Masterchef Australia S12 E30 Recap — One Fish, Two Fish, Dead Fish, Gross Fish

Twelve contestants show up at Masterchef HQ wanting nothing more than to crush the hopes and dreams of one of their closest friends. Jess, having won immunity, gets to watch from high above and laugh at the foolish mortals and their pathetic floundering.

“It’s really hard because coming back on Masterchef, you’re putting a lot on the line,” says Khanh, which is a funny way of saying, “I already have a successful career so the stakes are much, much lower this time around”, but Khanh has always been an idiosyncratic fellow.

Jock greets them and gleefully informs them that today he smells the sweet aroma of death in the air. He singles individual cooks out to make sure they realise that if they lose today their decision to come on the show will look incredibly stupid. “Good luck to each and every one of you,” he says with searing sarcasm.

There is a big sheet on a table. Andy and Jock remove the sheet. There is a big load of fish on the table. Their faces betray just how sad they were at the moment they were killed. Andy announces that “a bloody fish legend” is about to walk through the doors. The contestants feel a tingle of anticipation, for they know who the greatest cook of bloody fish is — it’s Josh Niland. We all know who that is, don’t we? Of course we do! In he comes and everyone definitely recognises him

Khanh informs us that Josh has devised a whole new way of preparing fish, which is that he…