To kick off a new week in the MasterChef kitchen, judges are bringing back the invention test and hopefully, that means no more savoury ice cream.

It doesn’t.

Reminder: ice cream has already been invented #MasterChefAU

— Michelle 🐿💨 (@MichelleMackey1) May 24, 2021

Tonight, the challenge is to make vegetables delicious, which gives every mum in the kitchen a sizeable advantage.

The contestants can choose from five “humble” and “boring” vegetables, including broccoli, carrot, potato, brown onion and zucchini, and how dare you talk about potato like that.

As it turns out, pretty much everyone chooses carrot and no one chooses broccoli, and fair enough, they only have 75 minutes to make it taste good.

The only problem is, what the judges consider “inventive” seems to vary wildly from contestant to contestant.

The judges applaud Pete’s “carrot steak” and we’re not sure it would get the same reception at steak night at the pub. Not even the vegetarians are sold.

I’m vegan and even I don’t want carrot steak. #MasterChefAU

— Jess (@_jessticulate) May 24, 2021

Sabina is told her stuffed potato skin is not inventive enough, and apparently, you can find potato with secret interior stuffing at any pub you go to.

Instead, Sabina decides to make a savoury mille-feuille with potato crisps in place of the puff pastry which Jock also pans as just “chips and dip”, and there is seriously no pleasing him today.

Nor is Brent’s honey carrot dessert deemed inventive enough. Jock says “carrot ice cream? I’ve seen that a million times… carrot sauce, same,” and we want to know what ice cream shop he is going to, and why doesn’t he just order Chunky Monkey like everyone else?

If you’re going to criticise an ice cream flavour as having been done before, maybe he should have called out Justin’s onion ice cream, which we literally saw in episode eight.

Meanwhile, Kishwar gets a free pass with potato samosas, and I guess that’s okay because she’s perfect and we love her.

How is potato millefeuille not inventive enough while potato samosa is fine? #MasterChefAU

— The Cathy Wilcox (@cathywilcox1) May 24, 2021

It turns out, what the judges are looking for is something like Tom’s fake egg yolk that explodes like a carrot balloon. And to be honest, simple cooked carrots with butter and salt are looking better all the time.

The judges also applaud Depinder’s green curry cake served with coconut ice cream and a white chocolate chilli ganache. Jocks says it’s a “very well made cake, the ganache on the top and the trimmings – brilliant. It’s about as good as it gets for me.”

I’m so here for Depinder just winning and winning and winning, hey. #masterchefau

— Maeve Marsden (@maevemarsden) May 24, 2021

Jock announces that Sabina is in the bottom four, making this one of the worst weeks in her entire life following last night’s Justin fiasco, as well as Scott, Eric and Brent.

Join MasterChef on Tuesday night, when the bottom four contestants will compete in a blind pressure test set by Melbourne chef Clinton McIver.

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