Gary and his darn sauce addiction!! You think that they would have realised that he needs pints of the stuff

I wonder how many times we've heard 'push' tonight. And how many we'll hear tomorrow.

See you in the final Matt!

She said she didn't want to keep the diners waiting but surely the second or two it'd take for an extra squirt of sauce wouldn't have really mattered?

It's meaningless.

Like 'like' and 'basically'

He should have served them for main too. They would have given him the title on the spot.

The subtitles just claimed that Brett said something from the gantry but I still haven't spotted him. Not that I've been really looking.

My guess is that is her commentating on it afterwards when she was told it would've been better with more sauce. At the time she probably didn't realise.

And how annoyIng is it to turn everything into a question?

Ha! I see what you did there?

I really can't call it between Harry and Elena, but if they go back to body of work, Elena 100%

Harry really pulled it back. Not quite enough, I suspect.

No, that's what she said as she was plating - didn't make any sense to me and still doesn't.

No, it was odd - another squeeze or two would take a fraction of a second per plate, surely.

Excuse me, I have something in my eye ....

My allergies just kicked in.

It was played out at that point but it was a voiceover from the next days recording of her piece to camera.

I don't like George starting off the whole shebang by pretty much going "yeah we'd like it on time, but the criteria for judging is deliciousness". In other words, why not just run a bit late and make it extra good? And why not reduce Shannon's role to basically just saying "work faster" a lot?

Regardless of that the right result. But I'm surprised how Elena managed to claw back that half hour she lost, it wasn't really clear how she did it!

Oh right, so it was really just a bullshit excuse for the fact that she had enough sauce, should have used more - but didn't

Sign of the times.

An MCA post truth.

If it's good enough for politics.......

MCA are pretty bad for this. You can tell by two things, change of background noise and MCA are pretty linear, if you see them say it, they are saying it live but if you hear it but don't see them say it, its a voiceover.

Hell's Kitchen is by far the worst though. Ramsey must muff up his lines all the time as we alternate between live and voiceover every other sentence seemingly!

I haven't seen HK but from what I've seen of Ramsay he only has a limited vocabulary - mostly bleep, wow and amazing - so it's probably difficult for him to learn different words.

That is really well-observed

Personally, I'd rather she had said 'I wish I put more sauce on the plates - silly of me not to'

I've seen seared tuna so many times on these shows that I decided to cook some myself a couple weeks ago. (Previously I'd only ever had canned tuna.) I rubbed some salt and oil into it and added some herbs. After searing it looked like it does on the shows - cooked on the outside and raw in the middle. Maybe I did a lousy job but I wasn't impressed. It's a dense fish and it had hardly any taste.

Verdict: Canned tuna is better.

Thanks for that, I have so far have been wary about eating raw fish. After tonight's MCA I thought about giving it a go, but will continue to give it a miss!! you have saved me a tummy ache! Thx.

That round should have been judged on a blind tasting so it wasn't influenced by who cooked it but on plateing & taste. I still think the same 2 would have got to the final though. I do like it when Shannon is on he is been a good addition to the team.