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MC3, Ep. 6

This episode started with a challenge involving offal. Sheep's head, veal brains, lamb hocks, pork hearts, chicken livers and sweetbreads (thymus glands) were the possible ingredients. 2 of the top dishes used sweetbreads (no surprise), a real delicacy that should never be part of an offal classification. There were by Christine and by Ryan. Becky had a combined sweetbreads/pate dish.

Ryan was the winner. he received a fantastic advantage which started with not having to cook himself. The theme was "fresh versus canned" and he selected crab as the ingredient. Finally, he was able to select 7 colleagues to cook with canned crab and 7 with fresh crab.  He as specifically trying to help his buddy Tali and hurt Christine and Monti, both of whom he wanted out of the competition.

The top dishes were Christine's Ceviche Cocktail and Josh made Thai Crab Trio Curry and Rice with Crab Cake and Salad. They were named team captains for the next episode.  The bottom 4 were Frank, Tali, Mike and Helene. Frank and Mike were sent to the gallery. Tali squeaked by and Helene was eliminated

apskip:
As the song goes from one of my favorite musicals, "1776", John Adams laments "Is anybody there? Does anybody care?" I am feeling that way about this thread since there is no dialogue except that which I put here.

franxaverian:
finally another recap!! yippeee!!! waiting for your timely update, Apskip....see my reasoning in HK thread :D

thanks

apskip:
MC3, Ep. 7

The challenge involved serving breakfast from a very limited menu (6 combinations including pancakes, eggs and bacon, omelet, oatmeal, eggs Benedict). The captains were asked to choose their teammates. Here is the initial pass at this:

RED team Christine – Felix, Scott, Tanya, Mike, Stacey, Ryan (she did not want him but the alternative was Ryan)
BLUE team Joshua – Becky, Frank, Anna, Monti, David, Tali

Then the judges played what I regard as a dirty trick on the BLUE team. Christine was given the opportunity to get rid of any one player on her team she did not want (bye, bye Ryan) in exchange for any player on BLUE. Christine chose Becky, Joshua’s strongest player. Joshua named Monti as expeditor, the position that plated the final dishes and put them on the cart for sending them to customers. Christine named Felix.

The challenge was to serve 130 orders between 7am and 830am, which meant it was going to be totally hectic. 

Blue got a good start, as Monti had organized a series of strips of paper showing how much of what was needed for each time period. In the same initial period, Felix was trying to do it all herself and just could not. She also did not communicate well until fairly late in the overall period. Ramsay had warned the RED team that it was running low on Hollandaise sauce. In the middle time frame BLUE had big trouble as they lost all the coordination that had served them well earlier. RED regained its composure and started clicking on all cylinders, except that it did run out of Hollandaise sauce. Felix was starting to communicate and others had stepped up. On BLUE, Monti and Joshua were having conflict over who was in charge (note – this system was set so the expeditor was more important than the team captain). 

Joe Bastianich went to collect the score cards, which were left on doors and colored either RED or BLUE. The final tally showed RED winning 60% of the vote. That made them exempt for the pressure test, which some of the BLUE team had to face. Monti got a pass upstairs for her performance as expeditor, as did Becky, Frank and David. That left Joshua, Anna, Tali and Ryan in the Pressure Test. This was to cook a molten lava cake in a ramekin that looks like a soufflé dish in 45 minutes. The Gospel according to Ramsay is to get one of these into the oven quickly so temperature and time can be judged before having to put others in to win it. Ryan in fact put 3 in the oven with overlapping times and his first 2 failed, leaving him at the mercy of his 3rd one. Anna’s second try was perfect. Joshua’s second one was also perfect, so they both were sent upstairs. Tali had a good effort, but with a few flaws. Ryan’s final attempt failed, so he was screwed. The judges drew out drama that wasn’t there, but finally they had no alternative than ending Tali upstairs and sending Ryan home.

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MC3, Ep. 8
This started with a Mystery Box Challenge. The ingredient were T-Bone Steak, corn, cabbage, peach, cayenne and paprika. 60 minutes were available to cook. The 3 dishes which appeared most likely to succeed by the judges were these:
Frank – T-Bone Steak with corn, cabbage, slaw, deglazed peach
Tanya – Steak w/broiled cabbage and corn puree
Becky - a peach dessert (avoiding the steak and vegetables entirely)

Tanya got the nod for best dish, so she had control of the Elimination Test. She did not have to cook and was given the opportunity to assign groups of 4 chefs to each of:
Tiramisu (difficult, with range of different skills needed) – Tanya chose Felix, Frank, Mike, Anna
Strawberry Shortcake (easy) – Tanya chose Christine, Scott, Tali, Monti
English Trifle (technically complex) – Tanya chose Becky, Stacey, Joshua, David
So Tanya made life difficult for 8 of the chefs and easy for 4 of them. However, each of the 3 desserts as a category still had to have one loser to be considered for elimination. 60 minutes was the cooking time available. 

The loser’s group was Becky (with an uncharacteristic loser dish), Felix (with the same) and Scott (whose prior dishes were undistinguished or marginal). Ramsay saved Becky and Felix and eliminated Scott.

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