Jacobsons survive to continue competing
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Cait and Tonna Jacobson, the daughter-mother team from Brandon competing on FOX TV’s “MasterChef: Dueling Duos”, lived to cook on another episode. The show airs at 7 p.m. on FOX TV. Tonight, they’re hosting a watch party at Railbirds in Sioux Falls, starting at 7 p.m.
Tonna and Cait Jacobson lived to cook another dish as revealed on the June 17 episode of MasterChef: Dueling Duos. In episode five last week, contestants faced their first Mystery Box challenge of the season, with not one box, but two. One box contained sweet ingredients and the other spicy ingredients. Each duo was challenged to combine at least two of the ingredients from each box to make a harmonious, MasterChef-worthy dish. What the boxes didn’t contain, however, was the protein.
Tonna and Cait, the mother-daughter team from Brandon, were coming off a bottom three performance in episode four. Last week, they created a sweet and spicy dish (scallops on top of cilantro lime rice with mango and pineapple salsa) to survive yet another week to be one of 10 remaining duos.
During the episode, Tonna was quoted, “Zach and Michelle know we don’t have fresh seafood where we’re at. So, I know they’re trying to make it a little bit tricky, but it’s all right.”
Scallops were the protein assigned to the South Dakota women by “dinner party dish” winners, Zach and Michelle, whose plan for assigning proteins nearly backfired on them, as their duck entrée landed them in the bottom three.
The duos are judged by celebrity chefs Gordon Ramsay, Joe Bastianich and Tiffany Derry.
MasterChef: Dueling Duos airs at 7 p.m. Wednesdays on FOX.
