My Kitchen Rules (MKR) 2024 judge Colin Fassnidge has revealed that this year’s season will see a team of contestants awarded the “highest-scoring food ever in 14 years”.
“There is a dish that got the highest score you can ever get,” he told Chattr in an interview. “That was like going to a Michelin-star restaurant and eating.”
“I would pay top money for that. And then there’s a dish I never want to see again. So it goes from both ends of the spectrum.”
Colin explained that he and Manu Fieldel aren’t necessarily looking for complex dishes from the contestants but ones that can be recreated at home.
“It’s a home cooking show, and I think something that puts a smile on your face or gives you a memory that you taste, and you go, wow, that brings you back,” he said.
“You want people to put their food on the plate and not try and recreate something just because it’s a show.”
MKR’s Colin Fassnidge thoughts about contestant’s who score competitively
The Instant Kitchen segment of MKR sees the first group of contestants travel around Australia as each team cooks in their own kitchen.
At the night’s end, the teams give the pair who cooked a score out of 10 – as do judges Manu and Colin.
The scoring method has led to some teams underscoring their competitors in the past to help them climb the My Kitchen Rules leaderboard.
Colin told Chattr that while contestants are allowed to use strategy when scoring, he doesn’t think it’s a good look.
“It’s their choice. But if they don’t want to look like a dick, pardon my French, on television when it comes out, that’s your call,” he said.
“I think they [this year’s contestants] were very aware of how they will be perceived this year because it’s like, obviously, if you watch the show, anyone who does that’s not really liked by the public, are they?”
What would Colin cook on MKR?
The esteemed chef and judge told Chattr that he knows exactly what he’d make if he were one of the MKR contestants cooking in the Instant Kitchen round.
“I would do a porchetta, so a stuffed pork belly,” he revealed. “But I’d stuff it with amazing herbs, like sorrel and chard, and make it into a pinwheel, so when you cut it, it’s the pork layered with the green.
“I make this green sauce, made of ginger and different things. Manu hates it because I always make it, but I would cook it and make colcannon which is an Irish fish potato dish.”
Is it just me, or is anyone else hungry?
Watch MKR 2024 on Mondays and Tuesdays at 7:30pm on Channel 7 and 7Plus.
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