MasterChef India season 5 winner, Kriti Bhoutika plans to come up with a platform where food experts and learners can exchange their knowledge and grow as a cook. By Ankita Jain
Food memories make for great dinner table conversations. But they also make for a good career option, when you get a very warm welcome into someone’s intimate journey with food, learn some yourself along the way, and get a very invigorating image of someone you’ve seen on TV whipping up fancy dishes. Kriti Bhoutika, who survived the 13 weeks of MasterChef India season 5, has been announced the winner. Well Kirti is the youngest Masterchef winner till date.
Hailing from Kolkata, Krita is a self-taught cook. “I a home baker by profession and also a student of Nutrition Science. I run a bakery named Sugar Plum Cakery from my home since the age of 18. At the early phase, the bakery was a disaster. Everything was new to me but gradually I learned.”
Her bakery was an instant hit among friends and family but at times it was difficult for her to manage between her studies and bakery. “Bakery was my passion. I have a sweet tooth for desserts. But I usually had to manage things as I was in 12th standard then,” she says.
So where did she learn baking fromIJ “I am an online freak. I love trying new things and experimenting with new ingredients. I credit all my learnings to social media sites,” she gushes. MasterChef is the result of her dedication, she states. “More than struggle, MasterChef is a result of perseverance. I think for than me, my family have been very consistent about my dreams. They were pushing me to participate since the season 4 but then I wasn’t ready to take the challenges. Even for this season I wasn’t prepared but somehow I gave a try.” She further added, “The show has accelerated my speed of coming up with new discoveries among food. I have experimented with such ingredients here which I would never try otherwise.”
Talking about one such challenge where she had to bake a cake for her mother keeping the iron deficiency of her in mind, she says, “I baked a cake using ingredients like black sesame, yogurt and pomegranate. I used black sesame especially because it is rich in iron. And it came out way too delicious.” She says that the show helped her evolve as a cook and let her relate to nutrition science.
With the winning amount of whopping 50 lakhs, she plans to open up a bakery studio. “I am planning to establish a studio which would serve as a platform to both food experts and learners to exchange their knowledge and grow as a cook,” she concludes.