Food Network is debuting a brand-new cooking competition show that is a spinoff of the long-running and much-beloved show Chopped.
On Chopped Castaways, 12 chefs are on a remote Caribbean island with no electricity, no refrigeration and plenty of weather elements to deal with. They must compete in challenges to earn ingredients and tools while also dealing with the mystery basket ingredients.
below discusses the Chopped Castaways season 1 premiere, so beware of spoilers. Don't keep reading if you don't want to be spoiled.
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Who Went Home on 'Chopped Castaways' Tonight?
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Aidan Barry Owens — San Diego, CAAra Zada — Los Angeles, CACarrie Baird — Denver, COCate Meade — Chicago, ILDwight Hudgins — Largo, FLHannah Flora — Boynton Beach, FLJames Peck — Northampton, EnglandJean-Paul Bourgeois — Thibodaux, LALogan Sandoval — Simi Valley, CAPaulette Tejada — New York, NYStephen Kina — Kalispell, MT
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What Were the Challenges on the 'Chopped Castaways' Season 1 Premiere?
At the top of the show, host Ted Allen and judges Marcus Samuelsson, Maneet Chauhan and Gabe Bertaccini informed the cheftestants that, at least to start with, they are in two teams of six:
Green Team: Cate, James, Dwight, Ara, Hannah and Paulette
Blue Team: Aidan, Sunny, Jean-Paul, Logan, Steph and Carrie
Each week, there are two rounds of "culinary combat." The first is the team challenge. The winning team is safe, while among the losing team, the bottom two chefs will face off in The Gauntlet, which is a round of Chopped done outside on the beach, in the dark, over a live camp fire. Yikes.
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The first team challenge tasked the chefs with building their kitchen and then cooking three cohesive dishes that all used the four mystery basket ingredients: goat leg, Hawaiian musubi (which is Spam and rice wrapped with seaweed), scorpions and papaya. They were given two and a half hours to get it all done.
On the island, the chefs were given some primitive tools, like grill plates to set over the live fire and cast iron pans and whatnot. They were also each allowed to bring five tools, and the show provided a limited pantry that had some produce, some fresh herbs and some spices.
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The dishes were as follows:
Aidan and Steph prepared Thai-style goat larb with papaya chimichurri with crispy musubi and shoestring fries.Sunny and Logan made marinated spiced goat with tostone-musubi rice cakes and papaya-scorpion chutney.Jean-Paul and Carrie went with candied goat with musubi rice & cassava rice balls, roasted papaya and scorpion nuts.Green Team:
Ara prepared papaya and scorpion goat kebabs with sumac rice.James and Cate made goat scallopini with papaya relish and musubi hash.Hannah and Paulette went with Caribbean goat stew with citrus papaya relish.
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Weirdly, Dwight decided he was going to babysit the fire and be, like, the team's official taster or something, until Maneet came over to him and was basically like, "Dude, you have to cook something."
So he rubbed some goat with citrus and made a hash that they kind of shoe-horned into James and Cate's dish. Unfortunately for James, Dwight's fly-by-night goat was better than James' goat scallopini, so James was in a bit of trouble.
But somehow, despite their terrible communication as a team, the Green Team won the challenge. So James was saved.
On the Blue Team, the weakest dish was Sunny and Logan's spiced goat rice cakes, so they went into The Gauntlet to face off for survival.
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The Gauntlet
The Gauntlet was intimidating enough on its own, but it did not help anything that a huge rainstorm rolled in while they were there. It certainly added some gravitas and drama to the already-intense situation.
Logan and Sunny were given 30 minutes to prepare a dish that must include: spider crab, avocado, artichoke hearts and sancocho, which is a Latin stew.
Sunny made a coconut rice lettuce wrap with crab and avocado lime crema with artichoke hearts salsa, though she ended up having to ditch the salsa idea and just put the artichoke hearts in the wrap.
Logan made grilled romaine crab salad with avocado sancocho puree.
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In the end, it seemed like Sunny did not watch enough Chopped before coming on this show because doing rice in that amount of time was a terrible idea. Not only did it not cook properly, but it commandeered so much of her time that she didn't transform the artichoke hearts at all and she only used the sancocho as a drizzle on her wrap.
Logan's salad wasn't anything too spectacular either, but it was better than Sunny's wrap, so she was sent home.
At the end of the episode, Ted Allen teased "If you think these challenges were tough, you'll really need to 'dig in' to survive what we have in store for you next."
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Next on 'Chopped Castaways'
Next week's episode is titled "Dig In or Go Home" and its description reads, "The remaining 11 chefs dig up their basket ingredients and must transform the mix of high-quality and low-quality items into five family-style dishes. One team rallies together, while the other begins to crack as individual agendas take over."
In the preview reel for next week, we hear Carrie say, "I would do unspeakable, nasty things for some butter," and Logan later says, "I just pulled a rabbit out of my ass."
Jean-Paul says of someone unidentified, "He's my biggest competition… and our biggest asset." I wonder if that's about Aidan, Steph or Logan?
Marcus also tells someone off camera, "You're cooking way beyond your years."
Chopped Castaways airs Tuesday nights at 9 p.m. ET/PT on Food Network.
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