Melissa Leong, who hosts and judges Dessert Masters with Amaury Guichon, is right here to tempt your style buds with a bit slice of the brand new 10 present.
The sequence options Kirsten Tibballs, Jess Liemantara, Morgan Hipworth, Kay-Lene Tan, Gareth Whitton, Reynold Poernomo, Anna Polyviou, Andy Bowdy, Rhiann Mean, and Adriano Zumbo battling for a $100,000 prize.
This seems like a yummy model of MasterChef: Professionals dipped in chocolate?
ML: I like that, could I steal it for future use? It actually is MasterChef meets excessive idea sugar rush and I’m right here for it. To have such excessive calibre beings within the kitchen, throwing down the MasterChef gauntlet and seeing what pops, now that’s a present value watching!
Amaury seems like dream casting. What was he wish to work with?
ML: He actually is, in additional methods than one. To start, he’s the world’s hottest pastry chef proper now. His creations defy creativeness… and typically gravity. His course of movies garner as much as a billion views, and the way in which he approaches pastry as a self-discipline is in contrast to most. He additionally occurs to be a complete sweetheart, and type and beneficiant buddy, and his sense of humour is a superb factor to be round.
The calibre of contestants consists of a number of the prime names within the nation, along with MasterChef graduates. Are there reputations at stake right here?
ML: Of course! Let’s face it, no person is right here for the money. There are these amongst them who’ve set strain exams within the MC kitchen, there are those that have crushed them. Each have constructed a mode and a enterprise in pastry, they usually can say what they need, however pastry cooks are probably the most aggressive folks you’ll meet. Of course they wish to know if they will take this title out, in such sturdy firm. The one factor they’ve in frequent is that they know the way unpredictable, magical and in contrast to anyplace else on this planet that area is…and it’s invitation solely.
Visually it’s a really vibrant palette for a tasty palate. Are you anticipating children to be tempted by the candy stickiness of all of it?
ML: Desserts are magical, visible creations and it’s straightforward to fall in love with them…it’s why I do know Australia will love Dessert Masters. Will children be tempted? Probably…however not till after they’ve had their veggies.
Might this be even higher than MasterChef’s foremost occasion?
ML: There’s just one strategy to discover out, David!
Why did you resolve to maneuver on from the lead sequence and what’s subsequent for you?
ML: Without my time at MasterChef, I wouldn’t have realised my urge for food for telling tales that transcend meals. I really feel blessed to be given the chance to step away from MC to permit myself the area to see what else I can do…all of us deserve alternatives to increase and evolve. There are just a few initiatives within the pipeline, a few of them in tv and others not, all I can say proper now’s watch this area!
Dessert Masters 7:30pm Sunday – Wednesday on 10.
