“MasterChef Italia 10”, who is the eliminated of the last episode (between Iginio Massari and Karime Lopez)

It should have been the toughest chef dish Karime Lopez to condemn the competitors of MasterChef Italy. Instead, it was the simplest dish that did the most damage: a tostada with hibiscus, raw fish, a chipotle mayonnaise. Ilda, a rare gem in Sky’s kitchen, the only one among the competitors not to have adopted conspiracy logic, could do nothing in front of Karime Lopez’s starred dish. And, with a smile, he left the competition. “I hope you can take something of me with you, as I will take something of you with me,” she said, placid and ethereal, before leaving her competition mates for one of the most feared tests.

Iginio Massari entered a MasterChef, substitute for external tests. He asked the competitors to try their hand at a Skill Test, a test of skill conducted on several levels. Anyone who did not pass to the former would have lent themselves to the latter. The worst of the second would become the challengers of the third. Evidence, from which he was relieved Antonio, best at the Mystery Box and the Invention Test, opened with pastry. Iginio Massari ordered the aspiring chefs to cook a tiramisu, including ladyfingers, inside a tempered chocolate sphere to be melted, then, with a hot chocolate sauce. Disaster.

For the first time in the history of talent Sky, only one competitor managed to bring a dish to the tasting. Max, the «old fox» of the tenth edition, has made a perfect dessert, «The best in the history of MasterChef», Massari swore, leaving the other and disheartened challengers to face the second test, hatched by Giorgio Locatelli. The chef ordered cooking a chicken, or part of it, in a bladder. Someone made it, someone else didn’t. The worst of the test found themselves having to cook a third time, a dish proposed by Antonino Cannavacciuolo.

The Neapolitan chef would have liked to taste the flavors of a family inside a stuffed chicken neck, but Igor – the worst of the worst – dared too much. The Venetian singer has sinned with what the ancient Greeks would have called «hubris», by performing the hand drawing – and with sauce – of a hen whose neck is pulled. «It takes years and years and years and years and years of experience before being able to do a freehand decoration», Cannavacciuolo warned him, before deciding on its elimination.

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