In this episode, the master chefs had to shop only from one specific aisle in the grocery store for their Quickfire Challenge. I'm sorry, let me correct myself - from Whole Foods Market, having traveled there in their Lexus, and bringing along their handy Gladware storage containers to store the food which would be cooked in/on GE appliances. Oh, and all while sipping on Diet Cherry Dr. Pepper (did I get all of the sponsors in?).
The Elimination Challenge was somewhat tricky: each cheftestant had to shop for another to create a mystery box of ingredients. The recipient of that box then had to choose seven items to utilize in their dish. So each chef decided to totally screw the other one over by giving them crazy ingredients, and Roy Yamaguchi got pissed and went Samaurai on everyone. (No, not really, I just wanted to create some drama for this episode that had to be the most drama-free, playing-it-nice episode yet. *yawn*). No Jay Rayner this week again but we feel all of the brown-colored ingredients on Johnathan Waxman's plates sufficed to replace Jay's mole in this episode.
Highlights: Gail Simmons' chest as a topic of much conversation (again), Kelly Choi looking very much in need of a proper meal and a better stylist as usual (no, we don't know who she's wearing), Johnathan Waxman needs glasses, Art Smith's lovey-dovey teary-eyed speech at the judges table, and Roy Yamaguchi wanting to be "friends forever" with his new chef pals.
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