MasterChef (Season 2)

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Season 2 of the American competitive reality television series MasterChef had a two-night premiere on Fox on June 6 and 7, 2011. At the end of the third episode, which aired on June 13, 2011, the judges had tasted all 100 dishes and given white MasterChef aprons to 38 contestants. In the fourth episode that aired on June 14, 2011, the judges cut that number down to 18 contestants.

Contestants

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Contestant	Age	Hometown	Occupation	Status
Jennifer Behm	34	Wilmington, Delaware	Realtor	Winner 16 August
Adrien Nieto	28	Ventura, California	Server
Christian Collins	31		Stay-at-home dad	Eliminated 16 August
Suzy Singh	27	Chicago, Illinois	Neural Engineer	Eliminated 15 August
Ben Starr	33	Dallas, Texas	Travel Writer	Eliminated 9 August
Tracy Kontos	32	Coral Springs, Florida	Sales Consultant	Eliminated 8 August
Derrick Prince	33	West Babylon, New York		Eliminated 2 August
Christine Corley	27	Sopchoppy, Florida	Single Mom	Eliminated 2 August
</ref>}}	37	Playa del Rey, California	Architect/Urban Planner	Eliminated 26 July
Giuseppe Morisco	38	Chicago, Illinois	Granite Salesman	Eliminated 19 July
Erryn Cobb	26	Chicago, Illinois	Public Relations	Eliminated 18 July
Esther Kang	28	Los Angeles, California	Lawyer	Eliminated 11 July
Jennie Kelley	37	Dallas, Texas	Musician	Eliminated 5 July
Max Kramer	18	New York, New York	Student	Eliminated 28 June
Alvin Schultz	28	Houston, Texas	Retail Manager	Eliminated 27 June
Tony Scruggs	52	Grant Park, Illinois	Truck Driver	Eliminated 21 June
Mark Raffaeli	35	Chicago, Illinois	Realtor	Eliminated 20 June
	37	Columbus, Ohio	Property Manager	Eliminated 20 June

Elimination table

Place	Contestant	Episode
Place	Contestant	4	5		6	7		8	9		10	11		12	13		14	15		16	17		18	19		20
1	Jennifer	Top 18	IN	IN	LOW	LOW	IN	WIN	WIN	IN	PT	WIN	LOW	WIN	IN	LOW	PT	WIN	IN	PT	HIGH	LOW	WIN	LOW	IN	WINNER
2	Adrien		IN	IN	WIN	WIN	IN	NPT	HIGH	LOW	WIN	IN	LOW	WIN	WIN	IN	PT	HIGH	IN	LOW	HIGH	LOW	WIN	WIN	IN
3	Christian		WIN	IMM	PT	IN	IN	WIN	LOW	WIN	WIN	IN	IN	WIN	HIGH	WIN	LOW	IN	IN	WIN	IN	LOW	PT	IN	ELIM
4	Suzy	Top 18	HIGH	IN	WIN	IN	IN	WIN	IN	IN	LOW	IN	IN	PT	IN	LOW	WIN	HIGH	WIN	WIN	IN	WIN	ELIM
5	Ben	Top 18	LOW	IN	WIN	IN	IN	NPT	IN	WIN	PT	IN	IN	PT	HIGH	IN	WIN	IN	LOW	WIN	WIN	ELIM
6	Tracy	Top 18	IN	IN	PT	HIGH	WIN	WIN	IN	IN	PT	IN	WIN	WIN	IN	IN	WIN	IN	WIN	ELIM
7	Derrick	Top 18	IN	WIN	WIN	IN	IN	NPT	IN	IN	WIN	HIGH	IN	LOW	IN	IN	PT	IN	ELIM
8	Christine	Top 18	IN	IN	WIN	IN	IN	PT	IN	IN	LOW	IN	IN	WIN	IN	WIN	WIN	IN	ELIM
9	Alejandra	Top 18	IN	IN	PT	HIGH	IN	WIN	HIGH	LOW	WIN	HIGH	IN	PT	IN	ELIM
10	Giuseppe	Top 18	IN	IN	PT	IN	IN	WIN	IN	IN	WIN	IN	WIN	ELIM
11	Erryn	Top 18	IN	LOW	WIN	IN	IN	WIN	IN	IN	WIN	LOW	ELIM
12	Esther	Top 18	IN	IN	LOW	IN	WIN	NPT	IN	IN	ELIM
13	Jennie	Top 18	HIGH	IN	WIN	IN	LOW	NPT	IN	ELIM
14	Max	Top 18	IN	WIN	PT	IN	LOW	ELIM
15	Alvin	Top 18	IN	IN	WIN	IN	ELIM
16	Tony	Top 18	IN	IN	ELIM
17	Mark	Top 18	IN	ELIM
18	Angel	Top 18	IN	ELIM

{{colorbox}} (WINNER) This cook won the competition.

{{colorbox}} (RUNNER-UP) This cook received second place.

{{colorbox}} (Top 18) The cook won a place in the Top 18.

{{colorbox}} (WIN) The cook won the individual challenge (Mystery Box Challenge or Invention Test) and received an advantage in the next challenge.

{{colorbox}} (WIN) The cook was on the winning team in the Team Challenge and was safe from the Pressure Test.

{{colorbox}} (HIGH) The cook was one of the top entries in the individual challenge, but did not win.

{{colorbox}} (IN) The cook was not selected as a top entry or bottom entry in the challenge.

{{colorbox}} (IMM) The cook won the Mystery Box Challenge and did not have to compete in the Invention Test.

{{colorbox}} (PT) The cook was on the losing team in the Team Challenge, competed in the pressure test, and advanced.

{{colorbox}} (NPT) The cook was on the losing team in the Team Challenge, but did not compete in the pressure test, and advanced.

{{colorbox}} (LOW) The cook was one of the bottom entries in an individual elimination challenge, but was not the last person to advance.

{{colorbox}} (LOW) The cook was one of the bottom entries in an individual elimination challenge, and was the last person to advance.

{{colorbox}} (ELIM) The cook was eliminated from MasterChef.

Episodes

Ep #	Original airdate	Episode Title / Event
1	Monday June 6, 2011	Audition 1
2	Tuesday June 7, 2011	Audition 2
3	Monday June 13, 2011	Audition 3
4	Tuesday June 14, 2011	Top 38 Basic Skills Challenge - The thirty eight contestants had to demonstrate their knife work by creating perfectly even slices of green apple. They had to continue slicing until stopped by one of the judges, when they would find out if they were going through or going home. Twenty four contestants remained after this round. For the second round the contestants had to cook a chicken dish. Six more were eliminated, leaving the top eighteen.
5	Monday June 20, 2011	Mystery Box Challenge 1 - The contestants had to prepare a dish using only the Mystery Box ingredients. Ben's strawberry balsamic and overcooked salmon was deemed as "hideous" earning him last place. The top three were Suzy, Christian and Jennie. Christian won the challenge with his Pistachio-crusted salmon. His prize was to choose the style of food that everyone would cook for the elimination challenge. Elimination Challenge 1 - The theme for this challenge was the cuisine of Europe. Christian chose French cuisine and also received safety from elimination, while the others had one hour to make their French dish. Derrick's French Cheese Puff Stuffed with Poached Egg and Max's Poached Cod in Cream Sauce earned them the top two spots and the job of team captain in the next challenge. The bottom three were Angel, Erryn and Mark. Angel was the first to be eliminated after a "horrendously executed" fruit tart, and Mark was eliminated for putting uncooked flour in his potatoes.
6	Tuesday June 21, 2011	Team Challenge 1 - The contestants were split into two teams chosen by Derrick and Max. The teams had to create a five-course meal for 350 busy office workers in the building. The service had to consist of soup, a salad, pizza, a special entree and dessert. At the end of service, each diner would vote for their favorite dish. The Blue Team ran out of meat and had to switch to chicken sandwiches, securing enough points for the Red Team to win and sending the Blue Team into the Pressure Test. Pressure Test Elimination 1 - The Blue Team members had to an hour to cook a simple ravioli with spinach and ricotta filling from scratch, finished with a simple butter sauce preventing them from disguising a bad pasta. The bottom three were Esther (whose filling had an aftertaste that she could not identify the source of), Jennifer (who ruined the flavor of her pasta by adding nutmeg), and Tony (whose ravioli was very poor on all counts). In the end, Tony was eliminated.
7	Monday June 27, 2011	Mystery Box Challenge 2 - The contestants had to prepare a dish using only the Mystery Box ingredients, including New Zealand lamb. Jennifer's dish stood out as the worst as her lamb was completely raw. Alejandra, Adrien and Tracy landed in the top 3. Adrien won with his Farmer's Market Lamb with Cauliflower Puree. He won the opportunity to choose the theme for himself, and then everyone else in the elimination challenge. Elimination Challenge 2 - The theme for the challenge was dessert. Adrien was given the option of coffee, pineapple, and nuts. He chose nuts for himself and coffee for everyone else to use. The contestants had 90 minutes to prepare a dessert. Tracy's Espresso Chocolate Flourless Cake and Esther's Coffee Cheesecake were chosen as the two best and they became the captains for the next team challenge. Jennie, Max and Alvin landed in the bottom. While Max's Torte de Crepes was called horrible by Chef Ramsay, Alvin was eliminated for his Coffee-filled Beignets w/ Coffee Chicory Pudding which Chef Elliot simply referred to as "offensive". Chefs Ramsay and Bastianich also felt that Alvin's molecular gastronomy approach simply did not work for the competition, and advised him to "go back to basics" in the future.
8	Tuesday June 28, 2011	Team Challenge 2 - The contestants were split into two teams chosen by Tracy and Esther and were given 90 minutes to prepare sausage sandwiches for 100 bikers who would vote on which one was the best. Tracy's team made a Spicy Italian Pork Sausage w/ Caramelized Onions and Molasses while Esther's team made a Beer Soaked Sausage Patty w/ Drunken Onion and Pepper Relish. Despite an early setback when Christine and Max couldn't case the sausages, which was salvaged when Ben suggested turning them into patties, Esther's team had an early lead. Tracy's team decided to add banana peppers to their sandwich to give it a spicier flavor, which led to the blue team receiving 51 votes first for the win. Pressure Test Elimination 2 - Chef Ramsay announced that only two chefs would compete in the pressure test. He asked Esther to choose the two chefs most responsible for the loss and she chose Max and Christine due to their failure to case the sausages properly. Chef Ramsay offered Esther the opportunity to swap places with one of them, but she chose to join the rest of her team in safety. In the Pressure Test, Max and Christine were given three filets of steak to cook rare, medium, and well done. Despite Christine's well done steak being severely undercooked, her rare and medium steaks were perfect while all three of Max's steaks were slightly out, resulting in Max's elimination.
9	Tuesday July 5, 2011	Mystery Box Challenge 3 - The Mystery Box contained several vegetables and spices which the chefs used to create a vegetarian entree. Before tasting, the judges deemed Christian's dish as the worst, which Christian openly disagreed with to the judges. Jennifer, Adrien and Alejandra landed in the top 3, and Jennifer won the challenge with her Vegetable Terrine w/ Eggplant Wrap and Tomato Sauce. Elimination Challenge 3 - Jennifer was given three dishes cooked by last year's Masterchef winner, Whitney Miller, to choose from for everybody to cook. She chose her Crispy Catfish w/ Homemade Slaw and Sweet Potato Fries. The contestants had to recreate the dish with no recipe while Jennifer was given a basket of all the ingredients needed to cook the dish. Christian redeemed himself from the previous challenge, as did Ben who both became captains in the next team challenge. Alejandra (who inexplicably decided to flavor her tartar sauce with raw garlic), Adrien (for his incorrect plating), and Jennie were in the bottom 3, and Jennie was eliminated.
10	Monday July 11, 2011	Team Challenge 3 - The contestants arrived at Gordon Ramsay's restaurant at the London West Hollywood hotel in downtown L.A., where they were split up into teams by captains Christian and Ben, winners of the previous challenge. They catered for a Hollywood party and prepared hors d'oeuvres for all the guests, with a brief of vegetable, beef and a dessert. The winners would be decided per course, by guests' votes. The Red Team took the starter with 64% of the votes for Adrien's Duo of Gazpacho, which beat out Suzy's more tradition Gazpacho. The Blue Team had a crushing comeback on the entrée with a clean sweep of 100% of the votes for Christine's Mini Beef Wellington, after not a single guest had anything positive to say about Derrick's Steak Tartare. The dessert course proved problematic for both teams, as they both wanted to make a profiterole dish, but failed to put it up in time. Giuseppe (Red Team) decided to switch over to a Puff Pastry Fruit Tart after botching his first batch of profiteroles, whereas Esther (Blue Team) made 3 batches of dough and managed to finish her profiteroles, but a split chocolate mousse filling caused them to have to change their dessert to a simple Fruit Cup with Whipped Cream. Giuseppe's quick thinking paid off as the Red Team took the dessert course and the challenge with a close 53% of the vote, with the Blue Team up for elimination. Pressure Test Elimination 3 - Everyone on the Blue Team was given 2 hours to make a cake with a minimum of 6 layers of sponge. Judges raved over Ben and Jennifer's cakes and Tracy's was also good enough to be deemed safe from elimination. Next deemed safe was Christine, despite her "one-dimensional" cake with blackberries and double cream. It came down to Suzy's overcomplicated Chocolate Ganache Cake with Pecans and Esther's unbalanced and overly sweet and acidic Lemon Raspberry Cake. Esther's was deemed the weakest because of Suzy's delicious ganache, and she was eliminated.
11	Monday July 18, 2011	Mystery Box Challenge 4 - With a lobster in their Mystery Box, the contestants fired up their creativity. Derrick, Alejandra and Jennifer were the top 3. Christian, considered a seafood expert, showed disrespect towards the other contestants by eating his own dish during the tasting of Jennifer's dish, for which he got told off by Joe. Jennifer won the Mystery Box with her dish of Baked Lobster. Elimination Challenge 4 - In this challenge with an aphrodisiac theme, Jennifer got to pick from core ingredients of oysters, artichokes and truffles for everyone to cook with. She picked the very expensive truffle and was given the option to watch everyone cook from the balcony with a glass of champagne, but decided to stay and cook with everyone else. Tracy and Giuseppe were the top two and named captains for the next team challenge. Erryn, Adrien and Jennifer landed in the bottom 3. Jennifer, despite her advantage, failed to impress with her undercooked Cottled Eggs, Adrien's "categorical disaster" dish suffered from horrible plating and overpowering chilli and Erryn's dish was let down by burnt steak and crunchy vegetables. With Jennifer just barely deemed safe, Adrien and Erryn were left with two bad dishes, one of them deemed "the worst we've ever seen" by the judges. Chef Ramsay offered its implied creator the chance to step back from the competition, which Erryn graciously accepted as he resigned to let Adrien continue because "[at least] he cooked his steak perfectly".
12	Tuesday July 19, 2011	Team Challenge 4 - The red and blue teams each cooked a three-course menu under the scrutiny of the judges' moms, including Joe's mother, world famous chef Lidia Bastianich. The Blue Team won the challenge, despite a risky decision to cook a fish entrée, knowing Gordon's mother doesn't like fish. Pressure Test Elimination 4 - Giuseppe nearly got kicked out before the pressure test even started, after he enraged the judges by indirectly questioning the palates of the three mothers. The Red Team were given 30 minutes to create the perfect Eggs Benedict. Ben and Suzy were the only two to cook competent dishes, with only minor flaws. After they were declared safe, Giuseppe, Derrick and Alejandra were left. Alejandra failed to impress with her overcooked eggs "like golfballs" and botched hollandaise sauce, but was the third to be declared safe. The decision was between Giuseppe's messy dish with undercooked eggs and Derrick's with a lack of sauce. Ultimately, the judges decided that serving them raw eggs was the biggest mistake and Giuseppe was eliminated.
13	Tuesday July 26, 2011	Mystery Box Challenge 5 - The contestants, among other ingredients, found some hand-dived scallops in their Mystery Boxes. The top three consisted of Christian, Adrien and Ben. Adrien's Trio of Scallops won over Ben's risky combination of scallops and bananas. Elimination Challenge 5 - Adrien, as winner of the Mystery Box, got to choose between nine different cuts of pork, ranging from easy to hard. He chose double cut pork chops for himself, pork belly for Suzy, cheeks for Christian, ground pork for Jennifer, Applewood smoked bacon for Tracy, baby back ribs for Christine, boneless center cut pork loin for Alejandra, pork butt for Ben, and St. Louis style ribs for Derrick. The contestants only got 1 hour to cook their pork dish with pantry ingredients, making the tougher cuts very challenging to cook in time. Christian, who cooked the most difficult cut to perfection, and Christine, whose humble dish delighted the judges, were named team captains for the next challenge. Derrick and Ben (who narrowly averted disaster by removing over a dozen undercooked beans from his chilli) were also praised for doing wonders with difficult cuts. Adrien's dish was deemed overcooked. Suzy and Jennifer each cooked a dish that was bad enough to make the judges spit it out. Joe threw Jennifer's dish into the trash and the judges even told Suzy that her dish was the worst thing they had ever tasted on the show. Ultimately though, it was Alejandra who made the biggest mistake by serving up raw pork loin, considered the easiest cut. Alejandra was eliminated, but the judges told Suzy that she would have been the one sent home, were it not for Alejandra's error.
14	Monday August 1, 2011	Team Challenge 5 - With Christine and Christian as captains, the blue and red teams headed into a catering service for a children's party. Their menus had to contain a slider and a side dish. Despite their unorthodox menu choice according to the judges, the Red Team received the most votes in the end, avoiding what Chef Ramsay called "the toughest Pressure Test so far". Pressure Test Elimination 5 - Christian, Jennifer, Derrick and Adrien faced a soufflé challenge, in which they were given 90 minutes to cook their best savory soufflé. Due to the difficult timing and extremely delicate nature of the dish, they could put up their most successful soufflé at any time during the challenge and make as many for back-up as they wanted. Despite some minor technical errors or unbalanced flavors, the judges thought every contestant's soufflé was delicious, therefore no one was eliminated.
15	Tuesday August 2, 2011	Mystery Box Challenge 6 - In a Mystery Box with a surf and turf theme, contestants were to cook a dish with core ingredients of beef and seafood. Adrien, Jennifer and Suzy landed in the top 3 and it was Jennifer's well-conceived risotto that sealed the win and the advantage of getting to pick the dish for the next challenge. Elimination Challenge 6 - Winner Jennifer got to pick from the three judges' childhood favorite dishes, being Joe's Pizza, Graham's Mac 'n' Cheese and Gordon's Tomato Soup with Grilled Cheese. She picked Gordon's dish and the contestants were to turn it into a gourmet dish. Christine's acidic soup and oily cheese toast and Derrick's cheese-laden unbalanced dish were enough to eliminate both contestants. Just before Derrick left, Chef Bastianich implied that he would be willing to employ Derrick at his restaurant.
16	Monday August 8, 2011	Team Challenge 6 - The top 6 were taken to Michelin-starred Patina restaurant in Los Angeles, where they had to run a dinner service. Tracy selected Adrien and Jennifer as part of her Blue Team, whereas Christian and Ben cooked with Suzy in the Red Team. There was chaos in the kitchen, but both teams managed to correct themselves in the end. The Red Team was declared the winner based on kitchen performance and feedback from the customers and the chefs at Patina. Pressure Test Elimination 6 - Tracy, Jennifer and Adrien faced off in a Pressure Test with a salmon theme. They were to correctly fillet a whole salmon and cut it into at least 10 portions. They then had to cook one portion and serve it to the judges. Jennifer performed best overall despite undercooking her salmon and it came down to poor performances from Adrien and Tracy. In the end, leaving the tail on her fish, uneven portioning and her undercooked salmon sealed Tracy's elimination. As a parting gift, the judges gave her a year of culinary lessons, and offered to let her work in any of their restaurants.
17	Tuesday August 9. 2011	Mystery Box Challenge 7 - The contestants were given three kinds of ground meat as a core ingredient for a dish of their choosing with other ingredients from the box, which they had to cook within 60 minutes. The top 3 consisted of Jennifer, Adrien and Ben, with the latter's Shepherd's Pie (made with ground veal instead of the traditional ground mutton) emerging triumphant. Elimination Challenge 7 - Ben, having won his first Mystery Box, got to pick one of Gordon Ramsay's signature dishes for everyone to cook with a spot in the top 4 at stake. He also got to ask Gordon three questions about the recipe, with no recipe given to the other contestants. Suzy's dish was deemed the overall best and almost a perfect copy of the original, except for being slightly too rich with butter. All the other contestants produced dishes that were "below par". Ultimately, it was Ben who was eliminated for overcooking his venison and overreducing his red wine sauce, despite his advantages.
18	Monday August 15, 2011	Team Challenge 7 - The top 4 were divided in two teams and cooked a dish for the judges, who were joined by 3 judges from international versions of MasterChef: Kunal Kapoor (India), Sébastien Demorand (France) and Michal Ansky (Israel). As the winner of the last elimination challenge, Suzy was allowed to pick which of the other three chefs she wanted to work with, and chose Christian. Suzy and Christian received some criticism on their Thanksgiving Dinner with Raspberry Coulis. Ansky thought the sauce was floury and although everyone agreed the elements were well-executed overall, Joe thought of the dish as "disrespectful" towards the international guests and exuding "a lot of animosity" between Christian and Suzy. Jennifer and Adrien's dish of Prawns with Lobster, Corn and Avocado was panned by critics for having uncleaned prawns, "watery" sauce, lack of seasoning, texture and presentation. Their team work was, however, a lot better, which ended up earning them the win for this challenge. Pressure Test Elimination 7 - With the Blue Team of Adrien and Jennifer safely in the top 3 of the competition, Suzy and Christian went head-to-head in a Pressure Test. They were given 90 minutes to recreate a Lemon Meringue Pie. Suzy's pie didn't look very attractive, had raw meringue and was too weak in texture, but the judges liked her lemon curd. Christian's dish looked better overall and had good flavor and structure, but suffered from a bad meringue as the sugar wasn't incorporated properly. Overall, the judges described the situation as "Christian's looks better than it tastes and Suzy's tastes better than it looks". Despite her reputation as this series' dessert queen, Suzy's pie fell short of the mark as her performance in the kitchen led to a teary elimination.
19	Tuesday August 16, 2011	Mystery Box Challenge 8 - The final 3 chefs were asked to cook a dish using chicken once again in 1 hour with an open pantry. Jennifer received some criticism on her dish, which suffered from both overcooked and undercooked elements. All three judges were very impressed with Adrien's dish, but only had minor compliments for Christian's. Jennifer was announced as being the least favorite dish, coming in third place. Adrien won the challenge. Elimination Challenge 8 - Adrien, Jennifer and Christian were lead once again to be shown what their challenge would consist of. In this case, it would be ingredients that were three of Joe's favorite. Due to winning the Mystery Box, Adrien got to choose his ingredient, from octopus, veal, or mushrooms. He strategically chose the octopus. Christian then got the chance to choose both his, and Jennifer's ingredient for their entrees. Christian chose veal to try and give Jennifer the worst, but Jennifer then explained she was thrilled to work with mushrooms. Adrien was commended for nearly every element on his dish, especially his core ingredient of octopus, with only his rice not proving very successful. Christian's dish again suffered in presentation, and despite a perfectly cooked veal chop and good mash, other elements such as the vegetables were lacking as Ramsay called it "not his best dish". Jennifer's risky dish of Egg Yolk Ravioli was raved over by the judges, except lacking in terms of seasoning and slightly undercooked pasta. Adrien was the first person to take a place in the final, leaving it down to old competition rivals Christian and Jennifer. Jennifer was declared the second finalist, sending Christain home.
20	Tuesday August 16, 2011	Season Final - Adrien and Jennifer faced off in a single challenge to determine who wins the title of MasterChef and $250,000. They were given 2 hours to create a three-course menu of their choosing. Starter: Jennifer's starter of Pan Seared Scallops with Quail Egg, Creamed Corn and Pea Puree divided the judges in terms of presentation, but they all agreed that - despite perfectly seared scallops - it needed acidity to cut through its inherent richness and she should have checked her scallops for the chewy abductor muscle. Adrien's Spot Prawn Taquitos with Avocado Sauce, Masago and Micro Greens received big kudos in terms of presentation, but was deemed "too fresh" as the hero element of prawn was lost in the dish's overpowering acidity. Joe quoted that "Adrien's dish could have used a bit of Jennifer's richness [...] and Jennifer's dish could have used [...] Adrien's [...] acidity". Entree: Jennifer's entree of Stuffed Quail with Creamy Potatoes and Spinach was raved over by the judges, both in terms of flavor and execution, with a perfectly roast quail showing a lot of technique. Adrien's Beer Braised Short Ribs with Cauliflower-Parsnip Puree and Rainbow Chard also met with raptures from all judges, hailing his presentation, balance of flavor and the use of humble ingredients to create a dish that "nearly brought tears" to Chef Ramsay's eyes. Dessert: Jennifer's Braised Pear with Poached Apples and Mascarpone was deemed "a big anticlimax" by Gordon and "a pre-dessert" by Joe. Receiving similarly bad criticism, Adrien's Flourless Chocolate Cake Infused with Blood Orange, Passion Fruit and Chipotle according to all judges was dry and the complete opposite of his successful entree. Winner Revealed - Jennifer was pronounced the winner of the competition, taking away $250,000 and the MasterChef title. The reveal was followed by a final casting call for the third season by Gordon Ramsay.

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