Watch What Crappens - Top Chef: Olympic Squeams

Episode Date: May 25, 2020

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Oh, yo, barons. It's me, Ronnie. That's been over there. How are you doing, baby? Hi, great. How are you? What's going on with you? For you.

Where are you? I'm not much is going on with me. Just the same old, same just living laughing and loving. Um, I'm trying to work on a new script for my real house where I was a kitchen island, because I'm a little delinquent on it. So, um, hopefully I can get a new one done and start animating and getting it up on YouTube or IGTV soon. Yeah, right on.

Get her done, girl. I got some time coming some time off right now from Memorial Day. Yeah. Yes, seriously. Everyone, thank you so much for being here. This week is a little different because we're going to air what we're going to take an extra day off this week and have a sliddy island coming out tomorrow from our live show in Austin. So that's where we are. Don't worry. We'll be back Wednesday with a full recap of Real Housewives of Atlanta and carry on. Hope everybody's having a great holiday. I know we sure are.

It's in the future from where we are right now, but I know we're just loving it. Uh, yeah. Can I tell you something, Ronnie? I have, God, I've eaten so much food already this weekend in the future. I really have. Um, downing all those potato chips and potato salad. I can feel the future love handles. Buttercom. Before we dive into this top chef recap, we are going to do some small business shout-outs.

I have one actually that comes from right within this very household. I want to give a shout out to actually some of that Dom is working on. Dom is my boyfriend and he is part of something called the Broadway babysitter's playhouse, which is this really cool thing where essentially Broadway performers kind of quote unquote, baby sit your kids on Zoom for about half an hour and they do, like they teach the kids dances. I think maybe they sing and stuff like that. But basically, these are like big time Broadway peeps

that your kids can learn from. People from Hamilton, Titus Burgess has done it, Dom is doing it. If you go to their website, Broadwaybabycittors.com and if especially if you go to slash playhouse, you can see all the instructors. I mean, it's like these are like major, major Broadway people. So it's just like a great way. If you just want 30 minutes of peace and quiet in your household, where you're not having to homeschool your kids or whatever, just go check this

out. It's a really, really cool service. That's rad. And also, we're going to talk about Megan's business today. Megan is an artist. She owns a studio called Local Color, and it's on the outer banks of North Carolina, or maybe it's called Local Color on the Outer Banks. I don't know.

But she sells her work there, and she also teaches painting parties, and she hasn't had a party in six weeks, but she is teaching classes for free on YouTube. And she even taught a tiger painting class as that bitch, Carol Bassin. There's a place on her website at localcolorbox.com. You can make a donation if you want to, but you can just take these classes and enjoy them. You guys might recognize her work. She did a painting of Sonia Tinsley and the pool that went a little viral over here on the L Internet. So she's pretty badass. You can get a print of that painting. She is going to be added to her Etsy. So here's where you can find her. Okay, there are a few places

There's YouTube Etsy. Well, I guess a couple places YouTube and Etsy her YouTube and Facebook are called local color OBX local color OBX Okay, and then her Etsy and Instagram are all one word local color box So at local color box on Etsy and Instagram go check out her work take a painting class do it with your friends. Really great stuff from Megan. So thanks for that. Yeah support you know you know artists I mean everyone has been hit really hard and artists also have been you know it's artists already have a sort of a hard time anyway and so don't forget about the artists as as

we're trying to support people and by the way conveniently enough if you happen to hear a bunch of Clickity clacketing in the background on my audio. That's because Dom is currently doing the Broadway babysitters Playhouse in the other room and he's teaching the kids a spoon dance. So if you hear a lot of spoon sounds. Oh, I don't Yeah, my great auntie Georgia. He's to teach us spoon sounds. Oh, I know how to do that. There it is. Yeah, it's like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, it's actually the song. My great auntie, Georgia, used to teach us spoon dancing. Oh, really? Yeah. Georgia?

Yeah. I remember in elementary school, I think we learned spoon dancing, like, from in music class. And then we also, there was like a period of time when we, like, it was like the Appalachian music moment in elementary school music. And we learned all these songs that had to do with like Shen and Doha, and we learned some sort of like dance

that I still remember this day where you slap your thigh and then your hand and you do it really fast. Do that. Yeah, to this day. To this day. I'd learned that for Will Rogers Follies, huh? Yes, I saw that. I saw that just

about three weeks ago, Tom was watching that and they did that move and they had that whole scene with the legs and you did that bit. Yeah, and it's, I wasn't understanding, okay, I wasn't like a man. But yeah, I had to learn that stuff and conveniently enough, it's named our favorite son, and this is coming out on the holiday. So there you go. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go.

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Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. June called Taste the Nation with Padma Laksmi. I think Ronnie, I don't know, like I definitely I'm gonna check it out because I just love me some Padma, but who knows, maybe there'll

be some more Padma content for us to check out on a bonus episode. I said Taste America, don't eat it. Oh look, there's Gail trying to bite an amtrak. Gail just ate the globe everybody. The rest of us taste American. You've won bust down. Gail just ate your fleet. So here we are, nearing the end of top chef this episode 10. And I didn't really, I thought, God, how are there still so many people? But there's really not. I mean, there's six left. Yeah, yeah. And while someone's gonna come back from last chance, Kitchen, and then there's gonna be, you know, the finale will probably have three people.

So it looks like a lot, but there's not too much left. And we know that the end of days is coming because the episode opens up with a shirtless Malarkey in the morning, which is. God. With those little zits you get from waxing your chest. I love that he got a fresh chest wax to come on top chef. So fucking malarkey. So malarkey.

So Melissa's like in a little bit of a funk. She doesn't feel so great because she was really thrown off by restaurant wars and then she was in the bottom when she made that terrible, terrible breakfast romaine salad with grapefruit. So she's just sort of in an emotional rut right now. Well, I love her, but guess what? You put everybody else in an emotional rut by trying to make them eat romaine and fucking grapefruit at brunch. Okay? And that's what you do. That's what you did. But yeah, I really like her. It's so funny when really talented people are like, oh my god,

I'm in a bad mood because I lost a couple of times. How do you think everyone else feels on this show being with you? Yeah, literally every episode, she makes something spectacular. So then we see Stephanie, and she's doing exactly what you imagined Stephanie does in the morning, lie on the floor like a starfish. I was like, oh, that seems about right. But then it turns out she's actually in a great mood because she woke up feeling great. But then she said because she also, she had a dream about her brother

and we find that that her brother died about 18 months ago. So it was really sad. Yeah, but she was doing my favorite yoga pose, the laying down part. I mean, that is the best part of that class. The corpse. I know that's the best.

The very end. So it was really sad. She talks about her brother with Gregory and cries and stuff. And I thought, uh-oh, I guess it's her time to go. Me too. I was like, she's done. She's done. Well, for two reasons.

We learned about something tragic in her life. And second of all, she said, but I woke up in a great mood today. I was like, OK, you're done. You're done. Yeah, you're done. Anybody have a cricket that she could use over here to call some family?

Anybody? Yeah. Anyone? Well, welcome. I'm with an icon of the pastry world. Oh, God, Gail's eating her arm now. Gail, you're not in this scene. Gail, we said it was an icon, not a donut.

Get out of here. Anyway, this woman, she's done the Oscars. She's made desserts for the Oscars the Grammys and the Emmys Oh, you're missing is a Tony for the E got but I guess you couldn't do that suppose it icon So please welcome James beard award winner Sherry. I don't have an E got yard And be good Sherry tell us how does it feel to be so well established but not with an egot and sharing part of the name of the yardhouse. I'll pull people restaurant. I'm sorry did I make you feel like a loser? Is that why you're in a gale pattern today? Well nice try with that right yellow dress. I always like when

people like to look like egg yolks there. I said it. How's that feel? You feel burnt? Sherry Yard. Well, this is a dessert challenge, so it should be a piece of cake. We've seen what you could do with savory food. Now let's see what you could do with an egot loser. Oh god. Anyway, with this challenge it's gonna be really hard, so we don't want to hear a peep out of you. And yes, that was a reference to Sherry's dress. And Sherry's like,

Well, the shafts, there's no difference between a master chef and a master pastry chef. And it cuts to everybody's face like, yeah, right loser. And it goes, yeah, right pastry chef. And it cuts to everybody's face like yeah right loser. Yeah right pastry lady. That's funny because I always say there's no difference between an Egot winner and someone who's amazing at what they do. There's no difference between an Egot winner and a homeless person in my right loser. You know there's not a lot of a difference between someone who doesn't have an e-god and someone who's gale simmins So

The winner will have a huge advantage. It doesn't involve money. Sorry blame the people who make sharpies or whatever those things are at the beginning of this episode that I brag about For this challenge you'll have access to a basic pantry or, as I like to call it, a gal pantry. So they have to guess ingredients. This is a guessing ingredient challenge. Yeah. They have to wear a blindfold.

And basically they have five minutes to taste, 20 ingredients. And whatever they can guess, they can use in their quick fire challenge. And whoever guesses the most gets the most time, whoever guesses the least, as he gets stuck with 30 minutes, things like that. It's actually a really cool setup. So the blindfolded, it's gonna be all that fun stuff. So the first one up, well, it's sort of like they go very quickly

because it's like a montage. But first up is Brian Valtaggio. And he's doing well, but he gets, he starts getting things wrong. And at one point, at one point, they give him a Pajudo and he goes, 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 it. And he's like, well, I have poor vision, but that heightens my other senses. What? And having glasses does not heighten your,

I mean, you have glasses. He's acting like he's playing the piano with his feet. You know? He also is so nice because everyone is like, time, next, Towergon, next, egg, next, rice, next, but Gregory's like, I think it's Pajudo I think that's proshoot. Oh next please. Okay Tower got next please. Yeah, and then it gets to Milwaukee who of course is like, um, I was a co-host of a TV show called the taste My taste buds should be epic and then he misses fucking everything

I mean I tell I was at home, you know with like a sausage like on the couch in her in her silk bathroom like idiot. He's like Arborio Rice. It was chocolate. You idiot. And Karen sucks it too. And then Stephanie does. We have to talk about Karen because Karen also gets she's also give her the prosciutto and she's I don't know I don't know and Pamela says something stupid person Karen goes Uba and Pamela makes a space like are you serious? You're on a show called tops you have all stars And you're saying you buff a prosciutto. I mean this idiot am I right you got loser? I curled my hair for this So stuff crushes it, she gets everything.

And Padma's like, wow, you did it with time still to go, Stephanie. Impressive! In first place with 15 correct answers, I don't believe it either. Stephanie! Wow, I guess when you're really sad like Stephanie, you spend a lot of time in your kitchen just tasting things for fun right am I right Stephanie? Wow if just lying on the floor doing nothing made you intelligent care would be the dean of a college by now am I right non-Egot Lady?

It's hard to believe a woman who came up with an amazing concept like chili starters could also taste all these different ingredients. What a world we live in. Todd, for a second, our Greg and Melissa. And Padma's like, well, Melissa, unfortunately, you didn't get through all of your ingredients. So you only get 45 minutes. Unfortunately, Melissa, we're still angry about that romance. How do you serve us? Unfortunately, our egot loser here wasn't able to try it and understand just how terrible that moment was for this entire franchise. So you only get 45 minutes now.

I'm out leaves Karen and Malarkey in last place, which is hilarious at Malarkey. Malarkey's such a snot. Need some last words. I know. You get a mere 30 minutes. Yeah. So Karen, no, Karen really annoyed me.

I really love Karen, but she really annoyed me this episode because I feel like she just, okay, she's like, well, I have a 30 minute, so I'm gonna make a panakata. Karen, what are you thinking? You don't have a 30 minute, like literally at that point, make a fucking cookie, okay? Make an amazing, amazing cookie. A panakata that's never gonna set up,

and she's acting like there's just nothing you can make in 30 minutes. Make a brownie, make an amazing, amazing cookie. A panicata that's never gonna set up, and she's acting like there's nothing you can make in 30 minutes, make a brownie, make a cookie. It really bothered me. Yeah, well, it's so top chef, and sometimes they pull it out. Like, the example I always bring up is, I'm gonna make Miyoki in five minutes. Like, uh, that's like literally impossible, so sorry.

I just feel like all season long, we've just watched these chefs make shit that never sets up because they're like, well, I'm gonna make some ice cream. I started at five minutes ago. I'm just hoping it sets up. Like, you know, I feel like the first rule of, of like cooking shows is that nothing sets up.

Nothing. Well, of course, yeah, it bothers me that they only get 30 minutes to do this shit too, because I want to see them do really good stuff. But then, of course, some of them pull out amazing stuff, you know. So, Karen's screwed. We already see the Karen's totally screwed. And Malarke's like, what am I going to do with all the extra time I have? That's right. I don't have time. Get in the house.

So he's going to, like, he has a little cake recipe and he's going to throw it into the wood fire oven to make a wood fire cake. And then he's going to go make ice cream. He's like, I don't even know why I keep making ice cream. I just keep on making it. And then we see a flashback of the Kelly Clarkson challenge where Padma goes, did you mean to have your ice cream come out curd like? I'm Melissa's all satch like this is my chance to fix my track record She's like traumatized so she's gonna make an olive oil pistachio cake with coconut flour better sugar

I mean wow. Oh, no, no sorry. Sorry. Let us Great food so Voltage is like I Enjoy the pastry kitchen. I make pastries in my own restaurant. I definitely have a chance at this one. Yeah, he's gonna make a crumble, which I actually, gosh, I really hate fancy desserts that are oriented around crumbles and sands and things like that because what happens is it's like, oh it cool it's chocolate but it's also like a grainy texture I kind of feel like I want something that's just I don't I don't want that sand I don't want that so um

meanwhile Greg is making uh he's making a chocolate curd with cherries and coconut ice and uh Karen's panicata surprise surprise is not setting up at all and Karen's Panicata surprise surprise is not setting up at all. Yeah, and Padma's like, Milwaukee Karen, time's up. What'd you make Karen? And she made the Panicata and Yardley's like, mmm, so what did you use to say? Chalatin, oh, delicious.

Mmm, yeah, wow, that's delicious. Well, but this red Karen looks like you you you'll certainly be getting an egot You know as in you get out of this place Get out of town you get out of town Thank you. Thank you boys from beyond for helping me with that I'm a larky's like I made a wood fire cake with a burnt peaches and a burnt sherrys and a pink peppercorn ice cream. Did you hear that? I said pink peppercorn ice cream guys.

Thank you so much. I like how much it's like I'm not even going to comment on this disastrous mess. Here you got loser. You deal with him. Here, Orville Reddenbacher. talk to the tauntie yardly. So, so Melissa is so she's done with her, her all of all cakes are doing well, but she still feels like she has some tricks up her sleeves. So she's going to make some last minute liquid nitrogen ice cream made a romaine lettuce and great. gonna make some last minute liquid nitrogen ice cream made a romaine lettuce and great fruit.

And Valtagia's made a leechie curd with mass-rated peaches, lavender, honey and coconut sand. I don't think you should serve things to people that's called sand. No, this doesn't evoke great memories for anybody. So you're at least like, wow, those are very, three very strong flavors. And he's just like, 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, Stephanie is telling us yeah, well guess I couldn't use the ice cream machine because it's full of Malarkey's flavor of the week Yeah, you left all his shit in there didn't even clean it up. Yep, and so Gregory's like I have serious doubts I'm worried this might be too heavy and unfocused. Let's just all have a good time anybody want to hug before we start this hands up

All right me and the ego lose are gonna come by and taste your shit. Alright, Gregory, okay, coconut milk, chocolate care, top of tropical fruits, that's fine. And Stephanie, what do you have for us today? And so she has her peach and tarragon, christata with stashios and caramelized ricotta with white chocolate ice cream and pomegranate goes. Do you always leave your peaches on peeled

or you're just basically a caveman? Well, I'd love to use, I'd love to see the use of these ingredients and all this creativity and care in. Well, I'd love your flavors. You were just too aggressive taking on panakada, gelatin lady and Voltazio. I'd love to the components, but they fought with each other. And somehow those components were just a little better than you were.

It was very strange. I don't know why. I don't know why your coconut sand is actually skydiving right now, but it is. Well, the rest of you did very, very well. Malarkey starts cheering for himself. Yeah, he starts cheering for himself and his capri pants like shut up, Malarkey. Yeah. So she tells, she loves the cake, Malararkey's cake and she loves Melissa's olive oil pistachio cake

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It's definitely goes, God, what have we been doing? So this makes the elimination challenge. You'll be cooking for an elite group of Olympic athletes. What I mean by that is they're basically like normals, but for some reason we praise them. So I think I'm going to like them. Anyway, what would be better than to cook food in Spard by Japan? We're cooking for poor people, but thin, very worked out poor people, so they're more acceptable. Let's bring in our help, Nikki and Carol, who are chefs and co-owners of Enaka, Elaw Sanzelis. Enaka also happens to be my favorite sound I like to make when Gail wears a new outfit. I go,

mmm, Enaka. It's a sound that Gail's knees as she tries to do her walk a molly bit in the mornings. Enaka, Enaka, Enaka. Am I right guys? By the way, even though Sherry Yard isn't egotta lose her, I'm proud to announce her a very young Gale Simmons is a... mmm... winner. And that means nothing.

So, this is to celebrate the Tokyo Games and they are going to do a traditional Japanese meal. It's a six-course progressive. Yeah, and Malarkey's face, he has faces all shocked and he's like very nervous because this is all about restraint and precision and he's like, I like vibrant fun, not tweezers, tweezers, tweezers. I mean, well, I'll use them on my brows, of course, but not on the food. So for the first, the first in the tasting, the first course is Sakazuki.

The cutting is the most important technique, and you have to like cut everything perfectly and just make it look gorgeous and fresh. Yeah, because what's happening is that Nikki and Carol are, they are, they're doing like a, they sort of serve a Kaseki, Kaseki, Kaseki meal to show them like what it's all about. So they're going through all these courses and talking about like the virtues of all of them to everyone. Yes. And the second course is a soup course. And it's supposed to be a broth that doesn't have a whole lot of taste until the end when everything is mixed together.

Yeah. Yeah, she just sort of goes through all of them and just starts talking about the various virtues like how. You know, you got to play it very like one with nature, like played like mountain river valley, stuff like that. And Karen starts getting very nervous because when she was originally eliminated from top chef, it was for doing a Japanese dish. So she's like, I just, I hope I don't get eliminated again for that.

I think I might do a five minute quick panicada and see how that works out for me. Even though you're competing as individuals, we want this to be like Gels' shoulder fashion, progressive, progressively larger and tackier. So I look very uncomfortable nervous right now. I love it. So Melissa is the winner of the quick fire. So she not only gets to choose what her course is going to be. She assigns everybody else their course and she tries to assign them things that she thinks they'll excel at. And she's like some chefs would give chefs courses that they don't want but I don't want to win that way I'm gonna get some more

Yeah, and Malarky gets stuck with the soup and he's like Yeah, so So by the way chefs whoever wins this challenge wins a trip for two at the Olympics, where you will be in the top row, in the stadium, far away from everyone, and I'll be in the box next to the president of every country. So, let's see here. So, they go over the whole foods as we do on this show, andarkey and Voltaxi were shopping near each other and Malarkey goes

Hey Michael how goes your shop dude and Voltaxi it's like uh did you just say Michael? Real come on dude Malarkey goes I'm a big fan of your brother As someone who was a host of a TV show called the Taste brother as someone who was a host of a TV show called the taste of a big fan of your brother. Also, let's not overlook the fact that he said, how goes your shop? Like he turned shopping, he like abbreviated shopping into shop. Like shop is now. You know what, I just, I did not like that. I did not like his slang. Anything that comes out of his mouth. It's like you can always find the doucheyest way to put something.

Yeah, like how do you make saying, hey, how's your shopping going? How does he make that sound worse? So, well, it's not that it's bad to start with, but like, how does he make that annoying? How do you make that phrase? How goes your shop? Sorry, shopping. You just got Malarkey. Yeah.

So, Melissa's going to be making a Shaoan Mushi and which is like an egg custardy thing. And she's very concerned because if the ratio of egg to liquid is wrong, it could fall apart. But in my mind, I'm like, oh, she's got this. It's no problem because she was nervous at the beginning of the episode. They're gonna, they're showing that she's on the ups,

she won the quick buyer, so she's on an upswing. So I was like, that's fine. She'll be fine. Stephanie's going home. I wasn't, because whenever someone's I was like, that's fine, she'll be fine. Stepan is going home. I wasn't because whenever someone's like, wow, this thing failed, a custard failed today. I'm going to make a custard. It just never works out right. So they go home and some people are, you know, like studying and getting their menu together. And then it shows Voltajia doing his hair very carefully. Just I don't know why that was hilarious to me.

And then it has to carry an outside power lifting. She's like, yeah power lifting. That's my meditation. Yeah, it was sort of random. I was like, did they bring in some crazy weights for her, for the scene? I kind of feel like they did not come with the Airbnb that they're staying in. And she's, yeah, she's just like, yeah, you know,

for me, my way of meditating is by paralyzing. I love that sense of clarity that comes when you know you're just about to throw your back out during a competition. So then they go over to the LA Memorial Colosseum and start Kren. Kren Voltage. Kren Voltage was like, well, this is the culinary Olympics, I guess.

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. So he's doing a scalloped dish with some tomato dashi and Voltageos like, so malarkey, have you ever been to Japan? I went in 1996. Oh, sorry about going to, you went to the Olympics. He went to, because he's asking if he'd ever been to Japan? I went in 1996 I was talking about going to you went to the Olympics you went to because I was asking if you'd ever been to the Olympics and Valtasios like yeah, I want to knew I went to 96 And and Malarkey's like you've already been there my friend. It should be me. Hey, oh Host of the chase I should be there

Bring my hat And then I've got extremely stupid glasses to wear. Watch out Japan, here comes the awful reddened bocker. And then they show Malaraki and he's like doing, he's like cooking and he's like talking and Valtagia's in the room. And Malaraki just starts talking and he's like, just trying to find that balance between what Chef Nikki is looking for, what I'm trying to produce. It's just kind of fun and tricky.

And it's sort of tricky. It's a hard balance to have. And midway through, like, Voltage, who just leaves the room. And he's just talking to himself. I'm glad you caught that too. I was like, who is he talking to? He just keeps going on and on.

And there's nobody left there. Yeah, I mean, I imagine it's probably a producer, but it just looked like he was just pontificating about bullshit to no one. Oh, I mean, it's like, my food is not this simple. It goes up, up, up to outer space. That's how I cook. Shut up.

Shut up. So then Karen is talking about her dish and she wants to do a charcoal smoked duck, but she has to set it up over pans, basically. And she's like, oh gosh, I don't know if I should do this, I don't know if I have the space to do it. You know what, I'm gonna try it. It's like, no, now is not the time to be trying.

Now is not the time. Oh yeah, it drives me nuts when chefs on the show do that. They try to like, make a guy or something and like at a very high stakes moment, like don't do this, Karen, I'm rooting for you, okay? So Greg Remy-Wall is making a rice dish with some stable fish. And Stephanie is making custard.

I was like, no, not that custard again. And she's putting it into lemon shells. And she's like, I'm gonna put them in the freezer now so they'll have more than enough time to set up. I was like okay watch Malarkey, come over, he's gonna literally unplug the freezer, watch this shit not set up as usual. Yeah, or Voltaj is gonna be like what? I thought you wanted them in the steamer. Or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, They have one bite of food, you know? This is not the time. And Melissa's like, maybe the skin could be crispier. It's like, if Karen is not crisping her skin on duck,

that's crazy. So then she starts rendering the fat out on the flat top. And she goes, you know what? It tastes pretty good. I think this is actually going to work, which is what I should have always recognized. That is the true death knell on Bravo is someone saying, you know, I think this is going to work. It think this is gonna work it like you're gone you're gone your power lifting that should personality you're gone

so the judges arrive and it's fucking me lose who's back me and i love me lose gale stalker okay she tries to look like gale she tries to talk like gale she's even dressed like gale did you notice that she was wearing a very shoulder-forward dress? I mean, stop stocking Gail, okay? Gail has switched over to shoulder pads. Doesn't mean you get to switch over to some big shoulder, you know. Can I twist this on its head?

What if Gail is setting Nilew up for fail? What if Gail has been grooming Nilew? Nilew's like, oh my God, I get to be on your show. And Gail's like, oh great, here, where this dress that Padma said, look really pretty on me. Maybe Gell is setting up needle all the time. And Nila thinks that she's like killing it. Gell's like the worst stalker ever.

She likes stalks down. Hi, everyone. Welcome to the KataCM. I hope you all appreciate that I'm wearing bangs today. Anyway, look, Olympians, what do you all you people have to say? So Tom is like, so, uh, you know, what do you all you people have to say? So Tom is like so You know, I know you guys like a petition. So let me ask you a question. Who has the most metals? Huh? Who here's got the most metals anyone?

No one huh? And Nilo's like, oh is that what happens when Olympians come together? You just start comparing metals with each other. Oh, Nilo I don't know why Nilo makes me so crazy, but it's because she's not gay, okay? Shut up, Nilo. I don't know why Nilo makes me so crazy, but it's because she's not Gail, okay? I then after she says that she's like you guys ask each other how many medals you guys have then what's your face devolved while players? Um, we do win toms around. Oh, I like that. That was good, but you directed it Tom. Try to use Gail next time. It's better So Voltaggio is plating and he's putting a tiny little piece of food which is the challenge, you know. But it's like a tiny little bite of food in these huge bowls.

He looked down the bottom of the bowl and said, this is tiny thing. And I was kind of worried for him for that. I felt like I wasn't worried. I just felt like this is such a challenge. So I wasn't even concerned. And Pat McGoes, at this point now, the judges are all sitting amongst the Olympians. And she's like, all right, well, let me say something. I think athletics, athletics is very similar to food, and that it brings people together

to do something joyous. And that's why I'm excited about this challenge, because it brings another tradition from Japan that is so beautiful and complex, unlike Gales's patterns, which are just more ugly and complicated. Padma, like talking to all the Olympians at her table was so hilarious, because she can't make small talk at all. You know? Here's how Olympics is similar to food. And they're like, still bored with you.

And she just keeps going on and on and on. And so finally, Votio comes out and saves her. And he's like very proud of himself. He's like, I tweese, I tweese, I was very slow and silent. I mean, I didn't so much tweezers, I used kitchen tongs to put something on. Basically, I put a giant cantaloupe rind on this,

so I hope you guys don't mind. I just like being vibrant and bold. And he's pouring his broth, and he's like, please stir that, please stir it, because it will cook everything else in there. Please stir that, please stir it, stir it. Did it please stir it because it will cook everything else in there. Please stir that please stir it stir it did it slowly stir it Yeah, and it's busy. Yes, it's like a broth with like a spot prawns and celery celery act and squash and Mike Tureko's there and he's like Well, I love the spot broads. Those were great and he was like, hmm

You know, it looks much more compelling than it actually tasted kind of like you, Nilo. Am I right, everyone? Right? Olympians, fellow Olympians, fellow Olympians. And the pros are like, yeah, the cuttings a little off in this too. And then what are the Olympians? It's like, oh, I've never had a soup where the soup was actually poured into the ingredients. Oh, be quiet over there. No one asked you to speak. Just eat it hot person. I really don't know what to do with this, because I really want to shame that person,

but they are on a very elite group of people. And I don't know. I'm a little conflicted on this one. Can we all just make fun of Gail for a moment? Thank you. So now it's Karen's turn. And the cook of her duck is not very consistent. And so she's like, oh, I'm kind of worried,

but aside from that, it's really good. Mm-hmm. And so she serves it in Tom's like, oh, well, you know, I don't think this is sort of a lack of precision. It's just not a real attention to detail. I mean, at this point, she could probably just be a mixologist if you know what I'm saying.

And Melissa's waiting for her custard to cook until the very last second so that it's properly, you know, the texture is proper and it doesn't fail. Well, she's using a commercial steamer, which is what she doesn't normally use. So it's another thing we're like, oh God, this is definitely going the wrong way. Yeah, so she delivers her food and Padma is like delicious. Delicious! This is delicious! I love it! And look how, look how carefree I am with all these world-class athletes! We get along so well! Hey, you, person over there! What did you think about the splendid and the vile by Eric Larsen?

It's an examination of the leadership of the Prime Minister Winston Churchill, right? Am I right everyone? Um, she's like, well, it's eating like a soup because it's in eating it solidly as I'm used to seeing Shao Amushi. Am I right? Is it eating like a soup? I would like to say eating like a soup ten more times today. Yeah, because the fencer, she goes, you know, I don't know if it's meant to be a soup, but I really enjoy it.

Ooh, that was good. I felt like there was a little bit of shade in there work on that work on that and one of the Ladies from the restaurant is like I had a shell and for Japanese chefs that is a Coretical mistake and Nila goes oh out Quiet Nila By the way if you find any further shells in your soup slash custard, be sure to gather

them into this little basket and we'll send it to Gale. She loves a good shell snack. So Greg is tasting his broth and he's like, I forgot to put salt in my broth. Oh no. But he has no choice because it's the last second. So here it goes. So he serves this short-range rise with stable fish and mushroom broth.

And Nilu loves the skin on the fish. She just, she loves that. And the fencer lady loves the pickles. But one of the Olympians thought the whole thing was kind of bland. Yeah. And Tom's like, yep, it's under-seasoned. And one of the main restaurant ladies is like, yeah,

from a technical standpoint, when he was pouring that broth, it was a little bit cloudy. It's like, geez, these ladies are harsh, man, they're terrifying, because I couldn't do anything perfectly, you know. Every time they open their mouth to say something, I was like, no, what are they gonna do? I'll tell you what's cloudy. Macchee, salmon rusty. There, I don't know guys.

It's very hard to relate to these athletes. Salmon size on our wedding day. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, uh, Steph pulls out her panakata and like for the first time in the history of Top Chef, the custard set. Yeah. And she's also like, bitchy. I love when chefs are so bitchy, so pastry people. She's like, well, the panakata set and it looks great. I'm so relieved.

My parents are going to be like, why they spend so much money on culinary school for me just to be making pastry. My right way. It is. so much money on culinary school for me just to be making pastry my right waiters. So yeah so she serves it and everyone just loves loves loves this this is her they just they love it they love it it's an element show everyone is just really into it and Padma's like you know what this was a beautiful meal and we're so excited for all you Olympians and it's just a shame that Sherry Yard

couldn't join us to add an ode to the Egot that she never got in the first place. Wow, Tumata couldn't shame Sherry for not winning something else while she was on this show. Have you won a medal yet? Sherry didn't think so. Yeah, Sherry, enjoy not going to the Olympics. Enjoy eating end of the event's donuts and your basement non. Non ego winner. So it's judges table and she's like tonight, we have a unanimous decision on the winner. And it's Stephanie. And everyone's like, yeah, one, wow, we.

And Tom's like, Stephanie, you're going to go to the Olympics in Tokyo, which are definitely not happening anymore until maybe next year. So in classic Stephanie Form, you get a prize that kinda doesn't work out for you. All right, great. So then also have to say that we have another favorite dish from tonight and that chef is Brian Voltaggio who doesn't win anything

And I think well, thank you. I only had one to two bites to make an impression So it was really important. We're not talking to you anymore. Okay. It was an honorable mention get off the stage It's called honorable mention on honorable speech get over there But speaking of speeches One way that the Olympics are very similar to cooking. Okay, Padma, you know, the rules go for everybody. Alright, I'll save that one. Anyway, you know, one thing about the Olympics is that it's a time when lots of athletes can walk around in a big loop

while the rest of the world looks at them, sort of like when I eat a caulz unia burger on Instagram so with that being said the rest of you may something interesting and thought-provoking and it will pain me to see whoever leaves the kitchen tonight just kidding I'll be laughing the entire night whoever steals it's gonna pain me to see whoever steals something a sad as gills fashion just to be on the show sitting We're not talking about Neely right now all right. Let's get to the judging Karen. Were you happy with your dish? And she's like well, you know, I'm happy that I lifted a lot today Oh, but I've really had never set up a grill like that so I'm not sure what Kelly Clarkson would really think about it

And Carol one of the judges was like you know I was just really missing the anxiousness of the duck I'll tell you what I'm missing a smart person on this panel please welcome my dear friend neither way get out of your carol uh so Tom's like well you know the cuts should have been perfect but uh they were pretty uneven so uh and Melissa the flavor was spectacular but the texture was off it really ate like a soup what was it last week she kept on saying it ate sweet it ate sweet you're sweet to me Carol's like and and I found a shell. Oh, Carol, I love that.

Please, you have the floor. Shame her. Do it. So Tom's like, yeah, flavor wise, it was great, but the custard ate a fell apart pretty much. And then Malarkey, on the Malarkey, one of the guest judges, is like, yeah, Malarkey, that was a great suit, but then it just became a little bit overpowering. And Tom's like, how hard was it to, uh, for some of your self

or a film? He's like, who's rough, Tom, I was rough, because normally I'm a way bigger hook right up. Big things that climb up with my food, Tom. Ah, ah, ah. All right, set it down in monkey chimes. Nilo, you have something to say, you look like you have frothing at the mouth a little bit there. And he was like, you know, the broth wasn't super hot, so the tension was for something to steepen it. It wasn't really steeping. Oh, that was good.

I like that. I like that. Wow, poor people are really stepping up today. Gregory, were you happy with your dish? And he's like, well, you know, I'm just generally happy to be alive. And, you know, giving what I can give to this great world that we live in. Shut up, Gregory, okay?

That's what I'm saying. I'm going to break you by the end of the season. I swear I will. I swear it. So they liked his, but it just was under seasoned. And it's pretty obvious he's going to get the boot at this point because only one person was really dragged. is gonna get the boot at this point. Because only one person was really dragged. Can we also say that when Nileu said that Brian's broth was

not warm enough and therefore wasn't steeping anything, did you notice how we did this angry inhale? He goes, thank you. I was like, oh, I love it. He just wants to be an asshole so badly and he's just not letting it out. Oh, I love it. So then in private time, basically, Tadmas, like, well, this is difficult because the problems

they had were not in concept. They were in not eating properly, am I right? This is going to be really difficult. And by that, I'm talking about the fact of whether or not I allow Olympians to be cool people or not. I just don't know anymore. Mealew, do you have any any attempts at humor? She's like, well, Malarkey's course left me Lukewarm as was the soup. She's like, good one, not gal, good one. And also I'm not pleased that I'm not pleased that I didn't get food food today. So I would like to make that known as well Hold on one moment. Hey, Ali Wong. Guess what Nilo said. She said she felt new warm much like the broth

Yeah, I didn't think it was funny either. Okay, it's been decided Nilo. We don't think you're funny So they bring them back out and don't don't don't it's Karen she's out Yeah, so Yes,, yes, yes. So there it is. And it's there it is. It's over. Yeah.

Okay. Fun episode. It's like, Guni's never die. I love you. Um, yeah. So we'll be back next week. I guess to find out who gets who comes back from last chance kitchen. Yeah.

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