They made Usha tais exit so dramatic!!! But honestly today Teja deserved to go. Usha tais dish had better comments and probably even looked better. This inspite of it being a badly presented dish.
I’m still baffled at Tejas decision to go with the box where she had to use multiple ingredients. I can understand why Usha tai chose that box.
1. Rajiv made a lemon drizzle and lemon and mint sorbet with some sweet potato puree and some sauce. His cake was amazing. To me his plating wasn’t bad, not his best but still good. Don’t know why the nasty comments.
2. Archana made Australian lime chicken and lemon rice with caramel pickle and salad. I’m glad she chose savory since the other two went the sweet way. Her dish looked delicious. And she got some lovely comments and was sent straight to the safe zone. Wonder why no spoon tap for her.
3. Usha tai - poor plating. She made full stuffed fish and rice with mulberry sauce and a dill chutney. First her fish was dry and her dill chutney bitter. Anyone who is familiar with ingredients knows too much dill is bitter. I know Maharashtrians cook a lot of dill, so I expected her to do better. Her mulberry sauce was really good.
Teja - she made rice cakes with fish and some berry sauce and Brazil nut butter. Her dish looked unappetizing and apparently except for the fish everything was average or below average. Under normal circumstances she should’ve left. There was not a single element that wowed.
Gaurav - he made an Australian lime ice cream, almond cake, mulberry sauce and tuille. Beautiful presentation, and his ice cream was praised highly. Sent to the safe zone.
Eventually Rajiv was declared safe and Usha tai and Teja were bottom two.
I was waiting for Usha tai to leave, but today she deserved to stay over Teja. We’ve always said they’re biased and are very lenient with Usha tai, but today it was against her.