Masterchef Junior Finale 2014 How To Properly Fillet#

Do you like the MasterChef Junior TV series. While the public school system there is one of the best, the 'rich' kids all go to the extremely expensive private high schools: Branson or Marin Academy.The final four of MasterChef Junior is a lot like the final four of NCAA basketball: several competitors are from Tennessee and California, there are a few upsets, and I lost a lot of money on the whole thing.Similar to the regular MasterChef series, chef Gordon Ramsay, restaurateur and. He lives in a very upscale suburb of San Francisco, where I grew up. Some of those New York prep schools are tough to get into. Masterchef Junior Season 2 Finale.

I'm partly rooting for Abby because she's so young and obviously so talented, and also it would be cool to see how excited a puppy gets when it wins. It's tough for me to pick a real favorite. Remaining in the competition are fine food lover and vest czar Samuel, politician's son and bow-tie enthusiast Logan, feather jewelry making aunt-in-training Abby, and the remarkably mature burgeoning feminist Adaiah. Tags: chef gordon ramsay chef ramsay gordon ramsay Graham Elliot joe. Bookmark us or friend us on Facebook or Twitter for all the latest celebrity gossip, entertainment news, TV recaps and more 1 of 1. Catch tonightвЂ™s MasterChef 2014 Season Finale Live Recap right here on GossipandGab.com.

Two premier chefs work to transform a team of hopeless cooks from kitchen disasters to kitchen masters, and the last recruit standing wins 25,000. I have a hard time imagining Samuel winning since those vests already have a big enough ego without a glass trophy and $100,000.Guy Fieri hosts a high stakes, high skills, grocery store cooking competition. I could also see Adaiah winning since she's been consistently good since the start.

Masterchef Junior Finale 2014 How To Properly Fillet

He moves quickly since it's so second nature to him, but the little chefs are all watching with a mix of focus, confusion, excitement, and fear. Their challenge is to break down this enormous fish into as many perfect fillets as possible in 30 minutes.Samuel is not scared by the challenge, saying, 'I'm excited to be working with salmon because I really like breaking things down.' I've dated least three guys who share that general outlook.Gordon demonstrates for the kiddos how to properly fillet the fish and how many servings they should be able to cut. The fish are easily as long as Abby is tall. When they get there, instead of goldfish, they find giant Alaskan salmon. Why does the show insist on reminding these kids that a lot of the food they eat was once a living and arguably lovable thing?Gordon Ramsay, Joe Bastianich, and Graham Elliot send the kids into the pantry to find the fish they'll be preparing. Of course, they'll be working with fish.

There's a lot that is shocking about eight year old Abby's abilities, but more than her skills at cooking proteins or seasoning a puree, it's unreal just how level-headed and unemotional she remains during these challenges. Most of the people I know in their thirties still don't have a grip on it, so kudos to Logan for pushing through and doing the best he can.Time's up and the judges look at both the number of servings each contestant got from their fish as well as the precision of the cuts.Abby's cuts are rough and inconsistent, but she has, as always, an upbeat and positive attitude about it even though she wasn't successful in the challenge. That's a pretty great lesson to learn before age 12. Gordon comes to help him see where he went wrong, and also to encourage him to keep going and make the best of what he has at this point. Abby just hacks at her fish, and the orange colored meat is bursting out of the rough cuts like it's Play-Doh.Logan slices off his two large fillets and then realizes he left half of the meat still on the bone. The judges whisper their commentary about everyone's performance like they're on the PGA tour, which I'm completely on board with because the last thing that a ten year old with a giant knife needs is noisy distraction.Samuel and Adaiah are both doing well, which has to be in part because they are bigger than Abby and Logan, who probably can't get that great of an angle for certain cuts without standing on a mountain of phone books.

Moments like that are what makes this the most important show on television. She flawlessly sliced 13 perfect portions of salmon in 30 minutes, having never broken down a fish before, and wins the challenge.When the judges announce that Adaiah wins and will go into the elimination with an advantage, Abby very sweetly says how happy she is that Adaiah won and that she deserves it. Though he does manage to cut 15 servings of the salmon, the pieces from one section still had bone fragments in them and thus won't count toward his final tally.Adaiah, kind of the sleeper pick here, crushed this challenge.

The 8-12 year olds on this show have more maturity in their (to me, shockingly-not-injured) fingers than every other adult on television combined.The judges explain that for the elimination challenge, the contestants must make a salmon dish using their best fillet from the previous challenge. This is the only show that purely and honestly shows that you can want something so badly and still be kind and supportive to other people. There is so much reality television out there telling us that we should be ruthless and manipulative and drink enough white wine to fill a water tower during a dinner party.

With so many options, she seems a little lost when planning. His response? 'I'm confident I can make an upscale dish with these pedestrian ingredients.' I hope that someone saves this video for him so that in ten years whenever Samuel does something nightmarish, they can force him to watch this again as he (hopefully) cringes at some of the things he says on camera.Abby is like a kid in a candy store when it comes to picking ingredients because, well, she basically is a kid in a candy store in this scenario. She then gives Abby the one with 100, Samuel the one with 25, and Logan only five ingredients to prepare his salmon.When explaining her choice, Adaiah says she thought Samuel would struggle with the more basic ingredients since he usually goes more high-end with his dishes. Adaiah chooses the one with 50 for herself so she doesn't feel overwhelmed by choice. There are four refrigerators: one with 100 ingredients, one with 50, one with 25, and one with five. They then explain, via an in-show commercial for Samsung's new refrigerator, that she gets to determine how many ingredients each contestant has for their dish.

He prepared an olive oil poached salmon with a potato rosette, broccoli rabe, and a dill lemon puree. Forced to choose between serving overcooked fish and firing another fillet, he opts to try and squeeze another one in under the buzzer.First to serve the judges is Logan. He's doing well, until at the fifteen minutes left mark he burns his salmon. He mentions puree, confit, gremolata, and one or two things I didn't even catch.

Honestly, if you're going to be 12 years old and throw around the word gremolata, you better be able to nail it, and Samuel does.Last is Adaiah, who came into this challenge with the most advantages. The judges all agree the dish is excellent and that the fish is cooked perfectly, if not a bit of a small portion. Even in the face of criticism and a harsh dose of reality that here in the semi-finals she didn't deliver her best dish, Abby is positive and gracious with the judges and never loses her cool.Samuel presents his dish next, which is a pan-seared salmon with tomato confit, tomato honey, and a cilantro shallot gremolata. The judges all enjoy the glaze and her puree, but the fish itself is overcooked.