My Kitchen Rules farewells another team

“They’re ruined. It’s not ok. Brown is bitter flavour. You’re not helping me, pay attention,” an emotional Dee blasted her husband.

Then Tim apparently ruined the bread. “It’s not normal, it’s not right. You’ve ruined it! I don’t know what you’ve done. This whole night is already ruined,” yelled Dee.

Despite being ordered to throw it out, Tim added a little bit of flour and brought the bread back to life. But it wasn’t enough to appease his wife, who told him, “I’m very frustrated with you beyond words,” when he spilt red wine while making sangria for their guests. “I stuffed up; I’m sincerely apologetic,” said a rueful Tim.

Dee was back to her smiling self in time for their guests’ arrival, but it didn’t last long when she realised that Tim had bought coriander seeds instead of cumin.

“I’m really annoyed at you. Cumin is such a Spanish flavour. I’m really upset. What have you done? All our guests are here, it’s too late. I’m personally mortified. I’m really upset but I’m not going to let it get to me. I just need to get this entrée out,” she said.

The entrée, while looking fresh and colourful, did not excite judge Colin Fassnidge’s taste buds. He scored it two. Rachel Khoo called it a “big bowl of disappointment” in giving it a three.

After wiping away a few tears, Dee smelt smoke as Tim burnt the breadcrumbs that were destined for their meatballs for the main of Albondigas con Potatas Bravas.

“We’ve just set fire to breadcrumbs; I’m so embarrassed. That bread took us an hour to make. And these meatballs need breadcrumbs. We’re going to have to use the packet,” said a deflated Dee.

But Tim’s cooking skills came under fire, or more accurately lack thereof, when they tested a meatball to discover it was still raw because the gas had turned off. “This makes me really angry. The gas is not even on! Oh my god, if you don’t even put them on the fire what are we even doing here? Just cook them, you’re pissing me off.”

But Tim did not cook them anymore and instead served raw meatballs to all his guests resulting in scores of just two from both Colin and Rachel.

While competitor Lauren pondered whether the teams would vote sympathetically after Dee shed a few more tears, the hosts actually brought it home with a beautiful-looking Flan de Huevo for dessert.

“I used to have that a lot growing up,” said Colin. “It was smooth, it was elegant. I was happy to see the fresh vanilla in there. But I wanted more caramel.” He awarded it a six, as did Rachel.

But it was not enough to save the duo, who leave 15 teams behind to battle it out for the title.

 It’s still an uphill battle for competitive South Australians Carmine and Lauren who enter the Redemption Round battle as the lowest-scoring team.