Demi and Caitie’s MKR scandal

Confession time: we half expected Melbourne besties Caitie and Demi to be the Ash and Bek of Group 3.

Like the Perth pals, they’re the young, giggly girls of their group - but would their cooking skills be as bad as Ash and Bek’s record-breaking low?

It’s time to find out as the second episode of Colin’s group takes us to the Uni students’ Instant Restaurant, Vogue Chic. Named for their love of fashion, of course.

The gals say they love “fusion” food, and they try to combine Italian and Japanese whenever they can.

With the two cuisines being so vastly different, it sounds like a disaster in the making! As Colin ponders: “if this young and brave, or young and naïve?”

We don’t know, Col, but we love your thinking face!

After shopping, prepping and welcoming the guests, the gals get down to making their special Japanese mayo, which has a very controversial ingredient: MSG.

Of course, judge Darren Robertson comes in just as they’re using the MSG – the timing is uncanny, right?!

We don’t usually like using MSG,” Demi admits. “For this mayonnaise, we’ve tried making it without MSG and it just doesn’t have the right consistency to it.”

See, the girls think it is a thickening agent – until Darren sets them straight that it’s a flavour enchancer. In a cooking competition. The girls can’t believe how stupid they’ve been, but it’s too late now!

When they serve up their entré of bundt salmon sushi complete with the mayo, Darren makes them ‘fess up to what they added to the dish and everyone is most displeased – especially Colin.

The girls stand there looking like school kids that have just been yelled at. Aw, chins up ladies!

They work hard on their Japanese burger in an effort to redeem themselves and it is a big fat fail – even with the big “Kardashian” buns the girls have made.

Still feeling the sting of being yelled at for the MSG, the budding fashionistas take the criticism hard. “I know you’re saying it’s fusion,” Colin says. “But they’re conflicting flavours and it sort of ends up as confusion.”

Caitie bursts into tears after this stern dressing-down. So it’s time for a Fassnidge pep talk!

“Sometimes the best thing to happen to you is to get knocked down,” he says, as a million hearts break around the country. “Because if you don’t get knocked down you can’t get back up.” This just in: Colin is actually a big softie!

Buoyed by this wise advice, the girls bounce back into the kitchen for their big finale: matchamisu. Yes, it’s more fusion and yes, it looks like something that would grow in a swamp, but it’s their last hope.

“This was your best course yet,” says a very nice person that used to be Colin but now we don’t know who he is.

“Your Italian-Japanese fusion, you actually pulled this off. And I’m so glad you did.”

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One person isn’t as impressed. “I think this is a one time expedition into the world of Japanese-Italian fusion,” Cyn the villain sniffs.

Still, the girls score a very respectable 60 – Ash and Bek wish they could have pulled that off!

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