My Kitchen Rules contestants Tash and Hera may be out of the competition, but the Rotorua friends say they're immensely proud of their time on the reality series, and that they're stoked with the point of difference they brought to the table.
"Regardless of the result, we put our best foot forward," says Hera. "If it wasn't good enough in their eyes, for us, we're still proud of what we did."
The duo, who are best friends and work together, prefer to call themselves "home cooks" as opposed to chefs. Their love for cooking comes from their whanau, and they say they pulled on the strengths they learnt from their family throughout the competition.
"The reason why we are here is because of our friends and whanau," says Tash. "What we believe in is home-cooked kai, cooked with aroha. So I guess in our behaviour and how we were on [Monday's] episode, we really were plating up our hearts... that's why we went into this show and that's who we represented on the show as well - our whanau and our friends."
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