MASTERCHEF viewers have been left complaining about a dessert served in an eggshell as part of a fancy three-course meal.
Marketing consultant Sara and law graduate Radha were in charge of the finale of the meal, served up by the contestants for a host of Royal British Legion guests at London’s Middle Temple.
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The two women were tasked with recreating the “complex” dessert, which consisted of a creme brulee served in a fragile eggshell.
Chef Glynn Purnell could be seen talking the hopefuls through the process, including using a blow torch to caramelise the dessert.
The dish was finished with a perfect scoop of strawberry sorbet, as well as crushed honeycomb pieces and fruit.
“This is a quintessentially British dish,” the Michelin star chef told the cameras. “It’s burnt English custard and it’s a taste of the fairground.
“When I was a kid, we used to go to the fair and just get a bag of what they call cinder toffee, which is honeycomb.
“Emotions and passion are 100 per cent on that dish.”
However, fans were not convinced by the dessert and took to Twitter to complain that they “didn’t understand it”.
“I can’t be the only person who doesn’t fancy either their pudding from an eggshell,” one wrote alongside a sick-faced emoji.
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A second chimed in: “I don’t understand this dessert. Why the eggshell?” as a third agreed: “Don’t see the eggshell surviving.”
It comes after Masterchef fans were left impressed by contestant Pookie’s “goldfish dumplings” – that looked like the real thing.
The amateur chefs battled it out in the semi-finals, as judges John Torode and Greg Wallace challenged the group to an invention test.
They were given 90 minutes to make a creative dish using a variety of eggs and chickens – with Pookie opting for the quirky dumplings.
Hoping to pull something exceptional out of the bag, Pookie revealed that she was making them in the shape of goldfish.
BBC viewers were freaked out by Pookie’s adventurous but “super realistic” dish as they were convinced the fish were real.
One wrote: “As a child I had a goldfish named Bobby who looked pretty similar to the fish creation on Pookie’s plate.”
A third baffled viewer commented: “I’ve gone back and re-watched the opening sequence like eight times and I can still see a poached goldfish.”
Pookie continued to impress in the second challenge, as she teamed up with Eddie to make venison and potatoes for guests as they celebrated the centenary of the Royal British Legion.
The six remaining contestants will face one more challenge to land a place in finals week.
