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A MasterChef star was sent home after a rookie mistake where he ‘nearly poisoned’ judges Gregg Wallace and John Torode.
Peter, 49, accidentally covered his carrots in salt, not sugar, causing the judges to react with shock.
Handing over his oven-baked trout with ‘butter and sugar roasted carrots’, John, 58, was left with a disgusted look on his face, crying out ‘Woah’ after one bite.
‘What’s the acidic heat on the carrots?’ he probed, informing Peter: ‘I think you’ve mistaken the sugar for salt.’
‘Yeah, you have,’ Gregg added.
The blunder ultimately cost Peter his place on the show, as he admitted: ‘The nerves really got hold of me in that dish there.
‘They say it’s not over till the fat lady sings, but I can hear her in the distance.’
After he was forced to leave the competition, he added: ‘I feel disappointed, I can’t hide that, anybody would.’
‘I’ll maybe have a small chuckle to myself that I nearly poisoned John and Gregg with salt rather than sugar,’ he laughed.
Viewers were shocked over the blunder, with Alan writing: ‘Masterchef probably isn’t the place to mistake salt for sugar to be fair.’
‘Mistaking salt for sugar. Rookie mistake,’ Paulo added.
‘Peter has broken my heart. Poor guy,’ Sher said, while Daniel wrote: ‘I’m sure Peter’s a decent cook, but he’s had an utter nightmare under pressure.’
And that wasn’t Peter’s only error of the day, as earlier in the competition he managed to entirely burn some cabbage.
‘”Peter has burnt his cabbage” is a bit of an understatement. That’s fully cremated. You could scatter its ashes in a memorial park,’ Ariadne wrote on X.
‘Peter proves you shouldn’t learn cooking from Youtube compilation videos,’ Sam added, after the Scot admitted he had watched blooper videos the previous night.
He said: ‘So last night I watched some videos of the 50 most disastrous events on MasterChef.
‘I’ve prepared myself for worst case scenario, and watched how bad I need to get before I’m really bad! Anything above that, job’s good!’
‘Peter seems to be overcomplicating things,’ John warned, after hearing the details of the dish.
And it turned out to be true, with Peter’s cabbage ruined.
‘I can’t believe I forgot about it,’ a defeated Peter said. ‘It’s like something for Halloween!’
‘Bet Peter wished he hadn’t watched Masterchef’s 50 most disastrous moments now,’ viewer Ann quipped on X.
MasterChef is available to watch on BBC iPlayer with the next episode airing tomorrow at 7.30pm on BBC One.
