Speaker 1: It's in the news today, but it was actually on
Speaker 1: TV Reload the podcast last week. They might welcome back
Speaker 1: to TV Reload. My name's Benjamin Norris and on this
Speaker 1: podcast I go behind the scenes with the biggest players
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Speaker 1: TV Reload reloads the shows that you were currently watching
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Speaker 1: and streaming services today. On the podcast, I have Master
Speaker 1: Chef Australia's Gorgeous to Taliano Aldo. I have loved watching
Speaker 1: Aldo's journey on Master Chef Australia. He cooked with a
Speaker 1: lot of heart and gave the competition everything. If he
Speaker 1: wasn't crying, we certainly were at home as he told
Speaker 1: stories about his life and shared cooking techniques that allowed
Speaker 1: us as an audience to wholeheartedly fall in love with
Speaker 1: him all over again. It was sad to see him
Speaker 1: go as he went up against fellow Master Chef Australia
Speaker 1: favorites Billy and Julie. He did his best with a
Speaker 1: pressure test that included a vegetable that, in his words,
Speaker 1: has no flavor. We will talk about his husband and
Speaker 1: the choices they made for his return to the show.
Speaker 1: We do discuss the crying and the sweat and thankfully
Speaker 1: no blood that went into his time in the kitchen.
Speaker 1: And we will also and he and we in the
Speaker 1: kitchen and what he thinks needs to happen next for
Speaker 1: the reality show, which he unconditionally loves. However, let's get
Speaker 1: started with today's guest. I'd like to welcome Aldo to
Speaker 1: TV Reload.
Speaker 2: I'm very bad, Actually, I'm so bad. Muster Sheriff has
Speaker 2: produced some of the biggest names in food. I don't
Speaker 2: know how to fake that.
Speaker 1: Actually, the first time ever it's funds versus favorites.
Speaker 2: My husband gave me a secret that my mum she
Speaker 2: was there.
Speaker 1: Coming back a second time has clarified the direction that
Speaker 1: you're cooking has taken.
Speaker 3: Seriously, who doesn't want to come back to be a
Speaker 3: featured ingradient.
Speaker 4: Have the biggest heart that I've ever encountered in my life.
Speaker 3: But I definitely want to finish Michael book.
Speaker 1: Hi Eldo, how are you.
Speaker 3: Hey, Ben? I'm very good, Thank you.
Speaker 1: Well, congratulations on your time on Mastership Australia. You have
Speaker 1: played an epic and somewhat of an emotional part in
Speaker 1: this series. How have you gone watching it over the
Speaker 1: last few months.
Speaker 3: Well, I must say I hated myself with the amount
Speaker 3: of time that I cried on camera and as much
Speaker 3: as I wasn't afraid back then to share my emotions,
Speaker 3: but then watching an over and over and over, I thought,
Speaker 3: you bloody idiot, you very lay yourself court so easily
Speaker 3: every single time.
Speaker 1: I loved that about you though. I just thought you
Speaker 1: were so relatable and we probably have an idea of
Speaker 1: how we want to present ourselves and then it's probably
Speaker 1: not as it's not as easy as you think not
Speaker 1: to cry.
Speaker 2: No, it's even not there.
Speaker 3: I didn't have any single idea or the way that
Speaker 3: I want to come across on TV. It was just there.
Speaker 3: It was so intense, and every single thing that I
Speaker 3: achieved in the kitchen was family related, and not being
Speaker 3: able to see my family for the past three years
Speaker 3: always was a ride there back thoughts triggering myself all
Speaker 3: the time, and then of course my type of start
Speaker 3: to open up and my start to cry like a baby.
Speaker 3: I can't do anything Unfortunately, I'm very emotional. I'm an
Speaker 3: emotional guy. So has happened so many times. But some
Speaker 3: say I said, okay, you need to stop, because you
Speaker 3: actually cried so much, you're gonna be remembered as the
Speaker 3: crying baby of season fourteen.
Speaker 1: What's the saying, Blood, sweat and tears is what you
Speaker 1: put into that's your Master Chef experience.
Speaker 3: That's absolutely right. For sure, I would say that I
Speaker 3: didn't know myself back. I give one hundred percent of
Speaker 3: myself from beginning to hand, and that is something that
Speaker 3: I'm very happy with. I'm proud of, and I'm proud
Speaker 3: that the message of showcasing the Italian heritage and food
Speaker 3: that I love so much, it came across very well
Speaker 3: on the show.
Speaker 1: Well, you've done so well and you've made it to
Speaker 1: the week before finals week. How did this experience this
Speaker 1: time round go for you?
Speaker 3: It actually was so much better than my first stife,
Speaker 3: and not just in terms of progression in the competition,
Speaker 3: but also in terms of human connection and bond that
Speaker 3: I coming out of Master Chef Season fourteen, I got
Speaker 3: a friend for life, friend that I can seriously call
Speaker 3: my family now. And you know, it's that's I think. Well,
Speaker 3: nobody understand about Master Chef. Yes, it is a cooking show.
Speaker 3: But when you get locked up in a room with
Speaker 3: other people that they're speaking your same language, and then
Speaker 3: when you get down to the end of the competition
Speaker 3: where the groupe iss more, everybody start to open up
Speaker 3: and then a new thing comes to life, which is
Speaker 3: the friendship, the deep connection, the bonds, and you start
Speaker 3: to see those people really like family, you know.
Speaker 1: Julia revealed just this way that she'd consulted her psychologists
Speaker 1: before agreeing to join Master Chef Australia. Fans versus favorites.
Speaker 1: What kind of a process did you have to go
Speaker 1: through before saying yes?
Speaker 3: Well, I went through the process of consulting my husband
Speaker 3: because the first time around that I went away in
Speaker 3: my first season, it was hard on him because we
Speaker 3: have been apart and we didn't have a time of
Speaker 3: phone call of just being able to come out on
Speaker 3: the weekend seeing each other, and that was hard. So
Speaker 3: before getting to say yes, I said, look, that's other
Speaker 3: condition that are a little bit different. I'm going to
Speaker 3: be able to have my phone, you can reach me anytime,
Speaker 3: and are you gonna cope with that? Me for it
Speaker 3: can be a week, could be up to six months.
Speaker 3: And because we've got three dogs as well, it's lots
Speaker 3: of work to do. So are you ready to take
Speaker 3: it on board? Because along the way, if you're gonna
Speaker 3: say you're gonna just bring back that I've been away
Speaker 3: for a month, a week or six months or whatever
Speaker 3: it is, I don't want to hear that. So make
Speaker 3: sure that you make peace with that. I don't want
Speaker 3: to hear anything once I'm coming back. So you agree
Speaker 3: on the notes, and then I say, okay, now I
Speaker 3: can finally agree on going back.
Speaker 1: You sound like me with my partner. I'm a big
Speaker 1: personality in my home, and so it starts off with
Speaker 1: you know, like, yes, you can go. But then after
Speaker 1: a while, my partner seems to miss me while I'm
Speaker 1: gone and he starts to crave that big energy back
Speaker 1: into the house.
Speaker 3: Well, and that's the thing, and I say, make up
Speaker 3: your mind. I don't want to hear anything along the way.
Speaker 3: Unfortunately it's a reality and I'm gone. I can't come
Speaker 3: in and out, in and out as uppened towards the
Speaker 3: end when with the three round of elimination, and that
Speaker 3: is something that I didn't go very well on myself.
Speaker 3: Probably that's what I also as played a big part
Speaker 3: in my process. Towards the end. My father in law
Speaker 3: was just brought to hospital on the day when Tommy
Speaker 3: got eliminated, and that's why also I didn't feature at
Speaker 3: the end of his elimination. I need to live set
Speaker 3: because I need to go and see my housband and
Speaker 3: just check on his dad as well. And from then Auntie,
Speaker 3: when I got eliminated, has been all the roller coasta.
Speaker 3: I was there, but mentally I wasn't there. It was
Speaker 3: hard and that's all part of myself then going back
Speaker 3: and say, wow, I missed out on these kind of
Speaker 3: things because I was here. I didn't support my husband.
Speaker 3: But then the other end, he said, I know what
Speaker 3: was going to happen. I know that you were there,
Speaker 3: so I couldn't ask for anything from you.
Speaker 1: Has he enjoyed watching you on this series.
Speaker 3: Well, he's enjoyed the lot. Last night, while we were
Speaker 3: watching the episode, just at the end, after listening my
Speaker 3: speech and everybody talking about myself, he went silent and
Speaker 3: he turned his space around and he was crying. That's
Speaker 3: he said, But why are you crying? Because you just
Speaker 3: got eliminated, and everybody spoke so kindly about you, like
Speaker 3: I can't believe that those people they love you so
Speaker 3: much and I'm actually take down and you share with
Speaker 3: those people are just proud of you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's so nice to hear. Do you know if
Speaker 1: any potential favorites that were contact to turn the experience down?
Speaker 1: Do you know if anyone was asked to come back
Speaker 1: for this format and they said.
Speaker 2: It's aarly confidential.
Speaker 3: You can't believe that they Even when my mom she
Speaker 3: came on the shore. It was so funny because I
Speaker 3: was working on Chapel Street and my husband took her
Speaker 3: on Chapel Street. Mark called me and said where are
Speaker 3: you And he said, I'm on Chapel Street. I'm with
Speaker 3: Mindy and Cliff, which is an assistant producer there.
Speaker 2: It's around the house with us.
Speaker 3: Said okay, just to let you know, I'm coming to
Speaker 3: Melbourne tomorrow to see dad, so just so I want
Speaker 3: to make sure where we are you and if you
Speaker 3: went around there were five hundred meters away from where
Speaker 3: I was.
Speaker 2: My husband kept.
Speaker 3: Me secret that my mom she was there from the
Speaker 3: Sunday and even my sister to make making sure that
Speaker 3: my mom she was not giving anything away. She said, Mom,
Speaker 3: you signed a confidentiality that if you're gonna tell to somebody,
Speaker 3: gonna be fine. Like that's the thing that they kept
Speaker 3: away from me until at the very end.
Speaker 1: Well, I guess that means it might be highlight of
Speaker 1: your series. But what was your highlight from returning to
Speaker 1: the series?
Speaker 2: Oh? For sure, and in my mom there go from
Speaker 2: the other side of the world.
Speaker 3: Like when I saw my mom there as just I
Speaker 3: would have said, you know what, I don't want to
Speaker 3: cook see everybody, Let me enjoy the time with my mom.
Speaker 2: I don't need to cook for her. She knows that
Speaker 2: I can cook.
Speaker 3: So I want to go.
Speaker 2: I want to go and have a drink with my
Speaker 2: mom and in dinner.
Speaker 3: It was so special. And consider that I've created and
Speaker 3: missed even a huk from my mom and my sister
Speaker 3: from the past three years, there was nothing that could
Speaker 3: be matching that kind of rewards the gift that I
Speaker 3: got received by the master production.
Speaker 1: You shared a fairly emotional story during the series, and
Speaker 1: that was I think one of the reasons why I
Speaker 1: gravitated towards you as much as I did.
Speaker 3: My last time.
Speaker 4: That I was a home really was for my wedding actually.
Speaker 3: To my husband, and that is when my father decided
Speaker 3: to not show up to the wedding because he thought
Speaker 3: there was a.
Speaker 4: Circus and that's when I cut it off. I cut
Speaker 4: him out of my life.
Speaker 3: But I just do want to remember that part of
Speaker 3: me being happy, and that's why I want to cook
Speaker 3: this dish.
Speaker 1: Is it hard to have that kind of experience out
Speaker 1: there for everyone to see or everyone to know.
Speaker 3: Well, it's hard. It's very hard to explain as well,
Speaker 3: Like when you go the kind of I think that's missing,
Speaker 3: you feel that there is something missing in your life
Speaker 3: from the past three years, and you constantly they're seeing it,
Speaker 3: but you can't have it. And when he manifests, like
Speaker 3: you just you just got blown away and you release
Speaker 3: all the stress, anxiety, pressure, all the feeling animotion that
Speaker 3: just come to surface and the only thing that you
Speaker 3: can go is can do is just let it come
Speaker 3: out and then debrief afterwards.
Speaker 1: Have you spoken to your dad then, Like, as is
Speaker 1: this experience back on Master Chef, Is it built any
Speaker 1: bridges relationships?
Speaker 3: No, not at all. I think that the person that
Speaker 3: biologically is my father, it's that's where it stands to
Speaker 3: know any connection at all. And unfortunately, sadly for him,
Speaker 3: he hasn't done anything in eight years that I've been
Speaker 3: in Australia, So I don't see the need to do
Speaker 3: anything now. After that I came on a national television
Speaker 3: just putting everything so openly into the air. There is
Speaker 3: no way they could clean year with myself. Unfortunately, I'm
Speaker 3: thirty five going into my thirty six. I'm a very
Speaker 3: well funed man. I got an opinion, an idea, and
Speaker 3: I got a life and it's not going to be
Speaker 3: part of my life.
Speaker 2: If my mom she has moved on from me, what's
Speaker 2: the point of me going back.
Speaker 1: I mean, I just think you're incredibly brave and I
Speaker 1: appreciated you sharing a story. What's it all allowing us
Speaker 1: into your life? Like there's nothing better than seeing people
Speaker 1: being authentically themselves on television because it makes us all
Speaker 1: feel seene. You know, we've all got things in our life,
Speaker 1: complicated stories.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, and especially for us that we're coming from a
Speaker 3: reality that I want to suck to say that we
Speaker 3: are a minority, because we don't need to label us
Speaker 3: as a minority. We are an existing part of society.
Speaker 3: We're not minority. We are the society, and the world
Speaker 3: is rainbow. The world is gay. We got to face
Speaker 3: the fact that the world is gay. I can't tolerate
Speaker 3: anymore that there are people that they gotta hide, they
Speaker 3: gotta not living their life because of people labeling them
Speaker 3: or pointing in them. We got to be proud of
Speaker 3: what we are, first of all, leg human being. We've
Speaker 3: got to be proud of of being able to be
Speaker 3: comfortable and living our life. There is nobody out there
Speaker 3: there is more pressure than you. You just specialize everybody else.
Speaker 3: And that has to be a message that needs to
Speaker 3: be spread across the globe because people they've got just
Speaker 3: one life. And if you're missing out because you're too
Speaker 3: scared or too afraid to show you truly are, because
Speaker 3: you don't want to feel attacked, fuck everybody.
Speaker 4: Just be you.
Speaker 3: There's no time to waste because there are stupid people
Speaker 3: out there. Just surround yourself with people that they love you,
Speaker 3: we love.
Speaker 1: There's some great messages in that. Again, you know, you
Speaker 1: just keep delivering, you know, pieces from your own heart.
Speaker 1: And I think that that's a really amazing currency that
Speaker 1: you've had with connecting to your audience and the people
Speaker 1: that love you.
Speaker 3: Well, I think that be myself has been the thing
Speaker 3: that pened me the most, and I will never be
Speaker 3: anybody else.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't be anything different.
Speaker 1: One thing we could all aspire to is Hugh Allen's
Speaker 1: hair amazing moment last night where Alvin said that he
Speaker 1: was like a Disney Prince.
Speaker 5: Oh my gosh, Hugh Allan, he's an amazing talent, a
Speaker 5: twenty seven year old executive chief and one of the
Speaker 5: best restaurants in Melbourne, and he looks like a Disney Prince.
Speaker 1: Was he really like a Disney Prince?
Speaker 3: Well, you know it's I'm gonna sound so terrible, but
Speaker 3: I didn't find the kind of magic of Disney Prince.
Speaker 2: It probably could be good looking, but for me, it's no.
Speaker 3: It's just a pretty thing to look at it, but
Speaker 3: it doesn't have any salt. It's just a nice piece
Speaker 3: of fish. But we're not seasoning. I'm so bad. I'm
Speaker 3: very bad. Actually, I'm so bad. And you if you
Speaker 3: heard my thing, please just discard what I'm saying. Don't
Speaker 3: bother by myself because you don't have to worry about it.
Speaker 3: But that's my opinion. Sorry, I like people with the
Speaker 3: That's the people that I'm drawn to, people that I
Speaker 3: can have fun. I don't need to be shying, has
Speaker 3: to be myself. I can be myself over the top.
Speaker 1: Who is your favorite special guest amongst the cooking legends
Speaker 1: that we've said?
Speaker 3: Curtistone all the way, Curtistone all the way. When Kedston
Speaker 3: walked in again one more time, thank Girling, I scrawled
Speaker 3: the lots like, oh my god, it's just so good
Speaker 3: to look at it. It's huge.
Speaker 2: And then as well as marcop You're white. In the
Speaker 2: episode Marco said, arand on my bench so so long
Speaker 2: talking to me about how much he loved the attachment
Speaker 2: that I got to food and the history behind it.
Speaker 2: And as well as Rick Sign. Rick Sign was amazing.
Speaker 1: What is the best thing about Master Chef in your mind?
Speaker 1: You know, why do you think that audiences love this
Speaker 1: show so much?
Speaker 3: Well, it is a cooking show. But at the other end,
Speaker 3: people that love the backstory of people because you know,
Speaker 3: sometimes on and off you've got a backstory that it
Speaker 3: gets shown and you learn much more about people's personality,
Speaker 3: and you show your personality. People definitely in love with you.
Speaker 3: I'm apart from a good cook your or I'm not
Speaker 3: a great cook, you are. You can sure that through
Speaker 3: the passion that you have during the cook or supporting
Speaker 3: your teammates. And that's why this is one of the
Speaker 3: best shots ever. And I will encourage everybody in their
Speaker 3: love to get through the process of applying for marsh
Speaker 3: because it's once in your lifetime. I have the pleasure
Speaker 3: to do it twice. If I would be called in
Speaker 3: for the third time, for sure, tick the box.
Speaker 1: I'm in again every series from now on.
Speaker 3: No, that would be too much, actually would be very
Speaker 3: too much. Every four years.
Speaker 1: Probably consult your husband first away.
Speaker 2: Always, always, always, always consult the husband.
Speaker 1: Is there anything that you would change about the format
Speaker 1: of the show? You know, you've done two different seasons
Speaker 1: and you know they've tried different things, you know, is
Speaker 1: there anything that you would change about Master Chef?
Speaker 3: Well, I think that Machev is kind of sure that
Speaker 3: now it's got to the fourteenth season, they need to
Speaker 3: do something new and probably with the weather, I would
Speaker 3: see it. It's to not eliminate anybody, but will be
Speaker 3: going onto a score record because by the end of
Speaker 3: the day, people that they're winning that just can get
Speaker 3: pushed through an elimination, but then them in short, are
Speaker 3: you just killed all the way through or them and
Speaker 3: had great moments all the way through, but they're just
Speaker 3: coming up at the very point the end of the competition.
Speaker 3: You know, you can get pushed through because people they
Speaker 3: they filled or you know, it would be great to
Speaker 3: see that all the twenty four people they start together
Speaker 3: and they finished together, and then there is a scoreboard
Speaker 3: and then you get winning from scoreboard.
Speaker 2: It's like it's like a tennis tournament.
Speaker 1: I think, you know, fourteen seasons in they could do
Speaker 1: something different. I mean, it was great when they mixed
Speaker 1: up the judges. I thought that was a great refresh.
Speaker 1: But yeah, you yes, Well there's been a few sickies
Speaker 1: over the season because you guys were filming through COVID.
Speaker 1: Filming through COVID proved to be quite difficult.
Speaker 3: Look, we actually had been very good because we were
Speaker 3: getting tested daily and masked up until the very end.
Speaker 3: But the issues that when we had our Christmas break,
Speaker 3: you know, people coming back and then they didn't show symptoms,
Speaker 3: and then they show symptoms after that. We all together
Speaker 3: in the same green room on set, built together. You know,
Speaker 3: we share we shared the gems. We shared the lot,
Speaker 3: we shared the germs as well, So but that was
Speaker 3: odd actually because to be blocked in an apartment, surrounded
Speaker 3: by those four white walls and nothing to do, it
Speaker 3: was just instantly hard. I went through all the Netflix
Speaker 3: series that I stopped watching. I watched a lot of
Speaker 3: The Ring three times, all the three in all the
Speaker 3: three movies. And then I was constantly on the phone
Speaker 3: with people that they were in Sydney or calling back home,
Speaker 3: facetiming all the time, and I was eating a lot.
Speaker 3: I put so much wetter on that week.
Speaker 1: Were you surrounded by all these amazing cooks cooking for
Speaker 1: you as well?
Speaker 4: Surely there was.
Speaker 3: Some No nobody could ever brought your food in. That's
Speaker 3: the issue, because yeah, the people that can't take anything
Speaker 3: to you. So the assistant producer was asking in the morning, guys,
Speaker 3: what would you need? Did you need anything from the pantry?
Speaker 3: You leave your shopping list, knock at the door, or
Speaker 3: leave the back there and see you later. That's what
Speaker 3: it's been very hard.
Speaker 1: In your final episode, you revealed that cucumber. I was like,
Speaker 1: this must be like standing on a c cucumber, which
Speaker 1: no one ever wants.
Speaker 3: No, nothing, but like, seriously, who doesn't want a cucumber
Speaker 3: to be a featured in radient? What can you do
Speaker 3: with cucumber? Let's talk about how borrowing it is your cucumber,
Speaker 3: and then you will understand my situation last night, Like
Speaker 3: I tried to do on my best with what I got,
Speaker 3: and I think that I did it.
Speaker 2: It was a great dish, So no fault, which is great,
Speaker 2: happy happy time.
Speaker 1: Well, you were up against some really tough competition, you know,
Speaker 1: with that all in cook and you know as the
Speaker 1: numbers dwindled down, did you think at any time during
Speaker 1: that pressure test that you were going to go home?
Speaker 3: Look, I always start the elimination called putting myself in
Speaker 3: the worst case scenario that I'm going GOLM. So whatever
Speaker 3: comes above that, it's a bonus. That has been always
Speaker 3: my theory. You go in thinking that you're going gom
Speaker 3: but then you cook your best and you cook your
Speaker 3: way out.
Speaker 1: Do you think you could have done anything different? I mean,
Speaker 1: I felt like what you did was so impressive. It
Speaker 1: was so impressive. I didn't feel like you could have
Speaker 1: given that anything anything else or anything more.
Speaker 3: Look, Jock said that I should have pushed the boat.
Speaker 3: But like in world way, I could have pushed the
Speaker 3: boat out with cucumber, and as far as I want
Speaker 3: to be creative, I could have come up with something else,
Speaker 3: for sure. But there's something else would have been a
Speaker 3: good dish as the dish that I've been eliminated on,
Speaker 3: I'm not sure about it. So I'm happier to go
Speaker 3: out on a good dish that it's a strong dish
Speaker 3: against a past winner. Billy McKay. Billy Bloody mackay. She
Speaker 3: got me eliminated, but I still do love her so much.
Speaker 1: She's so beautiful, amazing television. I just think Billy's doing
Speaker 1: so well. I'm just in awe of her calmness. You know,
Speaker 1: not only is she come, she's also cooking so well.
Speaker 3: You know, it is mesmerizing, but at the same time
Speaker 3: it's so unbelievable. She can stay so calm and collect
Speaker 3: and focus in pressure tests or elimination challenge. She is
Speaker 3: what My Chef represents, like everything that a winner has
Speaker 3: really shares it Or.
Speaker 1: Have you envisioned what you want your experience to be
Speaker 1: like now?
Speaker 5: Like?
Speaker 1: What what's what have your planned coming off? You know
Speaker 1: your second series of Master Chef, What does your future
Speaker 1: look like within the food world.
Speaker 3: I don't like to plan ahead. So whatever we're going
Speaker 3: to come out after night. It's so as I said,
Speaker 3: it's always a bonus, it's always a plus. I always
Speaker 3: got my job to go back and which I was
Speaker 3: happy before and I will be happy now. But I
Speaker 3: definitely want to finish my cookbook, which most likely I
Speaker 3: want to put it out on the market by Christmas,
Speaker 3: so December will be a deadline. And then I really
Speaker 3: want to look in to start a food guide too
Speaker 3: of the side of Italy. So they start from Campania region,
Speaker 3: going Paga, Calabri, Sicily, Sicilia and sad as well those
Speaker 3: other kind of region there. Unfortunately they don't get that
Speaker 3: much traction from overseas. They sell part of the country
Speaker 3: that hasn't been discovered. There is such a huge food
Speaker 3: scene which is above and beyond that represents here the
Speaker 3: true essence of Italian food, and that's what I would
Speaker 3: love to do.
Speaker 1: How do I already? I mean, I mean, I love,
Speaker 1: I mean, I love Italian food. My family have always
Speaker 1: whenever it's someone's birthday, we're like, where do we want
Speaker 1: to go? And everyone's like Italian food, So.
Speaker 3: What's your what's your go in Melbourne.
Speaker 1: Oh, I'm so upset about this. I don't know if
Speaker 1: have you been to Topo Judio Interac No? Okay, So
Speaker 1: it's been an institution Intoac for a really long time
Speaker 1: and it's my favorite restaurant and they've just closed and
Speaker 1: it's well, my grandfather actually was the Commonwealth Bank manager
Speaker 1: in to Irak and he actually gave the guy the
Speaker 1: loan to start the restaurant. So it's been there for
Speaker 1: I'd be making it up anyway, it's been there for
Speaker 1: a long time and it's very sad because it's the
Speaker 1: best Italian food ever.
Speaker 3: So well, I will encourage you to go and try
Speaker 3: this bit steadier in Carton.
Speaker 1: I love very Next time, next time you're around, we'll
Speaker 1: have to go. We'll have to I.
Speaker 3: Will message you.
Speaker 2: We're going to decide a bit set up beautiful.
Speaker 1: I love it. You know, at this stage of the competition,
Speaker 1: you're getting down to the very end of it. Who
Speaker 1: do you think is going to win? Probably you might
Speaker 1: know more because you know you may do. Who did
Speaker 1: you think at this time leaving the competition, who did
Speaker 1: you think was going to win?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 3: For myself living I wish that on the finale, I
Speaker 3: will see Saratore and Mindy Wood Saratoor when she won
Speaker 3: the Fusion Challenge and she got greater three Michelen start
Speaker 3: dish like you know that you can't talk there and
Speaker 3: for her coming out with the kind of style of
Speaker 3: food that she really wants to do now. She brings
Speaker 3: to the Australian scene. It's a way to go now
Speaker 3: and she's a brilliant cook, She's a brilliant person and
Speaker 3: she saw down to her a big art.
Speaker 4: Mindy.
Speaker 3: I got no words for Mindy. She has been my
Speaker 3: first kicking in. She knows everything inside out of myself.
Speaker 3: We shaid so much sorry and information. I would love
Speaker 3: Mindy to win because she will representing so proudly Australia.
Speaker 3: Marsha Fit is a show that gave so much vision
Speaker 3: to winners and she deserved the vision because she needs
Speaker 3: to celebrate what Australia is about it. Australia it's the
Speaker 3: continent of everyone, but most importantly Australians got fundamental, very
Speaker 3: strong basis food wise. All the native ingredients that're getting
Speaker 3: on the market now and all the use of native
Speaker 3: ingredients done in many different cuisines. It's so great the
Speaker 3: people that finally embrace it, and what a better person
Speaker 3: rather than mendieval to represent their kind of culture when
Speaker 3: she's first nation born Australian. So I would really would
Speaker 3: love to see it lifting up the trophy because she's
Speaker 3: so deserving.
Speaker 1: Well, it was a beautiful moment last night when we
Speaker 1: got to see you, as you believe in the competition,
Speaker 1: be able to share the friendship that you've been able
Speaker 1: to build. And it was palpable. You know, you could
Speaker 1: see it. The audience could see that friendship right in
Speaker 1: front of their eyes. It was a great moment.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it is.
Speaker 2: It is interesting because you think that you're there for
Speaker 2: the competition, but then everything get put behind and you
Speaker 2: just get to know those people so deeply, and what
Speaker 2: you want to do is just being around us people
Speaker 2: all the time, because so much fun. You're sharing cook
Speaker 2: you're sharing are you sharing food, You're sharing your passion.
Speaker 2: You got a similar connection on multi level, So it's
Speaker 2: friendship for life and then those friendship that would transform
Speaker 2: into family. That's where I met with Mindya and Sarah
Speaker 2: No that part of my family.
Speaker 1: Beautiful girls. You know something I ask everyone who joins
Speaker 1: the podcast as a guest, what is something from behind
Speaker 1: the scenes that we as an audience did not say
Speaker 1: that we will not see, but something from maybe a
Speaker 1: behind the scenes secret from Mastership Australia.
Speaker 3: I will give you juicy one.
Speaker 2: It is very not as easy as it looks.
Speaker 3: So you see just the hour and a half of cook,
Speaker 3: which is great fun, but then you work up early
Speaker 3: in the morning. When you see us walking in the kitchen,
Speaker 3: you're doing their routine probably seven to eight times because
Speaker 3: camera they need to film from different angles. When we're
Speaker 3: finishing the cook we're having a break because the kitchen
Speaker 3: must be cleaned down, so all the benches clean down,
Speaker 3: and then we have at least an hour and alf
Speaker 3: to a lot of the amazing production of people that
Speaker 3: they are inertically enough for us messy book that we
Speaker 3: just create a bombing there and I'm feel so sorry,
Speaker 3: but we try to help as much as we can.
Speaker 3: So it's but that there is so much of their
Speaker 3: timing in between, so the hour and a half of
Speaker 3: recording of filming is stretched out in twelve thirteen hours,
Speaker 3: and that's where you get to know so much more
Speaker 3: about people.
Speaker 2: So it's all part of the big picture of Mastership.
Speaker 1: Well, I have absolutely loved watching you on this series.
Speaker 1: It is and it has been such an amazing series
Speaker 1: of Mastership Australia. So thank you so much for coming
Speaker 1: on TV Reload and sharing some of your stories from
Speaker 1: behind the scenes.
Speaker 3: It's been been a joy, absolutely Ben, thank you so
Speaker 3: much for having me and looking forward that in now
Speaker 3: lunch whatever it's going to be at this Dasio, I
Speaker 3: lock at it.