This week, the 14 remaining chefs on Top Chef were in for a spicy surprise when they were given an elimination challenge where they had to create progressively hotter dishes. Plus, Top Chef season 12 winner Mei Lin was on hand as the guest judge.
Spoiler alert: below discusses the elimination and the challenges from the Monday, March 16 episode of Top Chef season 23. Don't keep reading if you don't want to be spoiled.
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Who Went Home on 'Top Chef' Season 23 Tonight?
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After a seven-course progressive dinner where the dishes were supposed to get increasingly spicy course by course, Chef Jassi Bindra was sent home for his braised lamb vindaloo that wasn't spicy enough for 7th in the order and which had overcooked, dry lamb.
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Sieger Bayer – Chicago, ILSherry Cardoso – Brooklyn, NYBrittany Cochran – Charlotte, NCOscar Diaz – Durham, NCBrandon Dearden – Hamilton, MTJonathan Dearden – Alexandria, VADuyen Ha – Los Angeles, CAJennifer Lee Jackson – Suttons Bay, MI / Detroit, MIAnthony Jones – Alexandria, VALaurence Louie – Quincy, MARhoda Magbitang – Kailua-Kona, HIJustin Tootla – Suttons Bay, MI / Detroit, MINana Araba Wilmot – Cherry Hill, NJ
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What Were the Challenges on 'Top Chef' Season 23 Episode 2?
The Quickfire Challenge tasked the chefs with creating a savory dish based on various flavors of Talenti gelato and sorbetto tied to a certain country or region, like mango & India or mint chocolate chip & . There are seven combos for the 14 chefs, they had to serve their dishes side by side with their matching flavor/region.
The bottom dishes were from:
Brittany, who got coffee chocolate chip & Colombia and made coffee-spiced lamb tartare with crispy plantains and chili pepper aioli.Sieger, who got vanilla bean & Madagascar and made a spiced stew with strawberry snapper and uni.Duyen, who got butter pecan & the South and made pecan-crusted roasted pork loin with a peach and grape reduction.Related: ‘Top Chef’ Judge Gail Simmons Teases What Makes Season 23 ‘So Different’ (Exclusive)
The top dishes were from:
Oscar, who got caramel cookie crush & Argentina and made a cachapa with butter caramel, Fresno chilies, almonds and crispy skin provolone.Nana, who got mango & India and made curried cauliflowersteak with tomato salsa.Laurence, who got pistachio & California and made lamb Borek with apricot jam and pickled tomatillos. He ended up winning the $10,000, bringing his total up to $15,000.The Elimination Challenge saw the chefs divided into two teams of seven and they were tasked with using Carolina Reapers, which were developed in South Carolina by pepper breeder Ed Currie of (no joke) PuckerButt Farms. Their seven-course meal had to have progressively spicier dishes.
The teams were (in order of least spicy to spiciest) the green team of Sieger, Brittany, Jennifer, Jonathan, Anthony, Oscar and Rhoda, and the red team of Brandon, Sherry, Duyen, Laurence, Nana, Justin and Jassi, which was kind of an insane choice because Jassi talked about how his spice tolerance is like a 2 on a scale of 1-10.
The green team was declared the winner, with best dish going to Rhoda with her pepper-braised short rib, chili pickled pearl onions and a blistered cayenne pepper on top. Jennifer and Sieger also got shoutouts for having really good dishes.
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The red team was the losing team and the bottom dishes were between:
Nana with her shito-marinated red snapper with fish light soup, fufu espuma and okra salsa.Justin with his shrimp-stuffed chicken wings with greens in habanero chili oil and a yogurt ranch.Jassi with his braised lamb vindaloo with flaky paratha, potato mash and a yogurt & lime shot on the side.In the end, the judges sent Jassi home, his dish just wasn't spicy enough for the 7th course and his lamb was overcooked and dry.
Top Chef airs Monday nights from 9:30 to 10:45 p.m. ET/PT on Bravo. All season 23 episodes will be supersized to 75 minutes.
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