‘Trouble with Masterchef is you can’t use tinned food’
But Katie surprises the judges on celebrity cookery show
MODEL Katie Price knocks the Celebrity MasterChef judges sideways tonight with a delicious crab dish – after griping about cooking from scratch.
And her triumph on the show leaves her vowing to cook more in the future.
The mum of five looks horrified when she is handed the crab and told to make a dish out of it. She moans: “The trouble with this show is you’re not allowed to use tinned stuff.”
But after bashing in its shell with a mallet – which she says felt like “an autopsy” – she impresses judges John Torode and GreggWallace with her crab noodles with garlic and chilli.
She is up against presenter Joe Swash, former footballer Dion Dublin, actor Melissa Johns and furniture expert Will Kirk in the BBC One show.
The bar is set low as Joe admits: “I give my kids enough nourishment to keep them alive. But they love going for dinner at other people’s houses.”
Shocking
And after Repair Shop star Will serves up raw chicken on his first dish, the other contestants relax.
But Katie has a nightmare with her dumplings in the second round when she fails to cook them through.
She says: “They are so shocking I’m not going to put them on the plate. It’s not like I didn’t put the effort in, I really did, right until the last minute.”
By the third round, when they are asked to serve something they’d make for a dinner party, her toad in the hole goes well. She laughs: “It’s messy – story of my life. I know it’s a competition but I’ve actually enjoyed it. I would cook more if I knew what I was doing.”
Katie adds: “I am pleased, considering everyone takes the mickey out of me saying, ‘She can’t cook’. It obviously shows I can – a little bit.”
In the third challenge Will serves raw poultry again...so the chances of him surviving into the next round look slim.