A cheeky amuse-bouche sends one team packing Sam and Chris have a rubberneck to see who has made it back into MKR finals. So, babes, we've come to this. And frankly, babes, I'm so devo that Ashlee and Sophia are not here. What will we do without a steady diet of cockiness and insulting competitors? But at least we have our Tassie guys back. Because it's just not enough to hear your own family fight - we must have another family argument on television as well. Luke, upon hearing that another team is returning to the contest, feels sick, and not just at Mick's wardrobe choice, which is so not Bondi. Elle says that she never thought, in her wildest dreams, she would be in the finals of My Kitchen Rules. As a viewer, it was never in my wildest dream that after almost four months, I'd still be watching this program. But no matter; finally, the end is coming. 'God I'm shaking, I'm so nervous' ... Elle has become a purple people-eater. Through the magic of television, Luke says he's sure that there are no surprises left just before it is revealed Mick and Matt will return to the show. Jake's curl, which has furthered its pilgrimage toward the front of his head, quivers in fear. Elle is unsure whether to laugh or cry at the return of the Tasmanians. Don't cry because it's over, Elle, smile because it happened. Mick waffles on for a bit about how difficult it was to work in a real kitchen, but really, the biggest challenge was having to be in the same kitchen as Ashlee and Sophia and Angela and Melina again. Well done, babes. Stacking the odds in their favour? Jake and Elle's pretty creation. Pete and Manu declare that there will be an elimination every night from here on in. If only the show had been scheduled that way from the get go. Am I right or am I right? Mick is baffled by the first part of the challenge: create an amaze-bouche. "It sounds like something you'd throw on a campfire," he says, showing that he's been camping in Europe many times. The other teams are equally confused, except for coiffed Jake, who passes on the meaning to the uncultured. Luke professes to want to be in the competition more than anything - even more than doing push-ups, shirtless, on Bondi Beach, Bondi style. Mick and Matt decide to make a sesame prawn amaze-bouche, a dish, which, by design, is supposed to be one bite. "It's a big mouthful, but I have a big mouth," says Mick, mistaking himself for Sophia. The Tasmanians also decide on a green mango and cucumber salad. That sounds ... appetising. What is it with these teams and mango? Matt is cooking the rice. Does he not remember what happened last time? Disaster looms. Someone buy the kid a rice cooker. Luke and Scott decide on surf and turf, Bondi style, which apparently means putting a lot of things together to make people confused about what they're eating. Luke enters an apple ribbon world and pickles the said apple cuttings, while Scott tackles an avocado emulsion. As for Quiff King, he and Elle are making an "ah-may-zingg" goat cheese and beetroot stack with watermelon foam. Dan and Steph are tackling seared beef with salt and pepper bone marrow. Dan will have to do a sausage soon, surely. Long live the sausage king. Chris and Sam, the poor confused lads, are making a tuna tartare cornet with avocado and wasabi mousse. Sam says this is like a Cornetto ice-cream - but it's not. Cornettos are sweet and beautiful and no one minds chocolate dripping down their face when it melts. Avocado on your face is a whole other matter entirely. In proof that absence does not necessarily make the heart grow fonder, Mick is telling Matt what to do. Pete says the two make a well-polished team, and that's without being rolled in glitter. Elle says the Tasmanians have come out of nowhere, conveniently forgetting the bond they forged over Jessie and Biswa's dining table. Jake the snake comes to bite, telling Matt he hopes the other, "real" teams can show what they've learnt before Mick and Matt go home. Do you think Mick and Matt were beneficiaries of a two pairs for the price of one special deal at the optometrist's? Elle is so worried about the heat of the beetroot melting the goats" cheese that she cracks and starts talking to a group of walnuts about how lucky they are to be submerged in toffee. As Chris" cones crack, the cracks show in other teams. Mick is feeling nervous about prawns individually, but it doesn't stop him from barking at Matt. Elle is "pissed off" at Jake hovering over her shoulder. Luke suddenly realises he and Scott may have too much happening on the plate. Judgment comes and Jake says he and Elle have done an AH-mazing job. Manu makes a weak joke about the colours of the team's clothes matching the dish but no one quite gets it. Luke is not ashamed to say he is nervous. Proud of you, babes. Jake and Elle, Steph and Dan and a teary Luke and Scott win through to the semi-final. Unsurprisingly, Matt's rice let his dish down. Sam takes up Sophia's "so bad it's bad" banter mantle and predicts that in the sudden death round, a K.O punch is coming to Tassie. Soon after, he says he and Chris can "smash it." For the love of humanity, please stop! Mick reckons Matt will be the boss of the second challenge, a signature dish contest. If the boss gets barked at a lot, then sure, that sounds about right. Mick and Matt's chocolate pecan meringue cake is Matt's mum's recipe but will their hopes flop? Chris and Sam put beef cheeks into a pressure cooker, prompting Luke to start talking about the pressure cooker as though he is the foremost expert in such culinary techniques. There is no word on how to use a pressure cooker Bondi style. Despite fears, Sam and Chris are pumped that the beef cheeks are cooked perfectly. With one minute to go, both teams are keen to ensure this isn't their last supper. (See what I did there? I'm considering writing Pete and Manu's lines for next season.) The extra judges, including Guy Grossi with new glasses that, frankly, are not as good as his last pair, file in for their only dinner of the week, and for once, it appears that they don't fear poisoning at the hands of the contestants. Guy tells Chris and Sam that their carrots were undercooked. Their punishment is to be beaten over the head with an underdone carrot for the remainder of the series. They score 44/60. Manu re-introduces the death fear by telling Mick and Matt that their cake was to die for. They score 49/60, which saves them the indignity of returning to My Kitchen Rules for just 50 minutes. Thus ends the kitcheneering of Sam and Chris, who shall be henceforth remembered for awkward smiles and, in Chris" case, awkward-looking fedoras. The next episode appears enormously promising. Despite suggestions that they are "friends," Luke and Scott and Dan and Steph face off for their spot in the grand final. Will Dan mince the Bondi boys, Bondi style?