Previously on “Top Chef”: We got two stereotypical food challenges out of the way. The Quickfire was the poutine challenge, which everyone should have seen coming. Like Shuai, who practiced fondant potatoes at home because he knew he'd have to make poutine and won the Quickfire. The Elimination challenge was a team challenge to make brunch dishes with maple syrup. Zubair won, for making fried chicken with maple. The same fried chicken that he used to start his restaurants. Bailey made tarts but she screwed up the filling and then had both honey and maple and then underbaked them, so she was eliminated. (click for more)
In Last Chance Kitchen, Bailey, Mimi, and Sam had to make dishes with peameal bacon, which is what Canadian bacon is supposed to be and is just pork loin rolled in cornmeal. Bailey suddenly was extremely annoying, but she did the best and moved on with Sam. Because we can't already eliminate both of Tom's special contestants.
In the morning Shuai says he misses his dogs. That's basically all that happens.
In the kitchen there are several display cases set up full of Jamaican patties. Tristen says it smells like East Flatbush. Kristen introduces local chef Dwight Smith as their guest judge. Corwin knows him, which comforts him that he sees someone he knows in another city. It's snack time “Toronto style”. Dwight explains that Jamaican patties are hand pies, and they're recognizable because they are bright yellow, due to either curry powder or turmeric in the crust. The three display cases are from three different local restaurants, but I think there is beef from each place, and veggie. The middle place seems to be Chinese-Jamaican and has things like goat. The last place has ackee and saltfish, which is the national dish of Jamaica. Ackee is a type of fruit. The Quickfire today is to make your own version of a Jamaican patty. Since the dough is going to take longer than 30 minutes to do properly, you will get 15 minutes to make dough from scratch, then take a lunch break while it rests. The contestants will return and have another 30 minutes to produce finished patties. Dwight says most restaurants will offer pepper sauce on the side, “but don't overthink it”. I mean that sounds like you want them to also make pepper sauce? Winner gets $10,000. Everyone comes up to sample patties. There's some with oxtail, some with goat curry, plenty of spicy beef. Katianna interviews that the filling is heavy and meaty, but because the dough is flaky it makes the whole thing feel lighter.
Everyone is standing at their station, eating, and then Kristen is like well I hope you enjoyed your taste because time starts now! Heh. People are getting lard, but also butter. Or maybe those are different people? Corwin is Jamaican so everyone is watching him out of the corner of their eye to see what he does. In confessional he's saying you have to laminate your dough to make it flaky. That means putting a layer of butter/lard and then folding the dough over and over. Shuai announces to the room in general that he doesn't know about patties, but he does know how to make scallion pancakes, which are also laminated. First of all, I would totally go to a restaurant that sold hand pies where the dough was scallion pancakes. Second, I went to a big Asian supermarket last weekend and bought scallion pancakes with no English instructions. Hopefully my translate app will not fail me when I make them. He does say the dough doesn't take long to rest, so I wonder if an enforced rest for lunch will be bad.
Anya wants to make chicken and bacon, and Shuai asks if she's ever had the chicken bake at Costco because “that shit's delicious”. Heh. Zubair is making roti which I would also eat in a hand pie. He interviews that the saying goes, if you make round roti you are ready for marriage. He has been married for 13 years so his roti are round as hell. Henry pounds a block of butter with a rolling pin, which seems violent but is actually what you're supposed to do. He's getting out his frustrations. Shuai is putting chicken and coconut milk and curry in an Instant Pot, because since his dough is done he's going to get a start on his filling. On the one hand, he's going to get so much extra time to make his filling, if he's allowed to have it going in the cooker while they have lunch. On the other hand, as long as everyone else could be doing this too, I guess it's fair. Katianna has nori and sesame in her dough. Kristen reappears to tell everyone they have less than a minute. Kat interviews that you don't want to overwork the dough, and she's trying to be gentle with it but hers doesn't feel right. She also says “pie dough” which I guess will work? You can have a flaky pie crust, right? But if other people are saying “lamination” I think this is closer to a croissant dough then pie dough.
Everyone leaves for an hour, and then comes back to finish. Kat's dough is crumbly so she's grating some butter. Or maybe some lard? Vinny yells to the room that there's a lot of dough on the line right? No one laughs because that joke was terrible. Fillings are started. Cesar says lamb toaster pastry with strawberry glaze. Does lamb go with strawberry? I mean I've had chicken liver pop tarts from somewhere. Zubair tries to ask the room for salt fish but finds it himself. Massimo is grinding oxtail, I guess in an effort to get it in a spot where it'll cook in under 30 minutes. He wants to be creative because he's never seen anyone grind oxtail. That's because it's fucked up the grinder and he ends up putting it in a food processor. Because he's already committed. This seems like a terrible idea because he ends up with what looks like that pink slime everyone was so freaked out about a few years ago. But he's going to go for it, I guess. Katianna has sweet potatoes, and she says it's a common street food in Korea. Anya tells Henry his dish smells amazing and then starts coughing, I guess because he's got chilis in there. She laughs about how he's trying to kill her. Kat's dough is melty because now there's too much fat, and her filling is warm. Her shrimp and banana filling.
Corwin is using the pizza oven to avoid fighting for regular oven space, or fryer space. He declares this a bold strategy and that he wants the smoke. Zubair says “yellow hot pepper kewpie sauce”. Kat tells everyone her patties are a disaster. Cesar's patties are also not baking, so he puts them in the fryer and they are still falling apart. Vinny tears around last minute and puts Tabasco on the plates. When time is called, Kat is like, my dough is so bad. Anya tells her not to say that, or says “oh no” or something. And Kat is like but it IS bad, you can look at it. I get that Kat is frustrated but this felt really weird. Like she was making a big deal about failing for, what? To get sympathy from everyone? For screen time? Cesar failed too but he's not announcing it to the room.
So most of these chyrons were in the pattern [flavors/spices] patty with [meat]. It seems to be the flavors/spices are what's in the dough, and then “with [blank]” is the filling. Shuai: scallion pancake patty with Malay-style chicken curry, curry buttermilk dressing, and togarashi. Togarashi is a chili pepper blend. I suspect “curry buttermilk dressing” is essentially weirdly-flavored ranch, and if so I kind of need this dish immediately. Kristen jokes that it's a perfect day to wear a corset. Anya: pirozhok with ground beef and ajika spice. “Pirozhok” is literally “little pie” and the plural is “pirozhki” so as suspected this is bread dough with fillings. Ajika spice is like togarashi, a chili blend. Kat: curried shrimp and banana patty with cilantro chili hot sauce. Massimo: oxtail patty with pikliz. It's a hand pie on a crumpled up piece of paper, and then like, four little shards of pickled carrot or cabbage. Like, it's not a slaw, it's literally two diamond-shaped pieces of carrot and two of cabbage. Zubair: saltfish and vadouvan patty, piquillo pepper sauce, and yellow pepper mayo. Vadouvan is a French-inspired curry blend.
Corwin: garam masala, Jamaican curry, and vadouvan patty with chickpea chana. Chana is just chickpea curry so his name is a little redundant. Henry: fenugreek and turmeric patty with char siu and mushroom. I knew fenugreek was an herb but looking it up, it's maple flavored. Tristen: “after school beef patty” - beef and taleggio patty with ketchup vinaigrette. I'm not sure where the cheese is but this isn't a patty. This is a tart shell with filling, it's not a dough wrapped around filling. It literally looks like a canape. Paula: spiced lamb patty with goat cheese and aji casero. I think aji casero is like a chili sauce? Every page was in Spanish and Google Translate is failing me. Cesar: lamb toaster with Jamaican curry strawberry glaze and lamb fat powdered sugar. Lana: “crabby patty” - Cajun and tomato powder patty with crab dip. Katianna: toasted nori and sesame patty with sweet potato, roasted kimchi, and bacon. Vinny: chopped cheese patty, which has been served with a mini bottle of Tabasco on each plate. They made some poor intern go though and put stickers over the labels.
Overall a big variety of flavors. Kat's filling was great but her dough was bad, but she already knew that. Massimo's oxtail was tough, as we could have predicted. He tells the judges the effort was there, which is obnoxious. No one cares about your effort. Cesar's dough was also bad, but he knew that too. Katianna had a very flavorful patty and a light dough, Zubair's two sauces were creative and he used saltfish. Shuai managed to bridge the gap between a scallion pancake texture and a Jamaican patty texture. The winner is Katianna. Nice. She interviews that now that she has $15,000, she can tell her daughter about it. She already promised to take her daughter to Disneyland. Heh.
Kristen kicks Dwight out and then makes a bad joke about skating by. She brings out Natalie Spooner, who is a hockey player and has gold medals for it. Of all the chefs, who do you think already knows Natalie because they watch women's hockey? I didn't think it would be Massimo. The Elimination challenge is to make a cold dish. Anya says she has a big repertoire of cold dishes. She goes swimming in San Francisco Bay, and that shit is cold. Natalie has some hockey slang, I guess because there are some hockey terms that are also food terms. It's not important right now.
Oh but of course you can't just make whatever you want, this is Top Chef. I'd argue that “make whatever you want” is a time-honored Top Chef challenge deployed at the end of the competition to paralyze contestants with choice overload. A whole bunch of people come in with cloches and little signs. Kristen says they are “different definition[s] of a hockey term”. Some signs say things like “an assist” and some say things like “when the goalie is unable to stop an easy shot”. Basically under each cloche is an ingredient you have to incorporate into your dish. The chefs are allowed to pick whatever cloche they want, but they can't look yet. Just go stand over there.
It looks like basically each cloche has a couple of people behind it. That makes sense, I think there are seven cloches and 13 people left? Vinny is the only one behind his cloche, and it says “a puck”. Under the cloche are biscuits. OK so “biscuit” is slang for “puck”? And now Vinny has to make biscuits but also it's a cold dish so he has to serve cold biscuits? OK. Corwin has “an assist” which is apples. Natalie claims when someone has a pass you say “nice apple”. Is this true? I don't watch hockey. Massimo and Zubair have “shot that should have been stopped” which is muffins. Massimo says to him, “muffin” is the word he uses when he's trying not to curse. Tristen, Shuai, and Anya have “game ending in zero” which is eggs. Hilariously Tristen guessed it would be “goose egg” and there are several kinds of eggs in there. For sure there are quail eggs so there could be actual goose eggs. Tristen lists all the shit he can make with eggs before realizing all of that is hot. Henry and Kat have “when the goalie is unable to stop an easy shot” which ends up being grapefruit. Katianna and Cesar took “tape wrapped around the end of a hockey stick” and this is “licorice knobs” which makes zero sense. I get that it's black tape but licorice? Paula and Lana took “a shot puck that hangs in the net for a second” which is peanut butter. You can use heat to make your dish, but it has to be served cold. And it must use whatever food you got here. 90 minutes today to prep, and 90 minutes tomorrow to serve various hockey players and chefs.
As they drive to Whole Foods, people talk about what they might make. Tristen says deviled eggs and something about freezing and shattering the yolk. Kat loves grapefruit so she's feeling inspired. Shuai says flavors and seasonings change when a dish is cold, so you have to adjust. Massimo basically stood behind Zubair because he's doing well, not because he thought that cloche would be something good. Katianna learned about Korean food from her husband, and she is thinking cold noodles. She has to use “licorice knob”, which she has no idea about, so she buys candy and some Pernod, which is licorice liqueur. Vinny is making strawberry shortcake with ice cream. Zubair claims he's not uninspired by muffins, but they are kind of random and he is very glad to have immunity. He is thinking to dehydrate the muffins and make a crumble. Cesar asks him if he knows the muffin man. Heh. Corwin also talks about seasoning in cold dishes and buys some big Asian flavors. Massimo brags to everyone he spent $199.99 out of I guess $200. Nice.
90 minutes to cook today. Massimo and Zubair confirm to each other that they are not actually making muffins. Or “fucking muffins” as Zubair says. Tristen is making tartare as a vehicle for eggs. Shuai jokes that he enjoys semifreddo, because when you don't know how to make ice cream, you make semifreddo, right? Anya is thinking cake and ice cream, and didn't she brag that she had a ton of cold dishes she could do? At least she's making pine needle ice cream. And sea buckthorn powder cake. Sea buckthorn is a tart berry. Katianna makes chicken broth with licorice root. She mentions to Cesar that the licorice doesn't smell very strong, and he thinks it will when they start cooking. Kat is using grapefruit in scallop tartare with aguachile, based on a Paloma cocktail which is tequila, lime, and grapefruit. Man last season everyone made aguachile all the time. Anya's cake batter is weird. Honestly it looks like a paste and not a batter. As she tries to fix it, she says she's not measuring anything, just throwing stuff in there. Paula says that back in Ecuador they have a dish called ceviche jipijipa. As far as I can tell, “Jipijipa” is a place, so that's how you do ceviche there, and it does have peanuts or peanut butter in it. Licorice root is not flavorful and Cesar and Katianna are discovering this. Anya's ice cream base is not that cold, and she says if you freeze it while it's hot it can set up into a brick. I can see that, you would just get a block of ice and not a smooth texture. She's pouring it into molds to make individual servings, so I don't think she can just use the liquid nitrogen? Also her cake is out of the oven but it is also a brick. She's freaking out but they're out of time for today.
In the morning Tristen calls his mom and stepdad. He says they talk every day.
When the chefs arrive at the Top Chef Kitchen they discover an actual ice rink, with fake hockey lines and stuff, with the dining table in the middle of it. Why did we spend money on this when we could have just gone to a stadium? Everyone puts on those disposable booties you get to keep stuff clean, and goes onto the ice to slide around and act silly. No one bites it.
We get serious and start work. Corwin is putting Scotch bonnets into his dish, and he claims that's how you'll know it's him, as if no one else ever uses Scotch bonnets. Massimo says muffins everywhere. Anya doesn't really like her ice cream, it's too hard. She's going to try to melt it and refreeze it properly. But she's also going to redo the cake so I'm not sure she can make it. She interviews that she's not thinking right now, just reacting. Henry uses two blowtorches to char some avocado. Katianna and Cesar are still struggling to get enough licorice flavor out of anything. Cesar had to steep the licorice overnight, but it seems to have worked.
The judges arrive, and Gail says she's never walked in the main doors before. This poor woman is wearing shorts and heels. Kristen tells the judges that this is the first time they've had an ice rink in the kitchen, as if anyone thought this had happened before. Tom reminds us of that garbage season where they had Amazing Race challenges and the finalists had to chip ingredients out of ice blocks. That was a terrible idea, Tom, don't remind anyone about it. Gail's brothers played hockey and she's thrilled there is a professional women's league. It's very brand new, only a year old. Massimo trips, I think on the edge of the non-slip mat, and spills something and breaks a plate. Zubair interviews that it's hard to share a table with Massimo because it's like an earthquake. I was wondering what he spilled, and apparently it was soap? Like a cambro with soapy water? Why was he bringing that back to his station? Anyway, now his butter has soap and he can't get more, I guess, so no muffin tuiles. He thinks he has enough other stuff.
Vinny: first of all he tells everyone to break the ice, “pun intended”, and I rolled my eyes hard. “Strawberry shortcake” - biscuit infused ice cream, fresh strawberries, and strawberry soda. On top of the bowl is a round tuile, which is exactly the size of the bowl. It's cutout circles, which make concentric circles, and a lacy effect. Corwin: scallop and apple aguachile, variations of apples. Said variations include compressed, pickled, raw, diced, apple ponzu, apple gel, etc. Corwin's dish is ice cold, and it's well balanced. Vinny's ice cream was fine, but maybe there isn't enough biscuit. Tom is bored and wanted some kind of surprising flavor.
Massimo is going to make liquid nitrogen ice cream for the first time. We then cut to commercial so I'm going to assume it's fine. Shockingly when we get back from commercial it...failed? It didn't set up. Massimo: banana muffin cremeux, chocolate muffin ganache, speculoos meringue, and roasted muffin banana ice cream. Cremeux is more like a frosting texture than like a mousse. Speculoos is a type of cookie, it's what they make cookie butter out of. He tries to joke that it's hard to make ice cream with liquid nitrogen, and Tom responds that if he was smart, he wouldn't tell them it was supposed to be ice cream. Ouch. Zubair: king salmon crudo with fennel, jalapeno achar, lemongrass gel, chaas, and muffin crumble. Achar is a pickle, and chaas is a yogurt drink, I think like a lassi. Massimo camouflaged his muffin, which is interesting since it was in literally everything. It looked terrible and the ice cream is a mess. One of the guest judges says he would have turned it into Eton mess, which is like if you made an English trifle and then stirred everything together into mush. Tom is all “we're 'Eton' a mess” like thanks Tom for your “joke”. Zubair, on the other hand, had zero muffin flavor and only put it in the crumble. It's an OK dish but it doesn't fit the challenge, but he also has immunity.
Katianna is reducing Pernod because she's really trying to get licorice flavor in there. Henry: grapefruit leche de tigre with salmon, charred avocado, and grapefruit sorbet. Leche de tigre is basically aguachile. Kat: grapefruit and scallop tartare with “Paloma” aguachile, and grapefruit snow. Kat's dish is stunning and the bitterness of the grapefruit comes through. Gail thinks the scallop might have gotten lost, but I'm not sure if they're going to care since the point is the grapefruit. Henry's dish is very spicy and a lot of sauce. I think it's overpowered everything.
Katianna: chilled chicken and licorice soba with cucumber and daikon. Cesar: chilled shrimp salad with licorice tea and licorice cream. It is a square of nine cylinders, strips of cucumber and apparently shrimp noodles, rolled and set on edge. Katianna's dish is subtle and the reduced Pernod on the noodles worked just like she wanted. The broth has a ton of developed flavors, and Kristen says her dish has to be cold to work and that's why it's successful. Cesar had great shrimp noodles.
Paula adds a ton of broth into her ceviche, and she says that's how it is in Ecuador. Paula: ceviche jipijipa with sablefish, cucumber tartare, avocado cream, and fried quinoa. Lana: chilled peanut soup with pickled shrimp, suya oil, and candied peanuts. I think suya oil is made from groundnuts. Paula's broth didn't have enough peanut flavor, and there was a ton of it so it just kind of washed everything out. Tom also thinks the fish is underseasoned. Lana showed restraint and did have peanut flavor.
Anya's ice cream also didn't set, and her cake is hard. She doesn't want to serve this to the judges. Aww. Tristen: beef tartare with garlic toum, shattered Benedict aioli, egg yolk jam, and shattered deviled egg. Toum is a sauce like an aioli but with more garlic. There are also potato chips. I'm not sure what a Benedict aioli is, but you can just make hollandaise and say you made hollandaise. Shuai: sweet corn semifreddo with sweet potato mochi, cardamom crème anglaise, ginger graham cracker, and meringue. Anya: pine needle ice cream with sea buckthorn cake. It's a maple leaf tuile, a maple leaf-shaped cake that looks like a very thick cookie, and some sauce. Tristen's tartare is great and the shattered things really worked. Shuai was honest about how he was bad at desserts, but the flavor was good, if the texture was off. Anya did have a nice presentation but the dish was terrible. No flavor, and the cake was like a pancake crossed with a sugar cookie. Kristen thinks that with the possible exception of Zubair, everyone really tried to make their ingredient the star of the dish. She tries to make a hockey reference, but fully admits she doesn't have one and just kind of flails. Eventually she settles on a shot for the moon? But fell through the ice? “A slapshot moon shot”?
Judges' Table. After we've removed the ice rink. Overall cooking at a high level today. Tristen, Katianna, and Corwin are the tops. Corwin looks really relieved, and I hope at some point during the season they call the bottom three out first. Corwin wanted to really highlight apples as much as possible. It was clear and restaurant ready. Kristen asks Katianna to explain how she made her broth, because it had so much flavor. She says that they had the first bite, and wondered where the licorice flavor was, and then it slowly showed up and left a subtle but still prominent anise flavor. Tristen says the only cold egg dish he could think of (that was “enjoyable”) was deviled eggs. Tom says his dish had the ingredients of a tartare but they were all in different places. The ingredients sang. The winner is Katianna. She's shocked because she's never made that dish before, and she had to adjust it on the fly. So she should have more confidence in her skills.
The bottom three are Anya, Paula, and Massimo. Massimo knows his dish sucked. “I don't usually have performance issues.” Everyone snickers, including the judges. He keeps going about how the plating lacked refinement and the ice cream didn't set and whatever, and Tom is just kicked back in his chair saying “this is great, we don't need to do anything”. But at least it tasted like a muffin. But how did he screw up liquid nitrogen ice cream, you just keep adding liquid nitrogen until it freezes! Anya is now saying she had “perfectly set” ice cream, but she wanted it to be fluffy, so she remelted it. I thought it was too hard? I guess she would rather have served the hard ice cream than melted. Also the sea buckthorn powder wrecked the cake. She admits to Tom that she's never used it before, so he thinks maybe there's like, cornstarch or anti-caking stuff in there that ruined the cake. She wanted to represent herself with these weird ingredients and it got in the way of her technique. Paula thought her dish was balanced but maybe the broth could have had more peanut flavor. Tom asks if it was a soup, and she insists it's a ceviche. The broth drowned out everything else. Paula says Ecuadorian ceviche has a lot of broth. Instead of saying it's wrong, like Tom kind of was, the guest judge just says that having so much broth puts emphasis on the broth, so it has to be perfect. That's fair. Kristen kicks everyone out to the Stew Room.
We try to do that thing in the Stew Room where everyone has to analyze how they screwed up, which is so useless. Kristen says it's hard when you know you've done something wrong, and she feels for them. Tom thinks Anya and Massimo knew they'd be up there, but Paula didn't think she's messed up. However, Paula's dish was nowhere near as bad as Anya or Massimo's dishes. Massimo pureed a muffin, added stuff, and made a muffin. Anya's ingredient was egg, and when you get right down to it, she was highlighting pine needles and sea buckthorn. Her technique didn't back it up.
Tom says at some point you're gonna make a mistake, and you have to pivot. How do you deal with it? Someone couldn't make it work, and that person is Anya. Aww. I liked her but they did have a point about what exactly her dish was highlighting. She's heartbroken. She says it was her one and only chance to be on Top Chef and tell her story. I mean I'm sure she can still do that.
Next week: some famous people, trivia, Canadian desserts, I think Henry doesn't finish his dish.
Last Chance Kitchen: Anya is reflective about how she screwed up. She was exhausted and just didn't get there. She just closed her restaurant and wants to win to move forward. She has zero reaction to Sam which is a nice change. Sam is not a hockey person because he is a terrible Canadian. Time for a hat trick, which is when you score three goals in one game. Ying and Mimi roll out a board with everyone's name and like “Hat Trick” at the top, and then at the bottom a row of cut out Tom heads. I think they all have different hats. Tom says no time on the clock. Bailey says she likes the clock, because of course. You aren't cute. Do whatever you want, and Tom will rate every dish either a goal (a point) or a miss (nothing). The first two chefs to get three points will move on.
Sam interrupts Tom and it almost seems like he's going to try to change the challenge or maybe add additional stakes or something. Like I really thought that's where he was going. No, he's quitting. He underestimated how much the pressure would take a toll on him. It was an honor cooking with everyone. He isn't questioning his skills, but the competition isn't for him. That's fair, the competition isn't for everyone and there are some chefs (*cough*Dawn) who are great chefs but suck at competitive cooking on TV.
Tom doesn't seem as thrown as he was when Kaleena quit last season, but he does take a minute and I will say again, you should let Tom consult with producers because we all expect that. His plan is now there will be 45 minutes on the clock. You still need three points. Anya is stressed. Both Bailey and Anya can score a hat trick in the 45 minutes, it's not a “first person to three wins”. If they can both get three points, they will both move on. If they don't get to three points, they don't move on. If neither one of them can get to three points when time is up, they'll have overtime.
Bailey says you have 15 minutes per dish, but I think you could plan a dish that needs like 30 minutes to cook. Tom Time is immediate. Bailey has tomato salad, and some lamb. She needs flavor bombs. Anya has cauliflower soup, and scallops, and fish with cauliflower puree. I don't think the soup is going to become the puree necessarily, but that the cauliflower prep can go into both dishes. Bailey is charring olives for baked feta. Anya was caramelizing onions but they burned, so she has to start over. I don't think either of them has planned on more than three dishes in case something doesn't turn out.
Anya gets up there first, with cauliflower soup with crispy cauliflower. Tom eats like, two bites, and give Anya a point. Bailey: heirloom tomato and peach salad with stracciatella, mint pistachio pesto, and parmigiano. Stracciatella I think is a type of cheese. Tom likes this too so Bailey has a point. Anya is worried her halibut filets are huge and maybe won't cook. Bailey brought some crackers from home. I know you can bring ingredients from home, which is how Anya got pine cone jam, but these look like standard fancy flatbread crackers? She hasn't said they are made from scratch or have unusual flavors or ingredients. They look like I can get them at Whole Foods. Why are you wasting your luggage space on this.
Anyway. Bailey: baked feta al forno, artichoke, honey olive tapenade, with rye crackers. I guess they're housemade crackers but still. This gets a point. Anya: halibut with cauliflower cream and chimmichurri sauce. Tom immediately tells her no points because the fish is raw. Oh no. He shows the peanut gallery, I guess to confirm that it actually is raw, although I don't know if either of them is going to tell Tom he's wrong.
There are three minutes left and Anya needs to make at least two more dishes or she can't get three points. Bailey: spiced lamb with pickled tomato chili sauce. Sadly it's good and Bailey is moving on. I'm sure her food is actually good, I just have found Bailey on LCK to be very annoying and aggressively quirky. Anya: scallops with citrus sauce. The plan was an orange juice reduction, but with a minute left she basically just squeezed an orange over the scallops. 45 seconds to throw together a scallop ceviche. As she's frantically working, Tom shrugs that the scallop is terrible. Then he counts down, and I guess Anya needed to have her dish in front of Tom when time was up, because he's not going to taste the last one. But it doesn't matter because she wasn't getting a point for the scallops anyway. I'm sad, I liked Anya a lot. She's upset but I don't think she's saying she's going to quit cooking. Also someone please make and sell cut out Tom heads with hats as fridge magnets.
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