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"Master Chef" 9: When the things Eyal Shani says make sense, you realize that the world has gone completely crazy

Against the backdrop of the severe crisis in the restaurant industry, its ninth season “Master Chef” has dissipated a pleasant sense of longing.

And you know how it is with longing - even traits that once felt unbearable suddenly become pleasant

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• Eyal Shani

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• Haim Cohen

• Israel Aharoni

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Ben Byron Braude

Thursday, 10 December 2020, 08:37

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Promo "Master Chef Season 9" (Rainbow 12)

The ninth season of "Master Chef" Bow 12 opened at a leisurely pace.

How calm?

The opening clip of the program looks like a promotional film for retired farmers in the Galilee: "Master Chef - Retirement Season".

The judging panel - in the classic line-up of Haim Cohen, Michal Ansky, Eyal Shani and Israel Aharoni - walks around his beds, stroking cabbage leaves, chanting okra and looking in amazement at the eggplant.

Almost a year has passed since the eighth season of "Master Chef" (won by Vanessa Videl) and the world has gone so far as to make "Second Stag" and humanize vegetables to the point of tomato eroticization, which seems like perfectly normal behavior.

For a decade now, "Master Chef" has been the most successful cooking reality show in Israel.

Unlike other countries in the world where the format is broadcast quite reasonably successfully and is considered niche, in Israel the program became a central institution and anchor in the Keshet 12 broadcast schedule. Just to mention that before "Master Chef" the chefs in Israel were at best "Celebs Chef" and after that some became real "celebs" .

The program has changed the way we see cooks - from people with aprons and towels on their shoulders to a group of people in evening clothes who can talk for hours about their effects in the kitchen.

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"Master Chef - Retirement Season".

The opening episode of the ninth season (arc screenshot 12)

More than anything else, the success of "Master Chef" to this day is reflected in the fact that it has managed to turn a number of completely anonymous cooks into successful chefs.

Particularly notable is the winner of the second season, Avi Levy, who opened the restaurant "Hamotzia", ​​and the winner of the sixth season, Tom Aviv, who has already opened a number of successful restaurants and has become a celeb in his own right.

Here comes the complexity of the rise of the new season in 2020: for more than half a year now, restaurants in Israel have been desolate, those that survive barely do so thanks to deliveries.

In the current situation, dealing with "Master Chef" is more challenging than running on the deliveries of "Ninja Israel", it is possible that out of public responsibility before the beginning of each episode should appear a slide "Entering the restaurant business at your own risk".

Well, if the existential depression has not yet whetted your appetite there are still reasons to get excited because in the end it is one of the more fun programs on screen.

So as mentioned, the ninth season of "Master Chef" begins in the fields, and after hearing the believing selves of the judges it was time to get to know the contestants who will try to get into our hearts, stomachs and if they really succeed then also into the pocket.

In the audition assignment the cooks were asked to pick one vegetable from the ground and then go to a wooden board and reveal the identity of one of the judges and find out what dishes he would like them to cook with this vegetable (yes, eggplant is generally a thank you in advance for enlightenment in talkbacks).

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I found myself identifying with his monologue.

Eyal Shani, "Master Chef" (Keshet screenshot 12)

The contestants who came to meet the judges were all particularly cute, and in a way not typical of the format we have yet to hear of any mythological grandmother whose cooking has shaped their lives.

Particularly notable was contestant Itiela (who had already been rebranded by Eyal Shani who called her Inti-Ella) - a 30-year-old Moshavnik, an immigrant from Paris, whose cooking combines the simplicity of the earth and the sophistication of the global food capital her parents came from.

Eyal, a software engineer who came because of and for his wife, also gives the impression of an interesting character who may divide the judges.

The neurotic young man made creme brulee cornflakes inspired by the successful pastry chef Christina Tosi, to which he even dared to add popsicles.

This step almost cost him a disqualification from Haim Cohen, who turns out to be less enthusiastic about tongue-in-cheek, and it's a shame, because if "Master Chef" taught me something, it's important to open up to new flavors.

In practice the break between the eighth and ninth seasons of the show was not significantly longer than those that preceded it, but because of what happened in the world, watching the first episode of "Master Chef" dissipated a pleasant sense of longing.

And you know what it's like to miss - even traits that once felt unbearable suddenly become pleasant: Michal Ansky's penetrating gaze in the contestants' eyes as she tastes their dishes, Israel Aharoni's exaggerated laughter from Eyal Shani's half punch, Haim Cohen's overconfidence , They all suddenly became kind to me.

Hell, I even found myself identifying with a monologue by Eyal Shani that talked about the "haze" that is inside a cabbage sausage.

When the world itself feels so illogical, suddenly the absurd descriptions of Eyal Shani make sense.

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We marked as a favorite.

Mai Cohen, "Master Chef" (Rainbow screenshot 12)

It is very early to know if we saw the next winner of "Master Chef" Israel yesterday, but if there is one contestant who has been marked as a favorite to continue.

Mai Cohen, of course, who embodies everything that is right to engage in - a Ben Gurion Airport employee, a sweet blonde who grew up in Ramla and generally specializes in local Arab cooking, and mostly looks like someone who knows how to photograph excellent dishes for Instagram.

Judging by the referees' enthusiasm for the wrap dish she made, it seems we are going to spend quite a bit of time with her this season.

Like "The Singer in the Mask" which ended on Saturday, "Master Chef" is an evil-free reality show - you can like the contestants and judges more or less, but we are not going to see quarrels and intrigue here, only people with an open heart and dishes that will make you feel all you have In this fridge is sautéed rice from yesterday and vegetables that already knew better days.

My biggest ambition from the upcoming season of the show is that I can already celebrate its finale with friends at a restaurant.

Think I'm a fanatic?

Eyal Shani taught me that it's okay.

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