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The presence of Luca Dazi in MasterChef 11 is becoming a real headache for the program. For weeks, viewers have been clamoring program after program against the permanence of the tiktoker. "Favoritism", "tongo", complaints to the audience defender of RTVE... And, last night, the punchline: traps. I doubt anyone didn't notice what happened in the first MasterChef test last night with Luca, the celeriac and his basket. Has MasterChef been able to secretly deliver an ingredient to Luca so he could cook? The punchline.

Let's go in parts because what was seen in last night's MasterChef 11 program is worthy of Hercule Poirot. MasterChef arrived last night one of the most mythical tests of the program: the robberies. Each contestant has a basket with a series of ingredients that the program marks a photo of each of them. Aspirants go one by one and are given the option to steal up to 10 ingredients from the basket or baskets they want. It is one of the tests that raise more dust among the contestants, because bad rolls and revenge always come to the fore. In fact, Jotha suffered last night the revenge of his companions, especially Eneko.

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Clamor against the "plug" of MasterChef 11, clamor against Luca, clamor against the "tongo"

  • Writing: ESTHER MUCIENTES Madrid

Clamor against the "plug" of MasterChef 11, clamor against Luca, clamor against the "tongo"

When a few weeks ago, Jotha bit the apple of sin and sent all his teammates except him to the elimination test, Alex and Eneko swore revenge, but until last night they did not have the opportunity. Between the two they left Jotha without a single ingredient in her basket. It is not the first time that a contestant is left with nothing in the basket in a theft test and on other occasions it has been solved by delivering a box of basics to the applicant who had nothing. That's what has happened other times, last night, MasterChef turned the tradition of the test on its head and no basic basket or anything: Jotha to the gallery and with a black apron, straight to the elimination test.

Jotha really wanted her teammates, but it seems that so did the program. The aspirant who does not shut up at all has touched the noses not only of the rest of the aspirants but also of the judges. Revenge is served on a cold plate and revenge came. And if what happened with Luca's basket had not happened, probably, last night and today all the followers of the program would be talking about the injustice with Jotha and how MasterChef sought to take him to a complicated elimination test. But no, Jotha's is nothing compared to what the MasterChef cameras captured, what viewers saw and what happened to Luca. Hold on that curves are coming.

The mystery of MasterChef's trickery

The last to steal from his teammates' baskets was Eneko. He was the one who left Jotha's basket empty, but he also greatly diminished the baskets of other companions as was the case of Luca. First, keep in mind that MasterChef is a recorded and assembled program. If it's already longer than a day without bread having passed through the editing room, imagine what it would be like if they left all the hours of recording. Well, last night's cuts were very shameless. In the first place, Lluís' reaction was not seen when Ana went to the little room where the aspirants were watching the robberies. Lluís was very indignant while he saw everything that Ana stole from him, angry, even, but for reasons that are unknown, the program decided not to show that reunion. And it must have been my father and very sir, because of what Ana herself said a posteriori. But it was not seen.

During the robberies, especially, during the robbery of Eneko something similar happened. When the former footballer decimated Jotha's basket he went straight to Luca's basket. He removed the mushrooms, pine nuts, left celery, parsley, capers, green curry and aromatic herbs and... And he went the other way. Yes, celeriac was still in the basket. It seemed that already, that Luca's basket, so it was going to stay. But Eneko turned around. "Luca suffers a lot at home. I'm going to take something else from Luca," he snapped and went back to the tiktoker's basket. And here something strange happened. The next image is of the little room, with the aspirants, with Luca saying "what a scoundrel!" and then from the screen of the little room you can see Eneko already taking ingredients from Lluís' basket, from which he only removed the chillies. Weird, weird, weird... Did Eneko take pity on Luca and not take anything else away from him? Or in the editing of the program was lost the moment that Eneko takes another ingredient from Luca?

Luca's basket after the robberies in MasterChef, without celery. RTVE

Nothing would have happened if when they returned to the kitchens of MasterChef and each aspirant uncovered their basket, the MasterChef cameras had not made a close-up of Luca's basket. A close-up in which you can see that Luca had only left parsley, green curry, aromatic herbs and that's it. The celeriac was gone. The logical thing to see that image is to think that Eneko had finally removed the celery, but ... Surprise! Although it is not that they focus much on Luca cooking suddenly Luca had celery.

Let's play devil's advocate: could it be that when Luca uncovered his basket he took out and put celery on the countertop? No, there was nothing on the countertop, according to what you see in the images, and at that time none of the contestants had started to take anything out of the baskets. However, seconds later a new image of Luca in the kitchen did the magic: next to the basket appeared the celeriac lost and... Ta, ta, chán! A bottle of vinegar, which Luca was taken from by his companions at the beginning of the robberies.

Could it be that when the MasterChef team moved the baskets from one set to another, Luca's celeriac fell along the way and they replaced it before starting to cook? Maybe, but then the bottle of vinegar, what? Or could it be that seeing that with parsley, curry and herbs Luca was not going to be able to cook anything they gave him the celery? Well, it seems that this is what penetrated among the viewers and what they let see the images.

"Traps", "tongo", "shame" and add and go on. Followers of the show erupted on social media. The thing was already hot for weeks and what was missing was something like that.

The question and the doubt is that if cheating was really done to favor the pretty boy of MasterChef, nobody on the team would realize that if you showed Luca's basket half empty and then Luca cooking with a non-existent celery, the viewers would notice and it was going to be very brown.

Luca's protection in MasterChef 11

Obviously, if Luca had kept what is seen in the basket as soon as he uncovered it, Luca would have had to cook and the chances of doing something moderately decent in MasterChef 11 would have been practically nil. The other option would have been to do something similar to Jotha, climb him to the gallery with his black apron and have played it in an elimination test of the most complicated in recent weeks. Come on, Luca would have been cannon fodder.

However, by giving him an estrangis celery, if it was finally so, Luca had a chance and, again, Luca would be saved from the elimination test. How many times has Luca been eliminated? There are too many fingers to count them. Always, for one thing or another, he is saved. And last night he had to save himself again despite the fact that he presented the same as always: spaghetti without pasta. Specifically, celeriac spaghetti (yes, celeriac with magical powers) with green curry sauce, dried parsley and celery air. Pepe Rodriguez's phrase when he saw the dish was revealing: "More of the same." It seemed that for the first time the judges were going to be tough on Luca. Alas, unbelievers! There appeared Jordi Cruz, Luca's white knight to put through the clouds a dish that, indeed, was the same as always. But the same as always in Luca is wonderful, in the others ...

Because that's the third leg of this story. While Luca was valued well, Alex presented a pine nut risotto with Parmesan cheese and seaweed spheres. As much as the pine nuts were not well cooked and the dish tasted a lot like cheese, only the idea, the attempt and the work, was light years away from Luca's plate. But Alex was sent to the elimination test after a good rapapolvo and Luca to the gallery. Saved, again.

And, of course, how were they going to send Luca to an elimination in which the black aprons had to prepare a very complicated set by Carlos Maldonado, but without its original ingredients, but with others that simulated the same. No, no, no, if Luca goes to MasterChef, let's see what they do.

There he was in the gallery, relaxed, falling half asleep, separated from his companions, while Álex, Jorge Juan, Ana and Jotha played it. And still with the audacity to go down to try the terrible dish of Jorge Juan and show the gags of disgust. At least Lluís, who was also about to throw the first porridge tried to disguise. Luca, for what? If that is the grace to continue.

Yes, Jorge Juan, the manchego of this edition, one of the aspirants who has had to fight not only with the kitchen but also with his problems of understanding -that is, double effort- was expelled from the night. Deserved, yes, without a doubt. But now the question is every night on MasterChef: what if Luca had gone down to the elimination test? Another rooster would crow.

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