MasterChef Italia 12: who are the 6 amateur chefs in the semifinals

mhip only one installment to the final of the twelfth edition of Master Chef Italy. The shortlist of 20 amateur chefs for the initial masterclass is now reduced. And in penultimate evening of the cooking show, broadcast tonight at 21.15 on Sky Uno and streaming on NOW, others will have to leave the kitchen and put aside the dream of victory one step away from the finish line. To decide who will be able to face the last challenge will be, as usual, the judges Bruno Barbieri, Antonino Cannavacciuolo and Giorgio Locatelli.

I am 6 amateur cooks left in the MasterChef kitchen. The youngest is 19 and the oldest is 37 mystery box, invention test, skill test, outdoor tests and pressure tests, tonight they play access to the final that will elect the 12th Italian MasterChef.

Masterchef 12who are the 6 amateur cooks still in the game

Antonio Gargiulo, for everyone Bubu is a 19-year-old who studies archaeological sciences in Rome. He shares his birthplace in Vico Equense with chef Cannavacciuolo, but he grew up in Cagliari where his parents moved for work. His goal is to prove to his parents that cooking is not just a hobby.

There is, then, Edoardo Franco: a decidedly naive 27-year-old in clothing, hairstyle and character. Unemployed because he hasn’t found the right job yet, 4 years of living in Scotland and a passion for Mexican cuisine. When you see him, no one will bet a single euro on him, but he has shown that he has grit, becoming one of the most loved in the Masterchef kitchen for his cheerfulness and availability towards others.

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He is 27 years old Thi Hue Din, for all Huè, Vietnamese in love with Italy who has adopted it since she arrived in Rome to graduate in Tourism Management. Consultant for a company that deals with cooperation between Italian and Vietnamese companies, Huè gets excited when he has to do with everything that is vegetable. Her dream is to change the Vietnamese point of view that cooking is cheap.

Edward Franco. (Sky press office)

Also the Italian-Moroccan Sara Messaoudi is 27 years old, and she is from Bergamo with a tough head. Raised by her mother who, in addition to being a worker, took care of the family Moroccan restaurant, Sara began to cook when she went to live on her own. She cooks instinctively bringing scents and smells of her origins.

He is Lombard from LodiRoberto Resta, 34 years old and working as an industrial designer in the field of chocolate processing machines. Sporty and quite shy as well, he found the courage to follow his passion for cooking.

Mattia Tagetto, 37, is the most mature of the competitors. Born and raised in Bolzano, he is the closest competitor to the restaurant world. Not only because he is a sommelier and manages a wine shop in Bolzano. His passion for cooking has led him to sit in over 300 starred restaurants.

The judges of Mastechef with chef and Buddhist nun Jeong Kwan. (Sky press office)

Jeong Kwan and Mauro Colagreco, guests of tonight’s episode

The bar of evidence will rise again in tonight’s episode. To begin with the six contestants will have to face a mystery box in the name of awareness. Then he will enter the kitchen Jeong Kwan, Buddhist nun and Icon Award-winning chef at Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants 2022.

With her Bubu, Edoardo, Hue, Mattia, Roberto and Sara will be engaged in an Invention Test that will test their connection between soul and cuisine. The outdoor test, on the other hand, will allow amateur cooks to enter the kitchen of the Mirazur in Menton, a three-starred restaurant at the top of the World’s 50 Best Restaurants in 2019 by Argentinian chef Mauro Colagreco. Former judge of Top Chef Italia, Colagreco is also a Unesco goodwill ambassador for biodiversity.

MasterChef Italy 12, the decisive pressure test

The pressure test will complete the roster of amateur cooks who will be able to enter the kitchen again for next week’s final. To the winner a professional course at International school of Italian cuisine Alma di Colorno and the publication of a recipe book published by Baldini + Castoldi who will edit and publish the recipe book of the winner of MasterChef Italia.

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