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On this year's Great British Menu,

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Britain's most talented chefs are showing their funny sides.

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Hello, lads! Do youse need a hand?

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Yeah, I'm laughing!

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This week, three of the south-west's finest chefs,

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innovative young gun Peter Sanchez-Iglesias...

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Got to get it right. Got to get it exactly right.

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..classically trained Chris Eden...

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This means the absolute world to me now.

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..and rising star Emily Watkins...

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The temperature's rising a bit, but we're getting there.

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..are fighting for the chance to create culinary masterpieces

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to serve at a special banquet

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celebrating 25 years of Red Nose Day.

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Yesterday was a battle for the starter course.

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Just got to deal with it and get on with it.

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There was disappointment for Chris...

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I'm not really sure that you hit the total humour of the brief.

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..nerves got the better of Emily...

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I'm really, really unhappy with everything.

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..and as Peter was very late to the pass, Tom disciplined him...

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I'm going to give you a penalty point, Peter.

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-..but he still managed to come out on top.

-Well done.

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Today it's the fish course.

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Can Emily keep her nerve and get off the bottom spot?

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You look as if you are far more in control than yesterday.

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Don't say anything yet, Chris.

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And how will Chris react to our guest judge,

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his old boss, Phil Howard?

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It's even worse than yesterday for me now.

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And will Peter manage to get to the pass on time?

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One minute, Pete. Are you going to be late?

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No, not today.

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This year, the chefs' challenge is to entertain and delight

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with fun, witty dishes that are gastronomic works of art.

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They're also raising money and raising a smile

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in support of Comic Relief.

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Aargh!

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-How do I look?

-Dashing.

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All three chefs are out to win,

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but after yesterday's eventful starter,

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there's a lot riding on today's fish course.

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I really didn't feel proud of what I did yesterday,

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so I've really got to pull it together.

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This time I've got to make sure I'm definitely on time.

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I do not want another point deducted. No, no way.

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Judging their efforts is a veteran of the competition,

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two Michelin-starred chef Tom Kerridge.

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I am looking for innovation, creativity, and above all else,

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an amazing-tasting dish that makes me smile.

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But Tom isn't the only veteran they have to impress today.

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I have a shellfish allergy,

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so I've asked a chef to come in and give me a little hand.

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Tom has called in fellow two Michelin-starred chef

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and the winner of last year's fish course,

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who just happens to be Chris Eden's former head chef,

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Phil Howard.

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Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen.

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-Good afternoon.

-You've settled a little bit.

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How are you doing, all right? Nice to meet you.

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Chef.

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Well, we all know I have a bit of a shellfish allergy,

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so I've drafted in a good friend, Phil Howard.

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And don't worry, he will be tasting all three dishes,

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so it'll be completely fair across the board.

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As holder of the fish crown,

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let's hope that I find somebody to pass the baton to.

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I look forward to tasting.

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-See you later.

-See you in a bit.

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So, are you surprised?

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I'm massively surprised.

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I didn't expect a guy I used to work for to come and judge me.

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Oh, my God. You know what he likes!

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First up is innovative young gun Peter Sanchez-Iglesias,

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who bagged the top score of 8 yesterday for his nostalgic starter,

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despite being penalised for being late to the pass.

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Obviously I paid the price for it, but I'm going to learn from it,

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and then on my fish course I'm going to make sure I'm definitely on time.

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Fish course. What are we doing?

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We're doing seaside memories.

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One of the best things about being down at the sea is fish and chips.

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-OK.

-So I'm trying to capture the moment in time.

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We've got an amazing line-caught pollack here.

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-Is it going to be in batter?

-No. Just to keep it pure.

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And what else have we got?

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Just doing some scrumps.

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They're all the little bits of batter that are left over

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-at the end of frying.

-I wanted the batter on there,

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but I didn't want to put it around the fish,

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so I'll serve this separately,

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-then you're just going to sprinkle it over the top.

-OK.

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Some cornichons and some capers.

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Yes, cos it wouldn't be the same

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without a little bit of tartare sauce.

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Fish and chips normally contain chips.

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I can't see any potatoes in your box.

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I wanted to keep it very pure and just all about the fish.

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So it's kind of fish and chips with no chips and not deep-fried fish?

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Exactly. Phil?

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I like the sound of the dish,

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but my concern would be, fish and chips, we all love it,

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we all have memories of it,

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but it's got to somehow still deliver

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the same kind of satisfaction that fish and chips does.

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So at the minute, there doesn't seem to be a fun element.

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When you get the dish and have to serve it up and you have to help yourself to the scrumps,

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hopefully that'll just bring back all them great memories

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of when you're having fun, being next to the sea side.

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Peter's looking to stay out in front

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with his controversial twist on classic fish and chips,

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featuring oil-poached pollack, batter scrumps,

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pea puree and tartare sauce.

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Peter's use of pollack is an interesting one.

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It's sustainable,

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but it's not got a flavour profile that's really big and powerful.

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Scrumps are an amazing thing. Are they fine dining enough?

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It seems it's quite simple, not enough going on.

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Next up is classical chef Chris Eden.

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He missed the mark when it came to humour yesterday,

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scoring a disappointing 6 for his starter,

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but he's confident he can turn things around today.

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The fish course is one of my strongest courses,

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so I'm going to come in and try to execute the dish

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to the best of my ability. I just want to come back fighting now.

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What have we got here? What's the name of your dish?

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It's called Gone Surfing. It's really personal to me.

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It reminds me of going surfing when I was a kid.

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It just reminds me of my home.

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So we've got beautiful crab, we've got lovely lobsters,

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Cornish oysters from Fowey.

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They're going to be breaded,

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and then I'll make an oyster mayonnaise with it as well.

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Some candied fennel to give it some sweetness, so I'm going to mix

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wild rice and fennel together to create kind of a sandy crumb.

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Some pickled cucumber's going to be in there as well.

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-And in here we have seaweed, is that right?

-Yeah, yeah.

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When I make my pickling liquor,

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I'm going to infuse the nori into it.

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-As a dish, it's a salad...

-Yeah.

-is it a warm dish, cold dish?

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-No, it's going to be a cold salad.

-A cold salad.

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Because there's too many risk elements.

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I want to make sure I give somebody

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the best of what I can give them consistency-wise

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and absolutely impeccable flavours.

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The one thing that worried me with the last dish was

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-it seemed to lack that kind of fun edge.

-Yeah.

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How are we getting that into this dish?

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The way that I'm serving it, in a really fun, funky, quirky way.

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Chris is hoping to raise a smile

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with his witty homage to the Cornish coast.

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A crab and lobster salad,

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with a hot breaded oyster and quirky surfboard presentation.

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He's pickling some seaweed, he's pickling some cucumbers.

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It's really important he gets the balance right,

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otherwise the beautiful shellfish will be lost.

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Last to see Tom is rising star Emily Watkins,

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who, after crumbling in the heat of the kitchen yesterday,

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and scoring just 5 points, has got a lot to prove today.

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The starter score has made me even more determined.

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It's even more important for me to really knuckle down.

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I want to be proud of what I send out.

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What's the dish called?

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The dish is high tea. It's a bit of a kitsch dish, really.

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So what does it consist of? What have we got?

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Lovely brown trout there. It's got fantastic flavour on it, not muddy.

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-And then in here?

-Those lovely fennel herbs, etc.,

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Which will be going in the salt cure for the fish.

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As a fisherman, I've cooked my fair share of trout,

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and I've struggled to really make it shine.

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Are you confident you've got a box of ingredients there

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that you can compete against two seawater fish with?

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Hopefully I'm going to bring out those really delicate flavours

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and try and get the brown trout

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to be up there with the best of them.

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Are you using potatoes to do a...?

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There's going to be a potato toast on the side for your poached fish.

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-And the fun element is coming in the way that it's served?

-Yeah.

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I've essentially got a hollandaise on the plate,

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but it's not a hollandaise as you'd imagine it.

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Got an egg yolk puree,

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and then to get that buttery flavour into it as well

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we've got some beurre noisette finished over lemon zest,

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and that'll go into a salt shaker.

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-You don't seem as nervous today.

-Well. Hope so.

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Emily's combining simple flavours with innovative techniques

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for her nostalgic take on high tea,

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featuring brown trout, potato toasts

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and an unusual deconstructed hollandaise.

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Brown trout is a favourite for me.

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This sounds like it might be a little bit simple in execution,

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but if she gets the flavour profile right, it could be amazing.

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In the kitchen, rising star Emily

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is setting out to prove that she's got what it takes

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to get to the banquet, and gets straight to work

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on her clever deconstructed hollandaise.

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-Where does your dish come from?

-It's just that old thing about,

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you know, your grandma having a high tea telly supper,

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as they watch their favourite TV show.

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Emily obviously had a real tough time with her starters,

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but I think she's coming back.

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She's looking really, really confident over there,

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so it's going to be interesting to see what she puts up to the pass.

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With just one point between him and Emily,

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classically trained Chris knows he's got a fight on his hands

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to get through to the judges.

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He gets to grips with his crab and lobster.

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I'm just in the zone at the moment.

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I just want to make sure I do the best I can

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and score some points again.

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This means the absolute world to me now.

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Chris, how do you feel about Phil walking in, then?

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Yesterday was a really tough day,

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and today cooking for probably the highest-regarded chef

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I've ever worked for, and him judging me today

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is even worse than yesterday for me now.

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I hold him in the highest regard.

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That's quite exciting, then, that you've got him here,

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he's seen how far you've come in your own career.

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-Yeah, but he's still my chef, isn't he?

-Yeah.

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As well as competing to cook at the banquet,

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all the chefs are doing their bit

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to raise some much-needed funds for Comic Relief.

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True to his Cornish roots, Chris took to the surf.

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I had the most fantastic day when we went surfing

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in some European championships,

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and my heat was against the number one in Europe

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and the number two in England.

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The British Longboard Championships

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take place every year at Cornwall's Watergate Bay.

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Chris is no stranger to the surf,

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but hasn't stepped on a board in over a year.

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But to support Comic Relief, he volunteered to take part.

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I've never done any fundraising for Comic Relief,

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so this year, to put yourself out there,

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it's just been phenomenal. It's a huge honour to be doing this.

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In order to raise cash and score points,

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the pressure was on for Chris to stay on his board

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and ride as many waves as possible.

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He got the low-down from contest director Minnow Green.

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Out there at the moment in red is Alan Griffiths,

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who secured second in the British championship.

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That's quite a high standard that we'll be up against later today.

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Doesn't look that great out there.

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Not a good day to start your first contest,

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but at least the sun's shining.

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Chris' biggest supporters, wife Sam and son Lucas,

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set about collecting.

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-That's brilliant.

-Cheers. Thanks a lot.

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..while he tried to secure some extra funds from best friend Tom.

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If you can actually physically get out there, out the back,

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and you can physically actually catch a wave, I'll sponsor you.

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I'll sponsor you £10 a wave.

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-How much will give me for points?

-Oh, this could get expensive!

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-Ohhh! You've put me right on the spot.

-£10 a wave, £5 a point.

-Deal.

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-COMMENTATOR:

-'Trying to get back on the open face...'

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The competition streak inside of me is really strong.

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I haven't gone into this competition to come second.

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I really want to go through to the Comic Relief Banquet.

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Ohhh!

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And want to make sure that one of my four dishes

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represents the south-west.

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Did you see your daddy? Did you see him stand up?

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Come on, Chris, finish with a bang!

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CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

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I caught five waves that they were happy with,

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and I scored two and a half points,

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so I got sponsored per wave and for every point,

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so I got sponsored for points as well.

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And they've just given me 100 euros for coming third in my heat,

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so I just can't believe it.

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The money's going to go towards Comic Relief,

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and I did a hell of a lot better than I thought I would ever do.

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Winner of the day, champion surfer Ben Skinner, was impressed.

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What an effort. You can see how much it takes a toll surfing.

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If you don't do it very often, it's really hard work,

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but he did such a good job and he's raised the money for charity,

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which is the important thing.

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So, after making a splash along with some cash,

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Chris wanted to see if he could impress his fellow surfers

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with his breaded deep fried oyster and oyster mayonnaise.

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I hope you like oysters.

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It's not normally my favourite food. But I'll have a go.

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And then I've made some oyster mayonnaise,

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but because we've been surfing today,

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I'm going to call it my surf wax.

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OK? So, guys, do you want to dig in and maybe try some?

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-SURFERS: Yeah.

-Perfect.

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-Good.

-Yeah, it's good.

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Way, way better than I expected.

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Oh, amazing. Good job, mate.

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I've literally had the most amazing day.

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It's been absolutely fantastic.

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I've made loads of money for Comic Relief,

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and the guys' response to the oysters

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has just blown me away as well.

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It gives me a lot more confidence to go back into the kitchen now.

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Back in the harsh light of the kitchen, the pressure is on.

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Chris hopes his playful tribute to the Cornish coast

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will be just as popular with guest veteran Phil Howard,

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winner of last year's fish course and his ex-boss.

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-Hello, Chris.

-Morning, chef.

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I always like to see oysters coming out.

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They're such a great ingredient.

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These are Fowey oysters, so I'm going to do them two ways.

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I've lightly poached them and then blended them, created a mayonnaise.

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With a poached oyster?

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I've slightly poached them just to heighten

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the sea flavour of the oysters.

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And then with the oysters as well,

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I've just panneed these oysters here in egg whites,

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-and in breadcrumbs.

-There is nothing else like an oyster,

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and if you can bring it in in the right way,

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it can work miracles. I look forward to seeing how you do with it.

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Cheers, thank you.

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Nerves got the better of Emily yesterday

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and veteran Tom wants to know if she's on track

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as she cures her brown trout.

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Feeling happier?

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Yeah, I think so.

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I haven't really given myself chance to think about that.

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How long are these cured for, then?

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Just eight minutes, just to bring out that flavour.

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-And once it's cured, do you cook it at all afterwards?

-Yes.

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It's just a light cure, I'm drawing out some of the moisture

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and therefore bringing some flavours to it.

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After that, I'm going to be poaching it in a water bath.

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Hopefully, no-one's going to be too late on the pass,

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because I'm last up today.

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Do you hear that, Peter?

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No-one can be late up.

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I know, I know.

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We all know fish dishes.

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They're all about being cooked to the point

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and all about precision and timing.

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I think Peter's been pretty wounded by having a penalty point

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taken off his score, and I think that it's had the desired effect.

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I don't think he'll be going up late to the pass again.

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Young innovative chef Peter is determined

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to get top score again today,

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but Tom is curious about how he's planning to wittily re-invent

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the classic fish and chips.

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So how's the fish being cooked?

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Just in olive oil.

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Olive oil in the bath or in a bag in olive oil?

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It's olive oil and vegetable oil, so half and half,

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and then it's actually inside the bath, so it'll just be poaching.

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Going to be on time?

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I'm going to try and be on time, chef, definitely.

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There doesn't appear to be a great deal going on.

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He started off with a really innovative, creative dish,

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it was really good fun, and at the minute,

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it looks like this one's very, very simple.

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Chris is bringing more to the plate.

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To take his crab and lobster salad to the next level,

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he makes his playful sandy crumb,

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combining deep fried, candied fennel seeds with wild rice.

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So how does it feel that your old boss is here to taste your cooking?

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-Has he been down to your restaurant to eat?

-No.

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-So this is the first time he's eaten your food.

-Yeah.

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Rising star Emily plans to elevate her whimsical take on high tea

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with a complex deconstructed hollandaise.

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Hollandaise for me is wonderful, but it's very rich and very gloopy,

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and it's very... you know, it coats your mouth.

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This way of serving hollandaise

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may actually really lift the dish to new heights.

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With time ticking, she blitzes her sous vide cooked egg puree

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and turns her lemon-infused butter into a powder

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using a special drying agent.

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Emily missed the mark with technical elements of her starter,

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and can't afford to make the same mistakes today.

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Really need to make sure that I'm on top of those timings,

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making sure everything comes out absolutely when it's at its best.

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But innovative young gun Peter is first up to the pass

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and after being late yesterday, all eyes are on him.

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In a bid to score extra points and laughs,

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he makes his batter scrumps using an impressive piece of kit

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that's got rival Emily interested.

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Got a little cheeky device here.

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It's quite high-tech, that.

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I can't see the average fish and chippy doing that.

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No, definitely not, definitely not.

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He assembles his quirky condiments

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by piping his classic tartare sauce into jars,

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adding it to seaside pots with pebbles,

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along with atomizers filled with malt vinegar

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and batter scrumps in fun-sized cones.

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Pete, how are you looking?

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Yeah, almost ready, man. Just plating up right now.

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He spreads his pea puree onto the plate, topping with peas...

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-One minute, Pete. You going to be late?

-No, not today.

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..adds his pollack and finishes with a garnish of fresh pea shoots.

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There you go.

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And it's all on time!

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-And it's all on time, chief.

-Well done.

-Thank you.

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But at the end of the day, it is all in the eating.

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Shall we go and taste it?

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-Sprinkle them on.

-Sprinkle them.

-And then the atomizer.

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So this is the way of adding the vinegar.

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It's not for smell, it's not for...

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It's for smell as well, so you get that smell of, basically,

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fish and chips, when you open that bag.

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It's definitely malt vinegar. That's beautiful.

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-Tartare sauce?

-Yes, please.

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Proper tartare sauce as well. You've got everything in there.

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Is there enough flavour on the pollack?

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Yeah. I'm really happy with that. I like it.

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-It's a real clean fish.

-They're all perfectly even.

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It's not quite what I remember, is it?

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No, scrumps for me was big bits, little bits,

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chewy bits, crunchy bits.

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Are you happy that delivers the same pleasure you were looking for

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that fish and chips represented as a kid?

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I just wanted you to concentrate really on the fish,

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so I just tried to refine it,

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just get the texture across and that little flavour of batter.

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Try to make a refined scrump.

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Beautiful piece of fish and these scrumps are just to die for.

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And the tartare sauce - happy with the acidity coming through there?

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That's what I really want, that kind of sharpness,

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just to cut through everything.

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On paper, fish and chips sounds quite basic

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and kind of a really easy dish to knock out, but actually,

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there is a lot of skill here.

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Is this, do you think, ambitious enough to fit the brief?

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Next under fire is classically trained chef Chris.

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He wants to take the lead from front man Peter.

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The main person I'm looking at is Peter.

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He's the one that's ahead of the game,

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so he's the one that I want to chase down.

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He spreads squid ink on the boards

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and spoons on the lemon-dressed crab.

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Is that some of the white meat from the head as well?

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Yeah, exactly, yeah, yeah.

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-So, utilising the whole thing, you know.

-Using everything.

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Next, Chris adds his lobster sprinkled with fennel crumb

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and tops with his delicately pickled cucumber.

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For added comedy value, he squirts his oyster mayonnaise

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into surf wax tins and skewers his deep fried oysters.

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Finally he garnishes with edible leaves, sea purslane,

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fine strips of apple and more fennel crumb.

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Wow, that looks pretty amazing.

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This is me, as far as I'm concerned.

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It's my childhood, it's everything I love about Cornwall.

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I can't do any more.

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Unfortunately, I'm not the one that's going to be able to eat this.

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I'm going to pass you over to your old boss.

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It's a privilege to get to eat something that's had

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so much energy and effort put into it.

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Comic Relief surf wax.

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That's beautiful.

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-Very cool.

-So the squid, I think that's supposed to resemble

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-where you jump up and put your feet at the end of the board.

-Oh, right.

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-That's awesome.

-The deep-fried oyster,

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you happy with the cooking of it?

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For me, the oyster is crisp around the outside

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-and really soft in the middle of it.

-Go ahead.

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Mmm.

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That's really good. Absolutely perfectly cooked.

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Really soft in the middle.

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You think the dish needed the crab as well?

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I just wanted to showcase

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what brilliant shellfish we have in our waters.

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The crab just gives it that extra kick of seafood, doesn't it?

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-You know you're eating a fish course with that.

-Yeah, exactly.

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Does the fennel work with the rest of the flavours?

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I wanted to bring an element of crunch. For me,

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fennel, crab, lobster, all kind of marrying together as one.

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Yeah, it's quite interesting with that cucumber,

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because he put nori seaweed in it.

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Not so sure whether it adds a depth of sea flavour,

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but it definitely probably does something to it.

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You think there's enough there

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to offset the sheer quantity of protein on the plate?

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I say that there's an awful lot of fish on the plate,

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and it could perhaps be balanced with a little bit more garnish.

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It's good. Really good.

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-Fits the brief.

-I hope so.

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I don't know how it went. I didn't get a look-in on the oyster,

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so as far as I'm concerned, he must have enjoyed the oyster,

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but apart from that, I haven't got a clue.

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I thought all three shellfish components were cooked immaculately

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and tasted delicious, the lobster, the crab and the oyster.

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They were all spot on.

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I thought there was a bit too much of the shellfish altogether

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in terms of the quantity for a middle course.

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I also personally thought that,

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given the kind of Cornish nature of the whole story behind the dish,

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that he had a couple of ingredients there that just didn't quite...

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Yeah, I know what you're going to say -

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the fennel and the wild rice.

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You crunch on a fennel seed or two

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and that is going to be the predominant flavour.

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Last to be scrutinized is rising star Emily.

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With the lowest score and the most to lose,

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she's determined to hold her nerve.

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For her nostalgic take on high tea,

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she fries her potato and trout toasts

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and cuts them into triangles.

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You look as if you're far more in control than you were yesterday.

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Don't say anything yet, Chris.

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She adds her deconstructed hollandaise.

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What's these little pots? They look cool.

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That's the kind of DIY hollandaise. You've got your egg yolk puree,

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which has got the hollandaise reduction there.

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In the salt shakers, you've got beurre noisette.

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Oh, wicked. Looks amazing.

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She places her braised baby leeks on the plate

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along with her quirky fish tins

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filled with the delicately cured brown trout.

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Well, this looks like fun.

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Yeah, I hope so.

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Coming up last - is that worse than going first?

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No. It's much better going last.

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TOM LAUGHS

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Run me through the idea behind the dish.

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One thing led to another about the whole kind of era

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and kitschness about the dish

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and the whole presentation of it

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coming together to make you smile, basically.

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So that's an egg yolk emulsion?

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-And here we have?

-That's the lemon-infused beurre noisette.

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-Right, OK.

-It's been dried out.

-And sprinkle that...

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..liberally.

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Well, this is fun, isn't it?

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Very high tea-orientated, isn't it?

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Are you happy with the cook of that trout?

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Yeah, it's nice and soft.

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It just eats... whatever she's done to it,

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however she's cooked it, it just tastes delicious.

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Trout is perfect. Really, really perfect.

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Are you pleased with the toasts?

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They're not quite as crisp on the outside as I'd like them to be.

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And the texture in the middle of them?

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The texture could be a little more floury.

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Can you taste the smokiness from that trout coming through the toast?

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I can, yeah.

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It's supposed to have smoked trout in it. I see little bits of it.

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It's not as smoky as I thought it was going to be.

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So, the deconstructed hollandaise,

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do you think that works better than an actual hollandaise?

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You're getting that wonderful richness of the egg yolk

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coming through there, you're getting that beurre noisette flavour,

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really nice textures, so I was trying to get more to it

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than just a hollandaise.

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I love the egg yolk puree.

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I love this as well.

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Lemon and the beurre noisette. I think she's got it bang on.

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If you crack this one, are you a lot happier?

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I'm proud of this dish.

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I enjoyed eating it just now, and I hope you guys did as well.

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It's a really interactive dish. It's really fun. I'm worried.

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-So she's back into the running, big-time.

-She's back in the game.

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-Hooray, it's over. That was better.

-High five.

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-Yeah.

-What a comeback.

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Not sure about comeback. It's a long way to go.

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But it was a good start, anyway.

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Tough course. I wouldn't want to judge that.

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Well, I've got my own views on the other two guys' dishes,

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cos I was able to eat them all.

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I think maybe we should just cross-reference some scores

0:25:090:25:12

-and see if we're down the same path.

-Yeah, yeah.

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How we doing, chefs?

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-Yeah.

-Yeah.

-Right.

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I'll start with you, Peter.

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Your seaside memories.

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I love the cleanness of the flavours.

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Wasn't overworked.

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I loved the scrumps.

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Childhood memories for myself, as well.

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They're a throwaway ingredient,

0:25:370:25:39

but you refined them and you made them work very well

0:25:390:25:41

in context of your dish.

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For me, it was very, very mature, refined cooking.

0:25:430:25:47

It was beautifully presented.

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I think, though, that it lacked the fun element.

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Just lacked that theatre.

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OK, Chris. Gone surfing.

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I was a little worried at first that serving something on a surfboard

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would look tacky, but it didn't. I thought you nailed the brief.

0:26:050:26:08

It was really good fun.

0:26:080:26:09

Phil says that all the shellfish was cooked to perfection.

0:26:090:26:13

He thought there was perhaps a little bit too much of it on the plate,

0:26:140:26:18

and with the fennel, perhaps there was a little too much

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and it left an overpowering taste in your mouth.

0:26:220:26:24

Emily, for your high tea, I loved the witty presentation.

0:26:270:26:32

I thought it was great.

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Phil thought the fish was cooked to perfection.

0:26:330:26:37

I loved the deconstructed hollandaise,

0:26:370:26:40

the richness that it gave.

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The lemon powder was perhaps a little cloggy.

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We had problems getting it out of the shaker.

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The leeks that you served on the side

0:26:460:26:48

for me were a little overcooked and a little underseasoned.

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I thought the potatoes were perhaps a little overworked.

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It became a little cloyey.

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It was the weakest element of your dish.

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So, Peter, for your seaside memories, I'm giving you...

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..8 out of 10.

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Chris, for Gone Surfing,

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I'm giving you...

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..7 out of 10.

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Emily, for your high tea,

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I'm giving you...

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..6 out of 10.

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We've had some really good cooking today, but tomorrow,

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I want to see some great cooking. I want to see some 9s and some 10s.

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Thank you very much, and I'll see you in the morning.

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-Cheers.

-Thank you.

0:27:380:27:40

So at the halfway point,

0:27:440:27:45

Peter is still out in front with 16 points.

0:27:450:27:48

Chris is hanging in there on 13 points.

0:27:480:27:51

And Emily is still trailing behind on 11 points.

0:27:510:27:55

Being behind rather than ahead is obviously

0:27:550:27:57

quite an intimidating place to be,

0:27:570:27:59

and I've really got to pull something out of the bag tomorrow

0:27:590:28:02

to try and catch up.

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Not counting any chickens yet.

0:28:060:28:07

There might be a couple of points in it, but anything can happen,

0:28:070:28:10

and anything can go wrong as well.

0:28:100:28:12

On top of the board here,

0:28:120:28:14

but I've just got to push them just a bit more just to get that 10.

0:28:140:28:17

Tomorrow it's the main course,

0:28:170:28:19

and Chris and Emily play catch-up

0:28:190:28:21

in an attempt to bring down frontrunner Peter...

0:28:210:28:24

On schedule?

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Never going to let me live this down, are you?

0:28:250:28:28

-..as the competition heats up.

-Whoa!

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