You’ve gotta take a crack at a few snow eggs to make a winning Masterchef omelette, apparently. Last night, Callum Hann triumped over the ridiculicious dessert that was his downfall when he first appeared on the show in 2010 to take the inaugural All-Stars title over devout carnivore, Chris Badenoch, and series three victor and coffee cake connoisseur Kate Bracks.
The first round saw Australia’s Most Huggable Woman, Maggie Beer, commission the semi-amateur cooks to prepare an open pantry feast for their fellow All Stars, who in previous weeks had been left as battered and bloodied as Kate’s undercooked pheasant and beetroot salad.
Kate was eventually sent packing for said dish with a neat little package of $11,000 for her chosen charity. That left Chris and Callum to face off against each other and Peter Gilmore’s notorious Snow Egg, which has definitely become the most well-rounded character to emerge from every season of the franchise.
Despite the fact that the recipe called for neither a pig’s sphincter or ale, or that he’d never cooked it before as Callum had (prompting cries of bias that fell on deaf ears), Chris’ snow eggs looked okay; but okay is not enough at this self-professed elite level of culinary competition. There was the usual drawn out scoring procedure and some plain-as-day editing that reveals the result way before the judges’ chubby little fingers can before Callum won with a final score of 70-62.
Along the MasterChef All Stars trophy and a $25,000 prize for his chosen charity The Cancer Council, Callum went to even greater lengths to demonstrate what a nice guy he is by donating $10,000 of his novelty sized cheque to Chris’ charity, Lort Smith Animal Hospital, which received a total $15,000 from the competition.
In other MasterChef related news, the series today confirmed it’s moving to the most liveable city in the world, Melbourne, for next year’s season. Melbourne can now lay claim to having low crime rates (LOL), great access to health care, cultural diversity, a wonderful natural environment, good infrastructure, public transportation and three of the country’s sloppiest eaters. You can have them, Melbourne.
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