WATCH: Blind Cheftestant Bakes Perfect Apple Pie With Zero Pastry Experience
Baking is not cooking. In baking there is no tasting, no guessing, no spicing up, no playing down, no adjusting. Only a recipe, precisely measured out, the success of which is unknown until you bite into your confection. So it’s kind of mind-blowing that MasterChef‘s first blind contestant Christine Ha pulled off a pristine apple pie without so much as being able to tell the color of her crust as it baked.
Christine admitted she was not a baker, and felt fully prepared to go home after this pressure cooker challenge, not knowing what she pulled out of the oven until she placed it before judge Gordon Ramsay for tasting. In a pretty remarkable moment, as far as cooking competitions go, he scrapes the top of her pie with a knife for her to hear how her crust came out before he tastes. Check out the clip below to watch Gordon restore Christine’s confidence in a tearfully inspirational moment.
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This episode was simply amazing, amazing. The producers and Gordon would be fools to let her leave the show until the last minute. She has every right to doubt herself though, and yet Gordon is right in insisting she be confident anyway. The site of that pie makes me so hungry right now, I can hardly stand it, by the way. My family watches each week from the couch and since my kids have to go to bed early (summer day care), they get to watch since we use the PrimeTime Anytime recording the next evening, and shorten our viewing time because we can watch commercial free with Auto Hop. That is a huge benefit because we’re enjoying TV AND we get more of what we pay for without the commercials: TV!