MasterChef Finale: Who Will Win?

All good things must come to an end, and this Sunday it's the MasterChef Australia finale.

What better way to send off this television hit--one that has struck a chord throughout Australian living rooms, kitchens and soon-to-be-growing pantries--than your very own MasterChef party?

Need some help? Read on!


How to host your own MasterChef finale party

• All guests must wear dress in costume, either by wearing a cravat or bandaging half their fingers
  
• All guests must bring a dish featured in MasterChef
  
  • The cost of the ingredients in the dish should not exceed $10
    
  • You have only two minutes to get the items from the supermarket or your pantry
    
  • Raw chicken is not permitted
    
  • Cooked bait will not eaten
    
  • Chilli prawn pasta will not be chosen
  • There must be at least one gratuitous display of ready-to-use cooking stock in a carton
    
• The food should either "fall on the plate like autumn leaves" or "stand up like they're talking to me, yeah?"
  
• Emphasise to all guests that they must cook "as if your life depends on it", "like the world is watching", "like you're gonna save the world" and "to make me proud, yeah?"
• If the dish uses mayonnaise, do not use the store-bought version, but make your own
  
• Make sure the kitchen brigade knows they must keep an eye on the beef
  
• As your guests arrive, get them to chop 3kg of onions. When you feel they've sufficiently demonstrated their knife skills, tap them lightly on the shoulder and allow them into the next room
• Call George Calombaris straight away if anyone confesses to wearing velvet knickers
• Call Matt Preston straight away if a Rubenesque woman arrives wearing five-inch stilettos
• Arrange for your special guest to arrive last. Make everyone stand in a line with their back to the door and turn simultaneously as the door opens
• When everyone has arrived, let me know they need to prepare a banquet for a couple getting married tomorrow on a navy ship headed to Hong Kong. The entree will be a lamb kofte which must be minced by hand from a prime leg of lamb. You will need to catch your own seafood for the mains using only a paperclip and some string. The wedding cake will be a tiered display of 200 individual Adriano Zumbo seven-layer chocolate mousse cakes
  
• When judging the dishes, make sure the panel is seated in front of a crystal beaded curtain
• Get the shortest person to divvy up all the dishes
• Do not allow desserts to be sent out until at least ten minutes after the last savoury has left the kitchen
• Serve dessert on a tree stump, and make sure any cupcakes are carefully disintegrated into an artful trail of cake crumbs
• Deduct points if a vegetable has been pureed and then reconstituted using gelification to recreate its original state
• Redeem points if the chef is wearing glasses
• No matter how bad the dish is, if you like the person, swallow it
  
• Award bonus points if the dish has been cooked in, or on, an item found on the side of the road, eg paperbark, a street sign or an abandoned hub cap
• Award bonus points if you have been brought "the flavours of Hong Kong in a bowl"
• Award bonus points if "the flavours are true"
  
• Before deciding on the winning dish, make everyone outline their culinary dreams, including the colour of the feature wall they intend to paint in their restaurant and the preferred ISBN number for their cookbook
• During the show, you must drink up every time:

• There's any play on words using "Poh"
  
• Anytime someone uses the word "journey"
  
• Whenever someone cries.

Got some more MasterChef party tips you'd like to add? Then put them in a comment below.


Live MasterChef chat

If you don't have any friends, or you really can't be bothered to clean your house for visitors, then come join our live online chat during the show. Hosted by Chocolatesuze and cheered on by Billy from A Table For Two and I, join food bloggers and food lovers from Sydney, Melbourne and beyond for live MasterChef chat!

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Who do you want to win?

Whilst I've always had a soft spot for Julie, I think Poh has shown a lot more creativity and finesse. And can I say how refreshing it is to see a feisty Asian female on Australian TV!

Go Poh!