View Date: 7/29/09
Chefs: Rick Bayless, Michael Chiarello, Art Smith, Anita Lo, Hubert Keller, and Suzanne Tracht
Tonight is the champion's round, with the previous winners back to compete for the big reward for their charities.
Quickfire Challenge: Working in teams of three, the chefs competed in the classic and always a favorite Mise en Place relay race. And Tom Choliccio was the guest judge/referee. The chefs on the winning team will get an advantage going in to the next round. Each team needs to open 15 oysters, chop 5 onions, butcher 4 chickens, and finally separate 5 eggs and wisk them by hand until they will stay upside-down in the bowl for 5 seconds. This is particularly tough because these chefs generally haven't prepared ingredients en masse like this in years. The team of Rick, Anita, and Hubert won the challenge.
In-Between Challenge: The chefs had to cook their signature dish for presenting to the other chefs, supposedly so they could learn more about each other.
Elimination Challenge: The chefs now have to recreate and reimagine another chef's signature dish. Hubert got to pick first because he went twice for the winning team in the relay race. Whoever he picked, that chef would have to recreate his dish. The other chefs had to draw knives to determine which dish they would be making. Hubert and Anita were paired, Art and Suzanne, and Rick and Michael. The special diners tonight are former TCM competitors. Rick and Anita had the high scores tonight, and Anita won overall with 24 of 25 stars. Suzanne went home by half a star due to some cold and overdone fish.
10 words or less: I think it's only 4 more weeks of this.
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