Masterchef Recap: No I In Team

Having discovered just how hollow last night’s victory was, the briefly-triumphant green team show up to Masterchef HQ ready to turn on each other like common weasels.

Only one member of the team will get immunity, under this season’s innovative “stupid format” format. To do so, they must first endure some banter between Rose and Gordon that comes close to breaking everyone’s spirit. After this, Jock explains that this year, all but one contestant will be up for elimination every week: a massive change that would greatly elevate the tension if it weren’t for the fact that nobody is really that fussed.

The contestants will be cooking in teams of three. The winning team will cook off in tomorrow’s immunity challenge, an incredibly long-winded way of doing things, but nobody said Masterchef was supposed to be succinct.

Melissa explains the pointless complexity of the challenge: the three members of the team will cook in a relay, wherein each starts on one course, and after twenty and forty minutes they rotate onto each other’s stations. “The secret ingredient here is your voice,” says Gordon, implying a Little Mermaid-esque dystopia. No time to digest the surreal horror of his words, as the time as started and the teams must sprint to their tasks.

Immediately Ice-Cream Ben declares he will make ice-cream. Asian Sarah agrees that he should probably do that, as if he tries anything else he’ll kill someone.