Burnt offerings fail to impress

Kira burns her hand on a hot pan. Courtesy: Channel Ten

MasterChef's foodie 'gods' were not impressed with Sean Baxter's burnt offerings. Source: Channel 10

VICTORIA'S Sean Baxter has been eliminated from MasterChef Australia after falling flat with overcooked prawns and rock-hard flatbread.

The 31-year-old crumbled during a difficult two-part challenge that included a blindfolded taste test and then a cook-off using the correctly identified ingredients.

Baxter's exit — he is the 7th contestant eliminated — came as rival Kara Westwick suffered burns to her left hand when she accidentally grabbed a hot pan.

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A clearly-upset Kara was forced to push through the pain barrier to stay in the competition — and she just narrowly avoided being eliminated.

In the end, judges Gary Mehigan, Matt Preston and George Calombaris decided that Sean had made too many mistakes — and he agrees.

"I got overwhelmed," Sean says. "That was a day where I should have simplified my dish but that kitchen does strange things to you. I left everything to the last minute, didn't get my pasta done, and did a very poor substitution of flatbread."

Contestants are given three minutes to taste and identify as many ingredients as possible. Courtesy: Channel 10

The Red Team — Sean, Kira, Amy, Brent, Colin, Georgia, Rachael, Sam and Tash — were thrown into the elimination round after losing Wednesday night's Darren Purchese Dessert Degustation challenge.

Round 1 was a blind tasting where contestants had three minutes to taste a dish — Louisiana Gumbo — and a further two minutes to write down the ingredients.

Amy picked the most ingredients — 15. Kira, Sean and Tash picked 13. Georgia and Rachael identified 11 and Colin 10. Brent had 9 and Sam was last with 7.

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Round 2 tasked contestants with 45 minutes to cook a dish using only the ingredients they had correctly identified.

The judges identified early that Sean could have bitten off more than he could chew when he decided to make prawn and chilli sugo with eggless pasta. Mehigan, in particular, thought the dish was a lot of work for not a lot of flavour.

Sam decided to make chilli salt prawns with her limited ingredients. Kirk and Rachael both made dishes using Kransky sausage. Colin was the only contestant to identify butter in the gumbo and decided to use that to his advantage by making a rich chicken roulade.

Sean ran into trouble with his eggless pasta and decided to make flat bread instead. The judges were sceptical.

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Kira was in tears after burning her left hand when she grabbed a hot pan. She admitted being thrown off her game but was determined to fight on because she didn't want to be eliminated.

"It was sad to see Kira injure herself," Sean says. "She is such a good cook and to see her struggle was quite hard."

Colin realised his chicken was still raw with two minutes to go but turned to the frying pan in the hopes of saving his dish.

The tactic worked, with Matt Preston saying the roulade was the best dish Colin had cooked on the show.

Brent landed in the bottom three with his prawns and jalapeño salsa which was way too hot.

Brent's chargrilled prawn dish with jalapenos proves too hot for the judges. Courtesy: Channel Ten

Kira's prawns are cooked well — but that's it.

The judges told Sean his prawns were overcooked and his flatbread was like crackers — dry and tasteless.

In the end, Sean was eliminated because he made more mistakes than his rivals. The judges praised his audition dish and his steak and vegetable plate in week one — but it was downhill after that.

"I cooked all the stuff I knew at the start of the show," Sean says. "I've only got about 30 really good dishes in me. I was surrounded by brilliance."

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