Watch What Crappens - Top Chef: It Takes Tucson To Make a Thing Go Right

Episode Date: June 1, 2022

The chefs head to Tucson, AZ on this week's Top Chef where they must work with carne seca, nopal, and chiltepin. Plus, there's a hanging cage.The chefs head to Tucson, AZ on this week's Top Chef where they must work with carne seca, nopal, and chiltepin. Plus, there's a hanging cage.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Well, hello, Benoone, what you do? Oh, not much, just coming back from a nice long three-day weekend here in the US. I feel very rested, but I'm also like, how do I podcast? I almost messed up this intro. I don't like, how do I podcast? I almost messed up this intro. I don't like what do I say? How do I be funny? You know, it is definitely rough getting back into the world. I woke up today like, no, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, and then I remembered that I have like the easiest job in the world. So it's okay. Yeah, it's sometimes just takes a moment to ramp, ramp back up into

the world. And I'm sure it's not just us. But anyway, one of those things where it's like I'm older now. And like it's one of those like my neck hurts because I've been watching too much TV and sitting in the same position for like hours at a time. Surprise. I don't have bed sores from sitting in the same position all weekend. And you know, it's things like, well, I need to try and stretch because I can't move from that because I was watching Jimmits TV. I mean, that's the state of my life right now. I'm not proud of it, but I feel the need to confess it somewhere. So there you go. I get it. I was really indulgent. I was like, I was like a monster this weekend. I just ate all the bad food for me. And I just, I just was like very self indulgent. Video games, junk food.

I was like, I lost my mind. It was crazy, but also great at the same time. Yeah, sure was. But today we're talking Top Chef. We did not have take a seat last night because we were taking a three day weekend. But take a we'll be back on Spotify live next Monday and that's always gonna be at 10 o'clock on the East Coast 7 o'clock on the West Coast So put that in your calendar now and come join us

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really, really cool things. So that's at crappensmerch.com. And now with Time Talk, Top Chef, and yesterday I looked onto Instagram and Padma was being so Padma on Instagram. She had a video up where she was in lingerie. She was like, hi, I'm gonna show you how to make cold cucumber yogurt soup.

I was like, it's so bad. That was like cucumber salad. I saw it too and I was cracking. I even took a screenshot of it. Making chilled cucumber soup in my 90. Headlights, I mean Padma, it's smelly. Is it cold in there? making chilled cucumber soup in my 90 headlights. I mean Padma, it's smell as it cold in there. Did you put the cucumbers on your dance?

Cause it looks like you're cold in there. And she's wearing like a cow robe on top of it. And I was like, yeah, that's how everybody needs to be making chilled cucumber soup. It's like the sexiest thing I've ever seen. I know. So I'm gonna eatin' a fucking cucumber. I was like the sexiest thing I've ever seen. I know. I'm eating a fucking cucumber. I was like, who dumped Padma? What is this revenge video she's doing? Because she was

ostensibly showing us how to make cucumber yogurt soup, but she was looking so sexy while doing it. I was like, who are you trying to make jealous right now? Because I know you're doing it to someone. This is ridiculous. She was like, oh, you have to is put yogurt in a blender with a cucumber, oops, put it into smaller blender, my bad. Sometimes I just put cucumbers in a smaller blender to make the cucumber feel bigger. Old Padma trick, you're welcome, God bless her. So God bless, Platinum. I saw her do one the other day where she's like, today I'm making a grilled cheese.

My daughter loves them. And so she puts a piece of bread on the pan. And then she puts some cheese. And then another piece of bread on top. And she's like, and now I'm going to put the lid on so that the heat stays in and melts the cheese. And I was like, is, how's my locksmith really trying to convince me

that she's like a world-class chef right now with her fucking grilled cheese? And then the grilled cheese comes out and it's burnt. It's black, it's a black grilled cheese. It's like, there you go, everybody. I'm like, you suck. You suck, okay? And I will forever be subscribed.

Okay. I learned this recipe from my dear friend Molly ring walls. She's a great grilled cheese ambassador Yeah, Padma's out there hustling whatever it is. She's hustling. I'm not really sure about yeah, it's highly enjoyable to me So previously welcome back to the competition Sarah. Hope you find another way to fuck up Ahi Can't spell Ahi without haha and an eye Have you ever watched Top Chef family edition by the way because they when you know this recording they tagged on or they tagged on Top Chef family to try and force us all to watch it. Girl, shut up Top Chef Family. Get off of my... These teenagers and their parents are like,

I can make it. I'm gonna do a cray. You know who's the best chef of my family? Me, go! They're all like kid chefs trying to make previous Top Chef dishes or whatever. And it just made me really glad that I don't have children. Not because the children were awful or because the parents were awful, just because it's all kind of awful. And I just can imagine myself,

just smacking it with the wooden spoon every time they do something wrong. Top chef, for whatever reason, it has just not been able to really kill it with a spin off. I mean, I love Top Chef Masters, and obviously we've talked about Top Chef desserts. We love those shows, and I don't know why we don't reboot them. They should be rebooted, but they really haven't been able

to do it, and I don't understand why they don't turn restaurant wars into its own show. Like, I would watch restaurant wars, but I don't want to watch Top Chef Amateurs, and I don't want to watch Top Chef Kids, because if I wanted to watch those, I would just watch the Food Network. Yeah, and Megan, what's her buzz?

Get taller, but the bangs are the bangs. I want the same allolley and I want to say these Italian, that's neither of those. It's Megan. Trainor, Megan Trainor. The bane of my existence, Megan Trainor. Yeah, she's bugged me ever since I got an Amazon echo or whatever because every song on Amazon music was You telling me you really want to know my side. No, you want to be like me. No, it's a shot up

I can't with this girl. Well, she's the host of this, you know, so I feel like this host I feel like the show's bullying me, okay? It's like it's triggering in every way You've got kids which I never had, and I'm kinda glad I'm probably gonna die alone. Then you've got this Megan shit coming on there and annoying me. And then, since there's kids on the show, everybody has to be super happy.

It's like top chef. And it's all the same people as top chef, because now they have their community theater repertoire of actors that they use. Yeah, like, yeah. Except who have been on. Yeah, I don't like that. It's like Brooke, here's Brooke Williamson,

and Brooke comes on, she's like, Hi! I said, you're not Brooke. What kind of pod person are you? Brooke is not like this. She's like, hi kids, look at me, we're in pink. And really brightly checkered pants. I can't wait to make a dish with you today.

Yeah, because like what top chef fans want to watch children cooking? Like people who love top chef, a lot of us are in it because we are excited to see high end chefs in some, in some ways high end chefs are just like, an elevated version of this stuff. So then I don't wanna see a kid do it.

No offense to the kid, it's cool, a kid can do it. But there's like MasterChef Jr. whatever if I wanted to have that experience and I don't wanna see a kid do it. No offense to the kid, it's cool, a kid can do it. But there's like MasterChef Jr. whatever if I wanted to have that experience and I don't. Like, you know what, like if I were gonna have a top chef spin off that weren't gonna be, that was not gonna be restaurant wars, I don't know, like maybe it's something like, I don't know, I don't know what,

I think I'm out of ideas, I don't even have an idea. You're fired from the imaginary Bravo. I take you to the imaginary Bravo. Bring back just desserts. Like it was a good show. Like enough time has passed since they made a winner out of the pedophile that I think we can reboot it. I think it's like, it's been in Bravo Jail.

Why is it not dessert's fault? It's not dessert's fault that that guy was a pedophile. Like what are we all gonna stop eating dessert? Cause that guy was a pedophile, you know? Yeah, stop eating dessert because that guy was a pedophile, you know, like yeah Like top chef and jail and keep making dessert. Yeah, I mean and that show had some amazing meltdowns There was that one guy who like lost his mind over red hots He was like red hots for my mommy red hots for my mommy. Do you remember that guy? Of course But top chef isn't the thing. It's like I don't even, I like kids and everything, but top chef is for broken chefs.

It's for broken adults who are depressed and miserable, probably just got off heroin. That's what top chef is. Okay, I need it to remain. I don't need happy brook. I want my brook, you know, slightly doubtful and grumpy. That's how I like brook. That's how brook is made.

That's how I like her. Yeah, I Brooke is me, that's how I like her. Yeah, I would even be down for a Hell's Kitchen version of Top Chef, where they go in and they fix a restaurant and then Padma walks in with Brooke and they just, Padma's like, wow, so I see you've turned this pinball machine into a table. That's interesting. You know, she can just shade the whole thing. Did you mean for this menu to be typed out in Havada ka? I'm sorry. Could you laminate this menu please? I think Gail drips some barbecue sauce on your printout. Well anyway, on the previous leaves, it's gonna be an hour until we get to the re- before we get into the recap. But on the previouslies, they showed the part where Patna goes,

Oh, oh, oh, oh, I just had a bite of Ashley's squin. It was raw. Oh, oh, oh, oh. Patma and Gordon Ramsay are the most They are the most like a motive people who have had bad food in their lives like I remember Speaking of hell's kitchen anytime Gordon Ramsay has anything that's like slightly spicy He goes oh, and he like spits it. I said I got him died You know, he like a slow dramatic every single time and Pam is like that too

She bites in them. She's oh It was raw So we're still in Galveston I think are we next the next challenge? No, we're not a battle challenge in Houston and no, not. It's time having people meet him down with the dogs. I think you're on your own with the wrong notes. I was gonna say, I don't think that happened. I didn't think the calamari thing happened previously, but I enjoyed revisiting it.

So I don't know why. I like the idea that they just keep showing it every week. Oh! Oh! Previously on Top Chef, I was sitting with Addy Wong, and I was telling her about this squid I, and how I was like, ugh! Ugh!

I said, Ali, when you're on set for one of your major feature films, have you ever been served a squid that you just can't eat? Well, that happened to me too! And I said, ugh! Ugh! Previously on Top Chef, Nick, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, a cake at stake for the winner of Top Chef Gales breakfast and then they just show an ice cream cone with like 30 skips on it. Oh God I would love that right now. So we they're all heading to Tucson for the finale. It's a UNESCO World

Guestrodamy City of Guestrodamy, and Jimmy Chongas. And they're all talking in front of bad green screens about what the finale means to them. And Sarah's hair is really bad on the green screen because her hair is kind of like, it's like, not that it's curly, it's just like, is it wavy or, well, how do I describe her hair? But it's like big and voluminous. And so the green screen's all messed up. So it looks like she sort of just has like yellow light behind her, you know?

She did look kind of crazy at the green screen. It's like where are they green screen? Are they in like the closet? Because I've had to do green screen in the closet like for YouTube videos. Because there's no, like where do you put a green screen, you know, so I painted a closet while green. And then I would sit in front of it and I was like how do I light this

properly because of course the closet is as big as a shoe box you know yeah well certainly she literally looked like the urd tree from Elden Ring so it was a big yellow tree so anyway I don't know why I'm just like one of those ending sections where they're like, it's very serious, it's a competition. Dun dun dun dun. And they show them walking up to like, I don't know, the big eight hotel in Tucson or whatever. And they're each rolling a suitcase and they keep, they keep cutting to the other's rolled suitcase.

So it's like, wow, it's a suitcase off. I like it. I thought the last time Bravo went to Tucson was in the series premiere of Game of Crowns when those two women arrived at the Tucson air baggage claim wearing the identical jumpsuit and they screamed at each other, which really that was like a that was like definitely a the moment I was totally sold on that show. Tucson has seen it all. Guys. So, yeah. So, Demar is like, yeah, they're all rolling.

There's a lot of roller rags going through. And they're all kind of like talking about how much it means them and Evelyn's crying, talking about how she worked her ass off. And Sarah's like, I've experienced the highest of the highs and the lowest of the lows. Are you doing it? Yes, Padma. Thank you for highlighting that low. Sorry.

I wouldn't say something about the highs of the highs, but I don't remember those moments. Oh, was there some sort of pastrami sandwich that you gave us that we said be liked? I guess that works. She says, I had to go through the brutality of last chance, Kitch. Oh, for Christ's sake, go, go tell a therapist, go tell your therapist about it.

The K-Mam, the brutality of last chance, kitchen. But now she gets a fresh start with the win under my belt. Is that like a 12 pack of donuts? Because that's how girls starting it. Is that like a 12 pack of donuts because that's how girls starting it? Starting over as gal calls it putting another dollar in the vending machine And Buddha is wearing a Kyle Richards hat He's wearing one of those like weird trendy who like felt hats I don't know what you call them, but it's hilarious. It's hilarious that

I don't know what you call them, but it's hilarious. It's hilarious that Buddha's like hip, Buddha's hip clothes, you know, it's like, teenage girl in a mall, you know, who's just become too good for Claire's. It's like, Claire's what? Ew! It's like this billboard I saw last night for a new show on Amazon called the summer I became pretty. That's Buddha.

So then they all at the end of this roller bag off, they all, each one of them says, I am, I am, I am, I am loser. Not famous. The next top chef actually. No, loser, not famous loser. I like that version. Not a friend of Alie Warr. Is this just like one of those things where you put blanks and I fill in the words?

I am a friend of Bronson Pinchot. Maybe that's what you are. It's a padlib. Padlibs? No, it's like a padlib, but you can only put padma phrases in there. Welcome to Tucson. Congrats to Blink was lucky enough to type this. Did you mean to? Welcome to Tucson.

Congrats to whoever was. Did you mean to enough to type this? Mikhail Gorbachev. Friend. So anyway, they're outside with a cactus, you know, reading a card that, reading the Padma mail. Padma mail. Welcome to Tucson.

Congrats whoever was lucky enough to read this letter that I had typed out. And congratulations to the person who was lucky enough to type it out. You're welcome. Poor people. Go to a place with this other poor people. Maybe I'll see you there. Happy to go out this one on the gel mat.

Padmau. Don't forget your knives, idiots. Hahaha. So, that is typed out, but only her name is signed. I know. It's like, God, man. Come on, you could at least jot out the note. It's not like it's long.

I know when in eighth grade, our family received like a letter from Al Gore. And it was like typed out. And then it was like his signature, but it was like the like a print, it was like all printed, right? And I really thought it was a letter from Al Gore. And I was like, oh my god. Al Gore sent us a letter. That's what Padmails like. It's like the Al Gore of letters. So, so apparently they had like two, a two week break.

Sabuda is excited because he did a lot of studying of Native American and Mexican cuisine. Buddha is excited because he did a lot of studying of Native American and Mexican cuisine. So, you know, put that in your fancy Kyle Richards hat and smoke it. So then they go to a restaurant called El Charo and Pam's like, hello, hello, wow. You guys like that, I'm back to doing, hello, hello, hello, you do it twice.

Do you get twice, makes it much more nice like that? Hey, Ali, I just came up with a rhyme. Yeah, that's great. No problem in donating a hello poor people. It's easier than a dollar. Good morning. Congrats on being in the top four. Now that's please welcome local legend, local legend, and by local I mean very, very local. I've really never heard of it before. very, very local. I've really never heard of it before. Charo! Charo! I'm disappointed that you're not actually Charo. Actually, I'm going to correct myself because your name local legend is Carlata Flores. You may remember her from the time she ran over someone's toes on a rascal scooter.

Welcome Carlata. Carlata is the owner of a restaurant called Charo. And guess what? The restaurant's not in my show either. Why are you confusing me, Carlotta? Chefs, you are standing in the country's oldest Mexican restaurant with continuous operation by one family. Wow, Carlotta, you guys really don't diversify.

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You can listen ad-free on the Amazon Music or Wondria. You're standing in the country's oldest Mexican restaurant with one of the country's oldest Mexicans, Carlada. I hope you did research what you were away, because this is the last quickfire, and it's going to be tough, mostly Charo's not here. To have it, I really was excited to meet her. I even really practice doing the chick-a-chick-a-thing with this. I don't know. I really don't know much about her.

Anyway. You need to follow Charo on Instagram. Anybody who's not following Charo on Instagram, stop this podcast, go to Instagram and follow her ass. She's amazing. She's the best follow-up I've ever had in my life. I remember. I remember when she was on the surreal life with Dave Kulie. And I think they did something where they had to be in a band together. And she kept on saying, ah, the trumpet of Dave Kulie.

It was just such a formal way of saying Dave Kulie is trumpet. He's like, the trumpet of Dave Kuley, that's what I always think about, and that I once saw her on the street in San Diego, walking dogs. Really? Yeah. Okay, now I'm not even, I don't even know what video, I don't know what this video is gonna be.

I'm just gonna play a random video so you can hear it, because it's my favorite. Oh, that video. I hope you got a beautiful, successful week. We were so happy in America, I needed to. I was very, very lucky and kind of successful. I want to share with you my mega pie. She's giving a giant glass of wine as big as her.

Which is Gucci and Celebrate such a beautiful week. She drinks the gallon of wine. Oh, no. Wow. Gucci, Gucci, that's her thing. Gucci, Gucci, Gucci. I was trying to remember, I know it was a thing. Gucci, Gucci.

As she's sitting on her bar, like with short shorts and her legs crossed, doing a wine, wine glass joke. Love you, Chach, call me Charo! Well, Charo, if you're listening, guess what? Over the last 100 years, El Charo has created some truly iconic dishes. I mean, isn't it true that Chimichango was started here? Wow, congratulations. That was sarcasm.

Parlata. But Jimmy Changa, right, Karla, and she's like most certainly it was. And then we get a tip flashup on screen. It's like, the Jimmy Changa was invented when a burrito was accidentally dropped into a deep fire. You know, also how fried fried chicken was invented. I think everything fried was just accidentally dropped into a deep fire. You know, also how fried chicken was invented. I think everything fried was just accidentally dropped. Well, Carlotta, congratulations.

Your restaurant is home of places where things fall in other things and become legends. Well, someone dropped a burrito into a fire and didn't even get fired for it. That's called having your mother is the boss. Am I right, Carlotta? Ha- ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha I'm so glad you found a way to put a posis bin on your kitchen sloppiness So karnasica there might be a menu item that's even more popular than chimichanga No fans car a lot of that's right. I just took the legendary status away from the chimichanga and gave to something else and that thing It's a hover over the over heads and aaged ride, that was that girl? Are they transporting gale to our hotel?

It's a new one, heard of Karnaseka. Basically, it's a slaughtered animal that's hung out to dry, an accaged high above the restaurant. Mm. So do you flavor that with nepotism? Well, is that somebody who just, is that one of your sons who just left the meat out and forgot to put it in the fridge,

and now you call it jerky. So as it turns out, I'm looking at my nets from the producer here, it turns out we're still doing some sort of cross promotion for Jurassic World Dominion and we are actively transporting a Velociraptor into Carlotta's kitchen. Hence the cage above our heads. Incidentally, the Velociraptor has arrived and accidentally fallen into the fire, which is how we got Jimmy Donasor Chongos. Oops, I just dropped an napkin. Care to name that something, Carlotta?

Chefs, Carliseca, it translates into dried meat. So basically a gal. Is anyone familiar with Carliseca? Anyone? Is there any? Actually, let me rephrase. Is there anyone who's not familiar with it who wants to feel a little bit ashamed at tomorrow? Are you, you don't know about it tomorrow? Everyone look at tomorrow and point. Then laugh. Great. Is that your sad face? Good morning, smiling.

That must mean he's uncomfortable. Evelyn, let me guess, you've got experience. And she's like, I am, it's from my family. Oh, and Carlotta's like, that's because they do have like a cage that hangs above the restaurant, like on a crane or something. This full of this means that they get all the meat off the animal and then they kind of hang it and then it dries. And then I guess they take that dried meat and turn it into spices or something. I'm not sure how it's used.

I can't tell if it's like maybe sometimes it's ground or sometimes it's more like a jerky, but either way, it's like sun, it's like sun dried meat and it's probably absolutely delicious. So Padmas, so the lady is like Carlotta tell, like, let's go up the stairs and it's probably absolutely delicious. So the lady is like Carlotta tell, like, let's go up the stairs and let's check out the carne seca. So they start tasting it and and Padma is like, well, for this challenge, of course, Carlotta is providing the carne seca and it's up to you to make something amazing out of it. Okay? So better get shredding because your time starts now. Do you like how I said better get shredding? Because we're talking about meat. That could

be shredded. Now take one last look at this cage, which is full of 300 pounds of meat. Otherwise known as the cage of kale's future. Okay, go everybody, go. So they all start cooking. Evelyn is talking about how she was raised on Krony's second and she like she's hearing her mom saying like make sure there's one on the pan, make sure it's hot and everything, but she wants to step out of her comfort zone. She's like afraid that she's going to do something to save if she just sort of goes to like what she knows best. Right. And Sarah is telling us that jerky is very popular in Wisconsin. And she tells us, yeah, my boyfriend got mischannic. Oh, I wrote what was called. Why don't I do that?

But she's like, my boyfriend got his first year last year and we broke it all down and then we turned it into jerky. What a romantic story. I know. God, anybody else have a boner? God, that is hot. How do you put that into Tinder? Looking for someone who wants to make deer jerky with me. So Domars, looking for someone who wants to slaughter a deer, rip it, piece from piece,

and hang it in the cage above a restaurant. Call me. So DeMar is going to do, he's going to go for like a simple preparation. And then Buddha, he's decided he wants, he's, he's, he's wants to do an upside down to a stata thing. So he wants it to be, he wants it to look like a tassada that fell over onto a plate. It's just like basically an upside down tassada. I don't like, he's like, his like, whimsical touches are maybe starting to, we're starting to lose, lose sight of the,

the whatever. They're going, they're going into a place. Well, he takes, he takes that like literal inspiration wherever he is, right? Like, we've always talked about how, he takes the inspiration, but he gets so literal like in this one It's like what's a chimichanga fell into the fire. So he's like oh a fire something fell. I'm gonna use a fried to stata that fell Okay, you know whatever so he does that and then

What else 16 minutes and everybody's grinding and he's trying to start us and Sarah's basically making some kind of slop It looks like oatmeal or something Yeah, I'm just I'm just worried that this is too weird. It's just too weird. It's implemented But it's like yeah, it's I guess it is plenty because she said later. She explained that it is in fact, Polenta. So thank you. But I guess when I started stirring it, I was like, yeah. Well, because it's got so much in it. Polenta, you know, I'm just used to like kind of grits, you know, like the yellow, yellow ishteness. And this was like all brown and chunky.

At first I was just like, I don't want to eat that. I don't want to eat it, lady. Yeah. So it turned out really good. Yeah. So they wind up serving. So Sarah's first and she has her Krona Saka gravy over Palenta with soft egg, murals and blackberry salsa.

And Carlotta's like, oh, I love these murals. And Sarah's like, yeah, they're the best. The murals are the best that Pat was like, huh. Very interesting dish. Thank you. I guess I'll just be left out of the morale situation then that's fine. I don't have to love them also. And tomorrow did grilled avocado in a carne aseka vinaigrette and corn with shredded secca. And so Padmin's like, hmm, did you mean service avocado? We were like giving the test to one of Carlotta's sons where it accidentally ended up on a grill.

He's like, uh, I wanted to do it because it makes a crispy texture over the creamness. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. That's a lie. You messed up. Face it. It's okay, tomorrow. Is that your sad face? Is that your sad because you messed up face? Mmm, and then Buddha is like well, this is a two-starter that fell upside down because you told a story about things falling also Since we're in Tucson, I shaped it to look like two Sons because Tucson get it anyone. No Because too song get it anyone no The goat she shook is there's some gaming as food I was like oh, I hope that's a good thing It is you had on the other hand never mind

You know I was thinking creamy grit with all the gaming as I was thinking about making my to start a look like Connect 4 but I wasn't sure if that would be too funny for everyone I regret it Creamy Grits with Radeesh Wow Adeline Wow And she loved she loved Adeline. Well, that was a feast. And Karlata says, overall, it was interesting. And man, you really can't tell with Karlata. Because she says she likes things with her mouth, but then her face is like, you're not my family, and I will fire you. She looked miserable to be there.

She was like, could not wait for everyone to get out of her restaurant. She's like, they're going into my carna second that I keep in my cage. I told them it was off limit. Well, I think and they said they made a whole challenge about it because they were forced. I think it's because they were forced to be outside the whole time. Everywhere they went into song. Now, listen, I know that there's an outside and people go to it occasionally.

Arizona is not a place you really want to go outside too much. It's very hot. It's very hot there. So she was probably like, do you think I keep this beautiful skin by ever coming out here? No, get me out of the death cage area and back into air conditioning, you motherfuckers. She's like, there's a dead body in there. I need them to get out of the cage before they find it. It's like, there's a dead body in there. I need them to get out of the cage before they find it.

It's like a murder mystery. Well, almost everything was good, but a couple of dishes were, gales less successful than the ones they would next to. Couple of dishes were like, gales spin off shows. Last successful, you know? So Buddha, your Tastata, while I appreciated that you made it look like a cage that was hanging over a restaurant, was too greasy. And unfortunately, the avocado could have used some texture on it. So it turns out making

an avocado hot does not automatically give it texture. Go figure. I've had grilled avocados and I'll tell you, it was lovely but there you do not become crispy. It's just a chart that just becomes much here. So, and then I also like how Carlotta, when she gives her compliments, she also sounds like she's just like yelling at you. She's like, she's like, Sarah, your dish, I want to have my chef's taste that. Yeah, I want to taste that. Okay. And now I'm going to use grits every single time now ever since I had yours. I've let me have grits every time. It's like, I was like, are you praising them or you angry at them right now? Karabada, please tell us who won this last quick fire and will now win absolutely

nothing because it shows cheap and we really don't care about you. Sarah, congratulations, you win nothing. Sarah's like to leave Houston on an elimination challenge and then on an elimination challenge win and then to come to Tucson on a quickfire win feels like a win sandwich right now. That's what it feels like. All right, enough with that, okay. Leave the metaphor as up to me. Now get cooking with your elimination challenge, all right? Now a chef that lives right here in Tucson,

Charo! Tammit, it's Maria my son, where's Charo? Maria, who you may remember as crying all last season has finally found a tissue and can finally be presentable for our season of top chef. Hi, Maria. Oh, you know, I love my Maria. I'm so happy to see Maria. I was like, God, I've loved her for 10 years.

But she was only on that season. All the years kind of mushed together in my head. They really do. So Maria comes out and she looks wonderful. And she's like, well, I see you met the legend. Thank you. Thank you, Maria. That's a lovely way to say hi again.

The other one, she has the biggest shoes to fill here. Gail's not a legend. She does have very big feet, though. Am I right, Kalada? Gail's not quite a legend, but she is known. But not really a legend. I will say that if a chimichanga is legendary for falling into deep fire, I guess that makes Gail a legend because she has fallen into the bargain bin at Dress Barn.

Gail may not be a legend, but she certainly is an urban legend. Mariah, don't say your name three times in front of Amir. Nothing really happens, you just feel a lot of shame for saying it so many times. For the rest of the day you just walk around and people try and get popcorn thrown in your mouth. If you say care three times in front of Am mirror, a man shows up and throws at Charles and she what you're forehead. It's horrifying.

So chefs, you know he wasn't called candy man for nothing. Can't be gal. It's a terrifying story. If you say gal, three times, Gal appears in your mirror and tries to tell you about all the spin-off she had that were canceled. Oh, chefs, if you didn't know, Tucson is a part of the Suddenorian Desert, the most biodeverse desert on the planet. Go welcome, broke my ass, am I right, Carlotta? I love biodiversity. Yeah, it's like the Tulendi layers of deserts. It has plants, it also has bees. A thousand species of bees know that. So for this challenge, we're going to drop you off in the desert and you'll get stung.

Whoever survives wins. Whoever survives gets to listen to Maria cry about it later. So Carlotta's like and it's also home to over 300 species of cacti, wait a bear, bear the lead Padma. Sorry, I just thought bees were more interesting and cactus, that's okay. In addition, this desert is home to the only native pepper to the US, the chitapin. And Patin was like, ah, it sounds like that one hurts, am I right? So if you're fine on one sweet, one savory dish, that means you'll be making two. Look at my fingers. There's two of them because I just said two. One has the future cactus. The other has the future Chitapin. Wow. Oh, and one has to feature a cactus. The other has to feature a chiltapene. Wow. Oh, and one has to be sweet, and one has to be, you guessed it, savory!

Huh, there's a complicated one. And Sarah's like, wow, gosh, I hope there's something I can relate to this challenge from my personal life, like the slaughter of that deer. God, that made me feel so good. And Sarah went so she gets an extra 30 minutes, which I mean, come on. Everybody else gets 10 grand. I think this is such a rip off at the end. They don't win something. I know. Seriously. So Pam was like, all right, maybe I need the chefs in your hands, try not to cry too much. So they all head off to a place called Mission Garden and then meet a guy named Hizus and he's just starts talking to them about local agriculture and like they're trying to chill to peen and that prickly pears and and cactus stuff, you know, they're like eating

the local ingredients. And Demar looks like that poor guy who's just never had a chili before and someone's like, here, try this. You like it. You like it. And then it's the hottest chili, try this, you like it, you like it. And then it's the hottest chili in the garden, you know? So he eats it and he starts just looking his lips and his eyes are watering and Maria goes,

there's no crying at baseball, Bobby. He's like, it's like you. So. So they go look around at all the vegetables. There's figs and quints and tomatoes, corn squash and beets. The famous three sisters, corn squash and beets. Yeah, and then, yeah, so they try things. It looks cool, it looks fun.

So then, now Sarah says that, she's like, even though I don't love cactus, I want to know more about it. I want to know if I serve cactus ahi tuna, would it be happy? And she's like, you know, my parents have such a passion and it translated to me. I mean, I wouldn't keep bees if my dad didn't keep bees and I would know nothing about fungi or fermentation. So I'm gonna make savory chelps of pea and chimmy churri and cactus and a sweet dish. I was like, oh, I kind of love Sarah's life, you know.

Raising bees, killing deer, breaking them down into jerky. Just tasting random mushrooms on the road. Most of our parents are like, don't eat that mushroom. But her dad's like, you know what? I wonder if that mushroom's poisonous. Taste it, Sarah. Yeah, I don't understand people who like to forage. To me, foraging means gonna die.

Like I think that everything is poisonous. Don't wanna do it. It's like when I watch even on survivor, when people are looking for hidden immunietals and they're poking their hands into holes and trees, I'm like there's a snake in there, there's a spider in there, there's fire ants, whatever it is, there's just poison something,

I'm not touching anything. If I ever go on survivor, which I will never do, but if I ever did, I'm never gonna look for a hidden immunietal, I will tell you that right now. I will be the first person to die on survivor. I'm like, wow, the first person week enough to actually die during the competition. Ronnie, because he didn't get chocolate when you needed it. He's meeting his head into the ground so many times at these deaths.

Yeah, no one needs to see me hungry on that show. And I'm definitely not poking around in the wilderness. So that's why if I'm not going to, that's long story short, I'm not looking for Morales either by the morel in the wilderness. So that's why if I'm not gonna, that's long story short, I'm not looking for Morales either, but with Morale of the story. So, Demar, Demar is, I wouldn't even sit around that fire, but guys, it's 2022, can we get a gas fire?

I mean, it's just blowing in my face. I just got BBL. I'd be like, guys, what are we doing on this beach? Jeff Probe has a house around here somewhere. If we just block, we'll find it. Yeah, that's how to survive right there. I just break into Jeff Probe says. commercials. Here comes one right now.

Then we see Sarah planning and she's like, Oh, I'm going to use some Sesame seeds. I love sesame seeds Well, it's pat me those when I got sent home because I use too many sesame seeds, so Not holding on to anything. I'm not holding on to any any resentment Demar meanwhile has a revolutionary idea He announces that he wants to respect the ingredients because Haysie's in Maria were so excited about them I'm like wow, I would like to think that normally I don't respect the ingredients.

I'm just gonna drop them on the floor and just throw them in the garbage. But today, I'm gonna respect them. Normally I would kick the shit out of this cactus and call it fat, but for this challenge, I'm gonna be respectful. I'm gonna be respectful of that. So he's gonna do a barbecue sauce for a short rib with the chelter

bean. And then he's going to use a prickly pear. I don't know. I guess, I don't know who knows. So I just wrote down prickly pear. I don't know. I thought later on, I'm going to remember why I wrote that. I don't. I took notes. I, I, um, I went out to, uh, one of those places where they serve you, like, Cajun shrimp in the bag, you know? And I went and I had like a pound of shrimp

and a pound of crab and a beer and I came home and did notes for Top Chef, which was a mistake because I was basically in some weird posts, shrimp bag high slash falling asleep from food coma. So there were a lot of things that are very murky to me about this episode. It's also hard to watch so much food that looks delicious when you're not hungry. Like you need to watch top chef hungry. Yeah. Yeah. I want to have food. I went to the Greek festival this week here in

Austin. Yeah, go Greeks. Love y'all. Quick culture. Went there and it was really cool and I had just gone to lunch. We went to lunch before we went and it was the saddest thing ever because the way they made you do it was really cool. And I had just gone to lunch. We went to lunch before we went. And it was the saddest thing ever because the way they made you do it was you buy, you put money, when you walk in, they say, how much money do you want to spend? And then you put all that money onto their app and then they give you a QR code.

And then you have to take it to all the booths and then they scan the QR code and you get the food, which is so stupid. It's like 100 degrees out there, right? It's really hot. And I walked in and I was like, well, then I'm not going to spend any, I don't want any food. I'm full. But then as I walked around, I smelled it and I was like, that's amazing. I want all of these things. And I'm like, okay, sir, we'll just walk back up that hill to that station and pay them. They'll give you a QR code. I was like, you know what? Fuck off.

I'm not doing this. And then I left point is watch top chef hungry. No, I saw I saw the through line there. So, um, uh, anyway, so Damar is basically he's struggling. He's like, he learned how to, um, how to deal with cactus on YouTube. How to clean it. Uh, but he's not really shh. he clearly is like out of his comfort zone here. And then Evelyn is obviously in her comfort zone.

And then Buddha is, he's inspired by his dad. So he wants to make a Tom Yum soup using the chaltepean. And then he wants to make, and I was like, down. I was like, yes, that's a great idea. And then he's like, and then I wants to make, and I was like, down, I was like, yes, that's a great idea. And then he's like, and then I want to make a cake with prickly pear snow.

And I was like, hmm, for some reason it drives me nuts when chefs refer to things as snow and as soil. Like it just, I don't mind snow ice because I know that's like a cultural thing. That's like, I believe that's a Taiwanese cultural thing. Like snow ice, I don't mind, but when people do like a cultural thing. That's like, I believe that's a Taiwanese cultural thing. Like, snow ice, I don't mind. But when people do like a prickly pair of snow, to me, it's like, no, that's a different thing.

And that's, I don't know, trust me, nuts. I just don't want ice on top of my cake, you know? Ice cream, I want ice cream on top of my cake, but I don't want like ice on it. I don't want snow. Yes, my husband has pollution in it. So Sarah loves cats. She sings like an I love cactus song and then she spells ice cream all over the floor.

And she's like, good on, dammit. She's like, I have no, I no longer have interest in using this churner. If I did torch, I would burn the churner to the ground. Fuck the churner. I'm not doing it. Um, I'm sorry. It's not the churner's fault that you dropped your bowl on the floor. Okay, ma'am. Yes it is. It should be a more

convenient turner team Sarah. I'm team Sarah in the Sarah versus Turner fight. No, I'm, I'm not. And the reason why is because I don't think liquid nitrogen ice cream is good because it's like very gimmicky and what happens is the ice cream comes together very quickly and then it melts very quickly. It has like no

cold integrity like it's just as it's like cold for one second and then you start eating it and it's like liquid Two seconds later. Whereas if you do it with a churner, it's like cold through and through so I say no to liquid nitrogen ice cream. I say she should try harder Wow, yeah, so then Tom and Kristen Kish come in and they're checking you up on everybody and Demar is talking about his barbecue with, you know, braised red beans and then his prickly pear cake for dessert and Tom's like, well, you know,

if there's anything like your carrot cake, you're gonna win this whole thing because I have never had a cake like that carrot cake that's the best cake I've ever had can we roll a clip right now hold on I've got it right here on my phone because they're not rolling in so I'm just gonna show you me saying whoa this is the best cake I've ever had and you remember when I said that let me say it again that was the best carrot cake I've ever had in my entire life and And then here's me saying before, you know I have carrot cake every year for my birthday. This is the best carrot cake I've had.

And then, oh, that's bad about eating some of Ashley's calamari also. I had to keep that one. I had to keep that on the camera roll. I got an LV clip. All right, we'll put away this projector and let you guys get back to it. He's got a little peek-o projector to show his old clips of himself. We're just at the slideshow. Where you have to go, beep, to progress the slide. Yeah, so they basically, you know, they could go around and check on everybody, basically, and um, Kristen is telling Evelyn, who was she like so weird with? Let me see. Like Evelyn, she's

here with Buddha. She's like, Buddha, I remember what you made the first challenge. It really stood out, so I'm excited to eat it. And then she tells Evelyn, She's like, wow, I met you on day one Evelyn I remember and everyone's like, yeah, I guess I've changed a lot. She goes, well I'm excited to taste the evolution of Evelyn It's like Kristen work on this a little more. She listen I want she was just being passive-tasting my evolution should being passive-aggressive to the producers That was her way of saying, wow, thanks for waiting many weeks to have me back on.

When you have Brooke on, ever two seconds with her bad makeup. And here I've got a fully beat face because I was a former model by the way, very telegetic. And you don't even bring me back into the finals and I gotta eat this shit. Hmm, that I think that's what she was saying. I like that.

I like that very much, though, she was just coming in bitchy. Like, that's what she was saying. I like that. I like that version of it that she was just coming in bitchy. Like, wow, good to see you. I can't believe I get to come back 18,000 weeks later and in Tucson. God, thanks for doing this. Thanks, thanks. It's so good to get it before and after, but not admit, not admit it all.

It's okay, I didn't get it. It's kind of so great not to be an Italian finale, isn't it? Okay, well, do good. See you later, guys. I'll remember you from day one. So guess what? Um, the Mars beans are broken because he cooked them into pressure cooker. Okay, rules for top chef contestants. If you are in the finals, do not use pressure cookers or sous vide machines.

Don't even go close to them. They will destroy you. They will, they may have worked in the past for you. You may think you know how to use them. But if it's the finals of Top Chef, they will not work. They will send you home. So that is my PSA. Yeah.

And it sucks for a Dormartu because Dormart, you know, does such good things, but then his mistakes are like, oh, dude, really? You broke the beans. I mean, his thing was breaking the rice. Didn't he ever cook the, oh, no, that was that girl from Rando Brasca. But didn't he also do it? Yeah.

Uh, I don't remember if he broke beans or not, or broke rice. I'm not sure. He's been generally excellent all the time. Oh, no, his rice was too wet or something. See the one with wet rice. Oh, I feel like he had another thing. He had a rice issue a few weeks ago.

He's like, I don't want to take a whole whole thing. But nothing like that Nebraska girl. Every time Nebraska pops up and the opening guy crack up. No, she was the Dakota. She was the Dakota's North Dakota. Your state's well-scrapped. She was Nebraska. She was Dakota.

She was Dakota girl. She was North Dakota. Pretty sure. She was the girl who was like, but I want to make steak. She was like, yeah, she was Dakota. She's Dakota girl. She's North Dakota. Pretty sure she's like, I want to make steak. She was like, yeah, she was one Italian day. She's like, no. I know. She wanted to make pasta. Is that her thing? No, she was on for two episodes. The first episode, she's like, I'm from the North Dakota and we pretty much eat steak and potatoes. That's my comfort food because they made her do it like an Asian twist, and she conveniently left off the bok choy of her, that was her Asian touch.

And then for the next episode, where she could finally make her steak and potatoes, because it was a potato challenge, she decided to make a Brazilian dish. And like girl, what is going on with you? Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha Well, I want to welcome all of the judges, even the non-famous ones, our first dinner in Tucson and last supper before the finale. That's why Gail is dressed like a crucifixion. First of all, I would love to apologize to the people assembled here.

We did have to pretend we were shooting in Paris. And yes, there was a switcher with the airport and you're here in Tucson. But we're glad you made the trip anyway. Yeah, thanks for having me. Christian. It's all mad. But they tricked. They tricked Christy. They become me.

Just a reminder, um, Gale, uh, did just get released from the cage above Carlotta's restaurant. So if you smell anything odd, please don't hold it against her. I told that there was meat hanging in a cage and she walked right in. Idiot! So Sarah and Buddha are the first to serve. And Buddha does a mission garden Tom Yum and had my he's he's he's poured the liquid part of it on the he's got it in pourers and Radna goes um do I put like this is this how I pour now she's gonna start her head Pat

no he's like uh yes you just up pour it all in there. He's like, like this, like this, my baby, right? But I'm a little concerned. I see we have a soup bowl with no soup in it. And we do have a spoon and we have some a vessel filled with liquid that has an ability to be poured into something, but I'm just not sure. Do I just pour it on the bread basket or does it go in the soup bowl?

Ha, ha, ha, ha. No, or does it go in the soup, though? No, it's not moisturiser Sorry, I'm just a little dried out right now Just been in the sun an awful long time Galseka So beta says he wanted to bring the garden to the plate. And Tom's like, oh no, not Tom. Tom Yum. He's like, Tom Yum has aromatics.

And this has dumpling wrapped in tuna. And Padden is like, hmm. Have you used to the pin before? It's like, probably as many times as you you evidently used a soup vessel before. So then Sarah is serving lamb with chelipin, vinegarette, grape, salo. I have a typo here or salad. Oh salad. I just wrote salad and I wasn't sure.

I was like salad, salad, salad and I wasn't sure I was like salad salad and smoked yogurt Hmm, what is this crunch in your dish? Is it overcooked ahi tuna again? She's like oh that's um grapes well I've had some bread in there but also I use the grape seeds because to me that's a pleasant texture Wow that's interesting to gale fingernails with a pleasant texture. Wow, that's interesting. To Gail, fingernails were a pleasant texture. I doubt she cooks it into her dishes. Do you Gail? Never say never though. Mm.

And Tom, so they're all eating as quiet and time was home. This is the silence of really good food. Or of someone when you ask them, what do you want to do with your life? And they're your son, silence. So what do you think of Sarah's lamb, Kristen, who should be in Paris right now, Edoowell? Well, Kristen not in Paris, coming soon to Netflix.

And Kristen's like, well, I'm not really a lamb person, but I still loved it. I feel like chefs shouldn't say things. I know. Oh, when they're like, you know, I'm just not into lamb. Like you're a chef, okay? Get into it. Don't disrespect the lamb.

Okay, lamb is delicious. The lamb's. It's so strange how lamb is polarizing. I just, when I eat it, I just, I think lamb is tasty, but I don't, I don't feel like lamb has a strong enough flavor that you'd have like you to hate. Like my brother hates lamb. And there are many people who hate lamb. And I just don't feel like Lam has a strong enough flavor that you'd have like you to hate. My brother hates Lam.

And there are many people who hate Lam. And I just don't like, I understand when people don't like cilantro. And I understand when people don't like certain crazy, like in olives, like in olives, like I love olives. But I know it's an aggressive, briny flavor, you know? But Lam has some major stuff like Lam. Yeah, stop building lambs.

So they're talking about how elegant it is, and her shoes are so funny, he's like so into it. He's like, I could tell she was a guardmer because she's spotted the perfect grid. And she got them, and she made it beautiful. It's like, yes, he's so, it's like he's, that's a man with passion for his work. You don't get a lot of visitors in the mission garden, do you?

Well, but she's just so amazing that she could see the grapes and know which were the best grapes. But in fact, the time being gelled into the M&M store. My ragu. She can spot the difference between a camel M&M and a peanut M&M just by looking at them. Isn't that amazing for her? What about Buddhist Tom Yum? They loved it. They loved the layering. My mouth, my tongue, is so warm, glowy and... ...throbbing just a little bit. Okay, okay, problem. Hold on, let me call my dear friend Rob Grankowski.

Hi Rob, guess what? Oh, am I interrupting football times? Oh, that's funny, because I did powder puff. Anyway, my tongue is throbbing. Tarty later. Bye My mouth my tongue is so warm Glowy and Throbbing just

Makes me want to put on the night and make a cold cucumber soup Okay, so in the kitchen D'mar's thought basically and he he's rushing to get everything done. As barbecue sauce, he's still waiting for that to caramelize. And they serve. And Padma's like, wow, see a big smile on Evelyn. Hey Evelyn, what's got you done, Robbie? And Evelyn has made a Napala riano with shrimp puree.

And Demar has made pork shoulder glaze in chiltapine barbecue sauce with peak leaves with chiltapine. And so they're eating it and Padma's like, What's this sweetness? Is this prickly pear? Is that what it is? Not bad, my dear tongue is still just dropping, huh? Really is. What is this? And he's like, yes, it's prickly pear and the barbecue is also there and I also used it kind of a spice onto.

Okay, thank you both. I'm just fed him in the kitchen tomorrow, I can't stand in the kitchen tomorrow, I can't. So Maria's like, my first bite was like, like I like it, it's like my high. You want to cry about it? You're gonna cry? Don't do the flavors with your tears. And my Kristen says it was very creative, but also familiar somehow.

Basically, they all love it. Familiar, that's not like your face to these, these chats, because they've only seen you twice this entire season. I'll tell you where you're not going to be familiar after tonight. Paris, LOL. Oh. Oh.

Oh. Oh. Look, I read my, my soda straws in the shape of the Eiffel Tower. Does that make you feel better, Kristen? Oh. Oh. I've never had a big Eno like this, but I could have used a little more chiltipine here. Hold on, let me, let me check my tongue. No, not throbbing, that's sad.

My tongue gives this two-added food, not throbbing. Sometimes, like, you know, I think My tongue gives this to you at a foot not threatening Sometimes like you know, I think tomorrow's is beautifully cooked, but Not enough children favor. I mean It's like getting a carrot cake and he find out It's made by your son. He's a mixologist. I don't even know a thing. How to make carrot cake despite his father trying to teach him every single week Sad, very sad And you know, tomorrow, the Mars was pretty mild. It was pretty mild.

And Jesus is like, you know, it's nice to see a good southern dish, but then you realize there's prickly pear. And Gail's like, well, the sweetness and the sauce is fantastic. But he really didn't think about the sweetness of the sauce and how the other ingredients were going to go together. Is that what you having to get pants and a shirt on the same day, am I right, Gale? Gale, is that why you made Harry Potter glasses out of the barbecue sauce, Renderize?

Gale, how about you the only one with the barbecue sauce, Mestash? Anybody? Oh, my apologies. Apparently it's a full beard of barbecue sauce. I don't know how you did that, but you did it. Cut it works. So then the sweets are next. And Sarah's like, oh my God,

we just, looks like it was made in a museum. This ice cream is gonna be the death of me. And of course, his food, I mean, his food is all gorgeous, you know. So they serve it. And Sarah is... The desserts, listen, I just, I hate to be a Christian here, but I'm not a chef. I'm allowed to say this.

I can't with all this crazy dessert. I need some ice cream and something chewy inside of it. Please, that's all. Anything else is just turns me off, I can't. Yeah, so Sarah has made a cactus tart with suarro, flour ice cream and cactus caramel. And Buddha's made cactus with cream. It's a cactus cake, cactus seed ice cream,

and prickly pear snow. So Tom's like, no, I feel like service dish is a sticky sweet bowl of goodness. And Patrick, I feel like a child. But maybe that's because I just look so youthful. Well, it's unfortunate that it melted. And yeah, because you're fucking eating outside and Tucson, what the hell is it supposed to do? You know, you're expecting her to make some super ice cream. So then they talk about boot as and there's one guy there who's just obsessed with the colors of everything. He's like the colors, the pink, the orange. It was the color of Tucson. And that's what I loved about it. And then another dish, he's like the colors of this dish,

the red, the green, the amber I'm in another dish. He's like, the colors of this dish, the red, the green, the amber, Tucson in color form. I loved it. It's like, is this the color chef? Is that his thing? It's like the guy who won the design show on here. That's like painting rooms, different colors. He's like, color, that's what I do.

I paint world's colors. And now I host a show where people win lottery tickets and then they can buy a dream home. And I tell them to spend all their lottery winnings on the home that they won't be able to afford because of taxes. Go buy it. Yes.

The only show that people are rich until I get ahold of them and they leave in debt. He's like the asses to million. Oh my God, you have 1.5. You should buy it and remodel that. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha model. That's the most predatory show on A.C. TV that damn lottery dream home show. So, it's so Kristen. Uh, she's like, Kristen thinks Buddha's fruit is a superstar. And then, um, Jesus was, I'm not Jesus, Jesus, I'm sorry. Uh, he was not getting a whole lot of prickly

pair of flavor. And then Tom is like, no, not me in the issue with this ice cream is just too cold. And I just really dulled the flavor of the ice cream. You know, just wait, wait, wait, wait too cold. I know, that might explain why Gail put it on the ground and started making snow angels out of it. Oh, and Buddha is eating it in the kitchen. He just sucks up at the camera. He's like,

I don't even care if they like it. Oh, I love that. He keeps eating. His mouth is full of the ice cream. He's just like, he's so cute. He's like a little like a little Buddha, like a little guy. So Evelyn's like, oh my god, I can't believe it's just boiling down to two ingredients. I grew up eating. I mean, oh my god, this is standing between me and the finale. And let's see, basically, you know, stew room, whatever. So then we go to the judges to talk about who is winning and who is losing. Yes. So by the way, Demar made it prickly pear cake glaze with prickly pear and Swarov root and Evelyn made my sour. Oh my gosh, so I skipped Demar.

How rude. And Evelyn made a sour orange and sweet, sweet lime curd with Swarov pod and meringue and prickly pear. Cranny that. Guys, I'm so sorry. I did not do that on purpose. I was looking at my window because I saw a squirrel running on a fence.

And Maria goes, when it's all done, Maria, Maria's like, you know what? Evelyn did something I have been doing my whole career as a Mexican chef. Crying. No. I'll just, no, she was elevating it. Oh, well anyway, all the desserts today were pretty damn good. Eveline finally gave me that beautiful punch of color I was waiting for someone to give me. I just said, God, I hope tonight I get a punch of color, dinner! And I didn't get it, but then Eveline came around. She gave me the green, the orange, the purple of Tucson. The color guys at the end, excuse me.

I'm gonna take everything I just said. Oh and Gail also, she describes talking about one of their cake. I think tomorrow she goes, you know, I think the actual cake has a beautiful subtle flavor. I wasn't familiar with. And then I realized I was tasting the cactus.

No shit Sherlock, it's a cactus cake. What else did you think you were tasting? I'm so sorry people of Tucson. I'm sorry Gail insists on judging with the twizzler in your mouth at the same time she's eating the food. Oh Chris and just pretend she's wearing a beret. That's sort of like Paris. Tom's like whoa that food was just so great. I feel like a prickly pair. I'm good one, Tom. So in the stew room, Sarah's like, God, there have been just so many tragedies. I've just gone through so many tragedies today. And Evelyn says, what's done

is done. That's it. So at the judges table, Tom's like, wow, you guys knocked it out of the park. Who's a perfect game, you know, uh, home run. I played powder path. I'm not familiar with these terms, Tom. Can you please reframe it for powder paths? Everland, you showed us an elevated, elegant version of a reyano that was beautifully, beautifully executed. I'm gonna leave out the part where I said, God, I really can't abuse more chilthapene! My tongue throbbed so hard for your dish.

Tom is like, Yeah, you completely reimagined it, and you honored the ingredients really well, and, particularly, they together a really really tasty dish Maybe not the same level as the Mars Caracane, but it was good. It was good And Gail said you know it felt like you but it also felt like you were pushing to be more than you Which is really all we can do good luck with that Gail So talk to me about your dessert Eve Evelyn. And she's like, well, you know,

I just wanted to go subtle, but I am familiar with the prickly pear. But you know what you deserve, dude? It exalted the prickly pear. And it's exalted. Gales, like, textually, it was fantastic to eat. And Evelyn goes, yeah, thanks. I mean, it just, it sort of just came to me in the middle of the night. Oh yeah, like Gail, knocking on the window of beard poppies, am I right? Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Oh, and Kristen's like, I hate Lam,

but Sarah, your Lam was by far my favorite thing of the day. And Sarah's like, no, I mean, wow, thank you. I've never said that to anybody before that their lamb was my favorite. Lamb is discussed. Okay, Christian, we're not honoring the ingredients. And I don't know if you've noticed, but we're doing an avatar,

an avatar version of judging today. Okay, we're only honoring ingredients. Thank you for your service, Chiltopene. You know, it's so funny that you've never said, you've enjoyed lamb before. You know, it's so funny that you've never said you've enjoyed Lamb before. You know what's something I've never said? Please welcome for the fifth time this season, Chris and Kish.

You know something else, Chris and his never said before? Bonjour. I've arrived in Paris. Greetings from Paris All right, let's talk about dessert this here. It's like oh my god It just it came me held today. I had ice cream all over me. Wow Did you look at yourself in the mirror and say I should host top chef family? and say, I should host Top Chef Family. Ha know, running around a lot and trying to do that. And Kristen loved his sauces.

And Gail says it was very smart, but, you know, it thinks we're too separate and didn't blend together well. And you know, the prickly it was a great vehicle to showcase the Chilterpean, but the texture being so fine didn't showcase the vehicle itself. This is when Pam must have vehicle 35 times before the end of the episode by the way. I can't with her, she's ridiculous. It didn't showcase the vehicle, you know what I did, I brought it up to your dish and I waved my ankle underneath it. It didn't even open the truck

It kind of vehicle showcases this children being take me the whole foods didn't do anything Unfortunately, it turns out that peak leaves does not fit for passengers the way the BMW X57 to Lendu layers edition does So the airs edition does. So, I'm just so you love the dessert and Gail's like, oh yeah, the textures of, I don't know what I wrote here, at Christmas, of the Figgy Bud. Oh wow, that was so smart. So I'm like, well, you baked. And it's great to see that kind of confidence on someone to bake. I mean, you baked. You baked.

Now, was it the best care cake I've ever had in my life? Unfortunately, that's not going into my peak up projector. But it was good. It was good. It was good. Buddha! Let's talk about your food. And Gael goes, you use that cheltspian in the most striking way.

Every bite had a punch of heat and so much flavor. Oh, yeah. you should have seen Gail she was sweating all over the tablecloth. I mean it was the thing nearly disintegrated on her lap. And Kristen's like oh my god those dumplings like I want to learn how to make those those were amazing. Yeah you could tell that this was done by the hand of a very technically savvy chef. But I wanted more intensity. I felt like, you know what it really needed? A steering wheel and maybe four wheels in addition to that.

I was lacking the vehicle nature of it. I mean, didn't have an airbag? No, it did not. Therefore, you're going home. We have not decided that, Padma. I know, I just felt like saying that they can cut it out and editing, but you can stop crying, all right? Chefs, we have a hugely important decision to make. Who gets a ticket to Paris? Not you, Chris, and I guess we just made the decision. We also have to decide what's going to happen to you guys. So I think Greenspoil have five minutes to not give me food poisoning.

Yeah, and so then we go to the judges deliberating and Tom's like, well, you know, they clued took inspiration from Maria and Hesys and they took it to heart. What another idea? Getting inspiration from someone and following through. I never, unfortunately got to experience that with my son, who's a mixologist,

but I'm sure maybe he will have a son, who's a mixologist too, and they can enjoy living in their one bedroom apartment together Well, the other had my favorite dish, but his dessert needed my flavor Mom, Evelyn's no polyriano was amazing. Oh, yeah, I could eat that over and over and over and over and over and over again And then I would eat it again. I'd just keep eating it and then when the day was done I'd say whoa Michael Keaton teach me how to have groundhogs day just so I could have that over and over again Huh, hopefully anti-McDowell will come. You know she loves my restaurant speaking of How dare you mention anti-McDowell you know we have a fierce rivalry dating back to 1997 I mentioned Andeem McDowell, you know we have the fierce rivalry dating back to 1997. So let's see here. Tom thought that Sarah's was on par with any three star Michelin restaurant.

And he's saying that he's going nuts over Sarah's food. He's like, yeah, I mean it's like a three star Michelin restaurant. It is up there with all the best of them. This is one of the best things. All right, and Pam is just staring at him like, you, Sarah, with the hair that doesn't even work on a green screen. The girl I call you, uh, uh, uh, uh,

but Tom does always go too hard for the people he brings back from last year. Oh, that's true. Let's share. Let's give that. He always goes really hard. He's like, what? You see, I did the right thing by keeping Sarah, right? Right? Right? Everybody?

Right? Right? No, she was good, right? No, stop. Tom, stop it. Put your fedora back on. So Gail's like, well, I keep going back to Sarah's. It was herbaceous and will fleeward.

And might I say again, herbaceous, okay gal, we get it. I mean, I personally can find things I would improve on Sarah's dessert. Starting with Sarah, can we get a less plain person to make dessert for us? I mean, really, who wants that hair on the front of an ice cream car? Isn't it my ride?

Hello, Ben and Jerry's called. They want their hairstyle back. Um well, Demar's pork dish really did not rise to the challenge. And I didn't think Demar, he just didn't go as far as he could have in the exploration of the Chil-Tapine. And that was really what this challenge was about! Just mining. She was. She got really upset for the chill to be.

I think she was like still upset that Tom went so hard for Sarah. She was like really rattled by that. And Gale goes, I mean, you could not taste it in the barbecue sauce or the peaklies. Well, Gale, to be fair, you had just guzzled four Ann W. Root beers right before hands. Your palate may have been a little askew. Well, I loved his cake and personally, I think Evelyn's dessert was the best. And the stewardroom tomorrow saying, wow, looking around, I can tell you that I almost doubled my friend group. And they all laugh and be like, well I quadrupled mine They're like, haha you just yes ended in a way that we didn't appreciate

They're like it was like a sad and Yeah, we've the depression man So now they go back in tonight's decision was a really difficult one, but also hilarious, because someone's dreams will be dashed. Mm-hmm. There's chefs, I have a mom lot. You know, sometimes things together come together. Sometimes they don't come together. When they come together, you've got a Broadway show. When they don't come together, you've got a Christmas dinner. A vodka mixed with different flavored sodas

and rosemary twigs. So you know, there's that. The dish is losing its might just didn't come together. So, Bobmo. Yeah, yeah, Bobmo. Chefs, just want to mention Evelyn, you were the winner and also, you know, when you're a kid, you look up at the moon and you think, someday I can fly, I could be Nashnott and you get into a spaceship and you say if I were in the spaceship what kind of cactus dish would I want? And that's what we explored tonight. Cactus in space.

You can check the good. Take the bad. Take both. And there you have cactus. Cactus of life. And who's been off? Starring another glorious featuring or Mrs. Garrett. So, you know, good luck with that. Vogue mode.

Featuring Joe from the Facts of Life, as well as Kevin, the older brother from Mr. Belvedere. Pog mode. Tom, just doing up-fronts for some terrible, terrible sitcom. My Christians like, well, there were two exceptional Dichays, with Tholendruil and Jambel's Juvidil's. You're not in Paris, Christian, give it up. Tomorrow, I'm so sorry, please pack your knives and leave. It's terrible that you will not be here

and you'll sound any longer. Just kidding, enjoy the ride back home to nowhere. Enjoy the Greyhound, please pack your broken beans and go. And so tomorrow is like, you know, I really sexed to be eliminated, you know, I mean, the winning was a serious possibility, but errors remain. So I mean, I've had hardships, I've had challenges, and those of course made it grow. And now Top Chef is another one of those things. Top Chef is a challenge to an hardship. Come on. You did great, DeMari. You should be

proud of yourself. Mara is wonderful. He just had a mess up. I messed up in the end there. But oh well. I thought for sure he was going to be in the finale. Mike S would have been Sarah would have gone today. Yeah. And then the finale would have been between God.

It's hard to say. Well, I guess the finale is three people, right? Yeah. I mean, I definitely was expecting Buddha, Evelyn. Although I was wondering if Evelyn was gonna maybe like fall apart the last second, but I was gonna say, I feel like Evelyn's gonna win. I feel like Buddha is really, really strong, but he's gonna choke in the finale in a weird way. And I don't know what Sarah's gonna do, but I think that Sarah will just be...

Sarah will do something perfectly fine and good, but I don't think she's gonna win the whole thing. I think she's gonna freak herself out and make a stupid mistake on something because she's freaking herself out. But if Evelyn wins, that's the first time I think that I'll have picked the winner from our preview of the series. Really? Yeah, I don't think I've ever done it before. Wow, that's awesome.

It's amazing. I will be so excited. Evelyn, if you lose your dad to me, so good luck. Wow. Well, we'll find out in just a few days. In the meantime, we sure will. Everyone, thank you so much for listening. We appreciate you all tuning in

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