The preambles are over, and the MasterChef competition has really gotten to the heart of things: last night, for the first time in this new edition of the program, two of the aspiring chefs had to abandon the brigade.

I am Chù and Fiorenzawho put down their apron respectively atInvention Test et al Pressure Test. The twenty-two-year-old student originally from Madagascar (who now lives in Parma), who entered the masterclass thanks to a sponge cake with lemon custard, Chantilly cream and dehydrated lemon peel, in homage to her adoptive father, was not forgiven a head of garlic left whole on the plate (a blue fish with white asparagus on squacquerone sauce). Florencea 31-year-old radiology technician from the province of Naples, has prepared a stuffed pasta seasoned with too much “anger” – as she herself explained to the judges Antonino Cannavacciuolo, Bruno Barbieri and Giorgio Locatelli – which made her lose sight of the harmony of the dish.

But by making mistakes you learn, and this also applies (and perhaps above all) in the kitchen. From the mistakes made by the competitors in these first episodes of MasterChef, we can obtain an instruction manual on which what not to do if you want to stay in the race as long as possible.