The moment you missed: MasterChef’s Brendan Pang suffers horrifying accident
Last night’s episode of MasterChef Australia saw contestants complete a brunch challenge in teams.
During the frantic challenge, 24-year-old Brendan Pang took a fall, smashing a glass bottle and cutting his hand open.
After seeing the amount of blood coming from the wound, Brendan knew he needed immediate medical attention.
"There was a lot of blood," Brendan told TV WEEK of the incident. "It's probably the most horrifying injury I've ever had."
Brendan’s teammates quickly came to his aid and he was sent straight to hospital.
"I needed 13 stitches," he said.
"[But] the pain came later on. I think in the moment of being in the MasterChef challenge I didn't really feel anything."
Despite the injury, the Perth social worker was most worried about leaving his team one man down.
"I was really disappointed," he said. "I wanted my team to win. I didn't want to let them down."
However, his teammates were only concerned with Brendan’s safety.
"They said, 'we'll do this for you,'" he said.
"I know now my health comes first and I really had to leave."
Luckily, Brendan didn’t suffer any severe damage to his hand and it has now healed.
"I've been quite lucky. It's healed really nicely and my hand is fine. I didn't cut through any tendons or muscles.”
Reflecting on the incident, Brendan found it humorous that he was able to avoid all the flames, knives and boiling water in the MasterChef kitchen but was then taken down by a bottle of olive oil.
"It's kind of funny," he confessed. "It was just a freak accident."