MasterChef Australia (series 7)
| MasterChef Australia (series 7) | |
|---|---|
| Country of origin | Australia |
| No. of episodes | 62 |
| Release | |
| Original network | Network Ten |
| Original release | 5 May – 27 July 2015 |
| Season chronology | |
The seventh series of MasterChef Australia premiered on 5 May 2015 on Network Ten.
This series was won by Billie McKay in the grand finale against Georgia Barnes on 27 July 2015. The announcement of the winner was watched by 2.2 million metro viewers, making it the highest rated non-sport program on Australian television in the 2015 calendar year.
Shannon Bennett took on the role of guest mentor, guiding contestants participating in Immunity Challenges, the role Kylie Kwong held in series 6. Unline the sixth series, the advantage for the Immunity challenge was now handed to the contestant's choice instead of the chef. The use of the power apron was now reduced to each day in a week only as it passed down to the following contestant each who excelled in the next challenges.
The Top 24 were revealed on 5–6 May 2015. Prior to the first competition round, Mario Montecuollo was disqualified after his five-month experience in a professional kitchen violated the show’s guidelines of the auditions. He was replaced by Jessie Spiby, who unsuccessfully advanced to the Top 24 in the second episode.
In the second round, the finalists must cook a dish for their respective family and friends in 90 minutes. Billie’s fennel, ginger, orange and scallops dish earned praise but the presentation of her dish let her down, scoring 25 points to the total of 46. Georgia took the lead again with her mushroom dish three ways that received overall praise on the execution and presentation, earning 27 points to 50 total.
The last round faced Billie and Georgia to recreate a monumental interpretation of a dessert Botrytis cinerea (a grape rot which produces some of the sweetest dessert wines in the world) made by Heston Blumenthal. In five hours, Billie manage to redeem herself in keeping her control of recreating the dish as Georgia fall behind throughout the challenge and therefore, led to her decision of disregarding the sugar ball to focus on her other elements at the last five minutes. In the tasting, Billie earned overall positive feedback from the judges with her take of the dish while Georgia had missed out the sugar ball and her grape gel was grainy. She was scored 7 points each from Matt and Heston and 8 points from Gary and George, tallying to the overall score of 80. Billie then scored 36 points (9 each from all of the judges), finalizing the score of 82 points.
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