, but the excuse of "you are going to get the devil out of me" can work once, the Next, the devil has to know how to control himself because, like in any job and more so in a kitchen, the tension, pressure and anguish will be experienced not once, but many times, and you cannot always be on the verge of crossing the limit.

It cannot be denied that the cooking

experienced with

last night was one of the worst in memory in terms of camaraderie and teamwork.

I think that Patricia had gotten as far as she wanted to go, that she didn't see herself up to being in the

final and that she gave up the

semi-final before she even started.

That led him to both the first test, in which the applicants had to replicate a

dish , and the outdoor test, in which they had to prepare a menu designed by

for 30 of the best chefs Madrid, both in the

, in which an impossible chocolate dessert was going to be her headache,

sank within 10 minutes of starting each of the tests.

said

at the end of the elimination test that she felt ashamed of having prepared what she presented for the judges, for the program and for the companions who had left while she had come here to present the milestone she presented.

And, look at her, reason is not lacking.

As much as

's level was not that of

,

,

or

,

did not fight at any time in the semifinal of

, nor did she fight at any time to try to go to the final.

And the worst, in her internal defeat she almost dragged

and whoever had stuck to her.

I don't know if another semifinalist would have done better than

, but I doubt very much that she would have had the unfortunate attitude that the applicant had and I very much doubt that in her frustration and her defeat she would have led a colleague to completely lose her temper and, which is more worrying, that he was about to star in a more than verbal confrontation than a judge.

Well, that is what happened with

in the semifinal of

and that is what was about to happen between

and

.

's bouts of frustration and anxiety are

's responsibility

was about to go last night

in the semifinal of

, you have to put yourself in his place and you have to stand next to an

unbearable

And that the semifinal began as a

semifinal had never begun .

The judges, appearing on plasma, dedicated some exciting words to the four semifinalists -

,

,

,

and

- who had never been seen on

until last night .

Words of encouragement, of impulse to live the final stretch of culinary talent, in which

, and in particular

, gave in to

, to whom they ended up apologizing for the treatment they have given him during the 12

.

apologized for having described him as arrogant and not having understood that in reality what they understood as "arrogance" was "an armor" with which

tried to protect herself.

David and Pepe Rodríguez, to the limit in MasterChef 10

test after test

on the target.

Some, for seeing her as her favorite, and others, the

judges , for believing that before them was an applicant who believed herself to be the last Coca Cola in the desert.

12 programs have had to happen for them to realize that what they called "arrogance" and what they treated as "arrogance" was something quite different.

I think that rarely has

been seen to subject a contestant to so much pressure, so much criticism, so much demand.

Last night, while watching

about to completely lose his temper with

I thought, what if the pressure and constant criticism Veronica had been subjected to had been experienced by

?

Well, that the papers had been lost many programs ago, and today we would not speak of an almost but of a was.

That

went over to

, that he said some things that bordered on insulting, that he blamed him for what he was not responsible for, that he charged him with all the frustration and discomfort due to an unfortunate cook... Yes, of course he did But what have they been doing with Veronica all of

?

in which

only needed to put her on the wall and shoot.

Or is it that we forget the dozens of evaluations criticizing his perfectionism, his arrogance, his vanity... This, program after program, test after test, assessment after assessment, and in not a single

It has gone beyond crying.

Of course she has cried a lot, a lot, seas, and of course

, like

or

, are not going to win -the winner is written from program 1 of

, but there are other types of victories that for others are losses.

And for

, having endured everything she has endured in

is already a victory, which cannot be transferred to

by a long shot.

MasterChef 10

and the judges sang the mea culpa with

, but the joy in the poor man's house did not last long.

The outdoor test came and again

was placed in the center of the target.

cost me a lot, a lot

.

I understood that the evaluation was individual, that

was justly deserving of going to the final due to her great captainship and the perfect cleaning and cutting of the hake, but I did not understand very well why

and

, the other two members of his team, they were left out of the pass to the final of

and they also had to play it in the elimination test.

Yes,

failed to clean 4 anchovies, but as soon as

told him to clean them by hand and to stop using knives, he did it.

And yes, for

, the jelly-covered sandwich pralines with anchovies weren't as perfect as those of chef

, and, once again, she repeated the chef's instructions with a simple "it's because of the temperature", which again he brought out the

ogre

against her.

and

's disaster

?

No kidding.

's

, more than

's , was terrifying.

She was in charge of dessert.

She was unable to get the multiplications of the ingredients, unable to think that she had, that they never have, that they tell

, paper and a pen to be able to do the multiplications calmly.

He was incapable of egg whites, incapable of controlling an oven, incapable of making ice cream, incapable of making a cake.

Up to five times he repeated the cake and never came out.

She bluntly said, let

take charge and I execute, but when first-course man

collapsed, she decided to call it quits and put David on the ropes.

María Lo, the winner of MasterChef 10 before the final

I swear there was a moment last night during the test that I opened the calculator on my phone and started doing the multiplications because I couldn't believe that

could n't multiply 16 X 8. It's true that the one who got all the calculations wrong was

, but it is that it was not up to

to be making his dish, to be controlling

's dessert in the

of

which, moreover, was going to be an individual assessment, and at the same time to be calculating all the multiplications that

was asking of him .

At first he resisted the pull, but as soon as

Patricia

's attitude

, totally unwilling, lost, like a headless chicken, and that none of the elaborations that he prepared came out,

was little by little filling the mouth of the volcano with lava, until the volcano exploded.

When

arrived to lend them a hand with the dessert plating and saw that there was no cake, that there was no chocolate cream, that the ice cream was plasticine, that there was nothing to serve the diners, and he saw

's frustration and lack of control

,

took the other path he had followed a week ago with

.

brought out the heaviest side of him and charged against

, criticizing him very harshly, making visible the errors made in the calculations and directing some other words that were not necessary either, like that "you don't know how to do some simple multiplications, but you don't know how to read either".

Nor did I reproach David for drinking water when he finished cooking because "as he had worked so hard."

I think

also lost his temper.

He overdid it and, furthermore, he did it with the wrong person, but

's attitude was not correct either.

How many times have the judges repeated that cooking is not just standing in front of some fires and taking out a plate, that cooking is also attitude, behaviour, you know how to withstand pressure, how to manage it?

Well ,

doesn't know how to manage it, he didn't know how to manage it last night when he confronted

asking for respect and telling him not to continue, that he was going to get the devil out of him, to be quiet and still.

No, that behavior cannot be justified no matter how badly

did it in some kitchens, just as it cannot be justified, nor is it consented to, in any job.

David

shouldn't have taken

's clubs , much less such strong clubs.

Those sticks had a name and it was

, but

got rid of it by putting on her face like a slaughtered lamb, talking about shame, apologizing and here peace and then glory because poor thing, it was thought that she was not up to the

.

Well look, no.

She was the one who had to take the shouting, the bad manners and the anger from

.

And not only because of the team event, but because of the first test and the

where he did it again, unable and with no intention of taking out the complicated chocolate dessert they had to face.

He collapsed again, giving everything for lost and throwing in the towel and presented the same thing that he had been presenting in the two previous tests, nothing.

Expulsion more than clear, but the damage was already done,

had been the bad guy again.

And do you know what I think?

That in the final of

week, although more than sung -

is the clear winner - it may serve for

to recover from these last two programs and demonstrate that just as he has evolved in the kitchen, has also managed to control that demon.

Will it be the finalist who accompanies

in the final duel of

?

Or will it be

?

Or, perhaps,

surprises .

Where there will be no surprises, she will be the winner of

, why not?

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