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Ellie eliminated in MasterChef battle against Alana

Ellie Paxton-Hall has been eliminated from MasterChef Australia after a battle against Alana Lowes.

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Ellie Paxton-Hall has been eliminated from MasterChef Australia.

The 21 year old student nurse from Queensland in a battle for survival against Alana Lowes.

Earlier a teary Dani Venn had yielded her Immunity Pin to avoid being sent home. That sent Alana into the cook-off which saw both women asked to revisit their worst dishes.

Both sought to improve on their dishes but both still had flaws in what they plated up.

Ellie had to redo her Spanish Invention test from early June when she made stuffed capsicum and caramelised
oranges. Alana tackled lamb cutlets and fennel salad, and spiced poached pear with orange anglaise and chocolate ganache. But Wwile the judges applauded her ice cream, Ellie failed to impress with her eggy
crème brulee.

Ellie had survived a string of elimination challenges, but tonight fate was not on her side.

“I was a little bit of shock and it was such a bizarre situation because you think about being eliminated so often that when it happens is really weird,” she said. “The sadness was mixed with a sense of achievement
and my highlights have been meeting all these fantastic people, cooking in professional kitchens and doing the team challenges – the whole thing was such an adrenalin rush.”

Earlier today the official MasterChef site spoiled the outcome by accidentally uploading the episode in yet another blunder by the show.

Remaining in the contest are Alana Lowes, Dani Venn, Michael Weldon and Kate Bracks.

This post updates.

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  1. Lol @l3xm4rk! Love your comment!

    Yeah, brûlée refers to the hard top on the custard bit. Then as you say – the caramel is the soft runny bit on the dish Ellie cooked. 🙂

  2. Creme brulee has hard caramel on top, creme caramel has soft.

    She definitely cooked a creme caramel – and called it a Spanish Creme Caramel.

    Although maybe if she thought she was cooking a brulee, its a good thing she left – a bit confused!?!?!?

  3. I’m no cooking expert, so maybe the brulee is part of the creme caramel.

    “I left the white bits on the orange segments and used one too many eggs in the
    crème brulee,” explains Ellie. “If I could do it all again, I’d make the brulee with
    less eggs and a little sweeter – oh, and work on my orange segmenting skills!”

    Source: TEN

  5. If Ellie’s original dish had not have been such a woeful shocker she may have been able to recreate it – it’s her fault she had to redesign it altogether.

    This challenge was just uneven from all directions and they should have picked something else.

  7. At least Ellie went out on a good dish. I htink the right 3 anyway well at least the top 2. I have no problem with Dani but I reckon Kate and Michael should battle it out and I want Michael to win.

  8. Actually the 45 minute for Alana was a huge advantage.

    Ellie was re-doing an invention test where she did horrible and needed to start from scratch.

    Alana has addressing some badly poached pears and badly cooked chops.

    From the get go, getting the times combined means that she had more time to fix the issue with the pears. She had 45 minutes to ensure they were properly poached. Not 30 like originally.

    So I say it was weighted against Ellie.

    Furthermore, Alana had an extra 30 minutes to plan what she was doing.

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