MasterChef Contestant’s Costly Mistake
A MasterChef star was sent home after a rookie mistake where he ‘nearly poisoned’ judges Gregg Wallace and John Torode. Peter, 49, accidentally covered his carrots in salt, not sugar, leaving the judges with shocked reactions.
The Blunder and Reactions
Handing over his oven-baked trout with ‘butter and sugar roasted carrots’, John, 58, was left with a disgusted look on his face, crying out ‘Woah’ after one bite. ‘What’s the acidic heat on the carrots?’ he probed, informing Peter: ‘I think you’ve mistaken the sugar for salt.’ ‘Yeah, you have,’ Gregg added.
The blunder ultimately cost Peter his place on the show, as he admitted: ‘The nerves really got hold of me in that dish there. ‘They say it’s not over till the fat lady sings, but I can hear her in the distance.’ After he was forced to leave the competition, he added: ‘I feel disappointed, I can’t hide that, anybody would.’ ‘I’ll maybe have a small chuckle to myself that I nearly poisoned John and Gregg with salt rather than sugar,’ he laughed.
Viewer Reactions
- Alan Meikle tweeted: ‘Masterchef probably isn’t the place to mistake salt for sugar to be fair.’
- Paulo commented: ‘Mistaking salt for sugar. Rookie mistake.’
- Sher expressed sympathy: ‘Peter has broken my heart. Poor guy.’
- Daniel Emerson tweeted: ‘I’m sure Peter’s a decent cook, but he’s had an utter nightmare under pressure.’
Additional Mistakes and Reactions
And that wasn’t Peter’s only error of the day, as earlier in the competition he managed to entirely burn some cabbage. ‘”Peter has burnt his cabbage” is a bit of an understatement. That’s fully cremated. You could scatter its ashes in a memorial park,’ Ariadne wrote on X.
‘Peter seems to be overcomplicating things,’ John warned, after hearing the details of the dish. And it turned out to be true, with Peter’s cabbage ruined. ‘I can’t believe I forgot about it,’ a defeated Peter said. ‘It’s like something for Halloween!’