Tonight Rose wants to cook something that reflects her Uruguayan roots so they've settled on a Spanish theme for their instant restaurant, which they've imaginatively named "Mi Cocina". There's also a bullfighting theme in the dining room. It's clear the duo have a strong relationship and are incredibly supportive of each other, a rare thing in reality TV land.

They're also the first mother and son on MKR and nobody is allowed to forget it. And they say they're proud of each other about 823 times during the course of the episode so you might want to start a drinking game right now if you'd like to salvage this Tuesday night. But the other couples have more nefarious plans: we're treated to five minutes of Carol and Adam doing their best to sound villainous and saying they want total disaster to strike.

The producers have clearly decided they want to make the contractual shopping segment more dramatic - so we get Josh and Rose driving frantically to their favourite deli to find special rice for their paella. We're never told what rice it is but let's use common sense and assume it's calasparra - unless Rose makes paella with black glutinous rice (what a twist). If there's no special rice at the deli, Josh says, they're going to have to drive an hour to the city to find it. Rose sprints into the store, the music builds to a screeching peak and we get to see a middle aged woman clutch a bag of rice to her bosom and swoon in relief. Let's pause for a moment to honour the solid stock-ordering systems of rural Victorian delis. What champions.

Back to the house they go and time to prepare your tissues for another Hallmark moment - Josh gets to put on his MKR branded apron with his name specially stitched on it. "We can finally put it on," Josh says with a break in his voice. "I've wanted this for so long." Solid priorities.

Now they get cooking - they're making calamari tubes stuffed with breadcrumbs, chorizo and herbs, cooked in a tomato and garlic sauce for an entree. There's a paella for the main. And dessert is apple and cinnamon empanadas with chocolate sauce. The other contestants try to explain what empanadas are. Debra thinks they're "like curry puffs but with apple and cinnamon inside". Evie reckons they're "a really good Maccas apple pie".

The other contestants are bringing the Bacchus to the Marsh with long flirty gowns and dapper suits. Vicky and Celine are particularly keen on the fashions tonight. "I'm in a full nice dress," Celine says. "It's very high class." Everyone gets a carnation at the door and a bullfighting themed napkin on their onyx place setting. Adam is so impressed that he just keeps repeating the word "bullfighting" over and over again in a dazed kind of way. Sensing they need to placate the masses, Rose and Josh have cleverly prepared a boatload of sangria which leads to more cackling than a witches' annual coven.

Into this sizzling atmosphere walk Manu Feildel and Pete Evans. "I'm expecting only the best," says Manu, worryingly. Eve, Debra and Sheri and Emilie are all overcome with the judges' handsomeness - "It was like we were on a date," Sheri coos. There could be more than just bullfighting in Mi Cocina tonight. Alas, Pete and Manu only have eyes for each other as they taste the first entree, exchanging meaningful glances over the all important stuffed calamari tubes.

"How long have you wanted to be on the competition?" asks Pete.

"I've wanted to be on here since I was 14," Josh admits - a confession that would probably pack more of a punch if he wasn't just 18 bloody years old. It's pretty touching though, and everyone bursts into "salty tears", except for Adam who's still repeating "bullfighting" under his breath. There's not enough sausage in the tubes, and Pete fearlessly says so but Rose and Josh win praise for the warm flavours and perfect texture on the calamari.

The mum and son retreat to the kitchen, give each other hugs and say they love each other. Mothers all round Australia are smacking their grown sons upside the head and asking why they can't be more like Josh and who can blame them? But then Manu barges into the kitchen. He tells Rose that she reminds him of his mother and then throws shade at her paella technique. "Why aren't you cooking the mussels and the prawns in the paella?" he asks, frowning. Having successfully cursed the kitchen, he scampers back to the dining room, probably cackling. Indeed, Rose and Josh proceed to screw up their paella with too much stock and liquid, rendering it soggy and disastrous. Plus, Rose throws away some crucial prawn water which could have reversed the Feildel Curse.

Back in the dining room, everyone is talking about whether they fight in the kitchen. Matt and Rob say they don't fight - probably because Rob/Baby Thor has access to a giant super-powered hammer (that joke's included for your Baby Thor drinking game). "We talk about it," Matt says, diplomatically. Carol and Adam admit they bullfight a lot.

Josh and Rose serve up their cursed paella, which Pete points out looks more like a seafood risotto. Manu says he didn't go to Spain with the main. "It doesn't seem ole to me," he says - a useful response to many situations. Everyone is now forced to flamenco dance for Manu and Pete and the nation. We endure a parade of humiliation - Adam does a "bum dance" and fans his derriere, Celine grinds and makes terrifying faces, Baby Thor hides under a scarf while Matt snaps like a turtle on the castanet. It doesn't seem ole to anyone.

Meanwhile, empanadas are served, drizzled with chocolate and salty tears of regret. Alas, they are undercooked and don't have enough chocolate sauce on them. But all the hugging and saying "I'm so proud of you" pays off - Rose and Josh become the first mother and son duo on MKR to score 66 and catapult into second place. Baby Thor and Matt are still firmly attached to the bottom, just like a pair of stubborn oysters.