MasterChef South Africa’s Top 15 contestants cook for the apple of their eye
At the end of the first nerve-wracking episode of MasterChef South Africa Season 5, fifteen diverse home cooks received their MasterChef aprons after a gruelling final audition cook-off, which sent five aspiring Masterchefs home.
Now, it’s truly game on! If the Top 15 want to scoop up the coveted title of MasterChef, they will have to impress the picky judges – Zola Nene, Justine Drake and Katlego Mlambo – week after week with mouthwatering dishes plated for a king.
While the contestants come from various backgrounds and have different food dreams, which winning MasterChef South Africa will unlock, they all share one ingredient – an incredible passion for food.
In episode 2 of MasterChef South Africa Season 5, now in its new home on SABC, they will have the chance to express their culinary love language and how they cook from the heart. The judges will challenge them to prepare an elegant dish for the “apple of their eye“, in other words, the person or people they love the most in the world. And, yes, they must use freshly stocked apples from the Pick n Pay pantry.
As these MasterChef South Africa contestants prepare their “edible love letter“, we will learn much about the memories this particular dish evokes for them and their own culinary love stories.
Meanwhile, the Top 15 MasterChef Season 5 contenders are: Amogelang Maluleka, Bridget Mangwandi, Chanel Brink, Ketsia Malela, Lona Rode, Melanie van der Merwe, Nabila Beulah Shamshum, Naledi Matshitse, Tinashe “Nash” Zambila, Penelope “Penny” Rider, Refe Dimbaza, Shreya Beekum, Tebogo (Tebz), Tzu Ting Long (Tina), and Zakariyya Ebrahim (Zak).
The MasterChef South Africa kitchen is equipped with products from: @home, Beko (appliances), Durbanville Hills Winery, Edison Stone (Wüsthoff knives), Setamono Hibachi (grills), Chef Gear (aprons and chef jackets), My Butcher’s Block, and Mervyn Gers (bespoke crockery). Among the other sponsors are LED Lighting SA and YOCO.
MasterChef South Africa Season 5 airs on S3 (formerly SABC 3) on Saturdays at 19:30, with a rebroadcast on S3 on Sundays at 18:30 and SABC 2 on Wednesdays at 18:00.
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