View Date: 6/24/09
Group 3 Chefs: Wilo Benet, Cindy Pawlcyn, Ludo Lefebvre, Rick Bayless
Quickfire Challenge: The chefs first had to draw knives that came out of the block with colors. They had to prepare dishes based solely on the color of the knife they chose. Wilo chose orange, Cindy had yellow, Ludo chose red, and Rick had green. With all of the dishes being basically a single color, some of them look kind of putrid, particularly the green dish. And the winner was Wilo's orange dish due to the huge flavor, even though he left the ring on his tartar mold.
Elimination Challenge: The chefs then found out that they had to create street food for the general public using one key (i.e. unusual) protein. After drawing knives, Wilo got beef hearts, Rick was given tongue, Cindy got tripe (stomach), and Ludo was provided pig's ears. They will then have to convince the general public to try these unusual foods.
I think my biggest problem with the Masters version of Top Chef is that it's kind of boring. You don't have the same sense of competition that you do in the standard series. It could be that the chefs playing for charity, but I think it is more that the chefs are already established and aren't trying to establish themselves in the culinary world. They have well-established, sometimes world-renowned restaurants to go home to. Perhaps just competing for competition purposes just isn't enough for this show.
The winner of the elimination challenge, and the chef going on in the competition, is Rick by quite a bit. He probably had the easiest time, considering he made something he is very familiar with and used a protein that he loves. He was the most well-known of the competitors in this round, and I'm kind of glad he won. He now knows how it feels to compete instead of just judge.
10 words or less: Still not sold on it, but will stick it out.
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