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Tersia and Tarlan Baker, a brother-and-sister team from KZN

HE pressure in The Ultimate Braai Master 5 was on from day one. Never knowing what was happening next is traumatising but the thought of taking home the title and all the prizes always pushed us through.

During the competition we aren’t allowed to see or taste the other team’s dishes — and after each challenge we’d all gather to talk about what we made, just like a group of students do when walking out of an exam.

Butchering a springbok carcass and preparing it in three ways was one of the most testing challenges.

Looking back, if we could re-do just one challenge it would be the burger challenge because we really let ourselves and the team down. We could have produced better-quality food.

The experience has changed the way we view food as we got to play around with so many different flavours and textures and we learnt a lot about the way food should be prepared and presented, through the judges’ comments.

Winning the title Ultimate Braai Master would blow us away and being able to walk around with the title would give us the most impressive bragging rights.