Watch What Crappens - Top Chef: Catch Me if You Can

Episode Date: May 24, 2022

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Hi Ronnie, how are you? Good, what's going on with you? Um, you know, I'm just ready to embrace this week. I'm refreshed from the weekend, and, um, you know, I'm just, I'm happy. I really enjoyed your Instagram content over the weekend of you making the famous pancake cake. The Slambah cake, as you call it. That was really cool.

I haven't been able to stop saying Slander. I've just been walking around you. I'm like Slander. I'm making myself crazy. But yeah, fun times. Good to be back. How did the cake turn out? Great.

Oh my God, so good. I mean, you told me offline how the cake turned out. I should have asked you, I should have asked you beforehand because I'm sure people want to know how the cake turned out. So it was great. I mean, it's great. You can do whatever you want to. It's crepes and, you know, like a cream cheese type filling.

So it was really no going wrong there. But yeah, it went great and it was super fun to make it. It's like making crepe after crepe after crepe after crepe, it's tacking them up and then needing more crepes and then going back and making more, I mean, that's a lot of crepe efforts. And then you have to make them all the right size, you know? It's a lot of effort. It's so funny because on Saturday, I was like, I woke up.

I had some buttermilk because I had made like a soup with buttermilk. And I had a whole thing of buttermilk left over. So whenever I've left over buttermilk, I usually want to make pancakes. But I really wanted to make pancakes. And I was like, why do I want to make pancakes so badly today? I was like, oh, that's right. Because we talked extensively about pancakes and grapes and pancake cakes. And whether or not you were going to make a pancake cake. So it was like so in my brain. So I too had pancakes, but I did not fashion them into a cake.

They were just, you know, free form, free form pancakes with syrup. Well, now I feel like you're like sabotaging me because I have buttermilk as well, because I made some cornbread. I had like a little family dinner party thing here. And so I made cornbreads. Of course, I had some better milk. And now I have better milk down there. And now I'm going to think about our pancakes. They're going to be calling to me pancakes. And maybe I'll go really crazy and make them with a gluten because my family is mostly gluten free. So there's a lot of gluten-free flour. So everything costs, you know, five times as much to make it. So maybe I'll make some good old fashioned, cheap, gluten-iss-evil pancakes. Yeah. Make gluten pancakes known as pancakes. Yeah, I would definitely recommend doing it. The rest of... Well, we've actually talked about pancakes, a good amount on this show.

But did you... You did once... When we talked about pancakes, a good amount on this show, but did you, you did once, when we talked about crispy pancakes last time, you did try it with the oil, didn't you? Or did you not? No, no, I think that's heresy. I will never do that. No. Oil, no.

So how do you make a pancake? Try it, I'm telling you, it's gonna, it's a game changer. You're, listen, you're in a pancake experimentation phase right now, and I say, as long as you have the buttermilk and you have the gluten, why not just try to make a pancake with oil? Just see how it goes.

If you want, put the butter in the oil as well. So that way, I mean, I'm telling you. Well, the tastiest I think I've ever done that people thought were the tastiest was in bacon grease. So there you go So there goes my judge right out the window But anyway the point is other people are cooking and they're doing it on television way better than we are off-tell Well in theory a lot better than we are I don't know today's episode was questionable for sure

But welcome to top chef everybody this This week we this is on the main feed. So hi everybody on the main feed. We've missed you. If you've missed top chef recaps and you're not a patreon member, get the hell over there. Patreon.com slash watch what crap ends. We also do video recaps over there. This week we're going to do a trailer recap. No, no. So what we are going to do that. We are of Southern Charm. Southern Charm. Mm-hmm. And yeah, it's going to be fun.

It's a holiday weekend coming up, so I'm not sure what we're recapping and what we're not, but everything. We're recapping. You still got, listen, you are still in like a post-pand cake kind of haze, so I think we're all going to give you some, we're going to give you the space to have the confusion. Yeah, thanks. Because it's there. It's there whether you give me space for it or not.

Just like me. I'm just there. It's Ronnie's on a plane. I'm there whether you give me the space to be or not. Oh, this is the space to be confused. Well, this is space to be confused. This is... So condescending. Thank you. People say they think that. I thought it was sweet. So, but I love condescension.

I'm from Texas. That's how we communicate. I love it. I call it positive reinforcement. Um, so, uh, top chef. So this is episode 12 of season 11. And you know, this is a point this season where let's face it, the show should be over. Okay.

Like this should be the penultimate. Next week should be the finale. It's usually 12 or 13 episodes. I don't know what they're doing this year. They're gonna make it 900 because it's Bravo. But it's that time of the year where it's like the crazy, funny people are gone. And I think even the people naming the episode are kind of tired because this is the title of the episode.

We're on a boat. Well, I think that's a, I think it's a reference to the SNL skit, but like, um, I don't, I don't know about the skit. If you don't know about the skit if you don't about the skit that just feels like a very Wow That's a real episode title I'm just cracking up watching you look at the listing There was like an Andy Sandberg video like eight years ago

We did a video with like T-Pain and's like, we're on a boat. And people love it. People love it. You kids and your, your sayings. You kids and your Andy Sandberg sayings. Kinda swear, if I had a nickel, every time I passed a dish towel with an Andy Sandberg saying on it. My dear friend, Andy Sandberg wrote a song called,

we're on a gale. I'm sorry we're on a boat. Well, Andy Sandberg does have a baking show. He does the holiday baking, making it, baking it, baking it. He does the holiday baking it with Maya Rudolph. I'm like this totally wrong. Well, say Amy Polar's spin off, but it's instead of making it, it's called baking it. Got it, because Amy Polar does the one butt crafting, right? Yeah, and then this one's called baking it, and Amy Polar's like, listen, I want to do a show called baking it, because it sounds like making it.

I just don't want to host it. So just talking baby voice, and that's our theme. And so they come talk to you like you're in the second grade because that's how the host on the show talks to you for whatever reason. And I love them. I'll watch them. Okay, point is, run about.

Hey, welcome. Run about, run about, run about. So previously welcome back to the competition, Sarah. I hope you make something stupid and lame. Oh my god. You did congratulations, Sarah Wow Sarah, you're amazing. You're as wonderful as a whole bunch of talented layers. So Just kidding. You're not sorry. I forgot the most important part of my burn. So Padma Sorry, I forgot the most important part of my burn. So Padma, Padma's like, Shes, the next challenge would be your final challenge in Houston,

because I can't be in this city any longer. I've written to Andy Cohen. I said, can't be out of Houston, am I right? Bless it's hard. Yeah, tomorrow, bright and early, meet me down with the dogs. And you might need these pills. These are C-Signus pills.

Be sure to study so you don't end up being a maxologist. That's my advice to you. See you tomorrow. And at this time. I mean, just through a bottle of Seattleis at them. Wrong one. Yeah. Tom, that was Plan B.

Okay, everybody, get ready. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So Sarah's like, I just, I feel like I'm clawing my way through this thing. Oh, yeah, I sort of like, get out of the M&M store just clock, clock, clock. Am I right, everyone? Well, when you graduate middle school, you think you're the shit and then you go to upper

middle school and then you're like fucked because you're not the shit. After reestablish moving upwards in order to stay, Sarah, you never stood, you didn't establish moving upwards ever, okay? And second, you weren't the shit. You weren't the shit in middle school, okay? I don't think anybody who thought the shit, they were the shit in middle school thinks they're the shit. Oh, here, let me fix the metaphor. It's like when you're already a celebrity and you are the

shit and then you join solo house and you continue to be the shit and maybe even a little bit more of the shit. It's like that, right Sarah? When you're famous enough to go to middle schools and tell the little children, they're not the shit at all. That's when you've really made it. They're not the shit it all. That's when you really made it. So I'm like stop over thinking it Sarah. Okay, she's like, yeah, I really thought I was the shit. You made Aki you made Aki. Okay. Period. This is my therapy. Okay, there's we don't need to like, regress to child to figure out why you sucked last week. Therapahi. Get it. It's a joke. I learned from my dear friend,

Al-Iwa, who I hung out with yesterday, on Instagram Stories. You know what, Fanny? Therapahi goes with Therapahi, which is a delicious sparkling beverage. Which is a delicious sparkling beverage. Those are... You know what I like to eat when I want to learn about myself, but also want some fish, but better fish than ahi.

I go to Therapmahi. Mahi. Therapmahi, ahi. It's two words. Lady from below, Jack, from a few seasons ago. So next, like, you know, guys, we've had a lot of ups and downs. We've shaped things like we actually just one state, but still ups and downs with that, with that way of doing things.

And he tells us my culinary career is hiding in other people's shadow. You know, that's like a running theme this here is people with jobs saying, I do everything for everybody else. I feel like everybody across America is about to mute me at their jobs. They are. You know what Apple? I'm sick of doing this for you. I'm coming out with a Ronnie phone. They are. that's why I think like so many people have retired, right? Because it wasn't, or not retired, but resigned. Wasn't the great resignation that we're in because we're in the pandemic.

Everyone realized they didn't have to put up with all the bullshit that they always have to. Oh, yes, I love it. Resigned, but it is funny on top chef because they're all like, you know what, I've been cooking and cooking. I don't even have my own place. I'm in this other people's shadows.

That, that, that, that, that, that. I thought, you know, I had a point and I don't even have my own place. I am in this other people's shadows. That, that, that, that, that. I thought, I had a point and I don't have it anymore. I'm simply fine. Well, hey, I'm all for quitting your job and having your Ron Darmals. Sounds good to me. So the next day. Sounds like you need Therapahi. No.

Waitress, can we have an appetizer of terabahimae? Thank you. I will not have a aha to drink. Sorry, I couldn't really work that into anything. Can you send a capriza and over to Gail? She's doing some aquarobics as if that will help. And my right has nothing to do with what we're talking about, but just wanted to paint that picture for everyone.

I really just wanted to send her a drink called Capri. It's hilarious. Good luck with the Capri scale. She's the only one I've ever seen to wear a Capri bikini during aquarovix. And it's the Capri cigarettes, unfortunately, for her. Capri cigarettes stuck together with Baba Yaba. Oh no, it's not a Capri cigarette. It turns out it's just a straw that goes to Capri's son.

You don't like that on fire, Gale. It's plastic. What are we even doing here? So next day, next day, beautiful Galveston, LOL. Okay, so BMWs and Buddha's like, Okay, so BMWs and Buddha's like, BMW, take me to the Galveston Dulx Fies. Yeah, in case we forgot that BMW is sponsoring this.

So then Tom is standing there with Don, who looks wonderful. I'd love this look for her. And Don's like, it's been a long road to get here. So congratulations, not as long as going to the Olympics, but, you know, I guess it's like a fraction of that. So congratulations on doing a fraction of the workout out with my life. So who's gone fishing here?

Oh, not you, DeMar, huh? DeMar's like, yeah. In Chicago where I grew up, in South Chicago, there weren't many water activities. Unless you can't crack and open a fire hydrate. Which we did. It's like, it hurt. It much altered her.

Hold on, hold on one second, I'm getting a phone call from Pumma. Hold on. Hi, Demar. This is Padma calling from So House. Just want to know if you're never been fishing face is the same as your happy face or is it your crying face. We'd love to know. Thanks.

Well, today there's not going to be a quick fire. You're fishing. It's going to be hilarious. And you're going to have to cook whatever you catch, even if it's a honeykin bottle. Even if it's a metal can, like you're an animal crossing, okay? So, yeah, so they basically have to make two dishes with two different preparations Even if it's a metal can, like you're an animal crossing, okay? So, um, yeah, so they basically have to make, uh, two dishes with two different preparations, and then they can all, he's like, Well, I know we are all thinking. How the hell does a world class chef have as a mixologist as a son? I know. But another thing you might be thinking is, what if I don't catch anything?

Well, guess what? You could spend $200 at Whole Foods and some other place. So, don't worry. Yeah. He's like, well, it's going to be really helpful if you catch fish. So, to make it more fun, there will be a very special guest judge, my good friend, Daniel Blue. Oh, I'm sorry, hold on. Hello? Bobma?

Tom. Did you mean to introduce my good friend celebrity, Daniel Balloon? Tom, this is how you pronounce Daniel Balloon. Lena, wait! There, fixed it. And Bouda is pooping on the floor, he's so excited. And, um, Tom's like, well, there's one or two fish standing between you and the finals. Ready to cast a line?

Huh! This was fun. I should do this all the time. Yeah, only one or two fish, so don't do anything ridiculous. He's stupid. Like, I don't know. Make a croc cake without any binding, you know? Pretty simple stuff.

So them that go to the... They meet Donnie and Donnie, the captain of the group. It's like Mathemaganna and Jared Lido and character for some movie we haven't seen yet. And Buddha tells us how he grew up by the Great Barrier Reef and they have very beautiful fish to kill and eat there. But I mean, have fun looking for Calvaston catfish because Donnie and Donnie are like, well, you know what you're going to get here? Catfish. Not that you're going to get.

Good luck, cats on the catfish. And actually they fight back. They've actually got fists in our ocean. So watch out. Yeah, the way we find our catfish is we actually take this barrel of oil and just pour it right there in the water and see if they come to eat it. It's like Donnie. Donnie and Captain Cody, you guys have to revise your ways to do this. So, Demar has never obviously gone

fishing, so he's just like following what Tom can do and he's like, so my fishing strategy is to do exactly what Tom says. Well, okay, well let's start with this one. Come stash in my restaurant, and then learn how to make sauces, and then you'll work the line. Hey, we're coming to your chef, and I see no, you'll be a chef.

I'm sorry, I just had to give that advice to someone who wanted to listen to me in my life because obviously it wasn't my son. So they don't have good luck, okay? There's no fish coming. They're all screwed. It's like 30 minutes later. No one's caught anything. 90 minutes later. Still nothing. And then Tom's like, well, you know what?

You guys haven't caught any fish. Luckily, I've got some fish, some goldfish. Maha. And he's eating goldfish crackers. And Sarah's like, ah, dad. Lame. Hey, I just brought you back from the brink of death apple bees. All right. Yeah, but you didn't get me a gift for graduating middle school Okay So really really good to ship back then huh Buddha meanwhile is like this is the best part wait and you just crack open a beer and you wait that's why my dish nonsense can be called Beer oh fish dish and it's gonna be a fish in a shape of a beer can that's correct open very literal punster Waiting for balloon mojiro

So now they have to move and they're trying to be positive which has nothing to do with fishing I don't like when people put positive attitudes into the things that they don't go into like guys I don't like when people put positive attitudes into the things that they don't go into. Like, guys, let's just be positive. Maybe then we'll catch some fish. No, positivity does not affect the fish and the water save it. Okay. Let's just be positive and end the life of a creature. Let's just, let's bring about the end of a creature's lifeline by being positive, by tricking it into thinking it's actually getting something to survive,

but it's the exact opposite because it's going to be killed. Yes, you want to catch a fish, you need to think murderously, not positively. You need to be like, where's that fucking fish? Just stand there with a rifle, just ready to take it down. Think like Ursula for crying out loud, not like Ariel. Yeah, don't be coming your hair with a fork. Be flying out of the water, and just grabbing everything in front of you and eating it. You better be offering those fish legs and taking their voices and by voices I mean their lives.

Hey, Ben, we're on a boat. So Evelyn catches one and she gets a catfish and she's like, oh my god, it's weird to god if I have to go home with a catfish girl, we've all been there. Oh my god, I swear to god, if I have to go home with the catfish girl, we've all been there. We've all been there. Where you know it's a catfish and you still fuck up anyway. Well, they made the effort. Club the effort takes a lot of fun to write photo. We've all given them our phone numbers and our social security numbers and our middle names.

Yeah. So, so everyone winds up, everyone starts catching a lot of red fish, a lot of bull red fish because they're big ones. Everyone's caught one except for Sarah who of course is at zero fish and Tom's like, oh, Sarah, you better start seeing some prayers. You know what I'm saying? Pubmoss gonna just rake over the calls over this one. Oh, I just got a text from her. It says loser.

Huh, that's pretty funny. It's for you, you're the loser. And Sarah's like, oh, this is very Oprah. Like, you get a fish and you get a fish. Oh wait, I just pulled a mini van out of the ocean. So, for Sarah, I have to go home and cook a mini van. So, then like, but like, it's been like three hours, then finally Sarah gets one. It's like fine. It's all of this direction. She finally gets one, and then now they all

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All right, let's move on. Let's go to the pictures. Let's go to the fish pictures. And the fish pictures. I think these are the same guys who take like old time he picks down the boardwalk. You know, they're like, hey kid, you want to look like you're a 1930s train robber?

Come on in here. You want to clean the fish? All right, just come on in here. Just make a lift instead. They definitely have those machines where you put a panion, and the panion gets crushed into an oval and looks like a second time. I'm like, wow, I changed the metal circle

into a metal oval. It's also funny because it's called Katie's Fish Market. It's like, wow, Katie is looking rough with that beer right now. Wow. Katie's had a rough summer. Rough rough summer. So, they're all like butchering the fish.

And Sarah is really worried because she's not a good fish butcher and she's like, you know, when you're focused on local food, like I am, I mean, that's just the cross that I bear. Sorry, I'm so sorry about this cross that you have to bear, focusing on the whole food. Oh, he crossed. She was like, yeah, I don't have a lot of experience with these larger fish and she's telling me

a bunch of this and he's just staring at her like, do I look like I haven't gone through anything this summer? I'm not helping you. So she's like, oh my god, if I fuck this up, Daniel Bolude is gonna know. So I'm gonna cozy up to the fish guy. He's like, hey fish guy, God, I wish I could scale this a little bit better. He's like, ah, not talking to you. Unless you got a penny that needs to be shaped into an oval.

We have no business here, ma'am. I am absolutely listening. I know what's going to happen. Next thing you know, I'm holding, I'm scaling the fish and I'm going to miss my Amazon delivery of a top hat for the third day in a row and I'm not willing to go down that path. She's like, you can smoke this fish, right? And he goes, if you can get it lit, you can smoke anything.

I didn't hear him say that, but it seems very on brand for him and also for Donnie and Captain Cody. Yeah, so Nick is, uh, he's like this, I got the king of the water. It's a tough fish. The bull red. The bull red fish. These people are being so nice to the locals because you know they're all horrified. These catfish and redfish, and they're all like rocks. Nobody wants to eat this shit. And if you serve that in the restaurant, people are going to be like, gross, I'm not going to eat that. So it kind of sucks that it's like nearing finale time.

And they have to serve a bull redfish to the judges, to Daniel Balloud. Yeah, I don't know a lot about redfish though. I seem to, isn't it like a comment and also like a Cajun cooking or like if you go to the world. Well, red fish is good. I mean, it is red fish. It's just a huge, you know, it's a big scary tough one.

Red fish isn't really that tough. It, I get the sense that it's like it requires like a, like knowing the fish because you can probably mess it up really quickly. Yeah, here in Texas. It's all redfish. It's redfish and salmon redfish and salmon really. Yep. So it was not fascinating. So then they go to Whole Foods and they start buying other fish basically. He's like, I'm going to get a regular redfish. I've got this full redfish. I'm gonna get the kind of redfish that the

bull redfish bullies in school. Yeah, I'm gonna get the Sarah redfish basically. Sarah just graduated from middle school redfish. Freshman high school Sarah. So, Demar, he's also, he's going to use some Asian flavors that he doesn't normally use. So Red Flag, whenever someone says, as they approach the finals or if they're in the finals, that they're going to do something that they don't normally do, you just know they're going to be in the bottom, if not going home. And so I hear him saying this, I'm like, Demar, why are you doing this to yourself? Why?

But he's going to do it anyway. He's going to focus on Asian flavors out of nowhere. And we all know it's gonna be a terrible idea. And also, Crudo, you know, like, come on guys. I mean, I get it. Like Crudo's the thing, but it's a cooking competition. You know, it's like Crudo, you have two fish dish and one of them's gonna be Crudo.

And I think a few of them do that today, but it just seems like, yeah, I think they all do it today. But it, no, I think a few of them do that today, but it just seems like all Crudo. Yeah, I think they all do it today, but it... No, I think I know, I'm not Neck, Neck doesn't do the Crudo. So then, Buddha said... Oh, the Crudo, yeah, the angry grape. So Buddha's like, I've got so many oddies for fish. I want to put my best oddies forward on my shape of mushroom into a stone.

We'll see how it goes. Who did that? Who shaped a potato into a mushroom? That was Nick. That was Nick, yeah. That was my favorite top chef move of the season. Me too. It was so random, little potato mushroom. So anyway, they are they're heading back to Houston and with all their stuff. And now they're back at the house and they're talking about their dishes. And Evelyn and Nick are both going to do tacos and Evelyn wants to do a Mexican style soup and makes her taste because she doesn't want to leave Houston without like paying some, you know, paying homage to her roots. So that's going to be her whole plan. Fish tacos, guys. The season is almost over for Dan Hill, believe, for Daniel, believe me.

Fish tacos, come on. So then, um, Demar is talking about how this is going to change his life. If he wins, and, um, then they're back to shopping again. Are they shopping again? Yeah, because they shopped at Katie's, and then now they're shopping at Whole Foods. Oh, I see. And the big, there are two big things that happen at Whole Foods.

One is that Demar can't fund Green Papaya for his big Green Papaya salad that he's gonna do. And the second is that Evelyn stepped on her chili, which I don't know, like sort of caught me off guard. I was like, how did you drop your chili and not see it and then step on it too? Oh my gosh, you've never been in the kitchen with me apparently.

Well, I just like the supermarket. And we all know that that is going to gal. That stepped on chili. We just know it. She gets no respect on the chef. Yeah. We'll go on put the portion of this soup the texture on your crushed chile was so unique the way you got that pattern imprinted on it yeah none of us had that um so let's see uh Sarah's freaking out she's like, oh my god, I'm dead inside. Like every time I touch something, I'm like, damn, your fucking balloon is gonna eat this.

And then she like crashes her baking sheet into the counter by accident. She's just totally rattled. So she is planning to make a pseudo grudo with pickled gulf snapper and silken tofu and crout broth, which I was like, did I read that correctly? She's gonna include Cret broth in that. That's so I was not expecting that and She says she's gonna pre plate because that's what she did in last chance kitchen, and that's what got her ahead in that Yeah, so I guess what so what's she planning on using for the Fish that she caught just the head because she's going to do like a fermented fish and broth or something. I think that's what it was because the golf snapper is clearly bought, you know, at the store.

Right. So then she's also going to use tofu. So then Evelyn is doing her go do the piscado taco and she's going to do a redfish pineapple, chili salsa and Buddha is doing two of my favorite preparations ginger and scallion and fish and chips I'm gonna divorce you chips yeah he's doing a steamed bull redfish with something called a shrimp farce or I guess there was saying farcey but it reads likece. And I just like the idea that like, there's gonna be a steamed bullbread fish on the plate.

That's gonna have like shrimp on the side, going in and out of doors, just missing each other. It's a shrimp farce. It's like noises off. Yeah, it's like Carol Bernette in a shrimp costume. Yeah. So let's see here. Nick is doing a fish taco as well.

And he wants to do some kind of a fish cake. And he's like, I used to do this at my job. So I know how to do this perfect. It's like a pate. And tomorrow is doing red snapper, crudo with apple and radish, and then a black, well, we already know this. This is, okay, we just repeat the dishes

over and over from this point on. Yeah, so they're cooking, they're cooking because they have two and a half hours to, which to me seems like a lot of time to, I don't know, make a fish cake or a fish taco. What could go wrong? Right? Cause you've got two and a half hours or something. So, um, uh, so they are, they're just cooking and cooking and there's some like minor incidences like Sarah's fish sauce starts to burn and then people are like panicked and they're running around and things are hot and there's a lot of hot

behind you, hot plate behind you, come and get hot, look at this is hot, it's hot, be careful behind you, hot behind you. Yeah, so the judges come in and Tom's like well, put a very handsome restaurant handsome restaurant person and they guess just like well, what a very handsome restaurant, handsome restaurant person. And the guest just like, well guys, when you stand on the shoulders of giants, and I definitely do. I'm just, Gail, I didn't know you were, I didn't know you were in the circus.

Well, Gail, she's not wasting those tumbling classes. She was the shit middle school. You know how? If you're gonna make a human tower, of course you put gal as the base. So good job. Aaron standing on the shoulders of giants. I also like Padma Kosa.

There was like a moment where they observed the table because they walked in and told us, well that's a very nice table. And Padma goes, very beautiful. Very, yes, see the approval. Four legs, amazing work. So how was fishing yesterday? I see you saved a gal.

Tom's like, well, I'm supposed to slow, you know? And then all of a sudden, the rods went off. Oh, good, you know, it's funny because at first I thought, wow, Tom still smells like the Gulf, and then I remembered it was just Gail. Gail's like, we're at your catfish? She's like, Gail, Gail would have a, they were so cady the Gail would cut it up with them

and crafted some big hang in their posters. Don't say cat around Gail anybody, even if it is just the fish. And Tom goes, oh, there was catfish, but no dogfish. Hold on, let me call Ali Wong. Not. Never again, Tom. Never. So, Buddha is plating. He's serving first. So, he does his fish and ship's dish. It is so beautiful. I mean he really does make pretty food, you know And then he does this steamed the steamed bull redfish And it's wrapped in seaweed which I loved his you know if you

What's it? Oh to know about like finally there were two, I think were there like two different seaweed or this was the seaweed, but like, he actually makes something successful to see with after Noma tried so hard all season. Yes, to Mar did. To Mar did some kind of seaweed thing later. So Gills like, wow, the bulk redfish is really stunning and the seaweed at its smoky brining as well.

Gail sit down Gail. Was it because I brought up cats? I mean look at Gail she's about to pop out of her seat. Look she's already found a couch and she's pawing at it she just gets so into character. In her own mind and her own cat play that's in her mind, not related to cat the musical, which she also loves. Let's be honest. So then Danielle loves the ginger and the scallion. And Aaron, the sky Aaron, who's the guest judge, says, he's like, you know, I really like the fish and chips personally. I mean, also, I mean, for, it's one of chef's most famous dishes was, was striped bass in Papiote and then Paprika's had a whole challenge about it actually. Beat you to it.

Sorry. Wow, great observation, Aaron. But guess what? We already observed it in a different season at a different time without you. Bye. And they love that he used potatoes in so many different ways. And Padma's like, well, it is dry. Because it's slightly dry, but I can get over that because of the sauce.

Well, it was a beautiful flavor combination. Today, we'll not forget, as I swallow a bottle of jerky to soothe my innards from the dryness. I swallow a bottle of jergins to see my innards from the dryness! Oh god, doesn't it just make you laugh to hear Gail say she can get over something being slightly dry? Of course you can! You can eat a piece of cardboard for dinner if you want to do Gail. That's her heart. It's playful, it's fun, and he really knocked this one out of the work.

I played Patipapapa, andupa. Anyone want to picture with me? If you want to hear about knocking things out of the park, it's called my touchdown in seventh grade. Next up, Evelyn's Taco. So first she serves her redfish called the Pascado Chipotle and she's like this is really good for a hangover. You know, we call it the bring you back to life, seafood soup. And then she serves her taco arpastor with roasted redfish and a mulsified avocado. So Don loves the flavor. She says that it's a humble dish.

Oh, that reminds me. Let's all congratulate Gail for appearing on the cover of humble dish magazine. Congratulations, Gail, you made it. Humble dish, that would haveulated Gail for appearing on the cover of HumbleDish magazine. Congratulations Gail, you made it. HumbleDish, that would have been Gail's nickname if she were alive in the 20s. Hey there, HumbleDish. And Gail goes, Evelyn promised the dish would wake us up. And it did. Okay Gail, calm the hell down.

God, it's like she never had soup before. It woke us up and then it just lingers. Wow, fat and nickel every time. One of your dates said that. And Tom's like, well, you know, the broth is beautiful, but I prefer more fish, you know, I said, rock out with your fish out, which really didn't rhyme, but I was, you know, hoping that I would get more fish. You know, I have to say, thank you, Tom, for that first of know, I have to say thank you Tom for that first of all I have to say you know the tacos you get these bitter notes And you know as long as well as this like tang at the fruit and that's what I love about

Al Pastor have you guys ever heard of Al Pastor before because I have So delicious meat and it's also somebody who can marry you in a pinch. So it's like the tortilla was big and that's the moisture and life out of the taco. So it's basically a galtia is what you're saying. It's kind of like when gale joined the Soho House just kind of ruined it. I get it. Ha ha ha. And they both agree that the everybody agrees that the tortilla's way too big

and there's like very little on it. And the gas is like, I'm up here on the shoulder of giants just to say, both of these dishes were very safe. Ha ha ha. Wow, congratulations with your observation that we already made stupid person on Gale Shoulders. But I do love your tables. Your tables are wonderful.

Don, I have a question. What was it like at this point in the competition to be so close to going to the finale, which you ultimately lost? Tell us. She's like, well, you know, every challenge, as you go along, I mean, every challenge holds more weight. Wow, sounds like season to season of this show. Am I right? I don't even have to say her name to finish that joke. And Stephanie is like, yeah, you sort of like reached because Stephanie is her, it's there, who was one top chef Chicago, and she's like, you know, it's like you just can't get to this point

where you go from thinking about like, oh, I don't wanna be kicked off to, I just wanna win. Wow, and Don, what was that experience like for you? Winning, like Stephanie, oh wait, it didn't happen. So sorry, Don. So sorry that I was one of the people who deprived you of that moment. Let's relive it, shall we? Hey, let's place your haze.

You're just doing the number two on your arm, Padma. Yeah, that stands for movie, time, place, television show. Down your rap, packing nights and girls, stupid stupid time to get to the men of you got it When's this damn next dish coming out? I'm sick of playing charades with these idiots So Sarah is next and her fish looks totally burnt and she's freaking out. So I was scared for her You know now I know that there was a cooking technique called blackened I get it But I it's just Sarah, you know, so I it's a little work as much as i make fun of her you know i like her and i want i want to see her do well because you know

she hasn't really underdog yeah she's underdogs you want to see her do well and yet and so she's choosing the kitchen and she's struggling at one point because damn it and then the she's i guess they can hear here here then because don's like oh and spamicus She's struggling at one point. She goes, damn it. And then I guess they can hear them because Don's like, oh, and spamicus, oh, that's Sarah yelling. Yeah, that's what poor people do, guys.

I'm so sorry you had to hear that. I apologize. It's if the TV is ever broken, that's how poor people get it to turn back on. They yell. Yeah, that's what the poor people do when they bang on the windows of soho has trying to get in It's just everything that I've had

Yes And Sarah's like God, I just wish I'd spent more time on the fish I would just look all I want is for Padma not to think I'm a complete and compute So she made I think about I think that about you no matter what you do So she comes out and she's like teach Amanda fish. She teaches for he he's He teaches for a lifetime What I wrote it down wrong. Sorry I didn't even

I feel like I'm completely wasted over here and I'm not it's like No, I'm a thing of the day I'm like caffeinated and I actually motivated to work out before this I've got like the endorphins in the caffeine and I'm just like loony tunes right now I think it's knowing that we have like a long weekend coming up One day one day off and we're acting like we're going to Hawaii for a month the both of us No, yeah, so Sarah comes out and Pamma does this thing where she's like, well since you didn't tell me how to do this I'm going to shame you it into it by saying how would you like this broth pour it over? It's like Padma you pour it in the dish

Hi, hello And Sarah's like well, this is called pseudo crude out. I'm louder, I can't hear you over the way I'm pouring this in here. Oh, Padma, your head, Padma. Oh, I was gonna go with the direction of Padma, please stop pouring it on my head. I'm pouring it on everyone's head, including my own. There, I yes, and did it into making sense. Hmm, so Sarah's like, well, the bottom of the bowl is fermented greens and trout liquid. Okay, you know what I quit Proud liquid, like we're not trout liquid. Wait. What was it?

Crout not oh, okay. I was like gross. That is disgusting fermented greens and trout liquid. I mean that just sounds like rotting garbage on the street. Thank you. Speaking of which, gal, get out of the dumpster and come back to the table, we're eating. You know, the sad part of this is I watch TV and think these things are real forever. You know, if I didn't have you to tell me what was real or not, imagine the things I would think. Like that happens to me too. With a trout liquid. Well, look, remember what was that? It was an episode of Real House.

It wasn't in New York where we both, like I missed her. They were like Apple socks. And then I thought like, remember I was like, we're going to go to Apple socks. Yeah. And it's like a brand, like, you know, it happens at both of us. Oh, it's time for commercial.

It's time for a crapance commercial. So then she made a pastrami sandwich, well a pastrami-ish, a pastrami-like sandwich with carrot-better, peritian, yokey, and trout. And Patten goes, I love that inspiration! It's like the time when I inspired Sam and Rush to to write a book. I just love being an inspiration of people including your dish So funny I said you should name this book Pastrami sandwich

He went with satanic verses, but the point is I'm a muse I am a muse to everyone around me. You're welcome everyone, especially you, Danielle Balloon. So, Gale's like, well, I get exactly what she meant when she said that the tofu would help the texture of the crudo. Yes, Gale, but the texture is supposed to be in your mouth, not on your cheeks. Let's try that again. It's Madame Oysterizer, Gail. Gail, it doesn't matter how hard you rub that on your forehead, it's not going to be absorbed. And believe it's like, well, the combo of hot and cold, it was perfectly executed.

And Madame goes, wow, I loved this. There's so much going on, like any number of Gail's dresses. So then Steph me, she's like, wow, the creativity of pastrami, and rye, my mind is blown. And Gail goes, she just created something here, that will become a signature wherever she goes. Kind of like when you chew a little bit gal in the store everyone's like there's gal her signature. Okay so then Sarah's freaking out she's like I just cooked for two of the most impressive chefs in

the world and then next turn okay so Nick is like oh yeah like, oh my gosh, he's fish cakes. Don't have a lot of body because I forgot to make the fish binder. Nick, Nick, look, I was rooting so hard for Nick to get into the finals. You know, he's this chef from Mississippi who's not, it doesn't have all these fancy credentials like everyone else. I mean, he has credentials, but not like he's not like I worked in no more anything. I was like so excited for him. And then like the moment this happened, you just know it's not going to like he's not going to be going moving on. I was like, how do you forget your binder for your, for your crab cake? You have two

and a half hours. Yeah. And then he pulls a reverse Dorothy where he just takes his positivity and he's like, I'm not going home. I am not going home. I am not going out. So then he just blates. And then he's also throwing his tortillas on the pan at the last minute. And it just looks like a lot. I mean poor guy.

That's like, it's definitely, it looks like it's chopped. Like, like an episode of Chopped and so. And prison. Prison Chop. So, it's just like a big flit of like blocks. And it's like, Padman knows, like Padman knows that he's fucked up because literally his crab cake is It's like a hash is just like a pie not crab cake, but the fish cake. It's just like a pile of like

fish stuff and so he just sort of Plates it and Padmas ease and she has this big smile in her face because she knows he fucked up, right? And she goes Hi Nick, please tell us about your dishes Thank you so much for utterly failing already. I just thrive on this right now. It's hilarious. Hey Nick, congratulations. You've won a pot to grow that face plant in is. It's already so big. So it's a crispy red fish taco and a red fish cake. And it's just, you know, again, poor guy. So if hadn't got so how was today for you Nick I was like Jesus you're like a neighbor

standing on a doorstep with a fruit fucking pie at Christmas time no the fruit cake like at the door when you've just had an argument with like your S.O. and you're like clearly fuming and like the neighbor will not go away or something. Yeah, then they show up and they stand there with a cake that they know you're gonna hate and just dare. It's like they're taking pleasure in giving you this fucking fruit cake. Have you attended a? Please feel free to tell us about all the things you did wrong in front of Daniel Blue. So, only worry, it's only a culinary icon. So Nick is like, well, he's like, well, today was the first day I ran out of time.

I didn't get to put the herbs on the taco and I was trying to finesse the cake on the plate and I had to reshape it. But I hope you guys enjoy the flavors. I was like, oh, this poor guy. I know. Poor guy. Luckily, it is in the shape of Mississippi. Gale.

And Gale's like, well, the crunch on the fish and on the taco is fantastic. So let's start that. The fish is overcooked. All right, Palliana, just say it. And yeah, and the tortilla is, I mean, the tortilla, like the picture that they have to show, and when they do that, that graceful, you know, pan over the food. And like the tortilla is like this, it's like burnt,

and like not even a circle. It's just so, it's like so wrong. And so, uh, it was really tough and dry. Oh, that's how I signed gale's yearbook and Middle school right Sarah can you have it back there? Sarah's screaming again That was like now

What did you guys all think about Nick's fish cake? Would you guys like me to do an air quote around that? Because I can do that for maximum emphasis. Yeah. And Don is like, yeah, that was the cake. Stephanie. So, but trying to make it. Donk. Donk goes that pile that he gave us, that wasn't the cake. Oh, Donk, great work calling it a pile. I loved the way you just took him down a notch like that brava brava And Stephanie like the redfish at least and chaos like um the cake feels rush. No Your outfit is rest. This is a disaster Well actually your outfits are disaster too all the above for gal hmm So then tomorrow is plating and it's very pretty plating.

He does a snapper crudo with an apple, radish and coconut vinaigrette. But is this seaweed? Does he have seaweed? Why do I remember green liquid? Maybe it was. There was a green liquid because they have to pour a green liquid over it. I don't remember if it was a seaweed liquid or an octopus, like a really intense green. So then he did a seasoned blackfish with bowl redfish and marinated herb salad.

So Pat was like, so what do you think of Crudo? And Dawn thinks the Crudo is bland and then Tom goes, you know, when you have something to sell, I mean, despite how much sauce you put on it, the fish is bland. It's going to stay bland. And that's what I tell Gail stop trying for hot couture it's not gonna fix anything just stick with the basics a mumu a smock some stockings hair net and you're set Gail for Christmas and getting gail some lipblast that just says why bother you open the tube and it's empty. So, balloon is like, it lacked a dual divorce.

And it's like, well, the redfish is delicious at least. And Stephanie says that using the penis and grinding up was a misstep because it's too grand made the peanuts grainy. Yeah, because I guess he was going for some sort of... He was making that kind of papaya salad -esque thing, which normally you just sort of like chop up the peanuts and throw it in there, but I guess he actually included it with like the lime juice or whatever so who knows. So then Padma, so they're done and Padma goes, thank you, Aaron, for letting us use your

beautiful restaurant and kitchen. If you need a ladder to get off of Gail's shoulders, just let someone know. And now, it's the church's table one last time and you still everybody. I like when Gail and when Padma just gets so excited at the most random moments. Okay, judges table, show the logo. Thank you. Okay chefs It was really interesting to see what each one of you did with the fish you caught I thought how can four chefs fuck up fish in so many different ways and wow my mind was blown Sarah and Boota

Don't don't don't don't You are not famous and that means you're both moving on to the final four congratulations Sarah how does it feel you sure had a roller coaster? Mostly that just went along at the bottom But then they came up and next we could go down again God. I love this ride Sarah your roller coaster was like one of those shitty old roller coasters from the 70s that when you go to great flags, people say, do you want to ride that coaster? And you say, no, because there's seven or eight better

coasters you want to ride on. That's your roller coaster. How's that feel? Oh, and Sarah's touched, you know, and she's like, where have you been all competition? Glad we finally got to taste it. Tom's like, well, I've been tasting it this whole time on my internet after show last chance kitchen, what you can catch on the internet. So, right Tom, keep trying to make that one happen, OK? Oh, I'm sorry, Tom.

I must have missed that when I was hanging out with my dear friend, David Chine. But I'm sure your show was wonderful. Oh, yes. So then, let's see here. Stephanie, now they move on to Buddha, right? And the mustard sauce was outrageously good, and the mousse was perfect, and Padma's like, Stephanie, Danielle, tell us who won this final challenge in Hildan. Let me call you back, Aliewan. I have one non-famous winner here and one really non-famous

non-winner here. Okay, talk soon. And the winner is Sarah. So she's all excited and she's like, wow, being in the top four instead of being eliminated fourth is surreal and feel so good to win. If I had known it would feel this good, I would have done it a lot sooner. All right, step to the side. Evelyn, you gave us good dishes, but you played it safe today. I mean, you can cook tacos in your sleep, and you probably do. But seriously now, hold on.

Hello, Ali. Ha ha ha ha ha! You can love it when I tell you. Call you back. Another thing, Evelyn, I do want to say is I do appreciate that you made Al Pastorot, which is a taco style that I'm aware of. Does anyone know what Al Pastorot is? Because I can tell everyone here, it's a taco. Okay Evelyn, congratulations.

You did every time. I love about Al Pastor. Evelyn, you are like your food. Save. congratulations. And then the balloon says it's too simple for top chef by top dish of top top. It's like, okay Daniel. Evelyn, you're going to the finals. Move over now.

Okay, move over. Join the other non-luses for today only. All right, tomorrow in it. That means hold on, let me get cry face on. You two had the least favorite dishes of the night. Will Gale ever make it through a final round without slapping food down the front of her terrible outfit? Will Tom ever find a hat that works? One of you will never find out, because one of you will not be continuing to the finals.

In a place that would be very exciting and luxurious and exotic, but you don't get to know that for a few more minutes. Anyway, how did Staco for you, D'Amare, trick question, shitty, because we all tasted your day and it was terrible. Mm, he's like, well, I tried to do something different today, you know, and Tom's like, eh, yeah, neither more flavor.

Like, wow, burn. That's the ultimate burn on this show. You know, well, here's my only thing to say about it, uh, and needed flavor, because it's, you know, food and not actual gas that we put in our cars to drive. So that would have been nice. Flavor, flavor would be good. Yeah, flavor. Does anyone on this panel want to ask a question in the style of me? Stephanie, how about you? Okay, um, did you season the fish at all before it went on the plate or were you just relying on the sauce? Oh, so close, Stephanie. Let me try. Did you mean to leave your fish on season in that shitty pile of sauce? He's like, well, I just thought it would eat delicately. It was fine, but you can do more tomorrow.

You can do more. He's like, well, I wanted to do a papaya salad with the red fish, but I couldn't find the papaya salad. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And Daniel Balloon goes, were you trying to do a pesto? Which I thought was funny because it's like, he's talking about Asian flavors and doing a papaya salad. And Daniel Balloon's like, he's talking about Asian flavors and doing a papaya salad and he's like,

was it a pesto? Like I just want to show like how off the mark you hit it that I think that you're actually a pesto involved. He's like, well, the vegetable didn't really soak in the flavor like a papaya with salt. Were you doing pancake? Was this pancake you were trying for? Yeah.

Oh, it's souffle. Was this soufflé, without the business. Well, it's just after they're a timid coming from Yiddemar, and they're in Dermar just because, obviously, this was a fail, and Tom goes, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We call those gales, little gales. Okay, Nick, how did today go for you? I'm asking the same question, the same tone. There's only one answer, but we ask it anyway. How was it for you today, Nick?

Mm, I mean, it's like a time management. That's what it was. And don't go, obviously, wow, well, that fish was dry. The cake wasn't complete. And you should have been generous with the sauce, you know? These, the fish cake, I don't know what you were trying to do there was it a pesto it was pesto Someone someone something was pesto And Gail's trying so hard to be nice. She keeps harping on the burp block

I just one side as I just I love the lemon burp Blank I mean who would have thought butter and lemon really wow amazing, but everyone else You know for everything else it was sort of hard to know what you were going for there. I mean, who would have thought butter and lemon? Really? Wow, amazing. But everyone else, you know, for everything else, it was sort of hard to know what you were going for there. I mean, it was a mound of fish, you know? Well, that didn't stop you from trying to dive into it. Like, Scrooge McDuck-Gale, come on now. Well, there was lemon for Blanc. Well, we have a very difficult decision to make.

Do you have anything to add while you're still able to look famous people in the eye six feet away from them? And Nick's like, well, this is your last chance to cry for us. Nick's like, well, I just want to say thank you for this opportunity and, you know, I've learned so much and I'm a really big fan of you guys. I'm really like a huge fan. We know Nick. And then Padma's like, and Demar says something about like, well,

I've really grown a lot personally from not just the challenges, but from other people here, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Great, great, great story under season fish. Okay. Well, we really appreciate all that you shared with us. I only wish I had been listening. Okay. We go. I only wish I had been listening. Okay, we I'm sorry.

Poor poor poor poor poor poor poor poor poor poor poor poor poor poor poor poor loan request loan request denied. Okay, go to the poor room now for a people. And just think about all the James Beauty Awards. You haven't won. Okay, famous people talk now. Well, this is really difficult because they're is just, it's like Gaelin addressing room. Nothing came together.

Yeah, both the Mora Nick really messed up today. I'm enjoying this process that we're going to go through right now even though it's undeniable that we're sending Nick home, isn't it? Am I right? I'm sick, right? Stephanie keeps up her habit of just saying the most obvious things. I don't even know. It's undeniable that we're sending the comments. Am I right? I'm right, I'm sick, right? It's tough. Stephanie keeps up her habit of just saying the most obvious things. Like when I'm like, Stephanie, what was it like to win?

And she's like, well, it's really hard not to win, but then it makes you want to win. And so now they're like, Stephanie, what do you have to say? It just goes, well, at this point, you can make it to the finals, but then if you make a bad dish, then you're gonna go home.

Wow, that was really good. Thanks for explaining game shows to us, Stephanie. Tom! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha Merky. Okay everyone, we're gonna make this one a free for all whoever wants to take that one. The clue is it was Merky go who wants to roast first? Best off now, believe it. Just sit over there and look good You know the challenge was to highlight the fish and I think in the second dish tomorrow did did better with his fish cookery so Anyway, can we just get this over with for crying out loud? I told Gail the challenge was to highlight the fish,

not highlight with fish. She was over there trying to highlight a menu with it. Yeah, she got red fish all over this beautiful place. This beautiful table out and wherever you went. They went that beautiful table. I like when Gail gets mad too, because she's so positive the whole time. She's like, yeah, both but the limit for Blanc. How perfect.

And Tom goes, yeah, both Demars was slightly underseason. And she goes, not slightly, criminally. I was like, whoa, Jesus. It's like Gail's all funny games until you burn an egg, you know? Gail released a song called Murky Criminal. So it's a play on smooth criminal. You may have heard of it I don't know if Tom can say rock at with your fish out. I can say murky criminal on my right Oh good, okay, so then Tom's like yeah, the taco was overcooked

There was no juice and then the second course Nick forgot to bind the cake, and fattening goes, I would have never know that was a cake! The only reason I knew it was a cake is I'm just so used to all the Tom's gale sat on my cakes, and they always look like that afterwards. I'm like, oh, it's a cake, after gale. Oh gosh. Um, so then, um, Tom gives his monologue and he's like, well, you know, uh, 15 chefs show up to Houston. They walk into a kitchen and they might win something and they might lose, but they'll definitely be part of Top Chef family. Uh, but only one person could win. And the sentence is really going on a long time.

Go fish, go fish, we're on a boat. We're on a boat, aren't we? On a boat? Nick, you're going home as you knew for the past 20 minutes on this show, okay? And he goes, he goes, well, this is not a failure. This right now, it's a failure. It is, it is now.

It's a failure. This right now, it's a failure. It is now. It's a failure. Please pack your knives and go still got stabgale tires with them. I don't want to hear anything else, Nick. Nick, please pack your knives and learn about eggs because they're used in fish cakes. Yes. So Nick goes away. He says some things about what, you know, whatever. It's so sweet. It could be great. I love Nick. It's a nice guy. So then they keep the chefs there and tomorrow has been crying and Padma's like, I know it's been very emotional, very challenging and hopefully also rewarding, but it's wonderful

to see how much you and Nick have bonded and honestly, I just want to see more crying like this from you tomorrow. It's all I've wanted all season. Thank you for finally giving it to me. And honestly, I just want to see more crying like this from you tomorrow. It's all I've wanted all season. Thank you for finally giving it to me. And now we will be taking you to one of two cities in the US that's been designated as an UNESCO gastronomy city. That's right, because Top Chef has a history of doing the finals in the most glamorous, exciting locations all around the world.

We've been to Macau, we've been to Singapore, we've probably been to Europe, we went to Italy, yes, exactly. So guess what, pack your bags because today we are going to Tucson. on. Winner gets to get cast in Avocurkey. So let's see. Congratulations. You're going to the home of the chimichanga Tucson Arizona. Wow. So there you go. That is true. By the way, the chimichanga was

well, at least that's what they say on Tucson, but they do say they do claim the chimichanga was created in Tucson. And well, there you go. Learn something new. Every time you listen to watch what happens, thank you everybody for being here. This very special episode of Top Chef. We've only got nine more to go this season. Let's see how many tacos Evelyn will try to pass off.

Next week, Gail does a keg stand that... I forget, is it ASU or University of Arizona? Let's sum school into Sons. She's going to do a keg stand. Would've been fun here if I'd done my research before I started talking. Ha ha ha ha. Everyone, thanks so much for being here.

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