Three chefs remained at the beginning last night's episode of Top Chef All-Stars and
The Quickfire was an interesting twist on Top Chef challenge twists: each chef choose the other's challenge (i.e.: one-pot meal, canned food, etc.), then chose the second round of twists which were revealed halfway through the challenge (cook with one arm, use no utensils, etc.). Was anyone else as confused as I was? Anyway, they all ended up finishing on time, Carla made a guest appearance, they were judged by Wolfgang Puck and then Jersey Mike won the challenge.
Top Chef Podcast Outtakes from Jeff Houck on Vimeo.
As for the Elimination, the chefs had to each cook the requested last meal of a famous chef/guest judge, and the lineup included: Wolfgang Puck, Morimoto and Michelle Bernstein. Since Mike won the Quickfire, he got to choose who Blais and Antonia would be cooking for. Mike chose Bernstein for himself, who wanted fried chicken and biscuits; Blais got Puck, who wanted goulash, spaetzle, and apple shtrooodulll; and Antonia had to cook Morimoto's requested meal of miso soup, pickled mushrooms and sashimi.
This article appears in Mar 24-30, 2011.