Speaker 1: It's in the news today, but it was actually on
Speaker 1: TV Reload, the podcast last Deep Neby. Hey guys, welcome
Speaker 1: back to TV Reload. I want to thank you for
Speaker 1: clicking and downloading on today's episode with Schnez, the eighth
Speaker 1: eliminated contestant on Master Chef Australia, which is now on
Speaker 1: Network ten from Sunday through to Thursday nights at seven
Speaker 1: point thirty. With food always on the brain, it's little
Speaker 1: wonder that Schnez has found her way into the Master
Speaker 1: Chef Australia kitchen. At breakfast, she's thinking about lunch. At lunch,
Speaker 1: she's planning her dinner and she reads cookbooks to relax.
Speaker 1: My guest today started cooking around the age of seven,
Speaker 1: learning her skills in the kitchen from observing her mother
Speaker 1: over the years, and heavily is inspired by traditional Serbian culture,
Speaker 1: showing her love through her food to her own family.
Speaker 1: She loves to cook for her husband Alex, her daughter
Speaker 1: and her son. The extended family are also a big
Speaker 1: bunch of foodies, and Schnez is proud that her own
Speaker 1: daughter is starting to show some keen interesting cooking as well.
Speaker 1: I loved catching up with Schnez today and I'm sure
Speaker 1: you will enjoy our chat which details her final cook
Speaker 1: last night. Schnez will talk about her knowledge of desserts
Speaker 1: and watching you of Anna Apollo View's resume before going
Speaker 1: into that pressure test. We will also unpack the debate
Speaker 1: over presentation versus flavor to see what Nez thinks of
Speaker 1: the way in which the judges make their final critiques.
Speaker 1: I will find out who Schnez would like to see
Speaker 1: when the competition, who her favorite judge is, and I'll
Speaker 1: even get a couple of resume recommendations, which I'm gonna
Speaker 1: have to post on Instagram, so.
Speaker 2: You may have to follow me there.
Speaker 1: We will also discuss what Chnez had to give up
Speaker 1: and leave behind to take part in the show. Obviously
Speaker 1: not a honeymoon like Harry, but it's amazing to hear
Speaker 1: what people have to leave behind to take part in
Speaker 1: this series. There is so much to unpack with Schnez today,
Speaker 1: so sit back and relax as we unpack the wonderful
Speaker 1: world of mastershef Australia.
Speaker 2: Hi Schnez, how are you.
Speaker 3: I'm good, how are you Ben? Thanks for having me?
Speaker 1: No, no, no, I'm excited. I'm so excited. To be
Speaker 1: talking to you, and I want to say to start
Speaker 1: with congratulations on making it this far into the competition.
Speaker 2: You should be so proud of yourself.
Speaker 3: I know, thank you so much. I aptiate well, I
Speaker 3: want to tell you so far.
Speaker 4: I was topping to go a little bit further, but
Speaker 4: to be honest, after last night's episode, I'm so overvolved
Speaker 4: with supports and messages and beautiful people reached out to
Speaker 4: me and I feel like I wannted something.
Speaker 3: So it's great.
Speaker 1: We in my house, oh my god, we do a
Speaker 1: little pick at the start of every season about who
Speaker 1: we think is going to win, and my partner picked you,
Speaker 1: which is great. And then you also have inspired me
Speaker 1: because when we first get to know the contestants, I
Speaker 1: remember reading about you loving to make sort of stews
Speaker 1: and curries and things like that. So you inspired me
Speaker 1: to go on by a French oven to make stews.
Speaker 4: Like a Dutch Dutch Yeah, yesh, my god, yes.
Speaker 1: So I made one last night which I made like
Speaker 1: a lamb stew and for people listening. So sorry about
Speaker 1: going so personal on this, but I can't miss the
Speaker 1: opportunity wish Nez to ask about what I need to
Speaker 1: cook in a French oven.
Speaker 2: What is your best thing that you would cook in
Speaker 2: a Dutch oven?
Speaker 4: Oh my god, I'm a big fan of that chairman.
Speaker 4: I cook everything in it, from baking bread to like
Speaker 4: any stew, soups, anything that can I put in ovid
Speaker 4: and forget about. So I would definitely say my forever
Speaker 4: favorite is the smoked speck with the beans. It's like
Speaker 4: a it's a bean stew with a smoke speck. It
Speaker 4: can easily be done as a vegetarian vegan. You just
Speaker 4: get rid of the smokespeck and add some smoke Africa,
Speaker 4: but you have to try this. It's a Serbian traditional, okay,
Speaker 4: and it's a kind of slow cooked. You started like
Speaker 4: kind of solting all vegetables and then you kind of
Speaker 4: finish it off.
Speaker 3: Okay, Fault.
Speaker 1: I'm going to slide into your DMS on this one,
Speaker 1: and then I'm going to attempt to cook it and
Speaker 1: put it on my socials for people who are playing
Speaker 1: along at home.
Speaker 2: So we'll see how we can.
Speaker 4: Percent sending you for these, and I'm going to make
Speaker 4: it a readA.
Speaker 3: For you as well.
Speaker 4: Well.
Speaker 1: You also share something in common with my partner, which
Speaker 1: is at the start when we're reading those bios and
Speaker 1: you said, you know you can't help, but when you're
Speaker 1: cooking breakfast, you think about lunch, and when you're cooking lunch,
Speaker 1: you think about dinner.
Speaker 2: That is that is him to a tea.
Speaker 4: All I do, and even when I go to work,
Speaker 4: I always find some like food is around me and
Speaker 4: all we do is like plan how we're going to
Speaker 4: do lunch?
Speaker 3: Who brings what was the spread for today?
Speaker 4: So we always had like a toasted Tuesdays, we had
Speaker 4: like cookeday Thursdays and things like that. So even at work,
Speaker 4: we always plan food.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 1: I relate to you very hard, you know. I was
Speaker 1: very disappointed that you left, and I was curious to
Speaker 1: know what was your expectation on the competition as you started.
Speaker 1: Did you have any idea as to how far you
Speaker 1: would go?
Speaker 4: I my initial thought is, oh, please, let's arrive day one,
Speaker 4: so that would me.
Speaker 3: And then after first cook, I was so worried. I
Speaker 3: was like, oh my god, what am I doing here?
Speaker 3: Everyone is so good? Because everyone is so good this year.
Speaker 4: I'm not even joking. There shows some amazing skills. And
Speaker 4: more I get to know, the more I realized how
Speaker 4: good everyone is so I'm so worried a start, but
Speaker 4: then kind of after a couple of cooks in the kitchen,
Speaker 4: I gained some confidence. I got some great fever from judges,
Speaker 4: and I realized that just going there and I let
Speaker 4: it all out, I just go crazy and cook a
Speaker 4: million miles.
Speaker 3: And a half and I always produce something beautiful.
Speaker 4: And I really kind of starting getting this confidence and thinking, okay,
Speaker 4: I could actually you know, get good food out. So yeah,
Speaker 4: it's changed throughout the cook.
Speaker 1: Well, I think in some ways. For me, I always
Speaker 1: like to think about what the biggest take home would
Speaker 1: have been, and I mean it's putting you on the pressure,
Speaker 1: putting you under a lot of pressure.
Speaker 2: Who answered this question?
Speaker 1: But is there something that the judges taught you this
Speaker 1: year that has changed the way in which you now
Speaker 1: cook in your own kitchen.
Speaker 4: I learned so many tips and tricks and judges are
Speaker 4: amazing and this is probably not even shown in every
Speaker 4: single episode, but they would come to you and give
Speaker 4: you a little cheap and help you out, and we
Speaker 4: were soaking it in as a sponge.
Speaker 3: I'm so blessed to have this judge this year. It's
Speaker 3: been it's been so.
Speaker 4: Helpful, but one thing I learned from them is the
Speaker 4: main thing that I would kind of take on board
Speaker 4: and if I would ever do this again, it's the
Speaker 4: cook food that you really love, the cook that you're passionate,
Speaker 4: the food that you're passionate about, food the people around
Speaker 4: you love, not trying to be something else, you know
Speaker 4: what I mean.
Speaker 3: I think that's my biggest thing.
Speaker 4: That I learn, and I kind of feel like I
Speaker 4: learn it. Towards the end, I did try make a
Speaker 4: couple of kind of more refined, fancy addishes, and I
Speaker 4: feel like every time when I cooked from my heart
Speaker 4: and cooked the food that I'm so familiar with and
Speaker 4: that I love and enjoy, I always get a good feedback.
Speaker 4: So I think that's the key. Cook what you love
Speaker 4: and while people around love, you love, and that's going
Speaker 4: to be.
Speaker 3: A good feed you know.
Speaker 1: It was interesting I was talking to someone yesterday and
Speaker 1: they were saying about the ability to stay in your lane,
Speaker 1: and there is a bit of a debate over whether
Speaker 1: or not you should stay in your lane or try
Speaker 1: and push yourself. If you were to relive some of
Speaker 1: this again, do you think staying in your lane is
Speaker 1: more important or do you think to get to where
Speaker 1: you may need to be to win this show. You
Speaker 1: need to always step outside your comfort zone.
Speaker 3: Well, so this is a tricky one. This is where
Speaker 3: I'm beating myself all the time.
Speaker 4: Like I keep going through that what cook and I'm like, oh,
Speaker 4: I should have done this, I should have done that,
Speaker 4: And you know, definitely think, Yes, it's definitely important.
Speaker 3: To push yourself step out of your comfort.
Speaker 4: Zone because if you all cook like every day home nails, it.
Speaker 3: Would be really Master Chef. So yeah, definitely push yourself, but.
Speaker 4: Cook food that you love. The flavors are key. I
Speaker 4: think the flavors a main thing here.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I'm going to talk about flavors and presentation in a second,
Speaker 1: but I just want to know, going into last night's
Speaker 1: pressure test, who did you think was going to be
Speaker 1: your strongest competition.
Speaker 4: I honestly thought Dash would be the best because he
Speaker 4: cooks this element all the time. Yeah, so I kind
Speaker 4: of thought he would be one to beat me first.
Speaker 1: I think Dash having the really messy kitchen bench is
Speaker 1: the most relatable thing I've ever seen on Master Chef.
Speaker 4: Yes, that was such a funny thing watching it last
Speaker 4: night when he couldn't find his butter, but in front
Speaker 4: of him.
Speaker 1: I think that's most of Australia. We all like to
Speaker 1: think that we're really good cooks. But then when it
Speaker 1: comes to it, if you came into our home versus
Speaker 1: what we see our master chif people be like, okay,
Speaker 1: this is a mess health and safety issue.
Speaker 4: Oh my husband, Alek, he's the one who does a
Speaker 4: cleating after me.
Speaker 2: And he's like, and it comes in and cleans after
Speaker 2: you cook.
Speaker 4: Well, it's kind of sort of like unspoken arrangements.
Speaker 3: And then he does it, but he will. And he
Speaker 3: also thinks I don't know how to load a dishal shoft,
Speaker 3: so he does this.
Speaker 4: I when I cook, I'm so fast and I don't like,
Speaker 4: go slowly, chop here, chop there at this I just
Speaker 4: got boom boom boom, boom bang And ten minutes later
Speaker 4: there's like twenty pots and pains on the bench and
Speaker 4: he will be like.
Speaker 3: What happened?
Speaker 4: Yeah, so I'm not sure who does the cleaning in
Speaker 4: your house.
Speaker 2: Well, now there's a new rule. I'm telling you, I'm
Speaker 2: implementing it. I'm calling you.
Speaker 1: Sorry, I've cooked and now the schz needs to be done. Okay,
Speaker 1: bye bye bye.
Speaker 4: I think it's only a fair thing to do whoever
Speaker 4: cooks the other person.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess it just just depends on that how
Speaker 2: messy you are?
Speaker 1: You know, seeing Anna Apollo you walk into the kitchen,
Speaker 1: what did you expect from her?
Speaker 2: Because I was wanting to know did you know much
Speaker 2: of her work? Like? How well did you know her
Speaker 2: style of cooking?
Speaker 4: All right, because I'm a big fan of Master Show,
Speaker 4: and I remember the first time I actually noticed noticed
Speaker 4: Anna is when she came with that I think it's
Speaker 4: called Eaton's mess or honest something. When she came it's
Speaker 4: like that white tempered chocolate ball and then you kind.
Speaker 3: Of snuffed it on the plate and all these good
Speaker 3: is was out. So that's the first thing came to one.
Speaker 3: I was like, I saw Anna, I knew it's going
Speaker 3: to be.
Speaker 4: I thought it's going to be something super pink, it's
Speaker 4: going to be something floral.
Speaker 3: It's going to be super tall.
Speaker 4: So when I saw egg on toast, I got even
Speaker 4: more work is because I know the simple, yet it's
Speaker 4: probably more technically difficult.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm not a big dessert person. I'm just going
Speaker 1: to say my version of dessert at home is vanilla
Speaker 1: ice cream with some Cottie's ice Magic on the That's
Speaker 1: basically that's the extent of my dessert.
Speaker 4: So I'm with you, and you know what, because you
Speaker 4: are not a big dessert person, you're going to love this.
Speaker 4: Because I also always have a Lil ice cream in
Speaker 4: the household. And when I don't know what to have
Speaker 4: a dessert right with just some good olive oil and
Speaker 4: sea salt, flate, what must try this?
Speaker 3: Trust me on this one.
Speaker 4: So scoop of vanilli scream driddle with good, good, good
Speaker 4: quality olive oil and some sea salt, and you will
Speaker 4: love it.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 1: This is kind of where I was getting a little
Speaker 1: bit lost because when it came to the food, I mean,
Speaker 1: when it came to this dessert, the sunny side up dessert,
Speaker 1: it made me think of that episode of Friends where
Speaker 1: Rachel cooks two different things at once.
Speaker 2: She excently gets the recipes stuck.
Speaker 1: Together and she looks like a meat sauce with a
Speaker 1: sweet sauce.
Speaker 3: Sweet.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So I was like, you know, with the browns sugar
Speaker 1: sponge and the passion fruit curd and bacon, I've got
Speaker 1: to say, and I'm sure people are going to come
Speaker 1: for me when they listen to this podcast. But that
Speaker 1: looked disgusting to me. I was not interested in eating
Speaker 1: that at all. I have to ask you, was it
Speaker 1: any good? How did it taste?
Speaker 4: I have to say it does come across overwhelming when
Speaker 4: you listen to it, Yeah, because it comes passion fruit.
Speaker 4: There's this banana, then there's a little pancake inside, then
Speaker 4: there's bacon. But when you have it all together, you
Speaker 4: get acidity of that passion fruit curd.
Speaker 3: Okay, then you have that like a little.
Speaker 4: Saltinus from that bacon and all the sweetness of the
Speaker 4: moose around.
Speaker 3: It actually works really well together.
Speaker 1: I watched the whole episode and I just kept saying
Speaker 1: to my partner, I was like, that doesn't look like
Speaker 1: something I want to eat.
Speaker 2: Ever, I'm sorry, you know what, we.
Speaker 3: Not desert people. And I was the same. I was
Speaker 3: the same.
Speaker 4: I was, you know, and even now, listening to all
Speaker 4: the elements, it creates confusion.
Speaker 3: But when you have it all.
Speaker 4: Together, and especially we have bits of that bacon and
Speaker 4: passion group and kind of sweetness, it honestly works.
Speaker 3: I don't know how, but it works really well well.
Speaker 1: The passion through Courd was the first sign that things
Speaker 1: were kind of going a bitter rye for you. You know,
Speaker 1: when it comes to cooking in the Master Chef Kitchen,
Speaker 1: does the first thing that you seem to make a
Speaker 1: mistake with can that throw you off for the rest
Speaker 1: of the cook Like were you able to feel like
Speaker 1: you ever really recovered from that?
Speaker 3: Well, that's what creates panic.
Speaker 4: And I feel like it happened to me when I
Speaker 4: was doing my Jack in the Box and I stuffed
Speaker 4: up at one of the first elements. And I've done
Speaker 4: it three times and I lost so much and then
Speaker 4: I've got this panic that I couldn't shake off.
Speaker 3: So same thing happened here.
Speaker 4: And when you get in that Panicchimore, you start ripple double,
Speaker 4: you know, checking everything, and that takes even longer time.
Speaker 4: So every time I read a recipection going back, oh
Speaker 4: my god, oh my god, did not forget.
Speaker 3: Something, just so I don't forget something again. And I
Speaker 3: feel like.
Speaker 4: It's definitely like crucial role. And that's why I think
Speaker 4: easily I put stuff after moves and at that time
Speaker 4: I was already doing two three elements at the same time.
Speaker 3: I don't even remember so well.
Speaker 1: The debate on how the judges critique the food is
Speaker 1: often really contradicted in my opinion. You know, when it
Speaker 1: comes to presentation over flavor over the many seasons that
Speaker 1: I've been watching the show, and Andy did point it
Speaker 1: out last night, saying that they should go with flavor
Speaker 1: over presentation. But you know, what are your thoughts on
Speaker 1: those two priorities when it comes to putting a dish together?
Speaker 1: Do you think there's a sixty forty split on you know,
Speaker 1: how they should be critiquing that kind of thing.
Speaker 3: To be honest, I like to eat with my eyes first.
Speaker 4: And then you know, when you dig in, you need
Speaker 4: that to del So do you know what I mean?
Speaker 4: You see the first, when you see dish, you have
Speaker 4: expectation of that.
Speaker 3: To be, you know, as what it looks.
Speaker 4: But then if that doesn't deliver, it looks beautiful, but
Speaker 4: it doesn't taste as it looks, That's that would throw
Speaker 4: me off. So I'm actually here on this one, and
Speaker 4: I know I did leave and it should be on
Speaker 4: my favorite. I'm actually with Judges on this one because
Speaker 4: to me, it always comes down to flavor. Yes, obviously,
Speaker 4: if you're in a restaurant and get like a messy
Speaker 4: dish and that doesn't even look like her, you know this.
Speaker 3: She would serve in.
Speaker 4: A restaurant obviously throws you off, but when you tried,
Speaker 4: and if it's delicious, I'm always up for that option
Speaker 4: rather than getting something beautiful and then not as tasty.
Speaker 3: So if you know what I.
Speaker 2: Mean, well, I do know what you mean.
Speaker 1: You know. What's also interesting about watching the show is
Speaker 1: how much of Google alerts I managed to put on
Speaker 1: my phone about any kind of conversation that's happening about
Speaker 1: Mastershop Really, and so I was reading yesterday, can we
Speaker 1: unpack the Invisible Sue?
Speaker 2: I don't know if you've.
Speaker 1: Read about this, but the fans are talking about Sue
Speaker 1: saying that, you know, they she's not being seen as
Speaker 1: as much as everyone else. You know, have you been
Speaker 1: reading any of that commentary? And did you get to
Speaker 1: know Sue very well?
Speaker 2: What's the story there?
Speaker 4: I didn't know this about Sue, but I can tell
Speaker 4: you one thing. I'm really close with Sue. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 4: really close with Sue soon so me it's like our mom,
Speaker 4: Pat and both beautiful people.
Speaker 3: And Sue is such a strong cook.
Speaker 4: Sue can make anything out of anything, and she's also amum.
Speaker 3: She's been cooking for a long time.
Speaker 4: And you should see Sue's like collection of Jesus. She
Speaker 4: makes her own cheeses on daily basis and she has
Speaker 4: cheeses all like five six years. I tried some of
Speaker 4: her stuff at the accommodation and she's.
Speaker 3: A beautiful cook. Maybe because there is.
Speaker 4: Twenty two of us, and I'm sure Sue's Tom is
Speaker 4: going to come.
Speaker 1: You know, maybe while they're editing the program together, they're like,
Speaker 1: we need to, you know, give the people the screen
Speaker 1: time at the start because they're going And maybe they're
Speaker 1: saving Sue because she's going to win the show. You know,
Speaker 1: there's so many different ways that you could look at
Speaker 1: a participate on a show like this and their amount
Speaker 1: of visibility. You know, it's not always what you.
Speaker 4: See exactly, and to be honest, it is hard to
Speaker 4: judge because there's twenty two of us and it's really
Speaker 4: hard to get equal amount of screen time for everyone.
Speaker 4: But then also every episode, I'm sure you because you
Speaker 4: watch it all the time, you know, it's usually four
Speaker 4: top dishes are featured, or like three, four, five top
Speaker 4: dishes and also bottom dishes, so every episode will show
Speaker 4: good dishes and bed dishes, so kind of when it's
Speaker 4: middle ish you won't be shown as much.
Speaker 1: Well, we watched watching last night's episode. Now it's just
Speaker 1: become a game for us because when we see her
Speaker 1: with screen, you know, we're like.
Speaker 2: Yes, did you see she was on the far right?
Speaker 3: There?
Speaker 1: She was up on the gan tree. So we're kind
Speaker 1: of we're now playing a game of not invisible suit
Speaker 1: where it's like more like where's Wally?
Speaker 4: You know, just this show is definitely visible and you
Speaker 4: should follow her and support her.
Speaker 3: So she's a beautiful person, beautiful mom, and excellent cook.
Speaker 1: I can ensure you that what can you tell us
Speaker 1: about the cooks that have been left behind? Like, is
Speaker 1: there something that's starting to come to the surface about
Speaker 1: what the remaining cooks have in common.
Speaker 4: I don't know what everyone has in common, because obviously
Speaker 4: everyone is different, has different set of skills. But as
Speaker 4: I mentioned from day one, I was blown away by
Speaker 4: skills of all contestants. And what I always loved about
Speaker 4: this show it's extremely supportive of each other, no matter.
Speaker 3: How well do you do in the competition.
Speaker 4: So I always thought it's maybe that's how they're show
Speaker 4: it on TV. But then now that I've been part
Speaker 4: of it, not once I could hear like negative comments
Speaker 4: about me, Ah, look what she's done from other contestants.
Speaker 3: It's been extremely supportive. I'm honestly so proud to be
Speaker 3: part of it.
Speaker 4: And even last night, every single one of them reached
Speaker 4: out to me and they all put it on their
Speaker 4: stories that put it on the social media. I'm actually really,
Speaker 4: really lucky to have this new Mastership family. And there's
Speaker 4: what's in common. There's so many good cooks there. There's
Speaker 4: so many good cooks that you probably can't even see
Speaker 4: the skills that are still I mean, there's still so
Speaker 4: much on this competition, but you'll see it's as great
Speaker 4: people and as great cooks.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you've been listening to the podcast
Speaker 1: so far, but I've been interviewing everyone as they've come out,
Speaker 1: and it has been one of the best seasons within
Speaker 1: a collection of cast. Like I've just been so impressed
Speaker 1: by everyone and just so I don't.
Speaker 2: Know what the word is.
Speaker 1: I just feel so warmed by these these that's nice
Speaker 1: and their story, you know, I think that that's really important.
Speaker 1: But I've been asking annoying questions.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't mind.
Speaker 2: I think great, this is.
Speaker 1: Well, we're going to go with something that's hard. You
Speaker 1: can only pick one who was your favorite contestant that
Speaker 1: is in the competition, maybe someone that's left, Like who
Speaker 1: do you think is gonna win?
Speaker 4: I'm going to say some eat not because she's got
Speaker 4: my good friend, but she is the most beautiful person
Speaker 4: you can imagine.
Speaker 3: And also I was, you know, I.
Speaker 4: Had a change to eat some of her food and
Speaker 4: slavor there is Oh my god.
Speaker 3: It's like a big hug.
Speaker 4: Everything you hear from her is just explosion. It is beautiful
Speaker 4: and she's a beautiful cook. She's a great representation as well.
Speaker 4: She's a beautiful person and so funny as well.
Speaker 3: And you know what, you will love love her.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm gonna have to slide into her DMS now
Speaker 1: and get her version of what I should cook in
Speaker 1: my new French Dutch oven things. So yeah, she definitely, Yeah,
Speaker 1: she sounds like someone I need to be hitting out.
Speaker 3: She is great.
Speaker 4: She had that all like, not just because obviously her
Speaker 4: strength is Indian cooking, but that's not all she has.
Speaker 4: She made some amazing dishes and I'm sure you've seen it.
Speaker 4: That's so beautiful.
Speaker 3: And plus the stuff we had in the hotel is
Speaker 3: just insane.
Speaker 1: You know, Harry gave up his honeymoon to be on
Speaker 1: the show. Was there anything that you had to give
Speaker 1: up to be on the show?
Speaker 3: Oh, my god, so much.
Speaker 4: I'm mom to two young kids, and to be honest,
Speaker 4: it was an easy decision for me to come here,
Speaker 4: to go to the show and to kind of be
Speaker 4: apart from them for so long.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and because you know they're six and.
Speaker 4: Eight, they're still a little and my partner's been supporting me.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: If my father's just boughted me from day one for this,
Speaker 4: and he's the actually one who put up my application.
Speaker 4: So it was hard decision for me to say yes,
Speaker 4: you know, I'll do it, And it wasn't easy for.
Speaker 3: Me every time being apart.
Speaker 4: So honestly, that's my This is my biggest kind of sacrifice.
Speaker 4: But then also I really wanted to show my kids
Speaker 4: if there's something you.
Speaker 3: Want to do.
Speaker 4: Now, Yes, to be sure, I am in my kitchen
Speaker 4: booth and I your hair from a pressure cooker.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm running out of times, so I'm gonna have
Speaker 1: to quickly smash these last two questions with you.
Speaker 2: Who is your favorite judge?
Speaker 1: There's four judges, you know, this is really hard, you know,
Speaker 1: but I'm making everyone just pick.
Speaker 4: One, okay, So I'm going to have to say Jean
Speaker 4: Christo okay, because look, he's knowledge and his specific kind
Speaker 4: of palite is insane, and he's just such a mentor.
Speaker 4: He he's that guy who just want to walk around.
Speaker 4: He just want to come and help you, even if
Speaker 4: it's competition and obviously they're not.
Speaker 3: Allowed to help us during the cook but he's that
Speaker 3: guy who just you.
Speaker 4: He's generally he genuinely wants to come out and help
Speaker 4: the trend.
Speaker 3: It's a trend. And how hot is Sofia? Come on,
Speaker 3: let's throw it in.
Speaker 2: Well yeah, I'm I'm yeah.
Speaker 1: She's confused me in my life because she's a very
Speaker 1: she is very beautiful.
Speaker 2: Is she a very beautiful lady?
Speaker 3: So sunny?
Speaker 4: Like I feel like she looks so much better in
Speaker 4: real than a TV as well.
Speaker 3: She's really so good looking. Wow, she's so good looking.
Speaker 3: Every time we walk in was like, my god, look
Speaker 3: at Skia.
Speaker 2: Well, what is something from behind the scenes?
Speaker 1: Something that I ask everybody and I'm curious, is there
Speaker 1: a routine maybe you can help me with this? Is
Speaker 1: there a routine that you guys go through when it's
Speaker 1: before cooking, you know, the producers come over and do
Speaker 1: a check on how everyone looks before you can enter
Speaker 1: the kitchen. Is there any sort of screwed nerve of
Speaker 1: what you need to look like before starting the Absolutely?
Speaker 4: No strawbing items, hair tied, you know, things like that,
Speaker 4: who needs.
Speaker 3: A toilet thing?
Speaker 4: Back check in this we do a couple of walkings,
Speaker 4: like while we walk in the kitchen, and then you know,
Speaker 4: when time starts the time that's.
Speaker 2: Exactly what I want.
Speaker 1: That's fine and shares and I can't wait to see
Speaker 1: what you do with this whole experience moving forward. And yeah,
Speaker 1: have have fun with chatting to the media today and
Speaker 1: being able to share your story.
Speaker 3: Thank you so much. Then, it's been wonderful. Make sure
Speaker 3: message me.
Speaker 4: I'll send you this recipe and try that icepress respect.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm right into it. I'm so excited.