Masterchef judge and avid supporter of the cravat Matt Preston has taken aim at My Kitchen Rules and one of its famous judges, Pete Evans.
During Thursday night’s master class episode, Preston joined guest chef Marco Pierre White and fellow judge Gary Mehigan in teaching contestants how to master some of their favourite recipes.
While White opted for his mother’s risotto and Mehigan took on pho, Preston announced he’d be making a “classic baked cheese cake”, before adding what can only be described as a clear swipe towards Evans, “I’m going to continue my anti-paleo crusade.”
Preston believes the benefits of an anti-paleo life are clearly evident. Source: Facebook.
Now in its eighth season, Masterchef and My Kitchen Rules have long been network rivals, but fundamentally different in their approach to home cooking.
While MKR is known for its theatrics and love of drama, Masterchef is generally seen as more serious, and able to offer its contestants a career path into the food industry.
While Evans is one of Australia's most vocal advocates for paleo eating, a diet that consists of mostly meat and vegetables and eliminating grains and processed foods, famed food critic Preston is known to love a good swipe of butter and generous shake of salt.
Evans, who was recently married believes cutting out all processed foods is the path to heaven. Source: Facebook.
Evans has drawn much criticism for his views over the years - from activated almonds to serving babies bone broth and even questioning the place of fluoride in the modern diet - which has more than once put a question mark over his position as a judge on the Channel 7 show.
But the 2016 season of MKR has been and gone and Masterchef is now underway, leaving Preston with plenty of opportunities to further his crusade.
Here's comedians Peter Helliar and Kitty Flanagan paying tribute to both shows at this year's Logies:
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I continue to say that MKR has the cooks Masterchef rejects! As for Pete Evans, I do not understand why he is still on the show? He is eating foods that he does not approve of yet he continues on his Paleo path, what does Pete Evans really eat? I think this guy is full of contradictions!
Can we please move on from calling the Paleo diet a 'meat and vegetables' diet. that is blatantly wrong. Fish, nuts, sea vegetables, etc etc????? and is a healthy diet. It got humans through evolution didn't it, so it can't be bad. It is simply NOT all meat. It's a stupid name for a relatively good diet compared to what most people are eating which is mostly refined carbohydrate. anyone seen what's in kids lunch boxes lately? 'packaged' treats mascaraing as healthy food, and its destroying their teeth. Fruit rolls, muesli bars, white bread, oils in every product. too much omega 6 and not enough 3.
Saying the paleo diet got us through evolution is as silly as saying photosynthesis got us through evolution (a bit before paleo) and so we should stop eating and just sit out in the sun all day.
Besides, there is no single "paleo man" that ate a single type of diet. Clearly diet would have changed by geography and climate. We know, even today, that some tribal cultures grind and eat grain - we can be certain they didn't buy the grain at Coles - and archaeological evidence suggests "paleo man" ate wild oats. It's not like it's some 21st century fad (unlike the paleo diet).
And who is to say that, had muesli bars been invented back then, "paleo man" would not have eaten them too?