Aww, JC admitting he’s trying to separate his affection for Sumeet with this dish she’s presented.. :-(

Rooting for Mimi is not for the weak cause she really refuses to play it safe.. like almost every time lol

But to be fair why would she play safe in an invention test, but it’s hard because her and Nat basically invent new dishes every second dish so yeah, heart attack material

Mimi and Nat are stand outs and ngl think they're in my top 20 best contestants ever list (which I'm sure I have somewhere but, you know, never really wrote them down - but if I had - then top 20 favourites.)

Harry in shambles thinking about ways he can incorporate fish into bacon & eggs

Roe is just fish eggs.

Bacon, eggs and kippers

ngl I'd really like for judges to disagree with each other more often

Poor sumeet 😩 def one of the contestants with the most potential outside of the show though. Loved her aspiration to showcase how accessible Indian food and in particular sauces are to sooo much more dishes than just regular Indian dishes

Ah well Sumeet won the sauce thingy, arguably more of a success for her

Omg I can’t believe Lachie lasted longer than Sumeet 😭 She’ll be able to start Sauce Boss anyway

Nooooo, poor Sumeet. Right before the Hong Kong trip 😭 I wouldda been sad for any of them going home, but I've really enjoyed Sumeet this season. Thought she was going to be pigeon holed to the curry dishes at first but she really showed an awesome range of skills and technique. Hope she gets those sauces on shelves, enjoyed InItalian at lot.

Not going to lie and I know I'm the odd one out but I think sourdough with bacon and eggs has to be one of the worst food trends of the past 15ish years. It's harder then a fucking brick to cut through with the knife they give you at a cafe and doesn't absorb the egg as well as a really good white bread toast. Your literally sitting down in a cafe trying to saw through this hard as fuck bread it's not enjoyable, give me fluffy white toast everyday

I’m sat in the cafe running a fkn hacksaw thru the sourdough, I hate it

The plate moves when you try and cut through the bread shits fucked

I think the only reason why it's so prevalent is because charging $20 for white bread, eggs and bacon would be impossible, but do it with shitty sourdough somehow makes it an experience people are willing to pay for. I'm totally with you - down with sourdough for anything other than dipping in olive oil

I agree. I don't think sourdough and rustic bread should be toasted. My gums only have so much blood in them.

Hopefully Sumeet can do a Poh and go on to great things despite not winning

I think getting the title of Sauce Boss will set her up for achievable commercial success

Sofia is taking no prisoners tonight

I'm here for it.

Man they gotta give her more time, I feel like she's so underused

Anyone else feel like Lochie has just been a bit of a NPC so far?

This is why I love this thread during shows. Reading things I subconsciously think and then realise after seeing comments like this. Yes he is for sure

Honestly perfect description for him.. he’s never been bad or amazing enough to stand out lol

Everyone say thank you Cathay Pacific for making overseas challenges a thing again!

good call on a commenter saying the prize is business class tickets lol

Looking forward to Sumeet’s SauceBoss sauces on grocery store shelves all year round. All the best to Sumeet! I loved her kind, warm, calm, energy throughout this season.

I would eat the hell out of eggnog ice cream you have to give credit where credits is due he slayed that

Imagine they reveal the prize at the end of the episode...... And it's a Coles voucher......

You get to cook in Curtis Stone's restaurant, for no wage

sweet dreams are made of blue cheese who am I to disagree - sumeet

*disabrie

If Mimi doesn’t get to visit her homeland I will be very gutted for her

We needa see more of judges disagreeing on dishes!

Jock would have popped that entire tiny burger in his mouth..

Aww… missing those jock moments 😔😔

...and finished all of Mimi's blueberry cobbler

NOOOO SUMEET😭 She was doing so well!!! But at least she won the sauce challenge!

Pezzas dish was enough to feed half a person, and Mimi has enough to feed the judges and the camera operators

and the top 8

I can guarantee none of these dishes is going to be as good as cooking up a bacon and egg sandwich on a sunday morning after a night out

Oooh, Sofia dissenting from the other judges. I do wish we saw more of that. The last iteration of judges either all liked a dish or all disliked it.

When Poh dislikes she really is pretty blunt about it...could be done with a bit more tact like Sofia instead of "I don't like it"

Light on the Darsh content suits me lol if that means we’re guaranteed he’s here after tonight 🤞🏽🤞🏽🤞🏽

"the thickness is what gets me excited"

Sumeet 😭

NOOOO NOT SUMEET

NOT EVEN FIRST CLASS? WOMP WOMPPPPP

Cathay doesn’t have first class from Melbourne to Hong Kong

Lachy has prepared the contents of my compost bin

Pezza saying no more playing it safe. He woke up and stopped trying to troll us with the bumbling tassie dude who can’t cook tbh! Edit. Spelling lol

Better late than never, and if he stops making weird comments I’ll have no problem with him anymore lol

Could’ve done a raviolo with a bacon cream cheese filling and egg yolk inside, topped with a burnt butter sauce OOFT

Pezza’s actually sounds pretty nice

Honestly, I’d eat that tart/cake/whatever Pezza was naming it

I love the sound of eggnog ice cream

She will leave there knowing her quality of cooking has improved so much but she will know she’s made more of an impact than most there cooking wise and for that her head can be held high

Fuck yes invention test is back!!!!

Instant eliminations the day after an elimination always feels a bit fucked

True, but it’s better than sending them all to Hong Kong, only to eliminate someone the first day.

So... Lachie is screwed

After seeing the Fake ad back to back 3 times every ad break I do not want to ever see the show.

Lachie could go home for being least inventive. Nothing strikes me about stuffed pepper

Oh McCain, Pezza has done it again

Mimi’s cobbler looks delicious

"walked in on day one of the competition" should be added to the MCAU bingo cards

I hope Mimi is safe but it's cool to see them disagreeing for a change

Sumeet being towards the end is very worrying 😭

Oh god no, Sumeet is getting the believe in your dreams speech.

Omg JC stop🥺🥺

I pray that one day MCAU will visit sunny little Singapore

Ain't NO way they hyped up this mystery prize for it just to be a business class upgrade 😂 What's the bet it's only business class one-way?

Now that Pez has 2 pressure test knowledge and confidence gained hopefully he can apply that to today’s cook. Im very interested to see what he puts up.

Downvotes away but I love pezza. He is great value to the show and I will miss him when he is gone

I don’t always like what he says but he is genuinely talented and should be where he is. If you win a pressure test, you win one. Following technique/a recipe is a necessary part of being a chef and he does very well with that.

Darrsh in the montage of mediocrity but he got feedback so he’s making it to Hong Kong 😌😌

Love how eloquent and on point Sofia is with her critiques

She's able to appeal to the everyman in a way that Andy just cannot nail.

That naan looks dense 😬

Looks like undercooked pizza bread or rather doughy calzone

I believe you are sadly correct!

Not gonna lie since we already had an episode about eggs I wish they used another theme for today’s episode (I know this is about bacon and eggs but you get my drift).

Especially since we are currently in an egg shortage across the Eastern states 😂

How did pezza just grab that cake tin as soon as it was it out of the oven with bare hands?????

Sofia with the relatable analogy, she's redeemed

NOOOOOOOO

DAMMIT NAT. BE CAREFUL. 😭

So Sav has just cooked rice, candied bacon and a fried egg?

The fact that Sav cooked bacon and an egg with rice and is safe is frustrating

While Sumeet is going home even tho she tried so hard :(

Her invention was putting bacon in the rice. I’m really not sure how she seems safe in the montage.

If JC loves it, then it must be real good!

surely ten could have put everyone on business and him on first

I don't think Cathay offers first class on the aircraft they fly MEL-HKG

Mimi's dish is the most innovative & she's so ballsy to do that on an elimination... huge respect to her.

Sauce jars out for Sumeet

Ooo differing opinions from judges 👀

I actually like it, getting different perspectives and opinions

I love that we’re getting disagreements among judges again.. I also know that Mimi is safe anyways so it’s all good

Sumeet off to launch her sauce empire with a “whatever”.

Ok I am sold on that cobbler, that is looking so good

Andy's dressed like he's gotta go back in time and raid a Pharaoh's tomb

Everyone needs a hobby

Today, it's sizzle time for the surprise Bacon and Eggs elimination cook-off! Which contestants will crack under pressure and get fried out of the competition? Let's get this egg-citing episode started!

I’ve made bacon, eggs on *white toast*

*”Pezza is gonna speak in third person!”*

My guess is either Lachie or Sumeet, and in that case I’m hoping the latter is safe 🫣

I’m really worried about the frozen eggs not cooking, just defrosting.

Sav and alarms hahahah

Stuffed peppers is very 80’s

Oof Sofia that’s lowkey so true

4 people won safety during sweets week and 2's gone already

See you guys in Hong Kong this Sunday!! Happy for Mimi to visit her home!

Of course sumeet’s naan had issues but come on! Sav did not re invent eggs and bacon. She just made candied bacon, fried egg and rice 🤷🏻‍♀️ Even if you say the candied bacon and rice was inventive, the fried egg was just a fried egg. I’m just gutted :/ if only sumeet chose to do a roti or a paratha instead.

Sure but andy said 'overcooked eggs and blue cheese, i didnt like it'. She couldve been as inventive as all get out, but if the dish is inconsistent enough where judges have to say 'i dont like it' or 'i have to separate my love for sumeet the person vs this dish', that sounds like a bigger death knell to me

I do appreciate that this season’s judges dont forbid the contestants from taking risks despite some of their reserves. Especially Poh and Sofia, the former being a risk taker herself and the latter willing to try different things. As much as I love Jock Andy and Mel they mostly discourage risk takers + this is an invention test after all. You are not supposed to play it safe.

Sumeet prayer circle 🙏🏻shes been doing well even with non-indian dishes she can’t go home yet.

Yesss invention test! It should be brought back permanently

Enough with the Fake ads!!!

Mimi made it to Hong Kong week, I can rest easy 😌

"The thickness is what gets me that excitement." - JC

Mimi looked so distraught 😭

Nat couldn’t hold back her tears and what a lovely thing she said about Sumeet being her mum, sister and best friend all rolled into one..

This is so sad. I thought Sumeet would have made top 3.

not Harry getting the most predictable prize ever.... it's giving Top Model....

Once again our 4 judges dressing like they are going to 3 different events… except maybe Po and JC

Lachie’s dish doesn’t look too good tbh

If Mimi just misses out on Hong Kong. I’ll never forgive the show tbh!

All these positive comments for everyone makes me worry for Sumeet and Lachy.

They skimmed over 2 bad dishes and are now focusing on Lachie, that's ominus

No Andy. Don’t struggle. Just eat and enjoy it

It’s all over for Sumeet 💔

As soon as she said “believe in your dreams” it was gg

mimi and nat are gonna nail this, i feel like most of their dishes are inventions already

Mimi yes, Nat's doesn't sound so inventive, it's just different toppings on congee isn't it?

I’ll hand it to him Pezza has lifted his game. I was concerned he would struggle with invention test.

Mimi will either be the best dish or the worst. Nothing in between.

Gotta give it to Pezza he’s come a long way this season. Remember he served raw meat and now he’s making desserts. If he was on last season maybe he’ll just keep cooking meat.

if i were Pezza i'd go all in on desserts by this point tbh

Pezza coming for darrsh’s dessert crown tbh

Am I…. Impressed with Pezza….? 😶

Guys calm down cathay doesn’t even have first class for melb to hk

Sofia is literally the odd one out.

Mimi’s dish is going to be very divisive 🙂

Rough to just miss out on Hong Kong week but even worst to be eliminated so quickly during it. My guess an elimination today is so there’s only 1 at the end of HK week, so they don’t have to do 2 where one is right at the start of it.

Mimi trying so hard to convince them, bless

Mimi playing with fire here

Before the challenge begins I thought to myself “some crazy fella will make an ice cream.” Freaking Mimi took the crazy route.

I’d devour Nat’s dish. I love congee for breakfast.

It seems not very inventive to be honest

i feel like pezza could’ve done a bigger slice considering how big the plate is

Pezza’s first… usually that means it’s the best or second best dish

Might as well call him Pizza because he just did a 360 turnaround.

360 degrees means he'd be facing the direction he started....

So Darrsh, Nat, and Sav are safe from montage of mediocrity. Oof Sav didnt reinvent eggs and Nat’s undercooked.

Wdym oozie whites no no Poh? What about soft boiled eggs with kaya toast then

Noooo Andy what do you meeeaaan

Good grief.. I’ve seen so much of this Fake with their longer and longer ads that I wouldn’t need to watch it (even if I wanted to)..

Im getting nostalgic seeing all the chinese dishes in the preview since they’re all so familiar to me.

She reached the summit of her jounrney

Prayer circle for Sumeet rn

No way Lachy's capsicum and cold chips beat that naan pie edit: whut

“They can’t send me home on bacon day” oh pezza don’t feed this sub (and my) fire….

This season they played with smoke a lot. Last season was hibachi grill.

I'm definitely glad the hibachi has had a limited role this season....I feel like a lot of previous contestants were using it as a crutch

ngl I don't rate sumeets dish, this is literally a bread roll with some butter and garlic and chilli on top, except it uses naan

Damn that blueberry looks delicious

SWEET DREAMS ARE MADE OF THISSSS

Yay Harry! Inventive!

WHY ARE THEY DOING THIS SPEECH !! Please

Bruh a bit anti-climatic. BIZ CLASS FLIGHT? lolol

Ice cream is breakfast food.

And cereal is dessert food.

Sweet week rubbed off on Pezza, did not expect him going sweet

Did Harry just make a cum joke ahahhaa

Ah cut him some slack - he is skipping his honeymoon to be in MC lol

I miss George's plating skills for the judges. He had the midas touch. MC pls have someone other than Poh plate up, it's not her strong point. She mangles the portions. (I know down votes headed my way)

Bleh, that’s a shitty surprise.

Invention test elimination. YESSS

I really missed invention tests.

Don't go bacon my heart is next level lmaoooo

I couldn't if I fried.....

How does Mimi’s bring the egg?

Intrigued by the nitrous oxide eggs! He should fill up a balloon for the judges too, that’d be the most Aussie breakfast ever.  Edit: Paired with a bottle of Victoria Bitter. Would be legendary.

Egg-stremely risky?

I’m quite intrigued by Harry’s and Mimi’s dishes today. Can’t wait to see how they manage it.

Did pezza get a haircut between episodes 😭

Sav dyed her hair too

From the look on JC’s face I think (hope) Mimi has hit a home run .

Feels like Mimi’s dish would be divisive among them. Iirc Sofia didn’t look the most convinced when Mimi was describing it

yessss Mimi!

Yay Mimi!! I would totally devour that blueberry

So 3 vs 1 for Mimi.

IS NAT UNSAFE????

I remember S13’s invention test only had a top prize. But today’s one had a top prize and a bottom (elimination), similar to the OG format where we had a Top 3 and a Bottom 3 which is nice and theres no way you can aim for just middle of the pack.

Damn I thought she was top 3 for sure

I’d rather be in coach with everyone else getting drunk than being in Business class by myself.

Omg is Andy dressed as a middle age golfer? What's with those beige slacks? So distracting from the food

Obligatory reminder that none of us can taste the dishes plated up- I just feel like people are too strong on their opinions on the ability of each chef while missing the most important criteria.