You can learn a lot by watching FOX’s “MasterChef,”the reality-TV competition that features Venturan Adrien Nieto among the home cooks attempting to slice and dice their respective ways to the $250,000 grand prize.
First: Using uncooked flour to thicken your mashed potatoes constitutes such a culinary blunder that series judge Joe Bastianich will toss you out on your spatula, no questions asked. (Buh-bye, Illinois real estate broker Mark Raffaeli.)
Second: Putting a pinch of nutmeg in the dough for your spinach-ricotta ravioli will make the veins on judge Gordon Ramsay’s forehead throb — but won’t get you booted from the show if another cook does something worse. (That was a close one, real estate agent Jennifer Behm.)
And, finally, when four contestants show up at the same “MasterChef” viewing party, chances are very good that none of them is among the early eliminees.
That was the case June 13, when Nieto, Esther Kang of Los Angeles and Ben Starr of Lewisville, Texas converged on My Florist Winecafe& Bakery in Ventura to watch the debut of the second-to-last “audition” episode. (Friend and fellow competitor Christian Collins of Gloucester, Mass., was in attendance via a near-lifesize poster that showed him wearing a wetsuit and posing with a spear gun.)
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