{"id":80869,"date":"2023-11-03T12:00:05","date_gmt":"2023-11-03T12:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/posterboyedit.com\/?p=80869"},"modified":"2023-11-03T12:00:05","modified_gmt":"2023-11-03T12:00:05","slug":"masterchef-the-professionals-chef-stopped-by-wareing-over-raw-egg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/posterboyedit.com\/lifestyle\/masterchef-the-professionals-chef-stopped-by-wareing-over-raw-egg\/","title":{"rendered":"MasterChef: The Professionals chef stopped by Wareing over raw egg"},"content":{"rendered":"
MasterChef The Professionals viewers were left wincing at their screens last night after a contestant who had been tipped for the late stages of the show crumbled in front of a trio of high-profile critics.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Welsh chef Ieuan was the only cook of the four in the quarter-final heat, which aired on BBC One on Thursday, to try and make a dessert for food critics Jay Rayner, Tom Parker Bowles and\u00a0Jimi Famurewa – and he quickly regretted his decision.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The culinary pro was making a lemon pie with sable biscuit base and Italian meringue – but he switched to a quickly whipped-up French meringue when his first attempt wouldn’t set.<\/p>\n
After piping the raw egg French meringue onto his biscuit bases, a worried-looking Marcus Wareing staged an intervention, telling the flustered chef: ‘Ieuan, it’s raw. You can’t eat raw meringue. Do you understand what you’ve done?’<\/p>\n
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‘Do you understand what you’ve done?’ Marcus Wareing looks on sternly as he watches chef Ieuan flounder after attempting to serve a dish with French meringue – containing raw meringue – on it<\/p>\n
Looking crestfallen, the chef said: ‘I haven’t got a dessert to plate. I don’t know what to do’…before he steadied his nerves, scooped out the lemon and meringue and conjured up a new dessert using lemon and piped cream.<\/p>\n
At home, viewers of the cookery show were hooked on the kitchen drama.\u00a0<\/p>\n
One wrote: ‘Oh the poor man. This is physically painful to watch. Who knew meringue was such a fickle mistress?’<\/p>\n
Another wrote: ‘What the actual sh***ing f**k was he thinking when he was piping raw meringue on his dessert?’<\/p>\n
Many had nothing but sympathy for the Welsh cook, who had shined in previous rounds of the competition.\u00a0<\/p>\n
One penned: ‘Gutted for Ieuan! Great chef.’<\/p>\n
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After his Italian meringue failed to set; the Welsh pro set about creating a French one…but then tried to serve it raw – before Marcus intervened<\/p>\n
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A terrified looking Ieuan said: ‘I haven’t got a dessert to plate. I don’t know what to do’<\/p>\n
Another added: ‘I really felt for Ieuan. Well done getting anything on the plate.’<\/p>\n
Eventually, he made it through to the table, and while the judges were sympathetic, it wasn’t enough to keep the chef in the competition.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
The latest series of the show has been fraught with culinary disasters so far.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Earlier this week, an episode saw two chefs fail to present a dessert at all to go with their main courses after they claimed to run out of time.\u00a0<\/p>\n
One of them, Ola, 33, who works as the head chef for a London sporting venue, went to pieces as the pressure of the show hit.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
The experienced chef – who was born in Nigeria – had planned to make a frangipane using a Nigerian almond substitute and a dark chocolate cremeux served with macerated strawberries and celery.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Viewers said they felt sorry for the chef, who had shined in previous rounds<\/p>\n
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Wareing staged an intervention…and agreed when the contestant asked if he should scoop out the sable biscuit bases and conjure up another dessert<\/p>\n
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In the bin: but Ieaun rallied and served up the lemon pie with just piped cream instead<\/p>\n
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After apologising to judges\u00a0Jay Rayner, Tom Parker Bowles and Jimi Famurewa, he managed to serve his lemon pie up\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Although the celebrity food critics were sympathetic to Ieuan’s kitchen nightmare, it wasn’t enough to keep him in the competition (Pictured from left:\u00a0Jay Rayner, Tom Parker Bowles and Jimi Famurewa)<\/p>\n
However, he soon realised that\u00a0his frangipane hadn’t cooked and his dessert would have to be re-thought – before he abandoned it altogether.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Gregg told him: ‘We can clearly see that your timing went to pieces because you haven’t completed the dish the way you wanted to and we also haven’t got a dessert at all, have we?’<\/span><\/p>\n Ola was eliminated, telling the programme: ‘I am sad and disappointed in myself because I know what I’m capable of,’ he said. ‘I haven’t put my best out there.’<\/p>\n And Ieaun isn’t the only chef to falter: earlier this week, Ola (pictured), 33, from London, wanted to showcase his love of Nigerian cooking in his signature challenge but didn’t leave enough time to present a dessert<\/p>\n<\/p>\n