ENTER EMMA : A global star in the Super Chef kitchen

In the beginning of this week, Rupchanda-The Daily Star Super Chef 2016 welcomed the celebrated Emma Dean, winner of the fifth season of MasterChef Australia. The judges and the participants alike greeted her with much fervour as she entered the kitchen on a bicycle.

Emma Dean is someone who wears many hats. The chef cap is not the only 'hat' she wears: she is also an avid cyclist. So, passion and pace and living life colourfully is the least we can say about her. And the last episode has been a clear testament to that.

The very amicable Emma shared her tricks and insights - of cooking and of life at large - with the Super Chef contestants.

Emma took a class for the participants, where she taught how to properly cook steak; different variations of it. Steak is a delicacy for us all. Cooking steak is nothing short of an art, with different people preferring different types and variants. Needless to say, it takes a lot of practice to master them, and the MasterChef dove into the dynamics of the culinary game, demonstrating how everything from temperature of the meat to the temperament of the cook comes to play.

Earlier this week, the Australian chef had bestowed a lot of wisdom among the participants. Now, tonight, it is up to them to prove whether they can use the wisdom to move a step closer to the Super Chef crown.

Actually, the previous episode went rather easy and tension-free for the contestants: it was not an elimination round. Since when did the Super Chef kitchen become so trouble-free?

So, come tonight, Emma Dean is going to join the panel of judges for an elimination round. Let the show begin!

First, putting on the Super Chef apron, she is going to make a very special dish - a distinctive, highly complicated affair that requires several crucial steps. She is going to demonstrate the recipe by preparing the dish herself, and then, the contestants will have to replicate it.

Don't undermine the idea of replication, for it takes a lot of humility and intelligence to properly 'copy' an artwork. See tonight how the contestants hurdle around Emma - seeing her work, scribbling notes and asking questions.

Given the level of complexity of the dish, the contestants need more than firm hands to excel; a few mistakes here and there are inevitable. But someone needs to be waved goodbye.

After an episode without the fear of getting fired from the kitchen, it is again an elimination round. For one contestant, it will be the last night at this kitchen.

So, keep your fingers crossed and pray for your favourite participant as you watch tonight's episode.  Tune into ntv every Saturday and Sunday 9pm to see the stories unfold. Flip to page 5 to take part in the Rupchanda-The Daily Star Super Chef quiz!