Nick Doyle reads out an inspirational letter from his nan. Courtesy: Masterchef/Channel Ten.
Elimination: Nick Doyle gets the bad news from the judges. Source: Channel 10
A HEARTFELT letter with inspirational advice from Nick Doyle's Nan wasn't enough to save the cuddly cake maker in MasterChef's Monday night elimination.
The 22-year old arts/law student came a cropper due to his non-crispy crackling and crappy cress puree. Doyle's difficulty in distinguishing between cod and trout proved fatal when he dried out the wrong fish's skin for crackling for the competition's most difficult dish so far: Alla Wolf Tasker's Rivers and Lakes.
Not quite right ... Nick's attempt at Alla Wolf Tasker's Rivers and Lakes had a few flaws. Source: Channel 10
Presenting the dish to the judges, Doyle read out a letter from his Nan, who helped raise him after his parents split up when he was a toddler.
"With that letter she really just wanted me to back myself and fight for my place in the competition," Doyle says. "She used to be a chef and passed her love of food on to my Mum who passed it on to me. (But) I knew that she, and Mum as well, would have been proud of me regardless of what happened."
While an emotional story has helped more than one contestant scrape through in seasons past, this year's exacting standards are sending competitors packing for relatively minor mistakes.
Devastated: Nick gets emotional in his post-elimination interview. Source: Channel 10
The "devastated" contestant says he'd convinced himself "for about two seconds" when the dish was unveiled that it might be a dessert.
"But as soon as I saw it was a whole plate of seafood I knew I was going home," he says. "Mum doesn't like seafood and we never had it in the house. I've never eaten it or prepared it."
His watercress puree, which he admits was "like wet grass", was also judged a big fail.
"At the last minute I put it on the plate and wish I didn't, but I don't think that would have saved me," he says.
Line up ... Nick, Sarah and Sean square off for battle. Source: Channel 10
A massive MasterChef fan who's "never missed an episode ever" Doyle says he felt unworthy of making it through the elimination.
"Part of me would have felt I had cheated Sean or Sarah if they'd gone home instead of me," he says. "This season is about the best cooks in the country and I believe Sean and Sarah are two of the best cooks in the competition."
A fan-favourite, Doyle was as popular inside the house as he is with viewers. He says this year's contestants are closer than any before and reveals he hopes to start up a catering company with his best buds in the house — Georgia, Brent and Laura: "We call ourselves the awesome foursome," he says. "We were always talking about doing something outside (the house) catering or even pop up dinners."
Popularity contest ... Sean bids goodbye to Nick. Source: Channel 10
The competition's "gentle giant" Doyle could have easily been a contender on The Biggest Loser. He dropped a third of his body weight — around 50kgs — in the eight months before the competition began. Since returning to his studies at the University of Newcastle he's had to abandon a planned food blog after realising "I'd have to put all my writing back into my degree" but he has started up a catering outfit called The Green Room. They plan on opening a market stall in Newcastle soon.
"I've got a friend making cupcakes, another doing sugar free vegan (cakes) and I'm doing the gourmet desserts," he says.
Nick is leaves the Masterchef kitchen after being eliminated on May 19. Courtesy: Masterchef/Channel Ten
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