| “ | Public enemy number one. | ” |
Kristianne "Krissi" Biasiello was a contestant on Season 4 of MasterChef. She ranked in 4th place.
Personality
Krissi is unarguably the least popular contestant in the history of the show despite her resilience and strong cooking abilities. In the kitchen, she was a consistent cook in individual challenges despite some inconsistencies while having one of the worst team challenge records of all time, but her attitude became recognized as one of, if not the worst, in the show's history. While she started out as misunderstood and had some moments of rudeness, she somehow managed to turn everyone against her due to her big mouth, along with her ferocious, repulsive, callous, abrasive, and cutthroat temper. She gradually developed into the show's biggest bully, refused to take responsibility for her mistakes, would never let go of petty grudges, targeted other cooks for no good reason, riled up conflicts with everyone, including the judges, and was the first contestant in the history of the show to constantly threaten physical violence, especially when she took pride as a bully after stating that she used to beat up other girls back in high school. She was even shown to be delusional by claiming her fried catfish was delicious rather than tasting like mud, believing she was going to be criticized by the judges regardless of taste because she argued with Joe. It worsened when she developed a sadistic side during Bime's final elimination challenge while watching him mistakenly put cream of tartar instead of cornstarch in his lime curd. She was also not a team player, brought a lot of negative energy, became toxic towards every team that she worked with, complained that she always lost every single team challenge, and threw her teammates under the bus on numerous occasions. Her attitude also deteriorated by becoming nasty and she was very well known for being extremely hypocritical on multiple occasions, an example being criticizing Jordan for saving himself after a team challenge before eventually doing the same. Despite being funny at some points while constantly using her son as her main motivation to keep pushing forward, she had very few friends and made several enemies. Somehow, she got along with Sasha and was good friends with Kathy, but after they were out of the competition very early, she occasionally clashed with almost every other cook and often got berated by most of them, arguably except for Eddie. She had short-lived feuds with Howard, Beth, Bime, and Savannah, while having longer ones with Natasha, Jessie, Jordan, James, Luca, and most of all Bri. She and Lynn also harbored mutual dislikes for each other. Despite the feud, she did support Luca in the finale.
Season 4
Episode 1
Krissi presented her dish to Gordon Ramsay, Graham Elliot, and Joe Bastianich. She prepared a Meatloaf Florentine with Potatoes and Asparagus. Gordon then asked to see Krissi's son Mikey who answered a series of questions given to him by the judges, most notably rating her mother's food on a scale of 1-10 an 11 and saying that he wants to become a chef because Gordon and his mother are both big inspirations for him. Gordon and Graham both give Krissi a "yes," which was enough to get her a white apron, moving on to the next stage of the competition.
Episode 2
Krissi wasn't featured in this episode.
Episode 3
Krissi was seen in this episode and was in the group of cooks including Natasha, Jessie and most of the other cook in that season that gained entry into the Masterchef Kitchen
Episode 4
In the First Mystery Box Challenge, which featured 4 simple ingredients such as Chocolate, Bacon, a tomato and a Potato. Krissi was the 3rd and final cook called up and she made a Bacon and Potato Frittata with a Tomato and Basil salad. her dish was praised by the judges but ultimately, she lost to Natasha.
In the Langoustine challenge, Krissi cooked a Langoustine Mac and Cheese, during the challenge she overheard Howard telling Gordon that he thought she would fail, saying that cheese and shellfish don't go together but Krissi mocked Howard by saying that Strawberries definitely went with it. Her dish was praised by the judges, but was not the best. She lost to Jordan and Jessie.
Episode 5
Krissi was selected by Jordan to be on the blue team, claiming he would show his authority and she would respect that. The blue team was very unorganized and eventually lost the challenge.
When the losing team returned Jordan chose to save Howard and James, before deciding to save himself. Krissi called it a 'bitch move' and said that in her neighborhood, Jordan would've gotten his butt kicked. Krissi later had one of the three best cheesecakes and survived the Pressure Test.
Episode 6
Krissi was seen briefly in the episode but her Japanese Mystery Box Dish wasn't seen and nor were her cupcakes.
Episode 7
In this challenge, Krissi nearly ended up on Bethy's team but was swapped for Eddie on Bime's team. She was once again on the losing team and ended up in the Eggs Benedict Pressure test. Her Eggs Benedict saved her and she did not end up in the bottom 4.
Episode 8
Krissi did appear along with the remaining contestants in Las Vegas
Episode 9
Krissi was sad that Kathy had been eliminated saying that there wasn't one person here that she could talk to. Her dish in the Mystery Box challenge wasn't seen. However, she got very excited when Joe Bastianich's mother Lidia appeared as a guest judge and said that Lidia was her culinary idol and that she worshipped Lidia. During the cooking Krissi said that if Jesus came down and stood next to Lidia she would ignore him and just talk to Lidia.
Krissi's Agnolotti dish was marked by the judges as one of the best dishes with the other one being Jessie's dish.
Episode 10
In the next Team Challenge where the contestants had to cook for the cast and crew of Glee, Jessie and Krissi were made Team Captains. Krissi's team lost and she blamed Bime's incompetence with the chicken for their team's loss. She kept Bime in the pressure test and she had a direct hit as Bime made a liquid pie. As Bime was eliminated, Krissi laughed and yelled "mission accomplished!"
Episode 11
Episode 12
Episode 13
Episode 14
Episode 15
Episode 16
Episode 17
Episode 18
Episode 19
Episode 20
Episode 21
Episode 22
Episode 23
With Luca's choice, Krissi was in a team with Jessie to make a three-course meal using the biggest mystery box of the season. In the beginning of the challenge, she was pissed off as she and Jessie did not agree with anything. In the middle of the challenge, Krissi informed Jessie that she was not comfortable making crepes (as she never made them before). Jessie replied to her with "babe you abandoned me on the lobster so you gotta pick something you can cook!" This arguably put Krissi in her most aggressive state throughout the competition, as she yelled that she was going to smash the hot pan onto Jessie's face. Krissi had to run to the equipment room to calm herself down, leaving Jessie to do everything. As a result of this feud, they ended up with a three-course meal that was subpar to Luca's and Natasha's, putting them in the pressure test.
The next day, Jessie and Krissi were put in a chocolate pressure test featuring three different chocolate desserts; chocolate mousse, chocolate molten lava cake, and a chocolate soufflé. Unfortunately for Krissi, she fell a tiny bit short to Jessie's lava cake, and was eliminated.
Episode 25
She came back to see the finale between Luca and Natasha, only to make a snide comment on Natasha's scallop appetizer about it being plain and ordinary. Natasha then fired back by telling Krissi that she was in the Thunderdome while Krissi was not.
Competition History
| Week 4 | High/In |
|---|---|
| Week 5 | Pressure Test |
| Week 6 | In/In |
| Week 7 | Pressure Test |
| Week 8 | Immune |
| Week 9 | In/Win |
| Week 10 | No Pressure Test |
| Week 11 | In/Low |
| Week 12 | Immune |
| Week 13 | In/Low |
| Week 14 | Pressure Test |
| Week 15 | High/In |
| Week 16 | No Pressure Test |
| Week 17 | In/Win |
| Week 18 | Immune |
| Week 19 | Win/Immune |
| Week 20 | Lose/Low |
| Week 21 | In/In |
| Week 22 | In/In |
| Week 23 | Eliminated |
Post MasterChef
- After her appearance, Krissi started offering private chef and catering services and regularly posts recipes on her blog Rotund Chef.
- She is a breast cancer survivor.
Trivia
- She strongly dislikes Asian food.
- She is afraid of heights.
- She is the first contestant to threaten another contestant with physical violence.
- She was banned on Twitter for a series of racist tweets around the time that she appeared on MasterChef.
- She is the only contestant in the show’s history to lose every single team challenge in their season.
- The only team challenge she didn’t lose was the Wedding challenge, which she was chosen not to participate in.
- She is the second contestant to survive 4 Pressure Tests, following Jennifer (Season 2).
- She holds the record for fewest challenge wins out of a 4th place contestant with 3.
- She is tied with Noah (season 10) for this distinction.
Quotes
- (About Howard) "I honestly have never instantly hated someone so much, and he's just an epic fail at cooking. Can't wait till you go home, Howard."
- (When talking about her school days) "I had more enemies than friends cause I never kept my mouth shut."
- (To Jordan) "Let's go, you son of a bitch."
- "I'd like to chop somebody's head off for going into this Pressure Test."
- (About Jordan) "Listen, honor is honor. That was a bitch move; in my neighborhood, that would get your ass kicked. Captain goes down with the ship."
- (About Beth) "Beth is like one of those hipster people in Philly that I can't stand."
- (To Beth and her team) "Breakdown much?! Fucking bullshit! It's my second pressure test, you don't see me fucking fall to pieces!"
- (To her team) "EVERYONE JUST CALM THE FUCK DOWN! FOR FUCK'S SAKE!"
- (About meeting Lidia Bastianich) "If Jesus came down and stood next to Lidia, I'd be like 'Yo, what's up dude?'; 'LIDIA! HOW ARE YOU?'"
- (About Bime) "I don't want Bime on my team because he's a complete idiot. I feel like he's gonna tank my team, man."
- (About Bime) "Anything that happened yesterday; it doesn't matter to me. He could've shit the golden goose egg out. I want him gone."
- "The only thing that comes to my mind is my kid, and my kid would say, 'You had a chance to save yourself for us, and you didn't take it, and you went home on that'. I'm not gonna disappoint my kid."
- (While saving herself from the Pressure Test) "They already don't like me, so I really don't care what they think. My kid would want me to go up them stairs, and that's what I'm doing."
- (About Lynn) You just fucked with the wrong girl!
- (To Joe) "I said I knew it."
- "What do surfers eat? Aren't they, like, unemployed weirdos?"
- (To Savannah) "Oh Savannah, fuck you!"
- (To Savannah) "Shut the fuck up! I'm done!"
- (To Bri) "YOU BETTER SHUT THE FUCK UP BRI OR I WILL KNOCK YOU THE FUCK OUT!"
- (To Bri) "Go fuck yourself."
- "Public enemy number one."
- (About Bri) "If I lose a chicken challenge to a vegetarian, I might as well just give up cooking. I cannot stand her! She is the epitome of the girls that I used to beat up in high school. I hate her."
- (About Bri) "A walk through the forest. Come on, dude. Just stop with this whole 'save the world' friendly, vegan, hippie thing you got going on, 'cause it's really pissing me off. Just cook and shut up!"
- (Before the outdoor challenge) "I have no idea where I am. I don't walk or hike for fun. That's not fun to me, that's like torture."
- (About Bri being chosen to partake in the Reinstation Challenge) "Of all people, Bri? Seriously?! (heavily sighs) "I will take her on any day, head-to-head, and I will cook her little vegan ass under the table."
- "I hope Bri's gonna kick his [Bime] ass just because Bime sucks at life."
- (About Bri being reinstated) "It's Bri. You know, can I not get this girl out of my life?"
- "There's only room for one Krissi in this competition."
- "I gave the quail to Jordan because the quail is very complicated, and Jordan is so complicated."
- (About Bri's pigeon dish) "Bri apparently decided to leave the pigeon whole instead of butchering it because of her "animal views", and I hope it's raw inside because I hate her."
- (To Jessie, Luca, and Natasha) "I don't know! Can you shut the fuck up up there?!"
- Luca: "Please go home."
Krissi: "Go fuck yourself, Luca." - "If I lose to a vegetarian, I will literally go home and give up cooking."
- (About Jessie) "What the fuck did you just say to me, bitch?"
- "I am literally going to take this hot pan and smash it in her face."
- "I have got to get out of this kitchen right now, or I am seriously gonna go to jail today."
- (About Jessie) "Guess what, honey. You wanna run the ship? You can run the fucking ship and you can sink it, 'cause you know what? Tomorrow, I'm just gonna whoop your ass in the Pressure Test."
- "I heard you. I heard you talking shit. Don't be a bitch. If you got something to say, say it!"
- (To Jessie) "She probably should have came in here with a helmet on."
- (After being eliminated) "This experience has taught me that I'm a lot better than I thought I was. I've learned more here than I've ever learned in 20 years of cooking. But, I know that I stayed true to my roots through this whole journey. I wasn't fake; I was me all the way through. I'm not gonna apologize for anything. I'm definitely proud of what I've accomplished. I just really wanted to win for my kid; everything I do is for my kid. Even though I didn't take home the prize, I'm taking home a lot more to my kid. I always knew that I was a great cook, but now, I'm a great chef."
- (While leaving her apron on her workstation) "It's yours, Mikey."
- (About Natasha) "She made two purées and she's gonna sear some scallops. What's so great about that?"
Gallery
Season 4
External links
Krissi Biasiello on Instagram: rotundchef
References
| MasterChef U.S. Season 4 |
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| Judges |
| Contestants |
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Krissi Biasiello • Jonny Blanchard • Lynn Chyi • Natasha Crnjac • Bime Cruz • Sasha Foxx • Malcolm Green • Adriana Guillen • Eddie Jackson • Beth Kirby • Bri Kozior • Jessie Lysiak • Luca Manfè • James Nelson • Kathy Prieto • Jordan Roots • Bethy Rossos • Howard Simpson • Savannah Sturges |