Well, I was initially very excited about the Signature Dish challenge last night on MasterChef. I thought it would be a nice insight into what makes the top amateurs tick and drives them in their kitchens and cooking.
My understanding of a "Signature Dish" is something that you are known for, and that you know how to make successfully and well. A few of the contestants did that, Claire, Courtney, Adam, Alvin and Jimmy (who of course made a curry).
The others though seemed to understand "Signature Dish" to mean go nuts with a big budget on stuff you've always wondered about making. Callum chose pheasant. Now, if you're making your signature dish, wouldn't you assume that you'd have an idea of how much it would cost?
Aaron was just playing the nutty professor with his pasta and prawn creation. Sure try new mixtures and play around with ingredients and flavours, but when you're trying to show it as a signature dish, and trying to impress the likes of Matt Preston, Jacques Reymond, Kylie Kwong, Alla Wolf-Tasker and Mark Best.
The dishes put up by the others were excellent. I particularly like Courtney's Asian platter, and Adam's Seven Gods plate. I too would have likely put up an Asian dish, as that is my preferred style of cooking, and it is what people know me for being good at making too.
I do believe that Callum should have automatically been up for elimination for not serving his entire dish, that was very unfair. Not one of those chefs would allow an incomplete meal to leave the passe in their restaurants, and it should have been judged accordingly.
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