Episode Report Card Mr. Sobell: C+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Go Fish
By Mr. Sobell | Season 1 | Episode 6 | Aired on 08.25.2010
Slim is laboring under no delusions -- she's already plating, and her sauce is beginning to separate it because she forgot to strain it (as the wise cooking lady told you that you must!). And she can't make another sauce because she's all out of corn. So let's just reserve a spot for Slim on the hot seat, shall we?
Time elapses, and we finally find out the reason for the wall -- no, it's not because Gordon and the boys are all big Pink Floyd fans. Rather, they are going to do blind tastings of the Sharone and Cat Cora dishes to see which one is better. Visually, they both look the same from the color of the sauce to the sear on the fish. "One of these dishes is truly wonderful," Joe says, "but the other is world class." Ah, but who's is who's? The judges unanimously prefer the dish on the left -- which just so happens to be Cat Cora's dish. Guess I'm going to have to remember that Sharone's name is only spelled with one "R" for the next couple of weeks after all. "[Sharone] is a very good cook," Slim voice overs. "But he is going to have to learn modesty." Bold talk from someone with a broken sauce.
Time to taste everyone else's dishes, then. First up is Slim, whose sauce doesn't look that bad but who has apparently overcooked her fish. "Better luck next time," Graham says. Joe refuses to taste it: "I'm not sure there will be a next time." Tracy's up next -- Joe thinks the fish is perfectly cooked and calls it a good interpretation of Cat's dish. Good thing, too, as Tracy has no tears left after the Cupcake Incident. Cocky, cocky David is up next with the sauce he proclaimed better than Cat Cora's -- he is horribly mistaken, Graham informs him. Now it's time for Hat-Wearing Mike's attempt, which Cat Cora will taste personally. The sauce is a bit thick, and the fish is raw inside. But other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, the play is great. "I know you put a lot of effort into it," says Cat. "But I don't even want to eat it." For once, Mike does not contort his face comically as he slinks away.
More contestants, more halibut. Jake's dish is hailed by Cat as "absolutely beautiful." And it tastes as good as it looks -- "you rocked it," Cat declares. Whitney doesn't feel very confident about her dish, and for good reason -- her sauce is off-puttingly runny and her fish is under-seasoned. Finally, it's Faruq -- and no, dear reader, I didn't skip over Lee, Sheetal and Tony. Your MasterChef editors apparently decided their attempts to ape Cat Cora were neither overly successful nor horribly train-wrecky, so you will be spared their moment of judgment. Oh, and Faruq? The sauce should have been whisked more and the salsa's a little dry, Cat thinks. Gordon finds the fish too dry. Suddenly, Faruq's confidence seems horribly misplaced.