This Wednesday, September 21, 2022, the eleventh season of best pastry chef continued at 21:10, on M6. Thirteen candidates were still competing at the start of this third episode. The theme of the evening: The thousand and one nights. Or rather, the thousand and one cakes!
After Cyril Lignac’s test, which was in the gazelle’s horn, during which the competitors had two hours to revisit the famous oriental pastry shop, Mercotte gave them a great challenge: to create “a tower of Scheherazade’s palace”. It is a monumental cake, crowned by a delicate dome of chocolate in gold powder, which culminates at 35 cm in height.
A particularly difficult test, which was not successful for almost all the candidates, and which provoked the reaction of many viewers on Twitter: “Like every year, I am dismayed by the astronomical amounts of food wasted for the Mercotte test”“Not only did they have a hard time making this cake, it’s not pretty, some are not good and it’s going to go away or later… in the trash! Thank you mercotte for this waste”“As much as the other events, I guess everyone eats it, but this Mercotte event is just a waste.”…
I miss the time when Mercotte asked them for cakes that EXIST but are not well known or forgotten over time #LMP
— • Day ¬ (@yoplaip) September 21, 2022
Like every year, I am amazed at the astronomical amounts of food wasted for the Mercotte event… #LMP #thebestpatissier
— Lola (@PrincessPlrm) September 21, 2022
Not only did they have a hard time making this cake, it’s not pretty, some are not good and it’s going to go away or later… in the trash! Thank you mercotte for this waste #LMP #thebestpatissier
— Tiyaa (@miss_tiyaa) September 21, 2022
But all this buttercream as well as unworkable, this Mercotte tower looks inedible #thebestpatissier #LMP
— Rome (@Harvard13) September 21, 2022
Suddenly #m6 for the next edition we avoid throwing away 20 kilos of food / Mercotte test? Continue ! We trust you can do it! #thebestpatissier
—Celia (@Celia_P97) September 21, 2022
As much as the other events, I guess everyone eats it, but this Mercotte event is just a waste. #LMP #thebestpatissier
— Rome (@Harvard13) September 21, 2022
Another troublesome point for netizens: they suspect that the cake that serves as a model is not really prepared by Mercotte…”Mercotte, who does not make the cakes herself, allows herself to insist “you just have to read the recipe well”.“borders on imposture!”“Mercotte is a sadist. He doesn’t even make the cakes that bear his name. And most of which end up in the trash. A sequence that should disappear”…
Mercotte’s ordeal turns into a carnage with every broadcast and a waste! She comes up with the ideas, but it’s clear that she’s not the one making the cake, so check it out because it’s completely ridiculous! #LMP
—Carole Wieland (@CaroleWieland) September 21, 2022
We grill you Mercotte it’s not you who makes your recipes! we knew!!! The person has a bracelet on the right wrist and in addition to the forearms with young skin!!! #LMP #lmp11 #thebestpatissier pic.twitter.com/dFaV7ETQFf
– The Clown (@TheClownW) September 21, 2022
Mercotte, who does not make the cakes herself, allows herself to insist “you just have to read the recipe well”, bordering on imposture!#LMP
—Carole Wieland (@CaroleWieland) September 21, 2022
The best pastry chef…scam is mercotte…she doesn’t make the cakes! Or clearly I want to see her in action as the contestants do what she says she did! #LMP
—Kevin Demandre (@KDemandre) September 21, 2022
Mercotte is a sadist.
He doesn’t even make the cakes that bear his name.
And most of which end up in the trash.
A sequence that should disappear#TheBestPastry Chef#lmp11#LMP— Roy Lichtenstein (@Forti_Saremu) September 21, 2022